Re: Yiddish poetry

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

There's so much of this around as I begin to think on the matter.

Peretz's "Treyst Mayn Folk"  - which you can hear on Lorele's new CD. The
songs of Aliza Greenblatt., Bella Schaechter Gottesman who usually also
wrote her own music.. The art songs of Papiernikov including the great "Zol
Zayn". Avrom Reizin's "Borukh Ate Zingt Der Tate".  A wonderful piece
"Yidish iz Mayn Loshn" by Maurice Rausch.

Lots of what is thought to be folk music isn't. So it doesn't hurt to peruse
the canon - the red, blue and purple books of the Mloteks.  Sidor Belarsky
did tons of them on his recordings.



Songs of the sweat shop poets - Morris Rosenfeld, Einhorn, Moyshe Leyb
Halpern.

Songs of political struggle - the CD of Zalmen Mlotek and Adrienne Cooper
puts a bunch of them together.

Then there's music set to great Holocaust poetry - Hirsch Glick (The Hymn of
the Partizans, Dos Zangl)  Schmerke Kaczerginsky  (Geule) , Sutzkever, et
al.

And the work of Itzik Manger - Afn Veg Shteyt a Boym,  Di Goldene Pave,
selections from Megiles Yitskhok.

My God, there is so much to discover if you haven't yet. What a treasure
trove our Yiddish culture has produced.

Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore. Maryland

on 1/10/04 12:35 AM, Sylvie Braitman at curlySylvie (at) hotmail(dot)com wrote:

> 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
>>> 
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