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“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… translated important books of his era into Hebrew. [1] Performance Context “Eli Eliyahu” is sung on Saturday night as … sacred and mundane ( ha-mavdil bein kodesh le-hol) ,” (a formula that also appears as an addition to the fourth … style. His version of the piyyut was recorded live by a children’s choir with orchestral accompaniment conducted by …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… she collaborated with other professional musicians and performed with various ensembles. Friedman’s compositional corpus includes music for the Hebrew liturgy, English translations and … and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, community and identity-building songs for youth, …
Haggai Ben-Shammai
… served in the army in a Nahal unit and stayed on a Kibbutz for a few years afterwards. He is married to Bitya, who was for many years the editor and director of the RAMBI project. Haggai and Bitya have four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Ben-Shammai …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… that this is a Yemenite melody and gives no attribution for the text. In many ways, this song is unremarkable. It … of two distinctive sections. The text draws from poetic formulae common in early Zionist Hebrew poetry. In Zionist … the other? Is one a variation on the other? Are they both “children” of some older melody – and did that melody have …
Haint Iz Purim, Brider, Part II
… In the last Song of the Month we introduced the song for Purim ‘Haint Iz Purim, Brider’ (Today is Purim, … in fact of the last two stanzas of the anonymous piyyut for Purim ‘Asher heni ‘etzat goyim,’ an ancient piyyut with … modern Israeli repertoire of Purim songs, especially for children. ‘Shoshanat Yaakov’ includes therefore the stanza …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… If you have ever searched for Hatikvah online, you were surely exposed to a barrage of factual and fictional information that, in the Internet Age, circulates virally in … early sounds of the passion of our souls were silenced. Our children who come after us will not feel those inner …
Ehad mi Yodea - Its sources, variations, and parodies
… Sefer HaN igunim . Brooklyn: Ḥevrat Ni h oa h Example 4 Children's parody of Ehad mi yodea from Beregovski's … of mercy (according to Maimonides). The song is performed at the end of the Passover seder , generally by all the participants right before “ H ad gadya ”, also a cumulative song. “E h ad mi …
Hag Purim – The story behind its melody
… 1912, p. 6. In this publication the melody was arranged for soprano and two altos. Example 3 M'nuchoh v'simchoh , arranged by Solomon Ancis for four part men's choir. New York: Transcontinental Music … Festival). This setting soon became one of the canonical children songs for Purim in Europe and in the Jewish …
Sher
… the full reference. “Sher: One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish repertoire, similar to a square dance or … in a band in Brusilov (Kiev area), which used to play for Ukrainian artisans...at their weddings and celebrations, … of incomprehensible word constructions as we find in children’s and counting songs’ (Schünemann 1923:413). This …
Kutner (LKT)
… Although he was a carpenter by trade, all of his father’s children were called by their father’s trade. Shmuel was … show his friends that he was a real sport, that he could afford to pay the musicians a long dance all by himself. The … take part. He asked the musicians how much he had to pay for the Kutner, and they told him it cost a whole …