10 October 2008
Days of Awe and Mystery
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This week, Jewish music and prayer for Yamim Nora'im, the Days of Awe (also known as the Days of Repentance), the ten days between Rosh Hashanah (New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). And some soulful singing from Australia's Tina Harrod as she tackles a Nick Drake song, River Man, full of mystery and prophecy.
We'll hear the opening prayer of the evening service of Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre, which means 'all our vows'. It's set to a haunting melody which we'll hear twice, played once on a harp and then sung by the Singers of the Amsterdam Synagogue. One of Australia's finest singers, Tina Harrod, brings a jazz inflection to a classic Nick Drake song. And to finish, Byzantine chant from cantor Petros Kyriacou and a male choir chanting in Hebrew from the Book of Genesis. These chants are part of a choral work called Prayer Bells or Pentekostarion, for 3 solo cantors in Hebrew, Greek and Latin and 8 male voices, composed by Con Koukias of Tasmania's Ihos Music Theatre and Opera.
Further Information
Yamim Nora'im - Days of Awe (Days of Repentance)
The ten days between Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), and Yom Kippur.
Prayer Bells
Touring Wollongong, 11 October and Sydney, 14 October 2008. More details here.
Music
CD title:
Jewish Sacred Songs
Track title:
Four shofar signals/Avinou malkeinou/Kol nidrei
Artist: Singers of the Amsterdam Synagogue/ B.W. d Jong, shofar/ Ger van Leeuwen
CD details: Philips 476 2726
CD title:
Jewish Favorites
Track title:
Kol nidre
Artist: Rachel Van Voorhees
CD details: Centaur CRC 2317
URL: http://www.rachelharp.com/
CD title:
Worksongs
Track title:
River Man
Artist: Tina Harrod, vcls/ Jonathan Zwartz, bass/ Hamish Stuart, drms/ Matt McMahon, pno
Composer: Nick Drake
CD details: Vitamin VT0038
URL: http://www.orszaczky.com/tinaharrod.html
CD title:
Prayer Bells - Pentekostarion
Artist: Michael Kregor, Paul Oxley, Craig Wood, Michael Curtain, Christopher Spiegel, Peter Cretan, Greg Foot, Matthew Dewey/ Con Koukias and IHOS
Composer: Con Koukias
URL: http://www.ihosopera.com/rep_pbp.html
Producer
Geoff Wood
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