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The Who's
"Tommy"

Love's Sweet Melodies

8 P.M. Thursday, February 20

Local cantors sing the praises of their favorite
love songs.

n honor of the romance in the It continues, "You'd want to take
air at this time of year, we called a bite out of me; I wish I was a
upon some experts in the world glass of sherry wine, rd kiss your
of music to reveal their favorite lips 'till I made you mine; I wish
I was a swingin', clingy n' vine, I'd
love songs.
wrap my branches around you till
Adat Shalom's Cantor
the end of time.
_
Howard Glantz
Here, also, are what some oth-
Among Cantor Glantz's fa-
er cantors in our
vorite songs is 'The
community chose
Salley Gardens."
as their top love
West Side Story
"[It] was a song
songs:
,
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I had to sing as a
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Temple Israel's
cantorial school
Cantor Harold
student we had
'
Orbach:
to study classical
"Verastich Li
literature as well
(And I Will Betroth
.......A,
as Jewish music. It
You to Me Forever)"
was by Benjamin i
by Steinberg
Britten and was
"Ani Dodi VDodi
taken from a poem
Li (I am My
by [William Butler]
"One Hand, One Heart,"
"Maria" and "Tonight" from Beloved's and My
Yeats about love
Beloved is Mine)" by
West Side Story, music by
lost. In the end, the
Leonard Bernstein, words by
Kosakoff
suitor is too eager
"Shir Hashirim
and loses the Stephen Sondheim, are among
the cantors' favorites.
(Song of Songs)" by
woman," explains
Sharlin
Cantor Glantz.
"Whither Thou Goest I Will Go"
The cantor has another favorite
that hails from Italy, "a beautiful by Goldman
"Serenade" by Shubert
19th-century song called Amar-
"My Love Is a Flower" from
illi' by Caccini. This is more a song
of real admiration: A man is ask- Cosi Fon Tutte by Mozart
"Yours Is My Heart Alone"
ing a woman to be his one; he
wants to make sure she knows from Land of Smiles by Lehar
"Serenade" from The Student
she is his. The lyrics say, 'Look
into my heart and believe in me."' Prince by Romberg
"Maria" from West Side Story
A Hebrew song he often sings
at weddings is one by Debbie by Leonard Bernstein
Friedman called "L'Chi Lach." Temple Beth El's Cantor
The title of the song translates to Stephen Dubow:
"May you be a blessing," which
"What I Did for Love" from A
Cantor Glantz likes to address to Chorus Line
the bride and groom, "as [they]
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart"
enter into an unknown world."
"Because"
"Shnei Hem (The Two of
"Till There Was You"
Them)" was written by a con-
"Sealed With a Kiss"
temporary California composer
"So In Love"
named Michael Isaacson. The
"All You Need Is Love" by
song signifies that
Lennon/McCartney
"if a couple has Ju-
"One Hand, One
daism in their
Heart" from West
marriage, they will
ro Nstet
Side Story
have God with fiddler onthe Roof
"Tonight" from
them."
West Side Story
Another favorite
"Maria" from
of Cantor Glantz's
West Side Story
is "Ana Dodi,"
"Serenade"
based on Song of
"Do You Love
Songs by Cantor
Me" from Fiddler
Charles Davidson.
on the Roof
"It has a very lilt-
"Do You Love Me?"
"0 Mio Bambino
from Fiddler on the Roof,
ing and pleasing
Caro"
music by Jerry Bock and
melody, and refers
"My Yiddishe
lyrics by Sheldon Hamick:
to the 'voice of the
Mama"
"If that's not love, what is?"
turtle.' "
"0 Mimi Tu Piu
These are all
Non Torni"
lovely tunes, but the cantor ten-
"Skidamarinky, Dinky Dink"
derly describes what sounds to be
"Hatikvah," adapted from the
his favorite: From the Early Moldau by Smetana
American repertoire," he explains,
"God Bless America" by Kate
"there was a song my parents Smith
would sing in the car, when we
"People Will Say We're in
were bored on long trips, and I Love" , from Oklahoma.
now sing it to my child. It's called
Compiled by Lynne Konstantin
`I Wish I was an Apple on a Tree.' "

8 P.M. Friday, February 21
Adult $32 • Student/Sr. Cit. $29

La Boheme

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7 P.M. Sunday, February 23
Adult $29 • Student/Sr. Cit. $26
Golden Circle $32

As You Like It

8 P.M. Friday, February 28
Adult $23
Student/Sr. Cit. $21

The Flying
Karamazov
Brothers

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8 P.M. Saturday, March 1
Adult $24
Student/Sr. Cit. $22

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