Re: ir kleyne likhtelekh

[Sam Weiss <SamWeiss...>]

At 03:04 PM 12/19/03, Lori M Simon wrote:
>You mean Lefkowitch actually wrote music and didn't just own or publish
>everyone else's music?

I own a thin little book of music carefully edited by Henry Lefkowitch, 
self-published in 1917.  The cover bears the title "Yiddishe Gesangen," 
while the title page says "Yiddishe un Hebreishe Lider; Folks un 
Natsyonale."  Its 28 songs (melody lines or simple duets only) are 
meticulously credited as to lyricist and composer (or "folk").  While 
several songs list Henry Lefkowitch as the arranger, only two are credited 
to him as composer; in addition, they are copyrighted by him 1917.  These 
two are his settings of "Natsyonal Gefil" by Yehoash, and of "Khanike 
Likht" by Morris Rosenfeld.  The latter is =not= the setting by Zavel 
Zilberts published by Metro Music which is copyrighted in 1937 by Henry 
Lefkowitch.

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


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