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Volume 13
Great Songs of the American Yiddish Stage
Yiddish Theater, Vaudeville, Radio, and Film
Description: Musical treasures from one of the most celebrated periods and genres of American Jewish music.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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In the nearly four-thousand-year-old vineyard of Jewish history, the Yiddish theatrical stage is of relatively recent vintage. Apart from the purimspiel tradition, which probably dates to the medieval period in ...>

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On November 13, 2006, the Milken Archive celebrated the completion of its 50-CD recording series with a special concert held at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles: One People, ...>

 
There is a popular myth that when the Andrews Sisters released their hugely successful recording of Sholom Secunda's Bay mir bistu sheyn in 1938, the composer's mother was so distraught, ...>

 
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music: the American Experience is an exploration of the rich variety of musical expression born of, inspired by, associated with, or reflecting the full spectrum ...>

 
Orchestrator Patrick Russ Walking down Second Avenue on the lower east side of Manhattan, it is hard to believe that the neighborhood was once dominated by Yiddish theater. Hardly a trace remains ...>