[HANASHIR:10362] Seder "gig"

[Judy Ginsburgh <judy...>]

I have been contacted by a group in Manhattan who needs a songleader to lead
their family seder.  They are looking for someone who is particularly good
with children (10 & under)who can not only lead the traditional elements of
the seder but also songs, games, etc.  The date is Wed., March 27 at 6 pm
and it is on the Upper East Side of NYC.  They are able to pay between $300-
$500 and this could lead to more work if they like you.  If you are
interested, please let me know and I will give you contact info.  Happy
Turkey Day.

Judy :)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "erik contzius" <contzius (at) home(dot)com>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:10354] accents/pronounciation


> I hate to be the dissenter here, but accents DO make quite a
> difference. It can be the difference of changing a Hebrew verb from
> the past to the future tense. It can change a name from the formal to
> the common (your friend down the street is MO-sheh, but mo-SHEH is
> mo-SHEH rabbEI-nu)... One has to bear in mind that it is difficult
> for the English speaker to relate, since much of English is
> monosyllabic (why is the word monosyllabic so long??), and very few
> words in English have their accent on the last syllable. Hebrew's
> pronounciation  is very germane to its meaning--in English, a
> disfigured pronounciation of a word only makes it sound funny, but in
> Hebrew, the accent can do some serious harm. Unfortunately, I do not
> have the Torah Chanting book by Ely Simon handy (I recommend it to
> everyone, btw), which has some extreme examples of what a wrong
> accent can do. Suffice it to say we either care about the
> pronounciation of a native language and are sensitive to its
> interpretation by a native speaker, or we are not. (I know, I know,
> Israeli's are the worst grammarians... I don't believe it. There are
> plenty of Israeli's I know who care about their language.) The
> difference comes in when you deal with musical styles which were
> influenced by other cultures--specifically yiddish speaking cultures.
> That's how sha-BAT became SHA-bes. Hence, trying to take a piece
> written by carlebach and ammending its accents for the sake of the
> language doesn't work well, since the composer was writing in the
> same style in which he actually spoke the Hebrew (or IV-ris, as he
> might have said). BUT, the naive composer, who learns Hebrew from
> transliteration, has only the excuse that they have not studied, nor
> are sensitive to the nuances of the Hebrew language.
>
> Hebrew is now a living and vibrant language which people are studying
> at the universities, and using in a country--it is not a dead
> language in a vacuum. The more we study it, its grammar, oddities,
> etc., the more we appreciate lashon kodesh (the holy tongue)... I
> guess i'm trying to ask composers who write today to not let the
> melody or rhythm come first in the case of Hebrew--for those of us
> who speak the language, it hurts our ears! (mine, anyway...)
>
> happy day o' turkey once again
> cantor erik l. f. contzius
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