I love the Internet: In search of the lost song

[carbonel]

When I was in my teens, I spent one summer at a Hebrew immersion summer camp program with around 60 others at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin (usually referred to as OSRUI or Oconomowoc, for obvious reasons). I'd been up there many times before for the family Thanksgiving retreat our temple sponsored every year, but my main

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[therck]

We sang that as part of a set of rounds in RC Singers in college. I'm not sure I remember all the words, but I recall two or three lines.

[carbonel]

Neat! Nice to know I'm not the only one.

[carbonel]

If you mean tlunquist, we met at the Newaygo reunion 10 years ago, and were totally boggled. (We discovered the connection when I mentioned B.'s name as my employer.) About a generation apart, but lots of songs and traditions in common still.

She wasn't able to make this year's reunion for obvious reasons.

[sartorias]

Oh, that's a nifty one!

I love the Internet for finding lost music. Though sometimes it takes me years. But it didn't take long to find "Erev Ba," a lovely melody that our dance teacher played for us. She used to play a lot of Israeli folk music without telling us what it was. But a friend recognized it from Hebrew School and told me the name, which I remembered for the next few decades, until I could find it again--and it sounded just as lovely as I remembered.

[carbonel]

"Erev Ba" is indeed a pretty song. (It means "evening comes" or "evening is coming" in Hebrew.) There's a circle dance that goes with it that always defeated me. It's not terribly complicated, but it has quick switches in direction, and I'm sufficiently clumsy that I couldn't get the timing right. I finally learned to just sit that one out.

[thomasyan]

Any chance you could record yourself singing, and then sing a round on playback? Obviously (no apps yet?), the playback wouldn't be able to adjust to accommodate your live singing....