The Chorale
Since the autumn of 2006, Connecticut Z'mirah Chorale attracts singers from throughout the state, with the purpose and pleasure of performing music of interest to Jewish audiences. Weekly rehearsals are held at Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden on Sunday or Wednesday evenings. Our mission embraces the Jewish experience in accompanied and unaccompanied song. Repertory ranges from complex modern compositions and classic Reform works of Shabbat and High Holiday liturgies, to Yiddish and Israeli folk and work songs as well as meaningful pieces by non-Jewish composers.
In its first year, CZC has sung to appreciative congregations at Shabbat services in South Windsor, Orange, Simsbury and Hamden, as well as community and congregational meetings in Manchester and New Haven.