מזמור
לתודה
Mizmor L’Todah
A Hymn of Thanksgiving
מזמור
לתודה
Mizmor L’Todah
A Hymn of Thanksgiving
For many years now, I have composed a number of pieces for any number of reasons: commissions, special occasions, worship services, and even school assignments. This album is a small cross section of some of my favourites. Stylistically located somewhere between popular song and art song, I have also included brief introductory texts for each, giving you an idea of the who, what and why of each composition. It was also a chance to sing with my good friend Mark Camilleri, accompanying on Imagine Sound Studio’s 11’ Bösendorfer grand piano!
Joining me: Accompanist Mark Camilleri is one of the major player’s in Canada’s musical life. As a music director, pianist, composer, arranger, accompanist, engineer, producer, conductor, or recording studio owner, Mark has worked with the best of the best. Among many highlights: contracting and conducting virtually every major Broadway show produced in Toronto; musical director of The Tenors; and accompanying or conducting Andrea Bocelli, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul Anka, Celine Dion and David Foster, among many others.
Joining Mark and me are Louise Camilleri, a highly regarded performer on television, film and the Broadway stage; and composer and performing artist Susan Piltch on flute.
Enjoy!
Cantor Charles Osborne
A native of Suffern, NY, Cantor Charles Osborne is internationally recognized as a singer, composer and conductor. He attended Hartt School of Music, studying there with Cantor Arthur Koret, and the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. His original compositions include four oratorios, a symphony, concerti for flute, guitar, viola and harp, and more than 200 choral pieces.
Cantor Osborne has taught at Hartt College, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Northeastern University, and the Hebrew College of Boston. He is the founder and director of Kol Rinah—Boston’s Jewish youth chorus—and a regular participant in the North American Jewish Choral Festival and the “Hazamir” National Jewish High School Choral Festival, with which he toured Israel as music director during the summers of 1996 and 1997. His piece “Samachti” is one of the most popular pieces of synagogue music in the world. The beauty of this setting inspired us to include this psalm in our Temple Sinai prayer book.