Early Sephardic recordings by women

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

Judith wrote:

>Actually, I've written about this difference also indicating a big
>difference between male and female performance styles: except for
>VIctoria Rosa Hazan, our early Sephardic recordings are not only of
>trained Turkish and/or cantorial singers, they are - implicitly for the
>time - of MALE trained Turkish and/or cantorial style singers. Much of
>the repertoire, especially ballads and wedding songs, is mostly a
>women's repertoire, but we don't have those early recordings of women.

Hi, all. I need to amplify on what Judith said a little bit. There are a 
very small number of early Sephardic recordings by women. I am assuming 
(correctly, Judith?) that La Gloria and Stella would be female performers. 
(Note that Stella actually did Kol Nidrei!) Dates range from ca. 1907 to 
ca. 1927:

Rosa, Mlle.     Me Keres matar Mansevo  Salonica
Mariette, Mlle  Io so venido de Broussa Salonica
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La Gloria       Hymna de Zion                   Sarajevo
La Gloria       Al rio de ma fuente             Sarajevo
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La Gloria       Arvoles joran por luvjas        Sarajevo
La Gloria       Barone te vo azer               Sarajevo
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Stella          Carselero i Piadoso             Zagreb?
Stella          Kol Nidrei                      Zagreb?
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La Gloria       Asenta te avlare                Sarajevo
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La Gloria       Nocis nocis buenos nocis        Sarajevo
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La Gloria       En kaze de tu padre             Sarajevo
La Gloria       Mis brasos kandelares           Sarajevo

Of all these, I've only located copies of the first recording so far.

Of course, there are also non-commercial recordings of women. This is not 
my bailiwick, but one such example is Zarita Nahon, recorded in NYC, 1929. 
That tape is available from the library in whose collection the original 
resides for singers or others needing to do research.

Hope this is a help!

J




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