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Cantor Yitzchok Meir Helfgot, Cantor Moshe Stern, Guest Performer; Dr. Mordechai Sobol, Conductor; Videos added to the photos Page.
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Dr. Mordechai Sobol, Conductor
Dr. Mordechai Sobol is a leading force in the world of Jewish liturgical music.As director of the Yuval Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, he has raised the standards of cantorial concert performance to heights seen only occasionally during the "golden years" of the first half of the last century.
Ha'aretz, Israel's prominent newspaper, writes, "The independent spirit of Dr. Sobol shows itself clearly in his strong and original (musical) language.He has the advantage of being a first generation Israeli, and "Israeli" music comes to him naturally, without deliberate intellectual effort.His melismata is a return to a style that Jewish music once gave to the Western world...."
Born in Hadera, Israel, Dr. Sobol was one of the outstanding students of the legendary Cantor Shlomo Ravitz.He holds a doctoral degree in Jewish music and is an active composer, conductor and orchestrator.Dr. Sobol has collaborated with the most prominent soloists of Jewish cantorial music in the world, winning critical and popular acclaim.Many of his compositions are performed by the great cantors of today.Opera-star Jan Peerce requested Dr. Sobol to write the music to the prayer "Acheinu Kol Beis Yisrael" which Peerce included in his repertoire.
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Menachem is an integral part of Yuval which is conducted by Dr. Mordechai Sobol, which has brought Chazzanut back into mainstream of Israeli and international entertainment.