Re: "Hava Nagila"

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Which alleged fact has been disputed, Lorele:  that the music was Hungarian 
Hassidic, or that Moshe Nathanson wrote the words?

--Robert'l


>From: Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: "Hava Nagila"
>Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:04:45 -0500
>
>This "fact" has been disputed on this list previously, and inconclusively.  
>Any
>new info?
>
>Lorele
>
>
>Robert Cohen wrote:
>
> > Moshe Nathanson, of course, (apparently) wrote the *words* to "Hava 
>Nagila,"
> > at the precocious age of ten or something.  The music, according to 
>Velvel
> > Pasternak (and others), was a Hungarian Hassidic niggun (melody) 
>collected
> > by Idelsohn and brought by him to then-Palestine.
> >
> > Supposedly Idelsohn presented the melody to his cheder class as a tune 
>in
> > need of words ... and Moshe Nathanson provided some.
> >
> > --Robert Cohen
> >
> > As for the Birkat Hamazon, this was
> > >was an arrangement by cantor Moshe Nathanson (who also composed Hava
> > >Nagila) of the German nusach for these prayers.
> > >
> > >_____________________________________________________________
> > >Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
> > >
>
>


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