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Ernest Bloch Sacred Service

  • Gailliard Center 95 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC, 29401 United States (map)

Join Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the Charleston Symphony, Taylor Festival Choir, and Koleinu for Ernest Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a choral-orchestral masterwork for cantor, chorus, and full orchestra. This work “remains the watershed (by many assessments peerless) artistic engagement with the Hebrew liturgy… It was conceived as a transcendent, even inclusive humanistic work of universal spiritual experience” (Neil Levin, Milken Archive). A pinnacle of drama in the Jewish musical canon, this work speaks to Jews and to the masses, much like the great masterworks of other traditions. Grounded in tradition, but revolutionary in its scope, Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh is a can’t-miss sacred work.

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