Re: Concert of Music of Mordkhe Gebirtig

[the Cheshire Cat <alanacat...>]

This sounds like something I could use on my show. If you ahppen to be
recoerding, I'd love a soundboard tape. (I'll even send you a blank!)
Thanks!

Alana Suskin
88.1 Fm College Park





On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Wolf Krakowski, Paula Parsky wrote:

> Mordkhe Gebirtig:  Der Zinger fun Noyt, a unique lecture/musical
> program written and performed by Fraidy Katz and The Klezical Tradition
> (Director, flutist and keyboard player Adrianne Greenbaum, clarinetist
> Walter Mamlock, violinist Cookie Segelstein, drummer Gary Ribchinsky,
> and special guest, cellist Stephen Thomas), will be presented at Pratt
> Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, on November 15 at
> 8:00 p. m.  The program features traditional Klezmer music and
> interweaves songs written by the Yiddish folk poet of Krakow (1877-1942)
> with KatzÕs contemporary reflections on a 1994 visit to Poland.
> 
>       Gebirtig, a carpenter and cabinet maker, enjoys a stature in Yiddish
> folksong comparable to that of Woody Guthrie in American folk music. 
> GebirtigÕs songs of Jewish life, which were performed as folk music and
> in the Yiddish theater, made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic. 
> Although his many friends and admirers from free countries offered to
> obtain exit visas for him and his family, Gebirtig chose to remain in
> Poland and shared the fate of most of the Jews of his native city.  
> 
>       The concert is sponsored by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in
> conjunction with the exhibition ÒHow to Remember? Designing the United
> States memorial Holocaust Museum,Ó with support from the Horace W. 
> Goldsmith Foundation, New York City, the Florence Purington Lecture
> Fund, and the Inclusiveness Program, Mount Holyoke College.
> 

Alana Suskin,
Mitnaggedet Mama