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Friday April 22, 2005

Shorts: The Arts

Sherith Israel welcomes liturgical composer

Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco will host a Jewish music scholar-in-residence.

Composer Andrea Jill Higgins will participate in Shabbat services 6 p.m. Friday, April 29, at Sherith Israel, 2266 California St., S.F. Also performing will be the synagogue’s volunteer and professional choirs.

The evening features Higgins’ liturgical music.

Higgins has been on the faculty of the Lyric Opera Theater at Arizona State University and is director of music for Temple Solel in Paradise Valley, Ariz. Her works of sacred Jewish music have been part of worship services across the country for years.

Musical memorial at Ner Tamid

The Second Margie Rosenthal Memorial Musicale will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at Congregation Ner Tamid, 1250 Quintara St., S.F.

The show stars comedian Archie Barkan in “Yiddish, Yinglish and Borscht.”

It will feature the music of The Larks, Heather Klein and Jonathan Russell and The Klezmer Soul Band.

Congregation Ner Tamid and The Workmen’s Circle are the sponsors. Tickets: $15-$20. Information: (415) 661-3383 or (650) 349-6946.

Songs by j. editor, wife are part of East Bay concerts

Two original songs by Woody Weingarten, managing editor of j., and his wife, Nancy Fox, will be performed in the East Bay as part of two free weekend concerts by the 75-voice Berkeley Broadway Singers.

The chorus director, jazz pianist Ellen Hoffman, said the group will sing “Messages from Mom,” the ultimate Jewish mother’s anthem, and “Too Old to Ingenue,” from the original Weingarten-Fox musical revue, “Touching Up the Gray.”

The composers, who live in San Anselmo, collaborated on the lyrics; Fox wrote the music.

The first choral concert, titled “Unforgettable,” will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at St. Ambrose Church, 1145 Gilman St., Berkeley; the second will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at St. Augustine’s Church, 400 Alcatraz Ave., Oakland.

Another song from the duo’s revue, “Love and Joy,” was used by Stagebridge as the finale for an April 9 performance at a care-management convention at Jack London Square in Oakland. Stuart Kandell, who, like Hoffman, is Jewish, has indicated that the group he founded, which performs at many elderly facilities, will include more Weingarten-Fox material in future shows.

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