Talk:Fanny Gordon

reference one
I see somebody has said my first reference does not contain the information I cited. If you look in the biography below the video you will find the following, which does include the claim that she was the only woman among the light music composers:

Indie (India) Tango from the Operetta "Jacht miłości" (Yacht Of Love) (Muz. Fanny Gordon /Tekst: Krzewiński, Brodziński) - Tadeusz Faliszewski z Orkiestrą Syrena Rekord, Syrena-Electro 1933

NOTE: Composer Fanny GORDON (née Faiga Jofé ) was born in 1914 in Sankt Petersburg, Russia. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 family Jofé emigrated to Poland. Faiga - who wrote poems and in spite of her lack of musical education, also composed - started her cooperation with the cabarets and music theatres in Warsaw. Her parody of the Russian romance „Przy samowarze" ("U Samovara" http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=nGmUSCz... ) - having its first, temperamental, presentation by Zula Pogorzelska and Tadeusz Olsza in the „Morskie Oko" revue theatre - immediately became an international hit, recorded by numerous German and American dance bands. This, as well as being the only woman among the light music composers in Poland - assured Fanny Gordon the exceptional artistical position, confirmed by the seriers of her successful compositions: tango „Skrwawione serce" (My Bleeding Heart) sung by Polish „queen of tango" Stanisława Nowicka, foxtrot „Abdul Bey" based upon the oriental motifs, Russian-fox „Siemieczki" ( http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=wiQXF-q... )called „another Bublitshki", as well as one more great tango „Nietoperze" (The Bats) with excellent, weird and double entendre text about the big city night love hunters, written by Szer-Szeń (pseudonym of the prominent Polish poet, Jan Brzechwa) or the awesome apache-waltz "Party at the Old Josel's" (known also under the title "Party At the Dung Lane" http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=1f4bcvi... ). In 1933, she wrote for the theatre „8.30" the operetta „Jacht miłości" (Yacht of Love) with at least one song that was another great success of her: tango „Indie" (India). The operetta was also performed in Holland and in United States under the title „New York Baby". Ever since that smashingly successful premiere until the outbreak of World War 2, Fanny Gordon stayed alternately in Warsaw and in USA, to get trapped in Warsaw just on the day of the 1 of September 1939, when it was too late to leave Europe. She and her mother (Fanny's father, Mark, died before the war) managed, however, to flee from the bombed city up to Wilno in north-east Poland, and farther, via Latvija and through the Finnish border, to Leningrad. Fanny survived the 900-days terrible siege of Leningrad and the plague of hunger, that killed millon inhabitants, including Faiga's mother. After 1945 Fanny Gordon did not return to Poland. That formerly, queen of Warsaw salons in the 1930s, now under alternated name Fieofania Markovna Kwiatkowskaja, continued her composer's career. Many of her songs were recorded and publicly performed in the USSR, as well as her musicals and stage arrangements. She died in Leningrad, in 1991. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jane Peppler (talk • contribs) 23:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The problem is that we do not know who wrote that, how reliable the info is etc. I think the info is accurate enough but it would be nice if we could find actual published sources to back it up.Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Pod samowarem
It seems that the Polish title is "Pod samowarem", because such words are in text. It's not standard Polish now but the world around 1930 was different.Xx236 (talk) 10:04, 3 March 2011 (UTC)