Songs of the Synagogue: Cantor Joseph Boardman [sound recording]
name: label: performer
content: Boardman, Joseph
label: producer
content: Rubenstein, Sholom
notes: label: Notes
content: CDR copy Tapes FW-ASCH-0001 through FW-ASCH-10RR-0018 are (primarily) from a weekly radio show series entitled Songs of the Synagogue, aired every Sunday afternoon at 2:00 over WEVD in New York City. The tapes are all from 1960 and 1961. Each week, a different cantor is featured along with the Winston Choir, singing synagogue music, and usually a Yiddish song or Israeli song. The series is a Joseph Jacobs production, directed by Sholom Rubinstein, with music arranged and conducted by Abe Ellstein. The show is hosted by Zvee Scooler, and is sponsored primarily by Winston cigarettes. An ad for Conn Electronic Organs sometimes concludes the show. Shows begin with a steady tone for which "zero level at 400 CY." Henry Sapoznik, Yiddish radio and klezmer music authority, provided some of the above information. It is not known how or why Folkways obtained these tapes,but in 1960, Sholom Rubenstein also wrote and directed a Folkways album concerning Theordore Herzl. FW-10RR-ASCH-0012 features Cantor Joseph Boardman of Temple Bethem in Huntington, Long Island NY and was broadcast on Jan. 15, 1961. In addtion to liturgical songs, it includes the Israeli song, Havenu Shalom Alechem, and a Yiddish song, Gey Ich Mir Shpartsiren, freely translated into English.
label: Notes
content: Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), United States, New York, January 15, 1961.
label: Table of contents
content: intro--V'shomru b'nai Yisrael es ha shabbos--on a country highway--ad--Ha sh'keeveynu--Havenu Sholom Alechem--ad--Unasonet toke
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: New York
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Religious
label: Topic
content: Jewish
label: Topic
content: Judaism
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Religious services
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Jews
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-10RR-0012
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 10 in