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A MUSICAL FIRST on page 53
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"I was quite amazed with their
performance," said Abraham
Kaplan, whose 1980 composition
Psalms of Abraham is one of the
works on the CD. "Alleluia," a
selection from the 13-Psalm cycle
will be on the Choir Boys' Detroit
concert.
When he'd conducted the piece,
Kaplan said he had favored a strict
interpretation of its rhythms and
more regular tempi, or speeds. He
was somewhat dubious when
Schwendener told him the Vienna
Choir Boys would be performing
the work, because of the group's tra-
dition of a looser interpretation,
with more rubato (flexible rhythm
and tempo, using swelling and
receding for expression).
"When I got the recording, I was
stunned," said the composer, who
spent 17 years teaching conducting
at New York's Juilliard School and
another 23 at the University of
Washington in Seattle before his
recent retirement to San Diego. "I've
taught literally hundreds of conduc-
tors. And I came to the conclusion
that this gentleMan [conductor
Gerald Wirth] conducted it much
better than I'd ever do."
The CD begins with six songs
from Day Of Rest, a 1978 composi-
tion by Cantor Sholom Kalib of
Farmington Hills.
A faculty member at Eastern
Michigan University for 30 years,
Cantor Kalib wrote the work, set-
tings of texts from three sections of
Shabbat liturgy, using the Eastern
European cantorial and choral
idioms, the Nusach Sefard
(Ashkenazic-Chasidic style of
prayer).
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas,
Cantor Kalib is in the process of
writing a five-volume "encyclopedic
work" on the musical tradition of
Eastern European prayer music. The
first volume was published in 2000.
"The zenith of this tradition was
in the 19th century, into the early
20th century," Cantor Kalib
explained. "It's been in a process of
decline over the last half century.
'As I saw it fading, I became trou-
bled. Everyone who attended syna-
gogue was once familiar with it, but
no longer. I felt it was time to
chronicle it before it disappeared for
good."
Both Day of Rest and Psalms of
Abraham on the Milken recording
were originally written on commis-
sion for Beth Abraham Synagogue in
-Hour Detroit
Compose•
Sholom Kalib
is a Farmington
Hills-based
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the all-soprano children's choir and
cantor. For the current recording,
the two composers reworked some
songs in the traditional four-part
arrangement, with solo cantorial
parts.
In addition to the Vienna Boys
Choir, the recording features the
adult male ensemble Chorus
Viennensis, made up of Choir Boys
alumni, along with the Vienna
Chamber Orchestra and Cantors
Naftali Herstik, chief cantor of the
Great Synagogue of Jerusalem, and
Shimon Craimer, the British-born
cantor of Riverdale Jewish Center in
Riverdale, N.Y.
In addition to Kaplan's piece, the
Choir Boys' Detroit concert will
include the Hebrew work
"Chamishah" by Mordechai Zeira
and "Lailah Had'Mamah," a tradi-
tional Hebrew melody. Works by
WA. Mozart, Franz Lehar, Carl Orff
and Aaron Copland round out the
program. Ell
The Vienna Choir Boys will per-
form 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at
the Cathedral of the Most
Blessed Sacrament, 9844
Woodward Ave. at Trowbridge
(between Chicago and the
Davison Expressway). Tickets are
$20 advance or $25 at the door.
For additional information, call
(313) 865-6300, ext. 227, visit
vvww.aodonline. org and click on
Calendar at the top of the Web
page, or e-mail
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