Congregation Shalom offers two public concerts in August at the synagogue, 7630 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Both programs will celebrate specific people.
The last offering in the synagogue’s “Summer Evenings: A Musical Kaleidoscope” is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m., after the summer Shabbat service at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m.
This concert is titled “The Girl Singer: A Tribute to Rosemary Clooney.” Ellen Winters and her jazz trio are the featured performers; and the show, written by Winters, combines stories about Clooney’s life with the songs she made, and that made her, famous.
The synagogue will present an Alfred Cahn Music Award program on Friday, Aug. 16. A service and presentation of the award will take place at 6 p.m., a dinner will begin at 7 p.m., and a concert will begin at 8 p.m.
The award winner is Otto Feller. Born and trained as a cantor in Romania, he and his wife, Aggie, came to Milwaukee in 1965. He served Congregations Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun and Sinai, and has sung and organized concerts in the community. The couple joined Shalom in 2002.
The concert will feature music by Cahn, 90, Shalom’s former music director, a native of Germany, a Holocaust survivor, pianist and composer.
Performing will be the young Danish duo pianist sisters, Emma and Ina Rasmussen, who have released a recording “Piano Works by Alfred Cahn—Lyrics Without Words” (Gateway Music). The sisters met Cahn during a 2011 concert in Milwaukee, after which he showed them music he had written during the past decade.
Admission to both concerts is free, but seating is limited. Box dinners are available before the performances at $10 each, or people may bring their own dinners but must RSVP for seating.
For more information, call the synagogue, 414-352-9288.
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