[HANASHIR:4040] Re: Lower Keys

[Ooweh <Ooweh...>]

ahem...legal ramifications? law has nothing to do with it.  prayer is about 
opening the heart, and singing from your soul. it's not about a particular 
key that someone  (who very likely has a classical voice that most daveners 
don't have) deems as "legal". i am glad that the community i sing with, and 
the communities that i have sung with, have all supported me on this. in fact 
i often hear, "wow, finally someone we can sing with!"  of course, as a 
cantorial soloist and songleader i pay attention to what is right for my 
kahal. but in order to lead them i need to sing the music in a key that feels 
comfortable and "at home" in me.  
     maybe what we need to investigate is our attachments to certain 
aesthetics that render much of our music unsingable to our communities, and 
sometimes even to ourselves.  ooweh

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