RE: cantorial music by/for women

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

She was known as Sheyndale di khaznte and was extremely well liked.  She 
had a most powerful, effective voice all right.  It's nice to learn her 
real name, but with a last name such as Gornisht, which means 'nothing', 
'null', I guess 'Sheyndale di khaznte' was a no-brainer stage name.  What a 
name!!! almost beats my favorite Jewish last name, Moyshe Shmuts [=dirt]. 
 Zero Mostel gave himself the name Zero because his father always told him 
"Bist a gornisht" [=You are a nothing].  The story here is probably 
similar.

The fun things one learns on this list...

Talking about cantorial music,
Just heard Emil Zrihan at the Ashkenaz Festival and I was most impressed by 
him.  What a wonderful voice he has.  Among my first thoughts listening to 
him was, if he wanted to do opera, he would go even farther than Andrea 
Bocelli (the blind Italian tenor), for sure.  He was most, most wonderful 
and his band was absolutely terrific, I thought.   Arabic music with a 
strong Western fiddle sound - absolutely delicious.  A maykhl far di oyern 
[=a treat for the ears.]   I could have listened for hours.   Zrihan was a 
real discovery for me and definitely one of the highlights at the festival. 


Reyzl



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From:  Lori Cahan-Simon [SMTP:lsimon (at) SoftHome(dot)net]
Sent:  Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:06 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: cantorial music by/for women

Robert,

I don't have exactly what you have in mind, but what about Shaindele (aka
Jean Gornisht) of Philadelphia, extremely popular woman cantor of 40 or 50
years ago.  I guarantee you've never heard a voice like it before.  Such
power, such emotional delivery!  The one recording I have verges on the
sentimental at times, but she has no equal IMHO!

Lori

At 11:29 AM 09/02/1999 PDT, you wrote:
>Does anyone have any suggestions of recorded pieces of particularly 
lyrical,
>pleasing liturgical music written _by_ contemporary women cantors and/or
>_for_ same--i.e., with women's voices in mind?  Any thoughts on what
>composing w/ women's voices in mind would entail?  Has anything (i.e., an
>article somewhere) been written about same?
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