[HANASHIR:2022] RE: A Correction-Dreamworks and CAJE 23

[Serle, Brian <BSerle...>]

Sorry, I was talking about the soundtrack.  There are 3 CDs of Prince of
Egypt - related music, one is the soundtrack, the others are
Inspirational and the other is Nashville.  I don't believe the producers
were trying to pre-empt the intrinsic Jewishness of the whole Moses
saga.  I believe that the producers don't REALIZE (despite their Jewish
heritage) that the Moses story IS the story of the Jewish people from
the Torah!

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Adrian A. Durlester [SMTP:durleste (at) home(dot)com]
        Sent:   Thursday, December 17, 1998 9:26 AM
        To:     hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
        Subject:        [HANASHIR:2020] RE: A Correction-Dreamworks and
CAJE 23

        I am speaking of the tie-in CDs, not the movie soundtrack.
         
        And remember, there are performers who happen to be Jewish, and
performers who are doing Jewish music on liturgical themes. Not the same
thing.
         
        I'm not quite sure where Ofra fits in that mix. And I would
classify Israeli music in a different category that contemporary Jewish
liturgical/religious music.
         
        Yeah, Stephen Schwartz worked on Prince of Egypt. He also wrote
Godspell!
         
        Adrian
         

                -----Original Message-----
                From: owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Serle, Brian
                Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:42 AM
                To: 'hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org'
                Subject: [HANASHIR:2019] RE: A Correction-Dreamworks and
CAJE 23
                
                

                Adrian, my reading of the playlist of one of the Prince
of Egypt soundtrack CDs lists several songs by Ofra Haza, a sefardi
Israeli who would certainly consider herself a "contemporary Jewish
artist"!

                The list also shows another song by two Jewish women. 
Are they not "contemporary"?  Of course, I would like to see lots of
Silver, Klepper, Taubman and Friedman too!

                Brian 

                -----Original Message----- 
                From:   Adrian A. Durlester [SMTP:durleste (at) home(dot)com] 
                Sent:   Wednesday, December 16, 1998 6:20 PM 
                To:     Hanashir (E-mail); List, Jewish Music (E-mail);
Faigin, Daniel (E-mail) 
                Cc:     efox (at) clarku(dot)edu 
                Subject:        [HANASHIR:2012] A Correction-Dreamworks
and CAJE 23 

                Regarding my previous posts to Hanashir, Jewish-Music
and Other Lists 
                regarding The Prince of Egypt, Dreamworks SKG and the
tie-in promotional 
                CDs: 

                It has been brought to my attention that my information
was incorrect. 
                Dreamworks SKG was in fact sought after and invited to
participate in the 
                CAJE conference. My previous statements were based on my
limited knowledge 
                of the arrangements that resulted in their presenting a
preview of The 
                Prince of Egypt at CAJE 23. 

                However, this information does not change my feelings
that it was 
                unfortunate that Dreamworks SKG did not seek to create a
tie-in promotional 
                CD featuring contemporary Jewish artists in addition to
the Christian and 
                Country tie-in CDs. 

                It has been suggested that my approach to this situation
has been critical 
                and not constructive. That is, perhaps the case.
Nevertheless, it has 
                obviously succeeded in garnering some attention from the
Dreamworks folks. 

                If you are a Jewish artist, and interested in
contributing to a project to 
                present to Dreamworks a demo recording of original
compositions based on the 
                story of The Prince of Egypt or other biblical themes
(for potential future 
                feature films) and to make Dreamworks aware of the
Jewish music community, I 
                would be interested in hearing from you. 

                Unless Dreamworks would be forthcoming with some free
passes, I guess you'll 
                have to go see the film at your own expense so you can
write a song in 
                reaction to it. 

                Chag Sameach, 

                Adrian 



                Adrian A. Durlester 
        
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