Re: Manger's copyrights

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Dear Francesco:

SOCAN, the Canadian Performing Rights Society has a huge database.
I was able to find song copyright info there that I couldn't at Library of
Congress,
ASCAP, BMI, etc. -- although they, too can be helpful.

Wolf


Francesco Spagnolo wrote:

> Chevre,
>
> does anyone know who owns the copyrights of Itzik Manger's
> "Megileh-lider" (Aleynenyu, Warsaw 1936), and eventually for Dov
> Seltzer's music for the play?.
>
> Anyone can help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Francesco
>
> P. S.
> See for instance the recent Purim performance of the play:
> Maybe Ben Schaechter can help me out about this?
>
> The Golden Peacock Performance Troupe has, for well over a decade, been
> introducing audiences to great Yiddish poetry and fiction via bilingual
> performance enhanced by interpolations of Yiddish folk music.
>
> They will be giving a performance of Itzik Manger's Megilla Lider in
> honor of Purim this Saturday evening, March 18, at 7:30, at the Village
> Temple, 33 East 12 St (near University Place), NYC.
>
> The performers will be Adrienne Cooper, David Rogow, Binyumen ("Ben")
> Schaechter, Suzanne Toren and Leonard Wolf.
>
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