cantor
Example Sentences
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The keening tenor part will be sung by Azi Schwartz, a cantor at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York; and Phillip Bullock will take the baritone part, influenced by traditional Black styles.
From New York Times
A children’s choir will perform and a cantor will recite a Jewish prayer for the souls of the Nazis’ victims.
From New York Times
If the cantor’s voice was not good, I don’t think I would have been a musician.
From New York Times
What she wanted was to throw a second wedding in Michigan her way — with her rabbi, cantor, chuppah and Midwest crowd, where I’d put on a pearl-colored dress she picked out for one evening.
From Washington Post
Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs.
From Los Angeles Times
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