Re: "Rock of Ages"?

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

If that was Temple Emanu-El in Brooklyn, I believe that one of the leading
cantors of the early part of the twentieth-century served there.  Was it
Yossele Rosenblatt?

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith S Pinnolis" <pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: "Rock of Ages"?


> 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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