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Author Lishner, Leon, 1913-1995, performer.

Title Our town is burning : cries from the Holocaust.

Publication Info. [Baton Rouge, La.] : Centaur, [1994]
℗1994

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Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 011737
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
stereo
digital recording
Note "Most of the songs are from We are here : songs of the Holcaust [sic], compiled by Eleanor Mlotek and Malke Gottlieb ..."--Notes, p. 11.
Performer Leon Lishner, bass; with (variously): Claire Osipov, soprano; Melvin Strauss or Craig Sheppard, piano; Ethan Rourke, boy soprano; Allan Sanders, accordion; Robert Dan, guitar; Paul Taub, flute, recorder; Seattle Peace Theatre Singers.
Event Recorded June 1994, Meany Theater, University of Washington, Seattle.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Joseph Butwin, and English translations of texts (11 p. : port.) inserted in container.
Contents Es brent = Our town is burning (3:46) -- Gehat hob ikh a heym = I once had a home (3:10) -- Geto = Ghetto (3:52) -- Motele fun Varshever geto = Motele of the Warsaw ghetto (8:43) -- Der hoyfzinger fun Varshever geto = The streetsinger of the Warsaw ghetto (2:34) -- Treblinka (2:18) -- Tsvey taybelech = Two doves : old love song (3:04) -- Unter di Poylishe grininke beymelekh = Under the little green Polish trees (2:57) -- A Yiddish kind = A Jewish child (3:47) -- Ani mamin (1:01) -- Yidn zingen Ani mamin = Jews are singing Ani mamin (3:17) -- Four Terezin songs. Wild geese (2:23) ; Bamboo grove (2:00) ; The moon far away from home (4:38) ; Wakeful night (3:12) -- Minutn fun bitochn = Moments of hope (2:40) -- Babi yar (4:10) -- Yeder ruft mikh Zhamele = They call me Zhamele (2:10) -- Shtiler, shtiler = Quiet, quiet (2:09) -- S'dremlen feygl = Birds are dreaming (3:30) -- Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray = It's one, two, three (2:02) -- Dos elnte kind = The lonely child (1:58) -- Itzik vitenberg (2:06) -- Es vet zikh fun tsvaygl tseblien a boym = From a twig a tree will bloom (2:52) -- Yugnt himen = Hymn of youth (1:51) -- Shtil di nacht = Still the night (3:26) -- Zog nit keynmol az du geyst dem letztn veg = Never say that you are going on the last road (1:59).
Language Sung in Yiddish or Czech (12th-15th works).
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Songs and music.
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Genre/Form Songs and music.
Subject Jews -- Music.
Jews -- Music.
Folk songs, Yiddish.
Folk songs, Yiddish.
Songs, Yiddish.
Songs, Yiddish.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Folk music.
Music.
Music.
Songs.
Songs.
Added Author Osipov, Claire, performer.
Strauss, Melvin, performer.
Sheppard, Craig, 1947- performer.
Rourke, Ethan, performer.
Sanders, Allan, performer.
Dan, Robert, performer.
Taub, Paul, performer.
Seattle Peace Theatre Singers, performer.
Added Title Cries from the Holocaust
We are here.
Songs of the Holocaust.
Music No. CRC 2223 Centaur