Re: Kobzon

[Sofia V. Shneider <soph...>]

robert wiener wrote:
> 
> Sophia,
> 
> Is Kobzon's CD of Jewish songs in Russian or in Yiddish, Hebrew, and
> English?
> 
> Bob

This CD is in Yiddish and Hebrew. Although in a TV program Hero of Day
Kobzon said that he doesn't speak Hebrew. But maybe he knows Yiddish.

Sophia,
Russia
> -----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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