n>For decades, music has been a highlight of High Holiday services at Temple Beth-El in Providence, Rhode Island. Each year, more than 1,000 worshippers look forward to listening to the cantor as well as the professional choir and musicians from across Rhode Island who have become part of the Beth-El family. Typically, upon entering the Reform synagogue’s huge sanctuary, congregants hear meditative organ or piano pieces. In years past, music also accompanied the traditional High Holiday liturgy, with the sounds of a flute on erev Rosh Hashanah, a French horn at Rosh Hashanah morning services, and on Kol Nidre, a cello and organ playing the well-known Kol Nidre melody by German composer Max Bruch.Read Full Article »
