“L’David Mizmor,” a Friday evening service by Cantor Charles Davidson, will be performed tomorrow at the (Conservative) Park Avenue Synagogue in honor of its 90th anniversary. The service is dedicated to and will be performed by Cantor David J. Putterman, aided by the synagogue choir. Putterman. Russian-born and 71, has been the synagogue’s cantor since 1933. In 1917, at the age of 17, he became the first American cantor.
Tomorrow’s program is also dedicated “to the enhancement of Jewish worship; to a wider diffusion and utilization of the resources of Jewish music, and to the encouragement of those who give of their lives and genius to its enrichment.”
Composer Davidson, 43, is cantor of Congregation Adath Jeshurun. Elkins Park, Pa., and was editor of Jewish Musical Journal and of Jewish Music Notes. The conductor. Abraham Kaplan, is Israeli-born and the director of choral music at the Juilliard School of Music. He is also the founder-conductor of the Camerata Singers and the Camerata Symphony Orchestra, and recently led a command performance at the White House honoring Finnish President Urho Kekkonen.
Eighty high school students from eight states ended two days of appeals for Soviet Jews with visits to their Congressmen and Senators in Washington. They abstained from eating lunch and contributed their lunch money for a food parcel to be sent to Sylva Zalmanson Kuznetsov.
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