KI, singing together

[Judith R Cohen <judithc...>]

hi, back in Toronto, Joshua writes:

>  Kol Isha is supposed to apply to individual
> women's
> voices, and there was a determination at some point that three or more
> voices singing together couldn't be distinguished individually.  I'd
> need to

Ah yes, I remember that one. At one synagogue where the rabbi cancelled
a concert of mine which the sisterhood had already set up and advertised
on "kol isha " grounds, he then said it would be ok if even one other
woman sang with me . I said the only other woman I knew at the time (my
daughter was small and not singing much yet) who really knew the style
well (a former member of Gerineldo) was much more gorgeous and sexy and
potentially lust-inspiring than I, and I couldn't see why that would be
a mitigating factor. He said, that was ok.

This exchange did nothing to convince me of the "right" of rabbis to
make these decisions. 

> Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> > > In general I don't think the Sephardim are as strict...
> 
> To which Jordan Hirsch wrote:
> > We will have to see what happens as this
> generation of Ashkenazi 
> > trained Sephardi Rabbis comes to power. 

They're at least as strict, or more, having become strict more recently,
at least here in Toronto.

Judith

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