Re: Max Bruch/Kol Nidrei: Redux nokhamol!

[Spudicmikhl <Spudicmikhl...>]

In a message dated 1/31/2002 12:03:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl writes:


> 

Hello Irwin Oppenheim!

       Thank you for your thoughtful comments and salient information.  And I 
concur with another respondent this evening who commends you upon not only 
your precious ideas but your masterful use of the English language! 

       As a last comment on the Bruch/Kol Nidre subject, it was never my 
intent to place a litmus test before the list regarding Bruch's religious 
affiliation in relation to the composition of his "Kol Nidre."  Truly that 
was the furthest thing from my mind.   Moreso, I thought that Sylvie and Judy 
in particular set off a very interesting chain regarding the nineteenth 
century German composer Max Bruch and this list is fabulous for accumulating 
commentary on a subject such as this one.  Believe me, I have no qualms about 
a Max Bruch writing a "Kol Nidrei" as I have no problem with Iriving Berlin 
writing a "White Christmas."  

       In fact, let's here it for a twenty-first century whereby more Irving 
Berlins have that comfort level to write more "White Christmases" and more 
Max Bruchs seek out the knowledge and understanding to write more "Kol 
Nidres."  

       Finally, I should mention that I was the person to introduce in the 
title heading the word "redux."  I must admit that even though the word is a 
standard Latin word, inferring to "revisit" as in to revisit the subject of 
Max Bruch and his Kol Nidrei, I just looked in "Webster's Third New 
International Dictionary, " and it wasn't there, oy: mea culpa!  Next time if 
I need to pepper my subject headings in some foreign loshn, I'll use more 
straightforward Yiddish expressions, which would be much more conducive to 
the nature of this list. 

Most humbly yours,

Michael Spudic