Yiddish Songs & Theater

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Karen Fried full profile / Voice and Ukulele / 1 musician

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American Theater:
Somewhere over the rainbow - Arlen
Stormy Weather - Berlin
Someone to watch over me - Gershwin
Make believe - Kern
Edelweiss - Rogers and Hammerstein

Yiddish Folk Songs:
shtiler, shtiler (Quiet, quiet) - Lullaby written in the Vilna Ghetto to comfort a child.
Gip a broke tsu dayn kind (Give a blessing to your child) - A song written in a Ghetto in Poland. A child asking for a blessing from their mother.
Under Dayne vayse shtern (Under your white stars) - A song from the Vilna Ghetto asking god for comfort.
Vu Ahin Zol ikh geyn (Where shall I go) - A song that was popular throughout the Ghettos that asks where shall I go when it is not safe to be a Jew.

Historical context

I have two sections on my program, one is Yiddish Folk music written during the time of WWII. There are beautiful and haunting melodies written by young and older Jews. Including an 11 year old boy who won an award for the gorgeous melody of Shtiler, shtiler in the Vilna Ghetto.

My second section features songs from the American Theater repertoire. All the songs I’ve chosen are written by Jewish American composers. Many of these songs are from popular musicals and movie musicals!

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