Baia Mare2013-05-1911 min · 3 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 100%
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Summary
Camera file of the 2013 Baia Mare session; the index gives no name. An older man (INF) talks with Kerler about Yiddish and Romanian periodicals and books, then at length about Jewish musicians and conductors and the performance of Ravel's Bolero and Kaddish. A question about the age of something closes the file.
Stretches
00:00–03:46
The man mentions a newspaper or periodical published in Romanian and in Israel, and Kerler asks about a Romanian-language title that no longer exists. They talk about a visiting delegation from America (Chicago is mentioned), a director, and the actor Jacob Bodo (?), who is said to be still alive. Kerler recalls the Yiddish publishing house Criterion and a Bucharest almanac or journal. They also discuss a writer called Goldstein (Tsikl Goldshteyn?) who translated Kaddish into Romanian, and two American books both titled Kaddish.
The man tells about Ravel's Kaddish and Bolero, and about a violinist in Iași (Yas) who studied with George Enescu. According to the story he threatened to play Max Bruch's Kol Nidre instead of Kaddish in front of an antisemitic audience. They also talk about conductors and orchestras in Paris, Moscow and elsewhere, among them Nathan Rachlin (?), and about Jewish artists whom the world does not know to be Jewish.
Kerler asks about the conductor Aronovich. The man recalls Placido Domingo in Bucharest and a conductor from Baia Mare, and mentions Eugene Segal (?) of New York. Another passage concerns a famous Bradychaner (?) and Georgescu. At the end Kerler asks how old something is and the answer is given as a year, 1882(?).