Reflections on a song-filled career from Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller

Kol Jeshurun by Temple B'nai Jeshurun

Episode notes

Cantor Lucy Fishbein of TBJ sits down for a conversation with her teacher, Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller. Cantor Schiller has been a professor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion for 35+ years and is a prolific composer in her own right. She is on the verge of retiring from her post as the Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual and Professor of Cantorial Arts and shares her reflections on her career and the evolution of the cantorate in the 4 decades of her career!

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spiritualitymusicjewish musiccantorcantorial artwomenwomancomposer