Lifted from someone’s family movies. We see the Carlebach Shul on the West Side. The Rav – R. Hartwig Carlebach, father of the famous singer, emerges from the shul. Also includes Washington Heights footage.
From one of Rabbi Chazan Lieber’s beloved records. This Maoz Tzur has a Chazan’s solo in the second and fourth stanza. I am informed by a viewer that a famous chazan named Israel Alter performed it this way too.
If you want the full edition with all the references to the Monsey debacle and other skits too personal for the web – well it’s not available. Innocent and innocuous jokes left in.
The spirit of our choir is not the “Kol Demama Daka”- the mild and meek voice- that rose out of the hollow chambers that produced “churchy” music, but the fervor of German Jewry al fortissimo. Here we discuss the history of the choir and its early origins. Rav Hirsch commisioned I.M. Japhet to compose for […]
This was Chazan Frankel’s signature kiddush (composed by Cantor Abraham Katz of Amsterdam). On one of my other channels I have this as sung by a young budding Chazan in Erets. I took the performance and had the organ added by my friend Yehoshua Solomon (who is available for simchas…) and voila. Enjoy before the […]