Re: Shmuel Brazil

[Bert Stratton <yiddcup...>]

My band plays some Brazil pieces.  He writes some very catchy melodies -- Regesh Nign, V'yazor, Shmielke's.  We also do his Shalom Aleykhem Ortho-hora-style.  (Shalom Aleykhem is on one of Paul Zim's Shabbat CDs.)


My experience is non-Orthodox simcha-goers like a mixture of one part klezmer -- intricate instrumentals -- and the rest hummable Regesh-type yeshiva stuff  over a rock/disco flame.  It works for us.  It keeps both the dancers and musicians alert -- ready for something different.



Bert Stratton
http://www.yiddishecup.com
Cleveland







At 06:01 PM 10/6/02 -0400, you wrote: 
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> I've came across the name Shmuel Brazil as the composer of a setting for Shalom Aleichem.  
>   
> Can any list member comment on the following post to this list about 10 (!) years ago?  
>   
> "Rav Shmuel is a Rebbe in Far Rockaway NY at the Yeshiva Sha'ar Yoshuv.  I've been going to his Friday night tishes for Baruch H' Yisborach, over ten years, thank G-d.  Rav Shmuel is also a composer of nigunnim - you may have sung his Shalom Aleichem melody many times without knowing who's it was.  His CDs are under the name "Regesh", 1 - 9 and his latest,
> "Shuvu El Hashem" is Chasidus/Deveikus par excellence and under his name. It just came out this year."
>
>
> Any recommendations for his recordings or compositions?  Any recommendations for sources of his recordings?  None came up on searches for "Brazil"  (or "Regesh", with which he was apparently involved) at either the Hatikvah Music or Tara website.
>   
> BTW, versions of this Shalom Aleichem appear on "Shabbat for Starters" by Mayer Davis and, apparently, "Songs for the Soul -- Nefesh" by Merri Lovinger Arian (which I haven't heard).
> Bob
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