The Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus presents

Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus — From Babies to Bubbies: A Lifetime in Yiddish Song

Sunday | September 18 2022 | 3 pm

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$40 tickets for groups of 10 or more are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. 

Celebrate two weddings and an anniversary with the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, a multigenerational thirty-five-voice all-Yiddish ensemble led by Binyumen Schaechter.  Join the whole mishpokhe—Jews all over the world and throughout history—with sung conversations and tales of demanding children, nubile youths, troubled couples, relieved parents, confused parents, revered grandparents, wistful old friends, and existential optimism. Schaechter’s novel musical arrangements include eight world premieres this season. But you don’t know Yiddish? Don’t worry! Song intros, English supertitles, and a keepsake booklet with full lyric translations will all be there to make you feel heymish. This encore concert is part of the chorus's 100th anniversary season.

TITLES - LYRICISTS/COMPOSERS
Afn pripetshik – MARK WARSHAWSKY
Afn veg shteyt a boym – ITZIK MANGER
Akhtsik er in zibetsik zi – MARK WARSHAWSKY
Ba mir bisti sheyn – JACOB JACOBS / SHOLOM SECUNDA
Borekh ate – ABRAHAM REISIN / SOLOMON GOLUB
Dray tekhterlekh – MORDECHAI GEBIRTIG
Efnt dem toyer – KADIA MOLODOWSKY / R. OSOFSKY / ZALMEN MLOTEK
Ikh hob dekh tsi fil lib – CHAIM TAUBER / ALEXANDER OLSHANETSKY
Kh’vil nisht aza khosn – MORDECHAI GEBIRTIG
Di mizinke oysgegibn (aka Di Rud) – MARK WARSHAWSKY
Moyshele mayn fraynd – MORDECHAI GEBIRTIG
Oy, mame, bin ikh farlibt – ABRAHAM ELLSTEIN
Sheyn vi di levune – CHAIM TAUBER / JOSEPH RUMSHINSKY
Shlof mayn kind (aka Sholem Aleichem’s viglid) – SHOLEM ALEICHEM / DAVID KOVANOVSKY / Folk melody
Shmilik, Azrilik (aka Shmilik, Gavrilik) – ISAAC REINGOLD / GUSTAVE MENDELSON
Tsipele – MOYSHE BRODERZON / YISROYL GLATSTEIN
Vaserl – RUKHL SCHAECHTER / PAULA TEITELBAUM
Ven ikh volt geven a shnayder – SIDOR BELARSKY
Vos dergeystu mir di yorn? – Folk song
Yome, Yome – Folk song
Yugnt-himen – SHMERKE KACZERGINSKI / BASYE RUBIN

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