{"id":13784,"date":"2011-07-30T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2011\/07\/30\/13784.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:00:01","slug":"shabbos-not-so-much-frivolity-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2011\/07\/30\/shabbos-not-so-much-frivolity-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbos not so much Frivolity: Psalm 137"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It still being Between The Gates, I thought I would bring up some lamentations. Y&#8217;all are probably familiar with the English round &#8220;By the Waters of Babylon&#8221; popularized in the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HpydaQgOviA\">Don McLean version<\/a>. It&#8217;s the first line of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/Bible.cfm?b=Psa&amp;c=137\">Psalm 137<\/a>, which is a lament for lost Jerusalem. It has a lot of different settings in Hebrew, of course, such as this gorgeous one by <p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HubKpEPkkYw\">Salomone Rossi<\/a>, and this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piyut.org.il\/tradition\/english\/1169.html?section=morePerformances&amp;currPerformance=1542&amp;playing=0\">traditional chant from the Bobover Chasidim<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Wx69NZrzepw\">Franz Liszt did a setting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_391E7sFmbQ\">Heinrich Schutz did a setting<\/a>, Nicolas Vallet did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicsonline.com\/catalogue\/product.aspx?pid=1140984\">a lovely setting<\/a>. And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RcgRQT8L7Zw\">Godspell<\/a>. <p>And then there&#8217;s this setting, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EhUAWf6jlek\">Meydad Tasa&#8217;s Pop Psalm<\/a>.\n<p><i>How shall we sing the LORD&#8217;S song in a strange land?<\/i>\n<P>Damn well, that&#8217;s how we shall sing it.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger presents a musical question that pretty much answers itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music","category-scripture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19395,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/19395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}