Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1748

[Susan Lerner <meydele...>]

At 12:01 AM 12/11/00 -0500, Gerben wrote:
>Some of the Beregowski and An-Sky (Ethnographic Expedition) recordings have
>been put on a CD by the Kiev Institute for Information Recording of the
>Vernadsky Nationale Library of Ukraine. It was supposed to be the first of
>a series of CD's but I don't think more has been released, probably a
>matter of fundings. The CD can maybe still be ordered from them, see their
>webpage at:  http://www.ipri.kiev.ua/
>TheCd contains mostly voccal material and two or three instrumental
>recordings if my memory serves me well.

The recording that Gerben references has been the subject of postings on 
this board in the past.  I obtained a copy and see-sawed back and forth 
between pleasure and disappointment in listening to it.  For some reason, 
the compilers thought the material boring or something, and often cut off 
the copy of the recording after a verse or 2.  Almost nothing is complete.

Attended a lecture by a wonderful Russian professor who was then visiting 
at Stanford this past spring (I am embarassed to say that I have forgotten 
his name) and asked him about these recordings.  He said that the people in 
Kiev are very suspicious and difficult to work with, and so want to control 
all reproduction themselves, but they have neither the equipment or 
expertise to do so, as of about a year ago.    He hoped the situation had 
changed, but he was not optimistic.

Shira

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