Look up artist Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Name: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Tracks with this artist
Title: Svietit Miesiatz
Also known as: Brightly Shines the Moon
Genre: Instrumental/ Dance
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32976
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Cherry, R.
Artist: Alter, Louis
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style: Instrumental
Title: Kazbek
Author: Traditional
Genre: Folk/Caucasian Love Song
Subject: Wandering, wine, women and song.
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32977
Artist: Cassen, Gerald
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Alter, Louis
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Russian
Style: Concert
Title: Along the River Volga (Medley)
Author: Traditional
Genre: Folk/Medley
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32978
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Cherry, R.
Artist: Alter, Louis
Artist: Cassen, Gerald
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment: "Notchenka," "Rassposhol," "Uchar Kupetz," "Na Poslednyouyou Pyatyorku"
Language: Russian
Style: Concert
Title: Niet Niet Nie Chotchoo
Author: Traditional
Genre: Folk/Russian Gypsy
Subject: Maiden refusing to give up the pleasures of youth.
Song Comment: Title translates: "No, No, I Do Not Want."
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32980
Artist: Lefkowitch, Henry -- לעפֿקאָװיטש, הענרי
Artist: Cassen, Gerald
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Russian
Style: Concert
Title: An Evening in Moscow (Medley)
Also known as: Vetcher V. Moskwe
Also known as: Moskowski Vetcher
Genre: Folk/Instrumental Medley
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32981
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Alter, Louis
Artist: Cherry, R.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style: Instrumental
Title: Bayoushki Bayou
Genre: Folk/Lullaby
Subject: Sleep my sad, shy one…
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32982
Artist: Cassen, Gerald
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Language: Russian
Style: Concert
Title: Sounds of Eastern Europe (Medley)
Genre: Medley of popular Yiddish song melodies.
Song Comment: Credited as "traditional" and representing different nationalities of Russia.
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32983
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Alter, Louis
Artist: Cherry, R.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style: Instrumental
Title: Korubushka -- קאָרובושקאַ
Also known as: The Village Peddler
Also known as: Yoshke Der Pedler
Genre: Russian/Folk
Additional song notes: Based upon a poem with the same name by Nikolai Alekeevich Nekrasov published in 1861
Related information in folder 883:- Comments: !. Artical from Wikipedia as of Jan 25, 2009 under title "Korobeiniki" providing historical background , and original, transliterated and tranlated lyrics of "Korubushka".
On album: A-051(a) (Louis Alter Echoes of Old Russia)
Track ID: 32984
Artist: Cassen, Gerald
Artist: Louis Alter and His Balalaika Orchestra
Artist: Alter, Louis
Artist: Cherry, R.
Audio: Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Style: Concert
Contact: yidsong@pobox.upenn.edu