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| Hazzans: Judaism's Sacred Singers |
January 16, 2015 |
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For more than a thousand years, sacred singers called cantors, or hazzans, have led Jewish congregations through sung prayers. The melodies are a mix of traditions, designed to make worship more effective, and more beautiful. Now there's an online home for more than 100 examples of cantor songs, first recorded in the mid-1980s for the "History of the American Cantorate" project. From October 2013.
Mark Slobin, professor of music and American studies at Wesleyan University
Mark Kligman, professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College
Visit their collection of cantor recordings. |
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