Re: Jewish Folk Music?...Adon Olam, et al

[DanielKare <DanielKare...>]

In a message dated 98-03-05 03:55:48 EST, you write:

<< When it comes down to it, even in many traditional congregations in the
 US, there is not all that much musical material which is more than 100
 years old.   >>

Rabbi Scheinberg:

Thanks for answering a question I posed several days ago...asking who had any
knowledge about the fact that many of the tunes we sing in the synagogue,
which we hold as the "right, true" melody for this or that prayer, are in fact
relatively new, or borrowed from some other culture, and only seem right and
true to us because that is what we are used to. 

-Karen D.