Re: Lazar Weiner's music

[Jewish Music Distribution <jmduk...>]

do you know of any recordings of Laza's songs? I gave a concert in London
last week performing his songs and people from the audience asked me if I
know of any recordings...

Thanks

Noa

Noa Lachman
Rimmon and Jewish Music Distribution
PO Box 67
Hailsham BN27 4UW
UK
Tel/Fax 01323 832 863
www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Pinnolis" <pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: Lazar Weiner's music


> Brandeis University hosted the New England Music Library Association
> Regional meeting last Friday, and we were privileged to have as part of
> that, a concert of music by Lazar Weiner. (This concert was co-sponsored
by
> the Libraries, the Tauber Institute, the Martin Weiner Lecture Fund of
NEJS,
> and the Office of the Dean. )
>
> Performing were Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev, soprano of New York, and Yehudi Wyner,
> piano of Boston. As you may know, Lazar Weiner was Yehudi Wyner's father.
>
> The songs were done brilliantly, and it was a great pleasure to hear them.
> Most of Weiner's music is published, and it's time for a revival! More
> concerts. More recordings are needed.
>
> This is high Art Music, and I guess you could classify Lazar Weiner as
> something of the "Schubert of modern Yiddish lieder". Among the selections
> of songs performed were "A Gebet", "Fun vayte teg", "Viglid", "Dos gold
fun
> daine oign", "Baim boutshn licht", "S'iz nito kain nechtn", "Baym taykh",
> "Dem shmeterling un di blum" and "A nigun (tshiri-bim-bam-bam). This last
> song has been recorded frequently, but unfortunately Mr. Weiner sold the
> copyright to someone else. I don't know who holds it, but I guess it's one
> of those stories...similar to what happened to Secunda selling the
copyright
> to his most famous song...
>
> The songs were lovingly introduced by Yehudi Wyner who teaches music here
at
> Brandeis. It was exciting and very moving to see him perform an entire
> concert of his father's music.
>
> If any of you are in the process of recording Lazar Weiner songs, I'd love
> to hear about it.
>
> Other parts of the program's day included presentations about Yiddish and
> Jewish music holdings, especially sheet music special and rare collections
> at Brown University (Rsemary Cullen), Harvard University (Violet Gilboa),
> the National Yiddish Book Center (Fay Zipkowitz), and our collections at
> Brandeis (myself).
>
> Judy
>
>
>

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