On this unique recording, East meets West, ancient meets modern, as Eyal Bitton blends lush vocal arrangements with Spanish & Moroccan Jewish melodies from the High Holiday repertoire.

15 MP3 Songs in this album (55:44) !
Related styles: SPIRITUAL: Jewish Folk, SPIRITUAL: Judaica



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Eyal Bitton is a composer, lyricist, and musical director who wrote the book, music, and lyrics for such musicals as KING DAVID, MOSES, MISS PERSIA, FREEDOM, and THE CHILD. He composed the oratorio JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM and wrote additional lyrics for the musical of Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Bitton is currently the Musical Director at Toronto's Beth Tikvah Synagogue and has conducted choirs for The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (Canada's first congregation), Adath Israel Poale Zedek, Jewish Peoples and Peretz Schools, La Chorale Kinor, and others. His choral compositions and arrangements have been performed in Montreal, Ottawa, New York, California, and Israel. His musicals have been booked or licensed to groups in Montreal, Toronto, Savannah, Hong Kong, and Madison, Connecticut.