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Family Life: Welcoming
the Sabbath |
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The Kiddush
The Tucker Home
Great Neck, New York
year unknown |
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At the start of a
Shabbos meal, Richard Tucker says the Kiddush.
Present are, left to right: Wife and mother Sarah, son David, husband and father Richard, and sons Barry and Henry. |
| "Sam Ticker (Richard's
father) was innately musical. In his home each Friday night,
the Sabbath Eve, he sang traditional Hebrew melodies in his
light baritone voice--a pleasant-sounding 'Shabbos
voice,' as its kind was called in lower Manhattan. He
encouraged his children to join the singing. They looked
forward to these Shabbos evenings and, many years
later, remembered them warmly. For it was on these
evenings--and rarely on others--that the Ticker children saw
a different side of their father. The Shabbos music
transformed him from a quiet, detached, authority figure
into a smiling, loving father.
When Minnie, his
eldest daughter, joined in the singing, Sam recognized the
emerging purity of a fine soprano voice. Years later,
Richard Tucker would remember it as a 'beautiful lyric
soprano,' and wondered what it might have become had Minnie
seriously studied singing." |
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Great
Artist Series
The Yiddish World
The Hamotzi prayer
over the bread
Sarah and Richard Tucker
in the family kitchen
Sarah in the kitchen
Sarah Perelmuth
and Richard Tucker
wedding photograph
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