In 2003, a cantorial concert recorded in Amsterdam’s 17th-century Portuguese Synagogue for PBS made history as one of the most popular programs of Jewish music ever presented on American television.
Now, 14 years later, three accomplished cantors from a new generation have been asked to honor the original production and its legendary artists by performing a new concert for PBS recorded in the same legendary Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Rhode Island PBS airs the concert on Sunday, March 11 at 4 p.m.
The New York Cantors, all rising-stars in the American Jewish music scene, are:
- Brooklyn-born Yaakov (Yanks) Lemmer, Head Cantor of the Lincoln Center Synagogue in New York City;
- Azi Schwartz, a native of Israel and Senior Cantor of New York’s Park Avenue Synagogue; and
- Netanel Hershtik also Israeli-born, son of cantor Naftali Hershtik, and Cantor at the Hamptons Synagogue, Westhampton Beach, New York.
As in the original PBS concert which featured cantor Naftali Herstik, cantor Benzion Millerand cantor Alberto Mizrachi, the cantors will be accompanied by orchestra and choir in a program of beloved religious and secular Jewish songs.
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