The text that begins the Yom Kippur service is a mystery. When did Kol Nidrei enter the liturgy? Who composed it? What community first adopted it? No one has definitively answered these questions.

Any performance, much less an American one, of Max Bruch’s oratorio “Moses” from 1895 is a rarity. Yet this is a fabulous and important piece of music. First, however, one fact that no Jew interested ...

Bruch wrote the piece in 1881 for cello and orchestra, incorporating several Hebrew melodies into the music. In this video, Boulder Philharmonic Music Director Michael Butterman accompanies Bailey in ...