Re: tune source : Shtiler Shtiler from House of Mirth

[Lenka Lichtenberg <lenkal...>]

Re: tune source : Shtiler Shtiler from House of Mirthyes i missed that 
discussion as well. let me tell you it was a disturbing moment to watch the 
"House of Mirth" (turn of century i think, 19th to the 20th) and hear the 
Holocaust song, one of those that tear your guts out, be sung in a scene (one 
hears it "through a wall" only, the singer is sight unseen) happening a few 
decades before the song was ever written, on another continent and in such a 
different circumstance. the only commonality was the misery carried by the 
tune, befitting the situation. don't they (the Hollywood music directors) check 
their sources, or they just assume nobody knows and nobody cares, i wonder. 
lenka
www.lenkalichtenberg.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: itzik gottesman 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:34 AM
  Subject: Re: tune source : Shtiler Shtiler from House of Mirth


  I have probably have missed something in the discussion on "Shtiler, 
Shtiler". Are we talking about the Holocaust song "shtiler, shtiler  (lomir 
shvaygn) words by Shmerke Katcherginski, music by Olek Volkoviski. That song 
was used in "House of Mirth"? Isn't that novel about the 19th century? - Itzik 
Gottesman