by nyfos | Dec 13, 2018 | Song of the Day
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. With a text by Langston Hughes, this song depicts a winter moon as a thin crescent, a rationed portion of a moon for a season when resources grow...
by Alex Mansoori | Nov 16, 2018 | Song of the Day
Happy Friday everyone! It’s my last day as your tour guide, and since I’ve been in rehearsals for two separate Christmas shows, I figured I would end with a Christmas song. Not only is the song one of my favorite holiday tunes, but it’s also the best-selling single of...
by Steven Blier | Dec 11, 2017 | Song of the Day
This week I thought I’d share some of the music that has filled my recent weeks. It is the Christmas season and we’re about to put up our traditional tree, a present we received at the end of the last century from Jim’s brother and sister. They had each been assigned...
by Joshua Breitzer | Sep 29, 2017 | Song of the Day
This most iconic and instantly recognizable sacred Jewish song has had a lot of treatments over the many centuries it’s been around. While the Aramaic lyrics are quite a mouthful even for a native Hebrew speaker, a surprising number of mainstream pop singers...
by Joshua Breitzer | Sep 28, 2017 | Song of the Day
One of my resolutions this year is to think more about the “other”—the other person, the other point of view, the other side of the world. As you might imagine, Judaism has a lot to say about it. The great rabbi Hillel, who lived in the earliest days of...
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