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Oorah's Laptop Giveaway Live with Celebrity Jewish Composer Yossi Green
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Yossi Green and Gershy Moskowitz join Yossi Zweig in counting down the minutes towards Oorah's auction. The winners are announced hourly. Stay tuned as the big names keep joining, and as the winners keep being drawn! The next winner just may be you, so hurry to Oorah.org/laptops and win an ipad AND a laptop! Oorah's Auction will stream live this Motzei Shabbos, May 4th, at http://www.oorah.org/
Featuring:Yossi Green
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with me uh good friend of mine somebody
I got to know over the last couple years
composer extraordinaire you know his
songs many of you know his voices as
they are featured on the songs recorded
by other artists the one and only you
great
are thank you very much for inviting me
to this event this
really I've been here I know this store
at least 30 some OD years and this
bent seems really renovated to make this
place beautiful L the one thing I know
about you is your you like your variety
of herrings and variety of
dips
hering I know yi yi once had me do a
pickup for him and I learned so much
about Heron that didn't know exist
so this is a unique event we figured we
need a unique guy somebody who's
excelled and progressed through the
Through the Ages you know certain
composers and singers they were good for
certain time periods we green seems
as yeah so Yi green many of our viewers
had questions for you my my first
question is where does Yi green shop
where does he go to get clothing Yi's
always wearing the coolest clothing out
there where I can get a v i like V
I'm always wondering a lot of singers
and people who are not singers people
like to sing they always sing in the
shower does you see Green sing in the
shower and if yes what no I don't sing
in the shower of all I was
young I don't know if anybody I don't
know what is if you sing in the shower
you lose your voice you ever hear this
any any anybody ever heard this you sing
in the shower you lose voice is AC I
have no idea what it was anyway so since
then
I holding out to whatever that voice
is one of the things I always wonder is
he hears some of these amazing
compositions and one thing about your
compositions are they're not just a
simple Melody they're very complex they
have a beginning interlude end and the
interludes become a part of the song The
intros become part of a song has there
ever been a time while you listening to
other Jewish music that you think hey
I wish I would have composed that song
at some
point I listen to souls that I love not
that I wish that I wrote I mean whoever
wrote it wrote it and look for them but
beautiful song
There Years love to listen that
I how does y see green Runing process
start uh as they say the chicken and the
ex all comes first the lyrics or the m
so there is a uh there's an interesting
I think was the Dr Timothy says
that you see there something called M
and M so I always wondering what's the
difference M and M it turns out that the
says that m is the music part of the
song and is the lyric and there were
times was inspired first by a
melody followed the lyric afterwards
that called misar and other times I did
the lyric first and V A Melody last was
sh misar I will tell you that in the
last 25 years I would say 99% of the
time I'm inspired by lri something that
I see something very special something
that I feel that I that I understand a
certain way that I would like I'd like
to share with the Audience by the piano
and try to find a way to interpret the
lyric not about the intros and it's not
about the arrangements and it's not
about the that you were saying before
it's about can can we share the message
can the message be interpreted through
music do you feel that that will help
the song be more successful because the
creating of the composition came from
your understanding the lyrics I'm not
sure what you mean by successful to me
the songs go on to be more popular to be
ESS to me to me a successful song is a
song that
is M they they they love it they sing it
so I feel that I was a to get people to
say
certain holy words as a result of a
Melody I kind of feel that sort of Ding
and learning together with that's me
very very special if we achieve if if I
can achieve a Melody that will make
people sing make people want to hear it
make people want to express it then I
feel that I'm
do you feel that there are many songs in
today's day and age that people are
using the same lyrics they're coming
redundant no I'll tell you I believe
that everybody who writes music
has has their way of of of uh of
interpreting we we find we find I'll
give you an example I something that I
found to in the morning which is I found
the
BR thator says that that when it comes
to chuba that if one person does
chuba is all the of
everybody amaz so that is that's like I
mean I'm the age that I am a grandchild
I never heard this
you so I believe a lyric like this I
believe a BRI like this needs to have a
Melody associated with so that people
can get to hear this so that people
shouldn't say that they haven't heard
the
r that's the that's the to for
me on the other hand I mean you've
introduced some very interesting gumar
that W beforeand
uh you know that weren't lyrics ever
used before
for your question you were saying about
lyrics that are still being used by many
different people again if a lyric is
used for the purpose somebody has a
Melody that he wants to dump up to the
lyric it doesn't work if the lyric is
really used properly where it's really
it's really used because you want to
communicate you want to share something
a real thought a real thought a a Jewish
idea something to make somebody feel
something then the melody
will it doesn't matter how
many I
hear um when people come for a
song let's say they buy a song
yes do you feel you have ch ended and
you sold his song and you don't really
care what happens then after that the
arrangements or how's the final products
come out
or question
I I don't I kind of first of all I don't
have songs that I I have inventory of s
some comes inventory have the reper I
don't have an inventory people come in
inventory come ask you have any songs
available open up the drawer and I it
doesn't know me sit down
sing is somewhere we
cani know I don't if you remember but
gishi was the first one that introduced
me to you I'm a fan of years for many
years but to gerner put out his first
album that was the first time I was ever
introduced to youi me to a lot of and it
happened to G so I figured why not bring
G
he ask question he's asking
is
how I write a song when I finish song
singer am I am I done with it and do I
am I
disappointed of most people who purchase
a song from you love to have your vocals
on that
song
something to
involve when to have want to have the
vocals on the song automatically hear
the ring of the song that's hearing
number one you know pampering a singer
that this Arrangement would be like that
and I would add this and that that means
you care for the sing a lot and you make
sure it's done on the proper talking
already from the production and the song
is already done I'm talking about when
when the first time you into my
house my house numerous numerous
different people more they they somehow
contact him they're afraid of me for
whatever reason they called him and he
is no problem at 2:00 at night he says
no one calls the King stop stop stop
stop anyway so so so he bring he brings
he brings over a guy to me and I'll sit
down with him and then starts this kind
of an interview I get to know the singer
what is he what what does he want to say
does he does he have any strong feelings
about any any specific idea inish kind
which by the way is where it begins and
ends with me when it comes to Jewish
music so it's not about tone of voice
it's about his personality exactly it's
about his personality who he is as a
person yeah because naturally my own
feelings about for this what I just told
you
about somebody does one person does true
with the entire
world for everybody that's something
that's very exciting to me because I'm a
little bit of older some of these
younger guys they've never even g a no
yet so they're not even worried about
about so how tell how it works when you
sit down would you tell everybody
watching how does it work when when we
when we sit down with a singer what's
the process fast so they come sh and say
well I have six songs for my album and I
need a what you
do they'll do that I mean that's that's
not going posi shirts I they need I need
horror here got one disco they have
formulas two rocks one disco two Horrors
I love to do with that to me it's it's
it's a song one you know what I find
amazing when come to Yi the singer sits
down and says Yi I need a song like that
song all of a sudden Yi put on that
finger on the piano the opposite St that
the guy star wanted and the story the
stor yes now just give a process you
know be it's funny cuz when you look at
y's uh pre
presentations I guess when it says you
see green present let's say Dad or do
the fish I don't think you had any idea
of let me get a wedding song let me get
it you just S I want Stellar songs that
showcase what words mean what this guy's
voice can do that showcases him the
right way that you never went shopping
around for the UL what
I somebody comes to sit down ask WR a
soul once we have our connection we
establish a connection
whatever happens connection always
happens I've never seen never seen I've
never seen non connection happen see you
as a composer what I mean we we get into
this once in a while but you write a
song and you sell a song Now what's your
connection to that song and what's that
singer's connection to the song meaning
anybody can take it anybody can use it
the singer can use it so many times
what's the realistic you're ask you're
asking from a business perspective
business perspective want to make sure
nice question okay so the way it works
in the world of
Music the way it works is you sell the
use of the song for that one time on the
recording so live it becomes the singer
song perform it many times all over the
world for the for the to sell it on a on
existing CD or whatever
project the song
always so when you see these albums
coming out with collections or what
everybody come
great that's why the hips and the sh
green series are so sought after well
I'm doing my own
col
viewers what you're working on right now
some inter very niceu you
L I keep seeing that you're in shag
Studio mon what's happening in sh Studio
there's a lot of different things
there's first of all there
is there's a young
man
Israel
doing
PS doing gu SCH
SCH
I'm very I'm very interested in
developing as many new singers as
possible and I think that's important I
don't know how many composers especially
composers that are you know not of the
younger generation who are looking to
work and cultivate the younger
generation ensuring that there's going
to be Vol products coming up in the
future I I think everybody's I think all
working some you good young composers
out there they doing great and they're
we're sharing some of these albums
together one of the things you haven't
mentioned is the F music book in
new well the music book may be a music
app know because the actual printing of
a book is very expensive but U I've been
working for a bunch of few years already
g notes it's a collection of 36 songs
with the exact notes of for piano for
intermediate piano Arrangement which we
don't you don't see you see books that
have guitar chords on and so on and many
schools music schools over the world
have contacted me to find out why why
they can't have music books with Jewish
music that's arranged in an intermediate
way so that students all over the world
were learning the learn so I got
together
with right yes gski and gari gari gari
does the
the
arrangements I recorded I record all the
songs are recorded played by him so this
this book or app will have will have the
songs already done the way performed by
him as well is the the piano player that
we
have when you came
in from this project
that's a very good question which I
think we should ask if it's if you
answer what's what's the difference
between a amateur 16-year-old kid
composing a song and how does he get to
move up to you know like to the level
where is right now how does he how does
he progress just so everybody has their
own you know right everybody has their
own
l kid now that they're
composing poed what was
itye is not
necessarily that was that was the
question question the you're asking
specifically what you're asking how do a
16-year-old WR who writes music who
wants how does he how does he come in
and grow bigger and bigger okay so first
of all the first requirement for
somebody who wants to write music is the
desire to write
music everybody wants
right the gentleman owns the Del
52 I don't think his desire is to ride
Sals his desire is to present a very
very good product food to the to theer
food to the market corre so as soon as
somebody already feels that he has a sh
to wrri a song that's already
suff number one okay from that point
time depending on on on you start
obviously in the beginning you WR your
songs are not that sophisticated you
have but you also have an audence around
you have 15 16 year old friends who are
not so sophisticated so they're not
looking for our level songs from him you
have to understand there a very big one
of the problems that I
find go right in singing we have we have
a young kid comes out like ay gner or
green these are
not how does you can't compare them to
somebody's been seeing for 30
years so one of the problems that we
have over here is right
away does not sing better than that's
not that's not the point shimang is
singing shangle is 24 he sings gorgeous
by the way he is going to be singing to
the people that he grew up with who are
not listening to the more sophisticated
singers because they don't even get to
understand singing you have to you have
to be a little old appreciate his
singing I know you are trust me trust me
you're not you're
not how he interpret song and trust you
will one day look at me and say you know
something I can't believe him the older
I get the better he
gets I have
never the Amazon everything so far 100%
correct it's not it's not an issue I'm
saying I'm saying I would argue no but
I'm saying you understand so to begin
with we can't when you have a
16-year-old that um what's your name
again Ros you have a 16y old that's
writing music as long as he feels like
he wants to write he's already has one
one step in the right direction and then
he is writing not for
me he's writing he's writing for his for
his friends and for his kids and for his
family
for his Camp friends and that's where
he's going to connect he will connect
and he will grow from there so you don't
think that he should go out and learn
and read up on what musical composition
is or how music works and go to music
school any of those things you don't
think that's that's
necessary to writing a Jewish song
absolutely
not musicool when he sing Jewish song
you have to ask him the question that
everybody asks what makes the song
Jewish it's all written by a Jew he's
answer there's no told
I I told you something very
contrs sorry I know we get connected to
to Melodies and to we always say this
there's not there's not certain
are sitten
by written
by
is that's what it
is nothing to do with anything you have
you I'm sorry ask
question you the interview I'm it's fine
I'm just getting
dizzy but do you have any specific song
you say this is your song that made it
to the world the biggest L you have top
three top five I mean you're asking me
if I have favorite songs of Yi green
songs which made it to the world no I
don't I don't have favorite songs I have
songs that are that are favored that I'm
working on what I mean that I'm working
on right now so right right now you
understand like I wrote
for right when I was in which is getting
whatever when I was when I was in that
song I thought that song was I felt I
can't tell you how
Inc whatever it is I'm saying you know
right now I'm working with right so I
have another piece for re pH I always
looking to is there another way
that can I find something else that's
that's special without saying oh what
are you trying trying to do another
other no I'm not tring saying saying
what was favored by people no no let me
let me finish my answer so I'm very
excited about
this I'm very excited about so that's
favor right now that's what I play if
you would pass my house at night at 11
12:00 and you listen to music you be
playing that's what I would be playing
by so that's what I mean by favor not
favor me
fa Jesse that piano in your house that's
your that was the piano all the
compositions were created right that
piano was bought my wife bought that
piano after we
got
gu
you tell anybody the story or that's not
s
everybody people
Sage but they don't I
think had chance to go I want them to
hear the story The only thing I I want
to say about Kia is that KIA is a song
that nobody wanted for
years nobody wanted the song for years I
went around like
sales pleading with people to take that
song to sing that song which doesn't
happen
usually those
days
Days
sound very very emotional story with
this song the only emotional story I can
tell I learned learn I learned 31 years
ago I recently 31 years ago that's all
me to to go through the I I can't
do those guys are geniuses I I can't I
didn't I did my thing slowly and I I
started again Rec and I got
to I got I got to the and I
saw I remembered what happened 31 years
ago and I burst so to me I I saw that
that when I began to learn when I was 27
years old that's when the r gave me gift
right away
very emal he told me when
heos penen for he was laughing you
crying is a very
fun what's composed
for
re's IDE lyrics the
lyrics I know when when a successful
someone comes out of do you know once he
starts swe that
piano you worked with many uh singers
over the years is there ever a singer
you wanted to work with that you haven't
quite connected
with
[Music]
what a good connection
remember no no like he should I would
like the
[Music]
S he probably make that deal and say if
I do that I want English songs want me
to break my teeth over his English his
journey you see if if there are some up
and coming singers they want to get in
touch they want to sit with you they
want to see what it's like to
get is a wonderful
gateway to me really first of all it's
not just to get in touch with me just
for writing is not enough you need to
have somebody who's going to give you
hands in
peacei would do that for so many
different
people hands and feet and and the one
who really told me G you something go
ahead and do what to do was my first
breakfast after I went
out what you
do
people he manages people well people
trust him all I can say can I have fun
what the number
of this comes from a guy this comes from
a guy that doesn't have songs
somewhere that are recorded basically
he's not a guy he's a SE thank you
for um we want to give you the to Pi to
announce the last winner of the night
for a laptop or iPod so somebody has
already won somebody has already won
he doesn't know he has one yet this is
the number 12 winner and he's laptop or
IP depends what it says
There lives a
Lakewood Lakewood New
Jersey and his first name is
David his name is David Goldberg from
Lake he has a choice a choice he a
choice IP iPad or laptop and he has a
choice for iPad see what do you say if
you have a choice iPad or
laptopy you say these days you connected
to it I don't know I I go
anywhere is the down
pictures next time we want to go out we
hook up the right
next he wants he wants to us up right
nowy delicious fresh clean been all day
you watching the food of a been watching
whatever figure out how that relates
to no because if you would have watched
Chef Victor with me at 11:00 in the
morning when he made me Chef Victor Chef
Victor Chef Victor was the Chinese chef
for the last 30 years he is now here
making his Chinese dishes and made for
me live the that red sesame chicken that
they for K and he's like taste it it's
11:00 in the morning delicious it was
crispy and the way he composed the dish
is a time of your
compos I did not have a
cop you very much thank you very
much