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Our ChoirA Proud Tradition
The Great Synagogue has a proud tradition of choral excellence which began with the opening of The Great Synagogue in its current location in 1878.
It was served initially by highly professional choirmasters, few of them Jewish and some with high musical qualifications in secular music.
The choir was originally a mixed-voice choir but when Rabbi Raymond Apple arrived as senior rabbi in 1972, he effected the change to a male-voice choir more consistent with those choirs used in Orthodox synagogues around the world.
Today’s choir, under choirmaster Robert Teicher, is a combination of male voices and ages – from alto to tenor, from post-Bar Mitzvah boys to much older members.
They sing a range of liturgical music from the classic pieces used in shules throughout the world to more modern works written recently to reflect modern sentiment.
