2024 season

Di Tsunkunft

musescore pdf Lyrics:

o, di velt vet vern yinger,
un dos lebn laykhter, gringer,
yeder kloger vet a zinger
vern, brider, bald.

loz dos folk nor vern kliger,
un faryogn dem batriger,
im, dem fuks, un oykh dem tiger
fun zayn sheynem vald.

Oh the world will glow with beauty
Love enhanced and hatred puny
Between every state and country
People tearing down walls

loz di glaykhkeyt nor bazign
farbrekhn, shvindl un lign,
loz der mentsh nor endlekh krign
mentshlekhn farshtand.

loz dos folk zikh nor nisht bangen
frish a hoyb zikh tsu derlangen
un zikh nemen - nisht farlangen -
zayne rekht oyf der erd.

mutik brider, mutik shvester!
yener kamf, der letster, grester
ruft aykh fun di tukhle nester*
oyfn frayen feld.

And the world will become freer
Freer, newer, younger, dearer
And the truth within her clearer
Ringing clear as a bell

alzo, mutik in di rayen,
in di rayen, tsu bafrayen
tsu bafrayen un banayen
undzer alte velt.

As you struggle become braver
Activist and liberator
Be a hero and creator 
Re-imagining our world

pleytem tsuzamen

musescore

dos naye lid

musescore

No matter how far away the time Of love and peace, Still it will come, whether soon or late, That time––it’s no dream!

I hear the song of love and peace, The mighty singing; And every note of the song asserts: The sun has risen!

The night is ending, the world is awakening With hope and joy and striving. You hear––in the air a voice calls To happiness, to joy, to life!

Un zol vi vayt__ nokh zayn di tsayt__ Fun li-be un fun sho-lem, Dokh ku-men vet, tsi fri, tsi shpet, Di tsayt es iz keyn sho-lem! Dokh ku-men vet, tsi fri, tsi shpet, Di tsayt es iz keyn sho-lem!

lkh her dos lid__ fun li-be, frid,__ Di mekh-ti-ge ge-zan-gen; Un ye-der ton fun lid zogt on: Di zun iz oyf-ge-gan-gen! Un ye-der ton fun lid zogt on: Di zun iz oyf-ge-gan-gen!

Es ekt di nakht__ di velt der vakht__ Ful hof-nung, lust un shtre-bn. Du herst in luft a shti-me ruft: Tsu glik un freyd un le-bn! Du herst in luft a shti-me ruft: Tsu glik un freyd un le-bn!

dos naye lid cool band

a shtik fun harts

musescore

May Lid

pronunciation

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mp4 midi score of May Lid

originals

• score
• lyrics and translation

musescore file (rt click save as)

alto

just Alto part

bass

pdf

• bass part w lyrics Yiddish-English

mp4

• just Bass part

Di Arbuzn

http://www.abvchorus.org/resources/print/Di%20Arbuzn%20-%20SATB.pdf

http://www.abvchorus.org/resources/print/Di%20Arbuzn%20lyrics%20and%20translation.pdf

 Poem by Mendl Abarbanel (1888-1957), Soviet Yiddish poet
 Set to music by Ben Yomen (1901-1970), born in Ukraine, emigrated to US
 and taught music at Arbeter Ring shuln and Camp Kinder Ring
 Song made popular by the Pennywhistlers, an all-woman folk group led by
 ethnomusicologist Ethel Raim
 Yiddish Lyrics English translation (not singable)

S’iz der step shoyn opgeshorn,	The steppes have been mowed,
S’iz der step shoyn opgeshorn,	The steppes have been mowed,

 S’iz der step shoyn opgeshorn,
 Un shoyn alts tsunoyfgenumen.
 Libster mayner, kum tsu forn,
 Ikh vel vartn oyf dayn kumen, hey!
 Di arbuzn zaynen tsaytik,
 S’geyt di zaft fun zey ariber,
 Ful mit ziskayt ongegosn,
 Vi mayn harts iz ful mit libe.
 Un di karshn, libster mayner,
 Zaynen shvarts vi dayne oygn.
 Ongeshotn oyf di beymer
 Un di tsvaygn zikh azh boygn.
 Kum tsu forn, libster mayner,
 Un genug shoyn undz tsu troymen,
 Rayf un tsaytik iz mayn libe,
 Vi s’iz tsaytik mayne floymen!

 The steppes have been mowed,
 And everything has been gathered.
 My dearest, come visit me -
 I await your arrival.
 The watermelons are ripe,
 Their juice is overflowing,
 They’re full of sweetness,
 As my heart is full of love.
 And the cherries, my dearest,
 Are black like your eyes.
 The trees are loaded
 And the branches are bending.
 Come visit me, my dearest,
 And enough of this dreaming.
 My love is ripe and ready,
 Ready as my plums are!

Bob:
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