Chassidic dance sets?

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It seems that after the reviwel come surwivel, I have some of the piesec you 
need and I can sen them to you either via e-mail as a plan sheet ir as an 
ENCORE-file, or as an mp3 file(very large one) or by fax.

Moshe Berlin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TROMBAEDU (at) aol(dot)com 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:56 AM
  Subject: Re: Chassidic dance sets?


  In a message dated 1/9/02 8:19:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, ari (at) 
ivritype(dot)com writes: 



    > Dear fellow klezmer jobbers, 
    > 
    > Here comes another chassidic gig, and a list of requests that I have 
never 
    > heard of: Ani Ma'amin, Samachnu Mi Elokeynu, Nigun Va'itin, L'Binyamin, 
    > Hazak,,,,The client is dumbfounded that we don't know these smash hits. 
    > Where does a poor motley klezmer band with an aging book of "best 
Chassidic 
    > hits" and a fake chart of Modim and Moshiach go to find these musical 
    > wonders?  Any clues? 


    If there are good books for a general audience, I'd look and see what Tara 
    Music carries. Velvel has done lots of hasidic music arranging, so I would 
be 
    most surprised if he doesn't have the songs in question in a fake book 
    somewhere. If they're recent, however, you may have to consult a hasidic 
    neighborhood music shop (sadly, I have no recommendations). 




  Lori, 
  The titles you listed don't sound right. Except for L'Binyamin and Chazak,  I 
am not sure which songs you are talking about. Sounds like your client's 
pronunciation of the titles is not too good. But the other two songs are 
Avraham Fried tunes, in fact, I think they are both on his CD titled Chazak. If 
you want, try and see if you can get the client to give you more precise names 
for the other tunes, as I can get you in touch with a music copyist in NYC who 
has all the tunes needed for this kind of gig. In fact, through Tara, you might 
want to track down the following albums to help with this repertoire: Neshoma 
(at) Your Simcha 
  Shloimie Dachs and Yisrael Williger, The Wedding Album 
  Any number of the Project X Wedding albums. 
  The production values on these CD's are not uniformly good, and frankly, a 
lot of the music is not that good, but they are useful as references. Velvel 
should be able to point you in the direction of any of the other Wedding Albms 
from Neginah Orchestra that might be useful. By the way, another CD worth 
checking out for a window into the traditional Chasidic sound, more or less, is 
Neshoma Orchestra, A Heimishe Simcha. More along the lines of a Satmar, Belzer 
type of repertoire, but kinda fun. 
  And the trumpet player is super. 

  Jordan Hirsch