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2022-07-07 07:27:06
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, July 7, 1822 (approximately)
Sometime before July 9, Beethoven makes a day trip to Baden bei Wien. While there, he runs into Johann Friedrich Rochlitz, whom he had met twice in Vienna. Rochlitz’s account, taken from a letter to publisher Christoph Härtel, is reprinted in Sonneck, Beethoven: Impressions of Contemporaries (New York: Schirmer 1926) …
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-01-13 02:21:22
1923 Yiddish Musical Astounds NY Public
[…] of scholars in American music in the Boston area in 1984, when Michael Ochs, then the Music Librarian at Harvard, found a manuscript copy of the piano-vocal score of Rumshinsky’s show. As is common with such scores, no spoken dialogue is included, and there is no inkling of what the orchestral score might be like. But he put the score on display in an exhibit for the annual conference of what was then called the Sonneck Society (now the Society for American Music). After retiring from Harvard, he returned to the operetta to begin translating the lyrics. At the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York (which contains an extraordinary collection of materials relating to the Yiddish theater, he found a typescript of the libretto amid the papers donated by the grandchildren of the librettist Frieda Freiman and children of the actress Flora Freiman. What made it possible to […]
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