Re: Polish Jewish Music query

[Wholesale Klezmer Band <ganeydn...>]

For songs, anything by Mordecai Gebirtig.  For dance, of course, there's
Varshever Freylekhs.

Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn



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At 3:43 PM -0500 2/7/2000, MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
>I am presenting a concert to the Polish Consulate, and they have asked me to
>focus on Polish Jewish music of the klezmer and Yiddish stage.  I cannot make
>claims to have done a whit of the serious scholarship that many on this list
>have done, so it is with some humility that I ask of my co-subscribers for
>help.  I know a few songs from the Warsaw Yiddish theater (such as Oy,
>Abram), and the krakowiak was certainly a standard in the repertoire of the
>klezmer....But I am eager to hear other suggestions.  (Now if they asked for
>ODESSA songs, there I have more than a few!  But the Ukrainian Consulate, so
>far at least, hasn't booked klezmer....)
>
>A groyse dank!
>Lori Lippitz
>Maxwell Street
>Chicago
>



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