[HANASHIR:9885] Re: Patriotic songs

[Judy Ginsburgh <judy...>]

For Erev Rosh Hashanah, I sang Doug Cotler's "Adonai Li" after the sermon.
People were weeping.  We ended the services with Doug's "Tefilat Haderech".
Another gorgeous piece of music.  On Rosh Hashanah day, I sang Steve
Dropkin's "The World Yet To Come" after the sermon and at the Family
services, sang Peter and Ellen Allard's "Count Your Blessings".  The
comments I received about each one of these selections was overwhelmingly
positive.  Each one fit just perfectly with re-written sermons.  When
everything comes together like this on the pulpit and is transmitted to the
congregation, it is magical.  May the New Year be a sweet one for us all.

Judy :)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Alan Mason" <dralanmason (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 8:30 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:9882] Re: Patriotic songs


> At Temple Israel in Miami we began Erev Rosh Hashana with "America The
> Beautiful," and we began Rosh Hashana morning with "God Bless America."
In
> my ten years at Temple Israel, its the first time I can recall singing
> American patriotic song.  It worked extremely effectively!
>
> Alan Mason
> Doctor of Musical Arts
> Pi Kappa Lambda
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: LPKAROL (at) aol(dot)com
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:9880] Patriotic songs
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:21:47 EDT
>
> Dear Chevre,
>         Life in Topeka, Kansas is the same as everywhere else - we are
> coming
> out of the same daze and shock and initial grief that hit us on September
> 11.
>   Some of you know about Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, our
> local anti-everyone else (althought they say they are only
anti-homosexual)
> picketers who say that God hates America and fly their flag upside down.
> Their church is a few blocks from Temple, and some people who live near
them
> have started a counter-picket, realizing finally that no one should hate
> anyone after America became a victim of hate last week.  I hope give that
> group some help if I can.
>          My reason for posting is that my initial musical reaction to
recent
> events has been to sing songs about peace.  Last Friday, I added Debbie
> Friedman's "Shelter of Peace" to the service along with one of the prayers
> circulating aroud at the beginning.  I sang Yaysh Kochavim before the
> Kaddish, and we sang Steve Dropkin's "Birkat Hak'hilah" (Y'varchecha) at
the
> end of the service.   A congregant has written the board saying that our
> Tmeple has been neglectful of celebrating our American pride in song, that
> we
> should be singing a song like "God Bless America."   I know that some of
you
> have done it, and that's fine, but my first impulse is always to choose a
> Jewish expression first.   I have already heard stories of people having
> tears in their eyes at singing God Bless America at other congregations,
and
> that's fine.  It just wasn't my impulse.  What did you do and what do you
> think?  I have decided that I will recite the prayer for our nation and
our
> people in the gray gender-sensitive prayerbook every week from now on
> (should
> have been doing it already).  I think that should suffice.
>   I would welcome responses to the whole group or to me personally.
>         Have an easy fast, everyone - Shanah Tovah!
> L'shalom,
> (Rabbi) Larry Karol
> Temple Beth Sholom
> Topeka
>
>
>
>
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