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MUSIC
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Music Is Integral to Worship at CBI
Friday Night Chai
Read about the musicians in the Friday Night Chai Band
Music of CBI's Andrew Mayer Now Available on CD
You're Voice is Wanted for A CBI Choir
Adult Choir
Teen and Youth Choirs
Music in the Schools
Rave Reviews for Danny Maseng, Artist in Residence
Cantorial Concert 2004
Music Is Integral to Worship at CBI
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At Congregation Beth Israel the sanctuary, chapel, courtyard and
school rooms are filled with the sounds of Jewish music from the music of Eastern
Europe to the music of Yemen; from ancient to modern. The World of Jewish Music
has something to offer everyone. CBI is expanding our music program with concerts,
from Classical to Cabaret, from the Secular to the Sacred. Join us in music and
song and help keep alive a wondrous tradition.
 Our religious services offer a variety of liturgical music styles. Worshipers
are invited to sing with the Cantor in the music of our worship. If the melodies
are not familiar, we invite you to try to sing along and you will quickly learn
them.
At least once per month our Erev Shabbat services are enhanced by the sound of our adult choir, and on the first
and third Friday Erev Shabbat Services, accompanied by organ or piano. Robert MacLeod is the congregation's
Organist and Choir Director.
Family Erev Shabbat Services, held at 7:00 p.m.
on the second Friday of each month, offer a special atmosphere for families to
sing and pray together. Musical participants include youth choirs composed of
students from our Religious School, along with congregants Andy
Mayer, pianist, and Jeff Myers, cello.
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Friday Night Chai
Friday Night Chai, a 7:30 p.m. service
held on the last Friday of each month from September through May, is a unique
and lively Erev Shabbat service. This highly
participatory musical Shabbat service features
up-tempo songs and a live band. Participants include the Congregational Volunteer
Adult and Teen Choirs and the Friday Night Chai Band,
comprised of piano, guitars, drums, violin, flute, cello and trumpet.
The Friday Night Chai Band is composed primarily
of congregants who are professional and non-professional musicians. Congregants
Andy Mayer, pianist, Jeff Myers, cello, Buddy Voit, guitar, and Myla Wingard,
violin, and and other musical congregants are the core of the band. Musicians
who play woodwinds, brass, guitar, strings or keyboard are invited to contact
Cantor Bernstein for information about the band.
The program of prayer, song, and creative expression is prepared under the special
direction of Cantor Arlene Bernstein. This is a multi-generational experience
that also includes the full Shabbat eve liturgy,
including all the basic prayers, a sermon from the rabbi, and the Mourner's Kaddish.
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Sing A New Song: Your Voice is
Wanted
If you love to sing and make music, and if you fall anywhere between the ages of 6-ish to 120-ish, please join a CBI choir.
Congregation Beth Israel can provide you
with an exciting way to enjoy the art of music and song with the added fun of
socializing with people who love music the same way you do. Contact Cantor
Arlene Bernstein at 858-535-1111 ext. 3116 for more information about the
choirs.
Adult Volunteer
Choir
The Adult Volunteer Choir sings at Choral Erev Shabbat Services on the first Friday of each month, as well as other Erev Shabbat services, such as Chanukah, Shabbat Shirah, Yom HaShoah and at special CBI events.
All are welcome to sing with Director Nancy Jones Johnson and the Adult Volunteer
choir. You don't need to know how to read music. Choir rehearsals are from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. Contact Susan Hutchison for more information.
Choir members should arrive 30 minutes prior to the service for practice.
Teen and Youth Choirs
Information about the Teen and Youth
Choir is available in the Youth section of this Web site.
Music in the Schools
In our Preschool and Religious School there are music programs
from Music for Babies to a High School Band. Here we teach traditional and modern
prayers and songs for all of our students.
Beth Israel's music program is led by Cantor
Arlene Bernstein, who may be reached at 858-535-1111 ext. 3116. Cantor Bernstein's
assistant is Susan Hutchison.
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Rave Reviews for Danny Maseng, Artist in Residence
The legendary composer, singer and performer Danny Maseng provided CBI with a weekend of prayer, music and inspiration. Friday evening 460 gathered to worship and sing in a Shabbat service that was a spiritually transcendent experience. The beautiful voices of Danny, Cantor Bernstein and the outstanding CBI choir and the Chai Band, filled the Sanctuary. Saturday night our chavurot were honored as 350 guests were treated to a two hour havdallah and concert. The concert featured Danny, Cantor, the choir and band and the talented Heidi Gantwerk. The evening was highlighted with Yiddish, Israeli, Ladino, and popular American songs. Danny's extraordinary vocal prowess thrilled the audience which burst into two rousing standing ovations. View Pictures of Concert
Sunday morning our Artist in Residence weekend concluded with Maseng teaching the mystical interpretation of Lecha Dodi sprinkled with different melodies of this beloved poem.
Special thanks to our many temple Chavurot, the heart and soul of our synagogue, who helped to sponsor this evening and to whom this concert was dedicated including: Elul, Gila, Ha'ashara, Kadima, Kumsitz, L'chaim, Orlanu, Ruach, Sha'are Chai, Shabbat, Y'dodim, Y'didut.com
Todah Rabah as well to our Chavurah committee members Sheila Nerad, Randy Savarese, Linda Goldberg, Gayle Wise and Eric Whinston, A Cut Above, for the superb dessert reception. The committee was ably assisted by Dean and Nancy Abelon, Irv Bressel, Jeff Easton, Joanne Hein, Mike Heinzman, Gary Hirschfeld, Marilyn Johns, Val Lehman, Jerry and Lee Levy, Leslie Mark, Beverly Miller, Joe Nalven, Steve Ritter, Sharon Russakoff, Marcia Schleifstein, Jerry Sampson, Sandra Silverstein, Jay Shirley, and Jay and Louise Winheld. Kudos to our dynamic staff working behind the scenes to integrate all the elements of this many faceted weekend.
View Pictures of Concert
Listen to Danny's Songs
Listen to Danny Maseng Songs:
Yedid Nefesh
Shalom Aleichem
Yom Shabbaton
Requires Window Media player or iTunes
Yigdal
Ahavat Olam
Yismechu
Modim
Hashkiveinu
Requires Window Media player or iTunes
Ma Tovu
Hodu-Psalm 136
Hashiveinu/Return Again
Lo Tevoshi
Dante's Prayer
Requires RealPlayer
El Ginot Egoz (To The Garden of the Nut Trees)
Libavtini (You Have Captured My Heart)
Havdallah (The Separation)
Requires RealPlayer
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Cantorial Concert 2004
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Cantorial Concert performers Sheldon Merel, Arlene Bernstein, Beth Garden,
Toby Simon, Murray Simon, and Robert McLeod |
On Saturday, December 4, 2004, Cantor Arlene Bernstein joined with Cantor
Emeritus Sheldon Merel, Cantor Murray Simon, Cantorial Soloist Beth Garden, Pianist
Toby Simon, Pianist Robert Mac Leod and Congregation Beth Israel's choir to present
a Cantorial Concert. They performed a wide
variety of both religious and secular pieces to the delighted audience that filled
the sanctuary. Enjoy the photos from
the Cantorial Concert.
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