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What makes a good nign
EX193_538 Sruli Dresdner explains what makes a nign good, and sings a few examples.More from this narrator: Sruli Dresdner
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Early Recordings of Modzitzer Hasidic Nigunim
EX184_1114 Velvel Pasternak, musicologist and major publisher of Jewish music, talks about some of his early work recording nigunim (traditional wordless melodies) of the Modzitz hasidic dynasty and...
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Why It Was Forbidden to Record Nigunim
EX184_1115 Velvel Pasternak, musicologist and major publisher of Jewish music, talks about his reasons for writing down and recording nigunim (traditional wordless melodies) and other traditional...
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"I Want to Hear it in the Raw": Working With Vladimir Heifetz
EX184_1117 Velvel Pasternak, musicologist and major publisher of Jewish music, recounts a story about his colleague Vladimir Heifetz that demonstrate the differences between the Satmar and Chabad...
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"But it Had the Pathos": Difficulties of Recording with Hasidic Singers
EX184_1119 Velvel Pasternak, musicologist, recalls the difficulties of recording nigunim as sung by hasidim, as well as the rewards of believing in music.More from this narrator: Velvel Pasternak
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Ben Zion Shenker: Inspired by Modzitz Rebbe to Compose
EX310_2139 Ben Zion Shenker, world-renowned composer of nigunim (wordless melodies), shares how the Modzitzer Hasidic dynasty's tradition first inspired him to write compositions and his Yiddish...
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings His Father’s Peysekh (Passover) Nign
EX448_3102 Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, shares a Passover nigun (melody) that he remembers from his childhood in Poland.
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When Do You Sing a Nign? Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Explains
EX448_3106 Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, describes what a nign is and when one might sing one.
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold
Highlights - stories and songs - from an interview with Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold.read more
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