Restaurant of the magazine Year 2004 A MUSICAL FIRST on page 53 Oakland Press. "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 canton MONDAY — FRIDAY 11AM — 5PM Composer Abraham Kaplan: "I was quite amazed with their pelformance," he says of the Vienna Choir Boys CD. dinner MONDAY — THURSDAY, 5PM — 10PM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 5P/s.1 — 11PM CLOSED SUNDAY unique private rooms available 1824 west 14 mile road royal oak, michigan 48073 248-655-5000 Dayton, Ohio, and performed by 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. 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