Re: Klezmer and sephardic music

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Itzik, thanks for the correction. I didn#t look at the titles closely.
The klezmatics often sing the tune you're talking about at their
concerts. Josh. 


> Josh - The Moskowitz tune "az Moshiash vet kumen" is not the same as "Vot
> vet zayn az moshiakh vet kumen" if that's what you had in mind. The first
> one, the one that Moskowitz composed, was surely a maskilic anti-Hasidic
> parody which such singers like the Bretl singers performed, while the
> second  is a religious song. There are a number of songs based on "Moshiakh
> vet kumen" theme which could conceivably be called "az Moshiakh vet kumen".
> Josh Waletzky sang one last week at the Tonic concert in NYC. I don't have
> the Moskowitz CD - are any of the two tunes you mention, "AZ Moshiakh vet
> kumen" and "Der Rayzender" (which I have seen and have to recall where) on
> the recording? - Itzik Gottesman
>


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