Re: Israeli Music Publications Limited

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Sophia,

I'll tell you if I find out that Braun's book is still available.  It
does look like an interesting work.   As you surmised, Braun's book
includes substantial material on Jewish Elements in music by
non-Jewish composers such as Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

I don't know if there is any similar work of Jews and Jewish Elements
in American Music.  As to American songs written by Jews, George
Gershwin, Jule Styne, Jerry Herman, Bob Dylan, and, of course, Sheldon
Harnick & Jerry Bock occasionally included some Jewish elements in
their songs, but I don't know that the same can be said (much) of
others such as Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, Lieber &
Stoller, and Stephen Sondheim, although some other list members might
comment.  I can think of a couple of examples, but not many.  I
imagine that some of the members of the list (Robert, Seth, George,
Simon, Wolf, others?) could write such a book together, or alone -- at
least as to popular works.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Sofia V. Shneider <soph (at) ccn(dot)org(dot)ru>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Israeli Music Publications Limited


>robert wiener wrote:
>>
>> Hanna,
>>
>> Thank you so much for your generous offer.
>>
>> I have, thus far, been unable to get a lead other than a snail mail
>> address.  Unless I do receive some more information I would
appreciate
>> it if you would see if they still have:
>> Braun, Joachim: "Jews and Jewish Elements in Soviet Music: a Study
of
>> Socio-national Problem in Music", Tel-Aviv, IMP, 1978.
>>
>> I have a copy from the New York Public Library which I can
photocopy,
>> but I'd like to buy a copy if possible.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>
>Bob,
>I'd like to have this book too. This topic is interesting for me so,
so
>much, because I'm a Russian Jew. I know a vocal cycle From Jewish
Folk
>Poetry by Dmitry Shostakovitch, some opuses of Sergei Prokofiev on
>Jewish themes... Also - listen to our Russian songs which were
written
>by Jews - Isaac Dunayevsky (we were celebrating his 100th
anniversary),
>Matthew Blanter, Mark Fradkin, Oscar Feltsman etc. - they have been
put
>in their songs Jewish prayers and Yiddish songs... I think maybe
George
>Gershwin and other American Jewish composers did the same thing in
their
>songs...
>
>Sophia,
>Russia
>
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