Ilana Kochinska in concert March 7

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A Concert of Jewish Italian Music
with Ilana Kochinska (soprano)
and
Elizabeth Hastings (piano)
Suzanne Gilchrest (flute)
Meighan Stoops (clarinet)
Carlo Pellettieri (cello)

Featuring "Shema: Five Poems of Primo Levi," set to music by Simon Sargon.  
Most of Levi's poetry was written shortly after his liberation from 
Auschwitz.  The five poems presented here are intensely personal and direct, 
more emotional and as powerful in its way as the memoirs and novels for which 
Levi is better known.  
Also including music by Alberto Hemsi, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and 
Salomone Rossi.

6 pm, Thursday, March 7
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo
24 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Free and open to the public
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Part of 
Mantua and the Kabbalah:
A Series of Events Celebrating the History and Richness 
of Italian Jewish Culture
presented by 
New York University, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo and the City of Manta

-- "Discovering the Visual Kabbalah in Mantua," 
exhibit of  historic manuscripts, March 4-21
-- "Jewish Identities, Jewish Writings," 
a conversation with Elena Lowenthal and Andre Aciman, 7 pm, Wed., March 6

For further information, please call:  (212) 998-8739
Or see http://www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana
http://www.centerforjewishhistory.org