We warmly invite you to join the concert prepared by the Jewish Progressive community in Lviv. Congregation TEYVA is a home to several groups performing Yiddish music, including Sheyne Meydelekh Ensemble, Shtrudle Band & Mames un Tekhter Quartet. The Teyva community,[…]
Kielce Lecture and Concert
Good evening. I bring you greetings from my home city Los Angeles, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, approx.. 600,000! And I feel honored to share this solemn remembrance of the 1946 Kielce Pogrom with you. Music has always had healing powers and I hope that our program of classical music for violin, cello and piano will have a transformative and comforting effect for us.[…]
Neal Brostoff, Pianist /Music Historian, Introduces Us to the Polish Klezmer of Veretski Pass
Josh Horowitz and Cookie Segelstein, two of the three members of the band, performing violin and accordion music from their Polish klezmer CD. Brostoff will discuss with them unique features of Polish klezmer music. Veretski Pass has performed throughout Poland frequently.
Polish Jewish Art Music
Klezmer music has dominated the conversations about the post-communist Jewish culture renaissance in Poland.
However, creative activity in art music (classical music) has its own proud history, beginning with the virtuoso pianist and composer Maria Szymanowska in the late 18th century We will listen to one of her nocturnes, which strongly influenced Frederic Chopin’s compositional style. The webinar will offer[…]
Concerts in Support of Friends of Jewish Renewal/Beit Polska
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/jewish-studies/events/polish-jewish-renewal-panel-discussion It was a privelege to be asked to co-produce three concerts in suppoprt of Beit Polska in October 2016, with my friend and colleague Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak. With participation by Cantor David Wisnia, a fine singer, raconteur and Auschwitz survivor; Wisnia’s grandson, the singer/songwriter/keyboardist Avi Wisnia; Beit Polska prayer leaders Iza Rivka Foremniak […]