In March of ’56, I was playing the outfield in a game of punchball on the cement grounds of Etz Chaim Yeshiva of Brooklyn, a school for boys,when Perry Horowitz punched a moonshot in my general direction. I screamed, “I GOT IT! I GOT IT!!” at the same time as a car horn blared. I […]
[youtube http://youtube.com/w/?v=eW-B-FMjasE] Some years ago, a beginning student came to my office for his first coaching session in Cha’za’nut and announced: “I want to study Glantz!” I told him: “You need to be able to walk, before you compete for Olympic Gold.” Notice I didn’t say run… As a child, I was reared listening to Cha’za’nut. Mordechai Hershman, Yossele […]
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A famous Cantor called from Israel to congratulate me on a recording I did of Hoshanos, (a prayer recited on the holiday of Sukkot) composed by my teacher, Moshe Ganchoff. He said: “Jackie, Jackie, I heard your recording of Ganchoff’s Hoshanos, and I had to call you to say how incredible your interpretation was. Not […]
In march of 1972, I auditioned for the Cantorial post at Temple Beth Torah, of North Miami Beach. This came about because the president of the Shul, a Hyman Katz, or HAAAAAAAAmen, as he called himself with his southern accent, recruited me, kind of like a ball player. Hy was an aficionado of the cantorial […]
