Reply To: Abandonment of Nussach

Joseph, at the outset, I am not a full time chazzan. Sadly there aren’t enough Orthodox schuls around looking for chazzanim, and certainly none where I live. I response to your question, irnically, the less religious people tend to appreciate the efforts of a cantor than do more religious Jews. It seems that real frum Jews go to schul to perfunctorily fulfill the technical requirements of davening with a minyan and then to socialize at kiddush. They have no interest in artistsic exprerssion of the liturgy. Less frum Jews are more sensitive to such things and open to it.