The second CD contains performances of cantorial music and Yiddish songs by hazzanim who were active in Amsterdam. |
Akerman recites this text against a background of the traditional cantorial melody for Kol Nidre, a prayer for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. |
As one of his cantorial duties, he had to provide music for funerals. |
And at a loft-party in Montreal, an artist mixes hip-hop and jazz with cantorial singing in a multilingual tour de force. |
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. |
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. |