FEBRUARY 6th, 2021 @7pm THE CHORAL TORAH: 5 BOOKS IN 4 PARTS
At heart, the Torah is a piece of music. Its words are notated in ornate calligraphy like an ancient score and transmitted by cantillation. What’s more, we are commanded in the final chapters of Deuteronomy to “Write for yourselves this song; teach it to the children of Israel and place it in their mouths:” כתבו לכם את השירה הזאת ולמדהּ את בני ישראל שימהּ בפיהםIn this session, we’ll dig deep into our oldest text in search of new music. We’ll play with words and dissect sounds, encountering singable consonants, Gregorian modes and the stories at the core of our heritage. Guided by Josh Ehrlich, composer of The Choral Torah: 5 Books in 4 Parts, we’ll take a magic-school-bus-style ride through the Bible, complete with musical detours presented by the dynamic and aptly-named all-sibling quartet, The Four Hermaneutics. Prepare to experience the five books like never before — in four parts!
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ABOUT JOSH EHRLICH
Hailed by Deke Sharon as “dynamic, bold, and audacious,” Josh Ehrlich is a composer, lyricist, arranger, accompanist, music director and music educator in New York City. With a BA in linguistics from Yale (where he music directed the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus) and an MA in composition from Rutgers, Josh now music directs and orchestrates for the musical theater productions, bands, and choirs at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and The Leffell High School. He also music directs Hallelu, assistant directs Kol Ram, sings regularly with Pella, Kol Zimra, Simcha Singers and Shalom Singers, accompanies services for Sha’ar Communities, and plays keyboards in the ‘90s rock band Uncle Jesse. Josh has written several hundred musical theater orchestrations and a cappella arrangements for ensembles all over the New York area including Voices of Gotham and the entire Imbible series (A Spirited History of Drinking, Christmas Carol Cocktails, and Rum and Pirates) and is thrilled to have made his off-broadway composing debut with The Imbible: Day Drinking. Between 2018-2019, he composed The Choral Torah: 5 Books in 4 Parts, a collection of fifty-four eclectic a cappella compositions — one for each week of the Jewish year — which reanimate our most ancient and venerated text through fresh four-part harmony. He since founded The Choral Torah Collective, an ensemble of gifted Judaeo-musical educators eager to share this music and the lessons built into it on biblical and musical literacy. Finally, starting in September 2020, Josh has been studying to become a cantor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
This year to remember 10.27.2018 – an anthology has been published.
Bound in Bond of Life, Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy
edited by Beth Kissileff and Eric Lidji of Heinz History Center
There are various Virtual Events for the book this week,
click the venue to register for the event.
October 20, 2020 @7pm at City of Asylum
October 22, 2020 @6:30pm at Columbia Journalism School
October 26, 2020 @7:30pm at The University of Pennsylvania
PRE-ORDER: Bound in Bond of Life here.
“SING A NEW LIGHT” PRESENTS MAKING LIGHT A ZOOM COMEDY HOUR
ON AUGUST 27TH @8PM EST – RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE
This is the 2nd Concert by New Light Congregation honoring October 27, 2018 victims
“SING A NEW LIGHT” PRESENTS MAKING LIGHT A ZOOM COMEDY HOUR
ON AUGUST 27TH @8PM EST – RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE
This is the 2nd Concert by New Light Congregation honoring October 27, 2018 victims
New Light Congregation announces a second concert in the SING A NEW LIGHT series “Making Light: A Zoom Comedy Hour” scheduled for Thursday, August 27th at 8PM, honoring the victims of the Synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018. In this difficult time when public events are on hold, what better remedy to chase the stuck-at-home blues away than to laugh. Making Light brings the Borsch Belt to the comfort of your own home with five leading comedians to lighten the mood and celebrate the future, featuring :
Hosted by Ray Ellin from Comedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy Cellar, Late Net, NatGeo
Ophira Eisenberg – Host of NPR’s Ask Me AnotherComedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy CellarCBS’ Late Late Show
Chuck Nice – NBC, Comedy Central, and Cohost of StarTalk on Nat Geo
Cory Kahaney – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CONAN, grand finalist NBC’s Last Comic Standing
Avi Liberman – CBS’ Late Late Show, new movie Land of Milk and Funny
The event is free. Online registration is required to access.