Sunday, December 13, at 3pm
World Famous
Cantor Joseph Malovany
In Concert
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Sing A Joyous Song to God!
Since 2001 I have been honored to be the B’nai Tikvah Cantor. During these years we have had the opportunity to experience a wide variety of Jewish musical genres. We have gone from generation to generation and rejoiced with the best and most influential Jewish musicians of our times, including Debbie Freidman, Craig Taubman, Neshama Carlebach & Sam Glaser. The Rejoice Festival and the L’dor Vador concerts have been extraordinary and it will return to B’nai tikvah in May, thanks to the continued support of Cindy and David Teicher.
During these 15 years The Sons of Tikvah Band has stood with me and has always added to our holiday experiences as our house band, as well as plugging in Shabbat in the spring. In celebration of our love of Jewish music we are going to mark our good fortune with a very special concert including area cantors and musicians and headlined by world famous Cantor Joseph Malovany. We thank Dr. Naomi Vilko, the driving force behind this exceptional concert, and the Tikvah for Israel Fund for their support of this event.
Joseph Malovany is an Israeli-born American tenor soloist. A world-famous cantor, serving as Hazzan of New York’s Fifth Avenue Synagogue since 1973, and a Distinguished Professor of Liturgical Music at Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, Yeshiva University. Malovany possesses a brilliant spinto tenor voice, described by the London Guardian as “most powerful, beautiful and expressive spinto technique…sturdy and heroic” and by the Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten as “Judaism’s Jussi Bjorling”
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Malovany began his career as a cantor at Tel Aviv’s “Bilu” synagogue and in the Israeli army before stints at congregations in Johannesburg and London. While working at Fifth Avenue Synagogue and Yeshiva University for some 25 years, Malovany has toured extensively, teaching and giving concerts.
Since helping found the institution in 1989, Malovany has been Dean of the Joint Distribution Committee’s Moscow Academy of Jewish Music.
Malovany’s concerts have been attended by Presidents and Prime Ministers. A Lithuanian coin was issued in his honor and in 2002, Malovany was appointed Honorary Chief Cantor of Vilnius. In 1997, the Joseph Malovany Chair for Advanced Studies in Jewish Liturgical Music was established, by New York’s Yeshiva University at its Belz School of Jewish Music. In January 2004, he became a commander of the Legion of Honor, Poland’s equivalent of knighthood, receiving this award from the then Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski for his musical contribution to the international and Polish communities. He is the first Jewish cantor to receive this title.
Ticket information and reservations for the artist reception, can be found at bnaitikvah.org/concert.
I always conclude my articles with a quote from Psalm 100 “Worship the Lord in Gladness; come before God with joyous song”. I have always felt uplifted by singing before God with you. Cantor Malovany, all of the singers and players will create a truly joyous song, may our songs soar to the heavens.
Thanks you,
Cantor Bruce Rockman