In new doc, a master of ‘hazzanut’ synagogue music finds his career fading – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | February 15, 2020
Cantor Jack Mendelsons style the operatic hazzanut (classical European Jewish liturgical music), which enjoyed a golden age in early and mid-20th century American synagogues is heard less and less in America today. The documentary A Cantors Head, playing at Jewish Film Institutes WinterFest on March 1, is an engaging profile of a man with great skill, a master of his craft, who feels he and the music he has devoted his life to are being unfairly cast aside. Its a quiet, personal documentary about the work of synagogue cantors that sometimes feels like a eulogy for a dying art.
