Thursday, October 17, 2013

A Conversation With Ben Zion Shenker

Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, world-renowned composer of nigunim in the Modzitzer Hasidic dynasty's tradition, reflects on his singing style, and more

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the story of how his first choral teacher, Cantor Joshua S. Weisser, convinced his parents to let him join the choir. Shenker recounts how Weisser was so insistent that he join the choir that he paid his reluctant parents a visit at their home and offered them a very sweet bargain.


shares how the Modzitzer Hasidic dynasty's tradition first inspired him to write compositions and his Yiddish musical influences.

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