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Art at the edge of the abyss
" If you like Kurt Weill or Tom Waits, you will probably enjoy Ghetto Tango, an immaculately packaged collection of World War II Yiddish theater songs intelligently interpreted by two contemporary musicians. Adrienne Cooper's vocals can crack you up with laughter or wring your guts with heartbreak, and Zalmen Mlotek's piano accompaniment is brilliant. The anger,irony and danger of the lyrics stand out starkly on tales of greed, hunger, homelessness and death camps. And Cooper's liner notes and translations are comprehensive and detailed." Rhythm Magazine More info on www.yiddishmusicians.com |
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the Jewish ghetto of Poland and Lithuania during World War II,
a world of dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived.
Jewish audiences gathered in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear
newly-created Yiddish songs, rooted in Jewish folk and liturgical
music as well as European operetta, American ragtime and Argentine
tango. Jewish performer tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local
key: satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and
heartsick. Together they created something rare, scarcely conceivable: