Jewish Music of Los Angeles: Celebrating the Music of Aminadav Aloni

2024 marked the 25th anniversary of Aminadav Aloni’s yahrzeit. In his memory, Noreen offers a lecture with music samples about the breadth of his work as a composer of synagogue music. For thirty years, he was the music director and composer in residence for Valley Beth Shalom. In her lecture, Noreen explores the impact that his composition had on Synagogue music and beyond.

“In his Synagogue compositions, Aloni brought together his gifts in the areas of classical, popular, theatrical, sacred, and film music, as well as jazz in several forms, always with refined taste and attention to the liturgical texts with which he was thoroughly familiar. Whatever influences he allowed to manifest in these liturgical endeavors, the music was ultimately at the service of communal prayer.”