Posts by Daniel Halfon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opQGQqKfWdQ&list=PLvd3h2QBHjxSY0jN_KUzyYXelfzOD1ILh&index=2# Pesach PlaylistPlaylist of 26 Spanish and Portuguese selections associated with Pesach, including melodies for Kaddish, Kedusha, Yigdal, Hallel and Tikun Tal.מועדים לשמחה ותזכו לשנים רבות
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opQGQqKfWdQ&list=PLvd3h2QBHjxSY0jN_KUzyYXelfzOD1ILh&index=2# Pesach PlaylistPlaylist of 26 Spanish and Portuguese selections associated with Pesach, including melodies for Kaddish, Kedusha, Yigdal, Hallel and Tikun Tal.מועדים לשמחה ותזכו לשנים רבות
https://youtu.be/bc7lb108s0c# Kaddish Yehe Shemeh - First Night Shalosh Regalim | LondonHazzan Eliezer Abinun (z'l) was for over four decades the trusted and faithful custodian of the London Spanish and Portuguese community's musical memory.Truly a Ne'im Zemirot Yisrael, he was blessed with an exceptional warm and mellow baritone voice, which infused the Tefilot with a resonance and depth not easi...
https://youtu.be/bc7lb108s0c# Kaddish Yehe Shemeh - First Night Shalosh Regalim | LondonHazzan Eliezer Abinun (z'l) was for over four decades the trusted and faithful custodian of the London Spanish and Portuguese community's musical memory. Truly a Ne'im Zemirot Yisrael, he was blessed with an exceptional warm and mellow baritone voice, which infused the Tefilot with a resonance and depth not eas...
https://youtu.be/HeNGvALIdQE# Lekh Leshalom Geshem | LondonThis ancient Piyyut forms part of the Tikun Hatal sung on the first day of Pesach.The tune is one of the oldest within a family of centuries old melodies, iterations of which can be found in folk traditions - Jewish and non-Jewish - across Europe.A comparatively recent variant supplies the setting for the Israel national anthem, ‘Hatikvah’...
https://youtu.be/HeNGvALIdQE# Lekh Leshalom Geshem | LondonThis ancient Piyyut forms part of the Tikun Hatal sung on the first day of Pesach.The tune is one of the oldest within a family of centuries old melodies, iterations of which can be found in folk traditions - Jewish and non-Jewish - across Europe.A comparatively recent variant supplies the setting for the Israel national anthem, ‘Hatikvah’...
https://youtu.be/4VIIn20wqBc?si=7_MGHO4pa65s2Vci# Psalm 114 - Betset Yisrael MimitsrayimA core feature of the Sephardi liturgical infrastructure, one that is largely absent from the Ashkenazi rite, is the inclusion of chapters from the Book of Psalms that are thematically linked to a particular day.An example of this is Psalm 114 ‘Betset Yisrael Mimitsrayim’, read prior to the close of Arbit throu...
https://youtu.be/4VIIn20wqBc?si=7_MGHO4pa65s2Vci# Psalm 114 - Betset Yisrael MimitsrayimA core feature of the Sephardi liturgical infrastructure, one that is largely absent from the Ashkenazi rite, is the inclusion of chapters from the Book of Psalms that are thematically linked to a particular day.An example of this is Psalm 114 ‘Betset Yisrael Mimitsrayim’, read prior to the close of Arbit throu...
[https://youtu.be/LDkjha6P2m8](https://youtu.be/LDkjha6P2m8?fbclid=IwAR3CrM3K4Cbhen4LPfRORHjKr14bY62DBY8BVP_xQgIr-J4hvVVVrh7S11o)# Birkat Cohanim | New YorkThe original Spanish and Portuguese tradition was that the Priestley Benediction was only performed by the Cohanim during Shachrit on Yamim Tobim, and in Musaf and Ne'ilah on Yom Kippur. Among the three major surviving communities, New York sta...
[https://youtu.be/LDkjha6P2m8](https://youtu.be/LDkjha6P2m8?fbclid=IwAR3CrM3K4Cbhen4LPfRORHjKr14bY62DBY8BVP_xQgIr-J4hvVVVrh7S11o)# Birkat Cohanim | New YorkThe original Spanish and Portuguese tradition was that the Priestley Benediction was only performed by the Cohanim during Shachrit on Yamim Tobim, and in Musaf and Ne'ilah on Yom Kippur. Among the three major surviving communities, New York sta...
https://youtu.be/ATZ4abRbxsQ## It Starts Today - Countdown to Purim## Ish Yehudi - Megillat EstherIt may very well be that what we know today as a ‘book trailer’ was invented within the Spanish and Portuguese tradition.At the close of Shachrit on the weekdays leading up to Pesach, Shabou’ot, Tisha BeAb and Purim, Pesukim from the Megillot associated with those days are chanted as a sort of ‘...
https://youtu.be/9Ptrw_-dbog# Mizmor Ledavid - Psalm 29 - Artom | London I can’t help thinking that this melody, or something very like it, might well have been what King David had in mind when he penned the words to Psalm 29.Written by Benjamin Artom, Haham of the London Spanish and Portuguese congregation between 1866 to 1879, it is one of two compositions by him that are included in that commun...
https://youtu.be/9Ptrw_-dbog# Mizmor Ledavid - Psalm 29 - Artom | London I can’t help thinking that this melody, or something very like it, might well have been what King David had in mind when he penned the words to Psalm 29.Written by Benjamin Artom, Haham of the London Spanish and Portuguese congregation between 1866 to 1879, it is one of two compositions by him that are included in that commun...
https://youtu.be/UOdVHG2ushs# Zakhur Letob - Eliyahu Hanabi | New YorkMany traditions, both Sephardi and Ashkenazi, include one of the several Eliyahu Hanabi Piyyutim as part of the Habdalah liturgy. In the Spanish and Portuguese communities of Amsterdam and London this inclusion, from one of the most widely known in the genre, forms the prelude to the ceremony, but is limited to just the Piyyut's...
https://youtu.be/UOdVHG2ushs# Zakhur Letob - Eliyahu Hanabi | New YorkMany traditions, both Sephardi and Ashkenazi, include one of the several Eliyahu Hanabi Piyyutim as part of the Habdalah liturgy. In the Spanish and Portuguese communities of Amsterdam and London this inclusion, from one of the most widely known in the genre, forms the prelude to the ceremony, but is limited to just the Piyyut's...
# https://youtu.be/-mzTVKtSoR4# En Kelohenu - 'Allel d'Italia' Medley | Oran, Gibraltar, AmsterdamAmong the most fascinating aspects of an oral musical tradition are the differences which arise when a particular melody surfaces in several locales. A classic example of this phenomenon is the Livornese melody known to musicologists as the 'Allel d'Italia'.Having become, over the centuries, one of th...
# https://youtu.be/-mzTVKtSoR4# En Kelohenu - 'Allel d'Italia' Medley | Oran, Gibraltar, AmsterdamAmong the most fascinating aspects of an oral musical tradition are the differences which arise when a particular melody surfaces in several locales. A classic example of this phenomenon is the Livornese melody known to musicologists as the 'Allel d'Italia'.Having become, over the centuries, one of th...
https://youtu.be/wr7wjbva3g8# Ps. 121 - Essa Enai - C.G. VerrinderI recently posted a recording of Ps. 121 set to the traditional Sephardi psalmodic mode. In the wake of that I received a number of requests to record the festive composition for that same chapter by C.G. Verrinder.Charles Garland Verrinder, an Anglican, was the organist and choirmaster at the Reform West London Synagogue during the...
https://youtu.be/wr7wjbva3g8# Ps. 121 - Essa Enai - C.G. VerrinderI recently posted a recording of Ps. 121 set to the traditional Sephardi psalmodic mode. In the wake of that I received a number of requests to record the festive composition for that same chapter by C.G. Verrinder.Charles Garland Verrinder, an Anglican, was the organist and choirmaster at the Reform West London Synagogue during the...
[https://youtu.be/g5wOtIawVB0?si=aNrD-K8mJZIxHLQU](https://youtu.be/g5wOtIawVB0?si=aNrD-K8mJZIxHLQU&fbclid=IwAR2LCI2ZOgwQwJnzLn5pPdw8vTxh3KpLTNbi0c4O4caauj0G3dugWQNnGd0)# Essa Enai El Heharim - Psalm 121
[https://youtu.be/g5wOtIawVB0?si=aNrD-K8mJZIxHLQU](https://youtu.be/g5wOtIawVB0?si=aNrD-K8mJZIxHLQU&fbclid=IwAR2LCI2ZOgwQwJnzLn5pPdw8vTxh3KpLTNbi0c4O4caauj0G3dugWQNnGd0)# Essa Enai El Heharim - Psalm 121
[https://youtu.be/wbdjp06Izac](https://youtu.be/wbdjp06Izac)**Hallel - Sukkot | New York**This melody, which the Jewish Encyclopedia describes as one whose 'old Spanish character is evident' is sung exclusively as a festive tune for Yigdal in both the London and Amsterdam Spanish and Portuguese communities. A variant was also the traditional Sukkot setting for that Piyyut in Congregation Shearith ...
[https://youtu.be/wbdjp06Izac](https://youtu.be/wbdjp06Izac)**Hallel - Sukkot | New York**This melody, which the Jewish Encyclopedia describes as one whose 'old Spanish character is evident' is sung exclusively as a festive tune for Yigdal in both the London and Amsterdam Spanish and Portuguese communities. A variant was also the traditional Sukkot setting for that Piyyut in Congregation Shearith ...
https://youtu.be/ceQW1D5eYhg# Meyuchad | New YorkThis piece forms the conclusion of the Selichah Chatanu Tsurenu, whose central theme is the eternity of the Almighty. The version here is based on that of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York which is slower and more elaborated compared to the London and Amsterdam variants.Please like and share, and if you haven’t already, please subscribe to my Y...
https://youtu.be/ceQW1D5eYhg# Meyuchad | New YorkThis piece forms the conclusion of the Selichah Chatanu Tsurenu, whose central theme is the eternity of the Almighty. The version here is based on that of Congregation Shearith Israel, New York which is slower and more elaborated compared to the London and Amsterdam variants.Please like and share, and if you haven’t already, please subscribe to my Y...