That night, Coel told Zelermyer about her next project, a yet-untitled show about consent and the fallout from sexual assault, based on her personal experience as a rape survivor. “We stayed up until three in the morning sharing life stories,” Zelermyer said. A day after they’d watched four episodes, Zelermyer says he woke up to an email from Coel, who had discovered the group’s music through “You Want It Darker.” They quickly struck up a friendship that culminated in a night out together in East London in 2019.
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After Cohen died in November 2016, the album vaulted to the top of the charts, and Zelermyer, who had a solo on the title track, and the choir took home Grammy Awards when Cohen won posthumously for Best Rock Performance.Ĭoel first crossed the cantor’s radar in 2018, when Zelermyer and his wife were binge-watching “Black Earth Rising,” a Netflix series she had a supporting role in. It begins in 2015, when he and the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir provided vocals for Leonard Cohen’s final album, “You Want It Darker.” Cohen had had his bar mitzvah at the synagogue, and reached out to Zelermyer to suggest a collaboration after hearing one of the group’s recordings. “It was completely bashert - ridiculous,” Zelermyer said. The ensuing sequence - Arabella wades into the water until she is fully submerged, accompanied musically by the choir and its soloist, Cantor Gideon Zelermyer - is a defining moment of the acclaimed drama’s first season, which concluded August 24. Then she climbs to her feet.Īs she does, the 18 male voices of the Shaar Hashomayim Choir, a Montreal-based synagogue group, sing the harrowing first notes of a classic piece of Jewish High Holiday liturgy, “Uv’cheyn Yitkadash,” (which means “and thus may be sanctified”). At the end of the eighth episode of HBO’s breakthrough series, “I May Destroy You,” the protagonist, a Ghanaian British writer named Arabella Essiedu awakes on the shore of the Tyrrhenian Sea, an emotional wreck stranded thousands of miles from home.Ī string of catastrophe and failure has led Arabella here - her rape in the show’s pilot, her struggle to produce the draft she owes her publisher, her ill-advised attempt to reignite an old flame - and she sits before the waves in silence, looking utterly defeated.
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