RE: P.P.S.

[Adrian Durlester <durleste...>]

Debbie has utilized the "Boi V'shalom" from Dveykus (IV?) only she does it
faster and does it as a full "L'cha Dodi." (Well, in the liberal setting,
maybe verse 1, 2, 5 &9.) Abie's pretty and plaintive melody becomes more of
a chassidic frenzy.

Debbie has also taught and performed the Regesh "Shalom Aleichem" as well,
and it, too, is transformed into a somewhat more upbeat version than the
original. It's one of those "energenzier bunny" type tunes-it keeps going
and going and going.

Debbie taught these works at Hava Nashira, and subsequently used them at
CAJE, UAHC Biennials, etc.

They have both been big audience hits, though I imagine few who have heard
and sung them realize where they are from and what the original arrangements
were like.

Adrian

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:51 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: P.P.S.


Oh--*what* Regesh and Dvey'kus melodies has Debbie introduced to her
audiences?  Where and when?  I'm intrigued, and pleased and excited, to hear
that--Robert


>From: "Adrian Durlester" <durleste (at) home(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: RE: (A Tangent:) What to call "contemporary Jewish liturgical
>music"
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:11:57 -0600
>
>Robert is correct and I apologize for the oversight. Although many
>"liberal"
>Jews are not familiar with the works of Abie Rotenberg, Shmuel Brazil, and
>Baruch Chait, I and many of my compatriots have endeavored long and hard to
>help this music find a place in the non-Orthodox world-and have had some
>success. Debbie Friedman has introduced several Regesh and Dvyekus
>melodies.
>
>I did, BTW, include Sam Glaser whose music has wide appeal but it
>certainly,
>as he would tell you, written from an Orthodox perspective.
>
>There is, BTW, a tangential issue. Is it proper for us to be using some of
>this music, written by Orthodox men, on Shabbos, with instrumental
>accompaniment, or is there something perverse in that?
>
>Adrian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
>Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 1:06 PM
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: (A Tangent:) What to call "contemporary Jewish liturgical
>music"
>
>
>What's the matter w/ "contemporary Jewish liturgical music"?!  That--or
>something like it--is the term that David Shneyer and I will use on the
>compilation CD we're producing--a compilation, that is, of ... contemporary
>Jewish liturgical music (though, admittedly, only 18 species of it, and
>confined to that which originated in this [post-60s] generation.  And btw,
>Adrian left out an important chunk/subset of the music American Jews pray
>to:  viz., the "Orthodox folk music," certainly very much inspired by
>Shlomo
>Carlebach and the culture that inspired _him_, that begins, more or less,
>w/
>THE RABBIS' SONS (mostly Baruch Chait's melodies/niggunim) and finds its
>quintessential expression, perhaps, in the music of D'VEYKUS (mostly Abie
>Rotenberg's) and REGESH (Shmuel Brazil's).  Some of these melodies are now
>part of services, Shabbat tables, weddings, etc., of many or all
>denominations (or none).  PLUS:  the music of the Fabrangen Fiddlers
>themselves (and David Shneyer) and Safam (Robbie Solomon et al.), and
>others
>not in the circles that Adrian _did_ include. -- Robert Cohen
>
>
> >From: "Adrian Durlester" <durleste (at) home(dot)com>
> >Subject: A Tangent to What is Jewish Music
> >Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:55:19 -0600
> >
> >Chevra:
> >
> >I've no desire to step into the debate of "what is Jewish music?" but I
> >would be curious to find out how readers of this list might answer this
> >question, which I posed to the Hanashir list, which is:
>
>I have been searching for adequate terminology to
> >describe this genre, but as of yet have been unsuccessful. I lean towards
> >"contemporary Jewish liturgical music" but even that can be a bit too
> >exclusive. I'm open to suggestions on this one. The genre needs a name.
> >Contemporary Jewish Liturgical or Contemporary
>Jewish Folks seem inadequate. Suggestions welcome. How do we categorize all
>this music, and what can we
> >call it?
> >
> >Adrian A. Durlester
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