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Thread #170217   Message #4134283
Posted By: GUEST,keberoxu
29-Jan-22 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs of Mordecai Gebirtig (1877-1942)
Subject: RE: ADD: Songs of Mordecai Gebirtig (1877-1942)
Out of curiosity I consulted the Lieder Archive website
to see if this songwriter had any of his texts over there.
The difference with the Lieder Archive website is that
it favors musical settings by classical composers,
although not strictly limited to same.

From the Lieder Archive's pages, I found out that
a composer named Paul Schoenfield -- still living I think --
helped himself to six Gebirtig lyrics and made, from his own musical versions,
a song cycle out of them, titled Ghetto Songs.

I don't see the six titles here
(and the Lieder Archive has the titles only,
not the bodies of text themselves)
so I will copy the list of Gebirtig titles in this post.


Shifreles Portret          ["Shifrele's Portrait"]
Minutn fun yiesh          ["Moments of Despair"]
Glokn klang                ["Tolling Bells"]
Undzer Friling             ["Our Springtime"]
A zuniker shtral          ["A Ray of Sunshine"]
Minutn fun bitokhn         ["Moments of Confidence"]