Ari Axelrod Sings Little-Known Yip Lyrics

Ari Axelrod’s CD, A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, released Jan. 17 2025 by PS Classics, features a medley of two seldom performed lyrics by Yip: “Adrift on a Star” (from the 1961 Broadway musical The Happiest Girl in the World and set to the music of Jacques Offenbach’s “Barcarolle”) and “The Silent Spring” (music by Harold Arlen), introduced by Lena Horne at a Carnegie Hall concert on Oct. 5, 1963 to benefit voter education and registration efforts of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.