War,exile, genocide, or assimilation—these are heady themes for an album of cabaret music. But As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music 1925-1955 isn’t just any stale cabaret album.
Last month,As Dreams Fall Apart, the third album by recent Budapest Orpheum Society, or an ensemble-in-residence at the University of Chicago,received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Compendium (the award was first given in 2013), which is no small feat for an album of decades-stale songs sung mostly in German and Yiddish.
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