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Smith Workshop Highlights on Youtube!
Below is a video, created by Western Wind Tenor Todd
Frizzell, showcasing the Smith I Workshop. Enjoy!
A kaleidoscopic tapestry
of vocal hues... The New York Times
...versatility...virtuosity...a stunning concert.
Los Angeles Times
Featured
Recordings
The Birthday of the World,
Music and Traditions of the High Holy Days:
Part I: Rosh Hashanah
Leonard
Nimoy, Narrator
Sung by
The Western Wind & Guest Choir
"Sung by
The Western Wind vocal ensemble with outstanding cantors...this
is an ideal Rosh Hashanah service. Comprised of major prayers
drawn from traditions ancient and modern, Sephardic and Eastern
European, with a splendid
narration by Leonard Nimoy, the performance is
outstanding for the beauty of its artistry."
Music and Traditions of the High Holy Days:
Part II: Yom Kippur
Leonard
Nimoy, Narrator
Sung by
The Western Wind & Guest Choir
Leonard Nimoy and The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble explore the rich
and profound musical and spiritual traditions of the Jewish High
Holy Days. The Birthday of theWorld presents some of the
most inspiring music of the Jewish Liturgy performed by The
Western Wind, guest singers and four internationally renowned
cantors.The choir sings with notably greater unanimity and
dynamic polish than one typically hears at an actual
service....There is also a female cantor, Faith Steinsnyder
Gurney, whose singing is agile and often stunningly turned,
although in terms of range and cantorial virtuosity she has
nothing on Alberto Mizrahi, the most impressive of the
soloists." Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
details
Todd Frizzell has posted a lovely video for
Elliot Levine's "i thank you God" on
You Tube
Click
here to watch, and look for familiar faces.
"i thank you God" is available on Western Wind
Encores. Click
here to purchase.
11/2006
See The Western Wind in action!
Check out
this clip
from the Western Wind residency at Colgate University this
past November.
Ordering Chanukkah Music
We are proud to announce that four of the Chanukkah
pieces from our Chanukkah Story program have just been
published by Transcontinental Music. They are Three
Chanukkah Songs (arr. Levine/Zukof) 993306 and Lo
V’Chayil by Elliot Z. Levine 9933041.
The
program celebrates the group’s
four decades of music-making and is
highlighted by some of
its “greatest-hits” through the years.
Renaissance, Early American, Judaica, Contemporary,
Pop & Jazz arrangements.
United
Presbyterian Church 25 Church Street
Amsterdam, NY
