From Helsinki to Theresienstadt: Jewish Cabaret Songs from Europe and Beyond (Leeds and York)
Concert of the New Budapest Orpheum Society for the Out of the Shadows festival in Leeds and York, UK.
| Genre | Cabaret performance |
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The New Budapest Orpheum Society performed slightly different programmes for the festival in Madison, US and the festival in York and Leeds, UK.
Programme
I - OVERTURE
Die koschere mischpoche! (The Kosher Family), Viennese Broadside
II - FIN-DE-SIÈCLE BERLIN
Gigerlette, Arnold Schoenberg and Otto Julius Birnbaum
Mahnung, Arnold Schoenberg and Gustav Hochstetter
III - FOOTLIGHTS BETWEEN THE YIDDISH STAGE AND SCREEN
Ikh zing (I Sing), Abraham Ellstein and Molly Picon (from the film, Mamele, 1938)
Dos pintele Yid (The Quintessential Jew), Arnold Perlmutter, Herman Wohl, and Louis Gilrod
Erlekh zayn (Be Virtuous), Boris Thomashefsky and Philip Laskowsy (from Bar Mitzvah, 1935)
IV - CABARET STORIES FROM CHICAGO, TEREZÍN, AND VIENNA
Wir Ladies aus Amerika [We Ladies from America], (from Emmerich Kálmán’s Die Herzogin von Chicago [The Duchess of Chicago], 1928)
Theresienstadt Potpourri - Aus der Familie der Sträusse (From the Strauss Family), Leo Strauss; piano concept Ilya Levinson
Tomorrow, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Margaret Kennedy (from The Constant Nymph, 1943)
V - FROM THE CELLARS OF HELSINKI - SOJOURNERS IN STRUGGLE
Three songs from the research of Dr Simo Muir:
Yosef, Yosef (Joseph, Joseph), Nellie Casman and Samuel Steinberg; Lyrics by Jac Weinstein
Piste Couplet (Couplet of the Ration Card), Lyrics by Jac Weinstein, as sung to “Rivotshka”
Tif iz di Nakht (Dark Is the Night), Nikita Bogoslovski; Lyrics by Jac Weinstein
INTERVAL
INTERVAL VI - THERESIENSTADT/TEREZÍN - WITNESS TO THE END
Three songs from the research of Dr Lisa Peschel
Kufr a já (The Suitcase and Me) (from Prinz Bettliegend), František Kovanic and Jaroslav Ježek
Die Kuh (The Cow), from Von was leben die Leut’ (What People Live from), Hans Hofer and A. M. Werau
The Final Song from Prinz Bettliegend, František Kovanic and Jaroslav Ježek VII -
YIDDISH SONG BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Four songs from the research of Dr Joseph Toltz:
Melodies from Fritz Mordechai Kaufmann’s Die schönsten Lieder der Ostjuden (1920), arranged by Wilhelm Grosz:
Unzer Rebenyu (Our Rebbe)
Gevalzhe Brider (Goodness Me, Brothers)
Zitsen zitsen ziben Vayber (Seven Wives Are Sitting Down)
Ikh bin a Bal-egole (I Am a Wagoner)
VIII - LIGHT AND DARKNESS
Three Songs by Friedrich Holländer from Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair (1948):
Black Market
Illusions
The Ruins of Berlin
IX - HERMANN LEOPOLDI - PRAGUE, NEW YORK CITY, THE WORLD BEYOND
Die Novaks aus Prague (The Novaks from Prague), Hermann Leopoldi and Kurt Robitschek
Composers’ Revolution in Heaven, Hermann Leopoldi and Robert Gilbert
I bin a stiller Zecher . . . ! (I’m a Quiet Boozer . . . !), Hermann Leopoldi; Salpeter (Karl Pollach); Berndt-Hofer
| Researcher | Simo Muir |
| Researcher | Lisa Peschel |
| Researcher | Joseph Toltz |
