Re: Wagner and friends

2003-03-02 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 28/02/2003 at 05:42 Alex Jacobowitz wrote: --- Eliezer Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BTW AFAIK Christianity is NOT considered Avodah Zarah and according to the Talmud the desire to do true Avodah Zarah is no longer in the world- though I

Rainlore's World of Music - Reviews and some profiles up at last

2003-03-05 Thread R.A.S.
Dear fellow listers, I've finally gotten around to updating my Rainlore's World of Music web site ( http://www.rainlore.demon.co.uk ). A first batch of Jewish music CD reviews is now up and can be found from the Jewish Music page ( http://www.rainlore.demon.co.uk/Jewish.html ). The reviews are a

Re: Kol Isha: legal implications

2003-03-05 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 04/03/2003 at 20:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/4/2003 6:46:02 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless someone wants to set it to music, of course. You must remember this: A bris is still a bris, So don't

Re: klezmer (or not) Mann, oh man

2003-03-05 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 03/03/2003 at 23:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chaverim, pardon my enthusiasm, but ... _Never_ excuse yourself for enthusiasm! Especially in this context, there's nothing like it! :-) I'm in love with a new CD and I just had to share it with the

Re: advice on song length

2003-03-09 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 06/03/2003 at 22:54 Bill Barabash wrote: I have a song that I want to record. The problem is that each verse will take about one minute to get through, and there are 12 verses I generally like to present an entire song as an historical record,

Re: Fiddlers

2003-01-03 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 02/01/2003 at 12:55 Helen Winkler wrote: I'm posting this on behalf of Josh Horowitz: ...Josh Horowitz recently mentioned to me how much he enjoyed the violin playing of both Cookie Segelstein and Monika Feil (Monika lives in Germany and has

Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 2476

2003-01-03 Thread R.A.S.
Dear Fred and other fellow listers, *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 02/01/2003 at 10:31 Fred Blumenthal wrote: Thank you for your enthusiastic review of Adrienne Greenbaum's recording, Fleyt Musik. Do you have ordering information? Also, lists of titles Fleyt Muzik can be

Re: Divahn performing in NYC!

2003-01-03 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 29/12/2002 at 16:06 Galeet Dardashti wrote: Dear Friends, My band Divahn is coming to NYC for some performances in January. We are based in Austin, TX and perform Mizrakhi and Sephardi music. I hope that those of you living in the New York area

Re: Old Roots New World - More High Octane Music out of Maxwell Street...

2003-01-10 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 09/01/2003 at 12:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Richard in the U.K., I am speechless! A musician never knows, when pouring his/herself into a recording, whether ones spirit will penetrate through the ears of the listener to his spirit, via

Jewish Music and EMusic.com

2003-01-09 Thread R.A.S.
Dear fellow listers, Something has been bugging me for a long while. EMusic.com ( http://www.emusic.com ) has a small but nonetheless quite impressive selection of albums of Jewish music of various kinds, including a number of releases by a number of members of this list. However, these can be

New Jewish Music Web Site

2003-01-13 Thread R.A.S.
Dear Fellow Listers, I have finally decided to put some free web space that I have to good use by turning it into a web site (predominantly) for Jewish music, featuring snippets of news, info, and reviews. If you think you have any suggestions, ideas, hints or whatever concerning any aspect of

Re: Joy of Klez--unsolicited praise

2003-01-14 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 09/01/2003 at 21:21 Richard Schoeller wrote: Hey, never mind! I just found out that LilyPond has a converter from Finale ETF format into LilyPond. So, I guess I could deal with Finale. Of course the author of LilyPond is a serious free software

Re: Joy of Klez--unsolicited praise

2003-01-14 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 09/01/2003 at 21:11 Richard Schoeller wrote: Of course the problem with Sibelius or Finale format is that you would have to be using a computer that can run programs that can deal with Sure, but if you're going to be obtaining these materials (in

Re: AABACA (was Finale, Sibelius, etc.)

2003-01-19 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 17/01/2003 at 11:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never heard the words intuitive and music notation in the same With that I certainly would agree! Neither Sibelius nor Finale could be described in those terms by any stretch of the imagination,

Re: ban on all Israeli musicians to be debated Monday by British Musicians Union

2003-01-19 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 18/01/2003 at 18:45 Sandra Layman wrote: http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pr_item.cfm?ItemID=7053 January 16, 2003 WIESENTHAL CENTER PROTESTS BRITISH UNION'S MOVE TO BAN ALL ISRAELI MUSICIANS FROM BRITAIN The British Musicians Union is to

Re: Joy of Klez--unsolicited praise (creeping off topic)

2003-01-19 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 14/01/2003 at 22:00 Richard Schoeller wrote: We are kind of wandering off topic, but it may be useful to explore some of the issues are around such software. Indeed. First off, I agree that programs like Sibelius and Finale are the current

Re: Kol Isha/Miriam's Song

2003-02-26 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 23/02/2003 at 13:49 Lori Cahan-Simon wrote: Thank you, once again, Ari, for your good sense and good advice. As the instigator of this year's KI debate, I'd like to say that I find it fascinating that this subject gets more responses per day than

re: fagin as the ward of the (?) orphans

2003-03-15 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 15/03/2003 at 13:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen this version, but I think the revival of the show stars that famous Australian drag queen actor as Fagin (the one whose Dame Edna character has run for decades), Barry --? can't remember

Out of Border - Review of Daphna Sadeh's latest album

2003-07-03 Thread R.A.S.
(This was meant to go out Monday night - unfortunately, a deceased CPU cooler fan kept me offline and off the computer!) Daphna Sadeh and the Voyagers - Out of Border Daphna Sadeh should be familiar to many through recording and performing credits with one of Israel's leading world fusion

Re: Middle Eastern Double Reed Instument

2003-04-30 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 27/04/2003 at 16:09 Sandra Layman wrote: Maybe you're thinking of a zurna (zurla). Or perhaps a mijwiz? There's also the argol. Richard RenaissanceMan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish

Re: Passover Food

2003-04-30 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 23/04/2003 at 16:49 Marvin Margoshes wrote: Subject: Re: Passover Food Speaking of Jewish food: I write this email as I eat Manischewitz Fishlets (mini gefilte fish) with five alarm Farmer's Horseradish, and King David Matzos baked and packed in

Re: Greenman and Ruchefsky - I mean, Fedoriouk

2003-04-30 Thread R.A.S.
Thanks for sharing that. Makes me truly sad I couldn't have been there, sounds like it really was something a bit special. (Sadly, it's a bit more than a morning's drive from this side of the pond.. And this happens in NYC?! I'm amazed... Richard Renaissance Man *** REPLY SEPARATOR

An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's Dance of the Idiots

2003-05-04 Thread R.A.S.
Argh! Dead phone line (with one brief episode of some ten minutes of connectivity in between) since Thursday evening meant that this review's been sitting on my hard disk for three days! You get to read it here first - up on Rainlore's World of Music

Site update - Rainlore's World of Music

2003-05-06 Thread R.A.S.
Still a bit slow catching up, but at least the review of Koby Israelite's album Dance of the Idiots is up, along with a few other snippets. You can catch up here: http://www.rainlore.demon.co.uk/Jewish.html Richard Renaissance Man -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's Dance of

2003-05-05 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 04/05/2003 at 18:25 Seth Rogovoy wrote: Why is genre classification silly? Because it forces listeners to 'pgeonhole' music based on their expectations. Are there no such things as musical genres? There are indeed, and they do have their

Re: An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's Dance of

2003-05-06 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 05/05/2003 at 09:53 r l reidr l reid wrote: Eliezer Kaplan wrote: Roger Reid yclept: Why is genre classification silly? Because it forces listeners to 'pgeonhole' music based on their expectations. Forces? Hardly. Gives a hint as to whether

Re: An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's Dance of

2003-05-06 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 04/05/2003 at 20:47 Ari Davidow wrote: At 05:44 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: Of course there are, but one needs to recognize that what goes into each one depends on someone's arbitrary opinion. But just for fun, let's play a little game.

Re: musical genres

2003-05-06 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 05/05/2003 at 10:26 I. Oppenheim wrote: I would say that music can be classified in genres (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic,...) Even there you'll soon run into problems, certainly by the time you come to the classical and romantic

Re: Exile - Gilad Atzmon The Orient House Ensemble CD Review

2003-05-22 Thread R.A.S.
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 18/05/2003 at 18:24 Eliezer Kaplan wrote: Gilad Atzmon is probably the most exciting phenomenon to have hit the international jazz world since Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane. More exciting than the entire AACM, specifically the Art Ensemble, Braxton,

Long absence apologies...

2003-08-01 Thread R.A.S.
Apologies to everybody I owe mail, I'll start and try to catch up after shabbos. Sadly, my computer ('s CPU) finally expired on July 4th and I wasn't able to obtain a suitable (secondhand, as my mobo's pretty ancient in computer terms) replacement processor until yesterday, and things were also

Review - Greetings From... The Isle Of Klezbos

2003-08-01 Thread R.A.S.
(This review was written on July 4th before the start of shabbos but held up due to computer failure) Greetings from... The Isle Of Klezbos At last it's here - the long and eagerly awaited solo debut album from all female band, The Isle Of Klezbos! Relased in May on the Rhythm Media label in

Review: Metroploitan Klezmer - Surprising Finds

2003-08-01 Thread R.A.S.
(This review was written on July 4th before the start of shabbos but held up due to computer failure) Surprising Finds - Metropolitan Klezmer The latest album from Eve Sicular's fabulous Metropolitan Klezmer, titled Surprising Finds, is finally here! Relased in May on the Rhythm Media label

Review - Daphna Sadeh The Voyager Live at Leo Baeck College

2003-08-03 Thread R.A.S.
An illustrated review of Daphna Sadeh And The Voyager's 3rd July performance at Leo Baeck College in Finchley, North London, is now up on Rainlore's World of Music and can be accessed from here: http://www.rainlore.demon.co.uk/Jewish.html A few other updates have also been made, and I'm hoping