Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Or, since that doesn't seem to work, go to the main site=0D =0D http://www.zcmusicgroup.com/=0D =0D and search, or click on "New Releases," and you may find it.=0D =0D Joe=0D =0D -------Original Message-------=0D =0D From: jlite@xxxxxxxxxx=0D Date: Saturday, January 18, 2003 12:31:26=0D To: Clevineys@xxxxxxx; yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=0D Subject: [yshavurah] Re: New Jewish Music CD=0D =0D Content-Type: Text/Plain;=0D charset=3D"iso-8859-1"=0D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable=0D =0D You can buy this online from ZC Music Group - url is=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D http://www.zcmusicgroup.com/category/cd.php?cd=3D3DZC2075=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D Joe Lite=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D -------Original Message-------=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D From: Clevineys@xxxxxxx=3D0D=0D Date: Saturday, January 18, 2003 08:36:21=3D0D=0D To: yshavurah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D0D=0D Subject: [yshavurah] New Jewish Music CD=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D This CD sounds really good--=3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D THE SCENE =3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D =3D46rom God's house to the coffeehouse =3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D By Scott Alarik, Globe Staff, 01/16/2002 American folk musicians are in t= =3D=0D he =3D0D=0D vanguard of a movement to modernize and personalize liturgical music. Jus= =3D=0D t=0D as =3D0D=0D Catholic folk Masses and the inclusion of modern folk songs into many =3D= 0D=0D Protestant hymnals have changed Christian church services, new religious = =3D=0D =3D0D=0D music is transforming the way many Jews worship. Boston-based scholar, =3D= 0D=0D writer, and educator Robert L. Cohen has produced more than 100 radio =3D= 0D=0D programs on Jewish culture, and is launching a series of CD anthologies =3D= 0D=0D called "Open the Gates! New American-Jewish Music for Prayer." Volume One= =0D has =3D0D=0D just been released by the ZC Music Group. "The CD is a sampling of the mu= =3D=0D sic=0D =3D0D=0D American Jews pray to today," says Cohen. "It is folk or folk-styled in t= =3D=0D hat=0D =3D0D=0D it has the simplicity, the inclusiveness, that characterizes much folk mu= =3D=0D sic=0D =3D0D=0D It's often music to sing along to, not just be an audience for, as was a = =3D=0D lot=0D =3D0D=0D of cantorial and cantor-and-choir-music." Of course, this new music rankl= =3D=0D es =3D0D=0D some with more orthodox tastes. Cohen is quick to point out that most of=0D what =3D0D=0D is seen as traditional cantorial music is actually quite new, created wit= =3D=0D hin=0D =3D0D=0D the past couple of centuries by European Jews. Just as that music reflect= =3D=0D ed =3D0D=0D the musical tastes and religious needs of those times, his music speaks t= =3D=0D o =3D0D=0D modern American Jews, Cohen says. "It's more music for having a conversat= =3D=0D ion=0D =3D0D=0D with God, as opposed to what some of my baby boomer peers call `cathedral= =3D=0D =3D0D=0D synagogue music,' which is intended for vast synagogues. That music is st= =3D=0D ill=0D =3D0D=0D very inspirational to some people, but it's more of a `God-is-in-his-heav= =3D=0D en'=0D =3D0D=0D music, to declaim to a majestic God. This music is to speak intimately wi= =3D=0D th=0D a =3D0D=0D more accessible God, and that's something I think people yearn for today.= =3D=0D " =3D0D=0D Many will be surprised at how well produced and beautifully arranged most= =3D=0D of=0D =3D0D=0D the 18 selections are. A number of the musicians featured, such as Boston= =3D=0D =3D0D=0D acts Safam and Hanna Tiferet Siegel, have performed concerts and services= =3D=0D at=0D =3D0D=0D synagogues and Jewish community centers, as well as commercial music venu= =3D=0D es.=0D =3D0D=0D Some perform liturgical music full time, others are also cantors, rabbis,= =3D=0D =3D0D=0D teachers, choral directors, composers, even superstars, such as sax-playi= =3D=0D ng =3D0D=0D contributor Kenny G. The music is unmistakably Jewish, both in its=0D melodicism =3D0D=0D and religious lyricism, but with alluring splashes of contemporary folk-p= =3D=0D op,=0D =3D0D=0D jazz, bluegrass, cabaret, even reggae. It's as appealing for its musical = =3D=0D =3D0D=0D qualities as its spiritual. "To me, this CD is an offering," says Cohen.=3D= 20=0D You =3D0D=0D could say an offering in prayer, but I'm not a missionizer that everybody= =3D=0D =3D0D=0D should have religion, so I don't put it that way. I think of it as heart = =3D=0D =3D0D=0D music, because it makes what Leonard Bernstein called `a direct hit on th= =3D=0D e =3D0D=0D emotions.' It's heart-opening music; that's the goal." Look for the CDs i= =3D=0D n =3D0D=0D Jewish specialty stores, such as the Israel Book Shop and Kolbo, both on = =3D=0D =3D0D=0D Harvard Street in the Coolidge Corner section of Brookline. =3D0D=0D =3D0D=0D Clinical and Consulting Psychologist=3D0D=0D Positive Perspectives, Inc.=3D0D=0D 680 E. 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