Re: Shlomo Questions

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Dear List


I cannot claim exoertise on Shlomo Carlebach, but I know he was very much a
part of the then hot folk scene without the mystical rabbinic aura he now
possesses. He worked for Art D'Lugoff at the Gate and other venues.

In fact my husband, the late Dutch folksinger/troubadour Frank Schildt
(Gerde's. Cafe Wha,  Bizarre, etc.) shared the bill with him weekends on
72nd Street at a place called Cafe Tel Aviv - it was for a prolonged gig,
because I particularly remember Frank regularly buying that wonderful tub
butter after the club shut down for the night, from a place called Daitch's.
Other performers were featured as well as this motley match.



on 8/14/03 12:04 PM, OrPnimi (at) aol(dot)com at OrPnimi (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> 
> 
> From: OrPnimi (at) aol(dot)com
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:03 PM
> To: OrPnimi (at) aol(dot)com
> Subject: Shlomo Questions
> 
> Dear List
> A customer asked me the following questions which I feel the list will be
> able to answer much better than me, can I please email it here for the list:
> 
> This is what he wrote me:
> 
> I am trying to find out the answers, as mentioned, to the following
> questions on Shlomo Carlebach:
> 
> 1.  How did he come to record for Vanguard, a blues/folk lable whose roster
> includes people like Odetta James, Joan Baez, Skp James?
> 
> 2.  How did he come to record at the Village Gate at a time when it was a
> focal point in NY for the folk and jazz scene?
> 
> 3.  Did Carlebach attract at that point a wider audience outside Jewish
> circles given his "hippie Rabbi" orientation?
> 
> 4.  What are Carlebach's best recordings?
> 
> 5.  Has anybody written a book on him ?
> 
> If you could please send all replies to my home e-mail address which is
> ben (at) apfels(dot)com(dot)
> 
> Thanks - Noa
> ***************************
> from:   Yitzick60 @aol.com
> To: Or  Pnimi @aol.com
> 
> I would like to preface the response to these questions with a little
> introduction of my
> dear friend Rabbi Yitzack Aisenstadt who is first learning to use the
> internet and is new to posting to lists. Yitzack practically grew up In Reb
> Shlomo's 
> house and was with Shlomo from the very early beginnings of his musical
> career. He is a tremendous resource of information  of practically everything
> you 
> could possibly ask about Shlomo Carlebach. He has been a guest on my radio
> show 
> at WSIA 88,9fm several times and has spoken on air about the "Stories Behind
> the Music" since he was with Reb Shlomo when he composed so many of his
> niggunim.
> Michele
> 
> Reb Yitzack's response:
> 
> 1. Shlomo ztl  went to  the Village in order to be makarev Jews. It was in
> the early 50's`. His first concert was in a hotel in mid. Manhatten and
> included 
> the first performers Pete Seeger and Kalman Kinory .The main attraction was
> Shlomo Carlebach. That was in 1957. Kalman Kinori was also the chief
> recording engineer in Vanguard records.
> In 1958 Shlomo ztl recorded Haneshma Lach. In 1959 he recorded Barchi Nafshi.
> The recording engineer  overseeing all those recordings was K . Kinory. At
> the time Shlomo was in the Village, Alan Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Simon and
> Garfuncal and many others became his good friends. In the early 60` Art
> Dalogoff who 
> was the owner of the Village Gate offered Shlomo a concert with recording the
> concert live. Shlomo accepted it and that is how the VILLAGE GATE RECORD
> developed.
> Yitzack
> 

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