"Klezmer Influences in American Jewish Music," NYC, 2 Dec 2014
Klezmer Influences in American Jewish Music
SIDNEY KRUM YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT SERIES
Tues, December 2, 2014, 7pm
YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
NYC
Admission: General $12 | YIVO Members $8
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For years, American Jewish composers have been integrating klezmer and Yiddish folk songs into new classical music, inventing a new form of artistic and cultural Jewish expression. In this unique lecture-demonstration, we present three of these outstanding and rarely performed pieces--Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind by Osvaldo Golijov, Six Yiddish Scenes by Paul Alan Levi, and Café Music by Paul Schoenfield--and delve into the intricacies and challenges of performing American Jewish music today. Special guests include internationally-acclaimed clarinetist Todd Palmer, who will discuss the klezmer and mystical elements of Dreams and Prayers; pianist and composer Paul Alan Levi, who will speak with Michael Leavitt, President of the American Society for Jewish Music about interpreting Yiddish Art Songs today; and Yuval Waldman, artistic director of the Sidney Krum Concert Series, who will introduce the hybrid klezmer-jazz elements in the closing piano trio Café Music.
