Music director Cynthia Roberts-Greene celebrates 25th anniversary with Temple Emanu-El
A quarter-century of brilliant musical leadership was celebrated with a special Shabbat service recently marking music director Cynthia Roberts-Greene’s 25th anniversary with Temple Emanu-El.
Roberts-Greene is an organist, composer, singer, arranger, and conductor who holds bachelor's and a master’s degrees in music and has shared her talents throughout the west coast of Florida. At Temple Emanu-El, she is valued not only for her liturgical and musical gifts but also for her warmth, sincerity, and vision.
The service featured some of Roberts-Greene’s favorite musical selections. She also received a glass award sculpture and a gift of jewelry from Temple Emanu-El Ritual Chair Marian Raupp, Ethel Gross, and Mona Salomon as well as words of appreciation from Senior Rabbi Brenner Glickman.
Recounting God’s first call to Abraham, “You have known, as Abraham before you, a calling – to be summoned to religious service," Rabbi Glickman said. "I can imagine that when you were a young woman winning organ competitions and scholarships, studying music and earning your degrees, if someone said, ‘Cynthia, you are going to be a Jewish music director in a synagogue for 25 years,’ you would have been as surprised as Abraham was that day!
“Yet that has been your destiny. And like Abraham before you, you have been a blessing.”
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Submitted by Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Cynthia Roberts-Greene celebrates 25th anniversary at Temple Emanu-El
