K N Zamir Chorale of presents

Zamir Goes Baroque!

Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director Wednesday, May 23, and Thursday, May 24, 2018 Slosberg Recital Hall Brandeis University 1320 Centre Street, Suite 306 Newton, MA 02459 www.zamir.org • [email protected] Zamir Chorale of Boston presents

Zamir Goes Baroque!

Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director Wednesday, May 23, and Thursday, May 24, 2018 Slosberg Recital Hall Brandeis University

K K Program Synagogue Motets Ester (cont’d) Cristiano Lidarti (1744) Gagliarda quatraN detta la Giustiniana Salamone Rossi (1622) Chorus: Bet Yisrael Sifdu (Mourn, O House of Israel) N Eftakh Na Sefatai (We Open Our Mouths) Salamone Rossi (1622) Chorus: Anshey Resha (Evil Men) Kedushah (Sanctification) Salamone Rossi (1622) Esther’s aria: Mi-yad Khazak (From a Strong Hand) Cantor Peter Halpern, solo Jessica Woolf, soprano Kaddish (Sanctification) Salamone Rossi (1622) Israelite Woman’s aria: Pitskhu Rina (Break Forth into Joyous Song) Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, mezzo soprano Sinfonia prima a4 Salamone Rossi (1607) Bass aria: Hetivu Bitru’a Nagen (Play Well, Sound Fanfares) Adon Olam (Master of All) Salamone Rossi (1622) Devin Lawrence, bass Tenor aria: Ki Hu La-khosim Bo Magen (For God is a Guardian) Love Songs Hal Katzman, tenor Cor mio (My Heart) Salamone Rossi (1600) Chorus: Hodu Ha-arets (Give Thanks) Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano I bei ligustri e rose (The Beautiful Privets and Roses) Salamone Rossi (1589) Canticum Hebraicum Louis Saladin (c. 1680) Naomi Gurt Lind, Cantor Louise Treitman, and Steven Ebstein Prelude Part One Dirmi che piu non ardo (Tell Me That I No Longer Burn) Salamone Rossi (1600) Duet: Ashir Le-eyli (I Will Sing to My God) Michael Collver and Cantor Peter Halpern Instrumental Music Interlude Sonata in Dialogo detta La Viena Salamone Rossi (1613) Trio: Nismekha Yakhad (Let’s Rejoice Together) Michael Collver, Cantor Peter Halpern, and Cantor Scott Sokol Dance: Gagliarda Zambalina Salamone Rossi (1608) Chorus: Shelakh Tishbi (Send the ) Dance: Gagliarda La Massara Salamone Rossi (1607) Dance: Bourée Dance: Spazziam (Let’s Sweep) Salamone Rossi (1617) Anne Levy, Steven Ebstein, and Hal Katzman Dance: Rigaudon

Chorus: Shelakh Tishbi (Send the Messiah) Two Cantatas and an Oratorio

Cantata ebraica Carlo Grossi (1681) Prelude Part Two Cantor Peter Halpern, solo Trio: Yeled Ha-yulad (This Child Who Is Born) N N Michael Collver, Cantor Peter Halpern, and Cantor Scott Sokol Ester (excerpts) Cristiano Lidarti (1744) Chorus: Ya’aleh Veyatsliakh (He Will Arise and Succeed) Israelite Woman’s Recitative:Domu Lakhem (Hush) Dance: Gavotte Jessica Woolf, soprano Chorus: Ya’aleh Veyatsliakh (He Will Arise and Succeed) Israelite Woman’s Aria: Mal’akhim (Angels) KJessica Woolf, soprano K Notes from the Artistic Director The Composers I remember the first time I heard about the Salamone Rossi (c. 1570–c. 1630) was employed as a violinist and composer at composer Salamone Rossi Hebreo of Mantua, the ducal court of Gonzaga at Mantua. He wrote madrigals, canzonettas, dances, Italy. I had had this (mistaken) image of sinfonias, and trio sonatas. In fact, Rossi was the first composer to publish premodern Jews cowering behind the ghetto trio sonatas and the first to publish madrigals with basso continuo chordal walls, while on the other side, Christians accompaniment. Rossi’s employers were so pleased with his work that in 1606, were doing all those marvelous Renaissance they exempted him from wearing the required Jewish badge. Rossi was also a things. Well, it turns out, so were the Jews. member of Mantua’s Jewish theater ensemble. His path-breaking 1622 publication Many Jews in northern Italy remained loyal of 33 motets in Hebrew for the synagogue was the first instance of Jewish worship to their heritage and devout in their religious set to European-style choral music, and its uniqueness would remain uncontested practices, but they also delved into the arts until the 19th century. and letters of Renaissance humanism. By the middle of the 16th century, many Jews were Carlo Grossi (c. 1634 – 1688) was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. He employed in the various Italian ducal courts served as maestro at various churches in Vicenza and Venice and at the Mantuan as instrumentalists, composers, actors, and court. Among his published works are church motets, operas, and madrigals. He dancing masters. favored a simple style, eschewing virtuosity and polyphony.

The most prominent among those Jews was Salamone Rossi Hebreo (c. 1570– Louis Saladin was a 17th century composer c. 1630), a colleague of Monteverdi and Gastoldi, who provided music for the from Provence, France. Not much is known court of Gonzaga in Mantua. Rossi composed many books of Italian love songs about him. His only surviving compositions (madrigals and canzonets), dances, and trio sonatas. But he also introduced are a church motet titled Concert pour cultural bilingualism into the Jewish liturgy. He composed settings of 33 prayers l’Assomption de la Vierge and the Canticum and had them published in Venice in 1622. These polyphonic motets have Hebrew Hebraicum. lyrics, and their context is the synagogue worship service. But the musical styles, the convention of notation, and, indeed, the performative aspect, are all borrowed Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730–c. 1793) from the culture of Christian Europe. was an Austrian composer of Italian descent who spent his professional life teaching and This was not the beginning of a new trend. performing in Italy. Most of his compositional Rossi’s collection stands alone, and nothing output consists of instrumental chamber music. of its scope and quality would appear again Beginning in 1770, the Portuguese Jewish until the 19th century. Still, a few other community of Amsterdam commissioned him isolated examples of Jewish polyphony during to compose works in Hebrew for voices with the Baroque period exist. In 1670, the Jews Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti instrumental accompaniment. of Provence commissioned Louis Saladin to compose an elaborate cantata that could be —Joshua Jacobson performed at the celebration of a brit milah. In 1681 in Venice, the confraternity Shomerim La- For Further Reading Boker commissioned Carlo Grossi to compose a Adler, Israel. La pratique musicale savante dans quelques communautes juives en cantata celebrating its members’ good deeds. Europe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Mouton & Co., 1966. And in 1744, the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam commissioned Cristiano Lidarti Harran, Don. Salamone Rossi: Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. New to compose an oratorio based on the story of York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Esther for its Purim celebrations. Jacobson, Joshua. Salamone Rossi​​: Renaissance Man of Jewish Music. Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2016. Artistic Director Accompanist Joshua R. Jacobson, founder and Edwin Swanborn, and organ, studied artistic director of the Zamir Chorale with Dr. Anthony Newman at the Juilliard School of of Boston, holds a Bachelors degree Music in New York, and has participated in master in Music from Harvard College, a classes with and Anton Heiller. Masters in Choral from He is Music Director of the historic First Parish the New England Conservatory, a Church in Duxbury, and the Artistic Director of the Doctor of Musical Arts from the Candlelight Concert Series of Duxbury, a nationally University of Cincinnati, and a recognized chamber music series. Founder-Director Doctor of Humane Lettershonoris of the Boston Baroque Chamber Players and causa from Hebrew College. He harpsichordist of the Atlanta Virtuosi, Ed also serves served 45 years as Professor of on the music staff of Northeastern University. Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University, including nine years as Music Department Chairman and six years as the Bernard Stotsky Professor of Jewish Cultural Studies. He is also Visiting Professor and Senior Consultant in the School of Jewish Music at Hebrew College. Violinist and Concertmaster Violinist Daniel Stepner, is the artistic director

of the Aston Magna Festival and Foundation. Prof. Jacobson has guest conducted a number of ensembles, including the Boston He is a professor emeritus at Brandeis University, Pops Orchestra, the Bulgarian National Symphony and Chorus, the New England where he was the first violinist of the Lydian Conservatory Orchestra and the Boston Lyric Opera Company. He has guest String Quartet. He was also concertmaster of lectured and taught workshops for schools, synagogues, festivals and conven- the orchestra, and a tions throughout North America and in Israel, Germany and Australia. He has also founding member of both Boston Baroque and written articles on various aspects of choral music, and compositions and arrange- the Boston Museum Trio in residence at the ments that have been published and performed by choirs around the world. In Museum of Fine Arts. He has recorded extensively 1989 he spent four weeks in Yugoslavia as a Distinguished Professor under the on modern and period instruments and taught auspices of the Fulbright program. In 1994 Hebrew College awarded him the

violin at the Chamber Music Ensemble of Brandeis Benjamin Shevach Award for Distinguished Achievement in Jewish Educational University, Harvard University, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and the Leadership, in 2004 the Cantors Assembly presented him with its prestigious Eastman School of Music. A native of Wisconsin, he studied in with Steven “Kavod Award,” and in 2016 Choral Arts New England presented him the Alfred N Staryk, in France with Nadia Boulanger, and with Broadus Erle at Yale University, Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award. And in June, 2018, Prof. Jacobson where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. will receive the Distinguished Service Award from Chorus America at its national convention in Chicago.

Prof. Jacobson is past President of the chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He is the conductor and host of the PBS film, Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Poland. His book, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation, published by the Jewish Publication Society in 2002 and issued in a revised edition in 2017, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He is co-author of Translations and Annotations of Choral Repertoire—Volume IV: Hebrew Texts, published by earthsongs in 2009. His monograph Salamone Rossi: Renaissance Man of Jewish Music, was published by Hentrich & Hentrich in 2016. K Guest Artists

Ken Pierce, choreographer, is trained in ballet and on the musical front, Scott is an accomplished singer and violist. He sang with the modern dance and studying on scholarship at both Zamir Chorale of Boston and served as its assistant conductor and vocal coach. the American Ballet Theatre School and the Merce Scott was co-founder of Koleinu: The Jewish Community Chorus of Boston, and Cunningham Studio. He has specialized in early dance— now serves as co-conductor of the Boston chapter of HaZamir: The International especially, late-Renaissance and Baroque dance—for Jewish Teen Choir. more than 30 years, as a choreographer, reconstructor, performer, and teacher. He has performed with early- Cantor Peter Halpern, tenor, developed a love for dance companies on both sides of the Atlantic, and his music and singing early on. He nostalgically recalls choreographies have been presented at workshops and entertaining table-to-table at a restaurant with his festivals in Europe, Canada, and the U.S. He directs the sister Audrey as a teenager. His emerging guitar skills early-dance program at the Longy School of Music of held him in good stead as a cantor later on. Cantor Bard College and is on the faculty at Integrarte. Halpern graduated with distinction from the Eastman School of Music and was invested as a cantor at the Hebrew Union College in New York. He had the Camilla Finlay, choreographer, holds a Bachelor of Fine privilege of serving the Liberal Jewish Communities Arts degree in dance from the Boston Conservatory. of Holland from 1988-1998,where he also was able She has been a guest dancer for Renaissonics and, as to utilize his working knowledge of four foreign member of the Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company, languages. In November 2010, he was invited to she has performed in graduate performances and sing at the Vatican as part of a contingency of 20 North American cantors. Cantor operas at Harvard University and the Longy School of Halpern composed music for Shabbat that was published by the URJ and is sung Music of Bard College, as well as numerous festivals in congregations in the US and abroad. His favorite Jewish quote is “Tov l’hodot and concerts throughout New England. Since 2002, l’Adonai” – It is good to give thanks to God. One of Peter’s greatest blessings is his she has been a demonstration assistant for workshops son Nathan. Peter is the cantor of Temple Shalom of Newton, Massachusetts. with Ken Pierce, including the annual Early Dance Workshop in conjunction with the Medieval Institute and the International Baroque Institute at Longy (IBIL.) Upon finishing his degree at San Diego State She manages the Global Learning Studio, a media and University in 1975, countertenor Michael Collver film studio at the Global Health Education and Learning continued his musical education in Switzerland at the Incubator at Harvard University, where she creates Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, specializing in early vocal digital multimedia-based educational teaching tools. techniques and cornetto. He is a founding member of Ensemble P.A.N. (Project Ars Nova), with which he has concertized extensively in Europe and the U.S. He Rav-Hazzan Scott M. Sokol, PhD, bass, is Head of has released six CDs under the New Albion and Telarc School at MetroWest Jewish Day School. A multi- International labels. His professional performances professional, Scott is a cantor, rabbi and pediatric have included solo work with Ensemble neuropsychologist. Scott began his academic career at for Medieval Music of Cologne, Empire Brass, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical Tafelmusik , Boston Baroque, and School. He then moved on to Hebrew College where the . Many of those concerts have he served for seventeen years in senior academic been augmented by recordings with Telarc International, Erato, Deutsche EMI, leadership, founding both the cantorial program and and Harmonia Mundi. As an oratorio soloist he has performed with numerous the special education program. He was the first Dean orchestras, including Aston Magna and the Philharmonic. of the School of Jewish Music and later served as the inaugural Korman Family Professor of Jewish Special Education. Scott has received numerous awards and, Music With a Mission The Zamir Chorale of Boston 2017–2018

Performing on concert stages throughout North America, Europe, and Israel, the Sopranos award-winning Zamir Chorale of Boston awakens audiences to the broad spectrum Betty Bauman* • Jenn Boyle • Sharon Goldstein • Naomi Gurt Lind • Maayan of Jewish choral music, from the exotic rhythms of the Middle East to the majestic Harel • Marilyn J. Jaye • Anne Levy • Sharon Shore • Miriam Silva • Rachel anthems of 19th-century European synagogues, from the romances of Spain to the Slusky • Julie Kopp Smily • Louise Treitman • Heather Viola • Deborah Wollner chants of Yemen, and from contemporary American jazz to the much-loved Yiddish Jessica Woolf tunes of Jewish 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 the presentation, preservation, and perpetuation of Jewish culture. Altos Anna Adler • Sarah Boling • Vera Broekhuysen • Johanna Ehrmann • In addition to enjoying a devoted following in the Greater Boston area, Zamir has Deborah Melkin* • Rachel Miller • Judy Pike • Jill Sandberg • Nancy Sargon- achieved a far-reaching reputation through its 25 recordings and frequent tours Zarsky Rachel Seliber • Elyse Seltzer • Gail Terman • Phyllis Werlin • Charna throughout the United States, as well as in Israel and Europe. The documentary film, Westervelt • Phyllis Sogg Wilner Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Poland, has been shown across the country on public television stations. In January 2006, Zamir was invited to perform at the United Nations General Assembly for the first International Day to Commemorate Victims Tenors of the Holocaust. Zamir was honored to represent the United States at the first Louis David Burns • Steven Ebstein* • Suzanne Goldman • Hal Katzman • Kevin Lewandowski Festival in Berlin, Germany, in 2011 and again in 2014. Martin • Andrew Mattfeld* • Dan Nesson • Leila Joy Rosenthal • Lawrence E.

Sandberg • Gilbert Schiffer • Dan Seltzer • Yishai Sered • Andrew Stitcher The Zamir Chorale of Boston is a member of the Greater Boston Choral Consortium, a cooperative association of diverse choral groups in Boston and the surrounding areas. Basses The Zamir Chorale is choir-in-residence at Hebrew College and is funded in part by Luca Antonucci • Peter Bronk • Abba Caspi • Michael Krause-Grosman the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Tonight’s Michael Kronenberg • Devin Lawrence* • Richard Lustig* • Michael Miller concert is a part of Newton Festival of the Arts 2018. James Rosenzweig • Peter Squires • Mark Stepner • Michael Victor • Jordan Lee Wagner • Robert Wright • Richard Yospin

*Section Leaders Violins: Daniel Stepner, Danielle Maddon, and JaneN Starkman Staff Board of Directors Viola: Laura Jeppesen Joshua R. Jacobson, artistic director Gilbert Schiffer, chairman Barbara Gaffin, managing director Jeff Rosenberg, treasurer Celllo: Colleen McGary Smith Lawrence E. Sandberg, concert manager and Peter Finn, clerk merchandise manager Bruce Creditor Bass: Anne Trout Edwin Swanborn, accompanist Bruce Donoff Andrew Mattfeld, assistant conductor Elyse Friedman Oboes: Peggy Pearson and Jane Harrison K Devin Lawrence, assistant to the conductor Barbara Gaffin Luca Antonucci, conducting intern Joshua Jacobson Bassoon: Elah Grandel Rachel Miller, president Rachel Miller Charna Westervelt, vice president Lawrence E. Sandberg Percussion: Taki Masuko Michael Kronenberg, librarian Robert Snyder Michael Victor KZamir Goes Baroque! Sponsors The Zamir Chorale of Boston thanks all Shir Hadash Circle ($3,600+) those who have generously contributed The Massachusetts Marketing Partnership/Massachusetts Office of to the success of our 2017-2018 season. Travel and Tourism Conductor’s Circle ($10,000+) Patron ($500-999) Baroque Benefactor ($1,000+) Adelson Family Foundation Anonymous

Joyce and Michael Bohnen Anonymous (4) Susan and Bruce* Creditor Renee and Steven Finn Phyllis Hammer Cantor Jodi Sufrin and Cantor Roy Einhorn Ronda and Joshua* Jacobson Roy Gould and Leora Fishman Jill and Larry* Sandberg Shir Chadash Circle ($3,600-9,999) Elyse* and Sanford Friedman

Robert* and Myra Snyder Anonymous Zelda and Elkan Gamzu Jayne and Harvey Beker Susan and Frederic Jacobs Baroque Donor ($360+) Nancy and Peter* Finn David Moeser Trust Susan and Bruce* Creditor Michael and Linda Frieze Serene and Michael* Victor The Harold and Evelyn Davis Linda and Jacob Kriger Memorial Foundation Mass Cultural Council Donor ($180-499) N Nancy and Peter* Finn Leila Joy Rosenthal The Harold and Evelyn Davis Doug Cahn and Barbara* Gaffin James and Loren Rosenzweig Memorial Foundation Bruce and Joyce Pastor Jill and Gilbert* Schiffer Sara and Bob Dickman James and Loren Rosenzweig Robert* and Myra Snyder Bruce and Nancy Ehrmann

Gilbert* and Jill Schiffer N Gordon and Barbara Freed Cantor Louise and Rick Treitman Benefactor ($1,000-3,599) Barbara Gaffin and Doug Cahn Sivya and Nahum Twersky

Sharon and Walter Gillett Michael* and Serene Victor Susan and Aron Ain Chester and Diane Black Heather and Andrew Greene *member, Zamir Board of Directors, 2017-18 Joyce and Michael Bohnen Sheri and Eli Gurock N David Harris Gifts and pledges received as of May 8, 2018. Susan and Peter Bronk We regret any errors or omissions. CJP Sherry Israel Please notify us so that we can correct our Lois and Mickey Cail Cantor Marcie and Jeffrey Jonas database and honor your contribution. Lisa Cohen Helen and Sidney Kadish Madelyn and Bruce* Donoff David Kanter Renee and Steven Finn Helen and Robert Kaplan James and Paula Gould Linda Kasten and Peter Squires Ronda and Joshua* Jacobson Irving and Mindy Kempner Stephen Kelliher Joshua Kieval Ethan and Lisa Lerner Judy and Les Kramer Levine Chapels Marcia and Alan Leifer Jane Rabb Jeffrey and Shawna Levine Jill and Larry* Sandberg Zhanna and Harvey Levy Barbara and Edward Scolnick Andrew and Gail Merken Helene and Joseph Tischler Rachel and Michael Miller K Susan Chadick and Robert Weiss KKeith and Naomi Osher Bruce and Joyce Pastor Jill and Steve Ebstein Barbara and Larry Lapidas-Brown Amy Schneider and Ed Sciore Jeff Rosenberg and Marcia Cooper Judy and Josh Elkin Cantor Lisa Doob and Devin Lawrence Ethel and Lester Segal Sara Ruderman Ruth and Gene Fax Linda Leffert Debbie Seltzer Cohen Ruth Langer and Jonathan Sarna Robert Fields Sybil and Steven Levisohn Rena Shapiro Rabbi Les Bronstein and Richard and Sharlene Finkel Zhanna and Harvey Levy Martin Sher Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller Sylvia and Philip Fishman Kurt and Sue Linden Carol Shichman Josephine and Lewis Schneider Helen and Martin Flusberg Sargent Lois Naomi and Richard Shore Robert and Leslie Stacks James R. Friel, Jr. Jack Love Don Simkin Andrew and Emma Stitcher Irene Gaffin Richard and Mair Lustig Helen Singer Ruth and Jon Tepper Allan Toledano and Roz Garber Roberta Fern and Harvey Mamon Marsha and Marc Slotnick Gail Terman Lillian Garber, z”l William and Cynthia Marcus Linda Sue and Richard Sohn Jodi and Hayden Traub Lesley Garber Mathews and Takaaki Masuko Francene and Scott Sokol Cantor Louise and Rick Treitman Bob Glidden Elaine Matisoff Stanley Spiegelman Sivya and Nahum Twersky Martin Katz and Adena Geller Cantor Brian Mayer Elan Riesman and Sarra Spierer Rabbi Moshe Waldoks Reva and Harvey Gertel Susan Megerman Tim Stanton Susan Whitehead Nancy and Dennis Gilbert Abbott and Lois Miller David and Carol Stollar Arnee R. and Walter A. Winshall Edw. S. Ginsberg Rachel and Michael Miller Sheila Striar Myra Goggins Barry Mills Kyler Taustin Friend (up to $179) Caroll Goldberg Sheila, z”l, and Lee Mondshein Debbie Terman Martin and Geila Aronson Eve Goldfarb Deborah and Alan Nelson Bernice Thaler Benjamin and G. Ruth Asher Julie and Anthony Goschalk Jon Neuburger Cantor Steve Thompson Marvin Asnes Mark and Janet Gottesman Evelyn Neumeyer Sharon and Bill Torodor Wendy and David Bar-Yakov Sy Gottlieb Myrna and Arnold Offen United Way of Mass Bay Shelly Bazes-Bard and Dov Bard Miriam Grodberg Barbara and Daniel Palant Selma Waldstein Barbara Barry Robert and Elaine Grover Raylea and Bernie Pemstein Seth and Carol Kozak Ward Ilene and David Beckman Joni Blum and Danny Hassenfeld Judy Pike Sally and Jim Weiner Nancy Benjamin Lynne Heller Linda Plaut Judith Weiskopf Herbert Birnbaum Philip Hershberg Valerie and Arthur Rabson Melissa Mandell and Alan Wolfson Dianne and Michael Blau Eva and Melvin Hoffman Sharon S. Regen-Wojnarowicz Deborah and Robert Wollner Judi Bornstein Elliot and Esther Israel Lesli and Carter Reich Sheri Olans and Robert Wright Sally Braunstein Leon Janikian Charna Reichel Joan and Richard Yospin Margie and Gil Brodsky Judith Joseph Arnold Reinhold David Harlow and Heather Zacker Susan and Peter Bronk Jack and Diana Kahn Gila Reinstein Barbara Zimmerman Fredrica Brooks Marilyn and Paul Kalis Gerald and Diane Rosenthal Abby and Paul Brown Marion Kaplan Arthur and Barbara Safran *member, Zamir Board of Directors, David and Frumie Burns Helen and Robert Kaplan Richard Samuels 2017-18 Esta-Jean Cahn Anne Exter and Lance Kawesch Rabi Benjamin and Stephanie Samuels Donald Cashman Sue Kahn and Dan Kirschner Elisabeth Keller and David Savitz Gifts and pledges received as of May 8, Elizabeth Dreben and Hillel Chiel Judah Levine and Adina Kling Charna and Peter Schakow 2018. We regret any errors or omissions. Albert Costa Gennady Konnikov Arthur Schneider Please notify us so that we can correct our database and honor your contribution. Herbert and Ann Daitch Michael Kronenberg Joni and Michael Schockett Dorit Harverd and Richard Dale Jacki Kronenberg Shelley Schwartz Sheila Decter Nan and Andrew Langowitz Sarah Luria and Tom Schwarz Celebrating 50 years Add your voice to of music with a mission the first international

Highlights include: Halleluyoh Virtual Choir • Creation of a first-ever international virtual choir using Louis Lewan- dowski’s great “Halleluyoh”, performed by hundreds of singers from around the world and capturing a Jewish musical gem that can be seen across the globe and preserved for years to come. The Zamir Chorale of Boston is excited to announce that, in celebration of our 50th anniversary year, we are creating a first-ever virtual choir • A cabaret-style kick-off celebration on Thursday evening, October 11, using Louis Lewandowski’s great “Halleluyoh.” 2018, at Newton City Hall, premiering the Halleluyoh Virtual Choir, and delighting in food, drink, and a few of Zamir’s favorite selections. And we want YOU to join us!

• An in-depth, web-based resource for any musical professional, con- The Halleluyoh Virtual Choir will include performances by hundreds of ductor, singer, scholar, or music lover looking for choral music con- singers from all around the world and incorporate visual history about nected to the Jewish traditions. Cataloguing these works is Zamir’s Lewandowski and his community. way of sustaining a precious cultural heritage. What is a virtual choir? • A gala concert at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, honoring Josh Jacobson, and showcasing the best of Jewish It is a performance made up of singers from different locations, who choral music, drawn from five decades of concertizing, and a look to come together virtually to share their passion for choral singing in the future. By featuring newly commissioned works from composers a new and unique way. Eric Whitacre created the first virtual choir. Jeremiah Klarman, Ken Lampl, Jonathan Leshnoff, Charles Osborne, The goal of our virtual choir is to introduce the wonderful music of Nick Page, and Benjie Ellen Schiller, Zamir will add continuity to the Lewandowski to singers, conductors and audiences worldwide. depth, breadth and beauty of Jewish music. How does it work? Join us as we celebrate 50 years of music with a mission! You sit in front of your computer and video-record yourself singing For further details, or to donate, visit zamir.org. your own part of Lewandowski’s “Halleluyoh.” You then upload your recording to YouTube (we’ll tell you how). We take these recordings and Zamir at 50 Leadership Committee synchronize them to make one enormous virtual choir – an ensemble Joyce and Michael Bohnen, Chairs, Zamir@50 of hundreds of voices from around the world, united through their love of this music. Peter and Nancy Finn, Co-chairs, Zamir@50 Robert and Myra Snyder, Co-chairs, Zamir@50 Visit www.zcbvirtualchoir.com for instructions. Susan and Frederic Jacobs, Co-chairs, Zamir@50 Kick-off Event Gilbert Schiffer, Chair, Board of Directors Whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, Josh Jacobson, Artistic Director we hope you will participate in this exciting project! Barbara Gaffin, Managing Director

The Zamir Chorale of Boston brings the joy of Jewish music to audiences that transcend age, religious and ethnic background.

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A Besere Velt. circleboston.org/community-chorus Jameson Singers, www.jamesonsingers.org A Besere Velt. circleboston.org/community-chorus Jameson Singers, www.jamesonsingers.org A Cappella Singers, www.theacappellasingers.org Kings Chapel Concert Series, www.kings-chapel.org A Cappella Singers, www.theacappellasingers.org Kings Chapel Concert Series, www.kings-chapel.org Andover Choral Society, andoverchoralsociety.org/ Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus Andover Choral Society, andoverchoralsociety.org/ Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish Community Chorus Apollo Club of Boston, www.apolloclub.org www.koleinu.org Apollo Club of Boston, www.apolloclub.org www.koleinu.org Arlington-Belmont Chorale, psarlington.org/drupal/ Labyrinth Choir, www.labyrinthchoir.org/ Arlington-Belmont Chorale, psarlington.org/drupal/ Labyrinth Choir, www.labyrinthchoir.org/ Back Bay Chorale, bbcboston.org Lexington Pops Chorus, Back Bay Chorale, bbcboston.org Lexington Pops Chorus, Belmont Open Sings, www.LexingtonPopsChorus.org Belmont Open Sings, www.LexingtonPopsChorus.org www.powersmusic.org/belmont_open_sings Master Singers of Lexington, www.powersmusic.org/belmont_open_sings Master Singers of Lexington, Boston Cecilia, www.bostoncecilia.org www.themastersingers.org Boston Cecilia, www.bostoncecilia.org www.themastersingers.org Boston Choral Ensemble, www.BostonChoral.org Masterworks Chorale, www.masterworkschorale.org Boston Choral Ensemble, www.BostonChoral.org Masterworks Chorale, www.masterworkschorale.org Boston Gay Men's Chorus, www.bgmc.org Meridian Singers, web.mit.edu/meridians Boston Gay Men's Chorus, www.bgmc.org Meridian Singers, web.mit.edu/meridians Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus, saengerfest.org Metropolitan Chorale, www.metropolitanchorale.org Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus, saengerfest.org Metropolitan Chorale, www.metropolitanchorale.org Braintree Choral Society, www.braintreesings.org Mishawum Choral Society, www.mishawumchoral.org Braintree Choral Society, www.braintreesings.org Mishawum Choral Society, www.mishawumchoral.org Cambridge Chamber Singers, MIT Cambridge Chinese Choral Society, mitccs.org Cambridge Chamber Singers, MIT Cambridge Chinese Choral Society, mitccs.org www.cambridgechambersingers.org MIT Women's Chorale, www.cambridgechambersingers.org MIT Women's Chorale, Cambridge Community Chorus, web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ Cambridge Community Chorus, web.mit.edu/womensleague/womenschorale/ www.cambridgechorus.org Musica Sacra, musicasacra.org www.cambridgechorus.org Musica Sacra, musicasacra.org Cantata Singers, www.cantatasingers.org Mystic Chorale, www.mysticchorale.org Cantata Singers, www.cantatasingers.org Mystic Chorale, www.mysticchorale.org Cantemus, www.cantemus.org Nashoba Valley Chorale, www.nashobachorale.org Cantemus, www.cantemus.org Nashoba Valley Chorale, www.nashobachorale.org Cantilena - a woman's chorale, www.cantilena.org Neponset Choral Society, Inc., www.ncschorus.org Cantilena - a woman's chorale, www.cantilena.org Neponset Choral Society, Inc., www.ncschorus.org Cappella Clausura, www.clausura.org New England Classical Singers, Cappella Clausura, www.clausura.org New England Classical Singers, Choral Art Society of the South Shore, www.newenglandclassical.org Choral Art Society of the South Shore, www.newenglandclassical.org www.choralartsociety.org New World Chorale, www.newworldchorale.org www.choralartsociety.org New World Chorale, www.newworldchorale.org Chorus North Shore, www.chorusnorthshore.org Newton Community Chorus, Chorus North Shore, www.chorusnorthshore.org Newton Community Chorus, Chorus pro Musica, www.choruspromusica.org www.NewtonCommunityChorus.org Chorus pro Musica, www.choruspromusica.org www.NewtonCommunityChorus.org CircleSinging Boston, Oriana Consort, www.theorianaconsort.org CircleSinging Boston, Oriana Consort, www.theorianaconsort.org www.meetup.com/Circlesinging-Boston/ Persephone's Daughters, www.meetup.com/Circlesinging-Boston/ Persephone's Daughters, Commonwealth Chorale, www.newtonchoral.org www.persephonesdaughters.org Commonwealth Chorale, www.newtonchoral.org www.persephonesdaughters.org Concord Chorus, www.ConcordChorus.org Pilgrim Festival Chorus, Concord Chorus, www.ConcordChorus.org Pilgrim Festival Chorus, Concord Women's Chorus, www.pilgrimfestivalchorus.org Concord Women's Chorus, www.pilgrimfestivalchorus.org www.concordwomenschorus.org Polymnia Choral Society, www.polymnia.org www.concordwomenschorus.org Polymnia Choral Society, www.polymnia.org Convivium Musicum, www.convivium.org Quincy Choral Society, www.quincychoral.org Convivium Musicum, www.convivium.org Quincy Choral Society, www.quincychoral.org Coolidge Corner Community Chorus, Reading Community Singers, Coolidge Corner Community Chorus, Reading Community Singers, www.cccchorus.org www.readingcommunitysingers.org www.cccchorus.org www.readingcommunitysingers.org Coro Allegro, www.coroallegro.org Seraphim Singers, www.seraphimsingers.org Coro Allegro, www.coroallegro.org Seraphim Singers, www.seraphimsingers.org Coro Dante, www.dantemass.org/html/coro-dante Sharing A New Song, www.sanschorus.org Coro Dante, www.dantemass.org/html/coro-dante Sharing A New Song, www.sanschorus.org Dedham Choral Society, www.dedhamchoral.org Somerville Community Chorus, Dedham Choral Society, www.dedhamchoral.org Somerville Community Chorus, Emmanuel Music, emmanuelmusic.org www.somervillechorus.com Emmanuel Music, emmanuelmusic.org www.somervillechorus.com Fine Arts Chorale, www.fineartschorale.org Sound and Spirit, www.soundandspirit.net Fine Arts Chorale, www.fineartschorale.org Sound and Spirit, www.soundandspirit.net First Unitarian Society in Newton, fusn.org Sounds of Stow Festival Chorus & Orchestra, First Unitarian Society in Newton, fusn.org Sounds of Stow Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Genesis Chamber Singers, www.soundsofstow.org Genesis Chamber Singers, www.soundsofstow.org www.genesischambersingers.com Spectrum Singers, www.spectrumsingers.org www.genesischambersingers.com Spectrum Singers, www.spectrumsingers.org Golden Tones, goldentones.org Tremble Clefs, marilynliptonokonow.com Golden Tones, goldentones.org Tremble Clefs, marilynliptonokonow.com Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus, Voices of Metrowest, voicesofmetrowest.com Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus, Voices of Metrowest, voicesofmetrowest.com www.bostonchorus.net Voices Rising, www.voicesrising.org www.bostonchorus.net Voices Rising, www.voicesrising.org Halalisa Singers, www.halalisa.org Wellesley Choral Society, Halalisa Singers, www.halalisa.org Wellesley Choral Society, Harvard Choruses, harvardchoruses.fas.harvard.edu www.WellesleyChoralSociety.org Harvard Choruses, harvardchoruses.fas.harvard.edu www.WellesleyChoralSociety.org Harvard pro Musica, www.harvardpromusica.org Westford Chorus, www.westfordchorus.org Harvard pro Musica, www.harvardpromusica.org Westford Chorus, www.westfordchorus.org Highland Glee Club, www.highlandgleeclub.com Zamir Chorale of Boston, www.zamir.org Highland Glee Club, www.highlandgleeclub.com Zamir Chorale of Boston, www.zamir.org In Choro Novo, www.inchoronovo.com In Choro Novo, www.inchoronovo.com