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Comment on Back to Isa Kremer by Geoff Woolfe

Geoff Woolfe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:37:22 +0000

hi – I just found your info re this song- I have been given a copy of the Chappell /Kremer songs from 1930. I’m in the UK and read or speak Yiddiish( but my father did) we have some yiddish readers here in Bristol though
So thanks -

Comment on Back to Isa Kremer by Steven Lasky

Steven Lasky — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:22:09 +0000

Just a note to tell you that Isa Kremer is biographied in Zalmen Zylbercweig’s “Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre”, Volume 4.

If you go to http://www.archive.org/details/nybc201092, you can download Volume 4 for free, then go to pdf page 619 (actual book page 3641), and if you can read Yiddish, you can learn more about her.

I am currently translating into Yiddish the six (actually seven) volumes of the Lexicon, having completed more than seven hundred of the more than twenty-eight hundred biographies included within these volumes.

Regards,
Steve Lasky
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
steve@museumoffamilyhistory.com

Comment on Back to Isa Kremer by marlena1st

marlena1st — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:21:48 +0000

Thanks so much Lorin for the Isa info. I’m looking for a playbill to a NYC Town Hall concert by Isa, Sidor Bilarsky, and Cass Franklin did to benefit the Hebrew Hay Fever Association which was connected to my Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation in Bethlehem, NH. I’ve tried the NY public library. Any ideas? Thank you. Marlena

Comment on About YIVOSounds by Miriam Isaacs

Miriam Isaacs — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:15:53 +0000

A great website and look forward to continuing to learn about Jewish music and song.

Comment on Back to Isa Kremer by Yankl Falk

Yankl Falk — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:46:52 +0000

I want to echo Itzik’s comment. There’s no way one could imagine lulling a baby to sleep with the earlier recording, but the 1945 version has such warmth and heart. Exquisite – and that last piano chord is such a delicious tsushpayz!

Comment on Back to Isa Kremer by itzik gottesman

itzik gottesman — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:01:49 +0000

Thanks Lorin for posting the recordings, Kremer’s printed version and especially Mikhl Gordon’s original poem, which is so hard to find! It’s always interesting to see how the “folk” edited the original much longer text – and usually they get it right in their redaction. If we are to vote for which Isa Kremer version of the song we prefer, I vote for the one she sang at age 60. I find it more motherly, more moving, and more folkish stylistically. And now that i hear it, it’s hard to believe that Kremer’s version did not influence the Ita Taub version posted on the “Yiddish Song of the Week” blog.

Comment on About YIVOSounds by Jan Waas

Jan Waas — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:30:59 +0000

Hi, Lorin,

I already have a ticket for your performance at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (Concert Hall) at the 29th of November.
Today 10-10-’10, I find out that only Frank London is coming. He is doing the gig with one Judith Berkson, whom I never heard of, and an Indian tabla shpiler.
Who are they? Are they any good in klez and Yiddish?
Should I return my ticket? I am a fan of yours but not of Frank!

Why aren’t you coming?

Hope to hear from you soon! Even though this has nothing to do with your great work at YIVO!

Blayb gezunt!

Jan Waas, folk collector , both Jewish and Goyish,
Griend 147
1112LB Diemen
The Netherlands

Comment on About YIVOSounds by Myles Starr

Myles Starr — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:20:50 +0000

Hello,

My name is Myles Starr I am a young Jewish man in New York City interested in the preservation of Jewish Music. I have recently begun working for Sojourn Records in Brooklyn. We work closely with Shlomo Carlebach and are the only exclusively licensed label permitted by his Estate to release unreleased or undiscovered recordings.

We have put out “Songs of Peace,” two unreleased live performances, both from 1973, carefully transferred, mixed and mastered. These two intimate recordings capture the amazing spirit and beauty of Shlomo Carlebach’s gift. It is a beautiful display of his musical genius, spirituality and humanity.

We are also going to release for the Holiday Season “Wake Up World,” an ultra rare Shlomo recording. Being a new label we are looking for ways to get the word out about his beautiful, historical, and powerful music. We would love to send you some MP3′s for review, if you care to write about them in your website or direct people to our website where they can purchase his albums. If we can be of service to your project in any other way please let us know.

Sincerely,

Myles Starr

Comment on About YIVOSounds by Andreas Hellmuth

Andreas Hellmuth — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:21:43 +0000

Hi Lorin,
thank you for exploring the archiv and publishing it in the www!
Maybe you know the exact writing / composing year of the following songs. It has to do with GEMA (Licences for the composer) which last 70 years in Germany and after it it´s “traditional”. Here the songs:

Awreml M.Gebirtig
Beltz
Kumi Ori Feidman?
Oj mame, bin ich farlibt! Abraham Ellstein
Sog nischt kejnmol Hirsh Glik

nice to hear from you

Andy from Nürnberg
I´ve heard you with the Klezmatics in Fürth yet

Comment on Virtual Sound Archives by Zevy Zions

Zevy Zions — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:37:54 +0000

Thanks!

I must visit!

Zevy