| Akerman recites this text against a background of the traditional cantorial melody for Kol Nidre, a prayer for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. |
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| Born in Luba, Volhynia, in the Ukraine, he sang in cantorial choirs in that region and then in Odessa, where he worked with many great hazzanim. |
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| The second CD contains performances of cantorial music and Yiddish songs by hazzanim who were active in Amsterdam. |
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| It is a position where you train to become so, either by being apprenticed to a cantor as in the old days, or you can go to cantorial school for four or five years in America. |
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| Dybbuk may be the composer's toughest compositional nut to crack, a gnarled web of sound tightly woven from folk music, cantorial prayer, and serial techniques. |
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| As one of his cantorial duties, he had to provide music for funerals. |
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| And at a loft-party in Montreal, an artist mixes hip-hop and jazz with cantorial singing in a multilingual tour de force. |
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| The lines remind me of cantorial chant, but Hovhaness has probably made it all up, since it doesn't lie all that far away from his usual solo-against-strings melodies. |
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