New York City » Calendar » Music From Yiddish Cinema: Metropolitan Klezmer At Lincoln Center ...
Music From Yiddish Cinema: Metropolitan Klezmer At Lincoln Center at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Courtesy of Eve Sicular | Posted on October 24, 2016
Where
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY
Map
212-875-5000
When
Mon, November 14, 2016
6:00 pm
Save the date
Musicians
Eve Sicular
drumsDebra Kreisberg
saxophone, altoPam Fleming
trumpetReut Regev
tromboneMelissa Fogarty
vocalsAbout
Hailed as “one of the finest American klezmer bands,” Metropolitan Klezmer performs an exhilarating range of musical treasures with astonishing agility and refreshing depth. One of the band’s specialties is the richly varied music found in vintage Yiddish film soundtracks. Join us for an evening of original klezmer arrangements performed live by the full octet, interpolated with scenes of both celebrated movies and lesser-known cinematic gems onscreen: Hasidic chant and sewing song from The Dybbuk; tenement wedding dance from Uncle Moses; melodies performed for newsreels made by Moscow’s State Yiddish Theater; Second Avenue swing, haunting love songs, and a little-known folkloric grandma’s dance, as heard in the Polish films of Molly Picon....