Re: Lazar Weiner's music

[Sam Weiss <SamWeiss...>]

At 09:15 PM 3/17/03, Jewish Music Distribution wrote:
>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...

To the best of my knowledge there are only three recordings with a 
substantial number of Weiner's Yiddish songs, and they are LP's, with the 
composer at the piano:

"Lazar Weiner Songs; Musical Settings of Yiddish Poetry"
Bianca Sauler, soprano (Tambur Records #597) has 22 Weiner songs.

Volume Two of "The Yiddish Art Song" Leon Lishner, bass (Published by 
University of Washington Press) has 10 (out of 19 total) Weiner songs, 
while Volume One has 5 (out of 16 total) Weiner songs.

By the way, it is interesting to note that this composer who personified 
Yiddish art song did not speak the language in his native Russia, but 
learned it as a young man after coming to America.



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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ 

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