Bracha Zefira

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Chevra:

Is anyone familiar with the Ladino recordings of Bracha Zefirah? Born of 
Yemeni parents, raised by several "eastern" families; steeped in their 
music, while also learning traditional Sephardic songs from Yitzhak Navon. 
Accompanied first on piano by Nahum Nardi, in 1930s, her repertory was 
later re-set by Paul Ben-Haim, Marc Lavry and Oedoen Partos, among others, 
in a Western Art song idiom.

I have a cassette of Israeli CBS recordings, but it's obviously from much 
earlier masters and I'd love to know when the original recordings were made 
and distributed.

Thanks,

Joel


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