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Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Street Address:
Brookdale Center, 1 West 4th Street, New York, New York 10012, USA
Fax:
+1 212 388 1720
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Program:
Graduate program
Details:
Master of Sacred Music. Five years. Normally the first year is spent in Israel at the Jerusalem campus of the Hebrew Union College with intensive study of Hebrew language, Biblical texts, cantillation, history of Jewish music, Israeli art music, Jewish choral literature and liturgical modes, functional piano. Years two to five are taken in New York where composition and musicology are available as major studies. In addition to the cantorial courses studies include folk guitar, choral performance, choral literature, music and liturgy, methods of congregational singing. Voice training is not given on campus, but all students are required to receive outside voice training for all four years of the program. Pre-requisite: The equivalent of one year of college level Hebrew language.
Program:
Other program
Details:
Graduate Cantorial Investiture. A process conferring upon those completing the Master of Sacred Music program full qualification as a cantor.
Institution Notes:
The College was founded in 1875, and is the oldest institution of higher Jewish education in USA. The School of Sacred Music was founded in 1948 to train men and women to be cantors for Jewish worship centres. At the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music Cantorial Program studies are offered in two tracks: • emphasis on training in the traditional style, covering the whole liturgical year with practical application of the modes to the liturgy. • emphasis on music of the Reform Synagogue; study of the repertoire of the contemporary synagogue. Completion of the program leads to investiture as cantor (‘hazzan’). The School houses the Sacred Music Press which publishes classical music for the Jewish world, including the compositions and arrangements of the late Morris Barash, faculty member of the School of Sacred Music. The Press also produced a compact disc of a live concert held in New York on November 22, 1998 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the School of Sacred Music. The library contains a number of collections of compositions (synagogue and secular) of Jewish composers. Other centres of learning are in Cincinnati, Jerusalem and Los Angeles where a cantorial music program is offered in collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Department of Sacred Music in the Thornton School of Music.
Last Updated:
November 2022