BOB GLUCK
Stories Heard and Retold

Catalog number: EM108

As Robert Gluck, composer and rabbi, writes: "I aim to bring together what I love about Jewish culture with the aesthetics of contemporary music." Don't be misled, however. This is not religious music. It is music (btw done with cutting-edge technology) that incorporates religious sounds. Critic Seth Rogovoy (Berkshire Eagle), describes 'Stories Heard and Retold' as "A thought-provoking combination of musique concrète techniques, found-sounds, ambient recordings and Gluck's own compositions and electronic manipulations, the album functions as a kind of soundscape of Jewish life ..."

Gluck observes: "I picture a meeting place between the great cantorial traditions, candid camera-like snapshots of subtle moments of daily, including ritual, life and what I have learned from the evolving new musical traditions ... "

Gluck teaches at The University at Albany. In his words: "Music has a magical quality. It can communicate ideas, feelings and impulses beyond words. Music can help us remember moments in our lives for which there are no words. It can help us structure and express ideas that words can only begin to touch."

Track Samples:

Scene/Seen in Shul (1997)

1. Antechamber before services

2. Maariv

3. Pages turning/Torah Aliyot

4. Davening

5. Group prayer

6. Closing

Yiddish Songs (1996)

7. Unter dem kindes vigele

8. Mir zaynen nikhter

9. Oyfn pripetshik

10. Unter di khurves fun poyln

11. Jonah Under The Sea (1997)

Bob Gluck's Bio