SING WITH ME-145 for a YIDDISH AND A RUSSIAN SONG.

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Russian Song by P.I. Tchaikovsky. In the Midst of a Noisy Ball – «Средь шумного бала» – Sred’ Shumnogo Bala: The author of the poem is Count Alexey Tolstoy (1817-1875), a Russian writer, poet and playwright. It was written in 1851 for Sofya Miller, a remarkable woman who was very forward thinking, knew sixteen foreign languages but … was married. Alexey’s mother was dead against it, pun intended: only after the mother’s sudden death, as well as long-awaited divorce, the lovers got married.

In 1878, after Tolstoy’s death, P. I. Tchaikovsky whote music to the poem, deliberately choosing the waltz genre as one of the main attributes of any ball at the time. He dedicated his romance to his younger brother Anatoly Tchaikovsky, a lawyer by profession, who helped Pyotr survive the crisis associated with his own marriage to Antonina Milyukova. The piece was first recorded on Gramophone Records in 1901 and has been one of the most loved classic Art songs ever since.

Listen to the wonderful Dmitri Khvorostovsky version:

Our Yiddish song for SWM-145 is Oy Dortn, Dortn – Oh, There, There: A much loved by many singers nowadays, a very old love and separation song Oy Dortn, Dortn has been published in many variations by many Yiddish song collections starting with 1901. Listen to this gorgeous melody sung in a folk way, a cappella, by Ruth Rubin:

Here is a lovely version with an orchestra by Martha Schlamme:

Sheet music for this session is here Sred’ shumnogo bala. Melody, Oy Dortn Dortn
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