UPDATE: KBCS will rebroadcast this show this Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 7PM. To listen live to the audio stream, click link in paragraph below. A zis’n Peysach!
On Sunday, April 1st at 7 PM PDT, I’ll be hosting The Old Country, KBCS’ world music program. The theme will be Passover music since it will [...]
Hazzan Issac Azoze is the emeritus cantor of Seattle’s Congregation Ezra Besarroth, a community of Jews from the island of Rhodes (or ‘Rhodeslis’ as they are known). He recorded the 2-CD Liturgy of Ezra Bessaroth in 1999. He’s graciously provided me the mp3 file I’m featuring for this post, Ma Nishtanah (hear it) [...]
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I’m a sucker for the Passover seder. There are many reasons. It is one of the most accessible of Jewish rituals. In fact, I find it absolutely the best such ritual to introduce non-Jews to Judaism. The seder is fun (or at least it should [...]
As I’ve written here, I’m hoping to do a KBCS radio special on Passover music (just waiting to get some studio time to prepare the show). I’ve decided to try to upload a different Pesach song each day between now and Pesach. Tonight, we hear from Yehoram Gaon’s seminal 1975 album of Sephardic [...]
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