The highlight of the day was a concert at one of the nearby synagogues. Nancy Linder is a small woman with a huge voice. A stage presence that includes the audience. She doesn't just stand on the stage and sing. No, she makes eye contact, encourages the audience to sing along.

Her program was Jewish, Yiddish, Ladino songs, most of them also translated to English. Some traditional songs, some from the Sabbath service. For those of us who aren't fluent in anything but English the translation was a help. I must comment that Ladino songs have a romantic lilt that Hebrew or Yiddish songs don't have.

I bought a CD, but I must say I'm a little disappointed. The recording doesn't do justice to her voice. In the recording some of the power of her voice is lost. None of the songs of her program are on the CD.

Does anyone remember a song maybe of the 30s, but popular in the 40s, called Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen? I think it was the Andrews Sisters who made it popular. Anway, Nancy sang that one too. I don't think it was a Yiddish song, and I'm going to have to go through my old sheet music and see if I can find it, and see who composed it. My curiosity is aroused now.

Anyway, that was my day. Now I'm going to read some diaries.

Shalom