Recording Moe Asch's Musical Kingdom: How a Yiddish Giant's Son

From: Forward | Date: November 13, 1998 | Copyright information

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11-13-1998
Recording Moe Asch's Musical Kingdom: How a Yiddish Giant's Son Became a Folk Music Impresario; Making People's Music; Moe Asch and Folkways Records

On a warm spring day in 1977, I hesitantly made my way up the stairs of a building on West 61st Street that housed the offices of Folkways Records. I was there to see its founder, Moe Asch, and convince him to reissue some classic 78-rpm recordings of klezmer music.

At the time, Folkways was the company most likely to release this first anthology of rare Yiddish dance 78s. After all, Folkways had issued the music of Pete ...

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