Cantor 2016
The Cantor’s Couch: Performance by Cantor Jack Mendelson
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The Cantor’s Couch Performance by Cantor Jack Mendelson
Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. at Westport Town Hall. Journey through Cantor Jack Mendelson’s youth, as he recounts growing up in the 1950s in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The son of a loving deli owner and an overbearing mother, Cantor Mendelson paints a picture of a bygone day in Jewish America when Jews would flock to synagogue to hear the golden voices of cantors, as if it were a concert hall. He recounts a childhood riddled with anxiety and doubt, mixed with joyous memories of music and celebration, all told with the expertise and comic timing of a master storyteller and performer.