[HANASHIR:5869] Re: Shoah/Holocaust music -- need your ideas

[Amgo <Amgo...>]

Our Kumzits/songswap has held Yom HaShoa commemorations.  We've focused 
mainly on the compositions of the poets and writers of the camps and ghettos, 
many of whom were murdered by the Nazis. Amon others, we've included the 
singing of 
Eili, Eili
Ani Ma'amin
Far Vos Iz Der Himl
Moorsoldaten - Peat Bog Soldiers
Shtiler, Shtiler
Dremlen Feygel 
Shtil Di Nacht
Here Beneath the Starry Splendor
Zog Nit Keyn Mol - Never Say

The words, music, singable translations and explanatory notes are from "We 
Are Here - Songs of the Holocaust" published by the Workmen's Circle, 
compiled by Eleanor Mlotek and Malke Gottlieb with a powerful introduction by 
Elie Wiesel (which we've used as a reading), "Yes, We Sang! - Songs of the 
Ghettos and  Concentration Camps", compiled by Shoshana Kalisch with Barbara 
Meister, and of course the compilations of Yiddish songs by Elanor and Joseph 
Mlotek via the Workmen's Circle. (Pearls of Yiddish Song and The New Book of 
Yiddish Songs).  Knowing Yiddish is not required for learning and teaching 
these songs.  The translations and transliterations in these books are 
wonderful.
We provide everyone with the words and music.  The songs range from those of 
resistance to the most tender of lullabies.   There are many more to select 
for an evening commemorating the poets and composers of the ghettos and camps.
B'hatzlacha,
Ami Goodman
San Francisco

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