Re: "Classical" music with a Jewish theme

[Rick Fisel <infmx!aboy!rfisel...>]

>  Salamone Rossi        @dozens of choral settings of psalms, etc.
>  Handel                *Israel in Egypt (oratorio)
>                       *Judas Maccabeus (oratorio)
>  Felix Mendelssohn     *Elijah (oratorio)
>  Verdi                 *Nabucco (opera)
>  Ernest Bloch          Sacred Service (Avodat HaKodesh)
>                       Shelomo
>                       Kol Nidre
>  Leonard Bernstein     Kaddish
>                       *Chichester Psalms
>  Yehezkel Braun        many choral and orchestral works
>  Jose Bowen            @Jazz settings of Jewish liturgy

I'd add Kurt Weill's Kaddish and Robert Starer's Ariel. Starer has also written
a number of modern works on religious themes.

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