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Once in a generation there is born duct of folk inspiration. It was writ- Then, as now, the niece introductory
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to the world a song of such beauty ten by a man who for almost 20 years measures, scraped out by the wretched
and heart appeal that it is instinctive- has remained in ignorance of the tre- Windsor theater orchestra, was the
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ly placed in the category of the folk- mendous vogue of his song, by Jacob signal for a demonstration on the part
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songs of the nations. No one is great- Kopel Sandler, a former music direc- of the audience.
After "Brodie" had run its course
ly interested to know who is the au- tor in the Yiddish theaters.
thor of that song. It seems as if the
Here in the history of "Eili Eili" and Sandler was slaving away at
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song "just grew" from nature, as the and its composer. Twenty-nine years songs for other productions, a Mr. I .
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trees of the forest and the perfumed ago Sandler was the music director at Rumshinsky, now the music-maker
flowers blooming under the radiance the old Windsor thearter where a Yid- for the Boris Thomashevsky vulgari-
of a summer sun.
dish company, headed by the noted ties, asked permission to arrange "Eili
Eili" for voice and piano and publish
"Home, Sweet Ilome" was written Mogulesco, were presenting Yiddish it. Sandler is a very generous hearted
for the old English opera, "Clan" by plays. Those days were not very pros- man. He is a type of the old Euro-
Sir Henry Bishop. Yet whoever perous ones for the Yiddish theater pean Jewish gentleman who has been
thinks of "Home, Sweet Home" as an and Sandler's salary ranged from $8 reared in the midst of a devout and
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operatic aria? How many even think to $10 a week. Sandler remembers scholarly Jewish family. His musical
of Bishop in connection with it? The that when he once happened to play ambition brought him to America, but
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simp'e beauty of "Home, Sweet Home" with Thomashefsky (the father o even when living in the crude atmos-
has transformed it into a folk song- Boris) In Philadelphia, his salary was phere of the Jewish stage of that time
still
lower.
In
fact,
it
was
no
salary
s legacy of the people.
at all, for business was slow and the he never assimilated the character or
When Rosa Raisa's accompanist be- exchequer empty. To obtain money manner of the Jewish actors. Think-
gins the first strains of "Eili, Eili" for his fare to New York, Sandler was ing that the song might bring in a few
and tumultous applause breaks out forced to withhold the orchestra parts
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from the audience, is there anyone for a certain performance 15 minutes
among that audience who stops to before the curtain went up. The man-
think who wrote "Eili, Eili"? We all aster was frantic with rage when he
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nation of both, so much has the song the necessary $15.
endeared itself to the hearts of the
During the month of March, 1896,
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people. But in no thinking we have the management of the Windsor thea-
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created one of the pathetic tragedies ter undertook to produce a historical
in music. For "Eili, Eili" is not a pro- drama entitled "Die 11'ne Moishe"
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(The Sons of Moses) dealing with the
Chinese Jews. It was intended that
this play should run all through the
Passover holidays and much money
had been invested in costumes and set-
tings. It was, therefore, a terrible
disappointment for all concerned when
"The Sons of Moses" fell flat and the
company found themselves without
either a play or money. The Passover
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was pressed into service and commis-
sioned to produce a play within a
week. Immediately, before he had
even written a line of the play, Horo-
witz directed Sandler to prepare a few
songs for the coming production. For
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through the night he struggled to find
a theme and he was about to give up
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the first lines of the second verse of
the Twenty-second Psalm. It seemed
that these words were ideal for the
purpose. He also remembered that in
the ill-fated "B'ne Moishe" he had
written a song for Mr. Carp (the fath-
er of Sophie Carp. the popular Yid-
dish actress and singer) and that the
melody of this song would lend itself
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