Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1748

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Budowitz Website: http://www.budowitz.com

Hi Shira and list folks,

the Professor you are talking about is Izaly Zemtsovsky. He used to live in
St. Petersburg, went to Univ. of Wisconson, then U. of Berkeley, and now
Stanford. If you ever look at the Groves dictionary, he wrote part of the
monumental section on Russian music. He's also a very nice man.

As far as the Vernadsky reissue is concerned, the American reproduction was
undertaken by

Mr. Alexander Herenchak
PO Box 156
Allentown, NJ
USA 08501
Fax (609) 758-7301

More are planned, but don't hold your breath. The only virtue in cutting off
the examples is to be able to fit more units onto the 74 minute maximum
length of the CD format. Otherwise I totally agree with you. The Cd contains
the Anski Expedition recordings, 1914, not the later Beregovski ones. Take
care, Josh



> 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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