[HANASHIR:4681] Re: kids' choir names

[DurlKare <DurlKare...>]

In a message dated 12/26/99 1:05:51 PM Central Standard Time, 
sschanerman(dot)dvh (at) tuhsd(dot)k12(dot)az(dot)us writes:

<< I'm also curious.  Our adult choir members wear white robes when they
 sing at services.  Somehow it seems appropriate at High Holidays but it
 bugs me at Shabbat services.  Robes seem so churchy and pompous to me.
 Do your choirs wear them?  Why?  Our Sisterhood bought them (megabucks)
 and the Sisterhood President is in the choir so we're stuck with them
 for awhile... >>

Our choir wears those white robes..since we only sing at high holidays, 
that's the only time we wear them.  But I can tell you how they make me (and, 
I think, the other choir members) feel!  Pretty special, and in the mood for 
singing.  When people see us in our robes outside the sanctuary, we are 
easily identified as being in the choir.  At the same time, we all become a 
unified group, and it's sort of fun, putting on our robes in the youth lounge 
before the services and even joking about how silly we look.  And also, we 
don't have to worry about what to wear to services! In my opinion, it just 
kind of adds something, and it looks like a kittel, the white robe worn by 
some rabbis/cantors at high holidays.  Since most church choirs don't sing 
the Shema and Bar'chu and Oseh Shalom (etc. etc.) I don't think the robes are 
"churchy" at all.  Just my humble opinion!

-Karen Daniel
Jewish songwriter/performer/recording artist
AND high holiday choir member,
Nashville, TN

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