Re: Re Shevach/Salonika

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Well, I don't know that that's at all anomalous on an Orthodox record.  Fact 
is, much of the Orthodox world is I think *very* comfortable and at ease 
incorporating/integrating contemporary musical styles into their music.  
Perhaps because they feel grounded enough Jewishly that they don't feel at 
all threatened.

Compare--though this is certainly not the last word on this by any means; 
it's not black-and-white--the unease/distaste/disgust with which 
non-Orthodox champions of hazzanut react to folk and popular, etc., styles 
of rendering liturgy.

--Robert Cohen



>ro (at) panix(dot)com wrote:
> >
> > listening to Uri Shevach Sings with Kol Salonika Vol 2
> >
> > (and if anyone knows anything abour Uri Shevac or Kol Salonika, I'm 
>interested
> > in learning).
>
>I did this before - posting questions before I RTFLN (read the Fine Liner
>Notes).  Although the notes on the Aderet reissues are not usually
>copious, this one does explain a good deal.  Oddly, it almost sounds
>like a Manifesto for the Conservative Movement ("throughout the galut,
>the Jew ingeniously managed to blend the unique quality of his own faith
>with the culture of the country in which he lived...")
>

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