This month we mark the 92nd Yahrzeit of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, the most revered cantor of his day. This piece, the most famous duet he composed, takes for its text an ancient description of the actions of the High Priest which we recall on Yom Kippur. We commissioned this arrangement to be sung by Cantor Azi Schwartz החזן עזי שוורץ and his son. Featuring Cantor Azi Schwartz and Daniel Schwartz Music by Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, arrangement by Raymond Goldstein, commissioned by the PAS Music

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Imagine an international chazzan who sang in Vienna and Hamburg, Harlem and the Met, who was compared with his friend the great Caruso and and yet was known for his Mentshlekhkeyt, who re-invented the traditional cantorial canon but also appeared in ‘The Jazz Singer’, the first feature ‘talkie’ film that revolutionized Hollywood and all of entertainment. This was the life of Yossele Rosenblatt, (1882-1933) the star cantor of his age, whose 88th yahrzeit we mark this month. I had a great time sin