Harold Rosenbaum
// Music Director, Society For Universal Sacred MusicHAROLD ROSENBAUM is the Music Director of the Society For Universal Sacred Music based in Mount Kisco, New York. The New York Virtuoso Singers’ “To Orpheus” (1994), Leo Kraft’s “Spring In The Harbor” (1999), and Eleanor Cory’s “Of Mere Being” (2001) were all available from Composers Recordings, Allen Brings’ “Music For Voices” (2004) is available from Capstone Records, Thea Musgrave’s “Choral Works” (2004), and “George Perle: A Retrospective [2CD]” (2006) are both available from Bridge Records, Inc. Harold Rosenbaum is also the Artistic Director for The Canticum Novum Singers and The New York Virtuoso Singers, Consultant to the Hal Leonard Corp. and G. Schirmer, Inc., Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, Guest Conductor for Westchester Chorale, on the faculty for the Northern Lights Festival and Kingsway International, and Music Director at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Katonah, New York.
Websites: www.haroldrosenbaum.com, www.nyvirtuoso.org, and www.universalsacredmusic.org
Photo: Harold Rosenbaum / Society For Universal Sacred Music
Interview:
I believe that the ability to reach perfection and become one with God is within each of us. There are many paths on this journey, and it can take many incarnations to reach this state of bliss. Whether it is toiling humbly in the fields, viewing all humans as brothers, sitting cross-legged on your bed meditating, or making others happy through music, we become more spiritual beings, more in tune to the divine within us. It is not so much that music has a spiritual significance, but rather that music has a spiritual essence, that music is a spiritual force which can be an important vehicle for spiritual growth. Music is a universal language. When combined with words which uplift the spirit, music becomes a spiritual force, a healer, a motivator, and a chariot in which one soars to higher places.
“Music becomes a spiritual force, a healer, a motivator, and a chariot in which one soars to higher places.”
– Harold Rosenbaum, Music Director, Society For Universal Sacred Music
