Re: Food for the Soul concludes

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Shira:
This sounds wonderful!
Was it recorded?
Judy


Susan Lerner wrote:
> 
> Last night, Yiddish Soul, the final concert of our 2002 Yiddishkayt Festival 
> took place at the Skirball Cultural Center's Cotsen Auditorium with approx. 
> 500 people in attendance.  We were treated to an extraordinary evening of 
> Yiddish song and music by Adrienne Cooper, Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg, 
> Marilyn Lerner, Dave Wall and local artists singer Cindy Paley, cantor and 
> violinist Mike Stein (the "Yodeling Yid") and clarinetist and accordion 
> player Isaac Sadigursky. The evening started and ended with a beautiful song 
> I had never heard before, the words of which were (in Yiddish) "If I had 
> strength, I would run through the streets, crying Peace, peace (sholem, 
> sholem), " which I hope will be taken up by our community as an anthem for 
> our time. The artists performed together, in various groupings and as 
> soloists, providing highlights of the performances of the preceding week as 
> well as new and wonderful material.  They had the audience eating out of 
> their hands, clapping, !
singing
> and listening with rapt attention, the musicians' pleasure in the material 
> and the fun they were having playing together readily and intoxicatingly 
> apparent.
> 
> Truly a fitting ending for a festival we called derkvikung far di neshume 
> /Food for the Soul.
> 
> I am too exhausted right now to do more than point out that just because I 
> haven't written extensive reports on wonderful performances like Frank 
> London, Lorin Sklamberg and Marilyn Lerner's Zmiros, which played to an 
> audience of ~400 at a local temple, Dave Krakauer's Klezmer Madness playing 
> to a rocking and enthusiastic younger crowd at the Knitting Factory or 
> Marilyn Lerner and Dave Wall's exquisite song cycle which played to a 
> sold-out cabaret crowd doesn't mean they weren't fabulous performances!
> 
> Shira Lerner
> Yiddishkayt LA
> 
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