Rumshisky j m (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Yiddish oversize sheet music, song and lyrics, 3pps + 1page Thilemel by Smulowitz, G+ as puckered paper from waterstaining.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Some edgewear and a few closed tears, otherwise quite good - the music is clean and legible. Pianoforte score with lyrics. VERY HARD TO FIND in any condition. Piano and lyrics. The title translates roughly from Yiddish as "Woe to the Child Who Lacks a Mother." The song comes from the operetta Di leybedigeh yesoymim ("The Living Orphans"), and the sheet music cover states it was "as produced at Adler's Peoples Theatre." The Composer: Joseph Rumshinsky (1881-1956) Joseph Rumshinsky was a Jewish composer born near Vilna, Lithuania (then part of Russian Poland). Along with Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky, and Abraham Ellstein, he is considered one of the "big four" composers and conductors of American Yiddish theater. He was a child prodigy who developed the nickname "Yoshke der notn-freser" — little Joseph, the devourer of music. He moved to America in 1904, and after being invited to New York by theater impresario Boris Thomashefsky, Rumshinsky helped upgrade Yiddish musical theater from a series of vaudeville-type skits into a true operetta form. In New York he worked at Malvina Lobel's Royal Theater from 1913 to 1914, and at Joseph Edelstein's Peoples Theater from 1914 to 1916 - the very venue where Weh dem Kind was staged.Stella Adler was born February 10, 1902 in New York City, the youngest daughter of Jacob P. and Sara Adler, the foremost actors of the Yiddish stage at the turn of the century. She was enlisted in her father's troupe as a toddler — at age four she took the part of one of the young princes in Shakespeare's Richard III, and at age nine she played the young Spinoza. So the sheet music represents a remarkable confluence: a song of Jewish immigrant longing, composed by the dean of Yiddish theater music, performed by a young woman who would go on to reshape American acting itself — all staged at the theater run by her legendary father, Jacob P. Adler.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear including some small chips and tears, pages age toned, exterior rubbed, still a complete and very good copy. Four instrumental pieces for violin: "Milchume Kalles," "Der Yüdisher Soldat," "A Stikele Broit," and "Gam Se L'toiwo.".…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Later printing. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Edgewear including a few small chips, pages lightly toned, and exterior rubbed, still very good. For voice and piano with the lyrics printed in romanzied Yiddish within the notation. Plate imprint, "Shabes 2." The front cover states that this song is from "Kornblith's comedy *Up Town Down Town* in Thomashefsky's National Theatre.…

Illustrated sheet music, 13.5" x 10.5". 28 pp. including covers and 6 nested bifolia. CONDITION: Very good, 1.75" split to top of spine hinge, light wear to cover extremities. The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Light edgewear, pages lightly toned, and exterior rubbed, still a complete and very good copy. Six songs for voice: "Shmendrig Opera: Solo Braine mit chor," "Romance Rose," "Duett Rose und David," "Rose mit chor," "Breine mit chor," and "Die Kale heist Paulina: Tanz" with the lyrics printed in Yiddish on the back cover. *OCLC* locates only three holdings and it appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.…

Illustrated sheet music, 13.5" x 10.5". 4 pp. including covers. CONDITION: Very good, several small chips and tears to edges. Arranged for piano and voice. Lyrics in romanized Yiddish in the music, and facing romanized and standard Yiddish on the back cover. The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

Illustrated sheet music, 13.75" x 10.75". 10 pp. including covers and a nested bifolium and single sheet. CONDITION: Very good, 5" split to cover at upper spine. Arranged for piano and voice. Lyrics in romanized Yiddish in the music, which includes "Shmendrig Opera. Solo Braine mit chor," "Romance Rose," "Duett Rose und David," "Rose mit chor," "Breine mit chor," and "Die Kale heist Paulina. Tanz." The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

Illustrated sheet music, 13.75" x 10.625". 6 pp. including covers and single-sheet insert. CONDITION: Very good. Arranged for violin and voice. Lyrics in romanized Yiddish in the music, followed by three additional verses. A second piece, "Thilemel (The Psalms)" by S. Smulowitz, is printed on page five, with the heading "Try This On Your Piano." The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

Illustrated sheet music, 13.75" x 10.5". 4 pp. including covers. CONDITION: Very good. Arranged for piano and voice. Romanized Yiddish lyrics printed in the music, and facing romanized and standard Yiddish lyrics printed on the back cover. The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1901 by Joseph L. Werbelowsky and his son David Werbelowsky, and became part of the bedrock of early twentieth-century Jewish life and culture, publishing prayer books and religious texts as well as Yiddish novels, translations, and sheet music for the waves of Jewish immigrants to New York in the mid-late nineteenth century. The Lower East Side became a vibrant hub of Yiddish-speaking culture, with thirteen theaters (many of them vaudeville houses) producing significant-or sometimes simply prolific-Yiddish authors and composers, including Joseph Rumshinksy, the "Father of Yiddish Operetta," playwright and composer Anshel Schorr, singer and songwriter David Meyerowitz, and longtime collaborators in Yiddish theater Arnold Perlmutter and Herman Wohl, playwright, director, and actor Abraham (Avram) Goldfaden, and others.…

First Edition. First Edition. Folio size, 14 x 10 1/2 inches, 4pp. Folio sheet music, printed in blue and black, with illustrated cover featuring a standing male figure beside a stylized music stand incorporating portrait vignettes. Interior pages with musical notation and Yiddish lyrics in parallel typographic settings. Price noted on cover (ìPiano 50¢ / Violin 30¢î). A poignant and historically immediate response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (March 25, 1911), one of the defining industrial disasters in American labor history. Issued the same year, this Yiddish-language song transforms the tragedy into communal lament, aimed squarely at New Yorkís immigrant Jewish populationómany of whom were directly affected by the fire or worked in similar garment trades. Composer Joseph (J. M.) Rumshisky, a central figure in Yiddish theater music, here collaborates with lyricist A. Schorr to produce not theatrical entertainment but memorial culture in printed form. The piece reflects how rapidly the catastrophe entered public consciousness and how vernacular mediaósheet music, street songs, and performanceóserved as vehicles for mourning, solidarity, and, implicitly, social critique. Near fine. Scarce.…