[HANASHIR:9977] songbooks

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okay, colleagues: have a field day with this one -

off the top of your heads: if you had to recommend to a public school music 
teacher, one, and only one songbook collection to purchase in order to find 
"authentic" jewish music to arrange for elementary/middle school choral, 
instead of doing those horrific "written for chanukah" octavos, what would it 
be? 

i'm in the process of posting a list of such books on a music educator's list 
serve, and thought i'd get your input if you care to take a minute. put 
yourselves in the position of a public school music teacher looking through a 
book - you need current transliteration, and good translations, and not much 
hebrew, and lots of "secular" songs to choose from.

laura deutsch