Re: what is a Shlomo song?

[lenka lichtenberg <lenkal...>]

what a precious memory, Mel. thanks for sharing.
lenka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mel Korn" <mkorn (at) rogers(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 5:46 PM
Subject: RE: what is a Shlomo song?


> I guess I will weigh in on this one....  We recently decided to finally
look
> at all the many hours of videotape we have amassed, from the time our
> children were born. A delightful exercise to be sure. Among the video, is
a
> tape of a birthday party for a family member (Srul Glick's z"l eldest
> brother's 65th). At the party Srul's ex wife accompanied (on piano) their
> other brother on clarinet in a duet performance of Suite Hebraique.
Shlomo,
> who had been married to their sister, was at the party, and after their
> performance he got up, and began to sing a niggun from his heart and his
> soul, with his hand hitting the piano as accompaniment. Those stirring few
> minutes of tape provide a glimpse of what was the core and essence of a
> Shlomo song,..... the spiritual depths from which he summoned forth the
> exquisite music within him.
>
> Mel Korn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Robert Cohen
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject: Re: what is a Shlomo song?
>
> Shlomo himself as a wonderful version of L'Ma'an Achai (in Hebrew +
English)
> on an LP called "Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach"--a striking picture of Reb
Shlomo,
> with a white beard, against a black background--which was also at one
point
> available on cassette; maybe still.  I've never seen a CD of it.  Perhaps
> the best LP Shlomo ever made, in terms of mellow voice, solid repertory,
and
> reasonably OK (at least by Shlomo LP standards) recording.
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> L'Ma'an Achai is also on a new CD put out by a group called LEVITE; I
think
> they call the CD Tefilah [Prayer].  Quite pleasing versions of Shlomo
> niggunim, plus a couple of Craig Taubman and a few other composers not
known
> to me.
>
> --Robert Cohen
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