Overview
- Variant Title
- Songs of Jewish life from the shtetl to the resistance
- Format
- Musical sound recording
- Published
- Albany, NY : Albany Records, [2004]
- Contents
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Un az der rebe zingt = When the rabbi sings (3:39)
Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds / music and text, Abraham Goldfaden (3:11)
Partizaner-libe = Partisan love (3:40)
Chassidisch = Chassidish song (1:54)
Bachuri le'an tisa = My boy, where will you go? (1:55)
Tavo-u el ha'arets = When you come to the land (1:47)
A geneyve! = A robbery! (2:19)
Sha shtil = Sh! be still (2:10)
Der rebe Elimelekh = The rabbi Elimelech (2:36)
Dortn, dortn = Far off across the water (2:45)
Tumbalalayka = Play, balalaika (2:45)
Du zolst nit geyn = Do not go with other gossipy girls (1:31)
Troyer past nisht unzer ponim = Sorrow does not suit our faces / text, Itsik Fefer ; music, Elya Taytelboym (2:22)
Eliahu hanavi = Elijah, the prophet (1:42)
Nit ayer mazl = It's not your fate / text and music, Shaul Shenker (3:57)
Yome, Yome = What does the maiden want (1:51)
Di mezinke = The youngest daughter (2:29)
S'brent = It's burning! / text, Mordekhai Gibertig (3:30)
Hala yarden = Flow on, Jordan (1:35)
A gib zhe khaver = Give me a smoke, my friend / text, Ilya Frankel and Shmerke Kaczerginski ; music, Modest Tabchnikov (3;17)
S'dremlen feygl = Birds are sleeping on the branches / text, Lea Rudnitsky ; music, Gerbirtig, Yampolsky (3:11)
Tsum besern morgn = Toward a better tomorrow / text, Kasriel Brodo (2:14)
Shtil di nakht = The night is silent / Hersh Glik (2:27)
Yiddishe brigades = Jewish brigades (3:25)
Zog nit keynmol = Never say that you are on the last road / text, Hersh Glik ; music adapted from Pokras (2:44). - Notes
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Principally Jewish folk songs performed by mixed chorus, in part with instrumental acc.
Principally arr. by Robert De Cormier; some selections arr. by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Zigmund Schul, and Gene Glickman.
Compact disc.
Program notes in English and texts in Yiddish or Hebrew with English translations ([28] p. : ill., port.) inserted in container.
Un az der rebe zingt = When the rabbi sings (3:39) -- Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds / music and text, Abraham Goldfaden (3:11) -- Partizaner-libe = Partisan love (3:40) -- Chassidisch = Chassidish song (1:54) -- Bachuri le'an tisa = My boy, where will you go? (1:55) -- Tavo-u el ha'arets = When you come to the land (1:47) -- A geneyve! = A robbery! (2:19) -- Sha shtil = Sh! be still (2:10) -- Der rebe Elimelekh = The rabbi Elimelech (2:36) -- Dortn, dortn = Far off across the water (2:45) -- Tumbalalayka = Play, balalaika (2:45) -- Du zolst nit geyn = Do not go with other gossipy girls (1:31) -- Troyer past nisht unzer ponim = Sorrow does not suit our faces / text, Itsik Fefer ; music, Elya Taytelboym (2:22) -- Eliahu hanavi = Elijah, the prophet (1:42) -- Nit ayer mazl = It's not your fate / text and music, Shaul Shenker (3:57) -- Yome, Yome = What does the maiden want (1:51) -- Di mezinke = The youngest daughter (2:29) -- S'brent = It's burning! / text, Mordekhai Gibertig (3:30) -- Hala yarden = Flow on, Jordan (1:35) -- A gib zhe khaver = Give me a smoke, my friend / text, Ilya Frankel and Shmerke Kaczerginski ; music, Modest Tabchnikov (3;17) -- S'dremlen feygl = Birds are sleeping on the branches / text, Lea Rudnitsky ; music, Gerbirtig, Yampolsky (3:11) -- Tsum besern morgn = Toward a better tomorrow / text, Kasriel Brodo (2:14) -- Shtil di nakht = The night is silent / Hersh Glik (2:27) -- Yiddishe brigades = Jewish brigades (3:25) -- Zog nit keynmol = Never say that you are on the last road / text, Hersh Glik ; music adapted from Pokras (2:44).
Counterpoint ; instrumental ensemble (Karen Kevra, flute ; Katherine Matasy, clarinet, accordion ; Gene White, Jr., mandolin, violin ; John Muratore, guitar ; Don Baldini, bass ; Tom Toner, percussion) ; Robert De Cormier, conductor.
Recorded at UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, Vt., July 26-27, 2003.
Sung in Yiddish or Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Physical Description
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Jews--Music. Folk songs, Yiddish. Folk songs, Hebrew. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Songs and music. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied. Sound recordings. Folk music. Music. Songs.
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