Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco : Naomi & Ruth - Sacred Service CD Serenade: A Balanchine Story is

Serenade: A Balanchine Story is a rich narrative by a dynamic artist about the nature of art itself at its most ephemeral and glorious

authentic cantorial improvisations

Bentley takes us inside the rarefied

its mystical—and literal—embodiment of the tradition of classical ballet in just thirty-three minutes

establishing a long tradition of contemporary sacred Jewish music commissioned from leading composers

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco : Naomi & Ruth - Sacred Service CD Serenade: A Balanchine Story isFormat: CD "This is one of the purest and most touching compositions you have ever written," wrote fellow migr composer Ernst Toch to his friend Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco after hearing his cantata Naomi and Ruth. For Castelnuovo Tedesco, America offered new opportunities to deepen and develop his Italian musical heritage and his Jewish spirituality. He dreamed that he might hear his Sacred Service "once in the synagogues of Florence," but instead this