Oh, by the way:

April 27, Music and Dance Collegium, Pittsburgh. More info to come. I'm coordinating the track of classes on vocal music; we'll also have instrumental music, a couple tracs of dance classes, and misc classes that defy such simple-minded categorization (e.g. music theory, composition, etc).

I'm doing the cantorial-soloist thing again this coming Friday. This time there's no bar mitzvah, so I'll have the bima to myself. :-) (Well, except for the rabbis, but they don't lead any of the music ( Read more... )

Services Friday night were packed. There must have been 500 people there. On a normal Shabbat (when no one's celebrating a bar/bat mitzvah), we get around 100. We also got more than normal Saturday morning, though the contrast wasn't as pronounced. (This is the early-morning informal singing minyan, usually around 30-40 people. I'd guess we ( Read more... )