Simon Spiro sings Yiddish theater's most enduring song, Bay mir bistu sheyn, with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Elli Jaffe. Milken Archive recording session, 2001.
Date: September 09, 2009
Credit: Milken Family Foundation
Elli Jaffe, Jacob Jacobs, recording session, Sholom Secunda, Simon Spiro, theater, Yiddish
Dir a nikl, mir a nikl (A Nickel for You, and a Nickel for Me)
Ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb (Im a Boarder at My Wifes)
A malke af pesekh (A Queen for Passover)
Du shaynst vi di zun (You Shine Like the Sun)
Hudl mitn shtrudl (Hudl With Her Strudel)
Hu-tsa-tsa
Bay mir bistu sheyn (To Me You Are Beautiful)
Der dishvasher (The Dishwasher)
Glik (Happiness)
Shma yisroel
Zog es mir nokh amol (Tell Me Again)
Jacob Weinberg's The Maypole
Jacob Weinberg's Canzonetta
Aaron Avshalomov's Four Biblical Tableaux: I. Queen Esthers Prayer
Aaron Avshalomov's Four Biblical Tableaux: IV. Processional
Arvit Morocco
Max Helfman's Israel Suite
Joseph Achron's Dance of Salome
Abraham Kaplan's Psalms of Abraham
The Lord is My Shepherd