This album consists of 15 neo-romantic treatments of modern Yiddish poems. The texts were all written during the 20th century, except for "Rusishe Sher," which is a new arrangement of a traditional tune. Yiddish was once the lingua franca of Eastern European (Ashkenazic) Jewry, but was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust. It is now enjoying a resurgence, as younger Jews are discovering that their cultural and religious identities can often be found within the guttural, song-like cadences of the ...   [ read more ]

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Bryn Terfel made an impressive non-opera debut on records with Something Wonderful, his album of songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Their operetta style was not so foreign from his usual work, though he also performed well on some of their more pop-oriented tunes. If Ever I Would Leave You is a logical follow-up, consisting of songs by lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, most of them written with Frederick Loewe. Loewe was also a student of Viennese operetta, and it's no surprise t...   [ read more ]

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