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B'Siyato D'Sh'mayo
Ben Zion Solomon and Sons in concert - A photo essay
Do you know what King David is all about? Why King David keeps us alive?
Do you know what King David is all about? Shabbos is over, right. I make havdallah, Shabbos is over. Suddenly I realize, I can't forget about Shabbos. I look around gevalt, gevalt, Shabbos is standing on the other corner. And that feast is even deeper than Shabbos. Gevalt, gevalt, is that deep. Because gevalt is that deep. So King David gives us strength to keep Shabbos until next Shabbos.
You see, to keep Shabbos on Monday, on Wednesday? That's what Shabbos is all about."
Reb Shlomo speaking Yud Gimel Elul, 1987 Tismach Jerusalem Home of Yocheved
Transcribed by Lisa Mechanick
These are almost all songs that do not appear on any commercial recordings to date. Most of them were published in Ben Zion's "Shlomo Shabbos" songbook. They date from 1961 - 1992. The title aptly describes the vocal/harmonic approach to R' Shlomo's music that permeates this recording.
Joining the Solomon family are:
Elyon Shames on Drums
Duvid Swirsky on Bass,
the children of Modi'im on hand clapping;
and of course, R' Shlomo ZTz"L in spirit.
This is a performance of R' Shlomo's nusach for Leyl Shabbos as he used to daven at Moshav Me'or Modi'im and many other places. Many of the pieces were published in Ben Zion's "Shlomo Shabbos" songbook.
This is a performance of R' Shlomo's nusach for Shabbos Morning from Shacharis through Musaf as he used to daven at Moshav Me'or Modi'im and many other places. Many of the pieces were published in Ben Zion's "Shlomo Shabbos" songbook.
This spiral bound volume of 112 pages contains 46 of R' Shlomos best songs that were not published in the previous songbooks. They are all songs of Shabbos and included is the now world famous "Shlomo nusach" for Leyl Shabbos, and many songs that R' Shlomo never recorded.
There are 34 photographs of Shlomo in Jerusalem and on "the Moshav" -Each song is presented with:
melody line
text underlay in transliterated hebrew
chords for harmonic accompaniment of guitar, keyboard, etc.
full text in Hebrew
a translation of the text into English
and stories of the origin of each song.
a precious introduction by R' Shlomo ZTz"L
introductory material by the Editor, Ben Zion Solomon
a table of contents
alphabetical index
musical index
a glossary of non-English terms.
If you like R' Shlomo's songs, but don't read music, this volume is a worthwhile purchase for the stories and photos alone. Some of the songs in this volume, that R' Shlomo never released commercially, have been recorded by Ben Zion Solomon and sons on the new CD and cassette -"Give Me Harmony"
Here's a sample page ...
Photo by Moshe Yitzchak Kussoy
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