Song of the Day:  September 18

Song of the Day: September 18

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...
Song of the Day:  September 17

Song of the Day: September 17

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...
Song of the Day:  September 16

Song of the Day: September 16

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...
Song of the Day:  September 15

Song of the Day: September 15

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...
Song of the Day:  September 14

Song of the Day: September 14

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...