RE: St. Petersburg Folk Music Society

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Paul Eisenstein Baker's e-mail is: eisenbak (at) basil(dot)stthom(dot)edu     

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Date:   1/6/00 11:00 AM

RE:     RE: St. Petersburg Folk Music Society

 
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unpublished manuscripts of his father Baruch Leib Rosowsky.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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>-----Original Message-----
>From:   eliott kahn [SMTP:elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU]
>Sent:   ä éðåàø 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. 10027
>
>
>
>





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