Re: Jewish Music Definition

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

>How about
> > "Avinu Malkeinu" sung to "Deutchland, Deitchland Uber Ales" ?
>
>I recently found a choral setting of a Hebrew text (don't appear to have
>written down what it was) to the tune of Deutschland uber alles - it was
>part of a piece, Gebet fuer den Landsherrn, written by Yossele Rosenblatt 
>for the 80th birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph I.



Oh--I meant to comment on this example of Simon before.  The Nazi anthem 
was, I am almost certain, based on/written to music by Haydn, so what you 
discovered is not as strange as it seems.

Many years ago, a church on the Upper West Side in Manhattan played the 
Haydn melody on its chimes--and was perplexed that some Jews in the 
neighborhood expressed (naturally) great distress/outrage/etc.  They meant 
it quite innocuously.

Oh, and of course I meant my reference to Luther, one of the really 
dedicated Christian anti-Semites, sarcastically.  That's something that 
would be conveyed by intonation but, indeed, drops out in e-mail.

--Robert Cohen
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