LIFESTYLE → ENDNOTE Issue 911 · May 17, 2022

Mood Mix with Eliezer Rabinowitz

Former Miami Boys Choir member and soloist (think “It’s Min Hashomayim”)

Mood Mix with Eliezer Rabinowitz

THE MUSIC I CONNECT TO MOST

Mostly the music of my younger years, the 1990s. MBD, Miami Boys Choir, or Country Yossi albums from that period are my most loved musical zone. Whenever I happen to hear those songs play, I just have to blast them and not be interrupted. Of the more contemporary material, I enjoy Zusha, because it’s a completely new sound, and Lipa, because of his incredible talent and the chiddush he brings.

A SONG THAT HAS AMAZING, ORIGINAL VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

What comes to mind is Shalsheles Junior’s “Modeh Ani.” Yitzchok Rosenthal (who was in Miami Boys Choir with me, and got driven to the rehearsals in the same carpool) is a musical genius.

MY FAVORITE ENGLISH SONG

Abie’s “Lulei Sorascha,” which is like the heart of a Yid speaking. And some of the Marvelous Middos Machine songs are a close second, like the Teshuvah song, with Dr. Doomstein’s epiphany in the middle, “You mean I can change?” and the Kosel/Sinas chinam song.

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