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Youcan only see straight ahead, but you can hear in all directions at once. Learning bird songs is a great way to identify birds hidden by dense foliage, faraway birds, birds at night, and birds that look identical to each other. In fact, when biologists count birds in the field, they find the great majority of species by sound rather than sight.

Some birds characteristically repeat syllables or phrases before moving on to a new sound. Northern Mockingbirds do this many times in a row. Though Brown Thrashers sound similar, they typically repeat only twice before changing to a new syllable. Try it:

The Fortunoff Archive asked musician-in-residence, Zisl Slepovitch, to locate these songs, conduct research about the origins of each song, and then arrange and record versions with his ensemble, featuring Sasha Lurje.

In addition to private occasions on which Jews played music, sang and even danced, music was performed publicly in some ghettos. Street singers performed in Łdź, Warsaw, and Krakw. Professional musical performance was censored and controlled by the authorities, but theater revue shows took place and concerts of classical music were performed in several ghettos. In Warsaw, Adam Furmanski (1883-1943) organized small orchestras in cafs and soup kitchens. A symphonic orchestra played in the ghetto until April 1942, when the Nazi authorities closed it down for performing works by German composers. In Łdź, the head of the Jewish Council, Chayim Rumkowski, oversaw musical activities. The culture center was especially adapted for musical and theatrical performances by a revue theater, a symphony orchestra, and the Zamir choral society. In the Krakw ghetto, chamber and liturgical musical selections were performed. The Vilna ghetto had an extensive program of musical activities, with a symphony orchestra, several choirs, and a conservatory with 100 students. A revue theater presented many popular songs about ghetto life.

For this album 13 songs were selected for a new musical arrangement and performance. The songs were sung by survivors in three languages: Yiddish, Polish and French. The singers sang the songs during their interview with a smile on their face. Some of the songs are humorous, some realistic, and some are pre-war songs that received new meanings as a few songs are parodies (contrafact) i.e., new lyrics to known melodies are created to express the circumstances and emotions of that time.

Thank you

Michael Alpert, Samuel Norich, and Josh Waletzky for their invaluable help with the ghetto and concentration camp-related Yiddish slang; Nikolay Borodulin for consultations on the Yiddish lyrics; Dr. Viktor Slepovitch, for his notes on the Polish lyrics.

Do you like listening to songs in English? Singing songs is a great way to get better at speaking English and we have lots of great songs for you to enjoy. Listen to songs, print activities and post comments!

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Helping your kids get in the habit of brushing twice a day is key to a lifetime of healthy smiles. What better way to make brushing fun than bringing a beat into your bathroom? Below are some of our favorite family-friendly songs to brush by.

The Song of Songs (Shir ha-Shirim in Hebrew) is an unabashedly sensuous, even at times quite erotic, paean to love. Throughout its eight short chapters, an unnamed young man and young woman pursue one another through verdant fields and valleys lush with flowers. Their excitement to be together is palpable, captured in poetic stanzas like:

You have captured my heart, my own one, my bride. You have captured my heart, with one glance of your eyes, with one look at your dcolletage. How sweet is your love, how much more delightful than wine! (Song of Songs 4:9-10)

The Song of Songs is considered one of the five megillot (scrolls), which are read on major festivals. It is traditionally chanted in the synagogue during Passover, due to its thematic connection with springtime. Following the mystical tradition, some Sephardic and Hasidic Jews have a custom to recite it each week on Shabbat evening, as Shabbat serves as a renewal of loving vows between God and the Jewish People. While the tradition ascribes the its authorship to King Solomon (Song of Songs Rabbah 1:1), who lived in the 10th century BCE, modern scholars note the many literary parallels with other love poetry and wedding songs from both Babylonia and Egypt and suggest a later date of composition, perhaps around the fourth through sixth centuries BCE.

Throughout 2023, fans from all over the globe tuned into social media to see which songs Swift would choose. She developed rules around the set. Each song could only be played once on the tour, unless she screwed it up. Oh, and she decided to start it all over again this year.

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The song patterns of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) depend on where they live, with populations inhabiting different ocean basins normally singing quite distinct songs. Here we record a unique and radical song change in the song of humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean off the Australian east coast. Their song was replaced rapidly and completely by the song of the Australian west coast population from the Indian Ocean, apparently as a result of the introduction of only a small number of 'foreign' singers. Such a revolutionary change is unprecedented in animal cultural vocal traditions and suggests that novelty may stimulate change in humpback whale songs.

In the austral winter and spring, humpback whales are found along the east coast of Australia3,8, calving and mating in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. Using hydrophones suspended from radio-linked buoys and small boats, we recorded humpback whale songs off southeast Queensland during northward and southward migrations between 1995 and 1998, from which 1,057 hours of song were analysed. In 1995 and 1996, the song pattern changed slightly in an evolutionary fashion. But two singers out of 82 were singing a new, completely different song (Fig. 1). In 1997, the new song became more common. Most of the 112 singers produced either the old or the new song, but three used an intermediate song containing themes from both types. By the end of the 1997 southward migration, almost all males had switched songs, and in 1998 only the new song was heard.

S, southward; N, northward. The table shows the number of males singing each song type during each migration; the graph shows the relative prevalence of each song type. Most changes in the song patterns occur during the breeding season, when song is being used, and not during the rest of the year when the whales are feeding in high-latitude waters. Over 1,000 hours of song were analysed aurally and spectrographically to determine the song pattern for 252 song bouts.

The new song was nearly identical to the song of humpback whales migrating along the west coast of Australia in 1996. West and east coast songs are usually very different3 and there is only a small amount of interchange between these populations8,9. The very low incidence of the new song in 1996 and the fact that the songs of the two populations evolved independently after 1996 is consistent with the new song being introduced by movement of a small number of singers between populations in 1996.

Humpback whale song shows similarities to song in some birds, particularly the Panamanian yellow-rumped cacique (Cacicus cela vitellinus)10 and village indigo bird (Vidua chalybeata)11, in which song repertoires are colony-specific and all individuals have similar repertoires which change with time. But there are no examples of radical song replacement initiated by a small number of immigrant individuals in these or any other species of songbird.

The process of change in humpback whale song and bird song has been classified as 'cultural evolution', whereby changes in songs are passed among individuals by learning and accumulate over time6. The changes we describe in the song of the humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were cultural in that they were due to the learning of a vocal behavioural pattern and not to a mass influx of immigrants. But the rapid and complete replacement of a complex song over a period of less than two years is revolutionary rather than evolutionary, and suggests that novelty drives changes in humpback whale song. To our knowledge, such 'cultural revolution' is unknown in the vocal cultural tradition of any other animal.

This song comes from Songs of the System, a collection of fish and wildlife songs created and donated by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees and originally released in 2003 in celebration of the National Wildlife Refuge System centennial. The effort was led by Greg Thompson and produced by Danny McKeown, Paul Piccari, and Sandy Perchetti at Studio 2000 at the Omniplex in Camden, NJ thanks to the Friends of E.B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

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