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Voice of the Cantor - Episode 7b : Who Needs Nusach Part II
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What do we mean by Nusach and wherein lies its importance?
Is this centuries-old tradition, the immutable structure for the music of prayer? Or is the melody of the synagogue more changeable and less constant than we think?
Is it OK to use modern Israeli or Yeshivah tunes instead? Or even secular songs ?
Nusach Part II examines these issues from a North American perspective with a wholly North American panel. Is this any different from that of the Minhag Anglia communities? Are North American synagogues more or less demanding of change and are the influences and infiltrations at all different?
Should we fight against these influences or accept them as inevitable and welcome them?
Our panel was:
Cantor Hinda Eisen Labovitz
Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Charles Heller
Writer and retired choirmaster, Toronto
Cantor Jacob Mendelson
Eminent cantor and international performer
Cantor Gideon Zelermyer
Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Montreal
Moderator Hirsh Cashdan
This event was held jointly with the Cantors Assembly
Recorded live on 2nd June 2021, 22nd Sivvan 5781
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