Cantor Charles Osborne had his first singing engagement at twelve as a boy alto. He attended the Hartt College of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut, studying there with Cantor Arthur Koret. He also earned a degree and received his cantorial ordination from the Cantors Institute (now the H.L. Miller Cantorial School) of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in New York. Since 1987, he has served the pulpit of Temple Emanuel in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. At the Jewish Theological Seminary,…

Charles Osborne is a distinguished composer of Jewish liturgical music, and the experience shows in this work, derived from an oratorio called Souls on Fire that explores the lives of seven seminal figures of the Hassidic movement. The music lacks the sort of structural focus and sense of drama typical of the traditional symphonic medium,…