Re: Verdi and Jewish music

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  He has a "thing" for Jews...many of his friends were Jews.
   Trudi the G


>From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Verdi and Jewish music
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:03:11 PST
>
>This is fascinating, as Verdi's "Addio, del passato" from LA TRAVIATA also
>resembles, and may well (perhaps consciously) borrow from, a Jewish melody,
>namely the Ladino standard "Adio, querida."
>
>I wonder what (evidently) so attracted Verdi to Jewish music.
>
>
>>From: Agustin(dot)Fernandez (at) newcastle(dot)ac(dot)uk
>
>>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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