Re: Kenny G record

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

I can no longer find the original message, but I believe someone on this 
list inquired re a record (OK, cassette/CD/etc.) of a service--i.e., 
liturgical music--featuring Kenny G.  The album--actually, it was 
originally issued only on cassette and is now available on CD--is called 
_The Jazz Service_ with, indeed, Kenny G (whose birth name, I believe, 
is Gorelik; he's a Jewish guy) and Cantor (not Rabbi) Bruce Benson--a 
Reform cantor from NJ.  (The individual selections--i.e., settings of 
liturgy--are by Bruce or Kenny G.) My favorite cut from the album is 
Kenny G's setting of "Mi Chamocha"--words originally from the Torah (the 
Song of the Sea) and now in the prayerbook both as part of the Song (the 
Shira, as it's called) _and_ as stand-alone words.  _Since_ it's my 
favorite, I'm including it, BTW, in a compilation album of highlights of 
contemporary American-Jewish liturgical folk music, in a wide variety of 
niggunidik and fusion styles, to be issued sometime this year by David 
Shneyer's Maalot music seminary in Rockville, MD, with the tentative 
title _Open the Gates!_  (I selected the music and am writing the liner 
notes.)  If it's OK to do so via this list, I'll advise further when the 
CD is actually available.  (_The Jazz Service_ is available now.)

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>From: "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Israeli Classical Music
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:12:43 -0500
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>I've just come across the web site for the Israel Music Institute
>(IMI)
>http://www.aquanet.co.il/vip/imi
>and wonder whether the following Israeli classical compositions are
>"Jewish" musically or topically:
>
>Aloni: Moments with Myself, The Spinning Flute...
>Avni: Two Pieces for four clarinets
>Amos Elkana: Ru'akh Quintet, Revadim...
>Tsippi Fleischer: A Girl Named Limonad, Medea,
>    "Around the World with Tsippi Fleischer"
>M. Mindel: Tamar, Grotesque, Agony, Poem...
>Radzynski: Take Five
>Shaked: Einsitig Ruhig
>Yannay: Nine Branches of the Olive Tree...     (No.  Not Yanni)
>Arie Shapira and Raviv Gazit: Electronic Compositions
>"Percussion" (Avni: 5 Variations; Zimbalista: Impulse 1; O.Schwartz:
>    From Heavens Unto Mists)
>
>Bob
>


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