Have a Safe Weekend East Coast!

Varda & Udi Spielman with Meir Finkelstien --Shalom Rav

Sh'ma Yisrael

Sh'ma Yisrael by Leib Glanz-- As YouTube captures comparisons of performance
Kol Rina Choir
Arrangement by Raymond Goldstein
(Where we can hear another superb arrangement by Goldstein).



Kol Rina Choir - Youth at the Center Series Mishkenot Shaananim Jerusalem
Cantor - Netanel Baram
Conductor - Roi Azulai
Arrangement by Raymond Goldstein

and Lieb Glanz from older recording


or another modern cantorial rendition by Cantor Moshe Muller



and not least, David Apfel

Zemirot Database

A new website where participants can record versions of zmirot. Add text, a history, and your mp3. There's a song index and a "members list" for those who wish to join (it's free). It would be nice if people would add composers names in the history section to tunes, if they are known!!

http://www.zemirotdatabase.org/index.php

Starr Fellowship for "Music in Jewish Life" At Harvard

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University invites applications for the 2012-2013 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica on the theme:

"Music in Jewish Life"

Applications are welcome from candidates across the disciplines treating topics related to Jewish music and its place in Jewish experience. Projects may span historical and/or contemporary subjects and may draw on a range of archival and/or ethnographic sources. The terms of the Starr endowment specify that projects must be of an academic and scholarly nature, whatever their topic or disciplinary orientation.

Ph.D. degree required

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cjs/fellowships/Starr%20Fellowship/Starr.html

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus Auditions

AUDITIONS TO JOIN OUR CHORUS
Auditions for the JPPC for the 2011/2012 season
will be held in the evenings of September 6, 7 and 8, 2011,
from 6:00 to 8:30 PM
at The Marseilles
230 West 103 St
New York City.

Auditions by appointment only, scheduled in advance.
Email Lisa at information@thejppc.org
If unavailable the 3 eves listed above,
please contact Lisa to schedule another time.
The JPPC sings only in Yiddish. Knowledge of Yiddish is *not* required to sing in the Chorus. Ability to read musical notes or sight-sing is beneficial. MP3s or CDs of vocal parts with lyrics are provided. Rehearsals are held on Mondays at the Marseilles, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, from September through early June, except on Jewish and some national holidays. First rehearsal is on Monday evening, September 12th.