Music

Step into my office these days and it’s likely that you’ll hear the wonderful new CD by the Yeshiva Flatbush High School Choirs, Y’hey Shalom, There Will be Peace.

I continually play this new disc as I write my latest screenplay: the tale of a counter-terrorist female sniper.

What can I say: This music inspires me to write furious gun battles, rubber burning car chases, tender love scenes, and cracker-jack dialogue.

Just kidding.

It’s just great Jewish music and massages every single word I write.

Here at Casa Avrech, we have all adored each and every previous Flatbush CD and this one just might be the best they have ever produced.

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(718) 377- 1100 ext. 120

The year was 1956. Elvis was thin as a celery stalk, not yet strung-out on drugs, and singing with all his soul. Here is The King, live, singing Heartbreak Hotel.

This is a lovely site. From Brown University, their collection of Yiddish sheet music.

From Seraphic Friend Yehudit at Kesher, a pre-Shabbos song from the Klezmatics live in Berlin.

Yehudit instructs us to play it LOUD.

I don’t often recommend Jewish CD’s to my readers because, well, in truth, much of the Jewish music that’s produced is of the extreme ay-yay-yay genre, which gives me a migraine, or is music that we’ve heard a zillion times before and is just plain bo-ring.

Seraphic Secret recently received a truly fine CD titled U’shmuel B’korei Sh’mo. It’s just lovely and the musicians featured are in fine form.

Click here to listen to a bit of the tunes and to order the CD.