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TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL, Longboat Key, Florida

THE TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL CHOIR
Dr. Ann Stephenson-Moe, Music Director and Organist
Becca Hill, Soloist
Florence Katz, Music Director Emeritus

2010 YOUTH STRIKES A CHORD series

Ann Moe, Beth Israel's superb and dedicated music director, has arranged a special music series,
"Youth Strikes A Chord," at the Temple during the first three months of 2010.

    On Tuesday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m. the spectacular Booker High School Vocal Jazz Ensemble led by Director Ned Rosenblatt will perform.  This talented group of students recently won the National High School Jazz Competition at Berklee College in Boston for 5 years in a row!

  booker

On Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30 Adelaide Boedecker, an acclaimed soprano now studying at the University of Florida will perform music from classic opera and Broadway.  A native of Sarasota, Boedecker is a fast-rising artist who has already garnered several prestigious awards for her vocal artistry.  Tony Offerle, a bass-baritone and head of U of F’s Opera and Theater Department will sing several duets with Ms. Boedecker.

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Sunday, March 21st at 7:30 p.m. the Temple will be filled with the music of the University of Tampa’s famed "Big Band."  This seventeen member group under the direction of Jim Burge, will play the music of Benny Goodman and other greats from the Big Band era.

 

2009 Choir Members

Gary Schuller
Dan Hoffman
Celia Assiran, 

Ruth Lerner, 
Gaby Nitkin, 
Jean Green, 
Marsha Ross, 
Marilyn Kaplan, 
Jane Sattler, 
Ruth Danielle
David Calahan, 
Jay Clement, 
Fred Boris, 
Sheila Zinder
Becky Taylor

Barbara Blumfield, 
Sis Krinsk, 
Dede Cousins, 
Linda Berliner, 
Ruth Engman, 
Linda Milberg, 
Anne Moe
Becca Hill

Tandy Stewart
Rebecca Taysi

Music is an integral part of our religious services as well as our Temple life. We join in song during our services with our Temple Choir. We are indeed blessed with a choir of thirty voices with four professional vocalists and an organist. Under its founder, Florence Katz, it has achieved a position as one of the leading choral groups on the West Coast of Florida.

The choir participates in all holiday and Friday night Shabbat Services and performs at least one special concert for the congregation and members of the community annually. Among other appearances, it is the major choral group at Longboat Key’s Annual Interfaith Service.
 

Links to music samples:
Shalom_Aleichem
Al_Shlosha_DVarim
Kaddish
From the Choir Concert
March 23, 2007
From Bagpipe Shabbat
click above to view video 
 

Last updated Dec 17, 2009


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