Music

Our music program is a real point of pride for our community. This is not just because our musicians sound so good (and they do), but because in so many ways our music program is an arena in which we are able to enact many of our community's values and traditions. 

• The program developed organically, entirely from members who simply brought their talents to the table, and expresses our Reconstructionist orientation toward the arts as an expression of our humanity and our connection to Judaism. 
• The diversity in our musical selections reflects our abiding appreciation for the diversity of Judaisms around the world – and within our own sanctuary! Our mix of traditional Jewish music with songs from other cultures also expresses our theological approach toward blending traditional Jewish ideas with ideas from other times and places. This is why we mix “Kol HaOlam Kulo” with “Mad World”; this is why we sing “American Tune” from the bimah.  
• Finally, our music program is about bringing people together. It is intergenerational, and it is an area of synagogue life where members who are not Jewish have found a comfortable first "home base" within the broader synagogue community. 

Our musicians perform at CBH services and fundraising concerts, at rallies for social justice, in collaboration with other faith communities and local organizations, and have occasionally been featured at special events like the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, a Paul Simon lecture series at Emory and the national Reconstructing Judaism conference.

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Check out our recordings.