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Re: Shlomo's "Eli Ata"? (Was: Pronunciations)
- From: Richard Green <rmarkgreen...>
- Subject: Re: Shlomo's "Eli Ata"? (Was: Pronunciations)
- Date: Tue 16 Apr 2002 15.37 (GMT)
As the owner of about 56 Shlomo recordings, I can tell you that this song at
least doesn't appear on recordings produced commercially to my knowlegde.
That's not to say that he didn't have such a nigun because he wrote several
thousand songs and only about 300 made it to commercially produced
recordings. I've cataloged about 75 recordings
so I know most of what's out there.
>From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Shlomo's "Eli Ata"? (Was: Pronunciations)
>Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 21:58:50
>
>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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- Re: Shlomo's "Eli Ata"? (Was: Pronunciations),
Richard Green