Re: Cohan: not a Jew.

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

I have about 5 melodies for "kleyne".  Which do you mean?
Lorele

TTova (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

>Yes, I am well aware of the Yiddish Chanukah tunes you mention and in fact 
>know them only in Yiddish. 
>The one I think musically quite beautiful is "oy ir kleyne Likhtelekh"  But I 
>guess what I long for in a great Chanukah tune is one with the attention 
>Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn and Jules Stein gave to Christmas style holiday 
>songs.
>Like other "great tunes" of the "American songbook" I yearn for a Chanukah 
>song with a great opening verse, An A section, a bridge..... Alas those 
>wordsmiths never gave us that.
>The tunes mentioned are all lovely but IMO more folk tunes then what I call 
>"great tunes"
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>In a message dated 4/22/03 11:00:18 PM, l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
>writes:
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><< There are really fabulous (IMO) chanukah songs, but they were written in 
>Yiddish ("Oy, khanike, oy, knanike", "O, ir kleyne likhtelekh", "Borukh 
>ate", etc.)!  Even our most beloved Chanukah song in English ("I have a 
>little dreidel") was really written in Yiddish ("Ikh bin a kleyner dreydl").
>Lorele
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>TTova (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
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>>I agree that many of the popular tunes were less then masterful and I am 
>>reminded of how disappointed I am that he or other great American songbook 
>>composers never turned their attention to writing a really fabulous Chanukah 
>>tune for example.
>>Never the less >>
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>Theresa Tova
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