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Rebecca Garfein is a role model
for other women who seek
to become cantors.

of different backgrounds who wouldn't
ordinarily listen to Jewish music."
Special to The Jewish News
Along with cantorial songs, Garfein
will perform pieces by composers of
ebecca Garfein breaks
different styles — from Aaron Copland
sound barriers.
to Broadway hit makers. There will be
Besides adding her
only one non-Jewish composer repre-
voice to a profession only
sented, Ned Rorem.
recently opened to women, Garfein
It will be a Jewish program with a
has become the first female cantor to
couple
of Yiddish pieces, and it will be
sing in concert at a German syna-
very eclectic," says
gogue. Opposed to
restricting herself to
Cantor Rebecca Garfein will Garfein, invited by a
musician who heard
one ethnic group, the
perform songs and arias by
her
recording and was
American composers in a
cantor performs her tra-
familiar
with her oper-
Tuesday concert in Pontiac.
ditional repertoire for
atic
background.
non-Jews as well.
"My cantorial posi-
Garfein will make her
tion
at
Riverdale
Temple
in Riverdale,
Michigan debut for the Tuesday
N.Y., takes up the majority of my time,
Musicale of Pontiac. At 1 p.m. Tuesday,
but my congregation is very supportive
Feb. 9, she'll perform songs and arias
and interested in seeing me do concerts
by American composers.
that bring people together and allow
"People don't have to understand a
me to share my music," she says.
language to understand the power of
Garfein, a cantor since 1993, always
music," says Garfein, 31, who recently
has
enjoyed singing but wasn't aware
Sacred
Chants
of
released her first CD,
that women could be cantors until high
the Contemporary Synagogue.
school, when she attended a summer
"I really hope my CD will go out-
camp in New York. Although this
side synagogue walls and touch people

SUZANNE CHESSLER

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