“Halacha recognizes that music is a very powerful artistic source. It speaks to our souls.”
that’s true
in its place
“Great chazzanut is not about entertainment.”
yes it is, spiritual entertainment as well as musical entertainment, but entertainment.
“Great chazzanut is about interpretting the text of the davening and rendering it meanigful to the worshipper. Great chazzanim give shiurim in the music of tefilla and in the peirush hamillot when they daven for the amud. It is the music of the davening that provides intellectual stimulation as a backdrop to davening that might otherwise be rendered rote and meaningless by virtue of its constant repetition in our lives.”
yes, it can be a great refuah for the sickness of apathetic meaningless Tefillah.
i prefer to daven elsewhere
if a sick congregation needs such medicine, im all for it
“Great chazzanut also enrobes our noble liturgy in grandeur befitting praise of G-d and supplications before Him.”
beautiful poetic words
church choirs also “enrobes our noble liturgy, etc, etc.”
shakespeare also “enobles our spirits, etc, etc
it’s still entertainment
davening is something else entirely