Cabaret Yiddish - Author's notes

I have chosen to forget philology in order to explore another possibility by proclaiming that this music transcends its "scientifically determined" space-time coordinates so as to speak to us of the distance of man, of his rapport with the natural and social world, with his "saintliness", with his possibility of standing tall before the universe, weak and yet sublime.The humble people who created all this before being able to become free, have had their culture plundered and have been transformed into dazed consumers, but they somehow managed to leave themselves a posthumous chance: a music which is generated where the distance between the land and the sky has the consistency of a thin virgin membrane which, as it vibrates, perhaps for the space of a single song, suggests that although all has gone wrong, maybe we were put on this earth for a different purpose.

Moni Ovadia