Jothar, you don’t understand what chazzanut is about. It’s not about trying to sound like Pavarotti. Chazzanut, the artful use of nussach, is about interpretting text, and bringing the text of the tefilla to life. Chazzanut, when done right by a master cantor, is the ultimate intellectually satisfying and spiritually uplifting expression of prayer; like a really great shiur klali, one that has pilpul, Halacha and Agadeta. It’s a crying shame that the genre is moribund. Aside from losing a great tradition, davening will be cheapended as a result.
