Rare footage of Yigal Calek speaking in 1992

at a time for music 5 a great friend of HK and star of last year's show let's he it foral [Applause] solid thank you very much good evening it's a wonderful feeling to be on this stage again it's even a greater feeling thank you it's even a greater feeling to participate in tonight's performance without actually taking part it's wonderful to be able to actually watch the show together with you the Magnificent Orchestra ISRO lamb MBD I'm looking forward to a wonderful evening together with you ladies and gentlemen the husk household is a household name the organizers the directors the counselors and all the helpers are the pillars that hold up this stately house they are the Lions amongst us I'm so grateful to be part of this family I'm so proud that my name is mentioned amongst them as I'm about to present to you the next item in tonight's performance my thoughts take me far away back to Europe to Russia come with me to the little town of bichev arakur the purest and holiest of days is descending upon the St of bichev the sh is full to capacity all the Eden are gathered together they're all waiting they're waiting for the B to lead the community in prayer but there is standing by the table covered in his Talis and he wouldn't begin and the congregation is waiting and he would not begin still not moving and so they wait beoo for a long hour and finally the hich turns to the congregation his eyes fixed somewhere in the high and old ceiling and he says yeen I will tell tell you my children what it was that kept me I will tell you what took place in shamayim while you were waiting for me to start kidre there is a ye amongst us an ex canonist everybody knew what a canonist was a canonist was a little child that thear would decree to take away from his mother and father sometimes at the age of six or seven or eight these little Jewish boys would be taken away to be trained to serve in the Russian army and they would be deprived from all Yiddish surrounding from anything and they would spend many years of Cruelty and hard work in complete goish surrounding and there they would stay until the age of 40 or so and those of them that would come back to the Jewish communities would hardly remember anything this canonist that was released from the Army made his way towards some Jewish settlement and he came to the city of bichev and he came to sh because it was arum ker and said the B to his congregation he came to our sh and he sat amongst us and he saw the community ready for the holy of holy days ready to pull their hearts before meim and he too wanted to say a prayer to the and and and he said I want to say a prayer to you but I can't pray you know that I don't know any fillers all I remember is the alive base I remember the alive Bas my father taught me before they took me away you you are the master of allers you you are the composer of all songs I will say the alip Bates before you and you will take my letters and you make from them ailla and this filler will be a crown on your head and so he said alive Bas giml D hey V and the said to the congregation with his eyes streaming with tears he said and I was waiting for the to take the letters to take the Alas and to make it filler and to make a composition and to make a song and now that the song is finished we're ready to start in D ladies and gentlemen I would like to call upon a real master a very special child a child from husk yid Stern who is going to play for us yidl stone is a master componist