The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:
Jeremy Brown, copyright holder of "Isaac's March" for allowing us to use his song, from the album This Year in St. Louis. © 2001. Undertow Album # 051001. This song was recorded at Undertow Collective Studios, St. Louis, Missouri on November 5, 2000. Jeremy Brown, violin. Matt Henry, snare drum. Most of the album mixes bluegrass with Jewish themed music.
This song was originally written by Jeremy Brown on the day when Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated. After losing each of his grandfathers, the tune became a dedication to them. Jeremy states: "Again, on 9/11, I pulled the song out, and played it again. It seems awfully sad to think about the tune like that, but I have always found music a powerful way to express my emotions, and each time, the tune has made me feel better about life.
We couldn't agree more. This plaintive melody created a powerful reaction in contemplation of the recent tragic events, and I wanted the readers to share that. Thanks again to Jeremy Brown.
You can contact Jeremy for more information about his album at: jeremy3@hotmail.com
December 17, 2001
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:Ari Davidow for his continued support of this music website over the last umpty ump years.
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:Victor Berch, Special Collections Librarian, Brandeis University Libraries, Retired. Victor has been most helpful in researching biographical information for several of the entries on this website. Thank you, Victor! And thank you also for being such a wonderful mentor for the deeper mazes and more hidden secrets of the great libraries of the world. You are the great puzzle solver and the ultimate detective-- the finds are all yours, Victor! This internet dolphin salutes you.
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:Melissa De Graaf for sharing her scholarly research and two articles on Jewish women composers Marion Bauer and Ruth Wertheimer.
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:Mesorah Publications, Ltd. for allowing this website to reproduce a portion of their Artscroll SIDDUR YITZHAK YA'IR.
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:All the patient people who have waited for their announcements and materials to appear on the JMWC during this long recovery period since 9/11.
Here's one story of musical recovery after 9/11 from Reyzl Waletsky as it appeared Oct. 18, 2001 on the Jewish music mailing list:
"In introducing this song at Tonic's 9/11 benefit, Adrienne said that while looking for material for this special event, she found the song "I'm Afraid of What You Do In The Name of Your G-d" on a Holly Near recording. It was Lorin's record. Somehow the year 1998 for this recording is flashing in my brain.-- Reyzl Kalifowizc-WaletZky
The Mashiakh song at this performance was "Zol shoyn kumen di geule" not "Shnirele perele". It was probably the same at the next performances. Since the fifties, "Zol shoyn kumen di geule" is the Yiddish song Jews often sing at such memorials.
The Tonic 9/11 benefit was truly a wonderful event. It helped heal an awful lot, both the musicians and the audience. Deborah Strauss told me she felt that she was cutting into the terrorists with her bow and we felt as if the Frank London's brass band was blowing them away from the city gates. (If only that were so!) Adrienne Cooper's and Lorin Sklamberg's Yiddish translation of Holly Near's song was perfect material for the occasion. Margo Leverett, who was playing for the first time since the catastrophe, was fabulous and took us all with her. Zalmen Mlotek selected a wonderful apt Yiddish song, for which he changed some text for the occasion. (Sorry, can't remember the song's name, but I think it was Reyzn's song.) Josh Waletzky sang a most moving Yiddish song he wrote for the occasion called "Eyn velt" (his father was the president of _One World_ Corporation at One World Trade Towers in the 1970's so for him this is very personal.) Sharon Bernstein's khazones was wonderful. The event was serious, contemplative, and celebrative. The brass at the very end was very cathartic. We in New York really needed it. We were also so grateful that someone thought up a Yiddish response to our national tragedy. You could see that everyone was very moved by the event and most people stayed for both shows. As they say, you should have been there."
The Jewish Music WebCenter would like to thank:Thanks to: Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at Bowdoin College, James Higginbotham, for permission to use some of his photos which were gathered from his webpages some years ago (1997) and for which he graciously granted me permission to use for this website.
Thanks from the Internet Dolphin.
