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Shanah tovah umetukah! I'm honored to be curating this week's NYFOS Songs of the Day as Jews all over the world welcome the new year 5777 today and tomorrow. The great Canadian singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen drew inspiration from the traditional Rosh Hashanah liturgy...
Our last post from Cantor Joshua Breitzer! Remember to join Josh and NYFOS for A Goyishe Christmas to You! on December 14 at HENRY's Restaurant. And up next week, one of NYFOS's favorite librettists, Mark Campbell, will DJ the Song of the Day for you -- stay tuned!...
from Cantor Joshua Breitzer: What Wolf did for German lieder, Lazar Weiner did for Yiddish art song. Over thirty years since his passing, his musical intellect and innovation continue to pique the interest of listeners and performers alike. Here he combines an...
from Cantor Joshua Breitzer: Yiddish theatre proved to be exceptionally fertile creative ground for newly American Jewish composers. The Ukranian-born Goldfaden, son of a watchmaker, was one of the early progenitors of the art form, and this original lullaby proved to...
from Cantor Joshua Breitzer: For this second day of Rosh Hashanah, while Jews all over the world pray for a year of good health and plentiful blessing, enjoy the Turkish composer Alberto Hemsi's arrangement of this classic Ladino folk song. "The groom doesn't want any...
L'shanah Tovah! We are happy to welcome Joshua Breitzer to NYFOS's Song of the Day this week! Josh is the Cantor at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope and has joined NYFOS for its annual A Goyishe Christmas to You! concerts for the past several years with a...