As dreams fall apart : the golden age of Jewish stage and film music, 1925-1955.

Format
Audio
Language
  • Multiple languages
  • German
  • English
  • Yiddish
Published/​Created
  • Chicago, IL : Cedille, [2014]
  • ℗2014
Description
1 online resource (1 audio file)

Availability

Available Online

Details

Subject(s)
Performer
Arranger of music
Conductor
Instrumentalist
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Contains
Creation/​Production credits
Jim Ginsburg, producer.
Time and place of event
Recorded 2014 March 10, 11, 13, 14 Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio, WFMT Chicago.
Source of description
Hard copy version record.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
New Budapest Orpheum Society (Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano ; Philip Bohlman, artistic director, narrator ; Stewart Figa, baritone ; Danny Howard, percussion ; Iordanka Kissiova, violin ; Mark Sonksen, bass ; Don Stille, accordion ; Ilya Levinson, music director, arranger, piano).
Language note
Sung in German, Yiddish, English, and Viennese dialect.
Contents
  • On the shores of Utopia. Die koschere mischpoche! = The kosher family / Viennese broadside (2:24) ; Maz'l = Good fortune / Abraham Ellstein, Molly Picon (2:45) ; Dos pintele yid = The quintessential Jew / Arnold Perlmutter, Herman Wohl, Louis Gilrod (2:29)
  • Dreams from yesterday and tomorrow. From Die Herzogin von Chicago = The duchess of Chicago : 1928. Wir Ladies aus Amerika = We ladies from America / Emmerich Kálman ; libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald (3:02) ; from The constant nymph : 1943. Tomorrow / Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Margaret Kennedy (4:20) ; from Die Blume von Hawai'i : 1931. Kann nicht küssen ohne Liebe = Without love there are no kisses / Paul Abraham, Alfred Grünwald, Fritz Löhner-Beda (3:22)
  • Dreamworlds. Die Novaks aus Prag = The Novaks from Prague / Hermann Leopoldi, Kurt Robitschek (3:56) ; Composers' revolution in heaven / Hermann Leopoldi, Robert Gilbert (4:44) ; Money macht froh! = Money makes you happy! / Hermann Leopoldi, Theodor Waldau (3:59)
  • Between Traum and trauma. Theresienstadt potpourri : Aus der Familie der Sträusse = From the Strauss family / Leo Strauss, piano concept by Ilya Levinson (5:55) ; from Solo-cantata. Immer inmitten... = Forever on the way... (2:34) ; Vor der Ewigkeit = Before eternity (4:21) / Viktor Ullmann ; poems by Hans Günter Adler --
  • Rauschtraum. Café Brasil = Café Brazil / Hermann Leopoldi, Peter Herz, Erwin Spahn ; English lyrics by Stewart Figa (2:54) ; I bin a stiller Zecher = I'm a quiet boozer / Hermann Leopoldi, Salpeter (4:15) ; Wenn der Ungar lustig ist...! = If the Hungarian is happy...! / Hermann Leopoldi, Salpeter (Karl Pollach), Berndt-Hofer (4:56)
  • Viennese Träumerei. In einem kleinen Café in Hernals = In a little café in Hernals (3:06) ; Wo der Teufel gute Nacht sagt = Where the devil says good night (3:49) / Hermann Leopoldi, Peter Herz
  • Dreams of stardom. A brivele der mam'n = A letter from Mother / Solomon Shmulowitz (2:39) ; from Bar mitzvah : 1935. Erlekh zayn = Be virtuous / Boris Thomashefsky, Philip Laskowsy (3:11)
  • Hollywood elegy. Five elegies from the Hollywooder Liederbuch = Hollywood songbook : 1942-43. Unter den grünen Pfefferbäumen = Under the green pepper trees ; Die Stadt ist nach den Engeln genannt = The city is named after the angels ; Jeden Morgen, mein Brot zu verdienen = In order to earn my daily bread each morning ; Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt = This city taught me. In den Hügeln wird Gold gefunden = Gold is found in the hills / Hanns Eisler, Bertolt Brecht (5:39) ; from the Hollywood songbook. L'automne californien = Autumn in California / Hanns Eisler, Berthold Viertel (2:42)
  • Future dreams. Friling = Springtime / Avrom Brudno, Shmerke Kaczerginski (3:45) ; from the film, Mamele : 1938. Ikh zing = I sing / Abraham Ellstein, Molly Picon (3:25)
  • From the ruins of dystopia. From Billy Wilder's A foreign affair : 1948. Black market (4:13) ; Illusions (3:37) ; The ruins of Berlin (2:34) / Friedrich Holländer.
Other title(s)
Golden age of Jewish stage and film music, 1925-1955
Publisher no.
CDR90000-151
OCLC
917677213
International Standard Recording Code
  • USB8U1066831
  • USB8U1066832
  • USB8U1066833
  • USB8U1066834
  • USB8U1066835
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