A JOURNEY OF SPIRIT comes to Massachusetts

Even while you and the family enjoy the sun and surf of Cape Cod, you can learn something about Jewish music. Next month on August 12, 2006, Ann Coppel, producer of "A Journey of Spirit," a documentary about Debbie Friedman, will show the documentary in Hyannis, MA at Cape Cod Synagogue. Check the synagogue website for more info: www.ccsynagogue.org

A JOURNEY OF SPIRIT has been traveling the country, coast to coast, the past couple of months including screenings in Minneapolis at Shir Tikvah, the Manhattan JCC (which Debbie attended to lead the post-film discussion), Falmouth Jewish Congregation in Massachusetts and Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, California. Now it's returning to Cape Cod and you can see it there August 12. http://www.ccsynagogue.org/aboutus/directions/ Call for time and more information. The Cape Cod Synagogue,145 Winter Street, Hyannis, MA 02601, Phone: 508-775-2988

The Young Composers Award Competition

The Guild of Temple Musicians Announces
The Young Composers Award

The requested 2007 work is a set of 3 pieces performable as separate pieces OR as a unit, with or without narrator. The work should be 10-12 performing minutes for cantor, SATB volunteer choir, piano and a single instrument obligato (i.e., flute, violin, violoncello or other instrument approved by chair before submission). The work should be in Hebrew, using texts from Jewish liturgy, Bible, Jewish poetry or prose, or a combination of the foregoing.

Deadline: Friday, January 5, 2007 (postmarked).
Eligibility: Jewish composers from any country born on or after January 1, 1972.
Scores submitted to: Chairman Ben Steinberg, Composer-in-Residence, Temple Sinai Congregation 210 Wilson Avenue, Toronto, ONTARIO M5M 3B1 CANADA. TEL.: (416) 487-4161. FAX: (416) 487-5499.

All musical questions should be directed to Dr. Steinberg at the number above. Additional information may be obtained from GTM Vice-President for Publicity: Jayson Rodovsky at: JRodovsky@urj.org