I felt your poltergeist presence in the frame of the bed

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I slept, finally, something like ten hours last night. I'm not sure how much it makes up for the absolutely no sleep I was getting all the rest of this week, but I'm certainly not going to send it back.

The table of contents for Not One of Us #46 is extremely promising: time_shark, cucumberseed, strange_selkie, and rose_lemberg to name only a few. I have a pair of poems. You should order a copy.

Why is there no readily available recording of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk (1951)? The premiere was recorded; it's not as though the New York City Opera is a minor company or obscure. There appear to be some contemporary excerpts on CD from the Milken Archive, but what good does that do me if I turn out to want the rest? I'd never heard of the opera until this afternoon.

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I'm delighted you've slept, and hope you'll sleep again tonight.

Thank you. It would be nice.

Surely somebody out there has ripped a copy of the vinyl, and I hope someone will be able to connect you to said files.

If you know anyone who fits the description, send them my way. 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.

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Thank you. It would be nice.

You're welcome.

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.

[sovay]

Shtetl on the Shortwave

I like the title!

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I like the title!

I do as well. I've not listened to it yet--I should do that at some point.