Max Helfman
Born: 25th May 1901, Radzyń Podlaski, Poland
Died: 18th August 1963, Dallas, Texas. United States
Nationality: Polish-American Jewish
Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies.
Among his best known works are his Shabbat Kodesh (1942), a Sabbath Cantata, and his Di naye hagode (1948), a Yiddish-language Cantata about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He directed many choirs and educational institutes on both the east and west coasts, most famously the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in California for seventeen years; his influence is most strongly felt on the religious music of Reform Judaism. He was also well known for socialist and pro-Zionist causes and affiliations.
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- Bar'khu (1)
- Di Naye Hagode (A Choral Tone Poem of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) (2)
- El male rahamim (1)
- Hag Habikkurim (3)
- Hannah Szenesh Poems (2) (1)
- Hashkiveinu (1)
- Israel Suite (1949) (1)
- Sh'ma Yisrael (1)
- Shabbat m'nuha (1)
- The Holy Ark (Torah Service) - excerpts (2)
- The Voice of my Beloved (2)
- Who is Like unto Thee? (1)
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Alberto Mizrahi (cantor), Matthew Klein (tenor) New York Cantorial Choir, Neil Levin
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