Cantor Elena Zarkh immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1979, settled in Los Angeles, earned acceptance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and got ordained.
Sometimes titles are deceiving. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, for instance, only lasts around an hour. But such is the music’s scope and aura that its fifteen movements can resonate in the ...