So what does the undisputed "Father of Modern Acapella" do to keep himself from slipping further into insanity? I turn to Judaism. Well, not exactly; but immersing myself in the burgeoning world of Jewish acapella is the closest I've come to my ancestral tribesfolk since my poorly catered disco-era bar mitzvah with the lone accordian player. How did I get involved? Kol Zimra, a fresh-faced Jewish acapella group, hired me to vocal arrange and produce an album of Hebrew prayers. "No problem," I thought, until I discovered that arranging vocal music in a foreign language is a minefield of biblical (old Testament) proportions.
(stay tuned for the rest of this column...)
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