Cantor Azi Schwartz

Hamakom y’naheim etkhem b’tokh sh’ar av’lei tziyon virushalayim. Min ha-shamayim t’nuhamu. May God comfort you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. May Heaven comfort you. Elliot Weiss, arr. Oran Eldor Elliot Weiss (1952–) Mr. Weiss’s works include Bittersuite: Songs of Experience, winner of the Off-B’way MAC award for Best Musical; The Witch of Wall Street, recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre; and the oratorio Dori: The Life and Times of Theodore Herzl, featuring lyrics by Eric Blau, creator of Jacques Brel. Mr. Weiss is currently at work on an opera based on the holocaust memoirs of Dr. Thomas Nyiszli with a libretto by noted author Leslie Epstein. He has also recently completed a sequel to Bittersuite entitled Bittersuite: Songs of More Experience, exploring the humorous side of growing older.