Muzsikas - Maramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania
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Artist: MuzsikasEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-05-04
Music Label: Hannibal
Soundtracks:
- Khosid Wedding Dances
- The Rooster Is Crowing
- Dance From Maramaros
- Lamenting Song
- Ane Maamin
- I Have Just Come From Gyula
- Farewell To Shabbat
- Jewish Dance From Szaszregen
- Hat A Jid A Wejbele
- Jewish Csardas Series From Szek
- Khosid Dance
- The Greeting Of The Bride
- Haneros Halelu
- Farewell To The Guests
Music reviews of Maramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania
Music Review: Beautiful music, not all of it "lost"
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a fine performance of some beautiful Old World Jewish melodies. As the very complete liner notes explain, most Eastern European musicians in the pre-Holocaust world knew both Jewish and non-Jewish music, because they would play at all kinds of events for both communities. Sadly, the Jewish musicians who played this music perished in the Holocaust, but the music was remembered by non-Jewish musicians and later collected. Hence the reference to "lost" music. However, some of it is not really as "lost" as the notes imply. For example, "Ani Maamin" is well-known among Jews in the USA and is almost always sung at Holocaust Remembrance Day services. The words (not sung here -- the CD is instrumental) are from Maimonides (12th century) and the tune is attributed to the Breslover Hasidim, whose 18th-century Rebbe, Nachman of Breslov, taught them never to despair under any circumstances. Because of this theme, the tune later became popular in the concentration camps and among the resistance fighters. Hence the current association with the Holocaust.There are other pieces on this CD that I've heard at Jewish weddings, long before this CD came out. In short, the music may have been lost in Eastern Europe, but much of it had already crossed the Atlantic before the Holocaust. I found myself wondering if the ethnographers who collected this were familiar with the American Jewish community. Nevertheless, what makes this CD special is the performance itself, which is based on the Hungarian/gypsy style, rather than the "Americanized" versions. It's definitely worth buying.
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