Re: Yiddish Tango, Jews in tango

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

The composer for Friling is Kasriel Broydo, at least according to one music 
book that I have.
Re:  see Workman's Circle publication--Songs from the Holocaust.
Trudi

>From: Ingemar Johansson <hebanon (at) swipnet(dot)se>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Yiddish Tango, Jews in tango
>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:32:23 +0200
>
>I think "Friling", the wondeful tango-inspired song from the Vilna ghetto 
>should
>be named here, text by poet-partisan Shmerke Kaczerginski  (music by 
>Abraham
>Brudno). The song was some years ago translated by Swedish Academy Member 
>and
>outstanding poet Lars Forsell into Swedish and recorded by Basia Frydman, a
>well-known Swedish actress (at The Jewish Theatre of Stockholm), a child of
>Yiddish-speaking Polish Jews.
>
>Of course, there are many recordings of "Friling"; my own favorite is by 
>another
>child of Yiddish-speaking Polish Jews, Wolf Krakowski on his CD 
>"Transmigrations"
>(curiosly enough our respected moderator  meant that there were no
>resistance-songs on it when he reviewed this CD).
>
>Europeans can readily acquire "Transmigrations" at
>
>http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-40997/WolfEng.htm
>
>Ingemar
>
>


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