[HANASHIR:6203] Re: Who Wrote, Recordings, and More

[Rick Lupert <Rick...>]

>I also have a question.  My Cantorial Soloist is 70 years old-- has a lovely
>baritone voice and he only plays the piano-- no guitar, banjo flute etc..
>Would he gain from HN if we sent him there next year.. would he feel out of
>place?


I'd like to echo what I said during Thursday Night's Beit 
Cafe....Marilyn Gregory got up to perform with her accordian and 
announced that she came from the 'old school' (I'm paraphrasing) and 
tried to essentially apologize for not being one of the people who 
song leads in the more 'modern' style of guitar and folk melodies.  I 
said then something along these lines:

Judaism has no obsolete music.  At Hava Nashira all styles and ages 
of music, instrumentation, and people are welcome and celebrated.  It 
seems to me that this more 'modern' style of guitar songleading and 
folk/rock melodies has served will to attract some who may not have 
found older styles of music as accessible...but I feel that these 
more modern styles serve as a doorway which once walked through 
allows one to be in a place where there are so many extraordinary 
things to listen to and sing.

I think your soloist will find many peers and colleagues amongst the 
Hava Nashira Kvutzah and will perhaps walk through a door himself.

Rick
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