Re: Beregovski

[Eliott Kahn <Elkahn...>]

Thank you Robert Rothstein for clarifying this. It's great to get information 
from the experts!

Eliott Kahn


At 03:55 PM 6/26/02 -0400, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:
>Eliott Kahn wrote:
>
>> Also, from what I can gather from the introduction, the original Old Jewish 
>> Folk Music published by M. Slobin in 1982 and reissued in 2000, includes 
>> Beregovski's writings and the music from volume 2 of his Yidishe Folkslider. 
>> This second volume was set for printing but, though never printed in the 
>> Soviet Union, somehow got into the hands of YIVO in New York. Again, from my 
>> understanding of the introduction, these are the materials that Slobin 
>> published in Old Jewish Folk Music.
>
>           Not quite.  Mark Slobin's 1982 volume contains translations of 
> three of Beregovski's essays and reprints of two of his collections, one from 
> 1934, which was volume 1 of his planned five-volume work "Jewish Musical 
> Folklore," and a posthumous volume from 1962.  Proofs of the unpublished 
> volume 2 did indeed turn up at YIVO, but unfortunately the music for the 
> songs was not included in that copy.  The recently published _Jewish 
> Instrumental Folkmusic_, on which I collaborated with Mark, Michael Alpert 
> and Izaly Zemtsovsky, is an
>annotated translation of Beregovski's volume 3.
>
>> I do not know if anyone has mentioned on the list, but there was a volume 1 
>> of Yidishe Folkslider published by Beregovski and I. Fefer in the Ukraine in 
>> 1938. It is a very rich collection of Yiddish folk songs for solo voice with 
>> texts (474 p.) and "Nigunim un Tents" (40 p.)  (intrumental tunes).
>
>            The 1938 Beregovski and Fefer volume is an independent work, not 
> volume 1 of any collection.  Unlike the 1934 and 1962 collections, the 
> Yiddish texts are printed in Yiddish, not in transliteration.
>
>                    Bob Rothstein
>
>

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