Weekends With The Wizard playlist for 03/31/2010

ArtistTitleAlbumLabel
Neil DiamondDesiréeI'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight(1977)
Simon Spiro; Sholom Secunda [music], Jacob Jacobs [lyrics]Bei mir bistu sheyn [By Me, You're Beautiful]M'ken lebn nor m'lost nit [One Could Really Live, But They Won't Let You](1932)
Ernst Toch (1887-1964)Cantata Of The Bitter Herbs[complete work for vocalists and orchestra](1941)
Max Helfman (1901-1963)Di Naye Hagode: A Choral Tone Poem Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[complete work for speaker, vocalists and orchestra](1948)
David AmramThe Final Ingredient: Scene 5[complete scene from opera](1966)
David AmramThe Final Ingredient: Scene 9[complete scene from opera](1966)
David AmramThe Final Ingredient: Scene 10[complete scene from opera](1966)

The Forty-Eighth Edition: The Pesach Programme. Three rather more sombre, sober pieces about the nights different from all other nights.

Preparatory, too, for the one-year anniversary two weeks hence. A sort of palate-cleanser, if you will.

Kashrut, even.