Reply To: High Holiday Davening

The audition was last night and went very well, I thought.

They didn’t ask me to do anything from the yamim noraim, but I did a mix of Hineni, Kol Nidrei, and the Kaddish from the High Holidays for dramatic effect.

I did Tal, Atah BeChartanu, Kedusha from Musaf, Carlebach Kabbalas Shabbos selections, and portions of the Shabbos Mincha, which is what the committee asked of me.

The synagogue turns out to have mixed seating on the holidays, though, which makes me uneasy about taking the job should I get it. I mentioned that it is a dying-out Jjewish Center-style shul in Queens.