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Bald Bookletnewlook Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 1 Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 1 NEW YORK BOYS CHOIR A YITZY BALD PRODUCTION PROGRAM 1 MA’AMINIM 2 LIBI 3 ELAH 4 CHESED 5 AL HASULAM 6 V’AHAVTA 7 RIDE THE WAVES 8 TEN 9 GALEY 10 M’LOICH 11 CHALOMOS 12 YEHUDI © 2011 Yitzy Bald Productions All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Duplication /Broadcast is against the law & Halacha. Please Support Jewish Music By Not Copying, E-mailing or Uploading This CD. Thank You. For Concerts, Performances, Booking Information, General Information, and Auditions please call: 718-471-1828 • 917-225-3113 • E-mail [email protected] Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 2 Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 3 E N E W C H O H Y O Y S I R T O R K B INTRODUCTION Why is it, that Sefer Vayikra is the first chumash taught to children before they are taught Sefer Bereishis? Chazal say: “let the pure ones come and talk about purity”. This means that because Sefer Vayikra talks about korbanos, which leads a person to purity, then the pure ones (i.e. children) should first talk about these concepts. Baruch Hashem after producing, composing, and arranging many albums, I have decided to share my music in a venue that holds a very special place in my heart: choirs. Let “the pure ones” sing Hashem’s praises. Over the past 30 years, I have been attending and working for Camp Agudah in different capacities, includ- ing producing the choirs for the Cantata, a play that is performed a day before Tisha B’av. The producer of this truly moving play is a rebbe of mine, Rabbi Shimon Finkelman, Shlita. Interspersed throughout the play, I would lead the choir that sang songs a cappela. I must tell you, that the success of those choirs must be due to Rabbi Finkelman’s zechusim (merits). Some of my nicest songs and lyrics were composed for those cantatas. I directly attribute the success of those songs to his influence on me. Many of those songs became big hits in Camp Agudah and four of them have been included on this cd. I thank Hashem for allowing me to reach this milestone of sharing my music through the pure voice of children. Without further ado, I present to you The New York Boys Choir. I JOY! H U EN YI D OPE YO TZY BAL Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 4 MIXED BY MASTERED BY CREDITS Nochi Krohn Ilya Lishinsky, PRODUCED, COMPOSED, COVER CONCEPT/DESIGN Nochi Krohn CONDUCTED, RECORDED, DIRECTED, Yitzy Bald & KZ Creative AND LYRICS WRITTEN BY Yitzy Bald ALBUM PHOTOS BY Jason Meyer of Jerry Meyer Studios, MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS BY Moshe Gershbaum of Brilliant Photography Nochi Krohn & Yitzy Bald CD REPLICATIONS Aron Spitzer of Print R Us - Audio Zone BRASS SECTION ARRANGEMENTS BY Dani Flam & Yitzy Bald DISTRIBUTION Sruli Wertzberger of Nigun Distributors MUSIC RECORDED BY Nochi Krohn Studios, Yitzy Bald Studios, & Dani Flam Studios MUSICIANS a.k.a. newyorkbrass.com PIANO AND SYNTHS BASS CHOIR VOCALS RECORDED BY Nochi Krohn, Mike Hall Yitzy Bald Studios Yitzy Bald, Dani Flam BRASS SECTION BY ADULT VOCALS ARRANGED DRUMS Dani Flam, AND RECORDED BY Gal Gershovsky Tony Garusso, Doni Gross of DEG Studios, Kenny Rempton, ELECTRIC GUITAR Yitzy Bald, & Nochi Krohn Don Downs Oz Noy, SAX, CLARINET, FLUTE ADULT CHOIR MEMBERS Aryeh Kunstler Doni Gross, Yaakov Sprecher, Mark Fineberg ACCOUSTIC GUITAR Boruch Shapiro, Shloimie Bloom, Oz Noy, Nochi Krohn VIOLIN Tzvi Eli Lefkowitz, & Nochi Alan Grubner Krohn, Yitzy Gross, Shmuel PERCUSSION Aryeh Zelmanovitz Gilad Dubreki, FRENCH HORN, LEAD TRUMPET & TROMBONE Shaya Leiber Dani Flam Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 5 Choir Members Yosef Aboksis Yehuda Furman Ari Mulgay Eleyah Yoav Aburus Aaron Simcha Futerman Boruch Nagelberg Yekusiel Adler Pinny Garbacz Motti Neuman Shmuel Boruch Aryeh Rafael Yehuda Glazer Ushi Polinsky Yehuda Auerbach Yaakov Greenberg Ami Rosenfeld Moshe Yehuda Banash Yaakov Gross Avrohom Yehuda Ross Ari Baranker Chaim Gross Mordechai Samowitz Rafi Calderon Chaim Itzkowitz Eliezer Seror Sruli Caller Yaakov Jacobowitz Shloimy Shalitzky Tzviki Cohen Yakov Jacobowitz Gavriel Shimonovich Avraham Yaakov Cooper Elozor Menachem Jacobs Meir Simcha Silverman Eli Deutsch Ezra Jacobs Shlomo Silverman Yoni Deutsch Yonatan Janashvili Gavriel Singer Yitzchok Diamond Shalom Dovid Katz Yosef Nissim Sosnowik Yehoshua Edelstein Shimon Katz Akiva Spirn Yehuda Aryeh Eisenstein Gavriel Klahr Simcha Stender Aaron Feivelson Binyomin Dovid Klein Yitzchok Tanner Yakov Feivelson Baruch Kunstler Benjy Thall Yechezkel Feivelson Dovid Leshinsky Sammy Wagman Shlomo Feldman Ari Lieberman Ari Weingarten Nisan Fetman Danniel Lobel Michoel Weingarten Avi Fine Eli Masar Yossi Weingarten Akiva Fishfeld Dovid Moskovitz Mordechai Weiss Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 6 DEAR ABBA k"z This album is dedicated to you, k"z hcm crv ic kuta cr The pain of your loss is immeasurable and I still can’t believe that your amazing neshama has just left us. Who can replace you?! You were so Torahdig, so ehrlich, so straight and so filled with chein. Your inspiration will last forever. I miss you so much! Love, Yitzy t"ga, yca u"f vcmb, Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 7 SPECIAL THANKS To my father and his wife, word! I’m thrilled that we were able to work together Rabbi Shaul Bald k"z and Leah Bald on this project. You should continue to be matzliach in To my brother and family, all your learning and musical endeavors. Zev, Leah, Tzvi, Dina, Rivka, & Leba Bald To Jason Meyer of Jerry Meyer Studios, Moshe Gershbaum of Brilliant Photography To my in-laws, The pictures were incredible! Thanks for all the extra Rabbi Elchonon and Harriet Abramchik effort you put in, to make it just right. To the entire Bald, Abramchik, Jaeger, Gutwirth, Binke, Zell, To Rabbi Eliezer Feuer and Hillel Adelman Weinreb, Michael, Jaffa, Horowitz, Weinstock, Lopin, Schur, of the Young Israel of Bayswater, Baver, Kushner, and Litke Families. You are both amazing people in my life. I honestly don’t To Nochi Krohn, know if I could have gotten this choir off the ground You are amazing! First and foremost, you are the without all your friendship, chizuk, and support. Not epitome of a mentch, a ben torah, a true friend, an only did you give me a physical shell of a building for all advisor, a confidant, a ben aliya, an optimist etc my choir tryouts/practices, but you also gave me an ...Second of all, to put in today’s slang, you are “sickly” emotional and spiritual support support system in more talented! Wow! The arranging, the editing (“super ways than one. Thanks for everything you do for me editing” that is), the piano & guitar playing, the and the community at large... engineering, the singing, and the mixing, etc...of this To Reb Nochum Weingarten, entire project was impeccable. I am lucky to have you as Thanks for all the things you have done to bring the a real friend and a super talented all around musician. whole Brooklyn based choir together. From the very May Hashem grant you and your family loads of onset of the choir in 2008, you have been a tremendous nachas, kain ayin hora. Thanks for all those chocolate help and support to myself and the choir and you treats. Keep ‘em coming! continue to do so with words of encouragement, real To the Krohn family, action, and true friendship. Thanks for all your amazing hospitality. I always felt like To Yanki and Tammy Fetman, I was at “home away from home"! Thank you so much for building us a new home for the To Doni Gross, choir. The building is magnificent and you both are Your adult vocal arrangements were stunning. You amazing people. Of course, you should see only great enhanced every aspect of the choir just the way I things from your immediate family and also from the wanted. You are a true ben torah in every sense of the choir, your “second” family! Bald BookletNewlook_Layout 1 3/2/11 6:42 PM Page 8 To Dovid Moskovitz and Mordechai Weiss, choir is truly appreciated, your commitment has an I can not express in words how much I appreciate the amazing impact on the chinuch of your children. Be time you put in to help the choir become successful and proud of your children. I surely am. My hakoras hatov continue to be successful. Your unwavering support to to you is manifold. Thanks again! keep this choir sounding great has a lot to do with your To Zvika Bornstein, hard work. Hashem should pay you back in kind and Thanks for the amazing choreography. may you always see success in whatever you do! To Eli Gerstner, To a true friend Dovid Weiss (a.k.a. “DJ”), You are a true buddy. Thank you for all the advice. What can I say? We did it! It has been a long, exciting To the Boys of the choir, journey and you were there with me every step of the You guys did an amazing job! Your middos are great. way. By tryouts, by practices, by recordings, by every ’t Your singing is great. So many choir members find facet of this album, you were not only physically there, ways to help me out in so many ways. I appreciate it but you put your whole neshoma into it. Throughout and it’s a pleasure to have you as part of the choir. the project, you showed true concern, help, friendship, ll Every week, I see how you boys get so into it by the advice, encouragement, and great business acumen.
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