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Yom Hadash When We Were Young;
Blackwood Music

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you." To which Misha replied, "I
wish I could be mayor of New York."
This CD features a wide range of
operatic and popular songs. I am
somewhat leery of including a rendi-
tion of Ave Marie, which I did not
listen to, as much as the note writer
wants to portray its spirituality. His
"Kaddish," sung in the NDR stu-
dios, a building that housed a syna-
gogue until 1938, is not only a can-

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Inspired by Jewish artists Craig
Taubman, Safam and Debbie
Friedman as well as the Beatles,
Simon and Garfunkel and the
Rolling Stones, Yom Hadash is a
pleasant group. Their original
melodies and ballads are quite
refreshing and make for easy listen-
ing. Worth noting are "Hallelu," an
upbeat rendition of this Psalm,
"Modeh Ani," the traditional wake
up call, and my favorite, "Jerusalem,"
a melodious composition describing
the Jews' need to live in Jerusalem.
The Band's members include: broth-
ers Jon and Josh Nelson, and their
Hebrew school buddies David
Letkowitz and Adam Dehner. Their
concert list includes USY camps and
Federation Drive kickoffs.
When We Were Young is great for
children around bar/bat mitzvah acre
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Cantorial Misha Alexandrovich
Recordings 1937-1997; Verlag Music
Misha Alexandrovich was proba-
bly one of the USSR's best kept
secrets. His career spanned over
eight decades. Billed as the "The
Wunderkind," Alexandrovich sang
for sold-out concert halls all over
Europe. His first concert, in Warsaw,
was at age 7. On this CD, Misha
Alexandrovich expresses his true spir-
ituality as one of Europe's finest can-
tors. He served as chief cantor of
Lithuania for over two decades.
Upon his arrival in New York, in
1965, then-Mayor John Lindsay
remarked, "I wish I could sing like

torial accomplishment, but a true
remembrance of the six million mar-
tyrs whom the very building repre-
sent. I was particularly thrilled with
"A Glessele L'Chaim" A light-hearted
Yiddish song that depicts the true
spirit of Jewish musical culture.

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King Django's Roots and Culture;
Triple Crown Records.
King Django is a versatile musi-
cian. Regarded as one of New York's
premier ska makers, (according to
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, ska
is Jamaican popular music that is a
blend of folk music, calypso, rhythm
and blues, and jazz) King Django
was originally Jeff Baker of Brooklyn.
In this CD he plays vocals, trom-
bone, melodica, glockenspiel and
other percussion. His voice has Bob
Dylanesque qualities. It starts out
with "Shtiklach" a reggae/new age,
Yiddish piece bemoaning the plight
of working hard and getting nothing
for it. The CD also features Andy
Statman, probably the world's great-
est mandolin player. The reggae
klezmer numbers on this CD are
great. He also experiments quite well
in "Slaughter," a haunting piece
depicting the plight of Holocaust