Join is for the 2010 South Florida Cantor's Concert...
In January 2009, cantors and soloists from South Florida synagogues collaborated for a concert at Temple Israel of Greater Miami to honor Alan Mason for having served 18 years as the synagogue's music director, to a capacity-audience of more 700 people.
That event's success inspired Mason to make it an annual one and last year's concert also drew more than 700 people.
For the third annual South Florida Cantorial Concert that will take place at 8 p.m. on Jan. 15 at Temple Israel's Bertha Abess Sanctuary, 137 N.E. 19 St. in Miami, more than 500 tickets have already been sold at press time. The program is becoming nationally known and Mason, the concert's director, holds the highest standards for its quality, content, design, and execution.
"When I use the term "serious music", we're talking about classical and popular works of great Jewish composers of synagogue music," Mason added. "This is a program that contains serious Jewish music -- music composed for the concert stage, music composed for sacred worship and music used in the synagogue."
There are 28 musical artists, including 24 cantors and soloists, a concert master, a trumpet player, a drummer, and Mason as the pianist accompanying the singers, scheduled to perform in the concert. The cantors and soloists will perform a diverse range of Jewish songs that includes Ladino, Israeli, folk, Yiddish, pop, classical, jazz and liturgical. The singers represent synagogues throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties as well as outside of the tri-county area and Florida. There are even some returning performers who spoke about their experience.
"It was wonderful," said Cantor Michelle Auslander Cohen, a returning singer who spoke about her experience performing last year and who works at both Temple Beth Am in Margate and Temple Beth El of Boca Raton. "There are a lot of really talented people and everyone brings their own style to it."
Also returning is Cantor Mark Kula of Bet Shira Congregation in Miami who performed in each of the first two years.
"I'm excited to sing again with colleagues and friends representing the spectrum of Jewish music and it really is a great cantorial concert," Kula said.
Performing this year for the first time is Alix Paige, an actress and singer residing in New York who has performed traditional Jewish music at Temple Beth El in her home town of West Palm Beach.
"I don't really get the opportunity to sing this kind of music a lot," Paige said. "It's only when I go home and it's only in my temple that I can perform this music and it's great that I get to go to Miami and work at a different temple with so many different cantors."
Also performing for the first time is Cantor Aaron Kaplan from Temple Shaarei Shalom in Boynton Beach.
"This is a type of concert that you don't really see anywhere else and it's something unique to this area and it's really one of the crowns and jewels of South Florida music," Kaplan said.
Tickets for the concert are $18 and it's best to purchase them immediately. If tickets are sold out, the synagogue is able to add 75 folding chairs. The temple also might consider streaming the concert at its auditorium. For more information, to purchase tickets, and to view the concert online, visit www.cantorialconcert.org. Tickets can also be purchased by calling the synagogue at 305-573-5900. For more information on tickets, e-mail info@cantorialconcert.org.
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