Re: Fw: Joseph Achron

[Noa Lachman <jmduk...>]

Dear Eliott

Are you still interested in the Achron CD? I have now in stock also a 
recording with Miriam Kramer.
Premeiere Suite en style Ancien op 21
Violin Sonata op 29
Chldren's Suite
Prelude op 13
Stimmungen op 32
Hebrew melody
Hebrew Lullaby
Les Sylphides op 18
Yours

Noa
Jewish Music Distribution

>From: eliott kahn <elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Fw: Joseph Achron
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 14:18:39 -0500
>
>Bob:
>
>Thanks so much for the recommendation. I wasn't aware of this recording. Do
>you have the label, number and year of publication? I presume it's Israeli,
>and will try our Israeli sources for it.
>
>Eliott K.
>
>At 02:17 PM 1/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>I'm re-sending the post below because it's been 30 minutes since I
>>first sent it and I haven't received it yet.  Apologies if it comes
>>through twice.
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: robert wiener <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>>To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>>Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:42 PM
>>Subject: Joseph Achron
>>
>>
>> >Judy and Eliot,
>> >
>> >If it's Achron's violin music you're  after, including the Stempenyu
>> >Suite (and 21 other pieces), try to get a copy of the CD "Stempenyu:
>> >The violin music of Joseph Achron" performed by Hagai Shaham (violin)
>> >and Arnon Erez (piano) with notes in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish!
>> >
>> >Bob
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
>> >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>> >Date: Thursday, January 06, 2000 12:28 PM
>> >Subject: Re: "elevating" ("improving") folk music
>> >
>> >
>> >>Eliot:
>> >>And I wanted to congratulate you (and Julie) on that excellent
>> >publication
>> >>from JTS: the "Inventory of the Solomon Rosowsky Collection"
>> >published in
>> >>1996, but also your newly released "Inventory of the Max Wohlberg
>> >>Collection." I just started to take a look at those yesterday and
>> >they're
>> >>wonderfully helpful reference additions to help people locate
>> >archival
>> >>sources.
>> >>
>> >>I agree with you that more attention to Joseph Achron's music! If I
>> >recall
>> >>(this stretched the memory some and I had to look it up), several
>> >>compositions were attributed to him in the 1932 Union Hymnal.
>> >Actually,
>> >>this, the UH, was my first exposure to Joseph Achron, believe it or
>> >not.
>> >>(Amazing to think about now.)
>> >>
>> >>Judy
>> >>
>> >>At 06:03 PM 1/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> >>>Robert:
>> >>>
>> >>>RE: The Society for Jewish Folk Music. There were quite a few
>> >branches but
>> >>>the two most important ones were at Moscow, founded by Joel
>>(Julius)
>> >Engel,
>> >>>and the one at St. Petersburg, founded a little later, in 1908, by
>>a
>> >few
>> >>>composition students at the Conservatory there (L. Saminsky, S.
>> >Rosowsky,
>> >>>E. Skliar).
>> >>>
>> >>>An interesting anecdote: When author Sholom Aleichem was first
>> >informed of
>> >>>the St. Petersburg Society's goals of collecting tunes in the Pale
>> >of
>> >>>Settlement and using them as the basis for art songs and chamber
>> >works, he
>> >>>warned the members to make sure (I paraphrase) "that the tunes
>>don't
>> >freeze
>> >>>on the way to St. Petersburg." According to accounts by S. Rosowsky
>> >and L.
>> >>>Saminsky, however, he soon became an ardent supporter of the
>> >Society's
>> >>>goals. During its brief ten-year existence (1908-1918), The Society
>> >gave
>> >>>over 1200 concerts to adoring masses of Zionists throughout the
>>Pale
>> >of
>> >>>Settlement. They were proud, indeed, that what were once considered
>> >>>"kitchen songs" were now works of art in very sophisticated, yet
>> >>>accessible, chamber music and art song settings.
>> >>>
>> >>>The folks here who frequently refer to the Beregovski Collection
>> >should
>> >>>realize that the core of the collection that Beregovski cataloged,
>> >>>transcribed, and annotated in the 1920s-1930s were the cylinder
>> >recordings
>> >>>made during the Baron Horace von Ginsbourg Expedition of ca.
>> >1913-1914. The
>> >>>two ethnomusicologists who made these field recordings were Joel
>> >Engel
>> >>>(somewhere in the Pale, I forget), and Lazare Saminsky in the
>> >Caucausus
>> >>>region. As you can see, both these men were instrumental in
>>founding
>> >the
>> >>>Societies for Jewish Folk Music. I believe that Engel is referred
>>to
>> >in
>> >>>Israel as "the father of Jewish music."
>> >>>The lost cylinders were recently recovered and are now at the
>> >Vrenadsky
>> >>>Library in Kiev. The recently published CD was just a sampler
>> >compiled by
>> >>>the Library from the many cylinders in their possession.
>> >>>
>> >>>I hope folks won't sell this art music short before they've heard
>> >it. At
>> >>>the present time I am not aware of any performances that do this
>> >music
>> >>>justice. Joseph Achron (another member of the St. Petersburg
>> >Society) was a
>> >>>virtuoso violinist who studied with Leopold Auer -teacher of
>> >Heifetz,
>> >>>Gingold, Elmann, Milstein, etc. You've no doubt heard Heifetz' (and
>> >>>Perlmann's) performance of Achron's "Hebrew Melody." But I would
>> >love to
>> >>>hear a passionate, accurate performance of his "Stempenyu Suite,"
>> >among
>> >>>other works. I would wager that you'd hear the same type of fire
>>and
>> >>>authenticity that you hear in Bartok, if the right players were to
>> >perform
>> >>>this music.
>> >>>
>> >>>Arnold Schoenberg actually had very high praise for Achron's music;
>> >they
>> >>>knew each other in Los Angeles. Other St. Petersburg Folk Music
>> >Society
>> >>>composers of note were Moses Milner and Alexander Krein. The
>>Society
>> >for
>> >>>Jewish Music at St. Petersburg published over eighty pieces during
>> >their
>> >>>brief ten-year existence. Most of the music I've looked at strikes
>> >me as
>> >>>extremely tasteful and well-wrought--and very authentically Jewish.
>> >>>
>> >>>We have Solomon Rosowsky's Archive here at the Seminary Library,
>>and
>> >in
>> >>>1996, we published an Inventory of the collection by myself and
>> >archivist
>> >>>Julie Miller.
>> >>>
>> >>>Eliott Kahn, D.M.A.
>> >>>Music Archivist
>> >>>Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
>> >>>3080 Broadway
>> >>>New York, N.Y. 10027
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
>

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