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Convention 2010

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63rd Annual Convention - New York City

May 3 - 6, 2010


Tomorrow's Cantor Today



Come join us for the sounds and sights of fabulous New YorkCity as we sing our way across the Big Apple. Premiering New Music for the New Mahzor, study with Dr. Ruth and other world renowned experts, and sharing music, friendship and learning. Food. It's New York! Open to all CA/CICA members and Lovers of Jewish Music.Registration materials coming soon. "The Cantors Assembly - Looking to the future..."


Tentative Schedule of Events
CA Convention 2010 (New York City)
Building Tomorrow's Cantor Today

Monday, May 3
11:00am - 5:00pm      Registration (Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel)
2:00pm Theological and Psychological Aspects of the Yamim Noraim (Hotel)
Presenters: Rabbis Neil Gillman and Gordon Tucker
3:00pm Minha (Hotel)
3:30pm Synagogue Gems from composer, Morton Gold (Hotel)
Chaim Najman, Chair
4:30pm Free Time
6:00pm Dinner (Ben's Kosher Deli)
8:45pm Ma'ariv (Sutton Place Synagogue)
9:00pm Concert of Jewish Collegiate A cappella Ensembles (Sutton Place Synagogue)
Nancy Abramson, Chair
11:30pm Late Night Concert of Hazzanut (Hotel)
Late Night Promenade Concert - David Propis, Producer



Tuesday, May 4
7:30am      Shaharit (Hotel)
9:30am CA Annual Meeting (Park Avenue Synagogue)
11:50am Lunch (Park Avenue Synagogue)
1:00pm Pa'amayim B'ahava - the premiere of a new CA publication of duets for Shabbat morning,
for Hazzan and musical lay adult, composed by Jerome Kopmar (Park Avenue Synagogue)
Stephen J. Stein, Chair
2:10pm Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Presenter: Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Park Avenue Synagogue)
3:00pm Minha (Park Avenue Synagogue)
3:15pm Music and Independent Minyan Movement (Park Avenue Synagogue)
Jen Cohen, Chair
4:30pm Return to Hotel/Free Time
5:00pm - 6:30pm Cantorial Coachings at JTS
5:45pm Busses depart from Hotel for JTS
6:30pm Dinner (JTS)
7:45pm Ma'ariv (JTS)
8:00pm Greetings from Rabbi Steven Wernick, USCJ, and
Rabbi Jeffrey Wolberg, Rabbinical Assembly
8:15pm Hazzan Abraham B. Shapiro Memorial Concert (JTS)
Hazzanim Ayelet Piatigorsky and Jacob Ben Zion Mendelson, Producers
10:00pm Busses return to Hotel
10:30pm Late Nite Cabaret Lollapalooza (Hotel)
Randy Herman, Chair



Wednesday, May 5
7:30am      Shaharit (Hotel)
8:10am Breakfast on your own
9:45am Shoah Commemoration (Sutton Place Synagogue)
Presenter: Cantor Max Fuchs, a Jewish serviceman during World War II, who led the first
Jewish minyan on German soil during the war
Steven Stoehr, Chair
10:30am An American Selichot Service (Sutton Place Synagogue)
Jeff Myers, Chair
11:15am Presentation of Hazzan Samuel Rosenbaum Memorial Award
11:30am Hazzan Samuel Rosenbaum Memorial Lecture (Sutton Place Synagogue)
Sephardic Jewry Comes of Age: How Golden Was It?
Presenter: Professor Benjamin Gampel
11:30am Cantorial Collections: A Legacy of Jewish Music at Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Mr. Aaron Kula, Presenter
12:15pm Lunch (Sutton Place Synagogue)
1:15pm Cantors Assembly Awards Ceremony (Sutton Place Synagogue)
Jack Chomsky, Chair
2:15pm Minha (Park Avenue Synagogue)
2:30pm Free Time
4:15pm Davening la Vida Loca" (Park Avenue Synagogue)
David Feuer, Chair
5:45pm Dinner (Park Avenue Synagogue)
7:30pm Remarks: Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Ph.D. Park Avenue Synagogue
(Park Avenue Synagogue)
7:35pm Ma'ariv
8:00pm Concert: Premiere of New Music for a New Mahzor (Park Avenue Synagogue)
Nancy Abramson and Alberto Mizrahi, Co-Chairs
10:30pm Promenade Concert (Hotel)
Simon Spiro, Chair



Thursday, May 6
9:00am      Shaharit (Hotel)
9:45am Breakfast (Hotel)
10:30am Executive Council Meeting (Hotel)



Shalom U'lehitraot


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