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

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

Seth has asked me to announce that the first of the two mp3 file recordings 
of his grandfather, Bernard Peretz, will play tonight on the preshow of 
Nusach.  Each recording is about 45 minutes long.  We will begin to play the 
first one at approximately 9:15pm.  The recordings will be followed by our 
live variety show at 10pm (all times eastern standard time)

Access to the show (hosted by live365.com) can best be had from our web site 
at http://www.angelfire.com/art2/nusach and clicking on the listen to the 
live show link.

If you have trouble accessing the show, I will be on my instant messenger 
programs begining at 9pm.  My id on each of them is:

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Rabbi Winston Weilheimer
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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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