Welcoming Shabbat with Avinu Shebashamaim by the Moscow Male Jewish a Cappella Choir

Avinu Shebashamaim, the Prayer for the State of Israel, is usually sung in the Shabbat morning service. It is also sung at special days, such as Yom HaAtzmaut, and other days when congregations unite to show support for the State of Israel and the people of Israel.

As we get ready for Shabbat, let's watch Alexander Tsaliuk conduct the Moscow Male a Cappella Choir singing Avinu Shebashamaim at a performance a few days ago to commemorate Yom Hazikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut.The concert was at the Memorial Synagogue on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow with soloists Cantor Uriel Granat and Vladislav Ayrapetyan.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Welcoming Shabbat with Adon Olam by the Moscow Male Jewish Cappella

This Shabbat we're posting our 58th version of Adon Olam since starting Jewish Humor Central in 2009. 

It's a rendition by the Moscow Male Cappella choir, sung at their 30th anniversary concert at the Small Hall of the Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire last November.

The artistic leader and conductor is Alexander Tsaliuk. The cantor is Uriel Granat, the cantor of the Voronezh Synagogue and a soloist in the Voronezh State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Welcoming Shabbat with Adon Olam by the Moscow Male Jewish Cappella

The Male Choir of Cantorial Art Academy was established in 1989 with personal support from Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the USSR, and assistance from the Russian Jewish Community and JOINT, an American Jewish charity. 

In 1998 the choir was renamed the Hassidic Cappella and based at the Moscow Maryina Roshcha Jewish Community. 

Since 2012 until 2014 The Moscow Male Jewish Cappella worked under the support of The Russian Jewish Congress and The State Classical Maimonides Academy. The choir's singers are all professional musicians - students and teachers at Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and other leading musical institutes in the capital who have performed in the city's most acclaimed choral groups. 

They are united by their commitment to introducing listeners to the beauty of Jewish liturgical and cantorial music -- music that has been forgotten and remains unknown to even the most educated lovers of music. The choir's extensive repertory includes Jewish liturgical music, songs in Yiddish and Hebrew, Russian folk songs, and classics of world music. The choir is one of the few recognized professional Jewish academic musical groups in the world and the only one in Russia. 

Let's join the Moscow Male Jewish Capella in welcoming Shabbat with their rendition of Adon Olam.

Shabbat shalom.

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