{"id":1284,"date":"2023-09-19T13:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:35:03","slug":"the-high-holydays-music-of-belsize-square-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"The High Holy days music at Belsize Square Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The capability to live stream, and archive, our services, allows me the luxury of being able to review, and edit, our important musical legacy. I\u2019d like to share one such development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a new composition by Dr Benjamin Wolf, our synagogue\u2019s Music Director, Choir Master and Composer that was commissioned by Rabbi Botnick to the new opening for the repetition of the Amidah, during Musaf Rosh Hashana. The music is designed to integrate the traditional melody of <strong>Zochreinu L\u2019Chaim <\/strong>(Remember us for Life) and offer greater congregational participation. I hope you will agree it is quite wonderful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cantor Paul Heller praying Zochreinu L&#039;Chaim\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TqTZjkxhTw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capability to live stream, and archive, our services, allows me the luxury of being able to review, and edit, our important musical legacy. I\u2019d like to share one such development. It\u2019s a new composition by Dr Benjamin Wolf, our synagogue\u2019s Music Director, Choir Master and Composer that was commissioned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cantorial-cantorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.shortpixel.ai\/stsp\/to_webp,q_lossy,ret_img\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cantorheller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image_2023-09-18_164923481.png?fit=574%2C276&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124,"url":"https:\/\/cantorheller.com\/?p=124","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":0},"title":"Louis Lewandowski&#8217;s 200th anniversary","author":"Cantor Heller","date":"May 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Louis Lewandowski 1821-2021 Keeping the legacy of Louis LewandowskiFrom a lecture at the European Cantors Association, Prague 2016 Cantor Dr. Paul Heller Tina Fr\u00fchauf has given us a book that is as much about Jewish identity as it is about music. 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