Maybe you'd like to listen to one of the masterpieces of modern Yiddish song?
Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's song "Harbstlid" is, in my opinion, the perfect combination of achingly beautiful poetry and melody, and says:
Look, it's fall and what once grew green passes now and fades.
Look, it's fall and what once bloomed is gone.
And I always thought that spring would last forever,
And I could hold eternity in my hand.
Oh falling leaves, oh fleeting days,
How will I make my way, when I can't see
Where this fogged-in path might lead me?
We remember here two of our dear friends who interpreted this song in incomparable ways.
The timeless and sublime recording from our teacher and friend Adrienne Cooper, accompanied by Avi Fox-Rosen on electric guitar.
And from our sister Andrea Pancur, performed live in her Yiddish/Bayrisch version, accompanied by Ilya Shneyveys on E-Klavier.
These two interpreters, re-arrangers, and champions of Yiddish Song inspired us during their lives, and still do afterwards. They should both have a shining time in paradise.
Zoln zey hobn a likhtikn gan eydn.
Omeyn.
