To cantoresq.Sorry to say that, but to you , Ravel and Stravinsky also lowered the level of musical appreciation. What you wrote convinced me that you don’t have a clue about music or understanding of Jewish tefillos. Maybe you have the same affliction as Beethoven, G-d forbid.
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Geneidige Berlin Oberrabbiner:
I never commented on Ravel or Stravinsky. But now that you raise it, indeed 12 tone music was never my thing, but I’m a big fan of the Bolero and of The Firebird. But “mah inyan shmitah. . .” SC was no Ravel nor Stravinsky. As to your assertion that I “Don’t have a clue about music or understanding of Jewish tefillos,” you are simply wrong. I’ve spent nearly half my life studying nusach and how to best apply it to the text of the siddur. It was SC and mainly his progeny that destroyed the traditional music of prayer. Permit me to ask you this, is the Mimkomcha that appears on SC’s album Haneshama Lach, in accordance with the nusach?