Kobzon

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Sophia,

Is Kobzon's CD of Jewish songs in Russian or in Yiddish, Hebrew, and
English?

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: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: Russian Tango


>Owen Davidson wrote:
>>
>> Sofia,
>>
>> Is there a possibility that the surname Kobzon indicates a musical
lineage?
>> Specifically, a kobza player?
>>
>> Owen
>>
>> "Sofia V. Shneider" wrote:
>>
>> > Also this tango has been performed by Joseph Kobzon (by the way
>> > he is a Jew).
>No. This surname was indeed Kopzon, but "b" letter appeared just
because
>of a prononciation of this surname. By the way: Joseph Kobzon was
born
>in Ukraine, Donetsk or Dnepropetrovsk region (maybe between), he was
a
>Jew from the shtetl. (he has been singing a song about Jewish
shtetl -
>"but there is no peace in our home and we must go out - but where?")
>Kobzon is a member of Russian State Duma (http://www.duma.ru). He
also
>knows Russian folk songs and romances, Ukrainian folk songs and songs
of
>other nations (Armenian, Moldavian, Georgian and even Buryad). But he
is
>a Jew. Kobzon recorded a CD "A yiddishe mame" with Jewish songs. He
(I
>know) has been singing A Yiddishe Mame, Bei Mir Bist Du Shein, Tum
>Balalaika, Heveinu Shalom Aleichem etc. But Kobzon is a Russian
patriot,
>he was singing - "if Russia live, I would be alive". It's a poem of
>Eugene Evtushenko, a famous defender of Jews with his poem Babiy
Yar -
>The White Snows Are Going. Music of this song was written by Edward
>Kolmanovsky, a Jewish person.
>
>Sophia,
>Russia
>>
>> Owen Davidson
>> Amherst  Mass
>> The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>>
>> The Angel that presided oer my birth
>> Said Little creature formd of Joy & Mirth
>> Go Love without the help of any King on Earth
>>
>> Wm. Blake
>>
>
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