Re: Music of exile

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Do you know the Yemenite song Ahavat Hadasa?
It isn't Ashkenazic nor is it actually Sephardic.
It goes like this (tanslated from Hebrew):

Hadasa's love in my heart is bonded
and I am in exile my heartbeats ringing
at dawn and dusk I remember the generous woman (daughter of philanthropists)
my wife and I celebrate in song
if I had permission I'll go up and connect
in the glorified gates of Zion

I have it on a cd.
Sincerely,
Helen Winkler

>From: Joel Bresler <jbresler (at) ma(dot)ultranet(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Music of exile
>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:11:48 -0400
>
>Dear Friends:
>
>I am preparing a radio show on the music of exile and songs concerned with
>the loss of a homeland. My preferred focus will be music that resulted from
>a large group of people uprooted, as opposed to the individual exile, but I
>won't let that get in the way of great music. The show will have some
>Jewish selections but be predominantly from other traditions. I'm pretty
>well covered on the Al Naharot Bavel/By the waters of Babylon/Psalm 137 and
>Sephardic front, but would appreciate more interesting/obscure Ashkenazi
>selections.
>
>Separately from this list's focus, I would be particularly interested in
>Native American selections and selections from South America, Asia and
>Africa, in addition to more obscure European examples. Kindly send me your
>suggestions, on the list if you think they would be of general interest,
>else private email would be fine.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Joel
>
>
>
>Joel Bresler
>250 E. Emerson Rd.
>Lexington, MA 02420 USA
>
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>
>


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