Nigun ShVY"T (AKA "Tatenyu") ~ Cello
Chabad niggunim on the cello... why didn't anyone think of this before??
The haunting sound of the cello so perfectly captures the mood and character of the old-country niggun. Yet, the manner in which it has been recorded would have offended it's composers.
Perhaps it is symbolic of how the the movement has evolved. Although we pride ourselves in practices that Chabad'a founders may have considered sacreligious, it is still nice to know that the more things change, certain thing stay the same; just like the eternal purity of a niggun.
What do you think?
posted by Baruch @ 6:31 PM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Hey can you elaborate a bit?
I guess it didn't occur to me that it was almost offensive to record a niggun on my computer from my basement abode and post it on youtube. The shlucha I live with was always haunted by how I played so I figured it might be fitting to share it with people.
Yeah, I think it's gorgeous!
Hmmm, poor choice of words on my part. I'm sorry it came out sounding negative.. in truth there is NOTHING negative about your video.. it's amazing!
I guess I was just trying to picture the Chassidim of 100 years ago attending a concert in the shtetl where a young women comes out on stage and plays a niggun on a cello... somehow it doesn't seem likely. As for youtube being different or more "private", that could very well be true, but somehow I can't picture the same Chassid watching this video either.
Today, this is a fairly accepted practice; this leads me to believe that our standards have changed.
Not to say that they were right and we are wrong -and certainly NOT to discourage your beautiful work- it was just the irony that struck me.
Somehow it's a comforting thought that niggunim have been preserved exactly as they were (even without sheet music for many years) A tune has so many meanings to it, every generation relates to it as they are, and I don't think the composer could relate it how we do today. Yet, it's the same niggun; the same pure, haunting cry of the soul. Its' intricate beauty and simplicity will always remain intact, regardless of context.
I like that.
True. Indeed. Agreed. I don't ever perform for men for many reasons. I figured when I put up these videos that a random cello enthusiast would find them and maybe be touched.
WOW
I LOVE it, Elisheva. Stunning. Thanks for sharing!
(And thanks for bloggin it. I do agree with the irony. And I see the beauty, too.)
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