Yes ,Shelley,
And because of Idelson all famous performers
break their teeth with that silly text.
Because the tune is good and thought to
be Yiddish connected.
Actually it comes from the high sierras of
the western Carpathians.
Today because of its popularity we
proudly assume ownership.
Well, nobody else claims it anyway...
Hardy
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îàú: Shelley [mailto:shemit65_at_gmail.com]
ðùìç: Thursday, May 28, 2015 6:36 AM
àì: Hardy Breier
òåú÷: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell
ðåùà: Re: [[Cz-L] Hava Nagila
A little more on that:
"At some point around the turn of the last century, a group of
Sadigorer Hasidim emigrated to Jerusalem and brought the nigun with
them. There the melody might have remained in the cloistered world of
Jerusalem’s Hasidic communities if not for one man, Avraham Zvi
Idelsohn–the father of Jewish musicology.
Idelsohn was born in 1882 in Foelixburg (Filzburg), a small town in
the Courland province of Tsarist Russia (present-day Latvia). He
trained as a cantor in Russia and studied classical music in
conservatories in Berlin and Leipzig before settling in Jerusalem
sometime after 1905. He soon became active as a musician, music
teacher, and scholar in the Jewish community there.
As a passionate Zionist, Idelsohn sought to collect and preserve the
folk music of Jewish communities from around the world, using a
phonograph to record the traditional melodies of Yemenite, Russian,
German, Moroccan, and other communities he encountered in Jerusalem.
At the same time, he sought to pioneer a new style of modern national
music that would unify the Jewish people as they returned to their
historic homeland in Palestine. To that end, he arranged and composed
many new Hebrew-language songs based on traditional melodies. These
modern songs with ancient roots quickly became popular as new Hebrew
folk songs, sung in kibbutzim, moshavot, and printed in songbooks in
the Jewish yishuv and beyond. Among them was Hava Nagila."
Shelley
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> The most famous Jewish tune today is Hava Nagila.
> It has its roots in Hasidic Sadagura.
> And so the story goes:
> One morning the Friedman castle dining room
> was full of hungry Hasidim and the serving was
> late ,so they picked up their cups and started
> knocking on the mensa table.
> "Dai dai , di doodle , dai dai , di doodle ..."
> They chanted.
> It had no words or meaning,
> Just a made - up silly tune.
> It reached Palestine where it also got lyrics.
> It is also danced as a Hora at weddings.
> The No 1 jewish trademark of the century.
> Here is Helmut Lotti doing it:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXS73OD8MMI
>
> All they wanted to say was :
> "Bring in the coffee .
> Bring in the coffee
> And also the Chay !"
>
>
> Hardy
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