Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements June 23, 2014
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to [email protected] as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. __________________________________ From: Michael Ochs <[email protected] Date: June 3, 2014 Rumshinsky's *Di goldene kale* performed in New York I am in the throes of preparing a full-score edition of Joseph Rumshinsky's 1923 Yiddish-American operetta _Di goldene kale_ (The Golden Bride; further information at https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/musa/forthcoming/di-goldene-kale). A concert performance of the work, in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles, was held in New York on Tuesday, May 27, by the longest functioning Yiddish theater company in the world, the 99-year-old National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene. By all accounts the evening was a resounding success. The hall was filled to capacity---some 220 seats---and the audience was genuinely (dare I say wildly?) enthusiastic, laughing at all the right places and hanging around afterwards not wanting to leave. The cast of 12 sang beautifully under Zalmen Mlotek's musical direction, and director Motl Didner expertly introduced enough bits of acting to bring out the work's comic and poignant moments. (And I had a walk-on---my stage debut at age 77!) There have already been several serious inquiries from colleges for repeat performances, and other possible presentations are contemplated. My dream is to see a fully staged production that would spark a revival of interest in the Yiddish-American musical theater, which played an important role in the development of the American musical (as Mendele readers know, Irving Berlin, Yip Harburg, and the Gershwins, among many other Broadway and Tin Pan Alley personalities, regularly attended Yiddish theater shows). A staged performance with orchestra, sets, costumes, lighting, etc., etc., would require some hefty financial support. I'm hoping to turn to foundations and individual donors that might be interested in underwriting such a venture, so any help in the form of ideas and, especially, personal connections along those lines would be much appreciated. _________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices and announcements, typically announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership, should be sent to: victor.bers at yale.edu (IMPORTANT! in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language i.e, inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu We are hoping to update this website to restore its full functionality. For interim access to Mendele’s archives and PDF library, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik/ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
