Re: Yiddish poetry

[Sylvie Braitman <curlySylvie...>]

I am looking for Art songs, rather than Folk songs, based on Yiddish poetry.
More like the work Weiner did on Yiddish poets (Leivick, Rolnick, Shneour,
etc..)
Thanks to everybody for all your answers!
Sylvie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori M Simon" <lorelecs (at) juno(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Yiddish poetry


> Are you looking for which authors were used or which composers used the
> poetry?  Or just to identify which songs are based on poetry?
> Lorele
>
>
> On Thu,  8 Jan 2004 00:14:42 -0700 music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org writes:
> > Aliza Greenblatt?
> >
> > --Robert Cohen
> >
> >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: Yiddish poetry
> > > From: "Sylvie Braitman" <curlySylvie (at) hotmail(dot)com>
> > > Date: Wed, January 07, 2004 5:10 pm
> > > To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> > >
> > > I have been asked to gather songs written on Yiddish poetry. Apart
> > from
> > > Sutzkever that I researched last fall, and apart from Lazar
> > Weiner's
> > > work,  I realize that most of the Yiddish Art songs I perform
> > have
> > > lyrics from lithurgical or folk origins. Any idea?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sylvie
> >
> > ---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > ---------------------+
> >