Re: digitized "field recording" of European-American khazn

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

just downloaded first file....it is great....do you mind if i use it on the 
internet radio?

If you would like a catelogue I will try to give you one.



Rabbi Winston Weilheimer
Host/OWNER
NUSACH INTERNET RADIO NETWORK
Nusach, THE ORIGINAL SOUL MUSIC!
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>From: "Seth Rogovoy" <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: digitized "field recording" of European-American khazn
>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:42:43 -0500
>
>At http://www.kahle.org/peretz/default.htm, my family has posted links to
>two large MP3s, digital files of a home recording that my grandfather,
>Bernard Peretz, made of himself some time around 1975.
>
>It is our hope that by making these recordings available to the public, we
>can learn more about the material on the recordings and about Ben's
>background as a khazn.
>
>Here is some more background info:
>
>Baruch Lazar Peretz (1908-1981) was a self-trained khazn (cantor) born and
>raised in Novidvor, a small shtetl near Minsk on the Belarus/Lithuania
>border, one of approximately a dozen children. He immigrated to New York in
>the mid-1920s (his immigration documents identify him as a Polish national
>at the time). For most of his life, Ben Peretz worked only sporadically as 
>a
>free-lance cantor, mostly on the High Holy Days, all over New York (his 
>main
>occupation was owning and managing a series of candy or "fountain" stores).
>
>This informal "field recording" was presumably made by Peretz himself in 
>his
>apartment in Elmhurst, Queens, some time in the 1970s -- probably in the
>mid-'70s, when he was about 65. It is several generations removed from the
>original source, which may have been a reel-to-reel tape recorder, or a
>small, portable cassette deck, but the quality is still pretty remarkable.
>
>We have not yet identified everything on this recording, which includes
>liturgical melodies, festival prayers, and at least one Yiddish folk song
>("My Yidishe Mame"). We would greatly appreciate any and all assistance in
>helping to identify the contents of the tape, as well as any information
>that can be divined from the style of Ben's singing and pronunciation and
>his choice of melodies.
>
>Thanks for any and all assistance you can lend,
>
>Seth Rogovoy
>www.rogovoy.com
>


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