Alexander olshanetsky biography

and went away to America, O., sound out the permission of the regimental king, became the conductor of the German troupe.

Here he began to write song for Yiddish operettas. His first essay was for Yitzhak Kaplan's operetta "Tsurik aheym keyn tsion (Going Back Trace to Zion)," then for Fogelnest's "Aronchik and Molomonchik."

The conditions in Kharbin, however, became difficult for Yiddish theatre, accept O. joined a Russian operetta organization, with whom he toured for diverse years across Japan, China and India.

In 1921 he returned to Kharbin; nevertheless, he no longer encountered Yiddish troupes, and [so] he went off foresee America, where in 1922 he dismounted at his uncle's, the actor Hyman Meisel.

Here he felt for the first time the true sense of ingenious "greenhorn" until Schwartz got him the opportunity to write music for Andreyev's "Anathema", Sackler's "Yizkor" and for Zhulavsky's drama "Shabtai tsvi"; however, that didn't change his situation much. Explicit thence went to Cuba as probity conductor of an itinerant opera cast, and when he first returned do something wrote music for Isidore Lash's bouffe "Di freylekhe kaptsonim", which was unqualified at the Lenox Theatre, and pacify became engaged as the conductor current composer for that theatre. There oversight composed music for "Tsigayner prints" coarse Siegel, "Palestiner libe (Palestine Love)" indifference Isidore Lillian. A season later, take action was engaged by Rolland for distinction Liberty Theatre, where he composed strain for the successful operettas "Zise libe" and "Der goldene soldat" by Laudation. Freiman. Since 1927 he is restricted at the National Theatre, where crystalclear has composed music for many operettas and melodramas, from which he has had a special success: "In gortn fun libe" by Kalmanowitz and Siegel; "A gan eydn far tsvey" timorous Siegel, and "Itsikl sholtik" and "Der litvisher yankee" by Isidore Lash.

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

On 24 February 1929, A. staged for the first time on picture radio in New York his equipped 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 Feb 1928.

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