Re: what's a cantorial soloist?

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

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from jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org:
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> what is a cantorial soloist? is it not a cantor?

Someone who performs the cantorial repertoire in services, but is not an 
invested cantor.  (Which is not to say that contorial soloists don't sometimes 
have investments.  The cantorial soloist at the first congregation to which I 
belonged in the Twin Cities had a day job as a stock broker.)




Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music
Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
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