Posts by Daniel Halfon
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**“Kabbalat Shabbat and Arbit in the Spanish and Portuguese Tradition”** has just been released.Featuring 27 tracks, the collection is based principally on the style of the London Spanish and Portuguese community, although nuances from Congregation Shearith Israel in New York are also reflected.The album is now up on Spotify and will be available on all other major music streaming services.Please ...
**“Kabbalat Shabbat and Arbit in the Spanish and Portuguese Tradition”** has just been released.Featuring 27 tracks, the collection is based principally on the style of the London Spanish and Portuguese community, although nuances from Congregation Shearith Israel in New York are also reflected.The album is now up on Spotify and will be available on all other major music streaming services.Please ...
https://youtu.be/xhRKjupLw5o# Hasdei Hashem - Megillat EichaIn the Spanish and Portuguese tradition, during the three weeks leading up to Tisha BeAb, these verses of consolation from Megillat Eicha are chanted at the conclusion of Shachrit on weekday mornings.Please like and share.
https://youtu.be/xhRKjupLw5o# Hasdei Hashem - Megillat EichaIn the Spanish and Portuguese tradition, during the three weeks leading up to Tisha BeAb, these verses of consolation from Megillat Eicha are chanted at the conclusion of Shachrit on weekday mornings.Please like and share.
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https://youtu.be/9IW-A8oJaaY## Eleh Mo’adei Hashem - From Salomone de Rossi | AmsterdamOne of the pioneers in Jewish polyphonic composition was the Mantuan musician Salomone de Rossi (1570-1630). Despite the absence of any formal connection between his music and the Spanish and Portuguese tradition, isolated examples of his work have found their way into the musical canon of the communities of New...
[https://youtu.be/9IW-A8oJaaY](https://youtu.be/9IW-A8oJaaY?fbclid=IwAR0ajEXi927_nX8bsmBHmBy8Cc1N8_cOOTzpcuUqU-zEdUAIOdJOrQh-Ru4)## Eleh Mo’adei Hashem - From Salomone de Rossi | AmsterdamOne of the pioneers in Jewish polyphonic composition was the Mantuan musician Salomone de Rossi (1570-1630). Despite the absence of any formal connection between his music and the Spanish and Portuguese tradition...
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https://youtu.be/VFF0whq1ij4# Tehilat Hashem | LondonAt the conclusion of Musaf on Simchat Torah and Shabbat Bereshit, there was often a sense of bewilderment and confusion created by a particular addendum to the Simchat Torah and Shabbat Bereshit Tefilah. One that would never fail to amuse us younger members of the Lauderdale Road choir. Believing that the service was over, a significant number o...
https://youtu.be/VFF0whq1ij4# Tehilat Hashem | LondonAt the conclusion of Musaf on Simchat Torah and Shabbat Bereshit, there was often a sense of bewilderment and confusion created by a particular addendum to the Simchat Torah and Shabbat Bereshit Tefilah. One that would never fail to amuse us younger members of the Lauderdale Road choir. Believing that the service was over, a significant number o...
https://youtu.be/q5lNFedPpwU# Yimlokh Hashem Le’olam | LondonThis melody - with variants across the tradition - is probably the very first piece of Hazzanut that I learned as a young child. In London it is known as the ‘Old Yimlokh’ to distinguish it from the more recently adopted composition by Wasserzug.The arrangement here is by my good friend Raymond Goldstein.Please like and share.Lag Sameac...
https://youtu.be/q5lNFedPpwU# Yimlokh Hashem Le’olam | LondonThis melody - with variants across the tradition - is probably the very first piece of Hazzanut that I learned as a young child. In London it is known as the ‘Old Yimlokh’ to distinguish it from the more recently adopted composition by Wasserzug.The arrangement here is by my good friend Raymond Goldstein.Please like and share.Lag Sameac...
https://youtu.be/5OQnVQS29Es# Yehallelu Et Shem HashemThis formula of five verses drawn from various Tanachic sources is chanted at Shachrit on Mondays, Thursdays and Rosh Hodesh to accompany the Sepher as is returned to the Hechal. It is also sung on Purim, Hanukah and Chol Hamoe’d and whenever the Sepher is read in Minchah.Chanted by the congregation, the piece is a non-metric recitative with a ...
https://youtu.be/5OQnVQS29Es# Yehallelu Et Shem HashemThis formula of five verses drawn from various Tanachic sources is chanted at Shachrit on Mondays, Thursdays and Rosh Hodesh to accompany the Sepher as is returned to the Hechal. It is also sung on Purim, Hanukah and Chol Hamoe’d and whenever the Sepher is read in Minchah.Chanted by the congregation, the piece is a non-metric recitative with a ...
# https://youtu.be/tuNz6AYO11w# Va’ani TefilatiThis verse from Ps. 69 is chanted prior to opening the Hechal during the Mincha of Shabbat. With almost identical variants sung in Amsterdam, London and New York, the piece is something of a musicological curiosity; a sort of stand-alone recitative, with no apparent melodic connection to anything else in the repertoire.(H/T Daniel Baruch)Please like a...
https://youtu.be/tuNz6AYO11w# Va’ani TefilatiThis verse from Ps. 69 is chanted prior to opening the Hechal during the Mincha of Shabbat. With almost identical variants sung in Amsterdam, London and New York, the piece is something of a musicological curiosity; a sort of stand-alone recitative, with no apparent melodic connection to anything else in the repertoire.(H/T Daniel Baruch)Please like and...
https://youtu.be/Yr6bOqDbd34# Leshoni Bonanta | LondonR Shelomo Ibn Gabirol’s composition 'Leshoni Bonanta' is a poetic expression of our divinely endowed ability and need to call upon the Almighty in prayer. Not having any specific reference to either rain, wind or dew, this meteorologically neutral Piyyut constitutes a memorable feature of both Tikkun Geshem and Tikkun Tal.It is worthy of note t...
https://youtu.be/Yr6bOqDbd34# Leshoni Bonanta | LondonR Shelomo Ibn Gabirol’s composition 'Leshoni Bonanta' is a poetic expression of our divinely endowed ability and need to call upon the Almighty in prayer. Not having any specific reference to either rain, wind or dew, this meteorologically neutral Piyyut constitutes a memorable feature of both Tikkun Geshem and Tikkun Tal.It is worthy of note t...
https://youtu.be/PMPTUHIbtlc# Yigdal Elohim Chai - Pesach | New YorkIn Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York, this setting for Yigdal Elohim Chai is used on the first, second and eighth nights of Pesach. (On the seventh night, the anniversary of the crossing of the Red Sea, Yigdal is sung to a melody based on the Shirat Hayam.)There is no melody correspondi...
https://youtu.be/PMPTUHIbtlc# Yigdal Elohim Chai - Pesach | New YorkIn Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York, this setting for Yigdal Elohim Chai is used on the first, second and eighth nights of Pesach. (On the seventh night, the anniversary of the crossing of the Red Sea, Yigdal is sung to a melody based on the Shirat Hayam.)There is no melody correspondi...
https://youtu.be/nG6GRRMd04Y# Hallel - Pesach | New YorkThis tune is one of the signature melodies associated with Pesach in Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, serving as a setting forportions of the Hallel and the Kaddish preceding Barechu both in Arbit and Shachrit. While this melody is not known in London, variants are sung in other Spanish and Portuguese communities, notably Amsterdam and...
https://youtu.be/nG6GRRMd04Y# Hallel - Pesach | New YorkThis tune is one of the signature melodies associated with Pesach in Congregation Shearith Israel, New York, serving as a setting for portions of the Hallel and the Kaddish preceding Barechu both in Arbit and Shachrit. While this melody is not known in London, variants are sung in other Spanish and Portuguese communities, notably Amsterdam an...
https://youtu.be/YWUB11gMDek# Yonati - Shir HashirimIn the Spanish and Portuguese tradition, these five Pesukim from Shir Hashirim are read at the close of Shachrit on weekdays from Rosh Hodesh Nissan until Erev Pesach.Please like and Share.Hodesh Tob and Shabbat Shalom.