Re: Kol Nidre

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

From: Robert (proud to be a) Wiener

The original Bruch "Kol Nidre" was written for cello but many
transcriptions have been recorded.  I don't have my complete list
handy, but it's been done at least by violin, viola, clarinet, French
horn, string bass, and harp.  Of course that doesn't mean you, Peter,
will like any of them, although it's possible that you like the first
part (arrangement of traditional melody) and not the second part
(improvisation) or vice versa.

The Ashkenazi melody has been used as a theme by at least half a dozen
classical composers.  I've done some research on this for a program I
did at CAJE and elsewhere.  Perhaps we'll be interested in talking
more about Kol Nidre (e.g., our favorite cantorial renditions) around
Yom HaKippurim.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hollo <raven (at) fourplay(dot)com(dot)au>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Kol Nidre


>Robert Weiner: Many thanks for clearing that up for me! My experience
>being of the cello piece by Bruch, I implied that it is by a gentile,
>but of course had I thought about it more I'd have realised that the
>underlying melodies are Jewish.
>Doesn't make me like it more (just a personal thing!), but I won't
make
>the same implication again.
>
>Peter.
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