Re: Yiddish Theater

[wiener <wiener...>]

Hankus,

Maybe someone out there will read your post and put together such a
collection of Yiddish Theater recordings.  And better sound would
certainly be appreciated.
(Can anyone make any general comments on the sound of recordings on
labels, e.g., Greater and Banner?)

Thank you for the list of recommended performers.  I will pass them on
to my friend.  I believe that I have recordings of (nearly?) all of
them and would gladly audition them for my friend if he weren't over
100 miles away.

Maybe someone (even someone on the list) will put together a Yiddish
Theater music book with an annotated discography to help those of us
who didn't hear the performers on stage.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com <HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2001 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Yiddish Theater


Bob - Just caught this three-week old thread, but thought I'd add my
tzvey
kopecks.
Unlike klezmer, there really isn't any comprehensive or scholarly
reissue of
Yiddish Theater recordings.  It would be nice if there were such a
thing;
instead it's still more on the K-tel Presents... sort of level, since
these
performers were pop-stars in their day and much of the audience simply
wants
a reminder of the icons of their childhoods - younger revivalists have
mostly
ignored this stuff.  It's quite bewildering to sort through the
Greater and
Banner catalogs, but they're still the best things out there.  Simon
can tell
you what to get, but I would start with Molly Picon, Maurice Schwartz,
Aaron
Lebedoff, Jenny Goldstein, Peysekhe Burstein, and Seymour Rechzeit.
And
maybe someone has a technology that will get rid of the cheap
slap-echo.
-Hankus



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