If you know anyone who fits the description, send them my way.
I wish I did, and if I meet any such person I'll do so.
Unfortunately, I only know sources for out-of-print trad (there's one blogger who has rips of some very interesting stuff, records by folk I only knew as oral history and the names of tunes, but I don't know how to translate "something like ceolalainn.blogspot.com, only for opera" into googlese), and I'm not sure where to begin looking. A quick google got me only this; searching archive.org for "the dybbuk" found nothing but a podcast, which I'm linking in case it should interest you: Shtetl on the Shortwave: Dybbuks, Bronfmans, and Corinna Rose.
I have also thought of checking out libraries: not everyone has thrown out their vinyl, and even if I couldn't rip it, I could at least hear what it sounded like.
I hope you can at least find a chance to hear it that way. I'd second the suggestion to have a look at the catalogue for the NYPL music library at Lincoln Center; they're pretty helpful about letting folk read and listen to things, and I don't think I had to show them my NYU id to get in.
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If you know anyone who fits the description, send them my way.
I wish I did, and if I meet any such person I'll do so.
Unfortunately, I only know sources for out-of-print trad (there's one blogger who has rips of some very interesting stuff, records by folk I only knew as oral history and the names of tunes, but I don't know how to translate "something like ceolalainn.blogspot.com, only for opera" into googlese), and I'm not sure where to begin looking. A quick google got me only this; searching archive.org for "the dybbuk" found nothing but a podcast, which I'm linking in case it should interest you: Shtetl on the Shortwave: Dybbuks, Bronfmans, and Corinna Rose.
I have also thought of checking out libraries: not everyone has thrown out their vinyl, and even if I couldn't rip it, I could at least hear what it sounded like.
I hope you can at least find a chance to hear it that way. I'd second the suggestion to have a look at the catalogue for the NYPL music library at Lincoln Center; they're pretty helpful about letting folk read and listen to things, and I don't think I had to show them my NYU id to get in.