[HANASHIR:4746] Re: music history request

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

Dear Rebecca,

The only "traditional" melodies for Ose Shalom would come either from the
Reform tradition OR from different nuschey (?) for the Kaddish, because the
line is never recited aloud in the orthodox liturgy except as the last line
of the Kaddish.

I don't believe that the line was present in the Hebrew in the old Union
Prayerbook, except in the Kaddish.  I don't remember ever hearing it sung
at Reform services when I was growing up in the sixties (last century!)
The only time I ever heard it sung was at camp, in the Birkat Hamazon.

Perhaps Shlomo Carlebach's version might be older than the Hirsh.

But - there are so many very good versions around now!

Andy

At 06:34 PM 1/2/00 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>I am in the process of educating my singing cong to the reality that their 
>music is or was new to their parents.  Does anyone know what the prevailing 
>melody was for Ose Shalom before Nurit Hirsh wrote the 'traditional one' and 
>if so where I could purchase the music?  I am hoping the young man from the 
>musicology dept at Yale (Harvard) is still online.
>Thank you in advance for your help.
>Rebecca Howe-Pinsker
>Temple Bat Yam
>Sanibel Island,FL
>Rabbinic Aide/Cantorial Soloist
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Andy Curry
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Kansas City MO 64110-3034
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