Ten Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz by Moses Milner (1921)

Ten Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz by Moses Milner (1921)
צען קינדער לידער פֿון י. ל. פּרץ - משה מילנער (1921)
June 11, 2020, 1pm
A performance of Ten Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz (1921) by composer Moses Milner. Described as “childlike, but not childish” by professor Neil W. Levin who compares the composition to Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen, the songs of this elegant cycle are deceptively simple. Ranging from a lullaby to pastoral scenes to a dance, the songs display Y. L. Peretz’s lyrical Yiddish and Milner’s unique blending of a Yiddish folksong sensibility with his sophisticated early 20th century musical language. These ten songs are performed here by singer Lucy Fitz Gibbon with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough
Read the song texts and translations here: yivo.org/cimag...
(00:08) 1. CRADLE SONG / װיגליד
(03:03) 2. QUIET LITTLE CAT / שטיל, קעצעלע
(04:23) 3. A GOOD NIGHT / אַ גוטע נאַכט
(07:28) 4. THE BIRD / דער פֿויגל
(09:05) 5. THE SAILOR / דער שיפֿער
(11:50) 6. LITTLE ROLL / ברייטעלע
(12:18) 7. DANCE, DANCE, LITTLE GIRL, DANCE! / טאַנץ, טאַנץ, מיידעלע, טאַנץ!
(13:51) 8. THE HUNTER / דער יעגער
(15:57) 9. BALL GAME / באַלשפּיל
(17:00) 10. ON THE LITTLE GREEN HILL / אויפֿן גרינעם בערגעלע
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