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Jewish
Song and Prayer of Aleppo
On
October 21, 2010, the ASF presented: "Jewish
Song and Prayer of Aleppo" at the Center
for Jewish History in New York City.
The
liturgy of the Syrian Jewish community synthesizes
the maqam
music of their Arab neighbors with their own Hebrew
poetry and prayers. Mark Kligman, Ph.D., Professor
of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in New York, traced the
development of this music which he explores in his
book Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music and Aesthetics
of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn. Isaac Cabasso, Hazzan
of Congregation Beth Torah, a Syrian synagogue
in Brooklyn, NY, lent his 50 years of experience
in Syrian Hazzanut to the conversation and
performed excerpts of the prayers in various maqamot.
Hazzan Cabasso was joined by Hazzan Joseph E. Mosseri
of Brooklyn's Egyptian-Jewish congregation,
Ahaba Ve Ahva and Victor Esses, Hazzan of Brooklyn's
Sephardic Institute Synagogue also joined
in the singing as well as played the oud.
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Prof.
Kligman discussing the Jewish/Arab musical
tradition
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Hazzans
Cabasso, Mosseri and Esses
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Prof.
Kligman and the three hazzans
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Prof.
Kligman with Ellen Cohen, ASF Membership
and Outreach Coordinator
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Mark
Kligman, Ph.D.
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Isaac Cabasso
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Joseph E. Mosseri
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Victor Esses
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Hazzan
Joseph Mosseri with Syrian community member
Mickey Kairey
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Prof.
Kligman speaking to the audience and teaching
about the maqamot tradition
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Guests,
Carole & Gil Golan with Sam Thomas, ethnomusicologist
from the CUNY Graduate center |
Guests
at the event |
Ellen
Cohen, ASF Membership and Outreach Coordinator,
introducing
her father, Hazzan Cabasso, along with Hazzan Mosseri
and Hazzan Esses
Video:
(Click
here)
Photos
by Shelomo Alfassa © American Sephardi Federation
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