#cantorial — Public Fediverse posts

"Years after #YounesDardashti’s death, his granddaughter #Galeet is still singing with him in #NewYork.

Using #archival #recordings of her grandfather’s voice, #GaleetDardashti created her #album #Monajat — meaning an intimate conversation with God — layering her vocals over decades-old tapes of him #singing #Selihot, religious poetry chanted nightly before the #Jewish New Year.

Across the country in #LosAngeles, #JacquelineRafii — senior #cantor of Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative #synagogues in the U.S. — is also working to preserve her #Iranian grandfather’s traditional #Persian Jewish #music.

While in #cantorial school, Rafii rediscovered cassette tapes made of her grandfather leading a #Passover seder in #Tehran. When her family was forced to flee the country following the #IslamicRevolution in 1979, they brought that cassette tape with them."

https://forward.com/culture/816997/iran-persian-jewish-music/

"Years after #YounesDardashti’s death, his granddaughter #Galeet is still singing with him in #NewYork.

Using #archival #recordings of her grandfather’s voice, #GaleetDardashti created her #album #Monajat — meaning an intimate conversation with God — layering her vocals over decades-old tapes of him #singing #Selihot, religious poetry chanted nightly before the #Jewish New Year.

Across the country in #LosAngeles, #JacquelineRafii — senior #cantor of Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative #synagogues in the U.S. — is also working to preserve her #Iranian grandfather’s traditional #Persian Jewish #music.

While in #cantorial school, Rafii rediscovered cassette tapes made of her grandfather leading a #Passover seder in #Tehran. When her family was forced to flee the country following the #IslamicRevolution in 1979, they brought that cassette tape with them."

https://forward.com/culture/816997/iran-persian-jewish-music/

"Years after #YounesDardashti’s death, his granddaughter #Galeet is still singing with him in #NewYork.

Using #archival #recordings of her grandfather’s voice, #GaleetDardashti created her #album #Monajat — meaning an intimate conversation with God — layering her vocals over decades-old tapes of him #singing #Selihot, religious poetry chanted nightly before the #Jewish New Year.

Across the country in #LosAngeles, #JacquelineRafii — senior #cantor of Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative #synagogues in the U.S. — is also working to preserve her #Iranian grandfather’s traditional #Persian Jewish #music.

While in #cantorial school, Rafii rediscovered cassette tapes made of her grandfather leading a #Passover seder in #Tehran. When her family was forced to flee the country following the #IslamicRevolution in 1979, they brought that cassette tape with them."

https://forward.com/culture/816997/iran-persian-jewish-music/

"Years after #YounesDardashti’s death, his granddaughter #Galeet is still singing with him in #NewYork.

Using #archival #recordings of her grandfather’s voice, #GaleetDardashti created her #album #Monajat — meaning an intimate conversation with God — layering her vocals over decades-old tapes of him #singing #Selihot, religious poetry chanted nightly before the #Jewish New Year.

Across the country in #LosAngeles, #JacquelineRafii — senior #cantor of Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative #synagogues in the U.S. — is also working to preserve her #Iranian grandfather’s traditional #Persian Jewish #music.

While in #cantorial school, Rafii rediscovered cassette tapes made of her grandfather leading a #Passover seder in #Tehran. When her family was forced to flee the country following the #IslamicRevolution in 1979, they brought that cassette tape with them."

https://forward.com/culture/816997/iran-persian-jewish-music/

"Years after #YounesDardashti’s death, his granddaughter #Galeet is still singing with him in #NewYork.

Using #archival #recordings of her grandfather’s voice, #GaleetDardashti created her #album #Monajat — meaning an intimate conversation with God — layering her vocals over decades-old tapes of him #singing #Selihot, religious poetry chanted nightly before the #Jewish New Year.

Across the country in #LosAngeles, #JacquelineRafii — senior #cantor of Valley Beth Shalom, one of the largest Conservative #synagogues in the U.S. — is also working to preserve her #Iranian grandfather’s traditional #Persian Jewish #music.

While in #cantorial school, Rafii rediscovered cassette tapes made of her grandfather leading a #Passover seder in #Tehran. When her family was forced to flee the country following the #IslamicRevolution in 1979, they brought that cassette tape with them."

https://forward.com/culture/816997/iran-persian-jewish-music/

Wrapping up with this fundraiser which is not for an album but for a new record label: "Khazones Underground is an initiative to celebrate and reanimate Yiddish spiritual heritage music [...] artists who draw on the heritage of khazones for new projects of aesthetic and social significance."
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/khazones-underground

#fundraising #JewishMusic #chazzan #Khazones #Cantorial

However, in the majority of "old fashioned" #klezmer music and even more so in classic #cantorial music, it's not as common to compose an entire piece in this scale, but rather it is used in modulations for with very powerful effect. For example this Romanian-Jewish piece from New York 1910s, most of the piece are in natural major or minor, only a brief intervals like around 0:40 does it briefly shift into this mode, which makes the whole thing way more interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQs0Lhnmbo

Finally published the draft I have been researching for the last 2 weeks or so, to rewrite the messy #Wikipedia article about the Ukrainian Dorian scale (known as Mi Sheberach in #klezmer or #cantorial music) into something I consider more well-rounded, structured and coherent.
I admit I am stronger on #MusicHistory than #MusicTheory so feel free to let me know if you think I got something wrong on the the theory side! #FolkMusic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Dorian_scale

My new opus: The Black Cantor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l4lh

#yiddish #black #jewish #cantor #cantorial #chazznut #ashkenazic #okehrecords