The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
Lazar Weiner and his mentors, the Crème de la Crème of NY Music Stage
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Yehudi Wyner - an American composer, music educator, pianist and conductor and the son of Lazar Weiner (a Yiddish composer) - remembers the two of the teachers of his father - the famous composers Robert Russell Bennett and Joseph Schillinger.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yehudi Wyner.
This excerpt is in English.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.