Join us for our 2013-14 Season!
Kol Israel - the Voice of Judaism in Early Music
“Kol
Israel: The Voice of Judaism in Early Music” continues our tradition of exploring and performing the music of
the Renaissance and related periods outside of the traditional European
canon. Our audiences this year will experience rare and seldom-heard
Jewish music from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods including a US
premiere. In addition, our audiences' favorite annual events return including
our fourth annual Boar’s Head Festival
& Mid-Winter Gala, Hallowe'en Memorial Singalong, this year giving our
audiences the opportunity to sing Fauré's
Requiem along with us – and we are delighted to again present our free Festival of Lessons & Carols for the holiday season!
We are delighted to have Rabbi Reuben Zellman as our Ethno-Musicology Consultant for our 2013-14 Season. Rabbi Zellman is currently completing a Master of Music degree at San Francisco State University, specializing in early music and Jewish choral repertoire. When not singing as a regular member of San Francisco Renaissance Voices he serves as Assistant Rabbi and Music Director at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, where he is responsible for musical activities ranging from traditional leading of liturgy to directing choral and instrumental ensembles, and teaching Biblical cantillation. Rabbi Zellman received his BA in linguistics from UC Berkeley, studied classical voice at SFSU, and received his Master's in Hebrew Literature and rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. He trained in chazzanut (traditional cantorial music and Jewish modal theory) under Cantors David Bentley and Jack Mendelsohn, and has performed as a soloist and chorister with numerous ensembles.
Season Finale - Dedication of the Synagogue & Other Jewish Celebrations
MAY 24 - 7:30 pm
Seventh Avenue Performances,
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
MAY 25 - 4:00 pm
Congregation Beth El
1301 Oxford Street, Berkeley
JUNE 8 - 4:00 pm
Congregation Kol Shofar
215 Blackfield Drive, Belvedere-Tiburon
(Pre-concert talk by Rabbi Reuben Zellman 45 minutes before each performance)
Join us for this celebratory finale concert that features the extensive musical ceremony composed by Volunio Gallichi and Francesco Drei for the 1786 dedication of the new synagogue in Siena, Italy, as well as music for weddings, Shabbat and other celebrations. This concert includes Louis Saladin’s exquisite Canticum Hebraicum, composed for chorus and orchestra in 1670 for the occasion of a circumcision ceremony in Southern France. All sung in the original Hebrew with full translations provided.
Join us for this festive ending to our 2013-14 season!
Seventh Avenue Performances,
1329 Seventh Avenue, San Francisco
MAY 25 - 4:00 pm
Congregation Beth El
1301 Oxford Street, Berkeley
JUNE 8 - 4:00 pm
Congregation Kol Shofar
215 Blackfield Drive, Belvedere-Tiburon
(Pre-concert talk by Rabbi Reuben Zellman 45 minutes before each performance)
Join us for this celebratory finale concert that features the extensive musical ceremony composed by Volunio Gallichi and Francesco Drei for the 1786 dedication of the new synagogue in Siena, Italy, as well as music for weddings, Shabbat and other celebrations. This concert includes Louis Saladin’s exquisite Canticum Hebraicum, composed for chorus and orchestra in 1670 for the occasion of a circumcision ceremony in Southern France. All sung in the original Hebrew with full translations provided.
Join us for this festive ending to our 2013-14 season!
