[HANASHIR:15965] Re: yom hashoah help

[charki <charki...>]

I think it is wonderful to have new tunes for prayers, or poems.  However, it 
depends where the prayer is being used.  If you are using the setting of Yom 
Hashoah,  I would probably choose the 'traditional' setting of 'Ani Ma-a-min.'  
However, I have had choirs sing 'Mashiach' which is the same prayer/poem set to 
rock music.  It's a wonderful song, sung in the appropriate setting.  I would 
hate to squelch people's creativity in their composing.  However, I can make 
the choice as to which tune is appropriate for my needs at that time.

Charki Dunn, Music Director
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
> No melody, not even Kol Nidrei are from Sinai.  The opening lines of Kol
> Nidrei may have been ancient... but the rest is very classically European,
> and I've known musicians who have - let's call it "issues" with that melody
> too.  It's all in the ear of the beholder... and what sounds good (or
> "spiritual"...) to one individual or one generation will inevitably change
> over time.  The real problem is dogma... not this or that tune.
> 
> Shirona
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Shewitz" <brucel (at) stratos(dot)net>
> To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:06 PM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:15962] Re: yom hashoah help
> 
> 
> > I am curious to know if anyone else reacted negatively,as I did, to the

> > thought of a new or different melody for "Ani ma-amin?" I know
> > objectively that it's not the same as singing "Kol nidrei" to a
> > different melody, but it somehow feels like it. Are there are other
> > texts whose melodies have taken on, at least for some, a quasi-
> > "Missinai" standing?
> >
> > Bruce Shewitz
> > Director of music
> > Suburban Temple--Kol Ami
> > brucel (at) stratos(dot)net
> >
> >
> >
> 
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