RE: pronunciations

[Gifford, Paul <pgifford...>]

Robert Cohen [mailto:rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com] wrote:

1) the Israeli composer Oedoen Partos, whose name is sometimes rendered 
Oedeon Partos--aside from which is the correct spelling of his first name, 
how do you pronounce it?

I'm not familiar with him, but I do know that is a Hungarian name (equivalent 
to the German "Otto"), with short umlauts (as opposed to the long umlauts in 
Hungarian), so pronounce it as "ödön," as it would be in German. Incidentally, 
I have seen "ödön" anglicized to "Edmund."  I would assume the last name is 
pronounced "partosh."

2) the Moldavian klezmer Avram Buchici, referred to in the liner notes 
(track #18) of the Khevrisa "classical klezmer" CD so justly celebrated on 
this list--how do you pronounce his last name?

I think the name is "Bughici"----in Romanian, an 'h' is added to a 'c' or 'g' 
before a front vowel (i, e) to make it "hard," so it's 'boo-geetch".
The final 'i' isn't pronounced; it's there to indicate that the 'c' is 
pronounced 'ch.'

Paul Gifford

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