RE: "Be'arvot Hannegev"/"Erev Shel Shoshanim"

[David Julian <cantordj...>]

I've got the lyrics and music; interested?

CDJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Cohen [mailto:rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 8:00 PM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: "Be'arvot Hannegev"/"Erev Shel Shoshanim"


Judith Cohen advised--and thanks so much, Judith (and Solly!), for the
responses to various inquiries, including mine--that an Israeli song whose
title is in the Subject Line (the second word was actually spelled
"Hanneguev" in the posting--I assumed a typo?  Or not?) was borrowed for
"Yigdal" in Morocco, according to Solly.

I have lots of records of early-Israel folk songs and can't find this one,
nor have I ever heard of it.  Does it sometimes go by an alternative name?
Or is it a more contemporary Israeli song?  (Chassidic Song Festival?)  Does
anyone know a record or two on which it appears?  Would *very* much like to
hear it for myself!

Interesting, btw, that Judith cites "Erev Shel Shoshanim" (along with
"Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" and "Hatikvah"--surely the contemporary cantorial
greatest hits of borrowing for liturgy) as a melody appropriated by Moroccan
cantors for davening.  The song is a prime example of what in an earlier
post (in response to our other Judy!) I called "losing the composer":  Its
melody is familiar to *most* synagogue-going (and lots of
*non*-synagogue-going) Jews; its composer (Yosef Hadar) to virtually none.

--Robert Cohen




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