Playlist
The Door Is Opened...
A Jewish High Holidays Meditation
TIME
TITLE OF SELECTION
COMPOSER
PERFORMERS
ALBUM TITLE / INFO
00:51Begin Sweet World
03:55
Bill Douglas
Richard Stoltzman et al
BEGIN SWEET WORLD
- RCA 1-7124
Piano Improvisations on "Happy Birthday"
04:45
after Bach
John Bayless
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BACH!
- Pro Arte 210
Forgetting
("Bravery. Honesty. Compassion. Generosity.")
Philip Glass/Laurie Anderson
Linda Ronstadt, vocals; The Roches, Backing Vocals; The Kronos String Quartet
SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS- CBS 39564
09:19
Pachelbel's Waltz
10:43
No Strings Attached
COFFEE AT MIDNIGHT
- Turquoise Records 5070
Keep in Mind You are Loved
13:32
Jane Voss
Rosy's Bar & Grill
ROSY'S BAR & GRILL
- Biscuit City Records (1979, LP)
Feet of a Dancer
17:02
Maura O'Connell
JUST IN TIME
- Philo 1124
Begin Sweet World
17:45
Bill Douglas
Richard Stoltzman et al
BEGIN SWEET WORLD
- RCA 1-7124
Crossing the Border
21:04
Si Kahn
Rude Girls
MIXED MESSAGES
- Flying Fish 70511
Myriam & Esther
22:31
Phranc
Phranc
I ENJOY BEING A GIRL
- Island Records 91259
Jacob and Eva
25:08
Jon Gailmor
Jon Gailmor
GENERATIONS
- Green Linnet 1082
Mi Sheoso Nisim v Traditional Jewish
26:24<
Cantor Berely Chagy
YOU CAN TELL THE WORLD ABOUT THIS: CLASSIC ETHNIC RECORDINGS FROM THE 1920'S
- Morning Star/Shanachie 45006 (LP)
Legnala Rodne
28:15
Traditional Macedonian
Stanley Greenthal, guitar
ALL ROADS
- Madrona Ring 002 (Seattle, WA)
Begin Sweet World
29:27
Bill Douglas
Richard Stoltzman et al
BEGIN SWEET WORLD
- RCA 1-7124
It's Just the Motion
34:27
Richard Thompson
Richard & Linda Thompson
SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS
- Hannibal 1303
It Don't Bring You (Love, if you don't love)
39:49
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter et al
STATE OF THE HEART
- Columbia 44228
The Backbiter
41:59*
John Cephas & Phil Wiggins
FLIP, FLOP & FLY
- Flying Fish 70580
Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky: Ten Meditations on the Kabala
44:21
Janice Giteck
New Performance Group
JANICE GITECK
- Mode Records 14
Ramon ("If you see a man who's broken....")
49:38*
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson et al
STRANGE ANGELS
- Warner Bros. 25900
Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky: Ten Meditations on the Kabala
50:30
Janice Giteck
New Performance Group
JANICE GITECK
- Mode Records 14
Begin Sweet World
51:00*
Bill Douglas
Richard Stoltzman
BEGIN SWEET WORLD
- RCA 1-7124
Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky: Ten Meditations on the Kabala
52:20
Janice Giteck
New Performance Group
JANICE GITECK
- Mode Records 14
Deliver Me
55:49
Robin Holcomb
Robin Holcomb
ROBIN HOLCOME
- Elektra 60983
Begin Sweet World
Bill Douglas
Richard Stoltzman et al
BEGIN SWEET WORLD
- RCA 1-7124
* - An asterisk indicates that only a portion of the piece is heard.Rabbi Harold Kushner (no relation!) is Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel of Natick, Massachusetts, after serving there as Rabbi for 24 years. He is the author of WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE and numerous other books including TO LIFE! A CELEBRATION OF JEWISH BEING AND THINKING and his latest, HOW GOOD DO WE HAVE TO BE? A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF GUILT AND FORGIVENESS (Little, Brown & Co.)
Rabbi Barbara Penzner is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia. She is the Rabbi at Temple Hillel B'nai Torah in West Roxbury, Boston, where she lives with her husband and daughter.
Joel Rosenberg is a poet, translator, and scholar living in the Boston area--he teaches Judaic Studies and World Literature at Tufts University. He is the translator of Kol Haneshamah, a new Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book. His poetry and articles appear in various publications, including VOICES WITHIN THE ARK: THE MODERN JEWISH POETS; BACK TO THE SOURCES: READING THE CLASSIC JEWISH TEXTS; THE LITERARY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE; and THE HARPER-COLLINS STUDY BIBLE..
* - An asterisk indicates that only a portion of the piece is heard.
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