[HANASHIR:3635] Re: "local customs"

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

Wow-

I thought Susan was writing about my congregation 6 years ago--

Don't worry--  Take charge-- YOU are the leader---

Take one or two songs a service-- Teach them to the choir-  then teach them
to the congregation.  Then sing them in the service.

How many times, when we sing the High Holiday Sh'ma or Barchu do we hear  "I
want the traditional ones"--  but for HH that is traditional.

For Shabbat try a few other things.

Example---  Debby Friedman's Sh'ma and V'ahavta-

Some of Wally Schachet-Briskin's music

What responses and melodies are you trying to teach them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Schanerman <sschanerman(dot)dvh (at) tuhsd(dot)k12(dot)az(dot)us>
To: hanashir <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 10:18 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:3634] "local customs"


> Andy is right about the power of the local customs within a synagogue.
> Tonight, I held my first rehearsal with our temple choir to teach them
> the choir responses to some of the new-to-our-congregation cantorial
> melodies that I'm doing and I got comments like, "Don't worry, the
> congregation will sing the old melodies anyway" and "It doesn't matter
> what key she starts on cause the congregation will set the key anyway."
> Very painful experience.  Sigh...
> Susan Schanerman
> Discouraged new cantorial soloist in Phoenix
>
>
>



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