Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
I've been meaning to upload this piece of music ever since I started this channel. I’m super happy to spread the word of this masterpiece, “Avodath Hakodesh” (Sacred Service) for solo baritone (taking the role of the cantor), narrator (taking the role of the rabbi), SATB chorus, and orchestra. Truly this is one of the greatest pieces of music I’ve ever heard, and holds close to my Jewish heart. Very sadly, this piece is never really performed in concert halls anymore. I hope of any of my uploads this one can reach some popularity, as this piece is basically the pinnacle of Jewish music (at least to me) and it should REALLY spread more popularity.
Here are the liner notes for the piece:
"Though Ernest Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh has served as the model for many composers aspiring to elevate the language and flow of a synagogue service to the realm of high art, it remains sui generis—not only because of its surpassing beauty, but equally as the first successful and most enduring exploration of the Hebrew liturgy for serious artistic possibilities and universal applications. In equal measure, it is a virtual oratorio based on the Sabbath liturgy and a musically sophisticated service for practical use in the context of the aesthetic format of Reform worship that once prevailed in America—a confluence of high art and Jewish sacred music."
COMPOSER: Ernest Bloch
CONDUCTOR: Leonard Bernstein
BARITONE (cantor): Robert Merrill
NARRATOR (rabbi): Judah Cahn
ORCHESTRA: New York Philharmonic
CHOIRS:
Choir of the Metropolitan Synagogue
Choir of the Community Church of New York
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Part I
12:09 - Part II
17:21 - Part III
26:34 - Part IV
34:11 - Part V
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
I've been meaning to upload this piece of music ever since I started this channel. I’m super happy to spread the word of this masterpiece, “Avodath Hakodesh” (Sacred Service) for solo baritone (taking the role of the cantor), narrator (taking the role of the rabbi), SATB chorus, and orchestra. Truly this is one of the greatest pieces of music I’ve ever heard, and holds close to my Jewish heart. Very sadly, this piece is never really performed in concert halls anymore. I hope of any of my uploads this one can reach some popularity, as this piece is basically the pinnacle of Jewish music (at least to me) and it should REALLY spread more popularity.
Here are the liner notes for the piece:
"Though Ernest Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh has served as the model for many composers aspiring to elevate the language and flow of a synagogue service to the realm of high art, it remains sui generis—not only because of its surpassing beauty, but equally as the first successful and most enduring exploration of the Hebrew liturgy for serious artistic possibilities and universal applications. In equal measure, it is a virtual oratorio based on the Sabbath liturgy and a musically sophisticated service for practical use in the context of the aesthetic format of Reform worship that once prevailed in America—a confluence of high art and Jewish sacred music."
COMPOSER: Ernest Bloch
CONDUCTOR: Leonard Bernstein
BARITONE (cantor): Robert Merrill
NARRATOR (rabbi): Judah Cahn
ORCHESTRA: New York Philharmonic
CHOIRS:
Choir of the Metropolitan Synagogue
Choir of the Community Church of New York
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Part I
12:09 - Part II
17:21 - Part III
26:34 - Part IV
34:11 - Part V
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
![Andrew Rindfleisch — The Lunatic (2015) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7zZPWwjl8eQ/mqdefault.jpg "Andrew Rindfleisch — The Lunatic (2015) [w/ score]
Andrew Rindfleisch writes in the program notes:
Composed in 2015 for clarinetist Pat OKeefe, The Lunatic, for solo bass clarinet, was inspired by the then current American social/political conservative movement and its seemingly strange and rapid descent into the bigoted, enraged, anti-intellectual hysteria of extremist ideology. The works conception came from two questions I kept asking myself: What if one of these lunatics could play bass clarinet? What would it sound like? The Lunatic attempts to answer those questions. Although the piece was mostly inspired by a certain someone who eventually became president, in the end, the piece does not represent a single person or identity, but rather reflects a more general sense of the hysterical right-wing communicator found in any age, time, or place.
COMPOSER: Andrew Rindfleisch
BASS CLARINET: Pat OKeefe
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
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