This seventh installment in the ongoing popular Shabbat Anthology series includes 26 eclectic tunes that highlight the best and most current music written specifically for congregational Shabbat worship. Both established and emerging composers and arrangers are highlighted here bringing to light both newly composed and older Sabbath music that has never been published before. The songbook features all compositions in piano/vocal/guitar format as well as several pieces with parts for auxiliary instruments duets and congregations. The accompanying CD includes full renditions of all 26 songs with many performed by the original artists and others sung by an impressiveroster of top cantors and soloists. Songs include: Rom'mu (Jeremiah Klarman) · L'cha Dodi (Steve Dropkin) · Ma'ariv (Jordan Franzel) · Mi Chamochah (Andrew Dennen Angela Gold and Neil Weinstein) · Hashkiveinu (Lisa Silver and Teri Simon) · V'sham'ru (Marcelo Gindlin) · V'sham'ru (Robert Nath) · V'sham'ru (Bob Remstein) · Yism'chu (Abby Gostein) · Yism'chu (Ralene Jacobson) · Open My Lips (Jay Rapoport) · R'tzei (Michelle Cohen) · Yih'yu L'ratzon/Oseh Shalom (Vicky Glikin) · Yih'yu L'ratzon/seh Shalom (Cory Weiss) · Oseh Shalom (Abby Gostein) · May the Words (Robert Nath) · L'rosh Chodesh (Jordan Franzel) · Modeh Ani (Cliff Abramson) · Psalm 150 (Susan Colin) · Zachar Chasdo (Micah Lapidus) · Adonai Oz (Scott Leader) · Sim Shalom (Jordan Franzel) · We Remember Them (Lynda Dresher) · Ein Keloheinu (Erik Contzius) · Adon Olam (Jonathan Dinkin).

Sheldon Levin no stranger to arrangements of popular Jewish music brings to the choral scene an adaptation of the wildly popular Jewish pride anthem (and YouTube video) penned by Lenny Solomon of Shlock Rock fame and performedby a veritable Who's Who of Israeli music stars.

There is no shortage of arrangers creating settings of the music of honored Jewish music heroine Debbie Friedman - this is one of the best. This piece will bring listeners to tears at a healing service or Shabbat worship; Friedman's melody brings out the special meaning in the text and Feinsinger's voicings are beautifully appropriate.

RUACH is the Hebrew word for spirit and it is exactly that quality which the songs of the Ruach series possess. Ruach 5773 the seventh edition in the set features established artists like Noam Katz Eric Komar Dan Nichols & Eighteen Josh Nelson Mikey Pauker Rick Recht Chana Rothman Sababa and SoulAviv have contributed to this compilation along with exciting new voices on the Jewish music scene such as Noah Aronson Aviva Chernick Jaffa Road Naomi Less Hannah Spiro and Alison Westermann. This songbook includes 16 songs in lead sheet format (with melody line guitar chords lyrics transliteration translation and Hebrew text) plus an accompanying CD with all thetunes. Catch up on the best and brightest new contemporary Jewish music - catch the Ruach!

Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale Jewish Music Series-The latest original in the Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale Jewish Music Series the gentle descent of this delicate setting of 12th century text by Judah HaLevi is beautifully haunting. Do These Tears Know is a perfect piece to remember Kristallnacht or for a Yom ha'Shoah program. For the secular community the piece sung in English connects to world events and is appropriate for any solemn occasion.

Leave it to Joshua Jacobson to fuse the unique ambience of the music of the great Shlomo Carlebach into a beautiful choral setting. Gorgeous held chords make way later for an interesting davening section in which the choir members perform a segment of the arrangement individually at their own pace. A piece as cross-denominational as Rabbi Carlebach himself.

Based on a Medieval Jewish Poem by Yehudah Halevi-An English setting of Yehudah Halevi's medieval poem Yah Anah Emtza-acha Holiness Everywhere is simply put a perfect marriage of music and text. Bryant captures the awe and fear of acknowledging God's omnipotence. Though especially appropriate for Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) the piece is too good for only once a year. It will not be difficult to find an excuse to sing it!

RUACH is the Hebrew word for spirit and it is exactly that quality which the songs of the Ruach series possess. Ruach 5771 the sixth edition in the set celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Ruach series and the 50thanniversary of the URJ's Religious Action Center in Washington D.C. Many of the 19 tracks included here feature a social action theme and all reflect the spirit energy and vibrancy of the Judaism that lives and breathes in thecamps youth groups and synagogues of the Union for Reform Judaism. Favorite artists like Dan Nichols Josh Nelson Michelle Citrin Craig Taubman Peri Smilow and Rick Recht have contributed to this compilation along withexciting new voices on the Jewish music scene such as Jay Rapoport Elana Jagoda Mikey Pauker Alan Goodis and SoulAviv. Catch the Ruach!

How Manifold Are Your Works O God-One of the great internationally renowned patriarchs of modern Jewish music is back with a setting of texts from Psalms and Mishnah. Steinberg's triumphant proclamation of the greatness of God will resound through your concerthall or sanctuary with vigor. For cantor and SATB choir with keyboard accompaniment.

From The Westminster Conservatory Youth Chorale Jewish Music Series. A beautiful setting of the memorial text for intermediate-level choir.

A Song for the Sabbath of Chanukah-From Three Medieval Hebrew Songs by Judith Kaplan Eisenstein. A raucous drinking song! The music becomes more and more inebriated as the piece progresses!