Joel:
I reply to the List to provide additional info.
The JTS Library does not have Saminsky's "Shluf mein Suhn" (St.
Pete. #66) for solo voice and string quartet. Paula Eisenstein-Baker of
Houston, Tx. has done much excellent research on St. Pete cellist and
composer L. Zeitlin, and may have a better idea where the Saminsky score
might be. (See her article in the YIVO Annual vol. 23. I Can't find her
e-mail. She once was a member of this list, however).
The Rosowsky Collection here at the JTS Library has all of Rosowsky's
music published by the Society. That includes his chamber works. Please
contact me off-list, if you would like a copy of the Inventory.
NB: I had the great pleasure of finding among Solomon Rosowsky's papers
the unpublished manuscripts of his father Baruch Leib Rosowsky. Baruch
Leib was Oberkantor at the Great Synagogue in Riga, Latvia from
1871 until his death in 1919. He was the first Jewish student enrolled at
the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1867-1870) and then studied with Cantors
Salomon Sulzer in Vienna and Hirsch Weintraub at Koenigsberg.
Eliott Kahn, D.M.A.
Music Archivist
Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
At 12:44 PM 1/6/00 +0200, you wrote:
I would be interested in seeing a catalogue of
your archive. Specifically, I have been looking without success for
Saminsky's arrangement of "Shlopf Mein Kindt" for soprano and
string quartet.
Any other chamber works are of interest to me (I have a fair collection
already).
Thank you,
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From: eliott kahn
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Sent: ה ינואר 06 2000 1:03
To: World music from a Jewish
slant
Subject: Re:
"elevating" ("improving") folk music
Robert:
RE: The Society for Jewish Folk Music. There were quite a few branches
but
the two most important ones were at Moscow, founded by Joel (Julius)
Engel,
and the one at St. Petersburg, founded a little later, in 1908, by a few
composition students at the Conservatory there (L. Saminsky, S. Rosowsky,
E. Skliar).
An interesting anecdote: When author Sholom Aleichem was first informed
of
the St. Petersburg Society's goals of collecting tunes in the Pale of
Settlement and using them as the basis for art songs and chamber works,
he
warned the members to make sure (I paraphrase) "that the tunes don't
freeze
on the way to St. Petersburg." According to accounts by S. Rosowsky
and L.
Saminsky, however, he soon became an ardent supporter of the Society's
goals. During its brief ten-year existence (1908-1918), The Society gave
over 1200 concerts to adoring masses of Zionists throughout the Pale of
Settlement. They were proud, indeed, that what were once considered
"kitchen songs" were now works of art in very sophisticated,
yet
accessible, chamber music and art song settings.
The folks here who frequently refer to the Beregovski Collection should
realize that the core of the collection that Beregovski cataloged,
transcribed, and annotated in the 1920s-1930s were the cylinder N.Y.
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