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The [New] Haggadah = [Di Naye Hagode]

Item number (ISN):

385942

Series title:

CBC Wednesday Night

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1950-05-31

Item number (ISN):

385942

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Accession:

2007-00292-2

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1950-05-31

Release date:

1950-05-31

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

composer, Max Helfman; producer, Drew Crossan

Cast credit:

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir, Emil Gartner

Description:

Sound recording containing a complete performance by the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir (with orchestra and English-language narration) of this Yiddish-language choral work, composed by Max Helfman in 1948 in commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 and based on the epic poem Di Shotns fun Varshever Geto by the Soviet Yiddish poet Itsik Fefer. <58mn 50s>

Language:

Yiddish / English

Notes:

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1. A CBC radio schedule in the fonds indicates that Emil Gartner was to conduct this performance, and that the performance was scheduled for broadcast on 31 May 1950 as part of the series CBC Wednesday Night.~2. A press clipping in the fonds gives the full title as The New Haggadah, and the composer as Max Helfman of New York City.~3. Press clipping also indicates that the programme was to be produced at Massey Hall by the CBC's Drew Crossan.~4. LAC's collections include the CBC's original of this recording (aluminum disc format), see ISN 231809.~5. Other extent, physical details, and dimensions information: 3 audio discs; acetate, 33 1/3 rpm; 30.5 cm in diam.~6. Discs labels are marked "Canadian Transcription Service / For Reference Only / Recorded at Toronto".~7. Sound recording forms part of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir fonds (MUS 43).

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Vault ISN:

494063

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2007-00292-2/01
2007-00292-2/02
2007-00292-2/03

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ACETATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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