Remembering the King of Cantors: Yossele Rosenblatt's 89th Yarhzeit

good evening we're very happy that you have joined us i want to begin by thanking the sam say for sure and eugene wiser where is eugene josler was the king of khazanas he's the king of the lower east side for sure so i before we start just one technicality this is really really important it makes a huge difference to us look at your cell phone you don't have to turn it off put it on vibrate because we are recording we have special acoustic mics here and it will pick up any sound the hustler was great but they didn't have cell phones so we don't want to add to what he produced so please put your cell phones on vibrate do whatever you want during the concert but we don't want to hear any cell phones ring okay so that's number one number two we have a wonderful surprise for you tonight we advertise the hazonium that you saw by hashem they all agreed and they're all here but in addition we've added a choir so we are honored to have with us cousin shimmy miller and his choir who will accompany us of course can to eric freeman who will be on the piano and obviously at this time we also remember that at every concert that i was ever at the united states hasn't danny gildar of hashem was a part of it so it's very meaningful because cantor freeman is his is was and will continue to be his prize student so we're very happy to have him let me just explain to you the order of the evening we're going to dive in my riff myra will be led by hazen mutti boyer with the choir we will then go into pieces samaya will be from here from the bhima and then people will come where i'm standing and every khasna will sing two selections at the end of which we will do a finale and we will do a special keo molly in iosula's memory 89 years ago today or maybe yesterday hustler was there to struggle filming for fox this wonderful film that they were going to put out that was hopefully also going to get him out of the financial disaster that he was facing and he came home i guess having been too much out on the sun on the sea i think they were on the kineric they were certainly out on on the sea and he didn't feel well and within a few hours he passed away and what's incredible is that he passed away so poor that there wasn't enough money not only not to do the leviah but also to send his wife and son back to um back to i believe they were living in chicago at the time and um just to give you perspective ralph rosenblatt who was justly's youngest son told me many years ago that the you know his father traveled to israel left most of his children in chicago and he was sitting on the tram and the person in front of him was reading the chicago tribune and on the front of the tribune it said king of cantor dies of heart attack and he says the man in front of him can i have the paper and that's how he found out that his father died obviously he came home and there was a telegram etc but uh we're dealing with times when there was no communication but one thing's incredible and i know some people especially those on youtube sent me some people called hate mail i call it lovemail why do we call it the king of canters you know everybody has their own opinion it's my humble opinion not just mine that you're yeah that was the point about the cell phone being off i can help you if you need to shut it off the point is that josela for many was the king of chazanes and the idea that after so many years people are singing his piece his pieces people are here tonight there are people live on facebook and youtube and all these different channels someone just wrote to us alex klein from london in london it's now mr one o'clock two o'clock right at least and they're staying up to hear it the hustler's name is synonymous with something very special with aydah shaharts so we're very happy to have you here tonight please our only request is with regards to the cell phone please welcome hasan matiboyer from myriv and shimmy miller and the choir so foreign [Music] oh [Music] oh 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welcome to hasan mati boy's father who's here sitting in the back it's very nice to see you i know that you have a lot of nachos here also to shimmy miller where is he and the choir fantastic fantastic job miller and of course cantor eric freeman okay so now we get into the concert part of the program i just want to tell you some people asked us why we put it on youtube you know it takes away from people coming but it's interesting just in the first few minutes of being on youtube this is where people are telling us they're from watching now live argentina sydney poland ukraine i hope they're safe in a bunker somewhere but uh and in l.a so the point is that yes that we the with the there's the musubin khan and there's those that are all around the world and those that are mitsushim watch it tomorrow and in the future so our first cousin tonight i always think that the siddisha world has a special claim when it comes to hazardous first of all i don't know if you're what he considered himself really but he stammed from the there's no question about it he sang by siddhis and also he was an ernst yid so there's something that by siddhim that they're tied into hazonas our first chasm tonight he'll sing with us the famous the famous yosela piece yeshtaba shimhold malcano please give him again a very warm welcome together with a choir [Music] you [Music] know [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that was absolutely beautiful thank you very very much and hashem we will hear you again [Applause] before i introduce the next cousin you know it's very special come to to come to the lower east side because really you walk the streets it's like a hundred years nothing's changed including the fact that there's no air conditioning so uh i want to say to you eugene and i'm not sure what's more urgent to raise funds for cancer's world or to put air conditioning here maybe if we make a lot of money we'll split it but either way we're very appreciative to be here and those of you that know hazonus on the lower east side they spent the charge and all the other shoes it's where everything went on here is where here on the lower east side is where hazardous in america really really flourished we have a young cousin most probably the youngest cousin of the lineup tonight has an 80 freedmen and [Applause] cousin friedman will sing mikimi miofado of course all the recitatives tonight are from yosela we're very happy to have him here please give him a very warm welcome cousin eighty freedman [Applause] me [Music] is [Music] we [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] we are [Music] we are [Music] [Applause] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] thank you very much cousin friedman that was beautiful so we're staying in the world of hasidim but now we're moving to la hasiden so also great great fans of hazones who keep hazanis alive um and most especially i want to welcome hasan arya leib herwitz a very hasn't in his own right who is a hasn't in boca full time and it's very very nice to have him with us tonight please give him your undivided attention for what i would say my purse from my personal choice is one of the top five seven ten rosenblatt pieces at least the most famous and uh that is ana after the kucha bricho so you can join in with the choir shimmy you're gonna have another 150 people 100 people joining in with you in the right parts another warm welcome horowitz [Applause] taka please sing along if you know it if you don't know it so welcome this is probably your first hazardous event so uh welcome and you'll you'll figure it out real soon shimmy will we'll have to hear you guys right right all right let's do this [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is me [Applause] [Music] is 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friend of mine for meredith israel sent me an email and the email was entitled nissim so i thought that he was talking about the peace i say but then i heard it and it was hashem from yosler roseman that was the first piece that i heard nissim singh so tonight we're very very happy to have with us nissim sal who will sing jocelyz hashem allah [Applause] hello [Music] more [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] ah [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] loving the [Music] r [Music] [Applause] thank you very much nissim that was beautiful really really well done [Applause] we're going back to hasan multi-boyer but in introducing him now i just have to give my cursor because this night is thanks to him he basically sent me a whatsapp a few weeks ago and he said what are we doing for hustler's yard site i said you know we're doing what we did every year which is not very much i said no no i'm going to be in new york let's do something so i said fine we post it in the chat and the rest is history so mati really deserves the credits [Applause] in addition i wonder how many of you know that josler rosenblatt had a kagovna how many people here if i asked you could sing it rosa de chaves would say the vast majority i don't see hands up unless you're all very shy two three people so again uh mati tonight will sing with us the governor does the shabbos from yesterday roosevelt that i don't believe he recorded but he wrote music for please give him another very warm welcome has mutti boyer [Applause] okay now before this we're gonna do something else mati is gonna speak in hebrew and i'm gonna translate i'm not sure so he says first of all it's the first time that he's had a chance to perform on the jose your side my riff he's never done that before so it's very special for him to be here now he's going to say something about kagame or he's saying that is in his mind on par with one of the most famous which is if not the most famous which is the pinchik and maybe also mandelbaum and there's a melody there much like there is in the british may that we heard sung which he's happy to teach you and you'll join in singing okay let's start thank you [Applause] uh [Music] in [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] hello [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] is yo [Music] is your [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is before [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] really really beautiful thank you thank you hasn't mutty boyer not only for the beautiful song but also for bringing justless music back to life the last chasm from this round of the rotation that we have not yet introduced in introducing him i have to give credit to another man who has done a tremendous amount for jewish music and that is hilu posen because [Applause] hilo it's okay you know the first thing you can stand up it's okay no problem [Applause] we were together on a shabbos a few years ago and you know hazard and musicians they always like to talk politics never lost just a little bit just to hear what's going on in the veldt and i remember you said to me there's this guy with a beautiful voice a young kid you called him but he has a terrific voice and a singer sahil you get the credit raymond but it gives me great pleasure tonight to introduce to you going back to the world of hasidim who will sing um please give him a very warm welcome [Applause] is [Music] huh right [Music] there's [Music] is [Music] [Applause] we are [Music] a [Music] me know [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] my [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] was god [Music] oh [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] knowledge [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for your phone 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