Re: A Yiddish World Remembered

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Steven Greenman recorded some music for the soundtrack of this program.
Lorele

Eliott Kahn wrote:

>We saw the same show and enjoyed it. It seemed to give a broad overview of 
>shtetl life with some fascinating archival footage at the beginning.
>
>It certainly wouldn't be for experts but we found it quite stimulating. The 
>recollections of 
>Yiddish life by survivors or emigres was not ground-breaking, but certainly a 
>necessary historical document, as these folks will be dying off.
>
>Eliott Kahn
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>At 10:37 AM 8/11/02 -0400, you wrote:
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>>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: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>Sandra Layman 
>>To: <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>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>http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.09/fast3.html
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>>and 
>><http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=PBS+special+looks+at+Yiddish+world&intcategoryid=5>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 
>><http://www.sandralayman.com>www.sandralayman.com 
>> 
>> 
>>----[forwarded]----- 
>>From: "Drewes, Rebecca" <<mailto:RDrewes (at) kcts(dot)org>RDrewes (at) 
>>kcts(dot)org> 
>>To: "<mailto:'sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net'>'sandralayman (at) 
>>earthlink(dot)net'" <<mailto: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: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>sandralayman (at) 
>>earthlink(dot)net [mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:11 AM 
>>To: <mailto:viewer (at) kcts(dot)org>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: <mailto:sandralayman (at) earthlink(dot)net>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: <mailto:l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>Lori Cahan-Simon 
>>To: <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>World music from a Jewish slant 
>>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:07 AM 
>>Subject: A Yiddish World Remembered 
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