Re: "Rock of Ages"?

[Judith S Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Lori:

Regarding English text of Rock of Ages....

Gustav Gottheil: 1827-1903. Heskes (Passport, 1994) labels him a "cantorial 
leader" at Temple Emanu-El in New York City...but... he was a native of Posen, 
and served as a rabbi in Manchester, England for thirteen years before going to 
NY. He was known as a wonderful orator, according to Stern in the "Rise and 
Progress of Reform Judaism."(1895) He became Rabbi at Emanu-El in 1873, and 
helped revised the previous 1875 edition of the "Reform Hymnal." I believe his -
-and M. Jastrow's) rendition of "Rock of Ages" was supposed to be an adaption 
in English translation of Leonpold Stein's German hymn, as the Reform was no 
longer using German hymns but had changed to many English hymns by the 1887 
edition. (That book was called "The Music to Hymns and Anthems for Worship," 
and included Hebrew and English rather than Hebrew and German) The "Rock of 
Ages" retained the German melody from the traditional Ma'ot Tsur 
(transliterated in the 1932 edition of the hymnal as "Mooz Tsur")


Judy

Quoting Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>:

> Coopersmith's The Songs We Sing has the English translation by one G.
> Gottheil.
> I have no clue as to who this is/was.
> Lorele
> 


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