‘Oy, how he sung!’: Journeys in Jewish Choral Music
Concert of Jewish choral music from Cape Town and Helsinki, performed during 'Out of the Shadows', Madison, May 2016
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This program of Jewish choral music represents the migration of musicians and their art from Russia to the peripheries of the Jewish world at the start of the twentieth century. It features Yiddish folksongs by Helsinki-born Simon Parmet who trained in St. Petersburg but subsequently migrated to Berlin, New York, and back to Helsinki; and sacred music from three parts of the Russian Empire—Rostov-on-Don, Odessa, and Warsaw—that ended up in Cape Town, South Africa via the travels of two important but hitherto unknown cantor-composers. This program is the result of archival research by Simo Muir (Helsinki material) and Steve Muir (Cape Town material).
University of Wisconsin–Madison Madrigal Singers conducted by Sara Guttenberg
University of Wisconsin–Madison Concert Choir conducted by Beverly Taylor
Program
Ten Yiddish Folksongs
Arr. Simon Parmet (1897-1969)
Shteyt zikh a sheyn meydele (A beautiful girl is standing)
In mizrakh-zayt (On the eastern side)
Iz gekumen der feter Nosn (Uncle Nathan arrived)
Hob ikh a por oksn (I have two oxen)
Der khazn – The cantor
Arr. Simon Parmet (1897-1969)
V’SHOMRU – THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH
David Nowakowsky (1848-1921)
MOGEN AVOS (SHIELD OF OUR FATHERS)
Josef Gottbeter (dates unknown)
V’SHOMRU – THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH
Froim Spektor (1888–1948)
MOH OSCHIW (HOW CAN I REPAY THE
ETERNAL ONE?)
Josef Gottbeter (dates unknown)
Concert Choir
CHAD GADYA (ONE LITTLE GOAT),
PASSOVER CANTATA
Dowid Ajzensztadt (1890–1942)
Allegro scherzando
Talmudic intermezzo
Largo
Andante maestoso
Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers
String Quartet:
Biffa Kwok, Violin
Thalia Coombs, Violin
Blakeley Menghini, Viola
Andrew Briggs, Cello
