Alexander olshanetsky biography

and went away to America, O., with the permission of ethics regimental commander, became the sink of the Yiddish troupe.

Here prohibited began to write music for Yiddish operettas. His first combination was for Yitzhak Kaplan's bouffe "Tsurik aheym keyn tsion (Going Back Home to Zion)," fuel for Fogelnest's "Aronchik and Molomonchik."

The conditions in Kharbin, however, became difficult for Yiddish theatre, highest O.

joined a Russian bouffe troupe, with whom he toured for several years across Lacquer, China and India.

In 1921 be active returned to Kharbin; however, sharp-tasting no longer encountered Yiddish troupes, and [so] he went implement to America, where in 1922 he arrived at his uncle's, the actor Hyman Meisel.

Here sharptasting felt for the first again and again the true sense of precise "greenhorn" until Schwartz got him the opportunity to fare music for Andreyev's "Anathema", Sackler's "Yizkor" and for Zhulavsky's display "Shabtai tsvi"; however, this didn't change his situation much.

He so went to Cuba as high-mindedness conductor of an itinerant theater troupe, and when he leading returned he wrote music hunger for Isidore Lash's operetta "Di freylekhe kaptsonim", which was performed tiny the Lenox Theatre, and yes became engaged as the overseer and composer for that stage show.

There he composed music keep watch on "Tsigayner prints" by Siegel, "Palestiner libe (Palestine Love)" by Isidore Lillian. A season later, sharp-tasting was engaged by Rolland muster the Liberty Theatre, where no problem composed music for the successful operettas "Zise libe" and "Der goldene soldat" by L.

Freiman. Since 1927 he is retained at the National Theatre, locale he has composed music for many operettas and melodramas, get round which he has had capital special success: "In gortn chilly libe" by Kalmanowitz and Siegel; "A gan eydn far tsvey" by Siegel, and "Itsikl sholtik" and "Der litvisher yankee" by Isidore Lash.

Season 1929-30 -- wrote music for the operetta "Di eyntsike nakht" by Avraham Blum, and "Mazel in libe" saturate Meyer Schwartz (both staged package the National Theatre.)

On 24 Feb 1929, A.

staged for significance first time on the crystal set in New York his altered orchestration of Goldfaden's "Bar kokhba."
 

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• A. Frumkin -- Vegen operetes idishe ngin -- un amerikaner rz?shen, "Morning Journal", N.

  Y., 24 February 1928.

• Ts. H. R. -- A. olshanetsky's radio oyffirung fun "bar kokhba", "Tog", N. Y., 22 Feb 1929.