Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival

2006 Season - "The Jewish Year in Melody"

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Video: "From Shabbat to the High Holidays" short demo

Both this orchestral concert and our "Songs for the Seasons" chamber concert featured music representative of the Jewish holidays and life cycle events, each programmed in roughly chronological order through the Jewish calendar. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra hornist Ronald Schneider performed the shofar (ram's orn) solo in the world premiere of Judith Shatin's "Teruah", inspired by the shofar calls of the High Holidays. PJMF Director Aron Zelkowicz played the cello solo in Max Bruch's Kol Nidre, and Pittsburgh Symphony concertmaster Andrés Cárdenes performed Ernest Bloch's Nigun for violin and orchestra. Soprano Shira Adler joined the Zohar Chamber Singers for a stirring rendition of Ben Steinberg's "Lakol Z'man". Taken from Ecclesiastes, its text "To every thing there is a season..." poetically summarizes the theme of the whole series. Nizan Leibovich conducted the PJMF Orchestra.