Re: JEWISH-MUSIC digest 1757

[Robert Cohen <zaelic...>]

In response to Tina Fruehauf's question, the authority on Hungarian jewish 
religious music is Prof. Judit Frigyesi, who is presently spending a year as a 
member of the Kollegium Budapest faculty in Budapest. E-mail me off line at 
<zaelic (at) elender(dot)hu> or <zaelic (at) hotmail(dot)com> and I can put you 
in touch with 
her. In the US, cantor Yankl Falk has done a lot of work among older chazzans 
in Hungary, and Perele Gluck in New York knows the Satmar traditions inside 
out. Vera Szabo at Stanford University is well versed in Hungarian yiddish 
traditions, especially those of Sziget/Maramures, and has worked with a 
Maramures 'mashalinke' in New York as well. 

Incidentally, if you are in the New York area, most of Di Naye Kapelye (with 
help from friends and palinka) will be playing at the Tonic on the afternoon of 
Dec. 31 (as well as the Arbeter Ring on Dec. 28, but this is as yet 
unconfirmed). We will be presenting a lot of new stuff that is Jewish fiddle 
repetoire from Maramures that we collected this year, quite different from the 
music presented by Muzsikas on their own wonderful CD. 

Bob Cohen

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