Blessings of Beauty is an eclectic collection of instrumental settings of songs and choral works by well-known and cherished composers, weaving together Broadway and traditional Yiddish folk tunes, liturgical and flamenco-inspired Ladino songs, music from a Grammy and Emmy award-winning television score, and the elegance of the Renaissance.

Composers: Kurt Weill, Billy Joel, Salamone Rossi, David Amram, Morton Gould, Jerry Bock, Lazar Weiner, Richard Neumann, Andre Hajdu, William Sharlin, Leyb Yampolski (arranged by Zalmen Mlotek), Julius Wolfson, and Pinchas Minkowsky (arranged by Max Helfman).

The recording from Blessings of Beauty was included in the soundtracks for the Emmy award-winning documentary The Hidden Life: The Story of the Sisters of St. Mary--broadcast on PBS--and Walking God's Paths, co-produced by the National Council of Synagogues, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Boston College.

Amy’s CD - Selected Tracks

Blessings of Beauty

“Today I heard your CD and it's terrific! The flutist, Amy Z. Cohen, has a beautiful sound and technique and Laura Leon, pianist, has an equally excellent technique, with a wonderful arranger's ear, providing fresh approaches harmonically and often melodically--making each piece sound quite unlike the versions of the respective pieces as we've heard them before. It's high level, beginning to end…"

B. Schaechter--Conductor, Composer, Pianist, and Executive Producer/Musical Director/Arranger for the film When Our Bubbas and Zeydas Were Young: The Schaechter Sisters on Stage