RE: cantorial music by/for women

[Joel Epstein <yoel...>]

Probably not what you have in mind, but you might be interested in the Yiddish 
songs of the St. Petersburg school.  These are arrangements primarily of 
Russian Yiddish folksongs written by a group of composers who studied at the St 
Petersburg Conservatory at the end of the last century with teachers like 
Tchaikovsky and Anton Rubinstein, and who discovered their Jewish musical 
heritage.  The songs are not strictly liturgical but many have religious 
content.  Many of the songs have been reprinted by Tara Press, with an 
excellent introduction by Irene Heskes.  Some have been recorded by cantor 
Louis Danto - definitely not a woman, but it will give you an idea of what they 
sound like.  A lot of the songs are written for indeterminate voice (not 
specified m or f) but are clearly for female voice.

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Robert Cohen [SMTP:rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com]
Sent:   ä ñôèîáø 02 1999 20:30
To:     World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:        cantorial music by/for women

Does anyone have any suggestions of recorded pieces of particularly lyrical, 
pleasing liturgical music written _by_ contemporary women cantors and/or 
_for_ same--i.e., with women's voices in mind?  Any thoughts on what 
composing w/ women's voices in mind would entail?  Has anything (i.e., an 
article somewhere) been written about same?

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