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Everything has ben dummed-down. Years ago, Lipa would have been laughed off stage.
What really is the essence of Lipa's popularity?!
He expresses the silliness, the cynicism in all of us!

 

I've seen these glasses several years ago.

 

Is there stil room left to get more Crazy ?

 

Where can I get these glasses?

 

this is the happyest day in my life thank you for this news

 

nice music , but tacky performance

 

he bought it by m&s optical on 16th ave corner 52 anyone can order it I have seen a few people with it they are quite old already but its nice

 

how do you now he got it at m&s optical??

 

Although I'm outside the frum community, I'm surprised the community tolerates the music of Lipa Schmelzer and most other performers today--to me it's nothing more than copying the outside world (and not even the best music of the outside world). Can anyone recommend recordings of traditional Chassidisch music, preferably without instruments? Hebrew University, of all places, has a 2-CD set called HaNiggun HaChasidi Bepi HaChasidim that's very good, mostly recorded years ago at chassunas and tisches (note: it has one track with a Chosid and his daughters singing at a chanukas habayis). Does anyone know of something similar?

 

Hebrew U has done an excellent job with traditional singing of theChassidish and Sephardish world. Why "of all places"? They have frum people very involved with these recordings, who do it out of love and for no money. If not for them (there are also books of chassidishe zemiros in music notation), all we'd have would be these neo-disco parodies of what was once Jewish music.

 

anon 7:23

Its not true. The orthodox community does not tolerate him at all. In fact, in the real chasidisha crowd, nobody ever hires him for a job.

 

Thank you for your response. I wrote "of all places" after Hebrew U. because you would not have expected a secular university to care more about traditional Hasidic music than most people in the frum world--but that shows you can't come at things with preconceptions. Can you suggest specific CDs they've put out? (And "neo-disco," by the way, is a very good description of what passes for nigunnim nowadays.)

 

lets face it lipa sucks his days are over.

 

I actually would expect Hebrew U to be more conerned with authentic music than the frum world. Look at seforim- Artscroll and Metsudah seem to only publish seforim of what's in, what's popular. To get Ibn Ezra, Saadia Gaon, Rashbam, Radak meforshim, Ralbag's Milchemes HaShem, and many other medieval seforim, one has to buy from Yale, Brown or JTS.

 

Here is the Hebrew U Jewish music webpage: http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/store.asp?cat=21&in=0&id=666&act=view This particular CD captures the nusach that Maran, R. Yosef Karo might have known (he wrote about this kind of singing in his diaries). The current head of the department, Prof. Edwin Seroussi, is dati, and has done a great job of capturing important religious singing traditions from all over the Jewish world, and has collaborated with many rabbonim, etc. Overall, Hebrew U has a very high number of yeshiva grads, and one sees quite alot of kippot there, particularly in the Jewish studies programs, which are generally quite sympathetic and not "anti-tradition" (I suppose bible studies are by definition so, but the Kabbalah, Jewish history and Talmud programs are very sympathetic and dati friendly).

 

YOY!!!!!!!
de glesses iz fer sail on e-bay next to der glesses frum der BOBOVER REBBE. Maybe U got ah hef a milyun dollahs