Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester

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

I talked to Teddy Schwartz not long ago and we talked about "Dona Dona" 
and Joan Baez.  She said someone (Sorry, I forget who) had showed her 
Teddy's book of wonderful translations of Yiddish and Hebrew songs 
(Tumbalalaika, 1956)  into singable English, and that is one she chose 
to do.  I don't know if I'm telling anyone anything new, but there it is.
Lorele

Trudi Goodman wrote:

> Try reading my posting again...carefully. There was a folk music 
> history written in the 70's about the Boston Folk Music scene...this 
> is where I got the info about Hester. It's also a pretty well known 
> fact around the older Folk Scene. Again read my listing...I never said 
> Baez or her father were Jewish....jeezh.
>
> Trudi
>
> >From: >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org >To: World music from a 
> Jewish slant >Subject: Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester >Date: Tue, 6 
> May 2003 13:01:48 -0700 (MST) > >I'm not sure on what basis Trudi 
> avers what follows, but: 1) Joan Baez was >not Jewish, and 2) Joan did 
> not learn Donna Donna from Carolyn Hester--at >least, not from 
> anything I was told. I think I know exactly whence she >learned 
> it--specifically, from Tony Saletan in the Boston area. > >I'm not 
> sure on what basis Trudi writes that Joan lifted a lot from Carolyn 
> >Hester, either--or even how Trudi knows that they had much contact at 
> all, >though that may be so. (But is it--or was it?) Joan did lift a 
> lot from >Debbie Green, but that's a who she to those not familiar 
> with the Cambridge >folk revival scene. > >Also, Joan's father was a 
> scientist, but I'm quite sure he never won a >Nobel Prize. > >--Robert 
> Cohen (who met him--though I didn't ask him ...) > > > -------- 
> Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester 
> > From: "Trudi Goodman" > Date: Mon, May 5, 2003 3:45 pm > To: World 
> music from a Jewish slant > > Joan Baez's dad was Mexicano. However, 
> Baez is sometimes a Sephard > name. There was a Nobel Winning 
> Scientist with that last name, who was > Jewish..and also Sephard and 
> Latino.As for Farina...he learned La Rosa > from Carolyn Hester...the 
> same place by the way that Joanie learned > Donna Donna from. As a 
> matter of fact, Joan lifted alot of material > wholecloth from Carolyn 
> Hester...especially the Childe Harold ballads. > So I'd thank Carolyn 
> Hester for being so charitable.Trudi > > > >
>
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