Twenty cantors of the American Conference of Cantors (ACC) will present for the first time a concert of Jewish music at the Basilica of Santa Marie degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome on Nov. 16 before Vatican officials, hoping to use music as another way to achieve closer relations between Catholics and Jews.
Vatican officials have embraced this concert idea as a way to further Catholic-Jewish relations in the United States and abroad. The concert will include narrative that will educate listeners about the development of Jewish liturgy and music. The concert will highlight major choral pieces with mostly ensemble singing. The expected outcome of the Rome concert is that local cantors in major cities around the U.S. will reproduce the concert after the premiere in Rome.
New Concert
