Joey Weisenberg is the Founder and Director of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute (risingsong.org), now offering 1000+ videos of Master Classes in Jewish Song and Prayer (joeyweisenberg.com) and free streaming of all albums from Rising Song Records (risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com). Rising Song seeks to empower Jewish community-building through music. Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to unlock their musical and spiritual potential, and to make music a lasting and joy-filled force in shul and in Jewish life. Joey has run hundreds workshops and trainings across the country, including the Rising Song Intensive each December at Hadar. Joey is the author Building Singing Communities (2011), and the award-winning The Torah of Music (2017) published by Hadar, and is a multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer. His nigunim, published in 8 albums and a songbook, have become popular worldwide.
Love seeing the harmoium on a Jewish tune! Had such a blast bringing mine to the Hadar song intensive last winter, looking forward to coming back this year.
Thank you for engaging your voices & souls & hands to bring these loving frequencies into our world ~ am delighted to know some of you & wish all of you much continued loving creation in music & beyond! 🎶 ✨
So great to hear and have this avail to us this way, after participating in your live L.A. visit's version & hearing it in various Hadar livestreams. Dig the trombone solo. Sooooo cool!
Not bad. I feel however that the supplicative tonality is not sufficiently in the minor and more emphasis,sense of urgency and energy is needed in the expression of certain words such as לחלות ו לחנן פני מלך. If you wish I will try to record myself. In general I frequently feel that many in the community of young American cantors, the music has been too ironed out-that is to say not enough expression of pain suffering and visceral fear.KVETCH .Often this is especially true of women cantors who's voices,though beautiful, are lacking in gutsiness and sense of terror. I find this a bit peculiar considering the fact that childbirth is a very terrifying experience. It is not for naught that Chazal formulated a blessing-Shelo asani isha. I don't know too many males who would relish the thought of enduring such suffering and lack of bodily control in spite of the immense feeling of accomplishment and joy afterwards.
I don't understand the words, but this one brings me into a melancholy. It's so beautiful, Joey. I'm so thankful I met you earlier this year at a workshop at the JCC in Minneapolis.
Joey's online High Holiday training workshop is excellent. It is a great way to be introduced or review the wonderful High Holiday musical and nusach traditions.
Yes, everybody in the shul IS THE CHOIR and I hope that I can help them to understand this with our new singing circle (especially for the many who say, "I can't sing"). Thank you for inspiring us:)
