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I offer this beautiful setting of Modim Anachnu Lach by my teacher and friend, composer and Cantor, Jonathan Comisar, to thank you - the Am Shalom community - for such a warm welcome and wonderful start to the New Year 5774.  
(Originally recorded and published in Transcontinental Music's Shabbat Anthology VI featuring Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz, voice and Cantor Jonathan Comisar, piano)

Modim Anachnu Lach (Cantor Jonathan Comisar)

From Psalm 19:14, these words of meditation create a vow between God and the individual.  "May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable to you, O God, my Rock and my Redeemer."  An incredible setting by Bonia Shur recorded live with Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz and guitarist, Yuval Katz

Yih'yu L'ratzon (Bonia Shur)

A beautiful melody by David Zahavi, illuminating the poem by Chana Senesh. 
Recorded live by Cantors Andrea Rae Markowicz (voice) and Jonathan Comisar (piano), this selection was heard in the documentary film, Bearing Witness.

Eili Eili (Halicha L'Caesarea)

Eil Malei Rachamim (final)

Haftarah Ezekiel 39_11-14

Nitzotz Eloha Mim'a'al - there is a divine spark embedded within us. When we do Teshuva from our mistakes and towards wholeness, we can liberate that divine spark and return to each other and to Hashem. Written for Cantor Ze'evi Tovlev. 

Nitzotz Eloha Mima’al with Cantor Ze'evi Tovlev

On This Shabbat

This Music at Am Shalom live album, under the direction of Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz, is in loving memory of Marilyn Perlman Shonfeld who for decades, through the soulful strings of her violin, helped our congregation to pray Kol Nidrei.

Produced by Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz and Mike Konopka 
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Konopka at PIE IN THE SKY studio 
2016 Location Recording at Am Shalom by Timothy R. Powell (Metro Mobile Recording) 
1957 Recording by John W. Reiser at University of Michigan, School of Music

Lead Vocals & Guitar: Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz
Readings: Rabbi Steven Stark Lowenstein, Rabbi Phyllis Sommer, Rabbi Pamela Mandel, Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz
Additional Lead Vocals: Jeanne Diamond (Shalom Rav I), Orna Arania (Adonai, Adonai)
Piano/Keyboard/Organ: Ken Smith
Additional Piano: Nancy Bluestone (Baal Shem)
Violin: Melissa Arbetter (S’lichot service), Sylvia Myintoo (Kol Nidrei service), Marilyn Perlman Shonfeld (Baal Shem) 
Cello: Ben Manis (Kol Nidrei service)
Conductor: Orna Arania 
Koleinu Adult High Holy Days Choir:
Isabelle Arbetter*, Diane Arnold*, Jeff Arnold*, Nancy Berg*, Nick Brown*, Terry Bucher, Andrea Caruso, Nathalie Colas Grant, Allison Cook, Mark Crayton, Ray Cunha, Melissa Estes*, Kaitlin Foley, Susan Frank*, Maxine Greenberg*, Michael Hawes, Gregg Kalman*, Stephen Libbin*, Stephen Noon, Josh Pritchett, Nicole Rodin, Ted Schaffner*, Dorothy Shapiro*, Kari Marie Sorenson, Sean Stanton, Tonka Stavrakova*, Howard Tatar* (*member of Koleinu)

Album Cover Design: Randi Brill Zieserl, QuaraCORE
Duplication: Disc Makers
Mechanical License: Transcontinental Music, HFA Songfile
Special appreciation: Cantor Doug Cotler (Or Zaru'a), Cantor Israel Goldstein (Shomeir Yisrael), Cantor Leon Sher (Adonai, Adonai), Michael Jay Skloff (K'dushah)

For more information about Am Shalom, visit www.amshalom.com

Sh'ma Koleinu ~ Hear Our Voice (MASTER)

Baal Shem (Pictures of Chassidic Life): II. Nigun (Improvisation)

©2018 NoahAronsonMusic LLC
Written by Noah Aronson in collaboration with Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz for Am Shalom in Glencoe, IL

Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz and Cantor Julie Staple (Vocals)
Andy Dennen (guitar)
Noah Plotkin (percussion)
Geoff Shell (bass)
Ken Smith (keyboard)
Emi Tanabe (violin)
Koleinu Adult Choir, Orna Arania (conductor)
 
Recorded at Am Shalom (Glencoe, IL) and PIE IN THE SKY studio
Produced by Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz and Mike Konopka
Mixed and Mastered by Mike Konopka at PIE IN THE SKY studio
Engineered by Mike Konopka with Jim Galvin

Blessed Will You Be by Noah Aronson for Am Shalom (Glencoe, IL)

Nism'cha V'nagilah

Sh'ma, You Shall Love - Am Shalom

Cantor Gerald Cohen's setting of Psalm 23 draws the heart as the soul calls upon God for strength.

07 Adonai Roi (Gerald Cohen)

Gerald Cohen: Sarah and Hagar, Trio from Act I, Scene 3
Hagar: Ilana Davidson; Sarah: Elizabeth Shammash  Avram: Robert Gardner

Sarah and Hagar: Trio from Act I, Scene 3

When it is darkest, this prayer from the evening liturgy soothes our souls and asks God to spread over us a shelter of peace. 

Composed by Danny Maseng, this arrangement was improvised live by Cantor Andrea Rae Markowicz, David Strickland (piano), Ivan Barenboim (clarinet), Benny Koonyevsky (percussion), Jeff Carney (double bass), with the quartet of Misa Iwama (alto), Joe Neal (baritone), Kevin Vortmann (tenor), and Tami Petty (soprano).

Modim Anachnu Lach (Cantor Jonathan Comisar)

Am Shalom

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