[Avodah] Yemenites on Kol Isha

[Michael Makovi]

Re: R' Wolpoe, that kol isha is forbidden during KS and tefillah, but
otherwise permitted when there is no hana'a, such as during opera or
mixed-sex choirs (yekkes):

The KS and tefillah view for kol isha would apparently be the SA's
stricture, that Rambam (kol isha = etzba ketana) is ikkar ha-din but
that it's good to follow the Shema view too. This might pose problems
for the partnership minyanim (they don't merely let women read the
Torah; they also let the women in general sing and say Qadish as
loudly as the men do, from their side of the mehitzah). Rabbi Yehiel
Weinberg's leniency on zemirot wouldn't help, because that wasn't
Shema/tefillah. But all this is as an aside, becauseI cannot see any
other societal concern for the KS/tefillah view, because most people
are more concerned with listening to women sing in general, not davka
during davening.

Everything you said about hana'a, opera, yekkes all fits with what
I've heard and read. Thank you.

Michael Makovi