Born March 30, 1804, Salomon Sulzer was one of the most important voices shaping the Chazzanut (the cantorate), Jewish music, and synagogue liturgy of the Western European and German communities.
See here for a video recording of the Ensemble Choral Copernic sing his Adon Olam in concert at the Rykestrassse Synagogue in Berlin, Dec. 23, 2012, as well as for a link to the score and the full text of Sulzer’s seminal work Shir Zion.
Celebrating Bronislaw Huberman’s birthday – violinist, founder of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, he did not live to see it become the Israel Symphony Orchestra.
Links – watch the trailer of the PBS documentary Orchestra of Exiles and listen to his recording of Kol Nidrei Bronislaw Huberman – Kol Nidrei
Mazal tov to Daniel Henkin on the presentation of the 2016 Covenant Award. Listen to some of his amazing work with Tizmoret, the Queen’s College Jewish a cappella group at http://www.tizmoret.com/songs/
