Usually you see a good movie in the cinema and gets afterwards the music into the house because it was so impressive - or simply as a reminder of the movie experience. With me and "Yentl" it was the reverse: I had not yet seen the film, when a friend played me the soundtrack. And yet I felt: "There's no chill and yet I shiver ..." The expressive sung texts and the vocal power of the songs sucked me in, the musical Highs and Lows pulled me into the vortex of events to the person Yentls. It took no pictures; enough for me (until now) Streisand's voice that rises to euphoric highs or fades away hesitating in solitude and always remains bright and clear. - My downside (not the song but on the CD) are the last two studio recordings: They tell no more of Yentl, they are no longer even sound like "Yentl". They are "Mainstreaming" mixed and have thereby - unlike the identical pieces in the musical - lost their emotional honesty and power.
