Re: levites and music

[sarakass <sarakass...>]

I doubt there is a gene for music.... I can however ask my friend who
just got her Phd in statistic genetics.....

I have read that children who are subject to music in the womb are more
likely to be musically incline. As their hearing develop, they develop an
ear for music if it's there to be heard. Children of musicians who are
around sound/music all their initial lives continue to want it in their
lives. 

Ask the Folk music community. They'll tell you similarly. My sister is
quite involved w/ that community while I've found my way to the Klezmer.
My parents are Opera buffs. As a kid, my parents would play their Opera
so loud I could FEEL it on the 3rd floor. We also had a lot of folk in
the house. I'm the only one in the family who can read music and play an
instrument. The rest of my family.... try to be vocalists (My sister has
a sweet voice that almost always sound nice.) I suspect the reason I'm
more proficient at reading/playing music then the rest of my family is
because I started getting involved with it at an earlier age, 9.

SAK

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:17:26 -0500 Lori Cahan-Simon
<l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org> writes:
> I don't think it's at all unbelieveable that there are inherited 
> genes 
> for singing or musical or any other ability.  Just look at all the 
> children of musicians, singers, etc., who are also in the same 
> field, 
> singers who sound like their parents.  Just as looks are inherited, 
> why 
> not other traits?  Makes perfect sense to me.  In my family, on both 
> 
> sides (incredibly), we are mostly musicians, artists, teachers and 
> the 
> odd  scientist of the creative sort.  Businessmen--unfortunately 
> not.
> 
> Lorele
> 
> 
> Karen Gall wrote:
> 
> > Just to add to this thread.....
> >
> > I find this question very interesting.... My father's family are 
> > Levites.... His father had a wonderful bass voice and served as a 
> lay 
> > cantor in his congregation.  Before he retired, my father was a 
> > professional musician and played and sang with the big bands that 
> came 
> > through Toronto as well as his own band.  One of his brothers also 
> has 
> > a beautiful voice but only sings to his wife. One of his sisters 
> sang 
> > in some Yiddish theatre productions.  The son of his non-singing 
> > brother is a Lubovitch cantor.  I sing in my congregational choir 
> 
> > group and sing cantorial solos for high holidays.  Our daughter is 
> 
> > studying opera.
> >
> > My husband always scoffs when people comment that our daughter has 
> 
> > inherited THE FAMILY VOICE.  He comments "What, have they 
> discovered a 
> > gene for singing?" If someone does the research I can scoff back 
> and 
> > tell him there is....  Needless to say, his family is Yisrael.  
> They 
> > are all tone deaf.  Just kidding...no musicians, but appreciative 
> 
> > listeners :}
> >
> >
> >
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