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The
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
presents
BRAVE OLD WORLD:
SONG OF THE LODZ
GHETTO
a
concert with Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart
Brotman
In
Yiddish, with English super-titles
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006,
2:30 PM
Edmond J. Safra Hall
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
$20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 students/members
Tickets: box office, 646.437.4202, or
online
The
world-renowned New Jewish Music quartet Brave Old World,
whose music combines the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the
finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz, will perform
Song of the Lodz Ghetto,
a unique new musical work interweaving Jewish folk music of prewar
Poland, rare street songs created between 1940 and 1944 in the Lodz
Ghetto during the German occupation, and Brave Old World's own
arrangements and compositions. The performance offers a rare
opportunity to enjoy soul-soaring, spirit-lifting Yiddishkayt
that is simultaneously a universal testament to hope, redemption,
and the determination of the human spirit to survive and sing.
The
performance is in Yiddish, but now with English super-titles so that
all can understand the moving and biting lyrics of Yankele
Herszkowicz, Mirjam Harel, Michael Alpert, and other poets.
A CD
of this extraordinary work, on the Winter & Winter label, was named
Best of 2005 in the World Music category by Billboard Magazine, and
was named "Best CD of 2005" by New York's Newsday. Brave
Old World was nominated the Best Klezmer Band of 2006 by the Jewish
Music Awards.
“..nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely
respectful but stunningly inventive.” –
Jewish
Week
This concert grabbed its listeners and wouldn't let go for a
long time. The American quartet provoked storms of applause and blew
away their audience in the sold-out hall. – Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung
Co-sponsored by the
National Yiddish Book Center
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