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Sunday, June 3, 2012, 4:30 PM The JPPC presents "Bridging Two Worlds: A Yiddish Musical Journey"
English translations provided. Featuring the 1956 Birnbaum/Rauch operetta,
"Sholem Aleichem
dir, Amerike!" ("Hello, America!")
based on Sholom Aleichem's "Motl, Peyse dem khazns" ("Motl,
Peyse the Cantor's Son"),
and
recorded in 1959 with Molly Picon in the role of Motl.
This concert also includes works by poets Edelstadt, Fefer, Hoffman, Kharik,
Kotlyar, Kulbak, Pinchevsky, Rosenfeld and Vladeck; composers Gelbart, Gladstone, Handel, Polonsky, Schaechter and Schaefer; and a World Premiere.
Donna
Breitzer, Erik Contzius and Jacob Feldman.
Concert
length: Around 2 hours, including intermission.
Tickets: $30 / $20;
Groups of 10 or more: $25 / $18 Tickets are going fast! To order, click here or call or visit the Symphony Space Box
Office 212-864-5400 (Tu-Su 1pm-6pm). Sunday, June 10, 2012, 2:00 PM 300 East Putnam Ave, Greenwich,
CT 06830; 203-542-7172 Concert length:
Around 1 hour, no intermission. Additional
info TBA.
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Recent
concerts include: April '12 - "A Cappella Choral Blast!", Sixth Street Community Synagogue, NY, NY
December '11 -"Holiday Chamber Music Concert", All Saints Episcopal Church, Sunnyside, Queens,
NY
October,
'11 - "Libndike, laydndike, lakhndike - balibte yidishe folkslider", Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, Bronx, NY October, '11 - "Love, Loss, Laughter - Favorite Yiddish Folksongs", Bet Am Shalom
Synagogue, White Plains, NY
July '11 - North
American Jewish Choral Festival, Kerhonkson, NY
June '11 - "Love,
Loss, Laughter - Favorite Yiddish Folksongs", Symphony Space, NY, NY
October '10 - 5th New York Int'l Choral Festival, Riverside Church, NY,
NY October '10 - 3rd All-Star New York Yiddish Singalong, Congr. Rodeph
Sholom, NY, NY July '10 - North American Jewish Choral Festival, Kerhonkson, NY June '10 - "Jewish Classics & Jewish Classical", Symphony Space, NY, NY April
'10 - "A Cappella Choral Blast!", Sixth Street Community Synagogue, NY, NY January '10 -
"Tsvishn Chanukah un Purim", Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, Bronx, NY
December '09 - Chanukah Concert, Temple Beth El, Cedarhurst, NY May '09 - "Jewish Heroes - Sung &
Unsung", Symphony Space, New York, NY June '08 - Symphony Space, New York, NY May '08 - Yiddish Festival, YM-YWHA, Wayne, NJ March '08 - Lewis Zickel Memorial, West Point Jewish Chapel, West Point, NY March '08 - Mordkhe Schaechter Memorial, Workmen's Circle/Forward Building, NY, NY December
'07 - Town and Village Synagogue/Tifereth Israel, New York, NY October '07 - 2nd All-Star New York Yiddish Singalong, Congr.
Rodeph Sholom, NY, NY October '07 - Itche Goldberg Memorial, Center for Jewish History, NY, NY September '07 - Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center, New York, NY August
'07 - Yugntruf's annual Yidish-vokh (Yiddish Week), Copake, NY August '07
- Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY July '07 - North American Jewish Choral Festival, Kerhonkson,
NY June '07 - "Warshawsky & Gebirtig", Hebrew Union College, New York, NY December
'06 - Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford, CT September '06 - All-Star New York Yiddish Singalong, Congr.
Rodeph Sholom, NY, NY August '06 - Yugntruf's annual Yidish-vokh (Yiddish Week), Copake, NY July '06 - International Assoc. of Yiddish Clubs' 10th Annual Conference, Teaneck, NJ June
'06 - 4th New York Int'l Choral Festival, Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Ctr.), NY, NY May '06 - "Sholem
Aleichem & I.L. Peretz", Hebrew Union College, New York, NY August
'05 - Shea Stadium, Flushing, NY
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