Re: Hazanim in NYC w/ tradl Nusach

[Jennifer Wollock <jennifer...>]

Itzik-Leyb and I went to Rosh Hashanah services at the
Inwood Hebrew Congregation (Vermilyea Ave. at 204th,north of
Dyckman St.)and had the pleasure of hearing a khazn
(from Jerusalem by way of Brooklyn)and bal tfile (from
Prague)both of whom were very good and knowledgeable.
This congregation (Conservative) might be a good example
of the kind of place that preserves a traditional nusakh that is 
disappearing elsewhere. It's 84 years old and meets in the
basement of its former building. The contact person for
tickets would be one of the two presidents, Jason
Rosenberger. Jeff and I found them very friendly and I
suspect they would be happy to receive visitors.

A zis yor in a gemar ksime toyve alemen!

Zhenye Volokh
Jenny Wollock

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Joe Kurland and Peggy Davis <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com>
Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:17:25 -0400

>Last time our shul was looking to hire a rabbi I was able to 
borrow a 
>copy and show it to the search committee at its first meeting.  It 
>was a good lesson in how not to behave.
>
>Yosl
>
>At 7:12 PM -0400 9/11/02, Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
>>Yosl,
>>
>>That's the one I was thinking of!  I've never seen it, but I've 
heard it!
>>
>>Lorele
>>
>>Joe Kurland wrote:
>>
>>>A khazn af probe (Chazzans on trial), an 11 minute Yiddish film, 
>>>starring Cantor Leybele Waldman, made in 1931 with outstanding 
>>>music by Sholem Secunda.  Waldman plays the narrator as well as 
>>>three different khazonim trying out before a disrespectful 
search 
>>>committee.  First he plays an old fashioned Eastern European 
ba'al 
>>>tfile, second a German Operatic Cantor, and finally, an American 
>>>dandy who, in the words of his manager, can " give you a Kol 
Nidre 
>>>mit a two-step melody, who'll say Haleyl mit a ragtime melody; 
>>>he'll daven Unesane Toykef mit a Charleston melody." While the 
>>>first two khazns sing, the committee members smoke, make faces, 
>>>look bored, though at least one committee member is totally 
>>>enthralled by the performance.  But when the third khazn throws 
>>>some boop-boop-be-doops into Yismakh Moshe, the committee 
members 
>>>all get up to dance with him and sign the deal.
>>>
>>>The film is available on videotape (I think you can get it from 
>>>Ergo Media) as an intro to another, full length, movie about a 
>>>radio advisor that is unremarkable except for Waldman's 
incidental 
>>>appearances as a khazn who performs on the radio.
>
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