Re: Emil Horowitz

[Jenny Levison <jenny...>]

I have some tangos by Gorevets -- Bob Freedman has a bunch of his music in
his archive in Philly.

Jenny

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>From: SICULAR (at) aol(dot)com
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Emil Horowitz
>Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2001, 10:35 PM

> Perhaps this is the transliterated/reconstituted name of Emil Gorovets, a
> Soviet Jewish singer who later emigrated to this country (Russian has no
> letter "h," so usually "g" is substituted for proper names beginning with h
> in their own languague of origin - Geller for Heller, etc.)   I am sure
> others can say much more about him.  I know that he made a beautiful LP with
> Zalman Mlotek called IKH BIN A YID! [I AM A JEW!], issued by Workmen's Circle
> in the 1970s, dedicated to the martyred Soviet Jewish poets who were killed
> in 1952, with gorgeous, sensitive arrangements of a wide variety of poems set
> to music.  Most of the music is by Gorovets, arranged by Zalmen, with a few
> melodies by I believe other Soviet Jews.  Emil Gorovets also at some point in
> the mid-1990s had a job at YIVO (86th St) after his wife had died.  He came
> here from Moscow.
>
> Eve
>
> 

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