Re: Yiddish poetry

[Sylvie Braitman <curlySylvie...>]

I guess when I say art songs, I mean music that cannot be just written with
a chord chart. 'Zog nit keynmol" can. It does not mean I don't like the
song. I perform it. But what I'm looking for is something that clearly
belongs to a different genre. Again I am not against folk music, but this is
a different project.
Thanks for the various leads though. I'll listen to lorele's CD, and
research all the others.
But what do you mean when you say "A lot of what is thought to be folk music
isn't"? I think I know what you mean but would be interested to hear more
about it.
Thanks!
Sylvie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia Schildt" <creativa (at) charm(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Yiddish poetry


> 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
>

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