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Colonial Harmonies

Western Sephardic liturgy set to William Billings tunes

A project bridging the earliest liturgical music of Colonial America — William Billings’s Protestant hymns and psalmody — with the world of Luis Moses Gomez, first Parnas of Shearith Israel and builder of the Mill House on the Hudson. New arrangements of Hebrew liturgical texts set to Billings tunes, with the Choir of Lauderdale Road Synagogue in London under Hazan Adam Musikant and Choirmaster Jason Silver.

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Paul Revere engraving: nine men in tricorn hats seated around an oval table singing from sheet music, encircled by a ribbon of musical notation, with a Hebrew benediction (‘Adon ‘Olam) above; below, the inscription ‘A Canon of 6 in One with a Ground, the Words by Rev. Dr. Byles, Set to Music by W. Billings.’
Colonial HarmoniesWestern Sephardic liturgy set to William Billings tunes
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