Word: yiddishe
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...picked up by a then obscure trio called the Andrews Sisters, the tune went on to gross $3 million by 1961, when the rights reverted to the authors. In the meantime Secunda had won distinction as an orchestra leader and a composer of Jewish liturgical melodies and dozens of Yiddish musicals...
...large part because it operated without a director until February. Conceived by President Horner last year, the office was directed by Alberta B. Arthurs, overall dean of admissions, financial aid and women's education, until the appointment after a year-long search of Judith B. Walzer, lecturer on Yiddish Literature, as director...
...last week by the New York City Ballet, is a wan and murky evocation of the Hasidic legend that is all but drowned in a sea of pretentious metaphysical subfusc. The dybbuk story, a ghetto version of Romeo and Juliet given classic shape in Shloime Ansky's 1916 Yiddish play, involves the star-crossed lovers named Channon and Leah. Once their fathers had taken a vow that some day their children should wed. By the time boy meets girl, the vow has been forgotten, Leah's family has become wealthy, and Channon is merely a poor rabbinical student...
...fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands to the skies or to the audience as if they had just discovered Martha Graham...
Tevye the Milkman, a Yiddish film with Morris Schwartz, Saturday, April...