Re: Recording the complete Gebirtig)

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

I'm embarrassed to say I'm not familiar with Lemm. I'd love to know more
about his recordings of Gebirtig. 

As for The Klezzical Tradition, I loved the first album, so I am certain
that their Gebirtig performances are well worth hearing. And I am very
much looking forward to seeing them live on Sunday.

George Robinson

Kame'a Media wrote:
> 
> Manfred Lemm has perhaps recorded nearly all of Gebirtig's music, including
> some songs for which no music by Gebirtig is known to exist.  Both he and
> Daniel Kempin have composed music for songs written during the Holocaust
> period.
> 
> The Klezical Tradition, in concert at TONIC this Sunday (April 9) at 1:30
> and 3 p. m., includes songs by Gebirtig in all of its concerts.  We also
> have an entire Gebirtig concert which we've performed at the World
> Fellowship Center and at Mount Holyoke College.  The concert interweaves the
> music of Gebirtig, his biography, and  reflections on a journey to Poland in
> 1994.
> 
> Fraidy
> 
> (un-)Critical Comments
> 
> . . .Out of the 18 years of programming musical events each week in the
> summer, there have been only 3 or 4 that were truly memorable.  Your evening
> of Gebirtig songs has to be counted right at the top.  It was as if you were
> singing to each one of us in the audience personally, and taking us by the
> hand to be in Gebirtig?s presence.  Awesome!
>   Kathryn Schmauch, Associate Director,
>   World Fellowship Center, Conway, NH
> 
> Your concert performance of the work of Mordkhe Gebirtig was incredible (!)
> on many levels.  . . . Within our generation, there are perhaps a handful of
> people that can offer the multilayered, historical and deeply personal
> context that you wove together.  On this level, what you have created in
> your tribute to this heroic and beloved Yiddish writer and lyricist is of
> great merit as a living history lesson, . . .
> 
> Joel Saxe, Art Department, Greenfield Community College
>    Oral Historian, Tamiment Labor Archives, New York University
>    Filmmaker, Writer on Yiddish culture and Jewish radicalism .
> 

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