Zamir Chorale of Boston

rt ry Conce iversa Ann Zamir Chorale ofr Joshua Boston Jacobson Golden c Directo A Gala Artisti Founder & Honoring

of boston chorale rh nzv

9, 7:30 pm zamir 9 201 1 0 4, 2 – zamir chorale June 69 rh nzv of boston , 19

9 1320 Centre Street, Suite 306 1 Tuesday 20 Newton, MA 02459 69– 0 5019 www.zamir.org • [email protected] Sanders Theatre, Cambridge 5 We are delighted to celebrate Zamir@50 with you. Tonight’s gala concert is the culmination of our year-long celebration Joshua R. Jacobson of Zamir’s jubilee and an opportunity to honor our friend, Maestro Joshua Jacobson. Toward the end of my senior year in college, I received a phone call from Stanley Sperber. Stanley had been my Over the past five decades, the Zamir Chorale of music counselor at Camp Yavneh in the early 1960s and Boston has consistently been a key player in the was responsible for my transition from a guitar-playing cultural life of our community and an international leader folkie to a student of classical music and an aspiring choral in Jewish choral music. Whether reviving old classics, sharing conductor. In 1960, Stanley had started a youth chorus current favorites, or commissioning exciting new pieces, Zamir, in Manhattan comprised of teenagers who had sung under Josh’s inspiring leadership, has made Jewish music an important part together in the summers at Camp Massad. The ensemble of the lives of so many people. was dedicated to the performance of Israeli and Jewish music. Eventually, they gave their chorus a name: Zamir. In the past 50 years, Zamir has performed hundreds of concerts throughout North America; produced over 30 recordings and videos; commissioned 31 new works; Stanley was phoning to invite me to start a Zamir Chorale in Boston. And so, with and appeared on stages in Israel, England, Germany, Italy, and Eastern Europe, naïve enthusiasm and youthful determination, I accepted and dived right in. With making it one of the premier Jewish choruses in the world. the assistance of Lou Garber (z”l) and Gerry Halpern, we assembled a group of about 40 students from the area. Boston University Hillel was kind enough to allow us to We are all greatly indebted to Josh, Zamir’s founder and artistic director, for use their auditorium for rehearsals, and in October of 1969 we gathered for what envisioning the chorus and leading it so effectively for the past half century. would be the first of thousands of rehearsals of the Zamir Chorale of Boston. His energy, creativity, and passion have resulted in performances that can be appreciated by musical connoisseurs and first-time listeners alike because of their Stanley and his colleagues were generous in their encouragement and assistance. excellence and accessibility. Josh’s efforts have won him the respect and admiration We flourished! Our first concert in January of 1970 at Temple Ohabei Shalom for of colleagues around the globe. the New England Jewish Music Forum felt like a great success (although I suspect I would cringe if I were to hear a recording of that performance today). We continued This evening, we are joined by close to 75 alumni, whose participation in the Zamir to have excellent relations with our “parent” chorus in New York and arranged Chorale of Boston has spanned the entire 50 years of the Chorale’s existence. This numerous joint concerts. celebration has also been an opportunity for its many alumni to reconnect and sing together. Their presence is a testimony to the lasting friendships that have been Neither Stanley nor I was aware that we were formed among the Zamir family. At a luncheon this past Sunday, they had a chance actually reviving a choral tradition. We had to join with current singers to honor and express their gratitude to Ronda Garber assumed that we were bold innovators, creating a Jacobson, who has contributed so much to Zamir’s success over the decades. new form of expression for our generation—Jewish cultural identification independent of the Jewish We are proud to have been involved with Zamir since 1970—Joyce as a soprano, establishment. But we were wrong. We were not board member, and board chair; and Michael (who has known Josh for over 60 the first Zamir Chorales. That credit goes to Joseph years) as a Zamir groupie. Rumshinsky and a group of young singers in Lodz, Poland, who, in 1899, founded a secular Jewish We express our thanks to the current and past chorus members, and to Zamir’s chorus, which they called Ha-Zomir. indefatigable managing director, Barbara Gaffin, who, in addition to her diligent leadership for many years, played such an important role in this year’s festivities. Today, the Zamir movement continues to flourish. The American Record Guide Special thanks, too, go to Larry Sandberg, Zamir’s Concert Manager, who makes dubbed our Boston branch “America’s foremost Jewish choral ensemble.” And the every performance so seamless, to Alan Teperow, who organized the Zamir alumni New York Zamir, now a foundation under the artistic direction of Matthew Lazar, events for this past year; and to Gilbert Schiffer, Zamir’s dedicated board chair. hosts a Jewish choral festival every summer that attracts hundreds of singers from all across the continent. The foundation also administers a successful franchise of Together with our co-chairs, Peter and Nancy Finn and Robert and Myra Snyder, “Ha-Zamir” choruses for Jewish teenagers throughout North America, and with we welcome you. We hope you enjoy the concert and many more decades of the several branches in Israel as well. The seeds that Stanley Sperber planted have borne Zamir Chorale of Boston. beautiful fruit! —Joyce and Michael Bohnen —Joshua R. Jacobson Commission Sponsorship Program

Hodu (Praise)—Jeremiah Klarman Eyt HaZamir (The Time for Singing) Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller Sponsored by Myra and Robert Snyder World Premiere “Jeremiah, we are kindred spirits in our love for, and appreciation of, jazz, Zamir, This Descent into Your Solitude Ken and Kirsten Lampl Jewish music, and Judaism. We are honored to encourage your composing excellence.” World Premiere Hegyon Libi (The Meditation of My Heart) Jonathan Leshnoff World Premiere This Descent into Your Solitude—Ken and Kristen Lampl Sponsored by the Harold and Evelyn R. Davis Memorial Foundation Halleluyah Salamone Rossi In loving memory of Hal & Evelyn Davis and their love of music. Uri Tsafon (Awake, O North Wind) Dov Carmel/Yehezkel Braun Stanley Sperber, guest conductor

Hegyon Libi (The Meditation of My Heart)—Jonathan Leshnoff Sim Shalom (Grant Peace) Max Janowski Sponsored by Jessica, Alison, Dana, and David Hammer Cantor Joel Caplan, tenor solo In honor of their mother, Phyllis Hammer, and her special birthday. Geographical Fugue Ernst Toch (arr. Stanley Sperber) “Thank you for teaching us to love music.” Hazamir (Anthem) Leo Low with the Zamir Chorale of Boston Alumni Singers Psalm 42—Cantor Charles Osborne Sponsored by Jill and Gilbert Schiffer Intermission (15 minutes) In loving memory of Diana Rebhun and Yetta Schiffer, whose love of music is a The Halleluyoh Virtual Choir memory cherished by their families. Presentation to the Honoree

Psalm 42 Cantor Charles Osborne Anu Sharim (We Sing)—Nick Page World Premiere Sponsored by Nancy and Peter Finn In loving memory of Henry and Edith Bernstein and Harold and Sylvia Finn. Anu Sharim (We Sing) Nick Page Anne Levy, Betty Bauman, and Hal Katzman, soloists World Premiere Eyt HaZamir (The Time for Singing)—Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller Hayah Ish (There Was a Man) Yehezkel Braun Sponsored by Joyce and Michael Bohnen In memory of Zamir members who have passed away In honor of their children and grandchildren. Hodu (Praise) Jeremiah Klarman Cantor Elias Rosemberg, solo World Premiere* Zamir introduced me to the world of Jewish music, and enhanced my understanding of Jewish prayer. My time in Zamir put me on a path I had never imagined as a Break Forth into Joy Robert Starer cantorial soloist, Judaic studies teacher, and scholar. And of course my Zamir friendships are incredible! *Klarman’s “Hodu” was given a preview performance last December at Temple Emanuel, Newton, Mass. —Francine Ferraro Rothkopf 1990-1999 About the Program Texts and Translations

How does a choral society celebrate a milestone like a 50th anniversary? Eyt HaZamir (The Time for Singing) According to a recent article in Chorus America’s journal,The Voice, “anniversaries The blossoms have appeared in the land, like the 40th or 50th are worth celebrating, … and observances become most The time of singing has come; meaningful when they reinforce a chorus’s reason for being, when they inspire The song of the turtledove self-examination, and when they help to lay a foundation for the future.” Is heard in our land.

For our 50th anniversary, we have embarked on a project to promote the “O my dove, in the cranny of the rocks, performance of choral music from Jewish traditions, not just by Jewish choirs, Hidden by the cliff, but by all choirs across America—high school, college, conservatory, community, Let me see your face, professional choruses, even church choirs. Most conductors know very little about Let me hear your voice; our repertoire beyond a dreidel song or two. They are unaware of the significant For your voice is sweet repertoire that Zamir promotes: secular and sacred; Baroque, classical, romantic, And your face is beautiful.” modern, contemporary; classic compositions as well as arrangements of folksongs, popular songs, theater songs; music in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, German, English; The LORD is my strength and my music; a cappella and accompanied. He has been my deliverance.

To that end, the Zamir Chorale of Boston is launching a new website at Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! www.JewishChoralMusic.com, which will feature a searchable database with links Your light is coming, rise up and shine. to recordings, videos, sheet music, publishers; an archive of our concert programs Awaken! Awaken! utter a song, (including such gems as Women in Jewish Music, Middle East Harmonies, Zamir The glory of the Lord is revealed upon you. Goes Baroque, Divine Majesty, Awe-Psalm, Italia, Sepharad 92, and South of the —from Lekha Dodi by Shlomo Alkabetz, Song of Songs 2, and Psalm 118 Border); recommended lists of music for specific occasions (such as Chanukah, Holocaust Memorial, Israel Independence Day); articles about Jewish choral This Descent into Your Solitude music; and a series of podcasts highlighting various periods and styles. Last fall By the word of the LORD the heavens were made. we debuted our Halleluyoh Virtual Choir, which features 150 voices from seven Sing Him a new song; countries performing Louis Lewandowski’s masterful setting of Psalm 150, as well Play sweetly with shouts of joy. as historical information about the composer. Amen. —Psalm 33 But what about the gala concert? For our 36th anniversary and for our 25th, we had mounted a performance of arguably the greatest piece of Jewish music, Hegyon Libi (The Meditation of My Heart) Ernest Bloch’s magnificent Sacred Service for chorus and orchestra. For this our May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart find favor 50th, our jubilee year, our golden anniversary, we have taken a different tack. To before You, God, who is always with me and who always saves me. add to the repertoire, we commissioned six composers to write new works, which —Psalm 19 we are premiering this evening. Klarman, Lampl, Osborne, Page, and Schiller are all composers with whose music we were already familiar. We also reached out to Jonathan Leshnoff, a composer with a national symphonic reputation, who has I began singing with Zamir at the age of 17, continued to sing with Zamir become committed to a traditional Jewish lifestyle. In addition, we surveyed the throughout high school, college, and grad school, leaving only when career 712 men and women who have sung in the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and chose opportunities took me away from Boston. It was my big, Jewish, musical family. seven of our all-time favorites. We hope you will enjoy this program as much as Zamir was and remains to this day one of the most meaningful connections I have we have enjoyed preparing it. to my heritage, to my love of beautiful and challenging choral music, and to some of the most talented and dedicated musicians (and wonderful people) I have ever encountered. Zamir didn’t just change my life, it helped form my life. —Heather Viola 2009-2014, 2017-2018 Life-long friendships; Halleluyah May You see fit to bless with peace Your people Israel, confidence in myself; joy Praise the LORD, O my soul! along with all the nations, in every season and in every hour. of making beautiful noise; I will praise the LORD all my life, Blessed are You, O LORD, the Creator of peace. Amen. looking back I realize what an I will sing hymns to my God while I exist. —Liturgy honor & privilege it is to be a Put not your trust in the great, part of this select group. in mortal man who cannot save. Geographical Fugue His breath departs; Tel Aviv, and the big Mississippi —Ellen Johnson 1974-1975 he returns to the dust; and the town Honolulu and the Lake Titicaca. on that day his plans come to nothing. The city Acapulco isn’t in Canada, rather in Mexico. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Sachneh, Deganya, Kineret, Afulah. Yes! whose hope is in the LORD his God, Eilat, Herzeliyah, Nahariyah. maker of heaven and earth, Canada, Malaga, Rimini, Brindisi. Tel Aviv! the sea and all that is in them; —Ernst Toch (arr. Stanley Sperber) who keeps faith forever; Zamir was the highlight of who secures justice for those who are wronged, Hazamir (Anthem) my college and postgraduate gives food to the hungry. Sing, brothers and sisters, sing! years. I made life-long friends, The LORD sets prisoners free; With song we will rouse the people, sang gorgeous music under the the LORD restores sight to the blind; and we will rouse the people’s hearts, direction of our outstanding the LORD makes those who are bent stand straight; and in their hearts — an exalted sentiment. conductor, and had the LORD loves the righteous; Then the people will arise and become enlightened, indescribably meaningful the LORD watches over the stranger; and their lives will be changed. experiences touring with He gives courage to the orphan and widow, Come, brothers and sisters, let us sing: Zamir in Israel for two but makes the path of the wicked tortuous. Long life to the Zamir Chorale! summers. There is no way The LORD shall reign forever, —Jacob Fichman to measure the joy I felt from your God, O Zion, for all generations. singing with the choir. Halleluyah. Psalm 42 And . . . we had so much fun! —Psalm 146 For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites. —Shari Kutner Chinitz 1969-1976 Like a hind crying for water, Uri Tsafon (Awake, O North Wind) my soul cries for You, O God; Awake, O north wind, my soul thirsts for God, the living God; and come, O south wind! O when will I come to appear before God! Blow upon my garden, My tears have been my food day and night; let its spices flow forth. I am always taunted with, “Where is your God?” Let my beloved come into his garden When I think of this, I pour out my soul: Thursday night rehearsals and eat his pleasant fruit. how I walked with the crowd, moved with them, on Bay State Road were —Song of Songs 4:16 the festive throng, to the House of God the highlight of my week. with joyous shouts of praise. Now, decades later, when Sim Shalom (Grant Peace) Why so downcast, my soul, I want to recall a peak Grant peace, goodness, blessing, grace, compassion, why disquieted within me? experience, I envision singing and mercy Have hope in God; Rossi’s “Keter” atop Masada. on us and on all Your people Israel. I will yet praise God Zamir gave me joy and Bless us, our Father, all as one in the light of Your for His saving presence. exhilaration through Jewish countenance. O my God, my soul is downcast; music and community. Who For in the light of Your countenance, therefore I think of You could ask for anything more! You have granted us, O LORD, our God, in this land of Jordan and Hermon, —Linda Steiff 1974-1980 the teachings of life, compassionate love, in Mount Mizar, righteousness, blessing, mercy, life, and peace. where deep calls to deep Zamir was a great place to in the roar of Your torrents; Though his fingers danced round and round, improve my musicianship all Your breakers and billows have swept over me. One string remained mute, and knowledge of Jewish By day may the LORD vouchsafe His faithful care, Remained mute to this day! music. It was also great so that at night a song to Him may be with me, for taking me out of my a prayer to the God of my life. How very, how very sad! college bubble and I say to God, my Rock, All her days that string trembled, to concert venues in “Why have You forgotten me, Softly trembled, softly quivered Boston that I wouldn’t why must I walk in gloom, For her song, her lover, her redeemer. have seen otherwise. oppressed by my enemy?” Yearned, thirsted, grieved, longed, Crushing my bones, As only a heart can grieve for her mate. —Ethan Goldberg 2009-2012 my foes revile me, And though he tarried, she waited each day, taunting me always with, “Where is your God?” And with a hidden whimper cried for him— Why so downcast, my soul, But he tarried. He never came, He never came! why disquieted within me? Have hope in God; And the ache is very, very great! I will yet praise Him, There was a man. And look: he is no more. I met my wife in Zamir! my ever-present help, my God. The song of his life was interrupted. Susan London, an alto, though —Psalm 42 He had one more song, after marriage I found out she But now that song is lost forever, considers herself a second Anu Sharim (We Sing) Lost forever! soprano. Regardless, we’re still We sing. —Chaim Nachman Bialik married 20 years later! When sadness mounts, we sing. When tears stream from our eyes, we sing. Hodu (Praise) —Brian Cutler 1995-1996 When rage grows, we sing. Praise the LORD, for He is good, 1999-2002 When, from the ashes, a flower blooms, we sing. His steadfast love is eternal. When children laugh, we sing. Let Israel declare, Forever Sun. “His steadfast love is eternal.” Forever Moon. Let the house of Aaron declare, Forever Light. “His steadfast love is eternal.” Forever Life—forever Now. Let those who are in awe of the LORD declare, We sing. “His steadfast love is eternal.” It was in Zamir that I —Nick Page —Psalm 118 discovered Jewish music of exceptional variety and Hayah Ish (There Was a Man) Break Forth into Joy richness. Israeli folk melodies There was a man. And look: he is no more. Break forth into joy, sing together; in sophisticated arrangements, This man died before his time, for the Lord hath comforted his people, Mishnaic texts and biblical The music of his life was interrupted. He hath redeemed Jerusalem. quotes —all introduced Sad! He had still one more song. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem. through the portal of harmony. But now that song is lost forever, Awake, stand up: put on thy strength, O Zion; Choral expressions of my Lost forever! put on thy beautiful garments: own Jewish beliefs became shake thyself from the dust. my primary language. I have How very sad! He had a harp, The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, created, conducted, or sung A vital eloquent soul, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. in a Jewish choir ever since When the poet in him would speak, Come ye, come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord; that first experience. Telling him all his heart’s secrets, He will teach us of his ways and we will walk in His paths. Let us walk in the light of the Lord. —Riki Lippitz 1978-1980 His hand plucked all the strings. But he kept one secret hidden in his heart. —Isaiah 2, 51, 52, 55 About the Artists Guest Artists Joshua Jacobson served 45 years as Professor of Music and Director of Choral Cantor Joel Caplan grew up in Iowa City, Iowa, and received his cantorial ordination Activities at Northeastern University, including nine years as Music Department from the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Cantors Institute. He has served for many Chairman and six years as the Bernard Stotsky Professor of Jewish Cultural Stud- years as cantor at Congregation Agudath Israel in Caldwell, New Jersey. He has ies. He is Visiting Professor and Senior Consultant in the School of Jewish Music at conducted the Kol Dodi Community Jewish Choir (along with Cantor Erica Lippitz), Hebrew College, where he recently received an honorary doctorate degree. Dr. as well as the Tov M’od Children’s Choir, the HaZamir NJ Teen Choir, and the New Jacobson is a sought-after scholar and lecturer. His many musical arrangements Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble. He has created choral arrangements of more and compositions are performed worldwide. His book,Chanting the Hebrew Bible: than one hundred Jewish songs, and has toured Europe and America as part of The Art of Cantillation (Jewish Publication Society, 2002), is considered the defini- the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Cantor Caplan was sent by Jewish groups to teach tive source in the field. Dr. Jacobson’s colorful programming and illuminating com- refuseniks in Moscow, and to Israel to raise morale during the Iraqi Scud attacks. mentary make every Zamir performance a masterwork. Cantor Caplan served for several years on the staff of Camp Ramah as well as the staff of the North American Jewish Choral Festival, and has been, since 1994, an Jacobson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Benjamin Shevach instructor at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Cantorial Training Program in New Award for Distinguished Achievement in Jewish Educational Leadership from York City. He and his wife, Nancy, are the proud parents of Ilan, Simona and Tamar. Hebrew College, the “Kavod Award” from the Cantors Assembly, the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award from Choral Arts New England, the Distin- Clarinetist Bruce Creditor has enjoyed a distinguished career in solo, chamber guished Service Award from Chorus America, and the “Hallel Vezimrah” Award music, and orchestral settings, and has received numerous honors, including the from New York’s Zamir Choral Foundation. Naumburg Award in Chamber Music with the Emmanuel Wind Quintet. An honors graduate of the New England Conservatory and a student of the late Peter Hadcock, Edwin Swanborn, accompanist, studied with Dr. Anthony Newman at the Juilliard he has performed with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, Boston School of Music in New York, and has participated in master classes with Gustav Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Ballet, Cantata Singers, the Grammy Award- Leonhardt and Anton Heiller. He is Music Director of the historic First Parish Church winning New England Ragtime Ensemble, Aeolian Chamber Players, and many in Duxbury, and the Artistic Director of the Candlelight Concert Series of Duxbury, a other orchestras and chamber ensembles. Creditor was a founding member of nationally recognized chamber music series. Founder-Director of the Boston Baroque Alea III New Music and the Emmanuel Wind Quintet; was general manager of Chamber Players and harpsichordist of the Atlanta Virtuosi, Ed also served on the Margun Music, winning a Paul Revere Award from the National Music Publishers music staff of Northeastern University. Association. He recently retired after serving for many years as Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras. Creditor has been with the Zamir Chorale of Boston for many years, having served as I got to meet and sing with so many nice and talented people while learning manager, contractor, and now as an active member of the Board of Directors. beautiful choral music. My time with Zamir is filled with so many happy memories. —Debby Shoham (Wolf) 1972-1974 After playing with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1970s,Taki Masuko began to experiment with incorporating the dialect of contemporary orchestra percussion into his own free-form compositions. He left Japan in 1979 to study improvisation When I first joined Zamir, I was a voice student at New England Conservatory and Josh in the Department of Third Stream Studies at the New England Conservatory. Then was doing graduate studies there. I was thirsting for a way to connect with the Jewish one passion led to another. Love of groove moved Taki to explore global folk community and NEC did not provide me with that outlet. Through my experiences music traditions. Curiosity about indigenous instruments led Taki to learn frame working under Josh’s conducting, I had the opportunity to learn Jewish repertoire, drums, dumbek, congas, quiro, and other hand percussion. Studying West African specifically cantorial style repertoire, which I did some solo work on. This experience drumming and dancing awoke Taki to the crucial connection between music and and my section leading at Zamir prepared me to take on a position as a cantorial movement. For the past thirty years, Taki and his band, The Horse Flies, have made soloist/music director. I have been the Cantorial Soloist/ Music Director at Temple music by twisting time, blending the old and borrowed with the bold and new. An Beth David in Canton since 1984 and this position was preceded by other cantorial active performer, accompanist, teacher, and sound-seeker, the Boston-based, gypsy- positions in Needham, Leominster, and as far away as Steubenville, OH. It was Josh hearted Taki continues cultivating his unusual vocabulary, seeking fresh ground for and Zamir that prepared me for this in a huge way! creative collaboration and performing regularly with the Zamir Chorale of Boston. —Howard Worona 1972-1978 Originally from the suburbs of New York City, Andrew David Mattfeld now spends his time living, teaching, and performing in an around the Boston area. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ithaca College School of Music, where he Composers concentrated in Vocal and Piano Performance. An intensive academic, his graduate Yehezkel Braun (1922-2014) was born in Breslau and, thesis on the development of Cabaret culture as a form of political resistance in at the age of two, was brought to Israel, where he Nazi Germany was the basis for a Fulbright grant to examine the current state of found himself in close contact with East-Mediterranean the art form in Berlin. A former assistant conductor for the Zamir Chorale of Boston, traditional musics. The influence of this background is Andrew currently is choral conductor at the University of Rhode Island, teaches clearly felt in his compositions. He graduated from the piano and voice at Northeastern University, serves as Director of Music Ministries Israel Academy of Music and earned a master’s degree and Organist at First United Methodist in Melrose, and as a collaborative pianist for in Classical Studies from Tel Aviv University. In 1975, he the Handel and Haydn Vocal Arts Program. studied Gregorian chant with Dom Jean Claire at the Benedictine monastery of Solesmes in France. His main Bebo Shiu recently earned his doctoral degree in Double Bass performance at Boston academic interests were traditional Jewish melodies and University. In 2012, Bebo won first place in the 2010 Bass Coalition Solo Competition Gregorian chant. He lectured on these and other subjects in Winchester, Virginia, and was the String Division winner in the 2006 Entergy at universities and congresses in England, France, the Young Texas Artists Competition in Conroe, Texas. Bebo has performed with the United States, and Germany. Braun taught for many years at Tel Aviv University. In Austin Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Boston 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize. (The Israel Prize is the most highly Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, regarded award in Israel. It was first awarded in 1953 and has been awarded every and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He performs locally with the Boston Ballet, year since then on the eve of the Israeli Day of Independence. The prize is presented Emmanuel Music, Boston Cecelia, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey to the recipient before the Knesset, Prime Minister, President, and Supreme Court Opera, Metropolitan Chorale, Masterworks Chorale, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, of Israel.) Considered to be one of Israel’s greatest composers, Braun’s music is Portland Symphony Orchestra, Back Bay Chorale, Cantata Singers, the Zamir Chorale delightfully lyrical and reflects his passion for traditional Jewish chant. of Boston, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Harvard choruses, and the Monadnock Music Festival. Dr. Shiu currently serves as the director of String Zamir’s connection to Yehezkel Braun goes back to 1973 when we first sang his Ensemble and lecturer of Double Bass at Bridgewater State University. “Song of Songs III” at the Zimriyah Choral Festival in Israel. Since that time hardly a season goes by without one or more of Yehezkel’s compositions on our programs, including many that we have commissioned. Braun composed “Hayah Ish” for Zamir in 1996 in memory of the conductor’s father, Nathaniel Jacobson. The music is based on Bialik’s 1904 poem Akharey Moti (After I Die), and Braun has preserved the poet’s [Zamir] inscribed Jewish choral music on my brain, forever! —Deborah Arbit 1976-1978 syllabic stress. This evening we dedicate our performance to the memory of Zamir’s choir members who have passed away: Ron Bloch, Richard Boyar, Susan Carp- Nesson, Shannon Downing-Baum, Elaine Finkelstein, Lou Garber, Jay Golding, Phil I grew up in a secular family and had always identified as Jewish, but in the early 80s Goldman, Betsy Heilpern Firger, Martha Sue Hoffman, Morris Keesan, Earl Lefkovitz, I was starting to get a clearer understanding of what my sense of identity had been Jerry Lester, Ann-Ellen Levine-Paul, Donna Levy, Debbie Lobovitz, Bessendorf, Doug and how little I knew of Judaism. There were a number of ways in which I took steps Lurie, Larry Nelson, Anita Redner, William Revis, Mark Vasa, and Jody Weixelbaum. to enter into Jewish life and joining Zamir was one of them. It wouldn’t make religious demands (I wasn’t ready to start going to shul) and choral singing was already an Max Janowski (1912–1991) was born into a musical integral part of my life. What I found at Zamir was a group of people with a wide family. His mother, Miriam, was an opera singer and range of religious practice and education and a wide range of musical ability and his father, Chayim, led choirs and trained cantors. He training, where everyone got along, everyone was accepted, and no one was studied at the Schwarenka Conservatory in Berlin. questioned. It was an important part of my learning about Judaism and community. In 1933, he won a piano contest that led to his In 1989, I moved back to New York City. In 1990, I joined a small Reform congregation appointment in Tokyo as head of the piano department (where I learned to leyn) and soon became a member of a women’s tefillah group. of the Mosashino Academy of Music – and his escape In 1997, I joined a small Orthodox congregation. Over several years I gradually from Nazi Germany. He remained in Japan for four became shomer mitzvot and am still active in all three communities. years before immigrating to the United States in 1937. He became the musical director of KAM Isaiah Israel —Margot Fein 1985-1988 Congregation in Chicago in 1938. It was to remain his home for his entire career, except for a four-year sojourn in Navy intelligence from composer fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied film 1942 to 1946. He wrote more than 500 compositions, which include choir and scoring with John Williams. He has scored over 70 films and television programs. orchestra pieces, cantatas, and oratorios. The prayer for piece, “Sim Shalom,” is Lampl is also a prolific composer of choral music. His first choral work in Hebrew, one of his best-known compositions. “Adon Olam,” was premiered and recorded by the Zamir Chorale of Boston.

Jeremiah Klarman (b. 1993) is gaining The composer writes: national recognition as a rising young It is with great honor and gratitude that I dedicate this work to Josh Jacobson composer of his generation. He is a 2016 and Zamir, the brightest light shining and leading us to new paths, directions, graduate of The New England Conservatory and opportunities for Jewish choral music. It was Josh’s first belief in me as a of Music, where he was a composition Jewish choral composer and Zamir’s performance of my first fledgling choral major under the instruction of Michael piece, “Adon Olam,” many years ago that set me on my journey into choral Gandolfi and Hankus Netsky. In addition music and the exploration of our rich Jewish tradition. After many years and to composing, Jeremiah plays piano; is a performances around the world, it is a great honor to have the opportunity member of NEC’s Jewish Music Ensemble; to compose again for this marvelous conductor, friend and his first-rate and is a regular at Temple Emanuel’s Shabbat Alive Service, where he is also the choral ensemble. My piece is a small thank you for how immeasurably you Artist in Residence. Klarman has won numerous awards, including the American all changed my life. Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his orchestral piece Dance Suite. In June 2010, the Distinguished by The New York Times as “a leader of Boston Pops performed his Symphony in C on his second appearance on NPR’s contemporary American lyricism,” composer Jonathan radio show “From the Top.” In addition to his accomplishments as a classical Leshnoff (b. 1973) is renowned for his music’s striking composer, Klarman has written Jewish-themed choral, pop, and liturgical music. harmonies, structural complexity, and powerful themes. Zamir has performed and commissioned several pieces by Jeremiah, and we always The Baltimore-based composer’s works have been enjoy the collaboration. performed by more than 60 orchestras worldwide in hundreds of orchestral concerts. He has received The composer writes: commissions from Carnegie Hall; the Philadelphia Orchestra; and the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, I wrote “Hodu” during a difficult week in my life, but it is an expression of Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, and Pittsburgh. pure joy. The piece has four phrases taken from Psalm 118 and each one Leshnoff has been ranked among the most performed has a unique quality. The first is a formal, fanfare-like call and response, the living composers by American orchestras. An all- second a meditative contemplation, the third a light-hearted dance, and Leshnoff recording of the Atlanta Symphony performing Leshnoff’s Symphony the fourth a gentle lullaby. The piece is held together by a wordless refrain, No. 2 and Zohar oratorio was released on the Naxos American Classics label in which recurs throughout the piece and culminates at the end in a dance-like November 2016. Leshnoff is a Professor of Music at Towson University. celebration. (I hope you’re ready to clap.) The composer writes:

Kenneth Lampl (b. 1964) is an American- I am delighted to compose new music for an occasion as special as this. To born composer and lecturer known for honor the 50th anniversary of the Zamir Chorale of Boston, I wrote a two-part his film, television, and choral music. He is work, “Hegyon Libi.” One part is meant to be introspective of the passage of currently head of the Australian National time, and the other is purely joyful—a celebration of this milestone. University School of Music in Canberra. The first movement is based on apasuk (biblical sentence) asking Hashem to After an early career as a jazz musician, he understand a person’s internal desire to connect with Him. There is a natural studied composition at Rutgers and Juilliard. yearning to connect with Hashem, and the first part of this work endeavors Among his prizes are the “Prix Ravel” in to illustrate this idea through lyrical, striving music. The second movement composition from the American Conservatory is an upbeat niggun to celebrate the happiness of the anniversary. I created in Fontainebleau, France; the Cincinnati an exciting melody inspired by Chassidic tunes, interspersed with modern Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Award; the ASCAP Award for Young musical motives, incorporating stand-up bass and drums. I felt that the joy Composers; the Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Composition from Columbia University; of this occasion could be felt most deeply by delving into the music itself, and the Gretchanov Memorial Prize in Composition. In 1998, he was awarded a without the limits of language.

Born in Volkovysk, Poland, Leo Low (1878-1962) received However, the water symbolizes not only life-giving sustenance as it would his early musical training singing as a boy soprano in to the hart, but also the spiritual turmoil of the psalmist. For the psalmist synagogue choirs in Lida and Bialystok. After completing is assailed by enemies and pushed to the point of despair. “Like a deadly his studies at the Warsaw Conservatory, he conducted wound in my bones, my enemies taunt me” (verse 11). The constant several orchestral and theatre ensembles. Then in 1902, movement of the beginning and end of the piece is relieved in the middle he began his career as synagogue choir conductor, section, a calmer section in duple meter, where the psalmist recalls his past, ending up at the Tlomacki synagogue of Warsaw with loving relationship with God: “For I remember You from the land of Jordan the renowned Cantor Gershon Sirota, and conducting and the hills of Hermon...” (verse 7). In the end, the psalmist declares: "Hope the Warsaw Hazomir Choral Society. Subsequently he in God, for I shall yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance, and my held conducting positions in both Israel and the United God," even as the music returns to the opening, flowing, unresolved theme. States. For the Hazomir Choral Society, he composed a stirring anthem, which we sing with pride this evening. Nick Page (b. 1952) is a Boston-based composer, conductor, and author who is best known for his song Cantor Charles Osborne (b. 1949) had his first singing leading. In the 1980s, he was a conductor with the Emmy engagement at the age of twelve as a boy alto in his Award-winning Chicago Children’s Choir. Since 1990, he hometown of Suffern, NY. He later attended the Hartt has led Boston’s Mystic Chorale and guest conducted College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut, studying around the world, including at three of the four Carnegie there with Cantor Arthur Koret. He earned his second Halls (Pittsburgh, New York, and Scotland). His choral degree and received cantorial ordination from the works have been premiered everywhere from Lincoln Cantors Institute (now the H. L. Miller Cantorial School) Center to humble school cafetoriums. He is the author of of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New four books and has over one hundred published choral York. At the Seminary, Osborne studied composition pieces. In high school, Nick’s friends were all listening to with Miriam Gideon and Hugo Weisgall. His original rock and roll, while Nick was drawn to Theodore Bikel compositions include four oratorios; a symphony; recordings of Yiddish and Israeli folksongs. His lifelong love of Jewish music (he’s concerti for flute, guitar, viola and harp; and more than not Jewish) continues. For over 20 years, he’s been leading songs at the North 200 choral pieces. The Zamir Chorale of Boston has premiered many of Cantor American Jewish Choral Festival. And Zamir has been pleased to work on many Osborne’s works, including “A Sephardic Havdalah,” “Psalm 20” and the oratorios occasions with Nick and his Mystic Chorale. Souls on Fire, Kings and Fishermen, and Like Wildflowers Suddenly. Cantor Osborne has made numerous recital, concert, and opera appearances throughout the world Nick wrote the English words to “Anu Sharim” in the summer of 2017. He tells us, and has taught at Hartt College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Northeastern University, and Hebrew College. He is a regular participant in the North American They were inspired by the many occasions I have heard Zamir sing, times of Jewish Choral Festival and the “HaZamir” National Jewish High School Choral Festival, great sadness, times of rage, but also times of joy, of children laughing. And with which he toured Israel as music director during the summers of 1996 and 1997. throughout it all, Zamir has shared its gift of song. It is not a little thing. It is vast and it is eternal. The heart is the singer and the music I have heard Cantor Osborne writes: has been magnificent, exploding with the full range of emotions. I wanted Psalm 42 has fascinated me since, as a boy, I fell in love with Felix “Anu Sharim” to explode with those emotions. … The constant throughout Mendelssohn’s setting of the same text. Certainly the opening phrase “Anu Sharim” and throughout our lives as singers is the simple fact that we in verse 2, “As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants sing. It is our way of dealing with the pain and the sorrow. It is our reaction after You, O God,” sets the expectation that the music will somehow to laughter and joy. Singing has purpose. Our gift brightens the world. I am evoke the sense of flowing water. This I have tried to do in the use of grateful to the Zamir Chorale for the invitation to write this piece. It has triple rhythms, and the rising and falling eighth-note figures. I was given me an opportunity to shout out the enormous gratitude I feel for your also influenced by the visual appearance in the Torah scroll of the Shirat gift as well as for the eternity of life. Hayam, the Song of the Sea, which is laid out visually to suggest the waves of the ocean. In my piece, as one voice finishes the eighth-note figure, another picks it up, creating a similar visual effect in the printed music. Salamone Rossi (c. 1570–c. 1630) was employed at the Gonzaga court in Mantua harmony at Manuel de Falla Sch1ool of Music and took voice lessons with many as violinist and composer. What little information we have about his life is gleaned professors. Elías completed a 5-year program in Pathology, Audiology & Speech from his published works—six books of madrigals, one book of duets, one book therapy at the School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. of canzonets, four books of instrumental dances and sonatas, a balletto, and a path-breaking collection of Hebrew motets for the synagogue. Unlike his Christian Robert Starer (1924–2001) began to study piano at the age of colleagues, Rossi composed no liturgical music for the church, but his collection of four, and was admitted to the Vienna State Academy in 1937. choral music for the synagogue is the only work of its kind and quality to appear In 1938, after Germany invaded Austria, he was able to escape before the nineteenth century. to Jerusalem, where he continued his musical studies. During the Second World War, he served in the British RAF, often Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller (b. 1958), spent her childhood in touring as a pianist. In 1947, he came to the United States, Stamford, Connecticut, and learned to play the piano initially on where he studied composition at the Juilliard School, and her own, mostly by improvising. Formal lessons followed, but at the Berkshire Music Center. He taught on the faculties of as she has observed, her playing remained improvisatory. In her Juilliard and Brooklyn College. Numerous commissions include teen years, she began writing songs—lyrics and music—of what four ballets for Martha Graham and a Violin Concerto by Itzhak Perlman, which was she has since called a “folk nature,” with accompaniment for recorded with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Starer is the author piano or guitar. When she was fifteen, she composed a setting of of Rhythmic Training (New York, 1969), Basic Rhythmic Training (New York, 1986), “May the Words of My Mouth,” the English prayer in the Reform and an autobiography, Continuo: A Life in Music (New York, 1987). “Break Forth into prayerbook, to sing at her brother’s bar mitzvah celebration, and this inspired her to Joy” is the final movement of Starer’s six-movement dramatic cantata, Ariel: Visions continue writing liturgical settings. “The prayerbook has spoken to me ever since I was of Isaiah, commissioned by the Interracial Fellowship Chorus of New York in 1959. a teenager,” she remarked in a recent interview. She received her bachelor’s degree in Zamir has performed the full oratorio in several concerts, and in 1979 commissioned composition from Boston University, and during that time sang with the John Oliver his beautiful “Psalms of Woe and Joy.” Chorale and the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Now a nationally known composer, her works include “Life-Song Cycle,” a series of pieces for Jewish life passage ceremonies; “Halleluhu,” a multi-rhythmic setting of Psalm 150; and various commissioned works Ernst Toch (1887–1964) Born into a middle-class Jewish for synagogues, choirs, and interfaith groups. In addition to her duties as cantor at merchant family in Vienna, Toch displayed considerable Bet Am Shalom in White Plains, NY, Cantor Schiller is a Professor of Cantorial Arts musical gifts as a child. He began composing on his own at at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. We like to think that Benjie an early age, and remained entirely self-taught. He served got hooked on Jewish choral music when she sang in the Zamir Chorale of Boston. as professor of composition at the Mannheim Hochschule für Musik and soon he achieved recognition as one of the The composer writes: leading personalities in German musical circles. In 1933, with The Zamir Chorale has called us to song since its inception, 50 years ago. This the installation of the National Socialist regime in Germany, piece is conceived as a celebration of that calling: Eyt hazamir higia—The time Toch’s music automatically fell into the category of “degenerate music” by virtue of of singing has come. It is set to biblical and liturgical verses that reflect the idea his being a Jew, and its public performance was forbidden. In 1934, he immigrated of waking up, hearing a call, and responding with the song of creation. I set the to the United States, eventually settling in Los Angeles, where he joined many of his piece a cappella (sans instrumentation) to enable the listener to focus on the fellow emigres as a prolific composer of film music. Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” depth and breadth of colors, timbres, and emotions solely of the choir. There are is the last movement of a suite “Gesprochene Musick” (Spoken Music), which, four sections: rhythmic and joyful, lyric and romantic, triumphant, then back to from different angles, tries to produce musical effects through speech. The suite joy. May this piece add to the joy of commemorating 50 years of sacred singing. was performed and recorded at the Berlin Festival of Contemporary Music in 1930. Subsequently the “Geographical Fugue” was translated into English under the auspices of composers John Cage and Henry Cowell. Stanley Sperber created this Cantor Elías Rosemberg was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hebrew version for the (NY) Zamir Chorale’s tour to Israel in 1970. He comes from a family of musicians. His grandfather was a Hazzan and his father was a clarinetist in a Klezmer band. In 1988 at the age of 18, Elías started to work as a Hazzan at Chaim Weitzman community in San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. By 1991 he studied at Seminario Rabínico After 29 years, how could Zamir NOT have changed my life?? Thank you, Josh! Latinoamericano and in 1994 he obtained the degree of —Phyllis Werlin 1989 to the present Hazzan and Singing Professor. Elías studied music theory and

The Zamir Chorale of Boston 2018–2019 Season Performing on concert stages throughout North America, Europe, and Israel, the Sopranos award-winning Zamir Chorale of Boston awakens audiences to music that ranges Betty Bauman • Jenn Boyle • Sharon Goldstein • Elisheva Grzegorzewski from the exotic rhythms of the Middle East to the majestic anthems of19th- Naomi Gurt Lind • Maayan Harel • Marilyn J. Jaye • Anne Levy • Sharon Shore century European synagogues, from the romances of Spain to the chants of Yemen, Miriam Silva • Julie Kopp Smily • Miriam Smirnov • Louise Treitman • Deborah and from contemporary American jazz to the much-loved Yiddish tunes of Jewish Wollner • Jessica Woolf musical theater. Founded in 1969 by Joshua Jacobson, one of the world’s leading authorities on Jewish choral music, the Zamir Chorale of Boston is a vibrant voice in Altos the presentation, preservation, and perpetuation of Jewish culture. Anna Adler • Sarah Boling • Johanna Ehrmann • Deborah Melkin • Rachel Miller Judy Pike • Jill Sandberg • Nancy Sargon-Zarsky • Rachel Seliber • Elyse Seltzer In addition to enjoying a devoted following in the Greater Boston area, Zamir has Francene Sokol • Hannah Szydlo • Gail Terman • Phyllis Werlin • Charna Westervelt achieved a far-reaching reputation through its 30 recordings and frequent tours Phyllis Sogg Wilner throughout the United States, as well as in Israel and Europe. The documentary film, Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Poland, has been shown across the country Tenors on public television stations. In January 2006, Zamir was invited to perform at the David Burns • Steven Ebstein • Suzanne Goldman • Hal Katzman • Kevin Martin United Nations General Assembly for the first International Day to Commemorate Dan Nesson • Leila Joy Rosenthal • Lawrence E. Sandberg • Gilbert Schiffer Victims of the Holocaust. Zamir was honored to represent the United States at Dan Seltzer • Yishai Sered • Andrew Stitcher the first Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin, Germany, in 2011 and again in 2014. Basses Peter Bronk • Abba Caspi • Michael Krause-Grosman • Michael Kronenberg The Zamir Chorale of Boston is a member of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium, Devin Lawrence • Richard Lustig • Michael Miller • Martin Oppenheimer a cooperative association of diverse choral groups in Boston and the surrounding -ar James Rosenzweig • Peter Squires • Mark Stepner • Kyler Taustin • Michael Victor eas. The Zamir Chorale is choir-in-residence at Hebrew College and is funded in part Jordan Lee Wagner • Robert Wright • Richard Yospin by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This concert is a part of Newton Festival of the Arts 2019. Instrumentalists Edwin Swanborn, piano • Andrew Mattfeld, piano 2 • Jeremiah Klarman, guest pianist Bruce Creditor, clarinet • John Bebo Shiu, bass • Taki Masuko, percussion

Board of Directors Staff Zamir was my second husband—that’s what my husband used to say. Gilbert Schiffer, Chairman Joshua R. Jacobson, Artistic Director I loved singing with Zamir; it introduced me to great Jewish music, to the Boston Peter Finn*, Clerk Barbara Gaffin, Managing Director Jewish community, and created a new family for me away from home. Michael Victor, Treasurer Lawrence E. Sandberg, Concert Manager Peter Bronk and Merchandise Manager —Esther Shorr 1987-1998 Bruce Creditor* Edwin Swanborn, Accompanist Bruce Donoff Devin Lawrence, Assistant to the Conductor Elyse Friedman Jenn Boyle, Conducting Intern In 1971 I went to an open Zamir rehearsal at BU Hillel. I was a senior in high Barbara Gaffin Betty Bauman, Deborah Melkin, school. What I witnessed was not just a choir holding a weekly rehearsal. There Joshua Jacobson Kevin Martin, and Rich Lustig, Section Leaders was electricity in the room. There was excitement and joy in their voices as though Rachel Miller Rachel Miller, President their shared love of Jewish music made them feel alive. I knew instantly that I Jeff Rosenberg Charna Westervelt, Vice President belonged. And ever since then, in the years in between, every time I hear a choir Robert Snyder* Michael Kronenberg, Librarian sing, I feel a terrible longing for Zamir in my heart. Lawrence E. Sandberg —Lisa Levens 1971-1974 and 1990-1995 *Former Chair 50

Zamir@50 Joyce and Michael Bohnen, Co-Chairs Gala Golden Anniversary Concert Sponsors Peter and Nancy Finn Concert Underwriter and Donor ($500+) Leadership Barbara Gaffin Zamir@50 sponsor ($10,000+) Hillery and Daniel Bauman Joshua Jacobson Adelson Family Foundation Arlene Bernstein Committee Gilbert Schiffer Anonymous (3) Ruth Pernick and Herbert Birnbaum Robert and Myra Snyder Joyce and Michael Bohnen Joan Blum and Dan Hassenfeld Rabbi Donald Cashman Alan Teperow, Chair, Alumni Committee Phyllis Hammer Jill and Gilbert Schiffer Shari Kutner Chinitz Susan and Bruce Creditor Conductor’s Circle and Joel R. Davidson Zamir@50 sponsor ($5,000+) Cantor Jodi Sufrin and Cantor Roy Einhorn Alumni Singers The Beker Foundation Brenda and Harvey Freishtat Kenneth Asher Arbit Amy Lopyan Fistel Elizabeth Sheldon Susan Axe-Bronk and Peter Bronk Elyse and Sanford Friedman Deborah Arbit Bob Fradkin Mandelbaum Louise Goldberg Citron Hal Katzman Harold and Evelyn R. Davis Memorial Foundation Shari Baker Susan Bamel Glickman Naomi Katz Mintz Jeff Klepper Madelyn and Bruce Donoff Matthew and Vivian Lazar Ilene Fruman Beckman Caroll Goldberg Alan Nelson Marcia Solkoff Eskin Shulamit and Avi Rockoff Herb Birnbaum Donna Goldberg Ruth Birnbaum Pernick Nancy and Peter Finn Rabbi Benjamin J. Samuels, Cong. Shaarei Tefillah Joyce Bohnen Sarah Blumenthal Gottlieb Dawn (Shapiro) Ringel Linda and Michael Frieze Ruth Langer and Jonathan D. Sarna Elijah Botkin Andrew M. Greene Francine Ferraro Rothkopf Ronda Garber Jacobson and Joshua Jacobson Steven and Rochelle Seltzer Jacqueline Breines Eli Gurock Susan Rubin Linda and Jake Kriger Beth Strassler Joanne Camann Sheri Gurock Sara Ruderman Levine Chapels, David Decter Sivya and Nahum Twersky Joel Caplan Barbara C. Holtz Joni Salvin Schockett Leila Joy Rosenthal Suzanne Cohen-Wiesman and Richard Wiesman Loren and James Rosenzweig Deanna and Sidney Wolk Don Cashman Jenwa Hsung Marcy K. Schwartz Jill and Lawrence Sandberg Jerome Chanes Judith T Israel Deborah Sosin Myra and Robert Snyder Friend ($250+) Shari Kutner Chinitz Ronda Garber Jacobson Linda Steiff Lisa Goldberg and Roy Barr Larry Constantine Gail Javitt Marilyn Roxin Stern Sustainer ($2,500+) Jeff Rosenberg and Marcia Cooper Susan Creditor Jack Kahn Alan “Tep” Teperow Susie and Freddy Jacobs Sheila Decter George Krupp Elana Cutler Janis Daniels Klein Scott A. Tepper Rabbi Daniel Freelander Rubin and Rudman, LLP Stephen and Suzanne Garber Bobbie Sue Daitch Benjamin Krefetz Carol Helfen Wallach Barbara and Edward Scolnick Bonnie Chebot Gibson Joel R. Davidson Lisa Levens Suzanne Cohen Wiesman Ruth and Jon Tepper Heather and Andrew Greene Lisa Doob Cantor Riki Lippitz Barbara Wild Bonnie and Len Hausman Benefactor ($1,000+) Barbara (Bass) Fisherman Danny Mandeau Howard L. Worona Independent Jewish Community Susan and Aron Ain Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus Ilene and David Beckman Bill and Julie Levinson I met my wife, Paula Schwarzmer, while singing in Zamir. —Ken Arbit 1973-1978 Diane and Chester Black Dr. Mayer and Judy Levitt Barbara Gaffin and Doug Cahn Kurt and Sue Linden Marsha and Harvey Chasen Bruce and Joyce Pastor Choral Arts New England Judy Pike Lisa M. Cohen Join the Red Sox for its annual Jewish Gerald and Ina Regosin Renee and Steven Finn Joni and Michael Schockett Heritage Night at Fenway Park and hear the Ethan Lerner Don Simkin Cantor Riki Lippitz Zamir Chorale of Boston sing the National Anthem! David and Gail Snyder Naomi and Keith Osher Linda Kasten and Peter Squires Alfred Nash Patterson Foundation This year, fans who purchase a ticket through this special Serene and Michael Victor for the Choral Arts Fund offer for the 7:10 pm,June 13, 2019, Red Sox vs Rangers game, will receive Susan Whitehead Helene and Joseph Tischler a limited-edition Red Sox Baseball Cap with ‘Champions’ in Hebrew! Sheri Olans and Robert Wright Roz Garber Toledano and Allan Toledano David Harlow and Heather Zacker BUY TICKETS NOW! Visit mlb.com/redsox/tickets/promotions/themes/jewish-heritage Cantor Louise and Richard Treitman Arnee R. and Walter A. Winshall Gifts and pledges as of May 15, 2019. We regret any Questions? Contact [email protected] Zamir Choral Foundation errors or omissions. Please notify us so that we can correct our database and honor your contribution. Bill and Julie Levinson Lance Kawesch and Sharon S. Regen-Wojnarowicz The Zamir Chorale of Boston thanks all those who Marni and Jonathan Levitt Anne Exter Gerald and Ina Regosin Dr. Mayer and Judy Levitt Sabina and Richard Feczko Jerry and Ruth Rose-Jacobs have generously contributed to the success of our Kurt and Sue Linden Ronald and Lory Fischler Miriam Rosenblatt Jack and Theresa Love Sylvia and Philip Fishman Yona and Martin Rosenman Golden Anniversary (2018-2019) season. Esther and Lewis Muhlfelder Renee and Elliot Fleischer Ellen and Howard Rothberg Deborah and Alan Nelson Helen and Martin Flusberg Susan Rubin Conductor’s Circle ($10,000+) Lizbeth and George Krupp Serene and Michael Victor Bruce and Joyce Pastor Claudia Folkman Carol Schauer Adelson Family Foundation Cantor Riki Lippitz Susan Whitehead Judy Pike Heather and Richard Forrest Jinny Sagorin and Jeremy Anonymous (3) Newton Cultural Council Suzanne Cohen-Wiesman and Deborah Raboy Miriam Freidson Schmahmann Joyce and Michael Bohnen Naomi and Keith Osher Richard Wiesman Sidney Redner Irene Gaffin Amy Schneider and Ed Sciore Commonwealth of James and Loren Rosenzweig Sidney and Deanna Wolk Gerald and Ina Regosin Lesley Garber Mathews and Ethel and Lester Segal Massachusetts Marcia Solkoff Eskin Alexander Rosenberg Robert Glidden Martin Sher Phyllis Hammer Ruth and Jon Tepper Donor ($180-499) Rabbi Barbara Penzner and Nancy and Dennis Gilbert Naomi and Richard Shore Jill and Gilbert Schiffer Roz Garber Toledano and Lisa Goldberg and Roy Barr Brian Rosman James and Susan Glickman Linda Sue and Richard Sohn Allan Toledano Rachel Berger Josephine and Lewis Schneider Myra Goggins Judith Spivak Shir Chadash Circle ($3600-9999) Cantor Louise and Arlene Bernstein Joni and Michael Schockett Caroll Goldberg Tisha Stadnicki Susan Axe-Bronk and Richard Treitman Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller and Linda and Ira Shoolman Sharon and Steven Goldstein Marc Stober Peter Bronk Arnee R. and Rabbi Les Bronstein Don Simkin Robert and Elaine Grover Naomi Storm Louise Goldberg Citron Walter A. Winshall Jonathan and Judy Chiel David and Gail Snyder Elisheva Grzegorzewski Suzanne Hanser and The Harold and Evelyn R. Davis Zamir Choral Foundation Hillel Chiel and Karin Sprecher Philip Hershberg Alan Teperow Memorial Foundation Elizabeth Dreben Linda Kasten and Peter Squires Eva and Melvin Hoffman Deborah Cohn Terman David Decter, Levine Chapels Patron ($500-999) Jeff Rosenberg and Michael and Joy Sydney Barbara Holtz Cantor Steven Thompson Mady and Bruce Donoff Hillery and Daniel Bauman Marcia Cooper Sharon and Bill Torodor Jack and Diana Kahn Cantor Henry Rosenblum and Nancy and Peter Finn Arlene Bernstein Cantor Lisa Doob, Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, Marilyn and Paul Kalis Susan Ticker Linda and Michael Frieze Rabbi Donald Cashman Temple Isaiah Temple Beth Zion Helen and Robert Kaplan Sharon and Bill Torodor Paula and James Gould Shari Kutner Chinitz David Feltman Sheri Olans and Robert Wright Roxanne Kelber Jodi and Hayden Traub Susie and Freddy Jacobs Susan and Bruce Creditor The Fenway Group Judah Levine and Adina Kling Murray and Helene Tuchman Ronda Garber Jacobson and Joel R. Davidson Gordon and Friend (up to $179) Linda Koevary-Gissinger United Way of Mass Bay and Joshua Jacobson Sara and Bob Dickman Barbara Wald Freed Cantor Elise Barber Arleen Kulin Merrimack Valley Mass Cultural Council Cantor Jodi Sufrin and Rabbi Daniel Freelander Barbara Barry Rabbi Judith Kummer Selma Waldstein Loren and James Rosenzweig Cantor Roy Einhorn James R. Friel, Jr., Donald Benovitz Nan and Andrew Langowitz Helen Wanderstock Jill and Lawrence Sandberg Elyse and Sanford Friedman The Friel Foundation Channah Berkovits Rachel and Mark Lebowitz Sally and Jim Weiner Barbara and Edward Scolnick Leora Fishman and Roy Gould Stephen and Suzanne Garber Dianne and Michael Blau Sybil and Steven Levisohn Judith D. Weiskopf Myra and Robert Snyder Joan Blum and Bonnie Chebot Gibson Leni and Stan Bloomenthal Kurt and Sue Linden Stephen Whitfield Dan Hassenfeld Lori and Michael Gilman Sally Braunstein Jack and Theresa Love Doris Wight Benefactor ($1,000-3599) Gary and Susan Jacobson Caroll Goldberg Margie and Gil Brodsky Enid Lubarsky Robert and Deborah Wollner Alfred Nash Patterson Hal Katzman Sy Gottlieb, Stanhope Garage Paul and Abby Brown Richard and Mair Lustig Charlotte Woolf Foundation for the Matthew and Vivian Lazar Heather and Andrew Greene Barbara Lapidas-Brown and Harvey Mamon and Sheri Olans and Robert Wright Choral Arts Fund Michael Leavitt, American Edward Grossman Larry Brown Roberta Fern Zemer Chai Ilene and David Beckman Society for Jewish Music Heather Zacker and Esta-Jean Cahn William and Cynthia Marcus Barbara Zimmerman The Beker Foundation David Moeser Trust David Harlow Judith and Barry Caplan Maria Marvin Rabbi Henry and Barbara Zoob Barbara Gaffin and Doug Cahn Herbert Birnbaum and Bonnie and Len Hausman Abba and Dvora Caspi Sheila Mello and Robert C. Weiss and Ruth Pernick Independent Jewish Community Sum Chan Lawrence Smetana Special thanks to our in-kind donor, Susan Chadick Jane M. Rabb Sherry Israel Winnie Clifford Barry Mesch Jeffrey Levine, Accountant. Marsha and Harvey Chasen Shulamit and Avi Rockoff David G. Kanter Albert Costa Abbott z”l and Lois Miller Gifts and pledges received as of Combined Jewish Philanthropies Rabbi Benjamin J. Samuels, Joshua and Jeanne Kieval Herbert and Ann Daitch Rachel and Michael Miller May 15, 2019. We regret any errors Susan and Bruce Creditor or omissions. Please notify us so Cong. Shaarei Tefillah Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Sheila Decter Evelyn Neumeyer Cantor Jodi Sufrin and that we can correct our database Ruth Langer and Community Chorus Ruth Diengott Dianne and Martin Newman Cantor Roy Einhorn and honor your contribution. Jonathan D. Sarna Gennady Konnikov Hillel Chiel and Barbara Palant Renee and Steven Finn Steven and Rochelle Seltzer Judy and Les Kramer Elizabeth Dreben Judith Pinnolis Elyse and Sanford Friedman Beth Strassler Marcia and Alan Leifer Herbert Dreyer and Carol Wool Linda Plaut, z”l Sharon Eisner Gillette and Sivya and Nahum Twersky Jeffrey and Shawna Levine Jill and Steve Ebstein Rhonda Press Walter Gillette The music of Zamir has been so much of the soundtrack of my life. It was a point of great personal Zamir Chorale of Boston Alumni pride and joy to have had the privilege of singing with (alphabetical listing according to name given when a member of Zamir) this amazing group. To this day, whenever I sing with a choir, it is Josh’s voice I hear giving direction. Nanette Abuhoff Jacobson Joan Blum Hassenfeld Tia Cohen Sam Farmer —Ilene (Fruman) Beckman 1971-1975 Jaime Alberts Naomi Blumberg Sandi Cohen Morgan Danny Fath Sharon Alexander Dreyfus Sarah Blumenthal Gottlieb Suzanne Cohen Wiesman Judy Feierstein Marsha Andelman Jacobson Bryna Bograd Davis Bernie Comras Joshua Feigon Patty Antelman Joyce Bohnen Larry Constantine Margot Fein Edward Frim Eve (Havah) Goldfarb Cheryl Anton Eva Boorstein Lawton Cooper Michael Feinberg Ilene Fruman Beckman Jerry Goldin Luca Antonucci Jill Borenstein Leslie Corn Michele Feinstein Alan Funk Jay Golding z”l Howard Appel Mimi Bornstein Bruce Creditor Francine Beth Ferraro Rothkopf Dan Funk Gabriel Goldman Ken Arbit Diane Botnick Maurice Crevoshay Alison Fields Ronda Garber Jacobson Phil Goldman z”l Stephanie Arena Richard Boyar z”l Patricia Cristofaro Rena Finkelstein Markowitz Lou Garber z”l Sue Goldsmith Heather Atwood Forrest Diane Braunstein Jill Crollick Gleicher Elaine Finkelstein z”l Martin Gardiner Silvia Golijov Beverly Auerbach Pressman Nadine Braunstein John Curtis Rick Fisel Helena Geberer Tamar Gollan Kyra Auslander Jacqueline Breines Brian Cutler Maxine Fishbein Pilavin Sara Geffen Geller Loretta Goodman Sam Bahn Jackie Brenner Bobbie Sue Daitch Naomi Fisher Deena Gelb Steven Goodstein Janis Daniels Klein Amy Fistel Debra Gelber Avi Gopin I made life-long friends, appreciate excellent Jewish David Dantowitz Stephanie Fleischer Robert Geller Dennis Gordan music, sing my heart out, and connect with Faith Dantowitz Michael Foley Joe Gerhardt Carole Gordon the love of my life. —Ronda Jacobson 1969-1976 Joy David Bob Follansbee Louise Gessel Rebecca Gorlin Joel Davidson Judy Forbes Yoself Gilboa Marina Gorny Arlene Gilman Beth Gorsun Shari Baker Vera Broekhuysen Avi Davis Amy Foster Ryna Gindsberg Kedar Ruth Gottlieb King Dina Baldwin Berdy Leah Broner Fine Ken Davis Everett Fox Susan Glazer Joseph Gray Susan Bamel Glickman Joan Bronspiegel Dickman Laina (Maddy) Dicker Robert Fradkin Joel Gluck Judy Gray Bob Band Les Bronstein Caryl Diengott Jason Frankel Herman Godfried Steve Gray Elise Barber Susan Brown Shannon Downing-Baum z”l Gordon Freed Barbara Gold Marks Rena Gray Fein Betsy Barr Gary Buchwald Dorothy Dudovitz Adam Freedman Caroll Goldberg Meir Green Vicki Barsh Julia Caine Heidi Duskey Brenda Freedman Donna Goldberg David Greenbaum Barbara Bass-Fisherman Fred Calm Chet (Tzvi) Edelman Jeff Freilich Ellen Goldberg Andrew Greene Judy Baumwoll Joanne Camann Judy Edelman Avirom Frieberg Ethan Goldberg Diane Grenker Kieval Jules Becker Debra Cantor Jennifer Edelman Harter Allan Friedman Janet Goldberg Claire Gross Sheri Beker Gurock Susan Carp-Nesson z”l Valerie Edwards Dan Friedman Julie Goldberg Michelle Gross Mark Belfer Goldring Liz Carver David Eichler Dayle Friedman Lisa Goldberg Daniel Guenzburger Elizabeth Belsky-Liberman Rabbi Don Cashman Pnina Einiklicht Andy Friedman Merryl Goldberg Eli Gurock Robin Bergman Cantor Sheldon Chandler Hinda Eisen Labovitz Jeffrey Friedman Amy Golden Lucille Guth Kimberly Bernhardt Jerome Chanes Debbie Eisenberg Laurie Friedman Paul Goldenberg Gali Halpern Maya Bernstein Gail Charak Volk Shoshana Eisenberg Miriam Friedson Wells Jerry Halpern Bryan Bessner Bonnie Chebot Gibson Susan Eisenberg Jay Lisa Hamel Michelle Bider Stone Hillel Chiel Sharon Eisner Gillette Ira Hammer Lydia Bileski Magill Abigal Chill Louise Elfant Asher Zamir gave me the joy of initiating my life as a Arnold Harris Sophia Bilides Dan Chill Joshua Elkin musician, and of placing me in a community of like- Mark Harris Herbert Birnbaum Murray Cion Roz Engelberg minded young people from throughout the Boston Karen Harvey Ruth Birnbaum Pernick Louise Citron Norman Ephraim area who had a strong Jewish identity and a good Danny Hassenfeld Janey Bishoff Chuck Claus Lewis Etcoff voice, just like me! I was able to then sing with NY Richard Hausman Melanie Blatt Isabel Clerman Laurie Faggen Zamir, and the Collegiate Chorale, where I had the Curt Hayashi Ron Bloch z”l Ben Cohen Sarah Failla different but equally exciting experience of performing Vanessa Hayden Robert Block Adina Cohen Janet Falon choral classics like the Verdi Requiem in Carnegie Hall! Betsy Heilpern Firger z”l Lisa Blum Isaac Cohen Nancy Farber Rosen —Marcy Schwartz 1974-1977 Singing BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGETHER + Joel Hencken Susanne Katchko Bill Kunin Acquiring LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS = Robin Rosenzweig Lynne Herschfus Blander Cantor Deborah Katchko Gray Estelle Kunoff Epstein Having “THE TIME OF MY LIFE”!!! Arlene Roskies Sandy Herscowitz Andrea Katz Alison Kur Dan Rostan Liz Hirsch Barbara Katz Bradlee Kurland —Sarah Blumenthal Gottlieb 1970-1973 Susan Rubin Bia Hirsch Klein Zvi Katz Susan Kurland Julia Rubin-Cadrain Linda Hoffman Kay Debbie Katz Cohen Shari Kutner Chinitz Alan Rubinstein Martha Sue Hoffman z”l Naomi Katz Mintz Emily Lander Worobey Susan Marcovitz Julie Paul Levinson Amittai Rudavsky Norman Hollander Martha Katz Hyman Andy Langowitz Kevin Margolius Janet Penn Sara Ruderman Barbara Holtz Jackie Sue Katzman Nan Langowitz Deborah Marion Foner Sarah Perron Molly Ruggles Peggy Hoyt Morris Keesan z”l Robert Lapidos Karen Markison Brean Avi Pfeffer Perry Russell Jenwa Hsung Roxanne Kelber Sue Lasser Reva Markovitz Robert Pilavin Michael Rutner Janice Hull Elaine Kellerman Richard Lawrence Carol Marton Frieda Ployer Idelle Rynek Penn Debbie Hurwitz Sussman Lois Kellerman Eva Lebovic Batya Mazor Hoffman Lynnda Pollen Sharon Salloway Joel Hurwitz Stuart Kelter Mark Lebowitz Debra Medowar Landau Faye Pollock Cohen Joni Salvin Schockett Karmit Hyman Alene Kenig Earl Lefkovitz z”l Joy Merzer Ellen Polonsky Johnson Noah Salzman Rebecca Incledon Jack Kessler Barton Lefton Linda Mettler Batya Ponn Richard Samuels Larisa Isakh Joshua Kieval Daniel Lehmann Elizabeth Mezer Short Judy Porter Martha Sandman Judy Israel Gershon Kieval Rachel Lehmann Weber Leslie Miles Peter Potter Amy Sands Mark Ivry Gary Kimmel Marylin Lesburg Gallant Mark Miller Rhonda Press Ragent Robin Schaffer Elaine Jackowitz Rotenberg Roberta Kirshner Jerry Lester z”l Susan Miller Julia Priest Ellen Schatz Steven Jacober Laura Klebanow Lisa Levens Moshe Mintz Abby Prince Iris Schiff Abigail Jacobs Adina Klein Ackerman Sue Levi Marc Mir Deborah Raboy Benjie Ellen Schiller Michael Levin Jill Monchik Arthur Rabson Margie Schnall Jan Levine Barbara Myerson Katz Becca Rausch Joel Schneider Zamir was my first Jewish choir. It has led me Jay Levine Barbara Nadich Ehrmann Colman Reaboi Susan Schoenberg Creditor to a passion for singing Jewish choral music. Jeff Levine Jeri Nagler Robins Anita Redner z”l Anna Schutz Still singing in Jewish choirs 45 years later! Ann-Ellen Levine-Paul z”l Marianne Neal Rachel Reef-Simpson Andy Schwartz Roy Levinson Deborah Neipris-Hendler Sharon Regen-Wojnarowicz Elizabeth Schwartz —Ruth Pernick 1973-1985 Sheryl Levitt Schwartz Alan Nelson Yale Reisner Jessica Schwartz Dina Levovitz Gadon Larry Nelson* Ellen Resnick Marcy Schwartz Z David Levy David Nesson William Revis z”l Nanette Schwersenz Stanley Jacobs Jeff Klepper Donna Levy z”l Lisa Newfield Reesa Richman Karen Sclare-Shapiro Ruth Ann Jaffee Barry Knishkowy Janet Levy Michele Newler Pozner Janet Rickles Rebekah Seamans Scott Jaffee Sara Kohane Shira Lewin Solomons Jane Newman Adam Roberts Larry Sebert Gail Javitt Rachel Kohl Laurie Libenson Yablon Lori Newman Sandy Robinson Dveera Segal Hilary Jepsky Joel Kolko Sara Lichtin Boyd Ronna Niederman Sally Rae Rogers Jeanne Segal Deborah Johnson Cheska Komissar Louise Lief Curtis Noreen Elana Rome Cutler David Seidenberg Harmon Jordan Gennady Konnikov Michael Lindheimer Sandy Norman Elias Roochvarg Karen Seif Rachel Kadish David Koocher Miriam Lipnick Foss Jeremy Nussbaum Susan Kagan Katz Frankie Koocher Erica Lippitz Gwyneth Nussbaum Sheen Jack Kahn Bryan Koplow I work with the very sick for a living. Zamir nourishes Abigail Lipson Karyn Nystedt Barry Robin Kahn Robin Koplow Cooper my soul and keeps me sane in the worst of times for Debbie Lobovits Bessendorf z”l Anne O’Keefe Sara Kahn Joy Koreen Aharon my patients. Susan London Kelly O’Neal Susan Kahn Ira Korinow Marc Lowenstein Lois Oberlander Condie —Kevin Martin 2014 to present Faye Kalmbach Joseph Kovars Karen Lowenthal Matt Onigman Dalia Kaminetsky Marilyn Kraar Doug Lurie z”l Shana Onigman Elliot Roseman Chava Sekeles Naomi Kaminetsky Davis Richard Kradon Bruce Lynn James Orent Alexander Rosenberg Rachel Seliber Jonathan Kaplan Benjamin Krefetz Judy Malavsky Scott Wendy Orent Jeff Rosenchein Elyse Seltzer Rabbi Larry Kaplan Andrew Kriegel Danny Mandeau Sherry Paikin Delinko Dov Rosenschein Cynthia Seltzer Cohen Eric Kaplan Jacob Kriger Marvin Mandelbaum Chaim Parchi Robert Rosenschein Debbie Seltzer Cohen Shoshanna Kaplan Netta Kritz Joel Manon Eric Parker Sandi Rosenthal Miriam Semo Steve Kaplan Gari Kronk On July 7, 1973, during our first international trip to participate in Israel’s Zimriya Festival, I met Peter, a member of one of the participating Danish choirs. Eleven Zamir Chorale of Boston Leadership Over the Years months later we married, and on June 16th will be celebrating our 45th anniversary Accompanists Lisa Newfield Bass with our son and daughter and first grandchild. Michael Zaitchik Lynn Herschfus Howard Worona —Charna Schakow 1969-1973 Fred Chatfield Jonathan Kaplan Eliot Vogel Randall Hodgkinson Francine Ferraro Rothkopf Ben Cohen John Curtis Peter Squires John Curtis Cathy Rand Marilyn Jaye Andy Langowitz Arthur Shapiro Debbie Stein Robert Weiss Sara Kohane Deborah Melkin Mark Stepner Deborah Shapiro Elisabeth Stein Susan Weiss Karen Harvey Elana Rome Scott Sokol Tova Shapiro Valerie Steinbok Mark Weissman Edwin Swanborn Susan Rubin Gary Buchwald Joyce Shapiro Gordon Max Steiner Susan Weissman Charna Westervelt Andrew Greene Managers Shawn Weil Dawn Shapiro Ringel Jane Stepak Penina Weistrop Freedenberg Assistant to the Conductor Louis Garber Elijah Botkin Elizabeth Sheldon Gail Stern Dov Weitman Robin Koplow Bruce Creditor Devin Lawrence Mandelbaum Jerry Stern Jody Weixelbaum z”l Hinda Eisen Kenneth Davis Richard Lustig Marina Shemesh Marilyn Stern Phyllis Wiesenthal Nancy Lee Devin Lawrence Esther Shorr Ann Stern Daitch Richard Wiesman Jeanne Segal Assistant Conductors Sue Shroder Amiel Sternberg Barbara Wild Margot Emery Section Leaders Alan Nelson Edith Siegel Wolfson Andrea Sternberg Mark Wolbarst Anna Schultz Soprano Gail Stern Wendy Silverberg Jeff Stock Avi Wolf Mark Miller Joyce Bohnen Marc Mir Debbie Silverman Beverly Stone Ash Debby Wolf Shoham Pamela Holmes Bonnie Chebot John Curtis Susan Silvers William Strull Sharon Wolfe Sophia Bilides Margot Fein Gennady Konnikov Todd Silverstein Joel Suldan Gail Woolman Lawrence Sandberg Sharon Offenberg Shore Carol Marton Norma Silverstein Freeman Adrienne Sussman Howard Worona Edwin Swanborn Helen Wanderstock Scott Sokol Rollin Simmons Joel Sussman Nancy Wright Jan Woiler Deborah Wollner Louise Treitman Andrew Simonds Susan Swan Oskana Yahkind Dan Rostan Betty Bauman Judith Zuckerman Linda Sirkis Karen Swartz Lidiya Yankovskaya Lidiya Yankovskaya Ashley Judge Alto Susan Sklar Ellen Taylor Sharon Yarkoni Kalus Andrew Mattfeld Rebecca Incledon Judy Malavsky Laurie Slater Alpert Rachel Temkin Moore Heather Zacker Diane Simmons Dana Klein Maura Smolover Alan Teperow Michael Zaitchik Conducting Interns Rachel King Robin Cooper Regina Sokaler Wolgel Jon Tepper Norman Zarsky Barbara Gaffin Charles Claus Johanna Ehrmann Jeff Stock Scott Sokol Scott Tepper Martha Zaslow Deborah Melkin Jeffrey Sokoloff Bernice Thaler Larry Zelnick Chorus Officers Judy Zuckerman Silvia Golijov Jeff Sokolow Stephen Thompson Jonathan Zimet President Tenor Allan Friedman Michael Sokolow Louise Treitman Barbara Zimmerman Alison Kur Alan Nelson Rebecca Incledon Ann Sollogub Randy Triebwasser Jonathan Zinman Tova Shapiro Jerome Chanes Matthew Onigman Lucy Sollogub Davida Tuchman Haas Eric Zitaner Gary Buchwald Hal Katzman Barbara Wild Jonathan Solomon Mark Vasa z”l Judy Zuckerman Donna Levy Alon Jay Levine Jaime Alberts Paul Solomon Heather Viola Bruce Zuckerman Susan Carp Nesson Marc Lowenstein Rachel Lehmann Deborah Sosin Eliot Vogel Talma Zurawel Rena Finkelstein Leila Joy Rosenthal Hinda Eisen Robin Sparr-Rothman Martin Wahl Rick Boyar Virgil Bozeman Lidiya Yankovskaya Francine Ferraro Rothkopf Avi Pfeiffer Helene Spielman Barbara Wald Betty Bauman Francene Sokol Jeffrey Stock Sarra Spierer Jan Walden Devin Lawrence Joel Gluck Allan Friedman Cindy Spiro Lurie Helen Wanderstock Rick Lawrence I made lifelong Susan Rubin Matthew Onigman Judy Spitzberg Charna Warga Schakow Kevin Margolies friends I still love Judy Pike Avi Wolf Elaine Spivack Katz Meredith Warshaw Elijah Botkin to sing with. Rachel Miller Steven Ebstein Andrea Sragg Simantov Shawn Weil Andrew Mattfeld Linda Stacy David Weiner Andrew Mattfeld —Estelle Kunoff Vice President Jacob Harris Barbara Stahler Risa Weiner Selig Kevin Martin Epstein 1979 Lucy Joan Sollogub Melanie Blatt Linda Steiff Suri Weiselman Rachel Seliber Luca Antonucci Ben Stein Andi Weiss Donna Levy Alon Jenn Boyle

Guest Conductors Board Chairs Betsy Burleigh Peter Finn David Carrier Mitch Kur Andre DeQuadros Jules Rosenberg Eleanor Epstein Joyce Bohnen Lisa Graham Alan Teperow/Peter Finn Phyllis Isaacson Bruce Creditor Jin Kim Robert Snyder Matthew Lazar Gilbert Schiffer Amy Lieberman Nick Page Please forgive and Dennis Slaughter inform us if we have Richard Webster inadvertently omitted John Yankee your name from this list. Regina Yantian

I couldn’t wait to try out for Zamir after college and was privileged to have sung for 6 years with this incredible group. Zamir connected me to many wonderful people. I was so lucky to have learned so much from Joshua Jacobson and his amazing better half, Ronda! —Susan Glickman 1986-1994

The greatest music you’ve never heard! Discover beautiful Jewish choral gems to delight your audiences: Modern • Classical • Baroque • Romantic

NEW! JewishChoralMusic.com links to: Comprehensive database • Publishers • PDFs • Recordings • Videos Programs • Lists • Articles • Podcasts • Blogs • Virtual Choir with 150 singers from 7 countries performing Lewandowski’s majestic “Halleluyoh” • Middle East rhythms • European anthems Romances of Spain • American jazz • Yiddish theater • And more!