Re: Yiddish men's love songs - Yale talk

[Joshua Horowitz <horowitz...>]

Just an addendum to Itzik's excellent list of and comments to men's love 
songs:

The melody to the tune Ikh lig unter grattes is almost identical to a
Dobriden transcribed by Beregovsky and recorded by Rubin & Horowitz on the
Bessarabian Symphony CD (track 23). Josh

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>From: itzik gottesman <gottesman (at) yiddish(dot)forward(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Yiddish men's love songs - Yale talk
>Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2002, 10:02 AM
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> Recordings I can think of: on Ruth Rubins fieldrecordings LP "the old
> country" , the song "Ikh lig unter grattes". On Abe Brumberg's LP
> "theives, ....." etc, the songs "ikh vel shoyn mer nit ganvenen" and
> "Varshever kadetn" (i'm not sure of that title but it follows the
> previous song). I think we had a discussion on this list about Shmuel
> Lehman's volume "Ganovim lider" - thieves songs. you'll find them
> there. Wasn't a press in Germany going to republish it? - Itzik
> Gottesman
>
> 

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