[https://youtu.be/Ur4H5NlCHZI](https://youtu.be/Ur4H5NlCHZI?fbclid=IwAR0W3GfYng_Hc5U83jGWopRbtKfCop0e938vnNvbA-733OFDpeWZLJZOFyg)**Tehilat Hashem - Festive Mincha | New York**The Spanish and Portuguese tradition is very fond of using subtle musical markers as a means of signaling the appropriate spiritual mood for a particular religious occasion. These markers are employed quite frequently, and the degree of subtlety can often render them virtually imperceptible to the uninitiated. For the seasoned Snogeiro, however, it is precisely this understated delicacy that accords them their powerful eloquence.A good example of what I'm talking about is the New York community's treatment of the ending of ‘Ashrei’ during Mincha on festive or semi-festive occasions. In Congregation Shearith Israel the two final verses (Ps 145:21 and Ps 115:18) are not chanted in the traditional psalmodic mode. Instead, they are sung to a highly melodic, non-metrical fixed recitative, which on Shabbat and Yom Tob also serves as a nimble transition to the chanting of Uba Letsiyon Go’el that follows.Please like and share.