Kol Adonai

Cantor Azi Schwartz

Kol Adonai hotzev lahavot esh. Kol Adonai yahil midbar, yahil Adonai midbar kadesh. Kol Adonai y’holel ayalot va-yehesof y’arot uv’heikhalo kulo omer kavod. Adonai lamabul yashav vayeshev Adonai melekh l’olam. Adonai oz l’amo yiten Adonai y’varekh et amo va-shalom. The voice of Adonai flashes fire, splitting rocks; the voice of Adonai convulses the desert, the very desert of Kadesh. The voice of Adonai makes hinds calve; the voice of Adonai strips forests bare, while in the sanctuary all acknowledge God’s glory. Adonai was enthroned above the primal waters; Adonai sat enthroned, the eternal sovereign. Adonai will grant strength to God’s people, blessing them with peace. Leib Glantz , arr. Raymond Goldstein Leib Glantz (1898–1964) Born in Ukraine, Leib Glantz was a cantor, composer, musicologist, educator, and Zionist leader. Glantz graduated in piano and composition from the Kiev Music Conservatory. He also was a delegate to congresses of the HeHalutz movement and to World Zionist Congresses and served as chief editor of the Labor Zionist newspaper Ard Un Arbeit. In 1926 became chief cantor of the Ohev Shalom synagogue in New York. He recorded cantorial music with and appeared in concert tours all over the world. In 1941, Glantz became Chief Cantor of Sinai Temple in LA, and from 1949 to 1954 was cantor at the Shaarei Tefila synagogue. He was also professor of Jewish Music at the University of Judaism. Living in Israel for the last decade of his life, Glantz continued to compose and to serve as a delegate to World Zionist Congresses. He founded the the Tel Aviv Institute for Jewish Liturgical Music, and HaAkademia L’hazzanut, an academic level conservatory for training cantors. Raymond Goldstein (1953–) Raymond Goldstein was born in Cape Town and completed his musical studies there. Since 1978 he has been on the faculty of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, specializing in opera. He also holds the post of arranger/composer and associate conductor of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue Choir. In 1991 Goldstein was appointed senior teacher at the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute. As a musical director/accompanist, he frequently appears on stage, radio and television in Israel and has undertaken concert tours in Australia, the U.S. and Western Europe. He has made professional recordings with international cantors and singers, and his name appears on more than 200 CDs, cassette tapes and DVDs as accompanist and/or arranger. His compositions include a chamber opera, two cantatas, a concert Kabbalat Shabbat service, orchestrations, works for chamber ensemble, and more than 2000 arrangements, both sacred and secular.