Collections of important modern Jewish music composers, such as Ben Steinberg and Srul Irving Glick reside in the Canadian Music Archives. These collections include manuscripts, scores, recordings, correspondence and photographs.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/musarc.htm
UCLA. Music Library Special Collections, Ernest Toch Archive
A special collection of the music of Ernest Toch is located in the UCLA Music Library. Here the works of the great Jewish Austrian/American composer reside, including manuscripts, printed scores, photographs, recordings and books. Interesting links lead to resources including an article in The Atlantic Monthly by the composers’ grandson.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/toch/index.htm
UCLA. Music Library Special Collections, Eric Zeisl Archive
The Eric Zeisl Archive at UCLA houses “manuscripts, published scores, correspondence, documents, recordings, and other material.” The website includes links to finding aids of the manuscript and correspondence collections.
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/mlsc/zeisl/index.htm
Many of you will be thrilled to learn that UC Davis, as part of the Digital Libraries Initiative, has mounted much of the archive online from the collections of Samuel Armistead, Joseph Silverman and Israel Katz. Armistead, of course, did one of the largest bibliographies and collection of Sephardic materials, starting nearly 50 years ago. This is an online bibliography, but also a searchable database of recorded music, field recordings, oral history and oral literature. It is truly remarkable. There are transcripts to follow while you listen to the field recording excerpts! It’s keyword searchable in Spanish. There are also extensive histories online and other explanatory notes and articles full text. Try it, it’s incredible. This is for everyone interested in the Sephardic heritage.
http://www.sephardifolklit.org…
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The Spertus Institute in Chicago, with a Jewish public library of over 105,000 items, 550 current periodical subscriptions, over 1,000 Jewish-interest feature films and documentaries, houses a special collection of Jewish music with thousands of sound recordings and sheet music. The library also houses the Chicago Jewish Archives. Hours and more information are on the website.
http://www.spertus.edu/asher_cja/about.html
American Yiddish theater and classical composer, Sholom Secunda’s papers are 111 boxes of materials containing, manuscripts, published scores, photographs, correspondence, theatrical, liturgical, and art music, and sound recordings. Materials formerly held at the New York Public Library’s, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts have been moved to the Fales Library Special Collections, combining collections to have the bulk of Secunda’s papers in one place.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm
“Papers documenting the career of the Czech-born American composer between the 1930s and the 1990s. Includes scores, libretti, posters, correspondence, clippings, programs, writings on music, financial documents and photographs.”
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/music/musweisg/@Generic__BookView
Papers of Sophia (or Sonia) Kalish-Abuza was born January 13, 1884.Vaudeville and cabaret singer. Collection contains materials used in performance of her songs and acts.
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/music/mustucker/@Generic__BookView
This collection holds 151 folders in 8 boxes in the Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Classmark: JPB 95-2. The contents are a variety of Jewish songsters and published books of Jewish music. Irene Heskes wrote the scope and content notes for this collection, explaining the usefulness of the collection for studying showing: “Changes in melodic and literary styles indicate socio-ethnic and historic influences upon the tastes of a singing people – young and adult, amateur and professional.”
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/music/musheskes/@Generic__BookView
The New York Public Library Music Division has extensive publications, sound recordings, reference and other materials about music. There are extensive holding in Jewish music. The catalog, called CATNYP, is available for searching online for complete holdings information. Finding aids to special collections are available in the library. Some finding aids have been digitized and are online (see below). The Lincoln Center Branch is located at Lincoln Center, just to the right of the front entrance to the opera. It contains much American theater music.
http://www.nypl.org/
One of the largest and most important sets of collections about music anywhere in the world, the NYPL also contains vast collections of music by Jews in America and elsewhere. The NYPL is made of many divisions, and researchers in Jewish music may have to use several of them. There is the general Music Division, The Rogers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Collections run the gamut from Benny Goodman to Bruno Walter, from Irving Berlin sound recordings to Frederick Jacobi to Jan Peerce sound recordings, to name a few. Below are samples of the finding aids to collections and the types of materials that can be found.
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, under the artistic direction of Neil Levin, has been working on producing a CD set of 50-80 CDs that will be a comprehensive examination of a diverse body of Jewish music. There will be over 700 titles of pieces of music in the collection when completed. The recording project is only the first of several ambitious projects planned, including a comprehensive history of Jewish music in the United States, and a working archive including audio recordings, videotaped oral histories, and composer interviews and other materials. The Archive is preparing to comission curricula for study at high school and college levels. Other notables involved with the project, which includes several composers and musicologists, are: Samuel Adler, Ofer Ben-Amots, Martin Bookspan, Charles Davidson, Henry Fogel, Lukas Foss, Morton Leifman, Gerard Schwarz, Paul Schwendener, Barry Serota, and Edwin Seroussi.…
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The Library of Congress Aaron Copland Collection
Part of the American Memories Project, this website includes links to the featured items in the Aaron Copland collections, including visual images and texts of personal letters, his own writings, his sketches and manuscripts of music, and photographs. An extensive and thorougly organized primary source on the music of Copland. Also includes an index and a search screen.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html
The Library of Congress Leonard Bernstein Collection
“This online Leonard Bernstein Collection makes available a selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People’s Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence, in addition to the collection’s complete Finding Aid.”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/
The Library of Congress Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco Collection
Papers of Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco are held in the Library of Congress.…
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The Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center in the Abraham Goodman House at 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023 has recordings of non-commercial broadcast tapes of Israeli classical music from Kol Israel. They are catalogued in a card catalog. Public access to the library is available on a limited basis. Users may listen to materials in the library only and may not check out recordings. Sundays 10-6, Mon. & Wed. 2-6 and Friday 10-3.
Both the Western Jewish History Center and the Museum’s Blumenthal Library have collections relating to music. The Western Jewish History Center has: the Flora Jacobi Arnstein collection, which contains some material about the composer Frederick Jacobi; the Sigmund Anker collection (Anker was a violinist with the San Francisco philharmonic); the Daisy Cohn collection; the Regina Gans collection; the Solomon Goldman collection (which contains letters from Ernest Bloch); another small Ernest Bloch collection; the Jennie Harris collection (Jennie Harris was a songwriter); the Ellis Kohs collection; the Reuben Rinder collection (Rinder was a cantor of San Francisco’s Emanu-El, 1913-1959); the Bashe Rubenchik Rosenbloom collection; the Oscar Weil collection (Wiel was a composer of light opera and songs); and a very small Darius Milhaud collection, relating to his opera, David.”The library is a significant repository of Jewish music and recordings and played a key role in the revival of Klezmer music… The library also contains sheet music of songs and poems written in German ghettos and concentration camps during World War II.” Both the Center and the Blumenthal Library are open, Monday-Thursday, 11am-5pm, by appointment only.…
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The Jewish music library supports the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of the JTS. The music library contains more than 5,500 reference materials, general Jewish music, cantor’s notebooks, music histories, scores, and sound recordings. Other historical materials include liturgical music,published and unpublished, from late-nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and Russia. The library serves as a “repository for the history of Jewish music in the United States.” The music archives are part of the JTS special collections. Of special note are the papers of Max Wohlberg, Solomon Rosowsky, Herbert Fromm and Samuel Rosenbaum with finding aids available online. The JTS music archives contains the manuscripts of the Putterman Collection, which were commissioned works for synagogue.
For more information contact
Dr. Eliott Kahn, Music Archivist,
Jewish Theological Seminary
3080 Broadway,
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 678-8076
Fax: (212) 678-8998
elkahn@jtsa.edu
http://www.jtsa.edu/library/archives/music/index.shtml…
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The Jewish National and University Library of Hebrew University on Givat Ram contain the National Sound Archives and several large special collections of Jewish music. Among these are the A.Z. Idelsohn Archives, the recordings collection of Robert Lachmann and recordings of music from Jews around the world. JNUL contains an excellent thesaurus of articles about Jewish music and works closely with the Department of Musicology of Hebrew University and the Jewish Music Research Centre. At some point in the near future, the Jewish National Library and Sound Archive will move to a new facility.
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/
Th Hebrew University Department of Musicology offers studies in Jewish music research. The Jewish Music Research Centre of the Jewish National and University Library of Hebrew University on Givat Ram contain the National Sound Archives and several large special collections of Jewish music. Among these are the A.Z. Idelsohn Archives, the recordings collection of Robert Lachmann and recordings of music from Jews around the world. Contains an excellent thesaurus of articles about Jewish music.
www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il
The Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, located in Baltimore, MD, supports a library, archives and museum and maintains historical synagogue buildings. The archival holdings include Jewish musical recordings.
http://www.jewishculture.org/jewishmuseums/jhsm.htm
The Klau Library at HUC-JIR in New York contains 130,000 volumes of Judaica, including collections supporting the cantorial school. The collection includes sounds recordings, sheet music, and microfilms. The School of Sacred Music cantorial collections are focused and specific. They include a significant number of vertical files of sheet music and printed scores of liturgical music. Access to these materials is limited and requests should be made ahead of arrival. Music reference and research materials are limited, and the general public in NYC would be better served obtaining access through the NYPL collections.
Handwritten vocal scores written between 1825 to 1860 along with over 300 folio volumes represent an impressive collection of rare documents in Jewish music. The Birnbaum collections contain synagogue music written or printed between 1700 and 1910. Other music in the HUC-JIR collection in Cincinnati includes sound recordings and musical publications from Europe and the United States dating to early twentieth century.
http://huc.edu/libraries/birnbaum.html
In addition to materials for the study of Jewish education and general Jewish studies, the library now houses the New England division of the American Jewish Historical Society. The library is also beginning to support a new cantorial school, begun in Fall 2004. Bibliographic items include standard works such as the out-of-print classics series in synagogue music.
http://hebrewcollege.edu/html/library_1.htm
Houses collections of scores and books, microforms, manuscripts and rare books, including the Archive of World Music. For information on access to this collection, which is limited, please consult the Harvard webpages.
http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/
“The Schreiber Jewish Music Library is one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the world. Centered around the Eric Mandell Collection, it includes more than 20,000 books, scores, records, tapes, and compact discs. It encompasses holdings in Jewish liturgy, Yiddish Theater, Ashkenazic hazzanut, Sephardic chants and popular music from America, Europe, and Israel. The Kutler Jewish Instrumental Library features compositions by Jewish composers or on Jewish themes for solo and ensemble instruments.” Schreiber Jewish Music library
Gratz College
7605 Old York Road
Melrose Park, PA 19027
215-635-7300
800-475-4635
http://www.gratzcollege.edu
“FAU’s Judaica Music Rescue Project is part of the Molly Fraiberg Judaica Collections located at the Wimberly Library at Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton, Florida campus. The Collections are open to visitors on an appointment basis. The Project has collected more than 15,000 78-rpm phonograph records of Jewish music, making it one of the largest collections of vintage Jewish music in the world. The Project’s database includes Yiddish theater music, Hebrew folk music, Cantorial chants, Sephardic music and any other music that is captured on a 78-rpm record and can be considered to be Jewish. The website allows browsers to search the database, find out more about the project and listen to the music in a non-downloadable streaming audio format (when available). The Judaica Music Rescue Project is urgently seeking 78-rpm recordings of Yiddish, Hebrew and Sephardic music (both secular and religious) for inclusion in its collection.…
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The Blumental Library is located at 26 Bialik St. in Tel-Aviv. It was previously known as the A.M.L.I. (Americans for a Music Library in Israel) – Central Music Library. Collections are primarily classical music, with large collections in Israeli music, song books, chazzanut, and Yiddish including 18,000 records, over 2000 CDs and 130 video cassettes. Library hours are: Sun. Tues.: 9 – 14. Mon. Wed. Thurs.: 12 – 19. For more information: contact Ryna Kedar, Head, Acquisitions & Cataloging Division, The Felicja Blumental Music Center & Library Tel-Aviv, Israel.
ryna_k@tzion.tel-aviv.gov.il
The Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive provides scholars with Web-based access to Jewish recordings that are not commercially available; and related, searchable information that can aid in the study of Jewish music and culture, Jewish society, and the history of Jewish recordings.
www.dartmouth.edu/~djsa
A public library collection whose primary donor, Cyril Robinson, has traveled to worldwide Jewish music events since 1997 to record live performances, interview musicians, and gather related material. This archive includes sound recordings, and digital and physical objects. “A special emphasis of the collection is klezmer, a distinct musical genre based on traditional Jewish folk music. Unique recordings of live performances, lectures, and masterclasses from worldwide music festivals and venues provide many examples of contemporary klezmer bands and Jewish musicians. Recorded interviews also document these musicians’ individual oral histories and personal experiences with Jewish music and Jewish life.” All this makes many of these items unique to the study of contemporary American Jewish culture. An online inventory gives the depth of the collection and an alphabetical list of interviews refers to full citations in the inventory.…
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Currently only an exhibit of cover pages from some Yiddish Sheet music, Brown University is in the process of digitizing the complete collection of several hundred items of Yiddish sheet music. This project should be completed sometime in 2005 or 2006.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/yiddish/
The Special Collections division of Brandeis University Libraries holds the Mel and Shifra Gold Yiddish Music Project and the Yiddish Sheet Music Collection. Special Collections also holds the Scully Collection of synagogue music.
http://library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/FindingGuides/special/yiddishSheetMusic.html
Nearly 800 books and recordings of Jewish music. Held in the Birmingham Southern College Library, Birmingham, Alabama. The collection is searchable through the college online catalog, use the collection word “katz” along with the search terms.
http://www.bsc.edu/library/collections.htm#JUDAIC
Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, is located on the campus of Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv, Israel. The Feher Jewish Music Center, located on the second floor, maintains a collection of more than 4,000 recordings of Jewish music and a computerized database to aid access. The public is invited to listen to music in the collection at the Center. The Center also produces CD’s and organizes concerts. The webpage currently features information about a new CD on music from the pre-war Reform Berlin Congregation with samples of the music.
http://www.bh.org.il/Music/index.aspx
Founded in 1994, the Australian Archive of Jewish Music focuses on Jewish music as found in Australia and Asia. The Archive has around 1,000 records, over 200 audio-cassettes and approximately 50 video-cassettes. The collection is also a window to the Jewish music cultures that developed along trade routes to Asian cities such as Bombay, Rangoon, Singapore, Penang, Jakarta, Surabaya, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
http://arts.monash.edu.au/jewish-civilisation/resources/music.php
The Academy for Jewish Religion, located at 6301 Riverdale Ave., Riverdale, NY 10471. Phone: 718 543-9360. They train cantors in a Jewish pluralistic environment. Cantors are trained to “lead dynamic, spiritually uplifting, meaningful religious services in all denominational liturgies and nusach.” They also train rabbis. “It offers full or part time study and mechina programs. Cantorial and rabbinic students study and learn together and ordination is conferred on both Rabbinic and Cantorial graduates.” Students are grounded in nusach and in contemporary liturgical music.
http://www.ajrsem.org/
The director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston has made many arrangemetns for concerts of this chorale. Recordings are available at their website. Dr. Jacobson is “one of the world s leading authorities on Jewish choral music. He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University and Visiting Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College. A sought-after scholar and lecturer, his many arrangements, editions, and compositions are performed worldwide. His book,Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation (Jewish Publication Society, 2002), is considered the definitive source in the field. Zamir concerts are known for being highly entertaining, thanks to Dr. Jacobson s colorful programming and his illuminating commentary from the stage.”
http://www.zamir.org
Choir Director of Gan HaLev. David Ben Or has put up choral arrangements with midi files, score, Hebrew, transliteration and English to liturgical texts. Gan HaLev is a post-denominational Jewish Congregation of the San Geronimo Valley, Marin County, California.
http://www.ganhalev.org/zmirot/zmirot.html
“Transcontinental Music Publications/New Jewish Music Press, the music publishing arm of the Reform movement, publishes a wide variety of musical materials for synagogue and home use. Since it is the largest publisher of Jewish choral music in the world, it serves as the single most important resource for all community groups such as schools, universities, churches, and libraries.” Catalog is now online. The Transcontinental catalog is also distributing music from the Cantors Assembly (Conservative). Ordering information included at site.
Phone: 800-455-5223.
Email: tmp@uahc.org
http://www.etranscon.com/
Located at 52 Cooper Square, NYC, NY 10010, Boosey and Hawkes is one of the premiere music publishers.
http://www.boosey.com/
Founded in 1969, the Zamir Chorale of Boston, a choir of over 45 singers that has performed internationally, supports a website containing a history, concert schedule, tour information, and excerpts from recordings. This site also contains links to Jewish music resources and a newsletter. Joshua Jacobson is the founder and has served as the Director of the Boston Zamir Chorale for over 20 years. Zamir is the choir-in-residence at Hebrew College located in Newton, MA.
http://www.zamir.org
“The Zamir Choral Foundation, created by Matthew Lazar, promotes Jewish choral music as a vehicle to inspire Jewish life, culture and continuity. Building on the success of the Zamir Chorale, the first modern Hebrew-singing chorus in North America, Mr. Lazar sought an expansive vision that went beyond the activities of any single choir – one that fostered Jewish identity across generational and denominational lines. Today, through extensive programming, education, sponsorships and special events, the Zamir Choral Foundation is at the core of an ever-growing network of Jewish choirs, singers and music which has helped create the only Foundation of its kind devoted to Jewish choral music. The Zamir Choral Foundation is creating a new world of Jewish music, musicians and culture for today and the future.”
http://www.zamirfdn.org/…
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The Zamir Chorale, founded in 1960 by Stanley Sperber, has been directed by Matthew Lazar since 1972. It has become the leading voice of the Jewish choral movement. The choir has won international acclaim for its superior performances, encompassing the full spectrum of four centuries and more of Jewish choral repertoire. Zamir has been a major spark in creating a new generation of Jewish choral music, commissioning and premiering works by contemporary North American and Israeli composers. The Chorale has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim and others in the choral/orchestral. The Chorale has also appeared with a diverse array of artists including Elie Wiesel, Naomi Shemer, Richie Havens, Danny Kaye, Theodore Bikel, Hershel Bernardi and Shoshana Damari. During its more than 40 years of creating Jewish harmony, Zamir’s musical leadership has thrilled tens of thousands in audiences across generational and denominational lines, and has set the standard for Jewish choral music in North America.…
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Robert Braunschweig, director. Bernard San, Chazan. Language of site: German. The amazing thing about this website is that they’ve digitized their standard repertoire to make it available to their members. You can view or print from this digital music collection at their website. Website includes a schedule of their concerts and synagogue work.
http://www.synagogenchor.ch/pages/en/home.php?lang=EN
Shulmusic is a website devoted to music of the synagogue and all Jewish liturgical music. The aim of the site is to become a global resource for Jewish liturgical music. Musical scores for various holidays and events are provided online.
http://shulmusic.org/
THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE and the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC present
AN ERWIN SCHULHOFF RETROSPECTIVE
performed by Mimi Stern-Wolfe’s Downtown Chamber Players
Wednesday May 25 at 7:30 PM
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
Tickets: $15; $10 for students, seniors
Reservations: www.lbi.org/schulhoff
The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music are proud to present Mimi Stern Wolfe’s Downtown Music Productions in “An Erwin Schulhoff Retrospective,” a concert of chamber works by Schulhoff, along with an academic presentation of his life and musical legacy, May 25th, 7:00 PM, at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th street. The prolific Schulhoff, a Jewish composer born in Prague, perished in a concentration camp at Wurzberg, Bavaria in 1942.
The program will include the following works of Erwin Schulhoff”:
** Hot Sonata for Saxophone and Piano (1930) performed by Marty Ehrlich, saxophone and Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano.…
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The Shira Center attracts girls from all over NorthWest London. Formed just two years ago, the center responds to the growing London interest from religious women and girls in choral training and singing. It has provided Jewish musical opportunities and entertainment for girls and women from all over London. The center is made up of five different choirs, and classes for singers of all ages and abilities. They have released a CD called “Silver Lining” which is gaining huge popularity. Their website has more information about attending some of the classes and concerts. Dena Cohen appears to be a resident composer attached to the groups.
http://www.theshiracentre.com/
The Jewish choir of Central New Jersey, meets in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and sings both Ashkenazi and Sephardi repertoire. The music director is Elayne Robinson Grossman, who served for years as New York’s director of the Rottenberg Chorale. Website has a list of venues performed, a brochure, clips, a list of repertoire and news reviews.
http://www.sharimvsharot.org
Nashirah “is the only auditioned, community-based chorale in the Greater Philadelphia area that performs exclusively Jewish and Jewish-themed music. This unique addition to Philadelphia’s cultural scene performs the broadest possible range of Jewish repertoire.” Jonathan Coopersmith, the current Artistic Director, has been the Associate Conductor for The Philadelphia Singers since 2002 and on the Musical Studies Faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music since 2004. Coopersmith teaches harmony ounterpoint, music history, and solfege at Curtis. The Chorale usually has 3 or 4 concerts per year. Information for auditions is on the website, as is a calendar of events. Harold Evans is the past artistic director.
http://www.nashirah.org
A “hasidic capella” choir, the artistic director and conductor is Alexander Tsaliuk. This is the male choir of the Cantorial Art Academy, established in 1989. It is n ow called the Hassidic Cappella, and is based in Moscow. “The choir s singers are all professional musicians students and teachers at Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and other leading musical institutes in the capital who have performed in the city s most acclaimed choral groups. They are united by their commitment to introducing listeners to the beauty of Jewish liturgical and cantorial music — music that has been forgotten and remains unknown to even the most educated lovers of music.” The choir sings in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian. They perform both Jewish liturgical pieces, Russian folk music and classical repertoire.…
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A singing group of six women in Iowa performing International Jewish music from the former Soviet Union, Yemen, Italy, France, Cuba, Iraq, Greece, Turkey, Amsterdam and much more. The group’s CD was considered one of the best from eastern Iowa in 2004. Some videos are available at:
http://www.valeriedavine.com/kolshiravids.html
Jewish a cappella choral group performing in the UK. Begun in Cambridge, England in 1996, the group has performed many orgininal compositions written by members of the group, especially Miki Grahame andAlicia Ambrose. New works presented by Kol Rina draw on varied sources of inspiration – including traditional, classical, Chassidic, gospel, minimalist and popular music. They sing predominantly in Hebrew, as many of the lyrics are excerpts from the liturgy. They have 2 CDs Ashira (2003) and Keshoshanah (2007).
http://www.kolrina.org/
Resources for song leaders. Reform movement.
http://keshercollege.org/resources/songleaders/
Binyumen Schaechter, Musical Director
The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, the longest-continually-performing Jewish chorus in the world, is celebrating it¹s 80th anniversary with three concerts this Spring (details below).
For 80 years, The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus has inspired its listeners with an astonishing musical spectrum of Yiddish song. Centuries of hope, determination, humor, loss and renewal are bound up in each note they sing. The voices of sweatshop workers, immigrants, mothers, soldiers, tumlers, and lovers speak through their music. Founded in 1923 on New York’s Lower East Side, the Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (known then as the “Freiheit Gezang Farein”) was a vocal part of the burgeoning labor movement. When the Chorus performed Jacob Schaefer’s oratorio “Tsvey Brider” in 1926, they were the first Jewish chorus in America to perform with an orchestra.…
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The Jerusalem Cantors Choir of Jerusalem, Israel, an all male choir, wishes to both preserve and modernize the music of our ancient prayers and songs. The choir s repertoire includes cantorial, liturgical, Yiddish, Chassidic and Israeli works. The Jerusalem cantors choir was established in 1972 by a group of students of the late Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin. The choir is based in the Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem, Israel. The musical director and conductor of our choir is Binyamin Glickman. The choir s pianist is Rita Feldman-Gelfman, who studied at the Alma Ata Music Academy in Kazakhstan and received an MA in playing and teaching. She made Aliya in 1990 and has accompagnied the choir since 1991.
http://www.jcc.org.il/
Hallel (ISCO) is a union of conductors and choirs in Israel. ICO was founded in June 1998 in order “to support and advance choral singing in Israel.” It promotes workshops, seminars, gatherings, pedagogy, activities, including international activities, publishes a quarterly bulletin and supports a website. The website is very out of date in terms of concert listings, but is maintained in Hebrew and English. Nevertheless contact information in provided.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/5379/
HaZamir was begun by Matthew Lazar in 1993 to offer high-school age teens the opportunity to gather together, learn and sing Jewish choral music in local ensembles. Each year, in addition to performing in their own local areas, HaZamir choirs from across the globe gather for a weekend Festival and concert in New York City.
http://www.zamirfdn.org/index.php?p=11
