foreign planet. in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route. a race linked to military interests, a race linked to political and military prestige, but also linked to mount financial and adventure full of hardships, dangers and death magellan journey around the world. starting september 7th on d. w. ah, that's his mom. what you give to others remains what you keep for yourself that dies still. ah, well this is the, the not seems just going to so much, but not music. they tried, but they couldn't, and then it got put back. oh, really, really opposite the road music is

a beautiful thing. it's a religion to be. i believe in the god of music. ah, any of us, you know, but i burning with an art 21. this week we explore the many faces of jewish music music that was buried, forgotten we discovered cherished music with connective power. and we start with the additional oh, who's in them? dan called leash nod from donna hall and so this is daniel cans version of leonard cohen's classic tune. well in

a word beggar his 1st solo album he translated lyrically to manish. techs originally written by the likes of curt nicholson and bob dylan. jewish artillery, explain him the issue item to her daughter, then, unquote. by name does the additional lead caught year to shock. songs are so rich and so deep just because of history and the changing of time, vandal that side. so, me, i mentioned presser, was written in 1916 by solomon smallwood. it's a ballard about the polio outbreak that swept new york. o. as the corona virus pandemic regions,

the lyric still ring true to day fina for stanley. this proclamation. but in man, not many know the language that if you could make it understandable, it opens something up. after the shot i originally from the us pan 1st learned yiddish after moving to germany in 25. to day he and his wife, russian artist, evil, epsco, live in hamburg with their son. on a house boot. at home, they speak english, russian, german, and yiddish. daniel con, loves diversity in his music too. i realize the freedom. sometimes he plays alone, sometimes with his band, the painted bird. his music is steeped in melancholy and anger about all that's wrong in the world. my dear v. i see how people all over the world are building up resistance. bowen, for justice of anti racism,

antithesis real democracy discharge her freedom of a verb that was inspired by these movements of freedom as a verb is in still yet translation per vague woman. and he combines klezmerson punk blues and folk, and re interprets wold song, such as mordecai give birth, he 19 thirty's him to the jewish workers movement with lyrics of a sarcastic edge that still sounds contemporary. ah, she again are the leader d m. i like to play old songs that work like new songs, old songs about war poverty and love. and i try to write new songs that can also grow old. i didn't come oh, use it that will stand the test of time. just like that of mordechai good birth,

who was murdered by the nazis in 1942. daniel con shows how closely linked the present is to the past. ah, in belgium. ah, it is very difficult to explain to your generation this generation a state of mind at that time. to day i am alive to morrow, i might not be. that's how it was. we didn't think much. we just lift from one hour to the next. ah, but music was a lifeline. i always wanted to play the cello tent. ask me why. but then the difficulties began when i was older and still wanted to play the cello. there wasn't any cello teaches impress low. today's thoughts

left. he would teach a jewish child. ah, anita, alaska. val fish was born into a german jewish family in 1925. she was the youngest child. the nazis came to power in 1933. what happened then was that i was sent to ben inn where a jewish cello teacher taught me. it was not long before the 9th of november, everything changed at that moment. we knew we couldn't stay, but unfortunately it was already too late. the pilgrim of november 9th 1938, revealed the extent of the nazi threat anti semitic persecution. give way to genocide, anita lusk, of all fish was deported to ocean. in december 1943. we already knew what auschwitz meant, that we were going to be murdered the last station. but nothing turns out the way you expect. because she could play the cello,

she became part of the women's orchestra of oceans. this saved her life. over a 1000000 people died in the camp between 19401945. most were gast, others were sheltered, beaten to death. many died of illness and starvation. we thought as long as they want music, they went put us in the gas chamber. that's all respite if they want music, they need us respite. that's all. ah, we will, marched out early in the morning. we sat at the gate and played marches as thousands of prisoners were sent off to work in factories. the same happened in the evening when that was over, we were sent back to the block to learn notes. the repertoire by hot there were come,

sits on sunday. we sat somewhere in the camp. i can't remember how many places we played in. it was for the amusement of the gods, but the prisoners could also hear us. and the reactions were very different. for some, it was an insult. but i've also read about people who said that it helped them to dream they were somewhere other than this hell. for a few minutes. ah, she survived not only the hell of oceans, but also winter bergen belsen were many die because the terrible conditions she was still there when the campus liberated by british troops in april 1945. ah. you know, to me, my life has 2 parts. one of them is hell. the other part is normal life. the nazis destroyed so much,

but not music. pay tried that they couldn't. awe composer yara mir vine burger managed to escape the nazis and emigrate to america. his works were largely forgotten, but they're now being re discovered o ruling stone spring storms was the last operator performed in the weimar republic. it tells of love and intrigue during times of war. it disappeared from the stage after the nazis came to power. almost 90 years later, the artistic director of the commercial oper, berlin barry kosky decided to revive it. so that we had to play sherlock holmes, a little hyster because he orchestral score had disappeared armed. but we

reconstructed it the younger man. oh yes. now that reconstructed version of spring storms, premier didn't berlin in january 2025, shen ha, jewish check composer yara mir vine burger became world famous in the 1920s. thanks to his opera. shondae the bagpiper. it was the most played opera on the german language stages in the 2nd half of the 1920s. it was also celebrated in london and new york. but the composer languished in obscurity, after escaping nazi germany for the u. s. will vine back as an interesting man, a month for a few years. he was one of the most famous composers in the world, but he had to leave after 933 when they had any. the terrible fate, like many others, he was in america, didn't write much and had losses. enthusiasm had done, then he got brain cancer and committed suicide. in other circumstances,

spring storms may well have become a world wide triumph. wow. non leaked, he's a but so it works of jewish artists were labeled, degenerates and bond by the nazis. ah, these are, but it does need to be the, is operettas, not like others. and it's sort of a spy drum wound just but the fact it premiered in 1933 and the shadow of the war and the sure i'd see she gives it a particular quality district. and bizarre, the quality spring storm seems harmless enough. but for koski, the oppressive atmosphere at the time is palpable this work which only had a short ruin before the nazis seized power. the strict gets about the love of

a russian aristocrat, lydia pub, laska, for a japanese major e to my or ito. ah. you need a glove and i think that in 1033 i just had to turn the russian woman into a german and the japanese man into a jew and it was clear what was meant, yoda this is clovis district eigen dickies livable stitches. yep. hold any behead wow. steps. oh, oh ma'am it's white as i work as a boat identity who is who very nobody trusts and nobody how not even the main characters in these. i think that was in the air in 1933. she blabbered thus for in the loft, ah, xander is new church and music is shot through with melancholy tones. set designer close greenberg designed to dark transformer po box to illustrate the dark historical context. the deed is acoustical. idea of this box came up. the fact that

none of the characters, road whom the friends are all wistful in a foreign country, come new things come to the surface of an, was it, but they're just highlighted like, quote, memory, as you know, dreaming would i be toya? oh michelle opa is now working on vine berger's $929.00 oper, schlander, due to premier this year. my. yes. your composers re discovery is long overdue. ah, celebrating the work of long forgotten artist. that's also close to the heart, a violinist. you don't creamer. he's one of the most unusual musicians of our times . he don kramer is a magnificent violinist with the intellectual depth of a philosopher ah,

with. thus with himself, i feel obligated to pass on what i have experienced, what i can do. what i think, i think that's the source of my being the source of all my doing with my thoughts and feelings towards my leg done only for you. don cramer was born in 1947 in the lat, seen capital rica. his great grandfather, grandfather, and father were all violinist. he surpassed them all, but his never satisfied in his achievements. the family legacy weighs heavily on him. he looked run, swiped, and the man his father's, the low so to speak, my father's 2nd life. so he suffered so much during the war $35.00 of his relatives, including his wife and his one and a half year old daughter were murdered in the rica ghetto. along the floor,

he was able to escape and he met my mother in germany after the war with those that the circumstances of my birth control from on. so going to leave it in stone. oh. 2 a that's why i see myself as my father's 2nd life. well, if there's such a tragedy, he wanted to plant something good in me or got me off. he also gave me the strength to believe that a lot can be achieved. if one is honest and true to oneself,

than really spoke women to the center steep ah, ah jewish heritage and the hopes and expectations of his father continue to preoccupy him to this day. ah, it's up and for meeting, this is the one thing for meeting the sister. i have a family history and because of it, i feel a duty to do something for the you. i do it for young people. first and foremost focus. that's why i founded the camaraderie, baltic or orchestra 25 years ago with talented people from the 3 baltic states. estonia that fear, unless the way near you're hoping we're still together and then we're family hands

and i am at home with the orchestra room a lot about the council halls. i managed to plant something of myself in this next generation, so to speak, before of my attitude towards music and towards life long term in lana hayton. so mazique mahal totally in awe thousands when the zoo formerly this is from i recently said that i was driven by contradictions blue her muses and i actually seek them out. so kim, it's important to recognise new things scornful to expand the spectrum of my work paper and my thought and to transmitted to the audience or the next generation with him. but because i don't want to sound sentimental from your boss,

i search every day lou, but i'm never satisfied with what i find so famous stood ah, [000:00:00;00] with been paying political on. i've said it over and over again. i'm not a politician and won't ever be won by the mention of esther, but i am a defender of human rights in russia, in germany, in ukraine, in syria, with god knows where else all of that concerns me little but i don't go out on to the barricades over, but i do have an incredible amount of empathy for all those who suffer valves

images in putty. i didn't do the fun lion hunt. ah, ah, uncle you with the was it did it. we tried to make the world a little bit better with music notice and but the world is crazy when you country fight that with music and with them was there is little hope of doing so a good dismissal from still of the glimmer of hope that exists is what i tried to transmit that with the chrome murata balter care about a couple nickel. oh, oh. oh. oh. making the world a little better with music and ambition shan't. by israeli singer,

songwriter and producer. no guy ever mom. oh. with no way to go. no future insight that thought no get and i sings in her bleak and angry song, bad habits. i was born an angry person. the song was born from a feeling, but the world she knew was on its way out. it struck a chord with many young people in israel like you in just this was something that would, was always keeping my mind busy when i was a young girl, when it came to the smallest to the largest things like how could be that way. and i had a lot of energy to channel towards something and,

and i think my parents realize that and just whatever it is that i wanted to do, they were there were like, okay, let her do that. i really have visit the end of the road. no guy ever as is the musical voice of a new generation. one that is liberal, open minded, and self confidence. ah yes, you know, but i burn in the sun never missed once. i'm sick when she sings about celebrating life, as she does in end of the road. there's nothing cliched about it. she's from a country that cannot find peace. televi, where she lives is no stranger to terrorism. conflict is constantly present, but she doesn't want to be a protest. singer. every time playing music is defined as political music. well, my instinct is to say, it's not political is just living here, makes some incidents a part of life. things have happened to you, your parents,

your grandparents, it's just, it's just a part of life. but you know, that creates some kind of a atmosphere and it makes people who they are. it designs the texture of humanity here. ah, i am. no, it is, isn't afraid. to touch on controversial themes in a provocative video for her song bulk, hadda. she dresses like a jewish orthodox man. no. the members of the ultra orthodox community tel aviv is a city of sin, as opposed to the holy city of jerusalem. i . i contrast feature heavily in her songs which she run with her partner. oh,

so the way now we would have an open microphone and headphones and one of us would be just improvising things and jibberish ng things. but even though it happens in such a intuitive way, eventually we build us will build songs around that. after having conversations about what is important to us. and they are very intimate conversations because m while we have that ability, we're not just music partners, we're life partners. and it's a big part of how i got to for him. my identity is an artist, me. oh, we call the song a children a song for adult. ha, ha, ha, mom. i am winning the pandemic strunk. it

is and who so started imagining a different world. a world at a standstill. one without disasters, without bad news. i thought i named but they soon concluded that people would find in such a world too boring and so there's violence, there's, there's conflicts and racism and, and we're, that is life to us. and i've, i've allowed myself to be very innocent and childish for a 2nd. and just imagine, you know, what, what would happen if, if that wasn't the case, the conclusion that i got to after, you know, thinking a little bit about what the world would be. i was like, we're not ready for this. we're not ready for the world to be right.

her song fire kites was inspired by the attacks of protesting palestinians who flew fire kite bombs over the israel garza border in 2018. and try to stake a fair, fair finger knocking in it. she talks about all being just as much part of growing up for young women as sex 7. we don't need bombs, she sings. we got 5 kite bombs. we got play. we don't need bombs, we get like, ah, does she want to be an am baset? if a piece no, no, no need, will i make peace with my music is music doesn't have that power. music is a beautiful thing. as i said before, is a religion to be. i mean, i am, i believe in the god of music. music doesn't have the power to change reality,

it has a power the way i see it, i think some people would be angry, but i think the way i see it that the one thing that music can do is to help other people realize that they're not alone with what they're going through. maybe i'm wrong. i don't think i'm wrong. i checked it for this week. now i see you next week for another edition of odds. 21. ah ah,

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