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antor Harold Orbach has been
awarded the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit's 2001
Benard L. Maas Foundation Prize for
Achievement in Jewish Culture and
Continuity.
"This award reflects the unique con-
tribution made in the areas of the per-
forming arts, Jewish education and con-
tinuity," says Phoebe Mainster, chair of
the Federation's Benard L. Maas •
Foundation Prize for Achievement in
Jewish Culture and Continuity
Committee. This lifetime of achieve-
ment award acknowledges [a] career and
contributions above and beyond profes-
sional demands to the Jewish communi-
ty of metro Detroit and the State of
Michigan."
Cantor Orbach was nominated by
Norton E. Stern, president of Temple
Israel, where the cantor recently cele-
brated his 40th anniversary with the
congregation.
"(He) has enriched the cultural life of
our greater Detroit Jewish community,"
wrote Stern to the nominating commit-
tee. "His outreach to the Chaldean,
Christian, Muslim and black communi-
ties has won him national acclaim."
Cantor Orbach has assisted numer-
ous Russian immigrants in establishing
musical careers and has been involved
with youth, seniors and Israeli organi-
zations. He brought cultural program-
ming to Detroit that included Jewish
artists and composers.

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A former president of the national
American Conference of Cantors,
Cantor Orbach also holds an honorary
doctorate from the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
As a performing artist, he has sung
all over the world, receiving the Israel
Medal of Culture from (former Israeli
Prime Minister) Golda Mein
Cantor Orbach's voice can be heard
on 14 albums. He has sung with well-
known performers, including Ella
Fitzgerald and Dave Brubeck, with
whom he made a recording. He com-
missioned numerous operas, oratorios
and musical compositions and recently
was instrumental in the creation of an
opera based on the Holocaust,
"Abraham and Hannah."
The prize is a cash award of
$10,000, with the intent that it be
used for creative programming and
projects. There will be a formal .pres-
entation at a Federation board meet-
ing in March. 1-1

—Shelli Liebman Dorfman

Cantor
Harold
Orbach

Cantor
David
Montefiore

Cantor Montefiore
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antor David Montefiore of
- Congregation Beth Ahm has
accepted an appointment to
the Presidents Council of the Jewish
Ministers Cantors Association of
America and Canada.
The invitation came to the cantor
by Cantor Victor Beck, president of
the 100-year-old association.
Classically trained, Cantor
Montefiore attended the Hebrew
Union College of Sacred Music in
New York City and has spent most of
his career in Conservative synagogues
nationally and internationally.
During his tenure serving congregations
in New York and New Jersey, he was
also the director of the American Opera
Repertory Company in New York City.
The cantor received three Grammy

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award nominations for classical perform-
ances. He is a member of the American
Guild of Musical Artists and a voting
member of the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences.
He has performed at New York's
Carnegie Hall, Europe's Rome Festival
and in Israel with the Haifa Symphony
Orchestra.

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—Shelli Liebman Dorfman