When I mentioned this thread to my husband last night, he reminded me that when ???? ???? from the second volume of Amudai Shaish came out, it was ???? to sing it in Torah Vodaas. It was learned that almost note for note, it was composed and sung by a ??? named Ben E. King.
Give me a Reb Baruch Levine song any day and you will feel its Kedusha. He is a true Ben Torah who is obviously not influenced by the goyishe velt. I’ll bet he doesn’t even listen to it, hence his beautiful compositions.
To the person who wrote that all music is ???? please bear in mind that no less a Godal as the Vilna Goan brings down, that music can bring a person to the highest level of Avoda to Hashem. Furthermore, he says that for a person to know Trop in Tanach, he must be an expert in Music Theory as well as Composition.
Before anyone writes and asks where the source can be found, I saw it in Artscrolls Biography of the Vilna Goan.