Re: Yeshivish purim

[Henny van der Groep <tijgervink...>]

At  14-2-2002 17:36 -0500, TROMBAEDU (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
> > Nu, tell us about the music.
>The music is a mix of tunes from an obscure album by a band called the 
>Minzer-Chord orchestra, which recorded in the late 1960's the music of 
>Yaakov Spivak. The tunes are mostly in a kind of Chasidic march style. In 
>the last few years, some songs of Shmuel Brazil and a few others have 
>snuck in. What makes this job interesting is the fact that we will sit on 
>one song for a very long time, and the Yeshiva guys whip themselves into a 
>frenzy, dancing in front of the Rosh Yeshiva. It's good to see once, for sure.

Are you familiar with specific Purim songs/melodies? Only recently an 
article of Shostakovich is published in the DSCH Journal. It's rather 
complicated but I called the Ninth Symphony a Purim Parody due to its 
connection with freedom and joy. Shostakovich wrote the Ninth Symphony in 
1945 exactly in the time a bomb was thrown on Hiroshima. May be people sung 
specific Purim songs in those difficult War years around 1945 in Russia. 
Does somebody know?
Shostakovich had many Jewish friends as you know, and among them was 
M.Weinberg (Vainberg). Henny

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