Re: Mordechai Gebirtig

[Daniel B. Schwartz <schwartzesq...>]

How can I order a copy of the book as well as the CDs?

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> From: Klezcorner <Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Subject: Mordechai Gebirtig
> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 3:46 PM
> 
> To those who have been searching for the music of Mordechai
Gebirtig,there is
> exciting news.
> 
> Hatikvah Music is has acquired exclusive distribution of the only
COMPLETE
> collection of Mordechai Gebirtig. This hardcover book of almost 300
pages,
> contains all 88 compositions attributed to Gebirtig.  Each song contains
the
> musical notations, lyrics in Yiddish, Yiddish transliteration, and German
> Translation. Since some of the compositions were written as poems, the
> publisher, Manfred Lemm, has composed original melodies to those poems 
in the
> style of Gebirtig.
> 
> Also included is a bio on Gebirtig and his home town of Cracow in German
as
> well as some beautiful color paintings.  There is a 4 page article, "Die
> Yiddishe Shprache" by Menachem Kipnis in both Yiddish and German.
> 
> This is a wonderful companion to the three CDs of Gebirtig songs
performed by
> Manfred Lemm which feature 54 Gebirtig compositions.
> 
> We are offering this book to the subscribers of the list through the
month of
> March at the reduced price of $39.98 . After which the book will be
$49,98.
> 
> This is one of the most important Jewish music books without which no
Yiddish
> collection is complete.
> Simon
> Hatikvah Music