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From the 1923 musical melodrama, "Shtarker fun libe" (Stronger Than Love)—staged in NYC’s Second Avenue theater district, this brooding song’s haunting melody compels the listener with spooky “tri-tone” musical intervals in its repeated opening phrase. Ever since releasing our 1997 all-instrumental version on Metropolitan Klezmer's debut album "Yiddish For Travelers," a gravitational force kept luring us back to record the full vocal piece complete with its heart-wrenching lyrics -- despite their touch of menace.

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Dos lebn loyft gants shnel avek.
Ales, yo ales, iz azoy leydik,
Nor di libe, zi hot nit keyn breg.
Di libe blaybt, zi blaybt af eybik.

Keynig un betler, ales vos lebt,
Tsu libe, tsu libe shtrebt – akh...

Libes-shmertsn rayst in hertsn.
S’iz a gefil, oy a tayer.
Es brent in hertsn a fayer.
Ale taymim filt men tsuzamen.
Es brent un es brit un in hertsn es tsit.
Dos iz libe, libes-shmerts.

Dos ershte mol hob ikh dikh derzen,
Hob ikh gefilt, kh’ken on dir nit zayn.
Ikh hob genumen tsu dir oft arayngeyn.
Hob ikh bashlosn az du must zayn mayn.

On dir tsu zayn ken ikh nit mer
Bay got in himl, ikh shver – akh...

TRANSLATION:
Life runs away so quickly.
Everything, yes, everything is so empty
Only love has no boundary [end].
Love remains, it is eternal.

King and beggar, all that’s alive
Aspires to love, to love—akh!

CHORUS: The pain of love tears at the heart.
It’s a precious feeling.
A fire burns in the heart.
You feel all sensations together at once.
It burns and it blazes and pulls at the heart.
This is Love, Love’s Pain.

The first time time I saw you,
I felt I cannot go on without you.
I started going to see you often.
I decided that you must be mine.

I can’t bear to be without you,
By God in heaven I swear—akh!...

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from Yiddish Silver Screen, released December 8, 2023
music & lyrics by Joseph M. Rumshinsky: Ethnic Music c/o Music Sales Corp | ASCAP, arranged by Eve Sicular & Pam Fleming

Vocals: Melissa Fogarty
Clarinet & alto saxophone: Debra Kreisberg
Trombone: Reut Regev
Accordion & piano: Shoko Nagai
Double bass & tuba: Dave Hofstra
Drums: Eve Sicular

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NYC-based ISLE of KLEZBOS approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women’s klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies,Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards, & genre-defying originals. ... more

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