[HANASHIR:3632] Re: HANASHIR digest 620

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

where is this conference?
----- Original Message -----
From: Meris Ruzow <meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com>
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:3631] Re: HANASHIR digest 620


> Just wanted to let all of you musicians who spoke so highly about Hava
> Nashira know something -- there's another conference out there in July/Aug
> called the National Jewish Choral Festival Conference!   I've attended the
> last few and they offer terrific opportunities to work with the finest
> conductors/composers/teachers/entertainers that there are in our field.
> Courses range from things like:  Conducting techniques, working with
> volunteer choirs, choral repertoire, alternative programming for the
> Holocaust, sprituality in music, jewish texts on music, torah trope,
> understanding the prayerbook, and on and on it goes with such fine people
as
> Josh Jacobson, Vel Pasternak,  Mati Lazar, Josee Wolff, Benjie-Ellen,
Zolmon
> Mlotek, Fran Avni, Beged Kefet, etc. etc.
>
> You really ought to try this one!
> On a high and ready for caje.....
> Meris Ruzow
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esd7657 (at) aol(dot)com <Esd7657 (at) aol(dot)com>
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 8:08 PM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:3627] Re: HANASHIR digest 620
>
>
> >Hi friends -
> >A lovely midrash on the second line of the Shema -
> >as Jacob lay dying, surrounded by his sons, he was siezed with a great
fear
> >that his family would not continue in their faith, (but would be
> assimilated
> >into Egyptian idolatry....) and was completely unconsolable.  In great
> haste
> >and fervor to assure him, his children proclaimed "Shema, Yisrael !
Adonai
> >eloheinu - Adonai echad!!!!" ("Listen up, Jacob!  Adonai is our God -
> Adonai
> >alone!")
> >Completely relieved,  Jacob softly said, with his dying breath, "Baruch
> shem
> >k'vod malchuto l'olam va-ed."
> >Thus, our fervent exclamation of the first line, and our softer response
on
> >the second.  It's midrash, yes, but it seems to strike a chord for me,
> >somehow.  Enjoy.
> >
> >I have just returned from the Choral Festival in the Catskills, and
Sunday
> >it's off to CAJE.  Here's hoping that the summer has been a good one for
> >everyone else....
> >-Ellen Dreskin
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>



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