Jewish Music Web Center Announcements

Yiddish Operetta at HUC in May

THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (JPPC)
conducted by BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER
Sunday, May 21, New York, NY
Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY
will perform musical adaptations of the works of
I.L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem,
Among the highlights in the program:
1) a rarely heard operetta, adapted from MOTL PEYSI DEM KHAZNS ("Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son"), Sholem Aleichem's Eastern European equivalent to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

2) a stirring musical adaptation of Peretz's classic short story, OYB NIT NOKH HEKHER ("If Not Higher Still")

3) selections from the new compact disc recorded by the JPPC, ZINGT! - A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH CHORAL MUSIC

Two performances on May 21L at 2:00 and 4:30pm Posted by jmwc at March 7, 2006 08:43 PM