Hi Everybody!! We hope you had a nice Passover! The special programming rolls on this week with our special program for Yom Hashoah, the special day commemorating the Holocaust. On this special program, we present rare and vintage recordings which include recordings made at the end of the war at Yizkor commemorations, and poignant songs created over the years by a great variety of artists in response to this most terrible tragedy. And most special we have recordings made by artists who themselves, became part of the Six Million. Ben and I hope that you will find this program to be appropriate and inspiring. Here is the lineup for this special program:
PROGRAM OF SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2016
Z’Chor-Sol Zim-1983
Special Av Horachamim-Cantor Moishe Oysher-Recorded at Madison Square Garden at a Yizkor commemoration held shortly after the war in 1945.
Partizaner Lied (Song Of The Partisans)-Jan Peerce-1964
Memories-Journeys-1989
Warsaw Lament-Cantor Moshe Ganchoff-Recorded at a Yizkor commemoration in 1945 and later recorded commercially for Stinson records.
The Struma (Who Will Answer?)-Avi Kuntsler-1984
Nessun Dorma-Joseph Schmidt (1904-1942). World famous singer known as the “German Caruso”. Trapped in Switzerland and interned in a labor camp, he fell ill and died at the age of only 38. He also worked simultaneously as a cantor. This recording made in Berlin for EMI on August 7, 1934.
Keil Moleh Rachamim-Cantor Sholom Katz (1914-1982). Cantor Katz, a gifted Chazzan, survived the Holocaust and shortly after the war, recorded this selection in Czecheslovakia after the war in 1946. The recording was world famous and was honored with the “Prix Du Disque” by Paris Match magazine a few years later. This is the original recording made for Ultraphon in Prague in 1946 shortly before he came to America.
Zmiros L’Yom Hashabbos-Cantor Israel Bakon (1910-1943) a lesser known Cantor, had some very prestigious positons in pre war Poland. In 1939, he was to accept a major position in Cracow when the war broke out. Cantor Bakon and his wife and little son were all murdered in the extermination camp of Belzec in 1943. This recording was made in Poland in 1939 right before the outbreak of the war.
Adoshem, Adoshem-Cantor Gershon Sirota (1874-1943)-The most famous Cantor to perish in the Holocaust, he was for many years the Cantor of the world famous Tlomatzka Street Synagogue of Warsaw. Possessor of a powerful and wonderful tenor voice, his recordings spread his fame world wide. He perished in the Warsaw ghetto. This recording of the famous Bernstein composition for this prayer is from 1927.
Never Again-Sol Zim-1983
BEN’S SELECTIONS ON THE PROGRAM:
Theme from “Schindler’s List”-John Williams orchestra with Itzak Perlman, violin.
Ani Ma’amin-Vocalish
Red Sector A-Rush, with Geddy Lee
Never Again-Remedy
Ani Ma’amin-Yehuda Dim
Koli Sh’ma-Shalsheles, Jr.
Well, that’s the lineup for this special program. Ben and I hope you find it meaningful and we appreciate your support. Next week, our special progam for Mother’s Day. Lots of rare and poignant and great music for Mom on her special day. Be wit h us!! In the meantime, thanks for listening and have a great week!!