RE: Holiday Music

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

There are many Shabes song recordings, but they are not holiday records and you 
know it.  Just about all Jewish songs can be suitable for Friday night or 
Shabes afternoon or shaleshudes, so let's not go even more overboard.


Reyzl


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From:  robert wiener[SMTP:wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com]
Sent:  Wednesday, December 16, 1998 9:42 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:  Re: Holiday Music

And we haven't even mentioned music for Shabbat, certain a holy day.  There
are countless recordings, even if we exclude cantorial music.  In addition
to the many collections of Jewish holiday music.

As a former member of "BJ" -- B'nai Jeshurun, a Manhattan synagogue that
regularly attracts over 2,000 on an Friday night -- I can vouch for the
repeated power of Jewish music (beyond the hora, although there usually is
dancing) to affect more than just the few of us.

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Fertig <fertig (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: Holiday Music


>Reyzl:
>I don't know whether it counts as a category or not... but there are (or
>were on LP) holiday recordings specifically for Purim and other holidays
>from Hed Artzi.  I have some Purim recordings at home and will recheck this
>and email numbers off list if you're interested. Check their catalog.
>Judy.
>
>>Other than Passover and Yomim Noraim, Jews neither produce and nor seek to
>buy records for specific holidays.   And Passover and Yomim Noraim are each
>too tiny a category to count.   Most of them probably get grouped as
>"cantorial".  Because of Christmas, assimilated Jews look to buy holiday
>records for the season, or else Jews and non-Jews seek to buy some
>"holiday" appropriate gift to give or play where they need it for a variety
>of reasons.   So record producers create these records for people looking
>for season-related material.   But it's a relatively small category.
>>
>>There are no Shavuos, Purim, or sukkos records, as far as I know.  If you
>know of any, I would love to know about them.   So would a whole bunch of
>Jewish educators.   They usually settle for a song or two.  You may find
>one or two records, if that many, but that doesn't count as a category, so
>the "holiday" category doesn't apply too well.  Hanukah records are
>produced only for Jewish children as far as I know.  Never seen one not for
>children.  Someone please correct me if I am wrong.  Jewish record
>producers want to put out their material early in December, but they don't
>expect their clients to look only for Hanukah music, because they know that
>their clients are looking for anything distinctly Jewish in the Christmas
>season.   Any Jewish record will serve as an appropriate gift for Khanukah.
>>
>