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| | Ariel Lazarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The thirteen songs on the CD range from the Keter level of Shabbat and High Holidays music to Malchut level of common songs, all of which are drawn from the unwritten oral tradition of music in Jewish Sephardic communities, especially Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Amsterdam, and Thessalonica. |
 | | Although the goal of the CD is to preserve the memory of this music, the arrangements add a twenty-first century sound that brings it to life and makes it contemporary. |
 | | In June 2004, Lazarus was invited to perform as a part of the 300 year anniversary of British Gibraltar, and he took the opportunity to compose the "Gibraltar Suite", which is an orchestral piece based on the motifs of Sephardic music. |
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