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| | Jewish Music Web Center Announcements: Genesis Suite [8.559442] & Vienna Choir Boys: A Jewish Celebration in Song ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Performed only once, in 1945, before most of the score was lost in a fire, the Genesis Suite has been fully restored from recently discovered original manuscripts, and is heard here in its first new recording in 60 years. |
 | | The work is based on seminal bible stories including the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel, which are narrated on this disc by celebrated actors accompanied by full orchestra and chorus. |
 | | Singing in Hebrew, and joined by the Chorus Viennensis (Choir Boys alumni), the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Chief Cantor of the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem Naftali Herstik, and Cantor Shimon Craimer, they sing late 20th-century, four-part settings of some of the most enduring and powerful of all Jewish texts. |
| www.jmwc.org /announcements/2004/10/genesis_suite_8.html (520 words) |
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