JOY AND VIKKI with MODERN SHABBAT NUSACH: NEW JEWISH LITURGICAL MUSIC - Thursdays, November 7, 14, and 21, 2013 • 7:00 to 9:00 PM ~ 2 hour sessions with a break - Joy and Vikki will share modern melodic settings of Shabbat liturgical texts, comparing musical settings from Ashkenazic Reform to Sephardic, Chasidic, folk, pop, Israeli, and classical settings of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Along with an examination of the Hebrew prayer text, they will share background of the composers, introducing newer melodies as well as reintroducing familiar ones and leading class members in song.