Re: Adon Olom (was Jewish Cowboy Music)

[Bloom <bloom...>]

Joe,

I agree with you.  And yet, I have an affection for the few things I know
that were passed down from my grandfather Jacob (the Talmud chachem for
whom I was named), and one of them is a version of L'Cha Dodi that turns it
into "meaningless syllables set to tunes that don't support musically the
feelings of the prayers."

It goes:

Oy vey, L'cha day
Oy vey, dee likrat
Oy vey, kallah p'nay
Oy vey, Shabbat nika
Rita rita rita rita rita rita
Rita rita rita rita ritata
Rita rita rita rita rita rita
Rita rita rita rita rita
BLAH!

Of course, I don't sing it very often,

Jacob

>Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:06:32 -0500
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
From: Joe Kurland <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Adon Olom (was Jewish Cowboy Music)

>This is what Purim was invented for.  At other times, God may be pleased to
be praised with humor, but I can't feel that I'm praising God with tunes
that make me feel the words are meaningless syllables set to tunes that
don't support musically the feelings of the prayers.

>Call me out of step with the times, but that's why I love the recordings of
the old time cantors. They put their hearts into their singing.  They made
the prayers come alive.  You could feel their meanings even if you couldn't
understand the words.


>Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band


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