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The Turkish president reject I have heard one has ordered the freezing of assets in the country belonging to the us interior and justice ministers Mr Herder one told supporters the move was in retaliation for the imposition of u.s. Sanctions on 2 Turkish ministers who are the continued detention in Turkey of an American pastor under Brunson he denies allegations of backing terrorism. 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News. The. Car we're listening to this is the last Sunday a wonderful tango by the sea ran a record company of Warsaw. I'm Monica Whitlock and this is Semana sounds it's the story of one of the world's great trick ordering companies born in the heart of Europe in the earliest days of recorded sound Simran as dancing that brief life created thousands of beautiful melodies from a place long ago wiped out by blood and history now 2018 we can hear them again as musicians scholars and fans around the world collect the scats attract ments and rediscover the sound of Syriana. Especially before the 1st World War was such a huge success story like came out of nowhere him with a small number of years you could almost say they were the most important record company in Eastern Europe had things continued they were probably going on to even greater things and they had very high standards. And. Just look at the beautiful labels on the 70 eight's blue and gold with ornamental scripts in Perl ish Russian Yiddish English and a man made on each one the symbol of Warsaw and also the Simon because I linger bewitching us with a song it's music to fall in love with haunting music that doesn't let you can. I have so many of the same for my phone I have like playlist for about 200 I can't speak polish that well but I still absolutely adore this it really. It's me of a golden age which went on for the same amount of years as I've been a life it's so strange when you think about it that it was so short but it was so furious. The music recreated atmosphere Forssell And it's that atmosphere that really year brought me to understand what the world was at the beginning I really thought that I was going into a musical journey but it's far more than just music. To the earth to. The I. Will eat. To Mom. Economics. That I was producing records for multiple client tells a new music and a new form of entertainment in a Poland that was sophisticated that would keep up with Berlin and Vienna and Paris this new stage that no one had seen before like the. Like. I think I am like. We stumbled across these records when working on the stories about Poland and we knew almost nothing then but just a few years later pioneering musical research enabled by the internet has shown us so much more not just about the music but its place and the people who made it as late as August 30th like the 30 that were dancing. At quite the music composing and trading at the acerbic common sense. That was written. But it is ultimately a consequence of this incredible explosion about the talent that happened in the waning days of the Austrian Gary Marquis and what I think genuinely in Europe has apart from the really sounds no analogy serious Warsaw was a metropolis and live with different peoples and languages and ideas we're talking here about the 1st half of the 20th century people from all over Europe Goldwasser home sophisticated place modern and experimental embracing all that was new and exciting you can just hear was it was confidence in China or the tangible city has vanished. Just never walking now which is anything more than the sands and the modern way west this was the hearts of much polish in Warsaw the city was always near 50 very few people have dug this deeply into c.n.n. Is classed as Thomas Lasky this building because of Stalin Pol Pot actually get a. Collector historian and writer for America but the empty grounds that if we'd come here in $1014.00 this was the last word in technology modern record production yes this place there's no single sign of it all of the Stockholm by a particular. And was it just empty Grant says Mr. Thomas is painstaking work on Sirena his fields no man book but a monumental term his elegant Panna his gramophone with its curly horn a salvage from a destroyed cultural world in. History. When my grandma lived and when one a great grandma lived there last thing both of them were thinking. And we had quite a lot of these pre-war records at home. And we get is this device when I was little this was your grandparents' record. Was. Seen in the story starts in 1008 when recorded sound was the latest thing just think of great labels like h.m.p. In London no audio no and diligent gramophone in Berlin it took someone with daring and money and style to stake that all on such a new business someone like Simonis fountain Julius fake amount for generations his family had sold musical instruments throughout the Russian Empire 'd was it out of those things album is so much about it that he was of Jewish descent actually Catholics for many generations before him. Is our interpreter he was very patriotic . More than a composer thought an inventor a musician a composer businessman and with a vision. And of course he had a vision unlike us both of us at the sauna he had exchanged letters with Edison. But of others he had started importing these from the ground cylinders from Edison he was the 1st one to bring them here it was for us when they were going to keep his that wasn't a big business yet that would be 100000 records launching 11 he started a recording studio in Moscow Kiev a desk and Petersburg and that would be $1000000.00 records in Russia he thought was a bit of the that's what you call business the business 'd. It must have seemed like magic the trappings. People got records in their millions but what's really fascinating is this case of faking bombs ambition D D D D. There are skits and gents cabaret and political satire and street jokes and Russian Yiddish and the time. Was. In this is no Polish state as we know it's now the people of Poland leaving Tera trade divided between Russia Austria. Toward. The car her. And her. Car. Home market. It's a bit like uncovering an old master painting if I can say that you're trying to produce something that it may not look perfect but it represents what the artist originally wanted Julian for to his meticulously restored some of the ran his earliest recordings and compile them on a newly released cd who also is Jewish my mate the recording by Syriac off I think is a good example of that the fast recording he made the tenor of his voice store if it recording quality but that's due to the original recording engineers her. Music was always a company at the forefront of development yes because the recording engineers are so Rayna to great pains and Feigenbaum the owner would often be present at the recording sessions which would take place maybe a couple of days before they are to see them turned up at the studio so that everything was right sonically correct for the actual recording when it took place . Among the earlier record against the health records particularly representing klezmer music recorded at the time in the location. In solution this came from a collector in the Ukraine these are the 1st recordings that we have all seen the music as it would have sounded in Eastern Europe. We may never know what these musicians looked like when they came from how they lived and worked how they died that we can't hear them. We know nothing virtually nothing it's still a huge controversy as to where they may have contact Well a Rumanian most of them Buddhist writing more than a couple 100 yards from my hometowns disco prefer Michael Elwood Julian's colleague and Dorian of the early recording world many of them will barbers but you know that very few of them can make a full time living from being a close musician klezmer I was just going to talk things up a bit but all we can say about Belfast s is one style we haven't got much to compare it with. In the whole districts of the towns and cities people would hear these from from recordings on a chain rent from a phone. I don't know what you call them for Old Men but the come out with a gramophone and a big hole in on it move small selection of records would turn up at your. John set up shop and start playing nice records and people would chuck money down him from the windows up state as once he'd gone through his records it between good and he'd move off to the next school yard and give a gramophone concert then I have come across several accounts of very small towns and villages in component and Russia there would be one or 2 people in the vicinity who could afford a gramophone and very often they would give free from the phone concerts on the front window open the window start playing the locals would come around and congregate and sit in the grass not so hidden listen was. Herbert Hoover could have heard had home having woman. Chief controversial and international superstar Caruso they called in Siracusa sang in a death sentence Vilnius and toured found wind across a Europe caught nowadays by state borders the recordings made by serrata were being missing tell as far away as America. His voice would have been known through his discs and this was vitally important for something like Serato and recordings of other countries as well gave them the prominence and visibility that otherwise would never existed. Listen to this recording in say 1910 would not be able to hear what we can hear today it would have been just impossible I mean they would listen to this through a horn that's why this phrase Put a sock in it because to put a sock in the recording horn it deadened the sound to some extent say to some of the worst of the crack in the head. We are closer to the recording studio over that any question I think we're as close as the chording the original recordings as we can reasonably expect to get they capture the complete sound picture of the world as it was at that time remember they were a commercial recording organization they were in it rather like any label today is in it to make money and they would record what would sell. 1913 Sirena was pressing $15000.00 records a day that's 4 and a half 1000000 each year and this is a company just 5 years old they were selling furiously all over Europe and as far away as the United States but this was a world about to be swept away forever. Was. First World War smashed old imperial Europe Sirena survived a Zeppelin bombing the factory but its pre-war markets were gone forever. A time of destruction but one of opportunity to in 1900 Poland realized a dream generations old is emerged as a sovereign state under its own flag. Of course it was Syriana that accorded the brusqueness mazurka him of Polish insurance turned national and from. A world of Warsaw after 1900 pounds Poland depended on a very interesting one because they had just emerged for the Germans are back to the city there's a pattern and still hunger on the other hand people are in for a parent as at last. That freedom and a sense of unleash all of this diversity and all of this talent come from seeing an expert on Warsaw cabaret and prefer. Sort of Slavic and your Asian Studies at Duke University Poland is now independent There are no taboos people thought that they could be as different as they were so it was wonderful for a very large Jewish community a 3rd to some people say to 39 percent of Warsaw Jewish residents of different as Mel Brooks used to say Hebrew persuasion who persuaded them that where they were no and then you also had a wide range of Polish Catholic 7 Jellicoe and a very large contingent of right wing nationalist and everyone thought that they could have a voice and the one place all of this came together in a friendly fashion was in entertainment. But they were all people who believed in a Poland and that was sophisticated that would keep up with Berlin and Vienna and Paris and also that they had talent that they could bring to this new stage that no one had seen before. And post Polish radio starts and needs lots of records to be ed. Post get up and says the parish radio is a huge driver of the record business. That people pull out of but they do not mean 2nd or 3rd rate alters they want the big names a lot of hard ball most of fake and downs competitors when Donda but t.v. Invested in the latest microphones to produce the wall most clearest most intimate sound yet now you're listening to see Vienna electric. Which is well he's one of the most popular Polish singers of all time legend in just one year he recorded 150 different songs. To be fake. The you. Know you he toured again and again from Italy to Norway and through the United States. Was. Was. Was a. Man's hand coordination a star of Polish stage and screen just stunning in her photos with a marcel wave. Going all night. Simran this galaxy of talent its high standards its reach were at the heart of the next giant stride in popular entertainment homegrown talking pictures took Poland by storm from 1030 supported by a head of state determined that his young country should make its mark in his capacity putting into skin nothing left with Lima everything was German song. Wreck or its films the 1st and the 1st is up at the gov of for the purpose of problem solvers of if I could muster up a few up out of the village and cover that's why the president of Poland sponsored the project whereby Saran I would buy equipment to produce sound films. Given that it was with a valid search on top of the market that hunted mission over the small part of that's why they built the 3rd factory invasion of a street was a huge studio 20 by 30 meters and 15 latest for a long but what was its name for the park is that of and this is where both records were produced and all them soundtracks were produced sound films dialogues an orchestra and everything a record in. The summer given. The . Thank you for the coming call than your. Survey no place I wonderful role in film production and Poland so the 1st Polish sand film the morality of Mrs Doyle Scott produced in 1930 had sound on desk produced at Sedona records Julia Breton is a young bitten by the sea man a bug and researching and a deeper Serina songs were usually seen in the films 1st and then if they were popular enough which they are from what they were made into the records we see artists like bottle you know that you don't. Have that fire on. You genres border imagine a supercharged Clark Gable not only an actor but a film director and singer thought that. They ever got that. The king of style said film magazine in 1936 whatever it was Bordeaux and it was the epitome of the Polish celebrity star he grows up and quite a backwards Andrea you know he has to leave home you know he has to go to Warsaw for a career and suddenly Bodo is pulling the big bucks effectively you know he's in every cabaret writing and performing and directing and by the end he has his own film studio with a fellow actor and director but always everyone I think. It was like that. And of course what with the energy would be to get artists sometimes several artists to record that strong of the season advice to all violinist and singer has lovingly transcribed he ran his repertoire and now performs it with his Sydney based orchestra Andrea nostalgia it's almost as if they had the charts they had their arrangement they had the simple thing is just recording at one after the hour . Because the public obviously wanted. That sex appeal in Yiddish sung by men Nash Oppenheimer. Turned their call her the nightingale of Waterloo and the bride who was so cast in was always like a bird crow to mastery. And . So when a star just kept rising the so much you haven't heard gente stay listening and you'll hear all about the heady delights of Yiddish tango. And. Before the news we look at the blueprint for a privately owned city money and power from the b.b.c. To the master plan of the project didn't there were a creation of center which sits in the middle of the shopping center and this is our resident area that you could basically spend your entire life here you can go to work here you live here everything everything this is not even 10000 car dies it is next to those small Central American nation is just no embarrassing in a fairly peculiar political experiment the case will attract foreign capital and jumpstarted to one of these tough holiday asks whether a 5 the size 50 can move the house and a tough wrist country I think that it is the best for our national sovereignty I think it is also a story for our social cohesion is it among us writing for an eternity the very sustainable city the private cities of one jurist at b.b.c. World Service dot com slash money and power. Coming up after the news it's back. To new music and a new form of entertainment that no one it's on the for. The biggest hit records in Europe the beautiful sound of Syriana records but voice and chronicle of a lost world this incredible explosive at the stick talent and has apart from the really sols know and that that's a renaissance with me Monica Whitlock here on the b.b.c. World Service b.b.c. 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Regional summit Vivian Baloch Krishnan said representatives of both Washington and Pyongyang were present at the talks he said those attending acknowledged that there had been some progress and that the early a meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong un had changed the tone of the conversation a Russian helicopter carrying oil workers has crashed in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk killing all 18 people on board the Russian transport ministry said the aircraft collided with a cargo helicopter soon after takeoff Saudi Arabia says it's resuming its oil shipments through the Bab Amanda Street between Yemen and the Horn of Africa they were suspended last month after reports that 23 rebels on the Yemeni sure attacked 2 Saudi tankers. The Turkish president reject type Erdogan has ordered the freezing of assets in Turkey that belong to the us interior and justice ministers Mr heir to on said the move was in retaliation for the imposition of u.s. Sanctions on 2 Turkish ministers over the continued detention of an American pastor and in cricket in England have won the 1st Test against India at Edge best and in Birmingham the hosts held their nerve to complete a tense 31 run victory b.b.c. News. Down. The road map out of. Here listening to Savannah songs and this is the lovely voice of Adam asked one of the most popular and prolific singers in pre-war Europe he's one of the stars of the same man a record company of Warsaw. Car. So Adam asked on for me as one of the best classically trained he is an opera singer but he found his own voice the musicologist Gnome Silverberg his way of approaching popular music it's more casual but still not too casual. Sinners they were under contract and they had to record a set amount of pieces every advice sold violinist and singer asked him for example had a contract where he went under the name Adam asked him which is a pseudonym of course he's not real name wasn't hadn't asked him it was adult Lois an Aston is also someone who was fluent in Yiddish and could also sing in Hebrew when he sang in Hebrew he sang under the pseudonym Ben Levy. On a back. And he also recorded advertising songs tankers and written to advertise cigarettes advertise chocolate he has this pulsing erotic tone he would sing things like opium the words were by Andre wost who was often called the king or the king of trash but it didn't matter I mean when I asked him to sing this it was this glorious song about your love is poisoning me like opium and I cannot be rid of you who. Asked and worked full time in an Apple distribution which actually had a. Headquarters right mean this in a recording factory and at the same time he would be working can calmly not train and performing in theatres all around will soar and recording songs in Santa. Asked it's crazy Szechuan and creative output represents here the lives of dozens so many of see Renaissance a sense you have people who are tremendously proficient and come from families who have been classical musicians for generations either acculturated used or Jews who are certainly used to being in the secular world musicologist back home grown they wanted to play swing they wanted to play jazz so I would say that the level of musicianship was higher in Warsaw than say New York City dare I say it also the people who are writing the music are people who may have descended or certainly are aware of all of the many Jewish composers who had filled in that middle ground between say high opera and Garden Theater and then their offspring they could write Foxtrot's they could write tangos they could write all kinds of dance music they were in a sense very happily slumming but their slumming was very stylish. Was . What. Was. The it is tango on. The tongue was extremely popular here it wasn't like in France or Germany where time was very popular in the twenty's and then got left back there with time it's really stuck here Polish tangos of the thirty's there's almost nothing Argentine anymore. That has something so eastern european about it mixed with Polish music Jewish music music something you will not find anywhere else only here in Warsaw. I love the tango music that was written by. He uses the Citic motifs and Rebecca and it's a story about this young woman named Rebecca who owns a tobacco shop and she sees this man who comes in from the big city and she imagines marrying him and beyond the hope up with him oppressing entire town and then of course he goes away and then he comes back again and he obviously has a classy dame in the seat beside him and then she says Well just remember that Rebecca loves you and that her love will last forever but you know already that this is a parody. I love singing but it's ridiculous Rebecca falls down and has the young man says what's wrong. I'll never know how much I love him. And then a couple of years after Rebecca has written they've written a tango that's called Rebecca's dancing the tango and she's become a girl dancer for hire in she has lost in her eyes and she has a rose between her teeth Horatio eating up all these men. Never got. Tangled along icy rain his international breakout hit still playing somewhere in the world today is written my years he pecks best he wrote hundreds of hits he had his own orchestra that his best the flock to rise to tango militant Austrians for 3000 shillings they renamed it. Does not sound even across the Atlantic. One theory. The fact one factor in our government. Care there. Was the all from. Heat. And I haven't even mentioned that is the excuse Castle's Jim Henson wrote is Henrich an article penned a called an op the polled would play for dances sometimes they were house bands or opera that's Ok I have to see it's named after a famous lake in the title mountains and that was the closest thing to me as a field follies had lots of staircases and parades of beautiful half naked women in powers and all kinds of strange headgear anything could happen on a Warsaw night princes and scoundrels rubbing shoulders fortunes gambled away you can make a 1000000 fall in love or end up with nothing and you b.-b. B.-b. B.-b. B. From b. To my favorite artist in strainers probably touching expensive city and he was the Chamma Syriana enthusiast Julian Breton and he sing songs like the bullet hole just say now a cult song about our say on knowing a street and it was called your sex eatery the venue for everybody in Warsaw for the break some for the poor and for the sophisticated and for the criminal the song brings you in with a hypnotic waltz and they talk about the criminals who were real in Walsall So it took about bloody tell us who was the king of the thieves of hoofs all and Stephanie ski 1st civilian executioner of the time Republic and this should turn you off and this should not be Sabrina but it absolutely is so Rayna. And he talks about how this high man is standing on the galleries waiting for the protagonists to face his fates. They're not. Much. Then this the towering figures and a vast vast array of the school for about one 3rd of Poland's films between the was and he wrote dozens of hit songs and his creative director at last was a polymath of incredible energy. Came from a middle class family in Warsaw and his 2 sisters were both musical one of them became a star at La Scala and it was someone who played the piano from the age of 5 and then once he gets to the conservatory he has the music of Louis Armstrong and the music of Fletcher Henderson and he finds that he can adapt to that and he can orchestrate and arrange all of his music what Gershwin was able to do with African-American music in the last was able to do with Polish countryside folk were to use and he wanted to create great symphonies out of that. Are not my. Far right modernist times but trouble in ones in the thirty's everybody knows that was of no future in Poland for the Jews then but in the future of both and no other place on the planet produced such a vibrant Jewish life as Poland is 96 there's lots of grousing and drum rolling in the right wing press that people who write for the cabaret are a Jewish mafia and they don't like Gentiles in Jewish businesses were closed down people were thrown out of work or people were taken off the radio that kind of thing happened but certainly the people who are performing for Polish radio they're performing classical music or they're performing high quality popular music most of them were acculturated Jewish musicians and they were thrown out of work because the radio needed those people and people like them too much. There was one place where you could have been sure to bump into Vassar Bordeaux or the Gold Zone was often a tenant It was a night club the Andrea where the elite words of music and film Cabaret and revue mix to manage it with a brilliant poets Julian to them and letters laughs L'Engle both knocking out lyrics between verses and then there were the Spielman brothers they were regulars Henrik was the writer flattest of the pianist. Long Gone of the chandeliers and revolving dance final but the obvious facade still stands probably an artillery shell with that bullet and packs over here writer and journalist constantly care but this is the downtown so where the quote unquote Christian part of course merges seamlessly into the Jewish part of course and you wouldn't know I wouldn't dare ask who our economy was not. There was an attempt to behave as if this was a little country in the normal part of Europe and here we are the evil boys the most elegant restaurant for a party and the dams were the dreamy thought that was somewhere else and those young people of the world just 5 of us ever they thought they were Europeans who just happened to live in one of Europe's nicest capitals they looked down their nose at the bag going to New York well maybe to make some money but frankly New York was the boondocks they were fake and used by this kind of selling all the sins of all those facets and as he said whatever they would make extremely funny jokes of the guy with a moustache and over their blissfully ignorant of the fact that this would put them on the lists where the guy with a mustache basic visit but as late as August 30th 1939 they were dancing in. This truck struck a hit from that golden summer of 39 is a Syrian a classic I hardly know you performed here by Mitch as well fog with a serene a house orchestra the composer is Hendrik vast. This would be one of Simran his last recordings are you going to be much. Happier. I think if. You like that other grandmother has faded but I think it was I got was that I thought was how it started. The. The new file for dropped 600 tons of high explosives into Warsaw that September thousands of Steve enter records was smashed to pieces you could find shards of shellac among the weeds at the old factory even 50 years later. And amassed and sings the last Sunday here in Hebrew as the last Sabbath. To say to c.n.n. And the state of current picture those shallow disks shattered into thousands of pieces. Of crazy stuff going absolutely crazy and whole city was in panic people were being rather than a terrible choices to make people do so depends on the character of the people as well some people felt I'm getting out of here that are near the border are cruel hardly remove all birds on the garden and it is our hope we're not Jewish so they stayed when the Germans invaded she said to him your job which was his name of it is what she called the nature that we have to go around and sing together to the troops as they going to try and they were dressed both in military uniform and they've gone around saying all knowledge was. Not the other. The Nazis shot the chairman of the Sirena record company in 1940 his murder was part of Operation Intel against Shia a systemic eradication of cultural life in Poland Sirena as metal matrices and equipment was seized and sent to Germany I really know that a large amount of the stuff that worked that her and I were just shocked by the Germans was sent to camps and that goes to the musicians. Were folk would rescue and hide his friend Eva vez be advised it was only one of serious Jewish musicians the majority of Syrians composers sing his and plans were forced into the Warsaw ghetto where they continued to perform to the bitter and. The Persian the racist Ladislav Schenkel never stopped writing take down a daybreak like hygiene is out of mourning for them a catalogue of wild and bad it's find it's the 1st shot I mean with street sounded Shango buried these verses and so they survived him he and his wife fought and was shot in the Ghetto Uprising of 943. So too was the great Conto Rutter whose voice it sounded across the world thanks to Savannah. Your thoughts can you write Rebecca the one I'm trying to like you right Rebecca dancing a tango here your new cry he wrote not a very well not an anger they were killed and offered all this is another example of one of the great artists he was a carton of years of his work he was of course the brother of can recall who was the great band leader and was a great composer he writes really beautiful hangars a particular violinist and a range of other gold didn't make it he was tentative linka and through the reports that the Germans made him dress up as a clown and perform violin running the orchestra that they had there. And eventually he was marched on into the gas chamber along with most of the old distro that was there. Where to go how to live the surviving musicians took their children where they could and join the thousands of refugees scrambling eastwards towards the last city before the Soviet border leval of already besieged by the Germans and under Soviet occupation and in this strange dislocated time and place they came together and of course formed a dance band all of all of them all in the garbage old you'll be able to you know nobody down believe your body dies to you all forgive you know it's in the Soviet Union the story ends with a gorgeous superstar Yevgeny as Bordeaux he tries to hurt America he's seen other artists who successfully made that journey or who've managed to get away but it's. Quick enough and he has a Swiss passport from his father's side and the Russians take it and I say one thing if you've got this you're a spy and they put him in jail and they send him in transit camps and he gets weaker and weaker and weaker by the 2nd. His last photo was a mug shot in a dirty prison shirt his hash on his handsome face smashed and he's buried in a mass grave the most struck you can do I mean that will track you can do things for all of these dolls really it wasn't until decades later that this story came to light. 4 o'clock refueling. And invaded Russia. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1042 vast broaches band southwards alongside a hastily mustered army of exiled and deported poles led by General Vladislav as and has led his army out of the Soviet Union by crossing the Caspian Sea on rusting out all the oil barges they landed in Iran a rocket and stop. Having written the typhus but there was no Poland but there were poles and everywhere the poles went the facts music the cabaret people were invited by Andras himself to come and perform for his army because he thought what is one of the best things that we have in Poland and he was a high roller and he'd been to Warsaw and he'd gone to cabarets and so for him this is very important because it's something world class that I can show off to the world eventually when Honor's army is attached to the British army in a move to Iran because they they are starving to death and freezing to death in the Soviet Union and they're moving through Persia and Iraq and Syria and Egypt and Mandy Palestine these people who are performing are knocking the socks off British soldier audiences an American soldier audiences in Australians and so this is something that honors even though his troops are not yet up to par that shows we are a worthy our I find that for us. The Hendrick vasty Jazz Orchestra was a hit with the Soviets and even travel to Moscow You're listening to Brad disc they cut. This offensive of the Senate and his musicians in Teheran in wonderful kitchen squinting in the Iranian sun in full battle dress but every inch an orchestra Oh I love that picture at his most handsome Danding in full regalia in front of his band and most of his band is in short sleeves because it's incredibly hot and in Tehran they were very very well received he was working with the unit run by a man named Feliks or he called himself a death friend or refrain because he always began writing lyrics of a song from the refrain and managed to do what he always wanted to tell and all over Tehran people are humming these Warsaw songs. Out of. That lovely voice belongs to. We're not a booked on sky she go on to marry gen on the. Development of our 1st ever to be reported to be a. Difficult for me to describe the trouble that is going on and the amount of about the Beatles May $944.00 that's now part of it I think that relate to the battle he and his army met its finest and most terrible hour in Italy I can don't be afraid to look on the face of the man who would come out of both fields but Al behind that they had a bomb on the night before the last Polish advance May 17th lyricist Felix can ask he wrote the words to a new song Alfred should compose the music on and. You know. This rare recording is we're not seen with félix can asking or even my son is all new. To me by the end of the next day the Polish flag flew above Monte Cassino the poles buried that dead on the mountainside I'm sad cannot ski and his 14 piece orchestra played someone held up the words on sheets of cardboard so the soldiers could sing along. Eat. The song was banned in communist Poland after the Mir But even today every poem names in the national anthem are Polish and polish Jewish soldiers were written by a Jewish composer with lyrics by a Polish after this multi ethnic Polish culture and Adam Aston is the iconic symbol for this and this movement to bottom my heart. I am. I am. Some Savannah stars made their way to the newly founded state of Israel where they wove their way into the Sound fabric of a nation if you listen only to the music you could think this was music written in marched on authorities but if you listen to the nearest If and last of these were love songs you know man and woman and songs about passion and love affairs now it's love to the land love to the motherland to etiquette is that I had that after 2000 years of exile this is what they're scheming and out now. And at last leaving new life in Hollywood was a successful film comparison and coordinate of man man an orphanage and would die in Beirut in 150. Which is well false hope and a cafe in the ruins of Warsaw until it was closed down by the Communists but he continued to sing. And. Many a. Those who did survive made that homes here in London among them and remember that lovely Italy tell abraded once across Europe he died here in the 1990 s. . His ashes was counted Haywood Golders Green Memorial Garden there's no plaque and there's a stone we couldn't even find in the picture in the rain the stories still echoes across the world wherever the poles went they took have records and now the new generation is digitizing and uploading them. They. Just this year was was Jewish man it is out and lovely collection of him and his early work since there are so many scores that have no surviving recordings I try to approach the scores as fast as the God would know I'm still the book is just cut a record with Polish radio and rearranged a song in the original style. So not. Forsake was. Many of these songs that were popular here on the phone even maybe someone with a whistle down on the street may have been completely forgotten them and that for 80 years so I think it's quite important to give him another chance. He was to. Us the 1st just orchestra has just completed a set of 12 tanks he longs to take them to Warsaw maybe next year I listen to these recordings through the Internet trying to collect all these things and rebuild something and the fact that I myself am a Strat you have managed to collect nearly on 250 of the surrender recordings even though there was just a station there was a leak in the system changed all these disks all the examples of 7 as output. Survived that's just a testament to how important they were prolific. Our. Return is quality about it recreates exactly that miss the people the soul of that period of time and you almost completed that was performed in it's of a different world musical as. It has substance to be anywhere ever. 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