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Re: I stopped in for a drink at Smoky Joe's today...
Howdy FW, Sorry I didn't reply sooner in the appropriate thread. I'm glad you liked the slideshow of Psalm 113 in Hebrew. (I just uploaded my five slideshows on Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's work to MySpaceTV as well. The lecture/concert videos I'm leaving out for now.) I hope you'll go back to the same thread and track down my link to the Greek ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 8, 2007
(שלום) The text is Psalms 113, BTW...
And here is the Greek Orthodox version (or one of them, if there's more than one) -- it is totally different in spirit from the reconstructed Hebrew version. The choirs are not quite in tune, even by what seems to be the singers' own native temperament (they're beautifully in tune in the upper registers, but have trouble in the lower ones). I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 5, 2007
Re: "Xairete," wabbit - beautiful sounds!
Dear Auntie Pasta, ;) I did catch your earlier e-mail. The notes accompanying the video and the animation at its beginning identify the singers as the vocal ensemble SHOFAR, of Cali, Colombia. The harpist you see in the other video listings on my channel is Yours Truly. The music is transcribed from the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Letteris Edition) by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 20, 2007