Sorry, that was not quite right (it's late in this part of the world...)
Better try www.lloicaczackis.com/tangele.htm.
There is some more information on my website:
www.lloiczackis.com/tangele.htm.
Gut shabes,
Lloica
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yes, I remember seeing that Soviet animation in the early 1980s... it was
wonderful, with that 78 of the tango playing. do you remember the title of
that animated film, Lori?
there's also a glasnost'-era film about the NKVD in the 1930s which has the
melody of Yosl, Yosl in the background;
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We also play the Russian tangos, Sertze (my heart) and Utomlyonaya
Solntze (which we just posted part of a performance of on our website,
if you wanna hear it).
Utomlennoe solntse is actually a Russian version of a Polish
tango, Jerzy Petersburski's To ostatnia
There's a nice article about Martin Schwartz of Berkeley, at:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2003/03/12_klez.shtml
His amazing collection of 78 rpm recordings, and his vast knowledge and
enthusiasm concerning various genres and artists, changed my life and the
lives of more than one
Dear list members from Europe
Hélène Engel is on tour in Europe.
She will perform
* in Budapest on March 30th at 20.00
At the Balint Jewish community Center 1064 Budapest Révaiu.16
* in Ronchin (adjacent town of Lille in France) on April 3rd at 20.00
At the Auditorium de Ronchin rue Lavoisier
Dear Sylvia,
It seems to me too that the marriage of tango and Yiddish song is an
extraordinary event, partly because of the great beauty and poignancy of the
songs, but especially because of its significance. It is through this music
that I came to understand my cultural identity as an
When the Mendelssohn wedding march appears
in your Ultimate Klezmer book, is it or
is it not a klezmer melody? Yes, of course
it is, street-rodded. Why? Because it
was played by klezmer musicians at Jewish
functions. That puts the stamp of kashrus on it.
Prince Oginski?s march becomes a
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I haven't seen this version, but I think the revival of the show stars
that
famous Australian drag queen actor as Fagin (the one whose Dame Edna
character has run for decades), Barry --? can't remember
don't forget Adelaide's Lament in Guys Dolls [the average unmarried female
/ basically insecu-ah ...]. even though she and Nathan Detroit are
painstakingly pegged as New Yawkers rather than explicit Jews (in fact, a la
an earlier Seinfeld, they're sort of un-Jews), she goes from the
Ricky Don't lose...
Oli' go pick that pocket-
Make sure you can take care of yourself.
London folk unwitting, share their wealth.
or maybe little IGY
Ninety minutes from prince down to pauper-
Come a long long way.
Still, stick with it, your halfway home.
You can't have more porridge, but
My synagogue band, Heavy Shtetl, is busy coming up with silly things to sing tomorrow. Here's our entry (with apologies to ELP): "Oh, What a Wicked Man He Was" (about Haman). Lyrics on request.
Here is a title for Weighwatchers about the perils of eating Hamentaschen:
How High the Mun!
Any
I never play grace notes like that.
his brother Willie was trying to suggest to him that he play a particular kind
of ornament between or on an F# and G (some on this list call it a krekhts).
I would say that this is another confirmation of my theory that the krekhts is more
grace not than
well, since Fagin in Oliver! is also the slightly warped figure he is, being
created by a queer writer who likes the character but nonetheless sees him as
full of conflicted interests, I will put this out there: he is indeed
nurturing the boys in this way, and does keep a roof over their
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by the way, I think it's noteworthy that this show premiered in 1960,
several
years before Fiddler on
Just to clarify, since it came up privately--
For the record, I am not sure if I transcribed my version of Shpil di Fidl, Shpil (including "vi azoy ich fiel") from a version of a Picon performance, or made it up.
I am not trying to (A) take credit for making it up if I transcribed it, nor (B)
p.s. Fagin does also sing one other tune, without Jewish overtones in my
estimation: Be Back Soon, which does reflect the qualities you mention,
Lorele; he's solicitous of his boys (I guess I do intend the pun, but mainly
the word's primary meaning).
still, just to clarigy the highly
hello,
yes! wow, you're getting into lots of previews of new Metropolitan Klezmer
material here. we've got a version of one of Fagin's songs on our new CD
(Pick a Pocket or Two); both of Fagin's tunes in the show have very
interesting qualities reminiscent of various Eastern European Jewish
In a giant puppet purimspiel that I performed with
friends in Atlanta, when Esther decides to go and see the king unbidden,
Mordechai replies that all the Jewish people will neither eat nor drink until
she is successful. Esther of course replies (ala Evita) "Don't Fast for Me, Jews
of
Thanks Eve,
You have placed a new prism in from of my romantic notions of those times.
Mel.
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Subject: Re: Oliver
Eve, I'm so glad you know so much about all this! I knew there was
something different and intimate in his treatment of Fagin's songs and
character, but didn't realize Bart was Jewish. The music in this show
truly reflects the characters and their backgrounds. I feel there is
something
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