A freylekhn khanike! Happy Chanukah! We hope you enjoyed yourselves at this past Sunday’s Grand Finale of the Chanukah series of the Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along (YSWS)!
As many of you know, we’re continuing the YSWS this Sunday, with a brand new series on the songs based on the poetry of one of the great Yiddish poets, Itzik Manger. To read more about it, click here. To register, click here If you think you’ve already registered but you’re not sure, it does no harm for you to register again, as an inadvertent duplicate registration isn’t taking up the space of another possible participant. As always, the YSWS is free and open to everyone.
In a little while, you’ll all also be receiving a email that we’re sending to our entire email distribution list regarding this new series. Feel free disregard that email if you’ve already registered. You can feel free, on the other hand, to forward that upcoming email to anyone else who you think would be interested in participating.
BOOKLETS AND RECORDINGS?
Would you like to receive our YSWS Chanukah song lyrics and translations booklet, whether with Yiddish letters or in transliteration? Or our Purim and Peysekh booklets, which were put together earlier this year? Would you like to receive a link to any or all of the video recordings of our Chanukah series, or of the Purim and Peysekh series? They’re available as donation premiums. If you’re interested, please let us know, and we’ll send you a description of the options. (The lyrics and translations are of course also always displayed on the screen during each session of the YSWS.) The booklet for the upcoming Itzik Manger series is currently being put together. We will let you know when that also becomes available.
SUPPORT US
Would you like to support the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus, including our Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along? We invite you to be as generous as you comfortably can in supporting us on this venture – preserving Ashkenazic Jewish heritage, and the legacy of the Yiddish language, culture, and song. It is both personally and historically rewarding to be part of this movement.
OUR YOUTUBE VIDEOS
And if you haven’t yet seen our Chorus’s videos on YouTube, here are two Chanukah songs in four-part harmony, and one Itzik Manger song in four-part harmony:
Borekh ate:
Fayer, fayer:
Afn veg shteyt a boym:
Again, to support the Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus and our Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along, click here.
And we hope to see you all over Zoom this Sunday at 7 PM Eastern Time (New York time)!
A hartsikn dank!
Yiddish Philharmonic Chorus
ייִדישער פֿילהאַרמאָנישער פֿאָלקסכאָר
(formerly Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC)
Binyumen Schaechter, Music Director
Paulette Schneider, Administrator
Leah Montesinos, Technology Director
Yiddish Song Workshop & Sing-along
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