Comments on: Welcome to Around the Mall http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/archives/3 A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Al Grand http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/archives/3#comment-305 Al Grand Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:33:47 +0000 http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/?p=3#comment-305 ATT: BETH PY-LIEBERMAN Dear Beth Py-Lieberman, I thought it might interest you to learn that for the past three decades I have been translating the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan into Yiddish. My Yiddish version of "The Pirates of Penzance" (a.k.a. DI YAM GAZLONIM) won a 1970 New York Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Musical. If you wish to learn more about this project I will be happy to continue this discussion with you and to send you the two dozen rave reviews (including Van Gelder's in the NY Times) of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's recent production of Yiddish "Pirates." With swashbuckling regards, Al Grand E-mail: savoyid@optonline.net http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/DYG ATT: BETH PY-LIEBERMAN

Dear Beth Py-Lieberman,

I thought it might interest you to learn that for the past three decades I have been translating the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan into Yiddish.

My Yiddish version of “The Pirates of Penzance” (a.k.a. DI YAM GAZLONIM) won a 1970 New York Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Musical.

If you wish to learn more about this project I will be happy to continue this discussion with you and to send you the two dozen rave reviews (including Van Gelder’s in the NY Times) of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater’s recent production of Yiddish “Pirates.”

With swashbuckling regards,

Al Grand

E-mail: savoyid@optonline.net

http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/DYG

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