Search - Bob Gluck :: Stories Heard & Retold

As Robert Gluck, composer and rabbi, writes: "I aim to bring together what I love about Jewish culture with the aesthetics of contemporary music." Don't be misled, however. This is not religious music. It is music (done with cutting-edge technology) that incorporates religious sounds. Gluck observes: "I picture a meeting place between the great cantorial traditions, candid camera-like snapshots of subtle moments of daily, including ritual, life and what I have learned from the evolving new musical traditions ... " Gluck teaches at The University at Albany. In his words: "Music has a magical quality. It can communicate ideas, feelings and impulses beyond words. Music can help us remember moments in our lives for which there are no words. It can help us structure and express ideas that words can only begin to touch."