Re: Wedding music, the Classics, and Jewish Tradition

[richard_wolpoe <richard_wolpoe...>]

Dear Alana,
        I can't get you something quite so pure as 16th century...however,
I have used the melody "Caro Mio Ben"  (an Italain Art song of the 17th 
cnetury) to MI Ador al hakol at several weddings.  (parenthetically, I 
discussed the relationship of Caro Mio Ben and Lewandowski's famous Ma Tovu 
and my voice coach reamrked Lewandowski was indeed a genius, but who said 
he was original.  Therefore, this mlody has a Jewish wedding tradition to 
it for quite a while; it comes from late renniassance/Baroque) and has bee 
plagaraized and adpated from cantors i nseveral different ways.

Good Shabbos,

Richard Wolpoe    


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Subject: Wedding music? 
Author:  <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org > at tcpgate
Date:    11/21/97 11:56 AM


A freind of mine called me with a very complicated story about a friend of 
*hers* getting married - the upshot of the story was that she wanted some 
information about Jewish music pieces, leaning toward the classical, and 
the only person she could find of any interest was Solomon Rossi. She 
intends to have instruments appropriate to the 16th century at the wedding 
and wants *sheet music* (i.e. she needs to know a composer, an appropriate 
piece, and where to get the sheet music)
The only piece that she found was a piece called something like "Lemi 
Ehpoz" although heaven knows how many translations it's gone through until 
I got it. Anyone with info on this would be gratefully thanked, and 
probably slobbered over with gratitude.

Alana Suskin