Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1819

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

> "...all 
> the women went out after [Miriam]" implies that the women were 
> heretofore within some enclosure or compound

How on earth does this imply that the women had previously been herded
into a compound?!?! 

> 
> you are invited to perform a concert where women ONLY would be allowed to
> attend and no men were allowed to perform...would you accept the gig?
> 
I refused for years, up till this past December,when my daughter and I
did sing for a Sephardic synagogue which was running a one-time only
rapprochement evening  between Ashkenazi and Sephardi women to teach the
Ashkenazi women about traditional Sephardic songs and women's role in
them; in that  case, I felt the teaching role was more important.
Usually, I refuse - and I work free-lance, so refusing gigs is not easy.
I explain clearly why I'm refusing it. But I may have to think about it
again, for the simple reason that, as Margot puts it, we have to earn a
living.Judith
Judith

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