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In their performance of the sacred music of the
High Holy Days, today's chazzans combine
traditional melodies from the Middle Ages
with innovative cantorial compositions.
DIANA LIEBERMAN
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hroughout Jewish history,
the music of the synagogue
has been treasured and
enriched by many talented
cantors who have built on the musical
motifs of the past to create a unified
yet fluid body of compositions.
The High Holidays are especially
linked with music, as the evocative
melodies and emotional voice of the can-
tor move even those who do not under-
stand the Hebrew or Aramaic texts.
The most widely recognized
melody of the Holidays, the "Kol
Nidre," or All Vows, is one of a small
number of melodies in the Ashkenazic
tradition that have remained intact
since the Middle Ages.
These melodies are colloquially known
says musicologist Neil Levin
missinai,
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of the Jewish Theological Seminary "It's
not literally 'from Sinai,'" Levin adds. "It's
like we would say in English that some-
thing is as old as the hills."
The missinai melodies are universal
throughout the Askenazic community
worldwide, he says.
For instance, he notes, a cantor
who would sing the Kiddush for the
Rosh HaShana Musaf service with
anything other than the missinai tune
"would be ignorant or deliberately fly-
ing in the face of tradition."
"Kol Nidre" is the ultimate missinai
melody.
"Even Schoenberg, whatever else he
does around it, still makes use of the
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or 40 years, the musical voice of
the High Holidays at
Congregation B'nai Moshe was the
voice of Cantor Louis Klein.
In the words of Robert Roth, a past
president of B'nai Moshe, Klein "was
able to facilitate a bridge to God. His
knowledge, voice and the way he prayed
helped people to develop spiritually"
Cantor Klein, who enriched both
the synagogue and Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit as teacher,
cantor and choir director, died in
February at the age of 82.
As Jews throughout metro Detroit
prepare to usher in the new year,
Cantor Klein's legacy will continue
through the original music he com-
posed for the sacred texts of Rosh
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The compositions
of the late Cantor
Louis Klein will be
sung in synagogues
in the Detroit area
during the High
Holy Days.
HaShana and Yom Kippur.
Along with B'nai Moshe, syna-
gogues performing selections by
Cantor Klein include Adat Shalom
and Beth Abraham Hillel Moses.
"He was my closest friend for 40
years," said Cantor Larry Vieder of
Adat Shalom.