Welcoming Shabbat With SupercalifragilisticexpialAdonOlam

The world of film and theatre music lost a great light recently when the songwriter Richard M. Sherman died. From Mary Poppins to The Jungle Book, music written by Sherman and his brother, Robert, has brought joy to millions over many decades. 

The Sherman Brothers were born to a father of Russian-Jewish origin, a composer of the prior generation on Tin Pan Alley. As a tribute to Richard Sherman, Cantor Azi Schwartz used the melody that the Shermans wrote for the Mary Poppins song Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to sing Adon Olam on Shabbat -– joyful words of the liturgy combined with a bouncy tune made famous by Julie Andrews. 

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

Welcoming Shabbat with Adon Olam Sung to "Feed the Birds" by Marc Joseph and Mosaic Voices

It's another erev Shabbat and today we're posting our 65th version of Adon Olam.

This version of Adon Olam is sung by Marc Joseph and the Mosaic Voices choir. The arrangement is by Composer-in-Residence Benjamin Till. The melody was written by the Sherman Brothers for the song Feed the Birds that was sung by Julie Andrews in the movie Mary Poppins.

Mosaic Voices, founded by its Musical Director, Michael Etherton, is a professional a cappella choir dedicated to performing, preserving and commissioning new music from the Jewish tradition. It is the resident choir of one of Europe's most beautiful synagogues, the New West End Synagogue in Bayswater, London. 

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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