A slender, lustrous-eyed young woman, appearing on Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, completely fascinated an audience which was unable to understand a single word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made...
Music: Fascinating Yemenite
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