Re: Scarborough Fair tune

[Marvin <physchem...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: Scarborough Fair tune


> I've heard it claimed that there is no melody to which Adon Olam cannot be
> sung.  Surely, that's stretching a point, but there must be theological
> implications to that.
>
> Something else has been on my mind that I thought I'd put to the list,
since
> matters relevant to jobbing musicians are a frequent concern.  I'm usually
on
> the jobbing side myself, but not this time.  My son's bar mitzvah was last
> shabes and there was a bit of a mix-up with the music I engaged.  (I
received an
> apology and things are more or less patched up.)  This is not the first
time
> I've seen tussles of this kind (I'll spare you the details, they don't
matter),
> but the problem seems to be a major cognitive dissonance between those
musicians
> for whom simchas are the bottom of the food chain of what they do
(concerts are
> usually at the top) and those who engage them, for whom b'nai mitzvot,
weddings,
> etc. are singular (one would hope), sacred moments where, G_d willing, all
is
> perfect.  Needless to say, this is not a strictly Jewish issue, nor even
an
> exclusively musical one (at least, it can apply to serious photographers,
maybe
> others), but I wonder what could be done to get everyone on the same page.
Your
> thoughts?
>

Some people, including some musicians. are short on responsibility to
commitments.  A person who is hiring a band might best go through an agency,
who would likely penalize a musical group for not showing up.

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