Discussing the Music for Meals concert are, from left, standing, Cantor/Rabbi Robert Freedman, Cantor Arthur Katlin, Lori Simon, and Cantor Murray Simon, and, seated, Martha Friedman, Linda Meisel, and Carol Shatoff. Lori Simon, Friedman, and Shatoff, all members of The Jewish Center, are volunteers serving on the committee planning the concert.
If you go
What: Music for Meals: Community Cantors in Concert
When: Sunday, May 31, 4 p.m.
Where: Adath Israel Congregation, Lawrenceville
Tickets: Available at area synagogues, $18 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, $50 for families; pantry patrons tickets cost $75 (two tickets), $150 (four tickets), and $300 (six tickets)
Contact: Call JFCS at 609-987-8100
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April 14, 2009
The old saw about singing for one’s supper will take on an especially poignant meaning next month as the region’s cantors come together to sing for the breakfasts, lunches, and dinners of those in need in the greater Mercer County community.
Music for Meals: Community Cantors in Concert is scheduled for Sunday, May 31, at 4 p.m. at Adath Israel Congregation in Lawrenceville. The concert will benefit the Ohel Avraham Kosher Food Pantry administered by the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Mercer County.
The aim of the concert is to raise not only funds for the pantry but community awareness about the sharp increase in demand at the facility during the current economic downturn, said Cantor Arthur Katlin of Adath Israel.
“This was my vision,” Katlin said during a recent telephone interview. “I went to my colleagues and then I went to Linda” — JFCS executive director Linda Meisel — “and said that we as cantors want to come together to do something for the community, for a special cause. What would that be? She said, without hesitation: the kosher food pantry.”
Katlin stressed that the concert will be a community effort. He will be joined on the Adath Israel stage by cantors Stuart Binder of Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction, Larry Brandspiegel of Beth El Synagogue in East Windsor, Robert Freedman of Princeton, Emily Pincus of Har Sinai Temple in Pennington, Adrienne Rubin of Temple Micah in Lawrenceville, and Murray Simon of The Jewish Center in Princeton.
Katlin’s wife, Evette Katlin, a member of the New Jersey Cantors Concert Ensemble, will also participate. Freedman, a rabbi as well as a cantor, formerly served as religious leader of String of Pearls in Princeton and as cantor of The Jewish Center.
The concert will feature a variety of musical genres, including cantorial, Jewish, Israeli, American folk, pop, Broadway, and film music, as well as novelty songs focusing on the themes of charity, feeding the hungry, and healing the world.
Music for Meals will also provide an opportunity to solicit donations to the Family-to-Family Kosher Food Pantry Challenge currently being conducted by JFCS, according to Katlin.
He said he hopes the concert “becomes the catalyst for greater understanding and communal participation in overcoming this difficult time and providing for this great need.”
Tickets for Music for Meals will be available at area synagogues at a cost of $18 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and $50 for families.
Community members will also be invited to enjoy reserved seating and to be listed in the program as pantry patrons. The donation levels are $75, including two tickets; $150, including four tickets; and $300, including six tickets.
Tickets can also be obtained by calling JFCS at 609-987-8100.
JFCS and the area synagogues listed are recipients of annual funds from United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks.
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