Henry Sapoznik lectures in the D.C. area

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Henry Sapoznik will be speaking on the  recorded history of  klezmer music 
from the early 1900s to the present at the Washington Chapter of ARSC on  
Wednesday November 29th at 7:00PM in the Pickford Theater of the Madison  
Building at the Library of Congress and the George Washington  University,  
Department of Music, Phillips Hall at 2:00PM on Thursday November 30th.  

Sapoznik is the author of Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to 
Our World (Schirmer Books, 1999),  [winner of both the ASCAP-Deems 
Taylor Award and an ARSC excellence award] and in addition to writing 
extensively about klezmer music, is also a Grammy nominated record producer 
and performer.   He also founded the first archives of Yiddish recordings, 
serving as the Director of the Archives of Recorded Sound at the YIVO 
Institute for Jewish Research 
(1982-1994).  
Along with David Isay he is co-producing "On The Air: Yiddish-American Radio 
1925-1955," which will air on National Public  Radio next year.   Sapoznik 
also co-founded and remains Executive Director of "Living Traditions, " a 
non-profit organization that, among its activites, runs the highly acclaimed 
"KlezKamp: The Yiddish-Folk Arts Program."     

Both talks are free and open to the public.
 

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