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Description
Overview: An intimate concert series, the Rising Song Salon welcomes musical artists whose work sits at the intersection of Jewish text and storytelling into Hadar’s beit midrash for an exploration of song, source material, and creative process. In conversation with Hadar’s R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, each artist will share songs from the heart, inviting the audience into their music’s story. Come ready to listen, sing, and ask questions!
Music as Midrash with Elana Arian
Our teacher of blessed memory, Debbie Friedman, taught that just as the sages engaged in the process of midrash - bridging the gap between reverence for the fixed texts of our tradition and theological creativity - so too, do composers of new Jewish melodies. In transmitting our sacred texts through new musical mediums, creators of contemporary Jewish song continue the midrashic tradition of interpreting and re-interpreting Biblical text, responding to contemporary problems, and reflecting new Jewish realities through their musical interpretations. Elana Arian is a modern-day musical midrashist whose original musical settings shine new light onto our sacred texts, answering ancient questions while asking new ones of our tradition.
Elana Arian is one of the most influential voices in contemporary Jewish music. A nationally touring recording artist and prayer leader serving over 30 distinct communities each year, Elana’s music is part of Jewish life across the globe. Elana has released five albums of original music, and her compositions are the subject of a forthcoming anthology published by Transcontinental Music Publications. A beloved teacher, Elana serves proudly on the faculty of Hava Nashira (Oconomowoc, WI), the Wexner Heritage Foundation (Aspen, CO), Shirei Chagiga (London, England), and Hebrew Union College in New York, where she teaches in the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music.
You are warmly welcome to join us before the session at 7 PM for Happy Hour and Parashah by Hadar Faculty. The Salon will begin at 7:30 . There will be Arvit after the session at 8:45 PM.
This event is part of a three-part series. Get a season pass for all three events here.
Date & Time
Tue, Jul 8, 2025 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
Venue Details
Yeshivat Hadar
210 West 93rd StreetNew York, New York 10025
