I am very pleased to welcome you to my website and hope you will find many things of interest here.
It is devoted to the lives of Chazanim of old, wherever they worked in the world and I hope it will be somewhere where all those who dedicated their life to the service of God in the Synagogue will find a place of recognition. Included are famous choirmasters who built up close working relationships with the Chazanim to create religious services of great beauty.
You will also find many articles here related to Synagogue music and the art of Chazanut.
I would like to invite anyone who has information about a Chazan or choirmaster to contact me so that he may be included here.
Dear Rabbi Shisler,
Many years ago, you recorded for the United Synagogue a series of cassettes with the services for the Yamim Noraim. I have the ones for Rosh Hashanah, but I was wondering if you had copies of the ones for Yom Kippur which I could still buy. Of course, it would be even better if they were available on CD, or for download, or as mp3 files! But the cassettes would do. The ones for Rosh Hashana have been very useful to me over the years.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Lawton
Dear Michael,
I’m afraid that I don’t have any of theses tapes available anymore. I have considered re-doing them as MP3s for a number of years now, but haven’t yet got round to doing them. Not a year goes by that someone doesn’t ask me for them! I may make a stab at it soon. Watch this site!
All the best
Geoffrey Shisler