* The middle concert, "Hebrew Melodies from the New World," staged at the South HIHs' Temple Emanuel on June 7 and Oakland's Rodef Shalom Temple on June 8, is a grab-bag of vocal and instrumental works by Jewish-American academic-based composers But a concession to [Zelkowicz]'s taste is the meditative "Tenebrae" by Argentina's Osvaldo Golljov, highlighting soprano Emily Albrink. "It's not very Jewish-sounding, but if s very spiritual, using letters of the Hebrew alphabet as part of a vocal melisma."

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