Re: A Yiddish World Remembered

[Marvin <physchem...>]

My wife and I watched this program last night on WLIW (channel 21 in NY), 
through the seemingly endless and repetitive hard sells for subscribers, which 
crudely played on Jewish hopes and fears.  That certainly did not improve the 
experience.

We thought the program itself was a noble effort, but flawed - perhaps by the 
maker's relative inexperience in documentaries.  Ther interview with him 
suggested that he moved into this field from making ads and news videos.

We thought the program was disjointed.  There was no recognizable plan on how 
to cover a very large subject, so it jumped from topic to topic, seemingly at 
random.

The music was almost entirely background, and mostly from a single CD.

Sadly,
Marvin Margoshes
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sandra Layman 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:27 AM
  Subject: Re: A Yiddish World Remembered


  There are a couple of articles about this program at
  http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.09/fast3.html
  and
  
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=PBS+special+looks+at+Yiddish+world&intcategoryid=5


  For anyone in Seattle: KCTS (our local PBS station) will *not* be 
broadcasting this program. Write or call them if you're interested in ever 
seeing the film! (See further below.)

  By the way, does anyone on the list know if any contemporary or recent 
klezmer music was used on the soundtrack for this program? I ask partly because 
a friend and I were actually hired (for a token amount) by the producer to play 
a couple of minutes of music for the opening sequence. However, that was before 
the producer got permission to use the original Abe & Sylvia Schwartz 
recording, which is what he'd wanted all along. Oh, well... (I still am fuzzy 
on why someone would need to get permission to use a recording which should be 
public domain by now, according to an intellectual-property lawyer I know, but 
that's another subject.)

  - Sandra
  www.sandralayman.com


  ----[forwarded]-----
  From: "Drewes, Rebecca" <RDrewes (at) kcts(dot)org>
  To: "'sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net'" <sandralayman (at) 
earthlink(dot)net>
  Subject: RE: VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB - "A Yiddish World Remembered"
  Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:27:06 -0700

  Thank you for your interest in KCTS, the Public Network, and especially in
  "A Yiddish World Remembered."

  This program is not scheduled to air anytime in the near future.  I will
  forward a request that this program be aired on to our programming
  department, which relies on viewer input when making future programming
  decisions.

  Thank you for writing.

  Best regards,

  Rebecca Drewes
  Viewer Services Representativee

  -----Original Message-----
  From: sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net [mailto:sandralayman (at) 
earthlink(dot)net]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:11 AM
  To: viewer (at) kcts(dot)org
  Subject: VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB - "A Yiddish World Remembered"



  VIEWER E-MAIL FROM WEB
  Subject: "A Yiddish World Remembered"
  From: sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net
  Message: Please tell me when you'll be airing the one-hour PBS special
  called "A Yiddish World Remembered." I couldn't find it doing a search for
  "yiddish," and yet nationally it's airing on Aug. 14.

  Thanks very much for your assistance,
  Sandra



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Lori Cahan-Simon 
    To: World music from a Jewish slant 
    Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:07 AM
    Subject: A Yiddish World Remembered