Re: From 'frummie' back to Shulamis

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   Tayere Lorele:

   S. Mogulesco is the great Yiddish actor Simon Mogulesco!!!!
   Great stuff. He was a wonderful actor and mime who had a tragically short 
life.
   Trudi the G

>From: Lori Cahan-Simon <L_Cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: From 'frummie' back to Shulamis
>Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:35:00 -0500
>
>OK, here's the list I promised you of songs that were listed on the back
>of some sheet music from Shulamith published in piano arrangement by the
>Hebrew Publishing Company, copyrighted in 1898.  Sorry it didn't list the
>Yiddish, only the English.
>
>Vol  #
>  1     1    Eli Regel March
>  2     2    The Blessing
>  2     3    Wandering in the Desert
>  3     4    At the Well
>  3     5    Raisins and Almonds
>  4     6    Absalom at the Well
>  5     7    Duett (sic), Shulamith and Absalom
>  5     8    The Oath
>  5     9    The Sheperd (sic) Choir
>  6    10    The Oriental Dance
>  6    11    Come to Me
>  6    12    Zingetang Solo
>  7    13    Sabbath Yom Tow and Rosh Chodesch
>  7    14    The Bridegroom Song
>  8    15    Drawing For Shulamith's Hand
>  8    16    The Cat and The Well
>  9    17    Shulamith Demented (which is the piece on the back of which I
>found this list)
>  9    18    Duett - Shulamith and Monoach
>10   19    The Misfortune
>10   20    Shepherds Song
>11   21    Monoachs Prayer
>11   22    David King of Israel
>11   23    Grand Finale in Beth Hamikdosh
>
>Other operas listed on the back are:
>
>by Golfaden
>
>Bar Kochba
>The Jewish King Lear
>Konig (o with an umlaut) Ahasveros
>Melitz Yosher
>Di Zauberin
>Akeidas Yitzchok
>Gehenim and Ganeiden
>Choson Kale
>
>by S. Mogulesco
>
>Homon der Zweiter
>
>by Louis Friedsell
>
>Dos Beigele
>
>
>Did I tell anyone anything new or just spend an inordinate amount of time
>typing?  ;-)
>
>Lorele
>
>
>Agustin(dot)Fernandez (at) newcastle(dot)ac(dot)uk wrote:
>
> > > (How did we get involved in Yiddish
> > > linguistics on a Jewish music list?
> > > Mendele is usually where such discussions
> > > take place.)
> > >
> > > Lee Friedman
> >
> > Yeah, let's get back to music.
> >
> > Has Robert Wiener had a full  answer to his question on Shulamis
> > yet? I certainly don't have a full answer, but Mark Slobin mentions
> > another song in page 190 of Tenement Songs: the Popular Music of the
> > Jewish Immigrants (University of Illinois Press, 1982).
> >
> > This song, Slobin informs us, is entitled 'Ot der brunen, ot der'. He
> > goes on to show similarities between this tune and 'Ah. fors'e lui'
> > from Verdi's  La traviata. However, the tune he quotes next to
> > the Verdi is confusingly titled 'The Oath' and not 'The Well' or
> > anything that may resemble what we are told the Yiddish title means.
> > I leave those who know Yiddish, or the plot of Shulamis, or both, to
> > clarify this inconsistency.
> >
> > Agustín
> >
>

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