Former Milwaukeean Joey Weisenberg, 31, is trying to start a revolution in Jewish music, according to a feature article in the New York Jewish Week published online Oct. 17.
Weisenberg, a multi-instrumentalist and composer with two recordings out, is music director of the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn. According to the article by George Robinson, Weisenberg is seeking to create “a more user-friendly 21st-century synagogue, one built around singing and spontaneity, combining two millennia of Jewish and liturgy with the modern energies of an actively participating congregation.”
“For me, music teaches us how to listen,” the article quotes Weisenberg as saying. “In listening we start to hear things that are outside of ourselves, yet also deeply inside too. [When they are singing] people are interacting with one another, with the room they are in. As we learn to hear other people and hear space we begin to sense the energy around us and we start to sense the divine energy of the world.”
The article can be seen at http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/music/getting-jews-up-and-singing.
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