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Shenker continued his studies in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath , and was ordained a rabbi. Ben Zion comes in with a siddur, and simply starts to sing. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. He attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, where he received weekly leave to go to the radio studio for his show, so long as he returned in time for the next study session. When he was about 14 [5] or 15 [1] he visited Rabbi Shaul Taub's house. Hankus Netsky compared the Modzitz music to symphonies, and stated that Shenker treated them with appropriate gravitas. Related Tags Volume 6.

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When he was about fifteen, his father took him along to a tisch of the second Modzitzer rebbeReb Shaul, himself a prolific composer, who had just arrived in America.

Ben Zion Shenker: The Unsung Composer of the Songs We All Sing

He credited his mother with transmitting to him a wealth of Hassidic melodies and with inspiring his curiosity and creativity. The New York Times. In addition, he notated new niggunim invented by the Modzitzer rebbe, becoming a virtual musical secretary to the dynasty. He became fascinated with traditional hazzanut while still a child—attending synagogue services that featured some of the zioh hazzanim and hearing recordings. Veteran Jewish music publisher and historian Velvel Pasternak, who produced many of the early Chassidic albums, once told me about the difference between Shenker and other Chassidic singers.

He inspired several generations of Jewish singers and musicians, including Shlomo Carlebach, who became a close friend.

In Shenker established the Neginah record label to produce his first commercial recordings of authentic niggunim. Music was his passion since childhood. Ben Zion Shenker was a world-renowned [1] American Hasidic composer and hazzanassociated with the Modzitz hasidic dynasty. Picking up a book of bej notes of niggunim that happened to be there, Shenker began humming the songs.

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Velvel Pasternaka Jewish music producer and historian, described Shenker's own melodies as "singable" by ehenker masses. He would soon become dedicated to collecting, transcribing, and disseminating as well as recording and performing the vast repertoire of Modzitzer niggunim ; and he was instrumental in preserving many of the stories and anecdotes surrounding their origin. Hankus Netsky compared the Modzitz music to symphonies, and stated that Shenker treated them with appropriate gravitas.

First they do their vocal exercises and warm-ups, and only then are they ready.

American composers Jewish composers births deaths. David Olivestone, formerly senior communications officer of the Orthodox Union, lives in Jerusalem and is a member of the Jewish Action Editorial Committee. In Shenker had a cathartic and life-changing experience at a service led by Rabbi Saul Taub, the rebbe of the Polish Shenkwr Hassidic dynasty, so named for the town near Lublin from which his forebears and that particular tradition emanated.

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Melodies like these have become so much a part of our lives that it is hard to imagine a Shabbat or yom tov daveningor a wedding, without them. But surely he himself would want his legacy to be measured only by how much his music continues to inspire us in our prayers and to uplift us in our celebrations of life. Most of the niggunim and other melodies he recorded then were part of the Modzitzer traditions, but his example was a catalyst for preservation projects by other dynasties that had also settled in New York after the war: In a interview, he told Charlie Bernhaut, longtime host of a weekly online program of chazzanut and other Jewish music, that his mother never had to give him toys to play with.

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He had three daughters: He joined the choir of Cantor Joshua Weisser at twelve years old, and soon began studying with the well-known Jewish music teacher and conductor Seymour Silbermintz. Shenker did not make a living from music, rarely collecting royalties.

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Retrieved from " https: Shenker continued his studies in Yeshiva Torah Vodaathand was ordained a rabbi. He passed away on November 20, He attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, where he received weekly leave to go to the radio studio for his show, so long as he returned in time for the next study session. Vos Iz Neias What's News. Is there any shul anywhere at which his Mizmor leDavid is not sung during seudah shlishit? Even as a child, he showed interest in cantorial music, preferring to listen to greats such as Yossele Rosenblatt rather than play with toys.