Re: Chassidic Song Fests

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On Wed, 26 Jun 1996 17:13:56 -0400  LSalvay (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>The Chassidic Song Festivals were sponsored beginning in the late 1960s by an
>Israeli public relations firm called Solan Ltd. in Tel Aviv. I do not know
>their current address, but I imagine they would have all the archived
>music/lyrics and anything else relating to the 20 or so years of annual song
>festivals. Each year's festival was recorded (by Hed-Arzi), and usually had
>an accompanying songbook.
>
>I was extremely honored to have one of my own compositions (Ani Ma-amin)
>chosen as one of the 12 winners in the 1976 Chassidic Song Festival -- the
>big winner that year was Uzi Chitman's "Adon Olam."
>
>The festivals added a tremendous number of new renditions to the Jewish
>liturgical repertoire, and provided a great outlet for Jewish composers
>around the world. It's a bit of a shame  the festivals are no longer being
>held.
>
>Linda Kessler Salvay
>
OR-TAV published collections of the songs of the Chassidic festivals since it 
was founded in 1967.  We still have the pamphlets available for the years 1970, 
1972-1977, 1981, and 1984.  We also published collections of songs from the 
Oriental song festivals from the years 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975.  Many of these 
songs were also written to traditional and liturgical texts.  And of course, 
most years of the Israel Song Festival (later Pre-Eurovision) are still 
available.  Each pamphlet is $3 USA plus postage.

Yosef Zucker, Manager
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Yosef Zucker, General Manager
OR-TAV Music Publications
P.O. Box 1126  Kfar Sava  44110 ISRAEL
Tel./Fax. 972-9-767-9869
E-mail: ortav (at) netvision(dot)net(dot)il
Date: 06/27/96
Time: 22:08:25