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family.)
While Mr. Himmelman's
Judaism shapes his music, it
does not limit either his
lyrics or his performance.
Unlike "Jewish" rock bands
Safam and Shlock Rock,
Peter Himmelman does not
play for a specific "kind" of
audience. In fact, he even
bristles if people classify him
as New Age.
"I don't get up and repre-
sent anything. On a good
night, I'll represent my
songs," he said. He thinks
Jewish rock stars with Jew-
ish audiences are
"antithetical to what I am
all about."
"If we saw only yarmulkes
in the audiences, we would
be making some big error —
the music is not for any one
race, religion or creed," he
said.
His lyrics, while imbued
with religious issues, are not
explicitly "religious." One
song from his
From
Strength to Strength
album exalts the ability of a
woman to overcome a
disability. Another song,
"This Too Will Pass," com-
forts that "like an hourglass,
this too will pass. And
what's hard as rock will soon
be soft as cotton." Never in
the song does Mr. Him-
melman describe what
"this" is.
"When you write songs,
they follow your experience,
not precede them," he said.
But there is no question that
Judaism finds its way into
Peter Himmelman's work.
"Impermanent Things,"
which attacks materialism
and the behavior it creates,
sounds like something from
the Kol Nidre liturgy. An-
other song, "Mission of My
Soul," could easily
substitute for the text in a
ketubah, Jewish marriage
Peter Himmelman's Poetry
(From "Whispering Days" on Himmelman's Strength to
Strength album.)
These are whispering days that are passing us by
It's a miracle all the stars don't
Fall from their weight in the sky
These are whispering days and the hills are on fire
If you steady your nerves you'll hear the words
Coming over the wire
This is the song that Gabriel says only for you my love
On these whispering days