Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Natan Alterman Sheet Music: Not yet located. Please help us find the sheet music for this composition Synopsis: Kulanu Amcha (We are all Your People) was the first play that Lavry orchestrated for the Matateh Theater. The play was written by Martin Rust. Among the famous songs of the…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Leah Goldberg Sheet Music: Not yet located. Please help us find the sheet music for this composition Synopsis: Lavry composed the music for many plays for the Israeli satirical Matateh Theater. Kal Liheyot Yehudi (It’s Easy to be Jewish) is one of the early ones. The play was written…
Movements: Prelude Dance Recording: Not yet available Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990035289890205171 Information from the composer’s opus book: The composition was performed by Daniel Hofmekler, Cello Radio Jerusalem May 13, 1940
Movements: Prelude Dance Recording: Not yet available Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990038406690205171, 990038406720205171 Additional Details: Only a draft of the manuscript and clarinet part are currently available. Anecdote: The concert was held in the Jascha Heifetz Hall, at 10 Beit Hasho’eva Alley, Tel…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics: From the Passover Pesach Haggadah Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990038278200205171, 990038278210205171 Lyrics: Translated from the Passover (Pesach) Haggadah in Hebrew In each and every generation, a person is obligated to see himself as if he left Egypt, as…
Movements: Recitative Aria and Cadenza Recording: Not yet available Additional Details: Since the piece does not appear in the opus notebook, we have no information about the piece other than the inscription on the sheet music that it was written in 1936 in Tel Aviv.
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Sonia Brown Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990038376370205171, 990038376350205171, 990038376380205171, 990038376340205171 Additional Details: The libretto is based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger. Synopsis: Sonia Brown met Lavry in 1965 while in Los Angeles when he was invited…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Shmuel Hupert Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990024238230205171 (Shabtai Petrushka’s estate) Additional Details: We do not have the sheet music of the composition, only an arrangement done by Shabtai Petrushka. Synopsis: In his opus book the only information…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Ya’akov Cohen Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990037131240205171, 990038270990205171, 990038271030205171 Lyrics: Avakesh Et Artzi / Ya’akov Cohen (transliterated from Hebrew to English) Ohav haprachim haktanim Bereicham eshma merei’ach artzi Tziporei hagil yakru lenafshi Ron tarona tif’eret gani.
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics: Leah Goldberg Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990035289850205171 Synopsis: A song from the play “We Were Dreamers” by M. Rust. The lyrics of the songs in the play were written by Leah Goldberg and Nathan Alterman. The play premiered…
Recording: Not yet available Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990035289060205171 Additional Details: We have little information about the composition, which consists of data from the manuscript and the documentation in the opus book. Based on the ensemble and the year in which it was…
Recording: Not yet available Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990035288490205171 Additional Details: The composition is not documented in the composer’s opus book. Except for the manuscript, we have no information about it. According to the manuscript, it seems to have been written in his…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Shalom Aleichem Sheet Music: Not yet located. Please help us find the sheet music for this composition. Anecdote: In his opus notebook Lavry, who was not always accurate, called the play Katrilova. Note: The play premiered on May 28, 1939 and was performed 22 times. (per the Habima Theater…
Recording: Not yet available Lyrics by: Avraham Broides Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990038428710205171, 990037140240205171 Synopsis: With the establishment of the state of Israel, Marc Lavry and Avraham Broides wrote together many songs. Those were particularly patriotic times. Both in the lyrics and in…
Movements: Halachti Li Lasu’ach (I Went for a Stroll) Hasidic Dance Hasidic Song Avraham Hava Venitpaisa (Let’s Make Up) Recording: Not yet available Sheet Music: Not yet located. Please help us find the sheet music for this composition. Additional Details: In 1937 Lavry arranged songs for a male quartet for a concert in December of…
