Music Group 2025-06-19 Klezmer

This week's playlist was provided by Lewis.

       Aveinu Shalom Alechem

Performed by Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra. Klezmer with a Spanish twist.

       Yiddish Theater

Leonard Nimoy talks briefly about Yiddish Theater, followed by Di Grine Kuzine, vocal by Joanne Borats.

       Russiche Shehr — Abe Schwartz

A Russian Shehr performed by the Abe Schwartz Orchestra in the 1920's.

       Hurra! Far Unzer Held Levine — Abe Schwartz

"Horay! For our Hero Levine", apparently because he makes a trip to America and around the world in an aeroplane. The tune at the beginning is "Hatikvah". Lyrics in Yiddish and English appear on the linked page below the video itself.

       Romanian Doina — Abe Schwartz

A Romanian Doina.

       Odessa Bulgar — Milos Nikolic, clarinet

A Jewish-Ukranian Bulgar arranged by Abe Schwartz and performed by Milos Nikolic.

       Night and Daybreak — Lewis Berman

A dual-cello tribute to Abe Schwartz's "At the Beginning and Daybreak". Performed by Jason Love and ELzabeth Davis.

       At the Beginning and Daybreak — Abe Schwartz

I suppose this is the closest that Klezmer gets to being "serious composition". Tune fragment at 00:25 is lifted from the Ashkenazi Jewish service.