Menorah’s multi-faith choral extravaganza by Zoom on 30 January 2021
This was our seventh annual choral extravaganza. The Synagogue building had been closed for months because of Covid-19, and we were all practising social-distancing. But we came together with our lovely guests for a presentation by Zoom shared with an audience of about 500 watching on more than 300 screens in many different countries.
Some of our solo singing was live on the night, some of the items were videos of previous live performances in various locations, and a few items were “lockdown recordings”: video collages that had been stitched together from individual solo recordings.
We all had a fantastic time and hopefully extended the joy of music and singing ‘together’ to hundreds of people around the world.
… and we raised a lot of money to support the wonderful work of the Wythenshawe Food Bank.
You can watch and listen again to any or all of the items in our programme – just click on the upper half of any of the pictures below. Enjoy!
Ruti Worrall, Musical Director
& Robert Shields, King of Zoom
First half
Baruch Haba – Ruti Worrall 
Haleluyah (Levandowski) in the John Rylands Library, Manchester 
Geshem from Tel Aviv 
Geshem in Lockdown 
Martin Kaye – Bennie & the Jets 
Frances Ghatan sings The World of Your Dreams by Debbie Friedman 
Adon Olam by Uzi Chitman arr. Ruti Worrall recorded in Jerusalem 
The Intercontinental Cello Quartet play The Easy Winners by Scott Joplin
Second half
Nightingale Singers – The Bare Necessities 
Ella & Isabella – Shallow 
Ben Williams, Deborah Cohen, Peter & Ruti W, Belinda Carp 
Ronnie Enoch & Bat Kol Choir: Oseh Shalom 
Martin Kaye – Whole Lotta Shakin’ 
Siddique – Sau baar Janam lenge 
Morag Sanig – Banks O’Doon 
The SOP’s – Have Yourself a Merry Littel Christmas 
Vera Tymchyshyn sings Hand in Hand (Beethoven’s Ode to Joy) 
Intercontinental Cello Quartet – Im Eshkachech 
Menorah Choir – Rhythm of Life 
Donate to Wythenshawe Food Bank