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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-09-25 12:17 pm
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I felt your poltergeist presence in the frame of the bed

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: [livejournal.com profile] time_shark, [livejournal.com profile] cucumberseed, [livejournal.com profile] strange_selkie, and [livejournal.com profile] 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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[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sheydim-tants!!! And Cemetery Theater! And I'm getting a contributor's copy of this!!

Delighted now.

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
There's also an Italian opera called Il Dibbuk, isn't there? I examined the score once at the JTS library, probably over a decade ago.

Here's the link to the catalog-record.

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'm so glad that you finally slept!
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-25 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Delighted now.

Excellent!

[identity profile] rose-lemberg.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you like Giant. I need to order an extra copy for Eve S.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-25 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
There's also an Italian opera called Il Dibbuk, isn't there?

Yes; premiered 1934, by a composer I'd never heard of. What did you think of the music?
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-25 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'm so glad that you finally slept!

Thank you! I have this heretical idea I might try it again tonight . . .
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-25 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you like Giant.

I consider it very likely.

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that is really taking things too far....

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay sleep!
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-25 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay sleep!

Seriously!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2011-09-25 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray for sleep! I hope it's a trend.

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's funny. I've examined the same copy of the score when I was working for these guys.

[livejournal.com profile] sovay if you don't have luck with calling the folks at Milken, check the catalog at JTS, as well as the ones at the music library at Lincoln Center, and the BBC (these were my primary resources for operas on Judaic and Biblical themes when I was working the job referred to above).

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, that! Yes.

I can't wait to read everyone else. And I don't remember "Cemetery Theatre" by title, so I will have to meet it again in my trib copy.

Isn't that cover ooky?

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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hooray for sleep! I hope it's a trend.

Thank you! So do I . . .
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-26 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right, that! Yes.

Hey, I'm looking forward!

And I don't remember "Cemetery Theatre" by title, so I will have to meet it again in my trib copy.

You'll remember it when you see it.

Isn't that cover ooky?

I suppose; I don't have a thing about dolls.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Not dolls, Robert the Doll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Doll

He is one ooky sawdust fucker.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-26 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Robert the Doll.

Fascinating. A piece of supernature I had totally missed.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'm delighted you've slept, and hope you'll sleep again tonight.

Why is there no readily available recording of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk (1951)?

I wish I had an answer for you. I'm sorry there doesn't seem to be more than excerpts available. Surely somebody out there has ripped a copy of the vinyl, and I hope someone will be able to connect you to said files.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-26 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
"What were you cursed by?"

"A three-foot midshipman stuffed with sawdust."

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-09-26 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Shtetl on the Shortwave

I like the title!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
I like the title!

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