This 20th-century repertoire includes theatre music and new lyrics set to popular melodies like tangos and local songs. Themes often reflect social trends, such as fashion, or explore immigration to Palestine, highlighting its challenges and hopes.
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song in the rhythm of a habanera, presents a coquetish and flirtatious woman who comments on her suitors young and old. This version was partially based on a...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquettish maid who flirts with the three generations of men in the house, finally marrying the youngest. By...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y648/6 Referenced and notated in: En Buen Siman, Panorama del repertoorio Musical Sefardi, pg. 70, Pardes Publishing House, 2006 This Ladino cantiga comes from a Greek musical that was translated...