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Re: Gerineldo revival in Vancouver
- From: Ari Davidow <ari...>
- Subject: Re: Gerineldo revival in Vancouver
- Date: Sat 09 Jun 2001 19.28 (GMT)
Don't forget to send me actual date, location, contact info as soon as
possible, or as soon as you have them, whichever makes more sense ;-).
ari
At 06:53 AM 5/24/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, speaking of Vancouver, for the first time since 1994, at least PART
>of GERINELDO will be performing together in Vancouver in November as
>part of the West Coast Sacred Music Festival (which has a really
>appealing line-up). So far, Solly Levy, Tamar and I are going; whether
>Oro and Charly can make it (Kelly isn't singing these days).depends
>largely on funding for the festival (still in its, ah, planning stages)
>and also people's work schedules. For those of you who didn't know
>GERINELDO in its heyday - Tamar and I are the "token Ashkenazim" in this
>otherwise all Moroccan Sephardic (i.e. born and raised in Morocco, came
>to Canada as fairly settled adults) group, specializing in the old
>Moroccan Judeo-Spanish repertoire, often from Oro and Solly's own
>families (the night before her wedding,long before I knew her, Oro was
>recording ballads from her mother). The name of the group, pronounced in
>Judeo-Spanish "Dzhirineldo" (in Spanish, Kherineldo), is taken from a
>Carolingian ballad (romance) in which Gerineldo, the king's favourite
>page, is invited by the king's daughter to spend the night with her; the
>king finds them, and ruminates; finally he decides that although honour
>demands they be slain, he doesn't want to lose either a great potential
>court councillor or his daughter, so he marries them to each other,
>which has led to the expression "el mazal de Gerineldo". It's still sung
>(different tunes though) in Spain & Portugal (where it's sung as a
>harvest song out in the fields), but the eastern MEditerranean Jews
>stopped singing it a couple of generations ago.
>I used to get letters addressed to Mr Jerry Neldo.
>cheers, Judith (or J. Neldo....)
>
>
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