getting the grave for this Sam Altman will hopefully clear things up: aside from the modern tech guy, I have about 5 different old NYC musician Sam Altmans in my database and I'm not sure which one is the PMBS member. it's still not immediately obvious as birth/death dates are imprecise everywhere.🥺

#cemetery #klezmer #MusicHistory

Anyhow, Brandwein or other klez celebs like Dave Tarras or Sam Beckerman also showed up in ads or meeting minutes being hired for diverse landsmanshaftn in New York back in that era (20s-50s) when they weren't hiring their local guy. love hearing secondhand how it felt on the customer side of it🤪

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Cookie said, actually branches of her family were in the Veretskier landsmanshaft in NY and they hired Naftule Brandwein (celebrity clarinetist not at all from Nyzhni Vorota/Veretsky, he was from Przemyślany) & that he would diligently learn and play their local repertoire for them at their events.
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