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Charles Heller

Choir director for over 50 years, working with the world’s leading cantors, author of two books on synagogue music

Alexander Knapp

Research Associate, SOAS, University of London

The Death of Nusah and hazzanut: – the loss of a World Music Art Form

Ashkenazi nusah has evolved over 2000 years as an intricate system of modes and motifs, enabling the congregation, led by a skilled hazzan, to unite in time and space. This tradition is about to disappear forever.

Read Alexander Knapp and Charles Heller’s report here