102-Year Old Cantor To Be Honored at Convention

Photo: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

David Brandhandler, a 102-year-old cantor and resident of Evanston, will be one of several cantors honored at the Cantors’ Assembly Convention on Tuesday, May 5 at 8 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Westin Hotel.

The evening will feature songs from more than a dozen Chicago-area cantors plus the music of local composers and masterpieces in the “grand Chicago tradition,” according to a community post on the Chicago Tribune website. “The concert will be held in memory of Cantor Abraham Shapiro and will be highlighted by a presentation by the Kol Zimra Community Chorus.”

Cantor Brandhandler, a member of Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation in Skokie, was formerly cantor at the now-shuttered Ner Tamid Congregation in Chicago. He has long been known as a leader in prayer, a major composer of musical liturgy and a fine teacher who never raised his voice.

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