[Avodah] Classical music in the 3 weeks

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:04:45PM +1100, SBA wrote to Areivim (?):
: Does anyone know where there is a hetter by RYBS for listening to classical
: music in the days before Rosh Chodesh Av?

RYBS assured music in the context of parties, not listening to recordings.

IOW, a student of RYBS should be declining an invite to a party during
the omer even where there is no band. Because his shitah turns music
into an example of celebrating, not a minhag in-and-of itself.

(Can the minhag even be analyzed to see if it would include something
not yet invented when it started?)

When R' Hutner listened to opera records on the grounds that a recording
isn't kol ishah (and would that apply to lifelike CDs that have no hiss?),
did he do so during the omer or 3 weeks? In both cases a distinction is
being made between the mindset of someone experiencing live music with
someone listening to a recording. But for very different reasons.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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