RE: Recording Artisi Isa Kremer.

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

That was definitely one of the brilliant things about Isa Kremer.  She is 
the only who could negotiate so well the folk rendition of song on a 
concert stage.   This was no "art song" version of the Yiddish repertoire. 
 Martha Schlamme is the only one who comes close and she was superwonderful 
in a different way.   Simor Belarsky is often touted as the greatest singer 
of Yiddish songs on the concert stage, but he failed according to this 
"unarranged" standard.   (The fact is he was so proud of his "arrangement" 
of Yiddish folksongs in the songbook he published that he copyrighted the 
whole of each song under his name.  Pretty ludicrous everyone thought.) 
 Anyway, they say he had a great voice when he was young, but he never had 
had great interpretive talents.


Reyzl


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From:  HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com]
Sent:  Wednesday, September 22, 1999 5:28 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  RE: Recording Artisi Isa Kremer.

I once asked Ruth Rubin, who was generally not fond of "arranged" Yiddish
folksongs, if there was any interpreter she liked.  The only one she could
think of to praise was Isa Kremer.  -Hankus



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