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Musical synagogues
- From: Inna Barmash <ibarmash...>
- Subject: Musical synagogues
- Date: Mon 13 Oct 2003 07.48 (GMT)
Chaveyrim,
I'd love to hear your responses to the following question: what are some of
the synagogues you would recommend visiting for the musicality of their
services? By this I mean synagogues where music - in whatever shape or form -
plays a seminal role in the services or is simply unusually beautiful (either
because of a cantor, special melodies, etc). I'm listing some of the synagogues
I know of in New York below - I'd love to hear about more!
I was thinking about this question during some of the services I got a chance
to attend at Bnai Jeshurun during the High Holidays - music is so organically
and beautifully interweaved into the services there. And for many, it seems to
be the music - chazzan's soulful chanting, community singing (and in the case
of BJ, live instruments) that seems to really reach that often-buried spiritual
string in all of us.
So here's my list - looking forward to your additions!
1) Bnai Jeshurun (NYC, Upper West Side - http://www.bj.org)
2) Fifth Avenue Synagogue (NYC, Upper East Side -
http://fifthavenuesynagogue.org/index.html)
3) Shlomo Carlebach Shul (NYC, Upper West Side,
http://carlebachshul.org/index.htm)
Thanks!
Inna
- Musical synagogues,
Inna Barmash