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Cantor Todros Greenberg’s great-granddaughter wanted her son to hear his great-great- grandfather sing, but all she had was a tangle of tapes from dozens of reel-to-reel recordings. What could she do?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After locating a box full of tapes belonging to her great-grandfather, Cheryl Silver reached out to the JSA. With her son Noah’s Bar Mitzvah only a few months away she wanted to preserve the music on the tapes as part of Noah’s Mitzvah Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although most of the tapes seemed to be in fairly good condition they were in total disarray. The home-made tapes were not clearly identified. We had no idea who was singing what on which tape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit of good luck: <\/strong>As it happened, Cantor Joseph Gross, friend of the JSA, remembered Cantor Greenberg and could identify his voice. Hour after hour after hour, Cantor Gross sat with ear phones listening to tapes and making notes.  JSA sound technician, Ben Roth-Aroni meticulously digitized the tapes, created separate tracks and organized the songs on CDs for the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-known among Cantors for his talents as an educator and composer,  Cantor Greenberg\u2019s 40 year collaboration with  Cantor Sholom Kalib resulted in the critically acclaimed book, Heichal Han’gina V’hatfila. Vol.1<\/a>, published in 1961 by the Cantor’s Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His compositions have been included in the Milken Archive\u2019s CD: The First S\u2019lihot<\/em> by Benzion Miller and  in The Milken Archive\u2019s 50 CD boxed set.  They were also featured as part of the 8-program WFMT (Chicago) radio series, The Art of the Cantor<\/em>, hosted by Cantor Alberto Mizrahi. But, recordings of this great Cantor’s voice have been rare \u2026..until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judaica Sound Archives is proud of its role in preserving the recorded music legacy of Cantor Todros Greenberg.The digitized music in this collection was lovingly and painstakingly created from Cantor Greenberg\u2019s personal reel-to-reel tapes which were donated to the Judaica Sound Archives by Cantor Greenberg\u2019s family in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of his great-great-grandson, Noah Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Click here<\/a> to read more about Cantor Greenberg and to hear his recordings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cantor Todros Greenberg’s great-granddaughter wanted her son to hear his great-great- grandfather sing, but all she had was a tangle of tapes from dozens of reel-to-reel recordings. What could she do? After locating a box full of tapes belonging to her great-grandfather, Cheryl Silver reached out to the JSA. 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