Re: levites and music

[glenn tamir <klezska...>]

Actually, there is a genetic link for people who have
perfect pitch.


--- sarakass (at) juno(dot)com wrote:
> 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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