Program: #02-23, Air Date: 06/10/02

The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire, with Howard Bass, Director of Cultural programs for the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian.

NOTE: Our series of Music from Turkey is made

  possible in part by The American-Turkish Council in

  cooperation with the Istanbul International Music Festival,

  one of the world's leading music festivals, this year

  celebrating its 30th anniversary.

 

  Additional support comes from Raymond James, listening

  to investors since 1962: Independent investment and

  financial planning advice and investment banking services

  in the U.S. and Turkey--at

  raymondjames.com

 

  These performances are by the ensemble La Rondinella

  directed by our guest Howard Bass, Director of Cultural

  Programs for the National Museum of the American Indian

  of the Smithsonian Institution.

 

  The three recordings are on the Dorian label:

 

  Songs of the Sephardim (CD # DIS-80105)--abbr. SoS

  A Song of David (CD # DIS-80130)--abbr. SoD

  Sephardic Journey (CD# DOR-93171)--abbr. SJ

 

  I. Love and Marriage

  --Avre tu puerta cerrada (SoS)

  --Dos amantes tengo la mi mama (SoS)

  --Yo m'enamori (SoS)

  --Avrix mi, galanica (SJ)

  --La prima vez (SoS)

  --Scalerica de oro (SoS)

 

  II. Sleep and Night

  --Durme, durme, hermozo hijico (SoS)

  --Durmo la nochada (SJ)

  --A la una yo naci (SoS)

  --Hija mia (SoS)

  --Los bibilicos (SoS)

  --Morenica sos (SJ)

 

  III. The Sacred Tradition

  --A'har noghenim (SoS)

  --Seu shearim (SoS)

  --Partos trocados (SoS)

  --Mose salio de Misrayim (SoD)

  --El paso del mar rojo (SJ)

  --El dia de Purim (SoD)

CD Info

CD # DIS-80105, CD # DIS-80130, CD# DOR-93171.