Re: Purimshpil

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

This reminds me of an oddity I have.  I don't know if you are looking for old,
modern, what, but I have a purimshpil done by workmen's circle which is a
parody using Gilbert and Sullivan music.

Itzik Gottesman wrote:

> This is a big topic which a number of people have worked and do work on
> (Shifre Epstein in the US, Jean Beaumgarten in Paris among others). For the
> moment, here are the three purim shpiln that I can think of that are
> published with music. There are many others published (in Yiddish) without
> music.
>
> 1)"Akhashverush purim shpil" [in Yiddish] collected by A. Litvin,
> Literarishe farlag, NY 1916
>
> 2) Shifre Epstein, "Danil-Shpil bakhasidut bobov" [Shifre's notes in
> Hebrew, the text in Yiddish].Jerusalem 1998. (SHe made a video tape of this
> performance)
>
> 3) Shmuel Lehman collected a purim shpil and included the music in "Bay
> undz Yidn" (warsaw 1923).  The text is translated into English and analyzed
> in Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, "Contraband: Performance, Text and
> Analysis of a Purim-shpil"  The Drama Review, Vol. 24, #3, Sept. 1980
>
> 4) In the YIVO collection "Yidisher folklor" edited by I.L Cahan, vilne,
> 1938, there are 16 purim shpiln with no music. However, if you read S.Z.
> Pipe's notes at the end of the volume, he gives some references to the song
> texts so one could reconstruct some of the melodies (several are by Zunser,
> Goldfaden and Berl Broder).
>
> - Itzik (PS - a cassette that I produced on Global Village 1986, Lifshe
> Schaechter-Widman, "Az di furst avek", includes 2 short purim songs)
>
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