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Musical Tradition
Local cantor traces roots of Eastern European
liturgical music.
throughout the United States,
Canada and Israel over the course of
Special to the Jewish News
20 years, interviewing and recording
fter the author's more than native Eastern European cantors as
well as baalei tefillah (lay prayer lead-
20 years of research,
ers).
Syracuse University Press
"In a sense, this
has pub-
--
project
has been in
-
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lished the first book v,g-
progress
through-
in Cantor Sholom '
out my life," said
Kalib's new series,
Cantor Kalib.
The Musical
He developed
Tradition of the
his love for Eastern
Eastern European
European liturgical
Synagogue. The
music at an early
work is entitled
age from his father,
Introduction: History
the son and broth-
-
and Definition,
er of cantors in
Volume I ($59.95).
Russia.
Cantor Kalib of
Cantor Kalib
Farmington Hills
was
born in Dallas,
was a professor of
Texas,
and moved
music theory at
with
his
family to
Eastern Michigan
Chicago
after
University in
becoming a bar
Ypsilanti until his
mitzvah. He
recent retirement. -
received his doc-
He has been a prac-
Cantor
Sholom
Kalib
torate in music
ticing cantor for
theory
at
more than 50 years
Northwestern
in Chicago, Detroit
University in Evanston, Ill., in 1973.
and Flint.
Among his accomplishments, he
The cantor's book is a detailed,
comprehensive documentation of the has compiled and edited six pub-
lished volumes of synagogue music
historical development of
within the Eastern European •
Eastern European synagogue
tradition and written two
music from post-biblical
commissioned concert servic-
times to the present.
es performed by cantors and
Volume I consists of two
children's choirs.
separate "books;" one com-
Continuing Cantor Kalib's
prising the text, and the
series, The Musical Tradition of
other containing a multitude
the Eastern European Synagogue will
of illustrative musical scores of the
be
the following four works: The
various types of synagogue liturgical
Weekday,
Minor Holiday and Life-
music discussed in the first part.
Cycle
Event
Services, Volume II; The
This format allows both books to be
Sabbath Services, Volume III; Three
open at the same time so that the
Festival Services, Volume IV; and High
reader can reference the musical
examples while reading the accompa- Holiday Services, Volume V. ❑
nying text.
Part One includes a detailed
chronology of what Cantor Kalib
Rabbi Sholom Kalib is participat-
describes as the "erosion" of the
ing in the local author fair at the
Eastern European musical tradition,
Jewish Book Fair 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
which he believes began right after
Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Janice
the genre reached the height of its
Charach Epstein Gallery of the
popularity in the 19th Century and
Jewish Community Center in
continues into the present day.
West Bloomfield.
To research this monumental
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