RE: looking for Holocaust-related music

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

There is supposed to be a new CD version of the Mauthausen song cycle,
produced by a Greek national based in Germany. It is now about 18 mos. late
to the market. I'll let the list know when it ships, and how to order it.

Best, Joel





At 12:49 AM 6/11/99 , you wrote:
>David Bloch: bloch2 (at) ccsg(dot)tau(dot)ac(dot)il
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky [SMTP:reyzl (at) flash(dot)net]
>Sent:  ä éåðé 10 1999 18:29
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:       RE: looking for Holocaust-related music
>
>I just discovered that I never sent this letter out.   Wrote it 2 weeks ago.
>
>
>Thank you Isabelle and everyone else who has written to me on 
>and off the list with rich info.  I will follow up on each of them.  
>
>At the moment I am pursuing Mikis Theodorakis's song cycle  
>"Ballad of Mauthausen", as performed by a most extraordinary 
>singer, Maria Farantouri.  Someone played it for me some years ago
>and I fell in love with one of the 6 songs "The girl from Mauthausen"
>even though I didn't understand a word of Greek or know what the 
>topic was about.   Am trying to get my own copy so that I can 
>upload it to my future site.  Does anyone have this music to upload?
>
>Yes, Wissotsky's Tea is a great song.  This weekend we will be
>going to a Camp Boiberik reunion, where Josh first presented
>this  song in its English version for a skit he wrote for the 
>teens to perform.  (He always first wrote these camp songs in 
>Yiddish and then translated it to English.)   It has been part 
>of the camp lore for at least 27 years.  It felt as if all 450 
>attendants last year still remembered all the words.  Amazing.  
>Did you record your performance?  I, for sure, would love to hear 
>it.   I am sure Josh would too.
>
>I have only heard good things about the Oxford Program and so I 
>am sure that you will enjoy it.  I don't personally know it.
>  
>I am sure you will have a great summer.  
>
>But Holland is not the same without Mira Rafelowicz, z"l.   
>What a terrible tragic loss for our whole community.
>
>
>Reyzl
>
>P.S. Might you have e-mail 
>addresses for either Mimi or David Bloch?
>
>
>----------
>From:  IGanz[SMTP:IGanz (at) compuserve(dot)com]
>Sent:  Friday, May 14, 1999 5:29 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:  looking for Holocaust-related music
>
>Dear Reyzl,
>
>You should get in touch with Mimi Stern-Wolfe, Director of Downtown Music
>Productions, who has presented many concerts of Holocaust-related music in
>New York.  I performed some songs written in Terezin with her in 1989. Her
>phone is (212) 477-1594 and her fax is 477-5567.
>
>A pianist/musicologist who has done a lot of research in the field is David
>Bloch in Israel.  His address is 48/14 Ha-Emek, Kvar Sabah 44211, Israel. 
>Phone: 972-9-767-0135.
>
>By the way, I performed Josh's "Wissotsky's Tea" with "The Best Little
>Klezmer Band in Texas".  It's a fabulous song.
>
>I'll be attending the Yiddish Studies program at Oxford in July, since I
>must be in Holland and England for concerts and workshops before and after.
> What do you know about the program?
>
>Shabbat Shalom - (I don't know Yivo's spellings for Yiddish!)
>
>Isabelle Ganz
>
>
>



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