Re: "Hava Nagila"

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

That Moshe Nathanson wrote the words.  Check in the archives.  A couple of
summers ago, I think.  It was in response to comments about a book written by a
student of Nathanson's about it's history.

Lorele

Robert Cohen wrote:

> 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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