- Format
- Musical sound recording
- Author/Creator
- Lishner, Leon, 1913-1995.
- Published
- [U.S.] : Centaur, [1994]
℗1994
- Contents
-
Es brent = Our town is burning (3:46)
Gehat hob ikh a heym = I once had a home (3:10)
Geto = Ghetto (3:52)
Motele fun Varshever geto = Motele of the Warsaw ghetto (8:43)
Der hoyfzinger fun Varshever geto = The streetsinger of the Warsaw ghetto (2:34)
Treblinka (2:18)
Tsvey taybelech = Two doves : old love song (3:04)
Unter di Poylishe grininke beymelekh = Under the little green Polish trees (2:57)
A Yiddish kind = A Jewish child (3:47)
Ani mamin (1:01)
Yidn zingen Ani mamin = Jews are singing Ani mamin (3:17)
Four Terezin songs. Wild geese (2:23) ; Bamboo grove (2:00) ; The moon far away from home (4:38) ; Wakeful night (3:12)
Minutn fun bitochn = Moments of hope (2:40)
Babi yar (4:10)
Yeder ruft mikh Zhamele = They call me Zhamele (2:10)
Shtiler, shtiler = Quiet, quiet (2:09)
S'dremlen feygl = Birds are dreaming (3:30)
Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray = It's one, two, three (2:02)
Dos elnte kind = The lonely child (1:58)
Itzik vitenberg (2:06)
Es vet zikh fun tsvaygl tseblien a boym = From a twig a tree will bloom (2:52)
Yugnt himen = Hymn of youth (1:51)
Shtil di nacht = Still the night (3:26)
Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letztn veg = Never say that you are going on the last road (1:59).
- Other Authors/Editors
- Osipov, Claire, singer.
Strauss, Melvin, instrumentalist.
Sheppard, Craig, 1947- instrumentalist.
Rourke, Ethan, singer.
Sanders, Allan, instrumentalist.
Dan, Robert, instrumentalist.
Taub, Paul, instrumentalist.
Seattle Peace Theatre Singers, performer.
- Notes
-
Principally from the volume We are here : songs of the Holcaust [sic] / compiled by Eleanor Mlotek and Malke Gottlieb. [S.l.] : Workmen's Circle, [n.d.].
Compact disc.
Program notes and English translations of texts (11 p. : port.) inserted in container.
Es brent = Our town is burning (3:46) -- Gehat hob ikh a heym = I once had a home (3:10) -- Geto = Ghetto (3:52) -- Motele fun Varshever geto = Motele of the Warsaw ghetto (8:43) -- Der hoyfzinger fun Varshever geto = The streetsinger of the Warsaw ghetto (2:34) -- Treblinka (2:18) -- Tsvey taybelech = Two doves : old love song (3:04) -- Unter di Poylishe grininke beymelekh = Under the little green Polish trees (2:57) -- A Yiddish kind = A Jewish child (3:47) -- Ani mamin (1:01) -- Yidn zingen Ani mamin = Jews are singing Ani mamin (3:17) -- Four Terezin songs. Wild geese (2:23) ; Bamboo grove (2:00) ; The moon far away from home (4:38) ; Wakeful night (3:12) -- Minutn fun bitochn = Moments of hope (2:40) -- Babi yar (4:10) -- Yeder ruft mikh Zhamele = They call me Zhamele (2:10) -- Shtiler, shtiler = Quiet, quiet (2:09) -- S'dremlen feygl = Birds are dreaming (3:30) -- Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray = It's one, two, three (2:02) -- Dos elnte kind = The lonely child (1:58) -- Itzik vitenberg (2:06) -- Es vet zikh fun tsvaygl tseblien a boym = From a twig a tree will bloom (2:52) -- Yugnt himen = Hymn of youth (1:51) -- Shtil di nacht = Still the night (3:26) -- Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letztn veg = Never say that you are going on the last road (1:59).
Featuring Leon Lishner, bass. With, variously: Claire Osipov, soprano ; Melvin Strauss or Craig Sheppard, piano ; Ethan Rourke, boy soprano ; Allan Sanders, accordion ; Robert Dan, guitar ; Paul Taub, flute, recorder ; Seattle Peace Theatre Singers.
Recorded June 1994, at Meany Theater, University of Washington, Seattle.
Sung principally in Yiddish ; the 12th-15th works sung in Czech.
