The Great Ms. Teddy

Ah...Teddy Schwartz...I'd RATHER talk about her!!!

Trudi

>From: Lori Cahan-Simon

>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: World music from a Jewish slant

>Subject: Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester

>Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 19:13:44 -0400

>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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