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- From: Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>
- Subject: one more time
- Date: Fri 08 Feb 2002 18.21 (GMT)
Announcement:
Bruce Chalmer, choir director and lay service leader at Beth Jacob Synagogue
in Montpelier, Vermont, has written a work entitled "Berakhot: A Midrash
Cantata." The work, of about an hour's duration, consists of 26 pieces,
each a midrashic interpretation based on a berakha or scriptural or Talmudic
text related to berakhot.
First performance of the work will be in the fall of 2002 by the Fyre and
Lightning Consort, a Vermont-based group of musicians. The work includes
pieces scored for voices (SATB) and a variety of instruments (recorders,
harp, lute, clarinet, trumpets, tuba, et al.), and includes many different
styles (medieval- and renaissance-like polyphony, blues, klezmer, barbershop
quartet, et al.).
A website (http://www.someware.com/berakhot) tells more about the cantata.
Links are provided that allow you to see the score and hear a MIDI rendition
of each piece, as well as see the program notes, which include lyrics and
the composer's commentary.
Bruce would welcome any feedback.
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- one more time,
Judy Pinnolis