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S​’​u Sh​’​arim (Samuel Naumbourg)

from Heritage by Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue

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Samuel Naumburg (1817-1890) is known as one of the three
influential musicians who revolutionized and
modernized synagogue music during the 19th
century, along with Salomon Sulzer of Vienna and
Louis Lewandowski of Berlin. He was a composer,
singer, musicologist, and choirmaster.
Naumburg was born in Dennelohe, Bavaria,
South Germany to a family of cantors, received
his formal musical education in Munich, and later
integrated into Paris’ intellectual society. The
emancipation of French Jewry called for a new
form of worship, and Naumburg, working closely
with famous composers of the time, set out to
introduce a new synagogue service in France by
reforming liturgical music. Naumburg was also
known as a pioneer in Jewish music research.
One of his important contributions was the
compilation of works by the Italian-Renaissance
Jewish composer Salomon de Rossi.
S’u She’arim (Psalm 24), like many of
Naumburg’s works, imitates the choral marches
found in grand opera, or the French 19th century
style of opera. The piece is enriched with vocal
fanfare and drum rhythms. It begins on a minor
key, and then changes to the major, accelerating
the tempo toward an ecstatic ending.
This psalm suits the festivity and the high
spirit of Sukkut, and also appears at the end of
the Malkhu’yot (Sovereignty) section in Rosh
Hashanah Musaf service, where it portrays God
as a king.

lyrics

Lift up high, O you gates
lifted up the eternal doors,
so that the Sovereign of Glory may enter.
Who is this Sovereign of Glory?
Adonai, mighty and valiant,
Adonai, mighty in battle.
Lift up high O you gates
lifted up the eternal doors,
so that the Sovereign of Glory may enter.
Who is this Sovereign of Glory?
Adonai Tz’va-ot
is the Sovereign of Glory.
Forever.

[Torah Service for Three Festivals (Psalm 24)]

שְׂאוּ שְׁעָרִים רָאשֵׁיכֶם
וְהִנָּשְׂאוּ, פִּתְחֵי עוֹלָם
וְיָבוֹא מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד
מִי זֶה מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד
אֲדֹנַי עִזּוּז וְגִבּוֹר
אֲדֹנַי גִּבּוֹר מִלְחָמָה.

שְׂאוּ שְׁעָרִים רָאשֵׁיכֶם
וּשְׂאוּ, פִּתְחֵי עוֹלָם
וְיָבֹא מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד
מִי הוּא זֶה מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד
אֲדֹנַי צְבָאוֹת הוּא מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד
סֶלָה.

S'u sh'arim rasheikhem
Ve-hinas'u pithei olam
Ve-yavo melekh ha-kavod.
Mi ze melekh hakavod?
Adonay izuz ve-gibor
Adonay gibor milhamah.
S'u sh'arim rasheikhem
U-s'u pithei olam
Ve-yavo melekh ha-kavod.
Mi hu ze melekh ha-kavod?
Adonay tz'va-ot
Hu melekh ha-kavod.
Selah.

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from Heritage, released September 18, 2018

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Cantor Azi Schwartz of Park Avenue Synagogue New York, New York

Cantor Azi Schwartz is the Senior Cantor of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York, and is a world-renowned vocal performer and recording artist whose music reaches Jewish and interfaith audiences internationally.

Azi has performed at Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden; on PBS and on Richard Gere’s movie 'Norman'; and for Pope Francis.

He has released nine albums of Jewish liturgical music. ... more

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