Re: Lady Cantors

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Lorele,

Can you give us more info on the Sheindele LP?  Title, label, #...

Bob
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lori Cahan-Simon 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:29 PM
  Subject: Re: Lady Cantors


  Hi Tsipele,

  My dad told me about Sheindele (as it is spelled on the LP I have).  She was 
indeed popular in the Philly area.  People used to jam the Steel Pier in 
Etclentic Ceetee (Atlantic City), NJ to hear her, and my dad's grandmother used 
to listen to her on the radio all the time.  Her album is divine and I think 
she's much more interesting than Bas Sheva.

  Lorele


  Sylvia Schildt wrote:

Henekh ....When I was a kid in Brooklyn there was also a much-advertised  
Sheyndele diKhaznte - if memory serves, she was daughter or kin to Moyshe 
Koussevitzky.They even displayed posters of her (and sometimes the pair) in the 
StraussStreet Shul - a khor shul - in Brownsville.I don't think they were too 
strict about Kol Isha  - audiences were men andwomen.  This Kol Isha thing is 
soooo "nouveau frum."Sylvia Schildton 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 
playedklezmer 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 recordfor years (as my 
reissue of Sophie Kurtzer's 1923 Pathe disc on "Mysteries ofthe Sabbath" 
illustrates). Lady cantors were also staples of the air on majorcity Jewish 
radio shows. Some, like Freidele Oysher  (sister of MoisheOysher) who performed 
on WEVD as "Friedele di Chazente" was as big a star asone could be, male or 
female.Also women klezmorim were also very much professional such as pianists 
SylviaSchwartz, Beverly Musiker and Dora Cherniavsky playing on klezmer 
bandstandsas early as 1917.Henry SapoznikProducerYiddish Radio ProjectNational 
Public Radio
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