Edition 36
Feb.-March 2001   Adar 5761 Vol. 4 Edition 2
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There is a Temple in Heaven that is opened only through song
(Tikkunei Zohar)

JHOM.com celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Zamir Choral movement with a feature on choral music, with special focus on the Zamir Chorale of Boston. We invite our readers to enjoy several webcast recordings of Zamir performances


Zamir Chorale
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Enjoy also a RealAudio interview with Founder and Artistic Director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Joshua Jacobson
Jennifer Turvey


A heavenly song
Edition 26 Choir
The Editor


The first Jewish choir 1312 BCE
Or was that two choirs
James L. Kugel


"And their praise grew louder…"
Levitical song in the Holy Temple of Jerusalem

Renaissance musicians
Pomp, circumstance and choral music

Inaugural welcome of the head of the Babylonian Jewish community
Amnon Shiloah


Synagogue choral music in Renaissance Italy
And a letter to the Jewish public championing the trend (1628)


Salamone Rossi Hebreo
and the Italian Renaissance
Joshua Jacobson


Louis Lewandowski the first synagogue choir director

And two of Lewandowski's liturgical compositions
sung by the Zamir Chorale of Boston


From Ha-Zomir to Zamir

100 years of the Jewish Choral Movement
Joshua Jacobson

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The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Jennifer Turvey with Joshua Jacobson


Cuando El Rey Nimrod: A Ladino folksong

"When Nimrod went into the Fields" / Choral rendition by Zamir Chorale
Yossi Zucker


Nightingales, Sabbath melodies, and tree pruning

Hebrew rootword: z-m-r

 

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