Re: Very interesting article

[Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>]

I'm sorry that it came across as an argument.  I meant it as a comment.  I
don't mind that others have different tastes than mine - it would be a
boring world if we all liked the same things.

-----Original Message-----
From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: Very interesting article


>Marvin,
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>I only scanned the article but I noticed one interesting part about how
"some" people have not liked her because she introduced an American sound
into devotional music and to them this was too modern, too American, not
sufficiently Eastern European.  I thought that people here might enjoy
reading about this idea and so I recommended it.   It's an idea about
national musical sensibility in Jewish devotional musical.
>
>Please don't argue with me, because I am not arguing with anyone.  I am
very well aware of what a large following she has.
>
>You like her, gezunterheyt.   The fact that I don't is totally irrelevant
to my having posted this information.
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>Reyzl
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>From:  Marvin Margoshes[SMTP:physchem (at) earthlink(dot)net]
>Sent:  Friday, April 16, 1999 4:11 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:  Re: Very interesting article
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 3:47 PM
>Subject: RE: Very interesting article
>
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>>Read the description again.  It's talking about the cantors.
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>>I personally can't relate to her music either.  Too American in sound  -
>You are right.
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>>
>>Reyzl
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>
>Your comment reminds me of a program that was on PBS TV about Jewish music
>in various parts of the world.  (The program was made by a French group.)
>At the end, there were interviews with some cantors in Jerusalem.  One was
a
>3rd-generation cantor in a family that was from Russia.  He complained
about
>the German cantors, who don't sound sad enough for his taste.
>
>Debbie Friedman does have a following among cantors, including mine.  I
>haven't noticed that many congregants don't like her music.  In fact, our
>synagogue, in Tarrytown, NY, is setting up a concert by her later this
year.
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