[HANASHIR:16603] Re: Need Music for a Celebrating the Sadness Program

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

Adrian, how about some pieces from Yizkor?  I've written a short and simple 
"Enosh K'chatzir Yamav", and there are several other versions as well.  Or, 
from other YK liturgy, the "Al Tashlicheinu" piece...

Andy

At 10:20 PM 1/12/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>OK, here's an interesting request for assistance. I created a series of
>monthly Family programs for the school this year. This weekend, I am doing a
>short Family/student program for Grades K-whatever.
>
>Well, as always, having a penchant for going from New York to D.C. by way of
>China, I saddled myself with a challenging topic. The theme is "Celebrating
>the Sadness" and I am going to be teaching, in very abbreviated form, about
>the reasons and value in having "holidays" and rituals  that commemorate sad
>events, and, ultimately, about the value to us as individuals in remembering
>the sad as well as the good in our own lives. (The key that got me this
>particular topic, my working to make each monthly family program relate to
>the time at hand, is the fact that it is Tevet, which early on has the sad
>commemoration of Asara b'Tevet, and, like Cheshvan, has no celebratory
>holidays. In Cheshvan, I did a Shabbat-based program, using the lesson that
>Cheshvan is not really without holidays, as it has the best holiday of all 4
>times-Shabbat. So I figured this time around I would tackle the issue of
>"sad" holidays and remembrances head on.)
>
>I am managing to find suitable materials to put this program together, but I
>am really struggling for some music that works with the theme, and is family
>friendly. So I'm turning to this wonderful community for assistance,
>something that oddly, I don't do as often as I probably should, being its
>founder and moderator!
>
>If your response is worth sharing with the whole list, by all means do so.
>But if you think it might not be all that useful to others, simply write me
>off list at adrian (at) durlester(dot)com(dot)
>
>B'vracha,
>
>Adrian
>
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