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KOL NIDRE Goes East.
The Kol Nidre has fascinated composers such as Beethoven, Schoenberg and
Max Bruch for centuries. More recently, it has caught the attention of
Guitarist and Sitarist Nicolas Jolliet, of “Psycho Key”, who
has taken the Kol Nidre 'East', using the Sitar, Surbahar, Tabla, Oud,
Dumbek and other exotic instruments. Jolliet composed and recorded his
Kol Nidre while on the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia, which may explain
why it evolves from traditional ragas into a seductive Reggae beat. The
Jolliet Kol Nidre has been written in two parts. The first closely follows
the original. The second is a free interpretation using the richly textured
sounds of the East. “The Kol Nidre set fire to my musician’s
soul”, says Jolliet.
"Musicians
will forever be attracted to its spiritual and musical power”.
"The prayer has returned East once more, but still it can’t
be contained by mere geographical boundaries. Its appeal is borderless,
being at once an expression of microcosmic and macrocosmic sorrow, atonement
and yearned forgiveness. Its strains, at first awesome, soon enfold you
in a feeling of eternal calm and release from earthly frailty. Not having
been schooled in Hebrew and Aramaic, and ignorant of the prayer’s
interesting history, it is the music which continues enrapture and resonate
within me.
In the sitar, the prayer has found yet another voice to express its universality.
Nico’s sincere and well executed rendition of the prayer admirably
contributes to its continued existence and permanence in the lives of
men and women.
To me Kol Nidre has always evoked the same feeling of strength and vulnerability
as the Hindustani evening Shree raag: it too cosmic in its thrust, the
image of a strong man weeping, and the breath of the soul in the twilight
hour." John Campana
Produced by Harold
Levy.
Arranged, Recorded, Mixed and Played by Nicolas Jolliet.
Graphic design for cover and cd by Nicolas Jolliet
Mastering by Nicolas Jolliet.
Contact: Harold Levy hlevy@thestar.ca
Distribution: Indie Pool indiepool.com www.psychokey.com
About the Kol Nidre:
The Kol Nidre deserves
its own Website because it has exercised such powerful religious and musical
influence over the centuries. One of the adjectives most commonly used
to describe the Kol Nidre - the opening prayer recited on the eve of Yom
Kippur - is "haunting".
The great cellist Jacqueline Du Pre is said to have asked that her recording
of Kol Nidre be played by her bedside as she lay dying. "She knew
music, and she knew her urgent need: to hear the haunting strains of this
mysterious, magical melody, leading into a personal and communal song
of remembrance and of promise", a writer noted. Other commonly used
adjectives include "plaintive", "meditative", "intoxicating"
and "liberating.
In the words of one Rabbi, the Kol Nidre's melody is so daunting, that
hearing the first few bars can send shivers down the spine and remind
the internal spiritual clock that the time for repentence has begun...
"The music of Kol Nidre is a melody which universally touches the
deepest recesses of our hearts and our souls".
The Kol Nidre has also been said to evoke a response which is "long
dormant" -even when it's words are not understood and its awesome
emotional power has been evoked both to find lost souls. Writer Corinna
Da Fonseca-Wollehiem, aptly describes the Kol Nidre as "a musical
umbilical chord that links Jews to their religion", in an article
in the Jerusalem Post.
"Even the most
secular "Yom Kippur Jews" who enter synagogue only this one
night a year, speak of feeling the tug at the sound of the falling and
rising and returning-to-its-beginning melody, which, despite its many
variations, is recognizable in synagogues the world over," she writes.
But, as will be seen on this site, non-Jews as well have been attracted
by the Kol Nidre's beauty, mystery, and inexplicable hypnotic qualities,
which we explore in this.
Welcome to the fascinating world of the Kol Nidre.
Poducer's Note
When I first heard
the Jolliet Kol Nidre I was blown away. I experienced a sense of exotic
intoxication that I had not experienced since the sixties. Since then
I have played it dozens of times. I personally prefer to listen with the
sound at elevated volume. Since being exposed to the Jolliet Kol Nidre
I have attempted to learn as much about this extraordinary piece of music
as possible.
I have tried to understand how it could have maintained its impact over
the centuries among Jews and non-Jews alike. As the links will indicate,
I am fascinated by the numerous instruments on which the Kol Nidre has
been performed over the years ranging from the cello to the bamboo flute,
let alone the full orchestra, string quartet, violin, piano, organ, hammered
dulcimer, guitar, clarinet and saxophone, and various combinations of
the above.
I am also fascinated by the various genres the Kol Nidre has taken, ranging
from the traditional chant to the contemporary and avant-garde - and including
chorale, jazz, pop, and even a musical. What a powerful prayer!
It even resonated in the hearts of Jews as they faced death in the concentration
camps. The links I have posted are guideposts to the journey I have undertaken
to explore the Kol Nidre. They are in five categories: General; Intriguing;
Holocaust; Poetry and Music; I hope these links will help others make
their own journeys into the world of the Kol Nidre. Please forward your
own Kol Nidre links to this site for the benefit of us all.
Lastly: Among my favourites! A blog created by a gentleman who calls himself
"Kol Nidre the Avant God". A soundtrack of Schoenberg rehearsing
his Kol Nidre; a film clip of Al Jolson playing the Kol Nidre; the tale
of a 20 year attempt to verify whether Leo Tolstoy was so infatuated with
the Kol Nidre that he commissioned a composer to create his own version;
James Joyce's fictional Kol Nidre performed on a drum and fife band; The
moving account of Reb Leizer's quest upon being freed from Buchenwald
to the son he had hidden with gentiles - by singing the Kol Nidre; The
bizarre saga of Benjamin Wilkomirski who performed Bruch's Kol Nidre on
stage while pretending to be a "survivor" - but may have actually
believed that he was a victim of the Holocaust.
On a personal note, while exploring the Kol Nidre, I was fascinated to
discover that Professor John Weinzweig, one of the most celebrated Canadian
composers had worked the Kol Nidre theme
into a work called
"In Memoriam" dedicated to his mother. I have known the professor
and his family - particularly my good friends Paul and Daniel - for more
than forty years but was unaware of this (and would not have been were
it not for this project!)
Also on a personal note, you will find a reference to the late Cantor
Joseph Cooper who was conducting the Kol Nidre service at the Ebensee
concentration camp. We were so fortunate to have such a great, inspiring
man prepare our daughters for their Bat Mitzvahs. The baseball connection:
How Hank Greenberg made it next to impossible for any Jewish boy to skip
Yom Kippur services by going to the synagogue for the Kol Nidre service
instead of to the World Series! (And how Sean Green chose to play one
Yom Kippur and hit the game-winning home run); Enjoy!
Harold Levy.
About the artist.
Nicolas Jolliet’s journey to the Sitar grew out of major influences
such as Pink Floyd and the Beatles in the 60’s and Led Zeppelin
and Deep Purple in the 70’s, bands who occasionally used Indian
and Arab scales and Oriental colours.
A graduate of L’Ecole des Technologies Musical de Geneve, Jolliet
says the Sitar exposed him to "another way of thinking," because
of scales and micro-tones which are rarely found in Western music. The
extensive pitch bend techniques used on the Sitar made it very attractive
to a guitar player", he says. "On the Sitar you can bend up
to six tones while the guitar is limited to a maximum of three semi-tones."
After purchasing his Sitar in Calcutta from a master Sitar maker in a
tiny shop where they build the instruments while sitting on the floor,
Jolliet returned to Toronto where he studied with John Campana who helped
him make the transition from Western guitar player to Sitar.
Campana’s willingness to share his extensive collection of rare
recordings, texts and pictures of early masters inspired Jolliet to establish
a website aimed at Western guitarists such as himself who want to learn
more about the world of the Sitar. The site contains a comparison of Indian
scales and harmonies with what Jolliet calls, "our system".
Psychokey.com/sitar
Jolliet stresses that he remains a "humble student" of the Sitar
as contrasted with, "the Sitar Masters who truly represent Indian
classical music."
He says that he was
inspired to compose his own version of the Kol Nidre after hearing it
chanted by a Cantor and performed on traditional instruments such as the
cello, violin and piano - and realizing that, "it sits between classical
music and Eastern music in its notes and style."
Above all, Jolliet concluded that the Sitar was a natural instrument for
the Kol Nidre because of, "it’s ability to emulate the voice
and the way that it can cry, modulate, and play around the notes like
a cantor would.”
However, Jolliet quickly discovered that although the main theme of the
Kol Nidre came naturally to the Sitar, other parts of the work came from
the chording which would be difficult to capture on a drone instrument
which has only one chord with melodies on top of it.
Jolliet, who was born in Geneva on Jan. 11, 1974, overcame this limitation
by super-imposing counter-point melodies over dubbed Sitars to create
the chording.
"It was very challenging because the Sitar uses lots of pitch bends
which largely depend on the feel of the moment, as, for example, where
a third minor can be slightly flat, unlike the tempered scale of a piano,"
he says. "So it was very difficult to play the counter-point and
match the feel of the first Sitar."
"It worked in
spite of all the obstacles, " Jolliet adds. "The Sitar is traditionally
recorded alone. I’ve never heard a Sitar piece with four Sitars."
Jolliet also takes his Kol Nidre east with the Oud, a stringed Arab instrument
which uses micro-tones and subjective pitch - and with percussive instruments
such as the traditional tabla and the dumbek from Turkey which he has
looped and backed up with samplers for the drums.
He has incorporated a harp in to the first part to support the Sitar’s
chording.
Jolliet has also incorpated Eastern instruments into the five CDs already
produced by Psycho Key, the band he and his singer/poet/songwriter wife
Kyra created, which also features guitarist Clint Adjodha and drummer
Aza Naya.
Of particular note are: Regal II in the Album "Sweed", Le surdoue
and On The Wild in "Jetty", check out the website for mp3’s
and more info, at www.psychokey.com
Links:
Kol Nidre: General:
Encyclopedia: Wikipedia; "Kol Nidre (Ashkenazi) or Kal nidré
(Sephardi) is a Jewish prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning
of the evening service on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is written
in Aramaic, not Hebrew. Its name is taken from the opening words, meaning
"All vows"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kol_Nidre
Kol Nidre: General: Jewish Encyclopedia: Comprehensive: Includes some
musical arrangements; ("some ancient chazzan of South Germany prefixed
a long, sighing tone, falling to a lower note and rising again, as if
only sighs and sobs could find utterance before the officiant could bring
himself to inaugurate the dread Day of Atonement."
http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=340&letter=K&search=kol%20nidre
<http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=340&letter=K&search=kol%20nidre>
Kol Nidre General: Lyrics;
http://www.hebrewsongs.com/song-kolnidre.htm
Kol Nidre: General: Its origin, development and significance; Stuart Weinberg
Gershon; From an Amazon customer review: "On waiting to hear the
opening words of the Kol Nidre: "There was the sense that each and
every one knew his life was in the balance and that the prayer and devotion
of the day to come could tip the scale this way or that."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/1568212003/103-6921767-9915043
Kol Nidre: General: Songs of Song of Songs: Frederick L. Kirshnit; A thorough
analysis ot the role of music in Jewish culture with particular reference
to the Kol Nidre; "This exotic, sometime Oriental sounding, music
has had a wide influence in the history of the classical music of Western
civilization."
http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/edito.php?ID_edito=36
Kol Nidre General: Abraham Zebi Idelsohn; A musicologists take on "the
Kol Nidre Tune". "This is one of Idelsohn's most intriguing
articles; it is a study in which his abilities as historian, liturgist,
cantor and musician show at their best."
http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/GetDetails.asp?id=86&TableName=Journal_Article_T&quest=11&page=cat&CatTableName=Authors_T
<http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/GetDetails.asp?id=86&TableName=Journal_Article_T&quest=11&page=cat&CatTableName=Authors_T>
Kol Nidre: General: Jewish Heritage Online Magazine: (With audio-clips
of different Kol Nidre traditions (Sephardic, Moroccan, Yemenite, Koenigsberg
and Berlin);
http://www.jhom.com/calendar/tishrei/kolnidrei.html#RA
Kol Nidre: General: Crossing the Rubicon (2); Interesting background information
on a melody which is described as "incredibly haunting and moving,"
http://northernva.typepad.com/crossing_the_rubicon/2005/10/kol_nidre.html
Kol Nidre: General; Book about Kol Nidre for children; The Magic of Kol
Nidre; Siegel;
http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?nt=AOaLAY&etn=DDAAH <http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?nt=AOaLAY&etn=DDAAH>
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; Tolstoy's Kol Nidre? Forward; Curt Levant; Was
the great Soviet author LeoTolstoy infatuated with the Kol Nidre? Did
he ask a composer/violinist named Mikhail Erdenko to compose a version
for violin and Piano? A mystery unravels;
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=leviant200409151208
Kol Nidre: Intriguing: The Franz Rosenzweig saga. How the Kol Nidre drove
the German Jewish philosopher back to Judaism on the cusp of his conversion
to Christianity; An illustartion of the intense emotion and spiritual
energy generated by the Kol Nidre service. A dramatic story of transformation
and self-examination through prayer.
http://www.jhom.com/calendar/tishrei/kolnidrei.html#RA
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; The hand-written Machzor (prayer book): Deported
to Siberia, someone smuggles a handwritten Machzor to him; One problem:
The page with the Kol Nidre is missing;
http://www.lchaimweekly.org/lchaim/5765/838.htm
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; A fictional Kol Nidre performed by a Fife and Drum
band in "Ulyssus" by James Joyce.
http://www.wordsmith.demon.co.uk/fragments/circe.htm
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; How James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges illustrate
the dilemmas of modern day humanity by focusing on the plight of the Jew.
(Reference to Kol Nidre);
http://www.wzo.org.il/doingzionism/resources/view.asp?id=92
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; Greenberg and Koufax: How Jewish Baseball players
confronted the Kol Nidre and became examples for Jews the world over;
http://www.the-temple.org/do/contentSectionView?contentSectionId=2385
Kol Nidre: Intriguing: A hero of his people: The life and times of Hank
Greenberg;
http://www.ccsf.edu/Events_Pubs/Guardsman/f991122/ae01.shtml
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; „The Kol Nidre quandary: To play big league
baseball on Yom Kippur or not!
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=598163&contrassID=15&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=598163&contrassID=15&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y>
Kol Nidre: Intriguing; How L/A. Dodger Sean Green chose to play on Yom
Kippur and hit the game-winning home run!
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23711/edition_id/470/format/html/displaystory.html
Kol Nidre; Holocaust; Auschwitz-Birkenau; Fragments of Memories: A Most
Memorable Kol Nidre - by Judy (Weissenberg) Cohen; Her moving account
of Kol Nidre at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where practicing Judaism
or celebrating any Jewish Holiday was totally forbidden by the Nazis because
they knew it would give solace to the prisoners.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/fragments/fragment2.htm
Kol Nidre: Holocaust: How Jews were drawn to the Kol Nidre - even as they
faced imminent arrest in the ghettoes and death in the concentration camps;
Includes accounts of two Kol Nidre services during the Holocaust and one
immediately following liberation.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yampol/Yampol.html#TOC
Kol Nidre: Holocaust; Ruth Franklin's moving account, published in the
New Republic, of the life of purported Holocaust survivor Benjamin Wilkomirski,
who wrote a memoir called "Fragments." . Wilkomirski appeared
for readings "on the Holocaust circuit" wearing a tallis-like
shawl, and performing Bruch's Kol Nidre on his clarinet. A proven fraud,
but did he believe he was a victim?
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=wmfg5Wv0JhQVdQ7c8UlK6y%3D%3D
Kol Nidre: Holocaust: The soul breath of Kol Nidre; How Reb Leizer walked
out of Buchenwald in search of his son who he had sheltered with gentiles
- and found him through the Kol Nidre;
http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=897
Kol Nidre: Holocaust: This is a very special link to me. The late Cantor
Joseph Cooper, for many years the Chazzan at our shul, performed the Kol
Nidre in a concentration camp in 1944; Cooperrisked his life in 1944 by
singing in the prison blocks of the Ebensee concentration camp. He prepared
my daughters for their Bat Mitzvoth.
Kol Nidre: Holocaust: A university student thinks about the Kol Nidre
as she reflects on the Holocaust; "When I listen to the cello play
Kol Nidre, I am taken away to a memory that is not my own. I cry tears
that are not my own. I am standing there with my people; my clothes are
in rags, my feet frozen, and my breath, hollow and visible in the brutal
winter," Janine Jankovitch says.
http://www.emunah.org/events_comments.php?id=380_0_3_0_M
Kol Nidre: Poetry; Susan Glickman: Kol Nidre;
http://logentries.arcpoetry.ca/archives/_poetry/000102_kol_nidre.php
Kol Nidre: Poetry; Abraham Sutzkever: He has been described as the author
of a great poem called „kol Nidre‰ in which he recounts the
liquidation of Vilna‚s „Ghetto 2‰ on Yom Kippur Day
in October, 1941;
http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x31/xm3183.html
Kol nidre:Music: Cello; Jacqueline Du Pre; Purchase information; Sample
clips;
http://music.msn.com/album/?album=40974751
Kol Nidre: Music: Cello; Matthew Owens: Unaccompanied cello; Purchase
information; Sample clips;
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/owensmatthew
Kol Nidre:Music; Cello; Max Bruch on his Kol Nidre: "...I became
acquainted with Kol Nidre and a few other songs (among others, 'Arabian
Camel') in Berlin through the Lichtenstein family, who befriended me.
Even though I am a Protestant, as an artist I deeply felt the outstanding
beauty of these melodies and therefore I gladly spread them through my
arrangement.
http://www.chazzanut.com/bruch.html
Kol Nidrei: Music; Max Bruch: Cello and orchestra; Pierre Fournier; Purchase
information; Sample clips;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001GBX/103-6813464-3015862?n=5174
Kol Nidre: Music; Professor John Weinzweig: This link has personal significance
to me. Prof. Weinzweig is the father of my friends Paul and Dan Weinzweig
he professor composed a concerto using one of my guitars. I never knew
that he had worked the Kol Nidre Motif into a work dedicated to his mother
„In Memoriam" until I began putting together this Web-site.
http://www.utoronto.ca/icm/thesis4.html
Kol Nidre: Music; Yehudi Wyner; Violin and piano; Dances of Atonement;
Commentary by composer including his discovery of , "an unfamiliar
Kol Nidre in a collection of the music of the Jews of Morocco. From the
style of the chant I inferred it to be of great antiquity. Its very remoteness
stimulated my imagination..."
http://www.newworldrecords.org/liner_notes/80549.pdf
Kol Nidre: Music: Violin and piano; Yehudi Wyner: Dances of Atonement
for violin and piano; Purchase information;
http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=34599
<http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=34599>
Kol Nidre: Music; Piano and vocals; David Syme; Purchase information;
Sample clips;
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,268478,00.htm
Kol Nidre: Music; Bamboo flute: KiSuiAn Shakuhachi Dojo; Prayer for the
Missing; In the Spirit of Kol Nidre; Described as a "collection of
bamboo flute offerings performed by members of New York City's KiSuiAn
Shakuhachi Dojo whose founder is Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin," and said
to aid in healing and to provide safe passage of the spirit."
http://www.komuso.com/albums/Prayer_for_the_Missing,_A.html
Kol Nidre: Music: "The musical; Tonight A Musical by Dudu Fisher.
This evening recorded live with Dudu Fisher includes the premiere of the
musical Kol Nidre by Lalo Schifrin."
http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?fp=971&sp=16 <http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?fp=971&sp=16>
Kol Nidre: Music: Hammered Dulcimer and Violin: (Klezmir); Rushefsky and
Rosenblatt; Elie Rosenblatt & Pete Rushefsky are two of the leading
performers of klezmer music's next generation. Their new CD, entitled
Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin, is rooted
in the earliest recordings of Jewish klezmer music from the first decades
of the twentieth century.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/klezmershack
Kol Nidre: Music; Gurovich S: String quartet and clarinet; Very basic
information; Part of the repertoire of the Vlach quartet. (Prague);
http://www.vlachquartet.cz/repertoire.asp?lang=en
Kol Nidre: Music; Goldin Hebrew Quartette: Very basic information;
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupartist?hr=&what=18547
<http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupartist?hr=&what=18547>
Kol Nidre: Music; Schoenberg: Commentary; American Symphony Orchestra;
How Schoenberg premiered his Kol Nidre in Los Angeles on October 4, 1938
only a month before the infamous Kristallnacht in Germany, where synagogues,
homes, and businesses were destroyed." http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/95_96season/3rd_concert/schoenberg.cfm
Kol Nidre Music: Schoenberg; Commentary; In which America is said to offer
a refuge in which Schoenberg could safely rediscover his own heritage
and return to his Jewish ancestry.
http://www.clevelandorch.com/images/FTPImages/Performance/program_notes/week17.pdf
Kol Nidre: Music: Schoenberg rehearsing his Kol Nidre: (Audio);
http://www.schoenberg.at/6_archiv/voice/voice2_e.htm
Kol Nidre: Music: Beethoven: String quartet in C-sharp Minor Op. 131:
Julliard quartet; (It has been noted that musicologists have yet to find
evidence that Beethoven consciously borrowed the melody).
http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=861
Kol Nidre: Music: Contemporary; NPR "All Things Considered"
(Sept. 15, 1999)
interview with Ben Zebelman about his "Kol Nidre Variations";
Zebelman's four movement arrangement lasts nearly 40-minutes, and may
be the longest version of Kol Nidre to date. (5:30);
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/books_music/archive.html
Kol Nidre: Music: (Contemporary); Ben Zebelman Web Site; How Zebelman
originally conceived "Kol Nidre Variations" for full orchestra
but realized during the writing process that the composition‚s texture
and spirituality were best expressed in a more intimate arrangement for
piano, violin and cello. Described as breathing fresh life into an ancient
chant.
http://benzebelman.com/
Kol Nidre: Music: (Contemporary) Ben Zebelman: Contemporary; Purchase
information; Sound clips;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001IV8K/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001IV8K/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174>
Kol Nidre; Music: (Contemporary); John Zorn: Kol Nidre (1966); Jewish
String Quartet album: "Zorn's "Kol nidrei" (1996) is a
simple, devout meditation on the prayer's melody. Solidly in A-minor,
the middle voices move in thirds between a sustained low and high E; the
intensity rises and falls in a natural flow." Purchase information;
Sample clips;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CGYOCC/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CGYOCC/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174>
Kol Nidre: (Contemporary); J Music: ohn Zorn: Commentary; The Kol Nidre
melody is described as an assortment of individual phrases that can be
alternated, reordered and combined rather than a fixed tune. One of the
many performances of this piece is said to have taken place at the World
Trade Center site on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&id=105
<http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&id=105>
Kol Nidre: Music: (Contemporary); The John Zorn Web-site: Biography and
discography; "Kol Nidre "is sung to open the services on the
holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur. It has nothing in common
with the traditional Jewish melody sung by cantors during this solemn
ceremony. Late Beethoven and Arvo Part seem more like references here.
It was written at one sitting in less than half an hour."
http://www.omnology.com/zorn01.html
Kol Nidre: Music: Rock; The Electric Prunes; Release of an oath; Strings,
woodwind, heavy guitar and organ; "...attempt at combining rock and
classical instrumentation, an idea that's better explored on Release of
an Oath (which is, according to the liner notes, based on a centuries-old
prayer called the Kol Nidre."
http://www.mp3.com/albums/29783/reviews.html
Kol Nidre: Music: Rock; The Electric Prunes; Release of an Oath; Commentary;
David Axelrod is said to have brought the music into a contemporary stance
by blending the melodies of the centuries with today's contemporary sounds.
David Hassinger has taken the efforts of David Axelrod and, with his provocative
talents, has in turn blended them into this artful presentation...";
http://shadwell.tripod.com/oath.html
Kol Nidre: Music: Pop; Johnny Mathis; From "Good Night, Dear Lord"
album: Originally released 1958; Columbia/Legacy;
http://www.rhapsody.com/johnnymathis/goodnightdearlord
Kol Nidre: Music: Rap; A blog posted by a 29-year-old who calls himself
"Kol Nidre the AvantGod; I leave it to our dear readers to get in
touch with "Kol Nidre the AvantGod" and find out that this is
all about!
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=707007
<http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=707007>
Kol Nidre: Music; Jazz; Ben Sidren; "Los Angeles Times / Sunday,
February 20, 1994; Jewish Folk with a Venerable Twist, by Leonard Feather;
This extraordinary album honors a tradition of Jewish music that goes
back thousands of years. Most of the songs are sung in Hebrew, mainly
by Lynette Margulies, with a couple written and performed in English by
pianist - vocalist Sidran. "
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bensidran2...
Kol Nidre; Music; Jazz; Anthony Braxton; Alto sax; Very basic information;
http://www.wnur.org/Jazz/artists/braxton.anthony
Kol Nidre: Music; Chorale; Robert Shaw; "Songs of Faith and Inspiration"
album; Sound clips;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JII1/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JII1/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174>
Kol Nidre: Music: Interpretations; Ecclectic; From traditional to off-beat;
The Freedman Catalogue: A treasure chest of Kol Nidre interpretations,
including arrangements for Hawaiian guitar, ukelele and guitar chords,
mandolin, and one hundred and one strings.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupkeyword?hr=&what=Vows
<http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/freedman/lookupkeyword?hr=&what=Vows>
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Cantors on 78 RPM's: The below list is
a description of the contents of some Jewish cantorial music that I have
recently catalogued and tried to date. I would be most happy if I could
get some help dating them and if anyone has any details whatsoever pertaining
to these recordings, and history of these labels it would be a great help.
(Two references to kol nidre);
http://www.bolingo.org/audio/youtai/cantors/cantoren.html
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Kol Nidre Service: Richard Tucker: Purchase
information; Sound clips;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000025CH/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000025CH/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174>
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Jan Peerce; Hebrew Melodies: Best of Jan
Peerce; Purchase information;
http://www.jewishstore.com/Music/Products.asp?ProdID=IMC5003
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Manfred Lewandowsky; Purchase information;
Sound clip;
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XPKK/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004XPKK/103-6813464-3015862?v=glance&n=5174>
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Gershon Sirota; Chasanut: Music of the
Eastern European Jews; 1928;
http://www.musicabona.com/catalog/PANEXTRA510530.html.en
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Cantor Gerson Sirota; He is described as
one of the most renowned hazanim (cantors of Jewish liturgy) of the early
20th century. From Jewish Liturgy: Seven Great Cantors (Cat.# Buda Records
92581-2) (p) Buda Records. All rights reserved.
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461547095/Kol_Nidre.html
Kol Nidre; Music: Traditional; Moishe Oysher; Purchase information; Sound
clip;
http://www.jewishjukebox.com/products/chanukah_music/650.asp
Kol Nidre; Music: Traditional: Dudu Fisher; Purchase information; Sound
clip;
http://www.mostlymusic.com/dudu-fisher-over-rainbow-p-618.html
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; Tuvya Schiff; "Recorded live in Moscow,
in 1957, by Tuvya Schiff, these 2 33 rpm LP Records contain a selection
of the traditional Yom Kippur Eve services."
http://www.gotjudaica.com/Product.asp?dept=3040&Product=lp-kol-nidre-moscow
<http://www.gotjudaica.com/Product.asp?dept=3040&Product=lp-kol-nidre-moscow>
Kol Nidre: Music: Traditional; A comparative disk; Treasure-chest; Selection
of great Cantors singing the Kol Nidre on CD; Purchase information; Sound
clips; Yosele Rosenblatt; Al Jolson; Moshe Koussevitzki; Binyamin Unger;
Leibale Waldman; Gershon Sirota; Zawel Kwartov; Jan Peerce; Plus Instrumental
Suite by Max Bruch;
http://www.israel-music.com/various/kol_nidrey
Kol Nidre: Music: Musical; Lalo Schiffrin;
http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?fp=971&sp=16 <http://www.judaism.com/display.asp?fp=971&sp=16>
Kol Nidre; Music: Film; The jazz singer.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/crc51.htm
Kol Nidre: Music: Film clip: Al Jolson singing Kol Nidre;
http://www.jolson.org/
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