Artist Spotlight: Cantor Ida Rae Cahana
Cantor Ida Rae Cahana was raised in Pittsburgh, where at age seventeen she became the first woman in the tri-state area to be featured in a synagogue as a cantorial soloist.
Read MoreShort concerts from celebrated Jewish musicians representing a broad range of styles, heritages, and histories. Recorded live in front of intimate audiences in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Read moreCantor Ida Rae Cahana was raised in Pittsburgh, where at age seventeen she became the first woman in the tri-state area to be featured in a synagogue as a cantorial soloist.
Read MoreLeo Kraft discusses the inception and various versions of his Proverb of Solomon, composed in 1953 for the chorus of the Hillel Foundation at Queens College.
WatchAbraham Ellstein was born on New York’s Lower East Side in 1907. Serving as a boy chorister in local synagogues exposed him early on to the intricacies of cantorial art, or hazzanut. He received his early musical training at the Third Street Settlement House and sang in the Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus. He is said to have written a short opera at the age of eight.
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