BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: \;\nThe grand re-opening of JCC MetroWest&rsquo\;s Mauri ce Levin Theater will be celebrated at Shirat Ha&rsquo\;Am: Songs of Our People\, a very special concert featuring four of our area&rsquo\;s mos t distinguished and beloved Cantors. \; They will lift their voices in song at a magical evening of sacred and secular works on Thursday\, J anuary 24\, 7:30pm\, at the Leon &\; Toby Cooperman JCC\, 760 Northfi eld Avenue\, West Orange.\nFeatured Cantors include Cantor Joel Caplan o f Congregation Agudath Israel\, Caldwell with his choir\; Cantor Perry F ine of Temple Beth Shalom\, Livingston with his choir\; Cantor Erica Lip pitz of Oheb Shalom Congregation\, South Orange with her choir\; and Can tor Lorna Wallach of Congregation B&rsquo\;nai Israel\, Millburn with he r congregation band. \; The four Cantors will be joined by Russell J ayne\, Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) Cantorial Student. Partial proc eeds of the program will benefit the Oheb Beit Israel Cantorial Scholars hip at JTS.\nCantor Joel Caplan conducts the Kol Dodi Community Jewish C hoir (along with Cantor Erica Lippitz)\, as well as the Tov M&rsquo\;od Children&rsquo\;s Choir\, the HaZamir NJ Teen Choir\, and has served as conductor of the New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble. He has created cho ral arrangements of more than 100 Jewish songs\, and has toured Europe a nd America as part of the Zamir Chorale of Boston. Cantor Caplan served for years on the staff of Camp Ramah and on the staff of the North Ameri can Jewish Choral Festival\, and since 1994 he has been an instructor at the Jewish Theological Seminary's H.L. Miller Cantorial School in New Y ork. \;\nCantor Perry Fine is one of the co-founders of Voices in Ha rmony\, an interfaith choral ensemble in Essex County\, now in its 13th year. He served over 19 years at Congregation Beth El in South Orange wh ere he taught lay people of all ages skills in chanting Torah\, Haftarah and M&rsquo\;gillot as well as trained lay Sh&rsquo\;lichei Tzibbor (se rvice leaders) through his innovative Sha&rsquo\;tz Club. He founded the congregation&rsquo\;s Chevra Kadisha\, the first such Holy Burial Socie ty for Conservative congregations in the MetroWest community. For the pa st fifteen years Cantor Fine has served on the faculty of the Jewish The ological Seminary.\nCantor Erica Lippitz was one of the first two women invested as Cantor by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1987. As a memb er of the innovative folk-singing group Beged Kefet\, she has recorded t hree albums and serves as back-up vocalist for other Jewish performers. Ever since she was hired by Oheb Shalom in 1987\, Cantor Lippitz has wov en together the strands of traditional prayer with the innovative sounds of American Jewish music. Cantor Lippitz is the co-founder and director of the 65-member Kol Dodi choir\, as well as director of Oheb Shalom's adult and children's choirs.\nCantor Lorna Wallach is in her 14th year w ith Congregation B&rsquo\;nai Israel and previously served for 9 years a s Cantor of Tifereth Israel Town and Village Synagogue in Manhattan.&nbs p\; She received her Diploma of Hazzan from the Cantorial School of the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1991. \; Cantor Wallach has performed with the SELAH vocal ensemble and as a soloist\, both nationally and in ternationally\, with the New York Zamir Chorale. Her moving rendition of Yerushalayim Ir Shalom can be heard on the Spirit of Israel CD\, jointl y produced by The Cantors Assembly and United Synagogue.\nFor more infor mation on the Shirat Ha&rsquo\;Am: Songs of Our People Cantor Concert\, please contact Carol Berman\, Manager\, JCC MetroWest Gaelen Center for the Arts\, at 973-530-3421 (cberman@jccmetrowest.org).Tickets: \; $1 8 Member/Student/Senior &bull\; $25 General Public \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \; 1-800-494-TIXS  \;www.boxofficetickets.com/jccm etrowest \; \; \; \; \; \; Advance Purchase Reco mmended\nMaurice Levin Theater: Two years of planning have produced newl y designed audience spaces which include new theater seats\, theater ais le lighting\, and 16 accessible places for patrons using wheelchairs (ea ch place with an accompanying seat for a companion). There are more than 50 spaces accommodating participants with ambulation difficulties by al lowing them to bring their &ldquo\;walkers&rdquo\; to their seats withou t interrupting other patrons.\nJCC MetroWest is most grateful to the Hea lthcare Foundation of New Jersey for their generous lead grant that pave d the way for the redesign of the Maurice Levin Theater. \; Addition al critical support was provided by grants from The Wallerstein Foundati on for Geriatric Life Improvement\, The Russell Berrie Foundation\, Esse x County Community Development Block Grant Funds (CDBG)\, Rose Eckstein\ , and Anne Silberstein Cohen.\n \;\n \;\n \;\n\n \;\n\n& nbsp\; URL:http://westorange.patch.com/events/shirat-haam-songs-of-our-people-ca ntor-concert SUMMARY:Shirat Ha'Am: Songs of Our People Cantor Concert LOCATION:Leon &\; Toby Cooperman JCC: 760 Northfield Ave\, West Orange \, NJ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR