[HANASHIR:7100] Re: singing for Israelis ?!?!?!?!?!?

[Meris Ruzow <meris...>]

Hey - Here's to you Joel for providing them with the music that they needed!
They may pronounce the language better, but who was up there with the
entertainment and ruach?   Kol HaKavod!
Meris Ruzow
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel <joels (at) u(dot)arizona(dot)edu>
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, October 15, 2000 11:29 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:7098] singing for Israelis ?!?!?!?!?!?


>I just had an experience that I had to share with you all.
>I was asked to sing at the Israeli shaliach in Tucson's Sukkot party, and I
>was really excited about it. He asked me to sing Lu Y'hi and Bashana
>Haba'ah, and that was fine, and I was ready. What never occured to me was
>that I would be singing for mostly Israelis. It made me really nervous to
be
>singing long Hebrew songs in front of Israelis, and to make it even better,
>the table they had for me to set the words on was so low that I could
barely
>see them.
>Needless to say, it was a very stressful experience, and my friends who
were
>there said that they could see the weight off my shoulders and the smile on
>my face every time I got to the chorus, and that it left with every verse.
>It turned out being fine. Everyone enjoyed it and sang along, and the
>Israelis thought it was cute to watch the funny American trying to sing in
>Hebrew.
>Anyway, it was fun, and I told the shaliach to give me a call any time he
>needed badly pronounced Israeli music, and I really do hope to do stuff for
>him again, but it was an audience that was different from Religious Schools
>and camps that I wasn't quite ready for...
>
>Joel Simon
>joels (at) u(dot)arizona(dot)edu
>
>
>

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