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Re: Ave Maria

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, David Baron wrote:

> JS Bach? My error.
>
> O Holy Night, one of the nicest melodies every
> written (chaval!), is of a Jewish composer

As far as I know, "O Holy Night" is by Adolphe Charles
Adam. I don't know if this guy was Jewish, but I have
my doubts.

What is interesting, however, is that Sam Englander
took the first two measures of his Yom Kipper Yigdal
arrangement from... O Holy Night!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~danio/irwin/music/englander/englander-13.html

Isn't that funny?

Groeten,

  Irwin Oppenheim
  i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl
  www.chazzanut.tk   "Chazzanut Online"

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