Re: Ginzburg/Marek and Engel

[Martin Horwitz <mhorwitz...>]

GO ITZIK!! MOLODETS!! vi zogt men "attaboy" af idish???
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "itzik gottesman" <gottesman (at) yiddish(dot)forward(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Ginzburg/Marek and Engel


> Apparently Meir Noy had prepared a book of melodies for the songs of
> Ginzburg/Marek but I don't know what happened to the project after
> his death. Write to his brother Prof. Dov Noy.
>
> On the songs you ask for, I can add quickly:
>
> for songs 34, 35, 36 - these are the traditional openings for a Purim
> Shpil. Check the new volume of Purim Shpiln by Beregovsky. Kiev 1931.
>
> #37 - see Kotilyansky song #9  That's the only one I know with music;
> other collections have variants with words - for example Olsvanger's
> first collection, 1920, Basel.
>
> #39 , #40 - Michael Alpert sings a variant of this on the first
> Kapelye LP. I think Adreinne Cooper recorded it too on her cassette.
> A version also in Olsvanger, 1920.
>
> i am sure i am leaving other references out that others should add.
>
> - itzik gottesman
>
>

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