Tag: Joseph Achron

An Evening of Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer*

A Free Livestream Event on 20th February 2021 at 7.30 p.m. on the Goldbekhaus YouTube Channel

*All the stories are child-friendly

In the run up to our free livestream event, ‘An Evening of Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer’ on 20th February 2021, we thought we’d give you some information about the music. Paul Baeyertz has chosen the following pieces of music for our reading, all composed by contemporaries of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Please click on the individual websites for more information on the composers.

• Begrüßung by Joseph Achron, (1886-1943) http://www.josephachron.org

• The Four Sabras: Ilana, The Dreamer by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) http://www.leonardbernstein.com

• The Rag Caprice by Stefan Wolpe, Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) http://www.wolpe.org

• Watercolor by Leo Ornstein (1895 – 2002) http://www.poonhill.com

• Metamorphosis One by Philip Glass Philip Glass (1937 – ) http://www.philipglass.com

• Intermission music: Various pieces by Harold Arlen (1905-1986) and Irving Berlin (1888-1989) http://www.haroldarlen.com / http://www.irvingberlin.com

• Graj, skrzypu graj (Play, fiddler, play) by Wladyslaw Lidauer (1890 – 194?, died in the Warsaw Ghetto) made popular by the Polish Jewish singer, Adam Aston http://www.bibliotekapiosenki.pl/osoby/Lidauer_Wladyslaw

• What Good Would the Moon Be by Kurt Weill (1900 – 1950) http://www.kwf.org

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These pieces are also included in our Couch Theatre Spotify Playlist. This playlist includes most of the music from all productions over the last few years. You can follow us on Spotify and you’ll be notified automatically every time we update our playlist. Enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/4DHYmbK2o2qxznraoMVQrA

This is the link for the specific playlist for our reading: