Alexander Olshanetsky

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Alexander "Alex" Olshanetsky (Yiddish: אַלעקסאַנדער אָלשאַנעצקי, Polish: Aleksander Olszan(i)ecki, Russian: Александр Ольшанецкий, 1892, Odessa - 1946) was an Ukraine-born US composer.

He worked with Peretz Sandler in the Russian Army.

In 1922, he moved to United States.

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[edit] Musical works

"Der katerinshtshik" ((= Leiermann), The Organ-grinder; a musical comedy, played in 1933-1934 at the David Kessler (Yiddish: )'s Second Avenue Theater (Yiddish: ); lyrics by Chaim Tauber (1901-1972), book by Louis Freiman; A lovestory among Jews and camping Romas in Poland; The casts are Julius Nathanson, Annie Thomashevsky, Luba Kadison)
- "Ikh hob dikh tsufil lib" (Ich hab' dich zuviel lieb, I Love You Too Much; In 1940, recorded by Bob Zurke, later Gene Krupa, Ella Fitzgerald, Chazzan Pinchas Perelmuth, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Fred Waring, and the Pennsylvanians.. etc.)

"Di eyntsike nakht" (Die einzige Nacht, The One and Only Night; The operetta, first produced in 1929 at the Downtown National Theater (NYC), lyrics by Jacob Jacobs, book by Abraham Bloom)
- "Eyn kuk oyf dir" (Ein Kuck (Guck) auf dir, Just One Look at You; , 1; )
- "Az got iz mit mir" (Az Gott is' mit mir; When God is With Me)

"Der letster tants" (Der letzter Tanz, The Last Dance; produced in 1930 at the Prospect Theater in the Bronx, lyrics by Isidore Lillian (1882-1960), Israel Rosenberg, Bella Meisel, book by Louis Freiman; )
- "Glik" (Glück, Happiness; lyrics by Bella Meisel; introduced in that production by Michal Michalesko (1885/1888?-1957))

"In gortn fun libe" (In Garten von Liebe, In the Garden of Love; , 1; ; sung by William Seigel and Harry Kalmanowitz)
- "A gute heym" (A Gute Heim, A Good Home)

"Vos meydlekh tun" (Was Mäd'l'n tun, What Girls Do; operetta, produced in 1935 at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater; lyrics by Jacob Jacobs, with a book by William Siegel; played by Molly Picon, Muni Serebrov, and produced by Jacob Kalich ((Molly Picon)'s husband))
- "Nu, zog mir shoyn ven" (Ну, sag' mir schon wenn, So Just Tell Me When, Already; , 1; )

"Der vilna shtot khazn: Overture to Glory" (Der Wilna Stadt Chazzān, Vilna City Cantor; a Yiddish film, 1940; was very loosely on the fragmentary evidence concerning the life of Chazzan Joj'el Dowid Löwensohn, der vilner balabesl ("Der Wilner Ba‘al-Bajith'l, the young-master of Vilnius") (1816, Latvia - 1850, Warsaw?), played and lyrics by Chazzan Mojsze Ojszer)
- "Unter beymer" (Unter Bäümer, Beneath the Trees; a lullaby)

"A ganeydn far tsvey" (A Gan-‘Ēd'n für Zwei, A Paradise ('Eden) for Two; lyrics by Jacob Jacobs, with a book by Joseph Lateiner, William Siegel, 1928, produced at the National Theater, NYC; played by Jacob Jacobs as "Mendel Telebende", Bette Jacobs (wife of J. Jacobs) as "Khana-Tsipe")
- "Ikh bin farlibt" (Ich bin verliebt, I'm in Love; sung by "Leybke un' Fanitshke")

"Ale viln khasene hobn" (Alle willen Chăthunnāh haben; Everyone Wants to Get Married, his last operetta, 19xx)

[edit] See also

"Big Four"

Abraham Ellstein ();
Joseph Rumshinsky ();
Shalom Secunda (1894, Aleksandriya, Kherson guberniya, Ukraine - 1974);

Other musicians

Herman Wohl (1877, Ottynia, Galicia, Ukraine - 1936)
- and; Arnold Perlmutter (1859 - 1953)
Louis Gilrod (1879, Poltava guberniya, Ukraine - 1930);
Ilia Trilling (1895 - 1947);
Peretz Sandler ( - , USA)
Yitzhak Kaplan ()
Herman Meisel, Bella Meisel (Mysell)
Chazzan Mojsze Ojszer (1907, Bessarabia - 1958, USA)
Jacob Jacobs
Joseph Lateiner
William Siegel
Harry Kalmanowitz