Die Goldene Pave - THE GOLDEN PEACOCK The Voice of the Yiddish Writer BILINGUAL Yiddish English
A unique bilingual spoken word recording featuring 12 Yiddish writers accompanied by English translation
Yankev Glatshteyn, Celia Dropkin, Elie Wiesel, H. Leivick, Aron Glanz-Leyeles, Kadya Molodowsky, Itzik Manger, Avrom Sutzkever, Rokhl Korn, Sholem-Aleichem, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Yekhiel Shraibman—reading from their poetry and prose.
English is read by Sheva Zucker and Trudie Kessler, Professor Emerita of Voice and Acting at The Theatre School/DePaul University in Chicago.
The bilingual recording is available both as a digital download and/or 2 CDs. It is accompanied by a 135-page book with:
- Complete Yiddish text of readings plus the English translation
- Notes on each work in English
- Biography of each writer in English and Yiddish
- The first Golden Peacock is solely in Yiddish.
- The new version is in Yiddish and English, with the Yiddish readings PLUS their English translations.
- The Golden Peacock BILINGUAL includes three writers—
- Itzik Manger, Elie Wiesel, and Rokhl Korn—not found on the first.
- The bilingual Golden Peacock BILINGUAL has four additional works not included in the original, namely, Glatshteyn's “My Wander-Brother"
(Mayn vogl-bruder); Dropkin's "Lullaby" (A viglid) and her "To My Son, who Made Me a Present of Light Blue Beads" (Tsu mayn zun velkher hot mir geshenkt hel bloye kareln); and Molodowsky's "To a Child's
Portrait" (Tsu a kinds portret). - The Golden Peacock BILINGUAL does NOT include Yente
Mash and several readings have been omitted.
PROGRAM: THE GOLDEN PEACOCK
The Voice of the Yiddish Writer BILINGUAL
די גאָלדענע פּאַווע
דאָס קול פֿון דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער צוויישפּראַכיק
CD 1
ENGLISH INTRODUCTION
(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set) (Moyshe-Leyb Halperin, Music: Ben Yomen)
YIDDISH INTRODUCTION
(Sheva Zucker, Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN
YANKEV GLATSHTEYN
Music: VIGLID (Lullaby) Glatshteyn, Music: Sidor Belarsky
1919
1919
Fun kinder-tsimer: A yingele un a zemele
From the Nursery: A Boy and a Roll
Fun kinder-tsimer: Zeyger un Mame
From the Nursery: Clock and Mommie
Vegener
Wagons
A gute nakht, velt
Good Night, World
Mayn vogl-bruder
My Wander-Brother
Vi flaterlekh
Like Moths
CELIA DROPKIN
Music: ES VILT ZIKH MIR ZEN (I Would Like to See) Dropkin,
Music: Frank London
Tsepralte hent fun beymer [Durkh nakht un regn]
Outspread Arms of Trees [Through Night and Rain]
A libebriv
A love Letter
Tsu Estern [Tsu a tokhter]
To a Daughter [To Esther]
A viglid
A Lullaby
Tsu mayn zun, velkher hot mir geshenkt hel bloye kareln
To My Son, Who Made Me a Present of Light Blue Beads
Vays vi der shney
White as the Snow
Shvere gedanken
Heavy Thoughts
ELI WIESEL
Music: BABI-YAR (Babi Yar) Shike Driz, Music: Riva Boyarska
Babi-Yar
Babi Yar
H. LEIVICK
Music: LEYG DAYN KOP (Lay Your Head) Leivick, Music: Leybu Levin
Yidishe poetn
Yiddish Poets
ARON GLANZ-LEYELES
Music NYU-YORK (New York) Leyeles, Music: Mikhl Gelbart
Der got fun Yisroel
The God of Israel
KADYA MOLODOWSKY
Music: YERUSHOLAYIM (Jerusalem) Molodowsky, Music: Bernardo Feuer
Yerusholaim
Jerusalem
Olke mit der bloyer parasolke
Olke
Eyl-khanon
Merciful God
Tsu a kinds portret
To a Child's Portrait
CD 2
ITZIK MANGER
Music: DI GOLDENE PAVE (The Golden Peacock) Manger, Music: Dov Seltzer
Lomir zhe zingen
Let Us Sing Simply
Afn veg shteyt a boym
There is a Tree that Stands
Kh'hob zikh yorn gevalgert
For Years I Wallowed
Af der statsye Kolomey
At the Kolomey Station
Avrom Ovinu fort mit Yitskhokn tsu der akeyde
Abraham Takes Itzik to the Sacrifice
AVROM SUTZKEVER
Music: UNTER DAYNE VAYSE SHTERN
(Under Your White Stars) Sutzkever, Music: Avrom Brudno
1974: Ver vet blaybn? fun Lider fun togbukh
1974: Who Will Last from Poems from a diary
Der shmeykhl fun Maydanek
The Smile of Maidanek
ROKHL KORN
Music: UNTER DI POYLISHE GRININKE BEYMELEKH
(Under the Green Trees of Poland) Yoysef Papiernikov, Music: Yisroel Alter
Bam yam
At the Seashore
Es iz a nakht aza
On a Night like This
Ver vet aynshtiln s'geveyn
Who Can Still the Tears of Things
SHOLEM ALEICHEM
Music: SHLOF, MAYN KIND
(Sleep, My Child) Sholem Aleichem, Music: Dovid Kovanovsky
Ven ikh bin Rotshild
If I Were Rothschild
A freylekher yontef
Happy Holiday
BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN
Music: HARBSTLID (Autumn Song) Schaecther-Gottesman
Zilber-shtern
Silver Stars
Mayn khaverte Mintsye
My Childhood Friend Mintsye
YEKHIEL SHRAYBMAN
Music: KESHENEVER SHTIKELE (Kishinev Tune) Folksong
Mayn tate
My Father
Music: DI ZUN VET ARUNTERGEYN (The Sun Will Set)