People of Note - Raymond Goldstein

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Rodney Trudgeon’s guest on People of Note this week is RAYMOND GOLDSTEIN who is a distinguished musician, composer and arranger, born in South Africa and who now lives and works in Jerusalem.
He’s been on the faculty of the Jerusalem Faculty of Music and, since the opening of the Jerusalem Great Synagogue in 1982, he has held posts of music arranger and associate conductor of its world famous choir, travelling internationally. We discussed Jewish music both folk and liturgical.
26 Feb English South Africa TV & Film

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