"When the 1936 #Polish #Yiddish feature #AlKhet (I Have Sinned) screened at the #NewYork #Jewish #FilmFestival last month after a decades-long restoration process, seeing the #film was cause for celebration.

Hearing the soundtrack was my greatest joy. It was scored by one of my favorite Yiddish #composers, #HenokhKon, who created the #music for the 1937 film classic #TheDybbuk. In his heyday between the world wars, #Kon was already renowned as a prolific creator of catchy #songs and sophisticated multi-genre instrumental repertoire, even years before his first film commissions.

My ears perk up for Kon’s distinctive, eclectic sound textures (as well as ingenious folk-stylized #song repertoire) — from the iconic #dance sequences of The #Dybbuk, to angst-driven passages in the #Bundist quasi-#documentary #MirKumenOn (called Children Must Laugh in English), to darkly ironic background cues for the low-budget #FreylekheKabtsonim (Jolly Paupers).

I heard a signature..."

https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/rediscovering-the-dybbuk-composer-henokh-kon/