[HANASHIR:3588] Re: "Master of All Things"

[Kim Moskowitz <kim...>]

Craig,

    I love "messing" with your material and even more so with your blessing!
Thank you for your advice, wisdom, generosity and tireless spirit.  Surely
you deserve to be rewarded many times over for your perspective on life,
both personally and professionally.  All of us at Hava Nashira '99 were
blessed to share precious moments with you where the energy, warmth and
leadership skills that you brought to us with your music were an incredible
inspiration and education.  I am working at Camp Gan Alonim at
Brandeis-Bardin this summer and have the campers and councelors rocking and
rolling to "Everybody Has A Story/I Am A Part Of The Circle" in four parts.
I am teaching it as I remember it being taught to me and a committed group
of Jewish musicians one spirited afternoon in Ocanamawoc, WI. by a master
teacher and performer.  I give you all the credit, personally and
publically!!  Keep up your good work!  Fondly, Kim Moskowitz
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Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 8:06 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:3530] Re: "Master of All Things"


> Let me preface my remarks with an observation.
>
> 1. The general spirit and tone of this list is so wonderfully warm and
> supportive.  This is in contrast to two other Jewish lists I "lurk" on
which
> are generally negative and simply not nice.  (I'd love to know if anyone
has
> any thoughts on why this might be the case. Could it be that many of us
have
> spent a week together at Hava Nashira and that this is not a purely
anonymous
> group?)
>
> So here is my "remark."  As the composer of this melody and lyric I find
> nothing wrong with people "messing" with the material.  As a matter of
fact
> there is nothing that gives me greater joy than knowing that my music has
> legs and a life of its own. I feel that the songs I write are really more
> discoveries than creations of mine.  It is similar to my relationship with
my
> two children.  I feel that God has given me a gift in the form of a song
or
> in the case of my children a life.  As such I don't own it but rather have
> the wonderful opportunity of sharing their energy and spirit with many
many
> people, places and spaces.  Obviously, these are my own thoughts as a
> writer...others may want to check what "other writers" feel before
changing
> their songs.
>
> In the meantime please feel free to "mess" with my stuff.
>
> Craig Taubman
>

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