The New Budapest Orpheum Society, ensemble-in-residence in the Division of Humanities at the University of Chicago, has been tracing the origins, development and influence of European Jewish cabaret music through extensive historical research and compelling performances in concert and on a series of widely acclaimed albums on Cedille Records.

The ensemble’s third and newest project focuses on Jewish stage and film music from the early to mid-20th century.

The ensemble’s first Cedille album, 'Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano', drew praise from BBC Music Magazine as a “fascinating and strongly projected collection” offering “tantalizing” examples of cabaret, popular and political songs of the early 20th century. The Berkshire Jewish Voice said the works on the ensemble’s second Cedille CD, 'Jewish Cabaret in Exile', “attest to the poignancy and vitality of the art of Jewish cabaret.”

In addition to its Chicago-area performances, the New Budapest Orpheum Society tours widely, performing at Symphony Space, Café Sabarsky, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, and the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The ensemble and its artistic director, Philip V Bohlman, received the Noah Greenwood Award for Historical Performance from the American Musicological Society.

Contents:
CD 1
AT THE EDGE OF HISTORY
1. VIENNESE BROADSIDE CA. 1900
Die koschere Mischpoche
2. ELLSTEIN/PICON
Maz’l
3. PERLMUTTER/WOHL/GILROD
Dos pintele Yid
4. THOMASHEVSKY / LASKOSKY
Erlekh zayn

DREAMS FROM YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW
5. KÁLMÁN
Wir Ladies aus Amerika (from Die Herzogin von Chicago, 1928)
6. KORNGOLD / KENNEDY
Tomorrow (from The Constant Nymph, 1943)
7. ABRAHAM / GRÜNWALD / LÖHNER-BEDA
Kann nicht küssen ohne Liebe (from Die Blume von Hawai‘i, 1931)

DREAMWORLDS
8. LEOPOLDI / ROBITSCHEK
Die Novaks aus Prag
9. LEOPOLDI / GILBERT
Composers’ Revolution in Heaven
10. LEOPOLDI / WALDAU
Money macht froh!

BETWEEN TRAUM AND TRAUMA
11. STRAUSS
Aus der Familie der Sträusse
ULLMANN / ADLER
12. Immer inmitten . . .
13. Vor der Ewigkeit

CD 2
RAUCHSTRAUM
1. LEOPOLDI / PETER HERZ / SPAHN
Café Brasil
2. LEOPOLDI / SALPETER
Ich bin a stiller Zecher
3. LEOPOLDI / SALPETER / BERNDT-HOFER
Wenn der Ungar lustig ist! . . .

HOLLYWOOD DREAMS
4–8. EISLER
Five Songs from Hollywood Liederbuch

VIENNESE TRAUMEREI
LEOPOLDI / HERZ
9. In einem kleinen Café in Hernals
10. Wo der Teufel gute Nacht sagt

DREAMS OF STARDOM
11. SHMULOWITZ
A Brivele der mam’n
12. BRUDNO / KACZERGINSKI
Friling
13. ELLSTEIN / PICON
Ikh zing

AS DREAMS FALL APART
HOLLÄNDER from Wilder’s 'A Foreign Affair' (1948)
14. Black Market
15. Illusions
16. The Ruins of Berlin