Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1
- Album ID:
- B-138(a)
- Publisher:
- Wendy Dreskin
- Language:
- Yiddish/English
- Provenance:
- Cassette Courtesy of Wendy Dreskin, Daughter of Martin Birenbaum, July 2011
- Genre:
- Field Recording/Literary Origin/Spoken Word
- Where produced:
- USA
- Number of tracks:
- 14
- Additional notes:
- This album has not been catalogued at the title or track level.
- Penn library link:
- to be catalogued
Contents
Birnbaum Memorial / Introductory Remarks
- Genre:
- Spoken Word/Field Recording
- Subject:
- Martin Birnbaum
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36630
- Vocal:
- Unknown Speaker
- First line:
- Ikh vil aykh betn farnemen di erter, es iz faran a tsol pletser do, there are..
- First line (Yiddish):
- איך וויל אײַך בעטן פֿאַרנעמען די ערטער, עס איז פֿאָראָן אַ צאָל פּלעצער דאָ,
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 12:56
Birnbaum Memorial / Mayn Rue Plats — מײַן רוע פּלאַץ
- Author:
- Rosenfeld, Morris — ראָזענפֿעלד, מאָריס
- Genre:
- Literary Origin/Folk/Labor
- Subject:
- Factory/Sweatshop
- Song comment:
- Eng Translat from Forward - Ephemra 537
- Origin:
- ML MTAG 150/Alb Y-007(a)/Levin N 75/Belarsky 217/CD B-086(a)/Vinkov 4 33
- Transliteration:
- CD L-054(a)/CD B-086(a)/CD L-049(a)/Alb Y-007(a)/Alb L-004(a)/Levin N 75
- Translation:
- CD L-054(a)/Alb L-004(a)/Alb Y-007(a)/Alb A-036(a)/Alb K-029(e)/Vinkov 4 33/Ep
- Music:
- ML MTAG 150/Levin N 75/Belarsky 034/Alb Y-007(a)/Vinkov 4 33
- Additional song notes:
- My Resting Place / English Adaption Ephemra 537
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36638
- Vocal:
- Goldberg, Susan — גאָלדבערג, סוזען
- Vocal:
- Schlosser, Peter — שלאָסער, פּיטער
- First line:
- Nit zukh mikh, vu di mirtn grinen! Gefinst mikh dortn nit, mayn shatz,
- First line (Yiddish):
- ניט זוך מיך, װוּ די מירטן גרינען! געפֿינסט מיך דאָרטן ניט,
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Duet
- Length:
- 3:05
Birnbaum Memorial / Songs in Perspective
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- Subject:
- Martin Birbaum/Mani Leyb/Morris Rosenfeld/ Martin As Teacher
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36639
- First line:
- The purpose of this..provides an anthology, but really to give us a sense of...
- Language:
- English/Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 1:51
Birnbaum Memorial / Tevye Levine — טביה לעווין
- Author:
- Levine, Tevye — לעווין, טביה
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- Subject:
- Common Experiences/Teachers/Secular Schools/Students
- Additional song notes:
- Friend and Colleague
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36640
- First line:
- Ikh vel nit leynen keyn lider. Ikh vel redn vi a fraynd, a perzendlikher…
- First line (Yiddish):
- איך וועל ניט ליינען קײַן לידער. איך וועל רעדן ווי אַ פֿרײַנד, אַ פּערזענדליכער...
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 4:49
Birnbaum Memorial / Kh'hob Lib Amol — כ'האָב ליב אָמאָל
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- Subject:
- World Above/World Below/Complementary
- Origin:
- LVL 95
- Additional song notes:
- I Once Loved
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36641
- Vocal:
- Stefini, Peter — סטעפֿעני, פיטער
- First line:
- Kh'hob lib amol dem roysh fun ibertraybn; fun shagalish flien iber dekher...
- First line:
- כ'האָב ליב אַמאָל דעם רויש פֿון איבערטרײַבן, פֿון שאַגאַליש פֿליען איבער דעכער...
- Language:
- Yiddish/English
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 2:35
Birnbaum Memorial / Ikh Hob A Gelibter — איך האָב אַ געליבטער
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- Subject:
- Yiddish/Constant Gift/Being/Identity/Consolation/
- Origin:
- LFHUN 20
- Additional song notes:
- I have A Lover
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36642
- First line:
- Ikh hob a gelibte shoyn lang, zeyer lang! Git zi mir yedn tog a geshank.
- First line (Yiddish):
- איך האָב אַ געליבטע שוין לאַנג, זייער לאַנג! גיט זי מיר יעדן טאָג אַ געשאַנק.
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 3:25
Birnbaum Memorial / About Ikh Hob a Gelibter
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36643
- Vocal:
- Unknown Speaker
- First line:
- From an...of love, sensuous, and not until the end do we find out that it is a.
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 1:35
Birnbaum Memorial / Shnayt A Shif... — שנײַט אַ שיף אויף די כוואַליעס
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Field Recording
- Subject:
- Ship/Waves/Storm
- Additional song notes:
- Shnayt a Shif Zikh Oyf Di Qvalies
A Boat Cuts Through the Waves
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36636
- Vocal:
- Goldberg, Susan — גאָלדבערג, סוזען
- Vocal:
- Schlosser, Peter — שלאָסער, פּיטער
- Vocal:
- Schlosser, Peter — שלאָסער, פּיטער
- Vocal:
- Goldberg, Susan — גאָלדבערג, סוזען
- First line:
- Shnayt a shif zikh oyf di kvalies, un di kvalies shtygn hoykh, un es.. mit di…
- First line (Yiddish):
- שנײַנט אַ שיף אויף די כוואַליעס, און די כוואַליעס שטײַגן הויך, און עס מיט די..
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Duet
- Length:
- 3:01
Birnbaum Memorial / Lulinke Lu Lu — לולינקע לו לו
- Author:
- Leyb, Mani — לײב, מאַני
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Field Recording / Lullaby
- Additional song notes:
- Words not audible
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36637
- Vocal:
- Goldberg, Susan — גאָלדבערג, סוזען
- Vocal:
- Schlosser, Peter — שלאָסער, פּיטער
- First line:
- (Words Inaudible)
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Duet
- Length:
- 2:03
Birnbaum Memorial / The Old Poet
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- Subject:
- Poet/Aches/Creativity/Lonliness/
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36635
- Vocal:
- Levine, Sonia Lerner — לעווײַן, סאָניע לערנער
- English Adaptation:
- Barlas, Ruth — באַרלאַס, רותּ
- First line:
- His walk, no longer hurried is weighted with pain, too often now there sounds...
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 2:23
Birnbaum Memorial / Ven Ikh Vel Shoyn Zayn — ווען איך וועל שוין זײַן
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
- Genre:
- Literary Origin / Spoken Word
- Subject:
- Death/Non Existence/Unity With Nature/Continuity With Poetry
- Origin:
- LVL 48
- Additional song notes:
- When I Am No Longer
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36631
- Spoken Word:
- Piskovitsh, Sonia — פיסקאָוויטסש, סאָניע
- First line:
- Ven Ikh vel shoyn zayn, a grezl, a volkn-pintl, a bletl -- ven ikh alts zikh...
- First line (Yiddish):
- ווען איך וועל שוין זײַן אַ גרעזל, אַ וואָלקן־פּינטל, אַ בלעטל--ווען איך אַלץ..
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 1:35
Birnbaum Memorial / Poem Without Title
- Author:
- Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36632
- Vocal:
- Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
- First line:
- Es hot mayn zunekeyt farloshn un er untern brut (?) mayn otem farsloshn...
- First line (Yiddish):
- עס האָט מײַן זונעקייט פֿאַרלאָשן און ער אונטערן ברוט (?) מײַן אָטעם פֿאַרלאָשן...
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 2:30
Birnbaum Memorial / Kaddish — קדיש
- Author:
- Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36633
- Vocal:
- Glotkin, Chaim — גלאָטקין, חײַם
- First line:
- Un fun mir in mayn zunekeyt zikh ikh fun a vund shpiel...shtekhn atsind..
- First line (Yiddish):
- און פֿון מיר אין מײַן זונעקייט זיך איך פֿון אַ וווּנד שפֿיל...שטעכן אַצינד...
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 2:17
Birnbaum Memorial / Dos Lid
- Author:
- Birnbaum, Martin — ביררנבוים, מאַרטין
- Genre:
- Literary origin / Spoken Word / Field Recording / English
- Subject:
- Poem/Smile/Gold/Mother/Flood/Heart/Humanity
- Origin:
- LFHUN 27
- On album:
- B-138(a) (Martin Birenbaum / Memorial Service / Disk 1)
- Track ID:
- 36634
- Vocal/English Adaptation:
- Levine, Sonia Lerner — לעווײַן, סאָניע לערנער
- First line:
- A poem is the smile of a drowsing child, a poem is heavens golden orb,
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Spoken Word
- Length:
- 2:13