Gershon Kingsley - Milken Arch Amer Jewish Music: Voices from Shadow - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jewish Voices in the New World offers a rare and fascinating collection of synagogue melodies and biblical chants as they were sung in the early American Colonial period, throughout the Revolutionary War, and up through the early years of the new republic.

These WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS will appeal to all lovers of orchestral tone poems in the Romantic and modernist traditions. Avshalomov' delightful miniatures shimmer with colors akin to Rimsky-Korsakov and Far Eastern music.

K'li zemer means 'instrument of song' in Hebrew, and a traditional klezmer was an instrumental musician who entertained at weddings and other festive occasions in Jewish life. In recent times, the extraordinary popularity of 'klezmer music&.