Re: Lady Cantors

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Henekh ....


When I was a kid in Brooklyn there was also a much-advertised  Sheyndele di
Khaznte - if memory serves, she was daughter or kin to Moyshe Koussevitzky.
They even displayed posters of her (and sometimes the pair) in the Strauss
Street Shul - a khor shul - in Brownsville.


I don't think they were too strict about Kol Isha  - audiences were men and
women.  This Kol Isha thing is soooo "nouveau frum."


Sylvia Schildt







on 7/24/02 3:29 PM, Sapoznik (at) aol(dot)com at Sapoznik (at) aol(dot)com 
wrote:

> I am currently researching women who sang cantorial repertoire, or played
> klezmer music, before it was possible to do so professionally.
> 
> I think you mean "before it was possible to do so in a synagogue". These
> "Lady Cantors" (as they were called)  were quite professional being on record
> for years (as my reissue of Sophie Kurtzer's 1923 Pathe disc on "Mysteries of
> the Sabbath" illustrates). Lady cantors were also staples of the air on major
> city Jewish radio shows. Some, like Freidele Oysher  (sister of Moishe
> Oysher) who performed on WEVD as "Friedele di Chazente" was as big a star as
> one could be, male or female.
> Also women klezmorim were also very much professional such as pianists Sylvia
> Schwartz, Beverly Musiker and Dora Cherniavsky playing on klezmer bandstands
> as early as 1917.
> 
> Henry Sapoznik
> Producer
> Yiddish Radio Project
> National Public Radio
> 
> 

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