There were more religiously observant chazzanim than Rosenblatt and Schorr. Roitman was frum and a talmid chochom. Same for D.M. Steinberg, Mandelbaum, Kapov Kagan, Eshel, Dlin, Lind (the father), Rovner, Sholom Katz, Yosef Mandelbaum, Minkowsky, Glantz, M.K., and Simcha K. I have it pretty good authority that the overwhelming majority of post WWI european chazzanim who took Conservative pulpits were, themselves frum; people like Moshe Taube, or Louis Klein. They took those jobs because there were no other positions. I also have been told that Kwartin was shomer Shabbat, at least in public. His son, Saul, was a member of an Orthodox schul in Stamford, and walked when we went to schul every Shabbat. While Ganchoff and Pinchik were not frum, they did prefer the Orthodox schuls over the Conservative.
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