[HANASHIR:13665] Diva

[Joy Newman <joyzee...>]

The only European Award I can think of is the song "Diva" by Dana 
International, that won at Eurovision in 1998.  Hmmmm....  Does anyone know 
how Eurovision works?  I guess I'm blindly assuming that it was some sort of 
music festival/competition, but I could be way off.  It would be interesting 
to know what opportunitites there are out there, just for the sake of 
knowing...

Thanks!

~smile always~
-Joy






>From: "Rabbi Richard Schachet" <lvrabbi (at) lvcm(dot)com>
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: [HANASHIR:13660] Re: Grammys and the Blues
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:08:32 -0800
>
>The hassidic, Israeli children's and Israeli  song festival  were sort of
>Jewish Grammy's.  Also isn't there a European Festival won by an Israeli a
>few years ago.  Isn't this similiar to the Grammy's which I agree are a
>farce.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cantor Brad Hyman" <cantorb (at) pacbell(dot)net>
>To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:39 AM
>Subject: [HANASHIR:13658] Grammys and the Blues
>
>
> > Wow!
> >
> > That was a wonderful, eloquent, worthy-of-Dennis-Miller rant about the
> > Grammy Awards. Sadly, it was also right on the money. Ditto to the
>follow-up
> > remarks about the great talent that has never received a "bronze
>euphonium."
> > The Grammy's are all about the industry, and how the industry sells
> > records(if we can even call them that...insert audible sigh). I did 
>watch.
> > Why did I watch? Like a deer in the high beams, I couldn't change the
> > channel. What the hell was that in between the great B.B. King and 
>Herbie
> > Hancock?? "Scroll back one more time... don't I look good?" There were
>only
> > 11 televised awards in a "three-hour tour" spectacular-spectacular that
> > included a nod to nostalgia with our Beatrice-cized Simon and
>Garfunkel(will
> > they reunite to sell more records, or have they healed their infamous 
>rift
> > to repair the world, one folkie at a time?), James Taylor (who, by the
>way,
> > publicly stated that he doesn't care if he won or lost...he's "past it
> > all"), and let us not forget that Nora Jones comes from the fine stock 
>of
> > Ravi Shankar, who is clearly beyond anything we can comprehend with our
> > Western ears.
> > I will also echo the 19-year-old Joy Newman, at my wife's alma mater U 
>of
> > Ra-cha-cha, who reminds us that Jewish music is in our hands...for now.
> > Let's continue learn from the Grammy's as a warning of what can happen 
>if
>we
> > are swayed solely by record sales, and popularity games. Thank God for
> > Transcontinental, Soundswrite, and other venues to sell our wares. Many 
>of
> > us would not know about the "new stuff" if it weren't for them and their
> > marketing. But are we relying on this alone to spread music, or do the
> > "music masters" who surf this listserv and fight in the trenches every
>week
> > still primarily drive it? Jewish music is not about what is "hot," or 
>what
> > is the "most selling Jewish music [insert category here] album ever," 
>but
> > rather it is about what is accessible in its time and place. That's why 
>we
> > can bring ourselves to let our rich musical heritage that Jeff, Danny, 
>and
> > Debbie were running from in the late '60's slip through our fingers with
>the
> > bath water. This music, of which I dare-not-speak-its-name, too, lives
> > inside us and needs to be respected much like our Simon and Garfunkels 
>and
> > James Taylors. In its time and place. Perhaps that's why a good ol'
>rousing
> > rendition of Sulzer's "Shema" is still heard at services in the most
> > contemporary Jewish musical bastions.
> > I hope the "new guard" of Jewish composers are listening, and will
>continue
> > to push the envelope. I happen to love watching NFTY go crazy for Danny
> > Nichols, Rick Recht, Beth Schafer, and Noam Katz. Heck... I go crazy for
> > their stuff, but not necessarily for the same reason the kids do. We 
>need
>to
> > continue creating (re-creating?) Jewish musical heroes. These heroes are
>the
> > likes responsible for me (and others I suspect) wanting to learn more, 
>and
> > eventually making a return to chazzanut. Isn't that the irony?? The 
>harder
> > Jeff ran, he still became a learned cantor, Danny became a rabbi (though
>we
> > all know he can sing with the best of 'em), and Debbie still shudders at
>her
> > earlier usage of Hebrew grammar. Carlebach was a chacham first! We need 
>to
> > constantly learn more, and what better way to learn than by studying our
> > past. As soon as we can dig up ol' Solomon Sulzer from his European
>resting
> > place, and teach him to write music again that sounds like...hmmmm...
> > Russian folk music, '60's protest songs, Dave Mathews riffs, Rusted
>Root-ian
> > drum circle jams, with a Harry Chapin lyric (God, I wish he were alive 
>to
> > comment on the state of the world...more audible sighs) and a smidgen of
> > Torah text to wash it down, I'm sure we'll all be right as rain.
> >
> > Me? I'm gonna sing the Blues....
> >
> > Cantor Brad Hyman
> > Temple Sinai of Glendale
> > 1212 N. Pacific Avenue
> > Glendale, CA 91202
> > (818) 246-8101 phone
> > (818) 246-9372 fax
> > (818) 244-2547 The "Bat Phone"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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