Songs of Wonder
Tuesday, May 15 | 7:30 pm | Washington DCJCC
Tickets: $15, $12 Discounted Member/Senior/Student
Purchase tickets at wjmf.org
The newest project from Pharaoh?s Daughter?s Basya Schechter sets the Yiddish poetry of the civil rights activist and Jewish philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel to music. Songs of Wonder blends soulful grooves and lush instrumentation with Heschel?s powerful poetry. A rich new collection of Yiddish songs, these colorful arrangements feature many of New York?s greatest Jewish musicians.
?Schechter makes music that is both appealing and intriguing?she is often cast in the role of an exotic Sephardi-Ashkenazi hybrid who blends two flavors of Eastern music ? Middle and European ? spiced with folk, pop and even African elements?Ladino poetry, Hasidic niggunim, or wordless melodies, and elements of every genre imaginable.? ?The Jewish Daily Forward
Funded by the Rosalyn and Robert Hirsch Founders Endowment Fund
Presented by the DCJCC?s Washington Jewish Music Festival
Co-sponsors: Folklore Society of Greater Washington, Yiddish of Greater Washington
Copyright 2018 The Folklore Society of Greater Washington
