"Yiddish Classics & Yiddish Classical", NYC, 13 Jun 2010
Sunday, Jun. 13, 2010, 4:30 PM
The JPPC presents
Yiddish Classics and Yiddish Classical
at Symphony Space (a.k.a. Peter Norton Symphony Space)
2537 Broadway (at 95th Street), NYC.
Tickets: symphonyspace.org
This 2-hour concert includes classic Yiddish works, such as "Avremele melamed" and "Lomir ale zingen a zemerl" as well as Classical works in Yiddish, by Handel, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky!
English translations provided.
Featured soloists: Joshua Breitzer, Matthew Klein and child performer Temma Schaechter (the younger of Di Shekhter-tekhter).
Admission $25, $18.
Tickets: symphonyspace.org
About the JPPC: thejppc.org
Others whose works are represented in this concert:
Composer/arrangers: Ben Yomen, Goldman, Posner, Rauch, Shneyer, Teitelbaum, Zuckerman;
Poets/authors/translators: Bialik, Buchwald, Ha-Levi, Halpern, Helfman, Kahn, Lapin, Liesin, Olgin, Reisin, Ronch and Sorerives.