Klarinet Archive - Posting 000115.txt from 2004/09

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Klezmer info
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:09:20 -0400


On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, dnleeson wrote:

> Shlomo Carlebach, a famous singer of Hebrew songs.

He was far more than that; he wrote hundreds of tunes and essentially
reworked the entire sabbath liturgy as a Hassidic Rabbi with a very
devoted following. There are synagogues which use his tunes exclusively.

When I worked at Columbia University, the Hillel would do Carlebach
services once every month or two; it took me a while to figure out why I
couldn't follow along with anything!

-jeremy
http://klezmer.org

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