Bernstein describes the musical transformation from fury to faith beautifully: “All our great Judaistic personalities of the past, including Abraham…Moses and the prophets, all argued with G-d. You know how the more you love someone, the more you can get angry with them, and when you have a reconciliation, the…close[r] you two become than ever. Something like that happens in the course of this piece.”
Cantor Andrew Bernard on the sounds of Kaddish.
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