[HANASHIR:6204] Re: Who Wrote, Recordings, and More

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

Thanks you Rick-  I will forward this to him..

He is also a great yiddishist...


Rabbi Richard Schachet
Valley Outreach Synagogue
www.valleyoutreach.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Lupert <Rick (at) PoetrySuperHighway(dot)com>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:09 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:6203] Re: Who Wrote, Recordings, and More


> >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
> --
>
> Lupert: It's The Website - & - Poetry Super Highway
>            http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
>
>

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