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Dear Pavel
03:17
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The Butterfly
04:29
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The Butterfly
-Pavel Friedmann
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone….
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here,
in the ghetto.
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Dear Franta
00:32
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4. |
Home/The Old House
03:17
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Home
-Franta Bass
I look, I look
into the wide world,
into the wide, distant world.
I look to the southeast,
I look, I look toward my home.
I look toward my home,
the city where I was born.
City, my city,
I will gladly return to you.
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The Old House
-Franta Bass
Deserted here, the old house
stands in silence, asleep.
The old house used to be so nice,
before, standing there,
it was so nice.
Now it is deserted, rotting in silence-
What a waste of houses,
a waste of hours.
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The Garden
01:47
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The Garden
-Franta Bass
A little garden,
Fragrant and full of roses,
The path is narrow
And a little boy walks along it.
A little boy, a sweet boy,
Like that growing blossom.
When the blossom comes to bloom,
The little boy will be no more.
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Dear Alena
01:50
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7. |
Untitled
02:59
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Untitled
-Alena Synkova
I’ve met enough people.
Seldom a human being.
Therefore, I will wait—
until my life’s purpose
is fulfilled
and you will come.
Though there is anguish
deep in my soul—
what if I must search for you forever?—
I must not lose faith,
I must not lose hope.
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I’d Like To Go Alone
-Alena Synkova
I’d like to go away alone
Where there are other, nicer people,
Somewhere into the far unknown,
There, where no one kills another.
Maybe more of us,
A thousand Strong,
Will reach this goal
Before too long.
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Ani Ma’amin (ןימאמ ינא)
Ani ma’amin (3x)
Be’emuna sch’lema
B’viat hamashiach
B’viat hamashiach Ani ma’amin (2x)
(Translation: I believe with complete faithin the coming of the Messiah, I believe)
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Tears
03:30
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Tears
-Alena Synkova
And thereafter come…
tears,
without them
there is no life.
Tears—
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10. |
Dear Anonymous
01:33
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11. |
On a Sunny Evening
03:49
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On a Sunny Evening
-1944 anonymous
On a purple, sun-shot evening
Under wide-flowering chestnut trees
Upon the threshold full of dust
Yesterday, today, the days are all like these.
Trees flower forth in beauty,
Lovely too, their very wood all gnarled and old
That I’m half afraid to peer
Into their crowns of green and gold.
The sun has made a veil of gold
So lovely that my body aches.
Above, the heavens shriek with blue
Convinced I’ve smiled by some mistake.
The world’s abloom and seems to smile.
I want to fly but where, how high?
If in barbed wire, things can bloom
Why couldn’t I? I will not die!
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Birdsong
1941, anonymous
He doesn’t know the world at all
Who stays in his nest and doesn’t go out.
He doesn’t know what birds know best
Nor what I want to sing about,
That the world is full of loveliness.
When dewdrops sparkle in the grass
And earth’s aflood with morning light,
A blackbird sings upon a bush
To greet the dawning after night.
Then I know how fine it is to live.
Hey, try to open up your heart
To beauty; go to the woods someday
And weave a wreath of memory there.
Then if the tears obscure your way
You’ll know how wonderful it is
To be alive.
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Dana Sandler Boston, Massachusetts
Dana Sandler is a vocalist and composer based in Boston, MA. Her debut as a bandleader, I Never Saw Another Butterfly is a chamber jazz song-cycle comprised of 3 instrumentals and 9 musical settings highlighting poetry written by young prisoners in Terezín Concentration Camp (1942-44). “Sandler proves a master melodic alchemist, mixing emotion and history.” – C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz ... more
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