Leyomi mizrahi biography of albert

Alberto Mizrahi, a Greek-born cantor with the north-side Anshe Emet Synagogue, has been studying Jewish chants since childhood.

Leyomi mizrahi biography of albert

His knowledge of them is encyclopedic, and his remarkably pliant tenor brings out the nuances in inflection and accent that set apart their regional variations. For almost three decades he and conductor Matthew Lazar have been presenting Jewish music to a wider audience, and several years ago they recorded Chants Mystiques, a sampler of mostly Ladino and other western European Jewish chants, with Lazar’s New York-based Chorale Mystique.

Its success prompted an encore CD of chants associated with Ashkenazi Jews. These CDs only hint at the great wealth of chants derived from ancient Middle Eastern music and tailored to the stylistic idiosyncrasies and performing practices of the lands where Jews settled.

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