A lost Yiddish opera complete, and in performance, at last
Composer Josh Horowitz and librettist Michael Wex filled in 16 missing pages to a Yiddish opera once believed to be lost.
Source: forward.com
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Written during the Holocaust, a song finds new meaning – The Forward
Starting a year after World War II ended, the words to “Lomir shvaygn” (“Stay Silent”) appeared in collections of songs from the Shoah — without the music or a composer credit. In 1960, the Polish Jewish composer Henech Kon conjured a melody for “Stay Silent” in his book “Songs of the Ghettos.” Scholars attributed the Yiddish lyrics to the poet Hirsh Glick, but they weren’t sure they were his. “One of the reasons that the song was published a few times was because it was a question mark,” said Bret Werb, the recorded sound curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum...
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