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    This document provides information about the album "Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume I" including its release date, songs, composers, performers, and background context. The album features 16 songs from the American Yiddish musical stage between the 1890s-1940s, including 10 songs by composer Abraham Ellstein. It seeks to recreate the authentic style of the vibrant Yiddish theater genre through new orchestrations commissioned by the Milken Archive. The musical style draws from influences like Viennese operetta and Eastern European folk traditions.

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    This document provides information about the album "Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume I" including its release date, songs, composers, performers, and background context. The album features 16 songs from the American Yiddish musical stage between the 1890s-1940s, including 10 songs by composer Abraham Ellstein. It seeks to recreate the authentic style of the vibrant Yiddish theater genre through new orchestrations commissioned by the Milken Archive. The musical style draws from influences like Viennese operetta and Eastern European folk traditions.

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    This document provides information about the album "Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume I" including its release date, songs, composers, performers, and background context. The album features 16 songs from the American Yiddish musical stage between the 1890s-1940s, including 10 songs by composer Abraham Ellstein. It seeks to recreate the authentic style of the vibrant Yiddish theater genre through new orchestrations commissioned by the Milken Archive. The musical style draws from influences like Viennese operetta and Eastern European folk traditions.

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    GREAT SONGS OF THE YIDDISH STAGE, VOLUME I Release Date: September 23

    GREAT SONGS OF THE YIDDISH STAGE, VOLUME I CD# 8.559405 Songs by Abraham Ellstein (1907-1963) and Other Songwriters of his Circle The American Yiddish musical stage, one of the most powerful expressions of the immigrant experience, flourished as mass entertainment among large numbers of eastern European Jewish newcomers to this country from the 1890s through the 1940s. This Milken Archive disc, the first of three projected volumes, includes 16 examples of popular Yiddish theatrical song, derived primarily from the Yiddish theater that was centered on lower Manhattans Second Avenue, but also from Yiddish vaudeville, film, and radio. Many of the Yiddish theater songs come from full-length productions that alternated romantic comedy with melodrama, vaudeville routines with social comment. Many express the various romantic situations found in those plays: unrequited love, marriages of convenience, and arrangements between unlikely couples. Others were songs of disillusionment that lamented the difficulties of the new immigrants in America; and many expressed nostalgia for the old country, a sentiment more idealized than real, as most Jews had been eager to escape their poverty in Europe and were committed to their adopted new land. The goal of the Milken Archive Yiddish theater project was to re-create the authentic sound and style of this vibrant genre. The greatest challenge was that complete or authoritative orchestrations for Yiddish theater songs have not survived. Conductors of the time worked mostly from sketches, and actual arrangements were usually done after the fact for live radio or makeshift recordings. These arrangements almost always called for smaller ensembles than the actual 25-piece pit orchestras in the theaters. The Milken Archive commissioned several leading orchestrators to produce new, historically informed arrangements expressly for these multitrack recordings, based on meticulous research into ensemble size, instrumentation, and the orchestral styles of the original productions. The musical style of these songs is a unique amalgam of idioms and influences both secular and religious: Viennese operetta (one of the important sources of the Yiddish theater); Eastern European Jewish, Gypsy, and other folk motifs; and cantorial traditions and liturgical modes. Composers and arrangers also incorporated popular

    dance rhythms and melodic styles of the day, reflecting their adopted culture. Many leading personalities of the Yiddish stage were considered virtual folk heroes, and some achieved fame in the broader world of American popular culture as well. Eventually, swing versions of some Yiddish show tunes became the rage in this country, and American Yiddish theater was successfully exported to Europe and South America. Ten of the sixteen songs on this disc are by Abraham Ellstein (1907-1963), an American-born composer and arranger who, although best known for his Yiddish theater songs, was Juilliard-trained and also wrote oratorios, synagogue music, and two operas. Several of the concert and opera singers, and musical theater artists heard performing these works can trace their roots to important figures in the history of Yiddish theater. They were coached in authentic Yiddish theater style by Zalman Mlotek. Elli Jaffe conducts the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Barcelona Symphony/National Orchestra of Catalonia, with sopranos Amy Goldstein and Nell Snaidas; mezzosopranos Joanne Borts and Elizabeth Shammash; tenors Bruce Adler, Robert Bloch, Benzion Miller, and Simon Spiro; and baritone Robert Abelson. THE MILKEN ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC on NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS GREAT SONGS OF THE YIDDISH STAGE, VOLUME 1 ABRAHAM ELLSTEIN (1907-1963) & Other Songwriters of His Circle
    CD# 8.559405
    1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Der Nayer Sher (Ellstein) Oygn (Ellstein) Ikh Vil Es Hern Nokh A Mol (Ellstein ) Ikh Zing (Ellstein) Abi Gezunt (Ellstein) Zog Es Mir Nokh A Mol (Ellstein) * Di Grine Kuzine (Schwartz) Vos Geven Iz Geven Un Nito (Meyerowitz) Oy Mame, Bin Ikh Farlibt (Ellstein) Zog, Zog, Zog Es Mir (Trilling) Der Dishvasher (Yablokoff) Du Shaynst Vi Di Zun (Trilling) Vos Iz Gevorn Fun Mayn Shtetele (Ellstein) Mazl (Ellstein) Ikh Bin A "Boarder" Bay Mayn Vayb (Doctor) * Der Alter Tsigayner (Ellstein)

    Playing Time: 6233


    Simon Spiro, tenor Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano Amy Goldstein, soprano/Simon Spiro, tenor Robert Bloch, tenor Amy Goldstein, soprano Bruce Adler, tenor Joanne Borts, mezzo-soprano Simon Spiro, tenor Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano Nell Snaidas, soprano Robert Abelson, baritone Robert Bloch, tenor Nell Snaidas, soprano Benzion Miller, tenor Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano Bruce Adler, tenor Simon Spiro, tenor

    Vienna Chamber Orchestra *Barcelona Symphony / National Orchestra of Catalonia Elli Jaffe, conductor

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