[HANASHIR:15269] Re: Opening Songs

[elerner1 <elerner1...>]

I don't usually repeat the same opening or closing songs everyweek, although I 
sometimes combine two or three pieces in a medly.  Also during the service 
there a pieces we do pretty much the same everyweek, like Hirsh's oseh shalom 
after the silent meditation. So what I do is I double up  by first singing 
another Oseh shalom and then I seque into the one everyone knows. I hope to do 
this enough so that congregants become familiar with the new piece and still 
sing their favorite one. Then maybe someday, I can just do the new piece alone 
and it will be familiar. We have a small congregation and there are some 
congregants who some regularly. But there are those who do not, so I cannot 
assume that new pieces will catch on that quick.  I also do this with the 
blessing v'zot hatorah when lifting the Torah. First I sing the one we all 
know, and then while the Torah is being dressed, I sing to lai, lai, lai, the 
one in the Gates of Song. Congregants are now starting to sing along wi!
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Ellen Lerner
Congregation ETz Chaim
near Rochester, Ny

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