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Concert: Louis Lewandowski’s 200th Birthday Tribute
Tonight, we will be releasing the Belsize Square Synagogue 200th-birthday tribute to Louis Lewandowski, the great composer of nineteenth-century Jewish music who is also our ‘house composer’. The programme includes some of his liturgical music, familiar from Belsize services, and also some of his concert music, including lieder (for voice and piano) and works for keyboard solo. These are rarely performed but beautiful works that reveal the wide range of Lewandowski’s musical talents. The YouTube link goes live at…
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Pizmon Concert
On Sunday 7 March, 7pm, Music At Belsize is very excited to bring you the Pizmon a cappella group, from the USA to your home! Pizmon is the co-ed pluralistic Jewish a cappella group of Columbia University, Barnard College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary. Since its inception in 1987 as the first collegiate Jewish a cappella group, Pizmon has traveled to hundreds of communities within the United States and around the world to share their love of Jewish music and culture. Every…
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Liturgical music in Jewish history
The first session of an online course with Cantor Paul Heller, Tuesdays in January and February. To book and receive Zoom details: contact cantor@synagogue.org.uk
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Mitzvah Day
Belsize Square will again be running a number of activities both in the Cheder and also the wider community, including collecting and distributing food and other essential items for the Camden Food Bank, as well as putting on a virtual concert for the residents of the Wellesley Road Care Home in Camden.
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London Young Sinfonia
Music at Belsize is delighted to present an orchestral concert by London Young Sinfonia, conducted by Elias Brown, with guest conductor being our member, Philip Keller. This will be professionally recorded live in our synagogue and released as an exclusive video premiere on our website. The orchestra will perform Haydn’s sparkling symphony no. 90, followed by the epic symphony no. 4 by Beethoven.
moreSelichot Shiur and Service
Online: 21:00 Shiur on The Revolution of Deuteronomy, with Rabbi Stuart Altshuler on Zoom 22:00 Choral Selichot service live from the synagogue with Cantor Paul Heller, music director Ben Wolf and the professional choir on BelsizeLIVE
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Sadly our usual Israel dinner cannot take place, but in honour of Yom HaAtzmaut Cantor Paul Heller and our youth choir have recorded Avinu Shebashamayim, the prayer for the State of Israel, from lockdown. Click here for the video. Please send donations to our Israel charities, Assaf, the Jaffa Institute and Yemin Orde, via the Synagogue Office.
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CANCELLED: Prayer Leader Workshop – part 2
Cantor Heller will lead the first of a fortnightly series
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