[HANASHIR:3962] Catching My Breath

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Well, the Yamim Noraim are over, finally. I'm happy to report that my 25
member volunteer choir (plus 4 ringers) did quite well, and lived up to my
expectation-which is to enhance the worship experience of those present.
(Unfortunately, my rabbi is more interested in a good "performance." Sigh.)

Aside from the usual assortment of Lewandowski, Sulzer, Richards, Sargon,
Shur, Binder, Adler, Kingsley, Fromm, et al I managed to interpolate a few
new songs, including Dropkin's "Pitchu Li", Leon Sher's "Ad-nai,
Ad-nai",Julie Silver's "Sim Shalom" and Karen Daniel's "Adon Olam." Slowly
but surely.

HH Nusach is not terribly important to this congregation (or at least this
rabbi) so I am curious to ask the list about what their congregations do as
far as choosing music that is HH Nusach. While we do use a HHD Barechu and
Mi Chamocha, we use "regular" Sh'ma (which drives me crazy. The rabbi argues
that no one in the congregation will know the HH version.) We don't switch
nusach modes with the start of Elul. We simply omit the "great Aleinu"
(which I find really strange, since it is the origin of the Aleinu prayer,
i.e., it's original usage...correct me if I'm wrong on that.)

In any case, I'd love to hear about the minhag elsewhere, because the minhag
here is sure different than I'm used to.

Adrian

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