Opshpil far di mekhutonim

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Beregovski 1937 [= Beregovski/Slobin 1982, p. 536].

“‘Opshpiel far di mekhatonim.’ Dave Tarras performed this medley...The title translates roughly as Prelude (or Overture) for the In-Laws...The second piece is on the cusp between a khosidl and an up-tempo freylakh.” Phillips 1996a, pp. 34-35. (Musical notation and recording references included). 

See Mazltov.


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