Re: Celebration of Freedom: Music of the Haggadah

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Sounds like fun. If you or someone does go, do report back.

ari

>Is anyone going?  Did anyone go to their earlier concert?
>
>Tue, March 16 at 8 pm
>Celebration of Freedom: Music of the Haggadah
>The New York Concert Singers  °  Theresa Santiago, soprano ° Cantors
>Stephen Merkel, Bruce L. Ruben and Benjie Ellen Schiller  °  St.
>Luke's Chamber Ensemble
>Judith Clurman, conductor
>A Passover program exploring musical traditions from around the world
>inspired by the story of the Exodus as told in the Haggadah, with
>songs in Hebrew, Yiddish and English, from the Babylonian, Hasidic,
>Syrian, Tunisian, Italian, Ashkenazic and Bucharest traditions, and
>arrangements by Yehezkel Braun and Stephen Richards, and the premiere
>of In Every Generation by Philip Lasser. Featured will be Miriam's
>Siegesgesang, Op. 136, by Franz Schubert, a cantata depicting the
>story of the Exodus.
>
>Tickets: $25
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