SAN DIEGO — My brother, Marc Gold, is a professional cinematographer who owns and operates 24KT Sound & Video. His favorite subjects have always been weddings, bar mitzvahs and theater productions. Then Covid arrived and these venues disappeared. Marc had to repurpose himself and find new ways to help create special videos for people.
When the Rabbi at Congregaton Ner Tamid, in Palos Verdes, came to him with a request to help make his High Holy Day services meaningful, they brainstormed ideas. Not only did my brother film a memorable service for both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, he produced the powerful video shown above that was included in both services. The song, “One Voice” is the brainchild of Cantor Rachel Goldman.
The production of this video was no easy task. Following a specific set of instructions, singers filmed themselves on their cellphones while listening to a master soundtrack created by Cantor Goldman. In post-production, the singers’ individual videos were synchronized and edited, a process which took several days and many revisions. It’s a complicated edit, something like putting together a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. A final audio track was engineered, adding orchestration to create this musically rich, striking anthem that’s on its way around the world, inspiring hope and opening people’s hearts to the power of working in unison.
If there’s any silver lining to the cloud called Covid that’s spreading gloom all over the planet, it’s the birth of a song like “One Voice”…a ray of sunshine through the storm clouds that says once again, as it’s been said many times before, “We’re all in this together.” We are “One Voice.”
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Marcia Berneger is a retired elementary school teacher as well as a teacher at Torah school. She is the author of such children’s books as Buster the Little Garbage Truck, and A Dreidel in Time.
Beautiful!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL AND WARM VIDEO, SHOWING LOVE AND TOGETHERNESS. SHANAH TOVAH TO ALL………..JACQUELINE LEWICKI