Re: Shlomo's "Eli Ata"? (Was: Pronunciations)

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

What is Shlomo's "Eli Ata"?!  Didn't know he had one!  (Don't think he did, 
to be honest, but I may, obviously, just not know ...)

--Robert Cohen


>I don't think that this is recent.  14 years ago, when I became the 
>Hazzanit
>at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, I was carefully
>instructed on how to sing along the lines of Sephardic pronunciations
>("ve-ne-e-mar vehaYA Adoshem...").  I doubt they were unique in this.
>(Sometimes it really damaged the music, too, as in Carlebach's Eli Ata, the
>melody of which is really thrown off when you have to sing eLI aTA

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