Basya Schechter performs "My Song" by A. J. Heschel; video (c) 2011 Ways & Means Productions

Recorded at the Riverdale Y in NYC. Basya Schechter and her wonderful band (Megan Weeder, violin; Yoed Nir, cello; Uri Sharlin, piano; Rich Stein, percussion) perform a song cycle based on the great religious thinker and human rights activist Abraham Joshua Heschel's early Yiddish poetry.

This is a song /poem"My Song."

Cinematography by Steve Brand for his documentary work-in-progress on Heschel, "Praying With My Legs."

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• Basya Schechter
• Heschel
• My Song
• Yiddish
• song cycle
• Praying With My Legs
• Steve Brand
• poetry
• Riverdale Y
• Ways & Means Productions

[axisares]

"Prayer is a song."

-AJ Heschel

[lovelyethereal]

Very well done in the Klesmer category. Another genre you have mastered.

[notreadyforsex]

nice song! thank you!