Re: Adon Olom (was Jewish Cowboy Music)

[winston weilheimer <taxrelief...>]

would you be surprised to learn that many of the melodies that "old time"
cantors used were used elsewhere in the world first?


----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Kurland <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 8:06 PM
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.
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>Yosl (Joe) Kurland
>The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>Colrain, MA 01340
>voice/fax: 413-624-3204
>http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn
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>At 8:06 PM -0500 1/31/99, Owen Davidson wrote:
>>Well, since this arrived with a "Highest Priority" flag,  I'll have a word
to
>>say.  Sherry Mayrent has said that "Adon Olam" is the universal song in
>>that it
>>can be set to any melody you can name.  Try it to "La Marseillaise," or
>>"Reelin'
>>In The Years."  About the only thing I can come up with that doesn't fit
is
>>"Take Me Out to the Ballgame."  (Go ahead, knock yourself out!)  I like
>>the idea
>>of thematic links, but I still have to ask, what is the sense of all this?
>>Where does devotion stop and mockery begin?  I'm asking this as possibly
the
>>biggest joker in the deck.
>>
>>Owen
>>
>>winston weilheimer wrote:
>>
>>> Absolutely serious.  It looks like others have used some good tunes too.
>>> When I moved to DeLand (outside Orlando), the members of my previous
shul
>>> sang Adon Olam to "It's a small world after all."  I also use Oh once
there
>>> was a wicked wicked man... on the Shabbat before Purim, Maoz tsur on
Shabbat
>>> Channukah, and dayanu for Shabbat Pesach.  Love the idea of Saints go
>>> marchin in...perhaps around Mardi Gras!
>>>
>>> Now that I have opened this can of worms...how about some other
suggestions
>>> out there!
>>>
>>> Winston Weilheimer
>>> Rabbi
>>> Temple Israel of Deland (Florida)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>>> [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Ivor Joffe
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 1999 5:36 PM
>>> To: World music from a Jewish slant.
>>> Subject: Re: Jewish cowboy music
>>>
>>> are you serious?
>>> rather use a chassidic tune.
>>>
>>
>>--
>>Owen Davidson
>>Amherst  Mass
>>The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>>
>>The Angel that presided o'er my birth
>>Said Little creature formd of Joy and Mirth
>>Go Love without the help of any King on Earth
>>
>>Wm. Blake
>>
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