Concert of St. Petersburg Society

[Yoel Epstein <yoel...>]

You are invited to "Roots", a concert of songs written by composers of the
St. Petersburg Society, for voice, violin or viola and piano.  The concert
is Sunday, April 4, at 18:00, at the Migdalei Hayam Hatichon (Mediterranean
Towers), Sireni 58, Kfar Saba.

The Saint Petersburg Society was a group of Jewish musicians who studied at
the St. Petersburg Moscow conservatories at the end of the 19th century.
These composers rediscovered their Jewish musical roots, documented folk
music from the Shtetl, and wrote arrangements and original art songs in
Yiddish.  Most of these composers - the most notable of them Joel Engel -
migrated later to the US and Palestine, where they laid the foundation for
modern Israeli folk music.

The concert includes songs by Leo Low, Janot Roskin, A. Shitomirsky, and
Israel Brandmann.  We will also perform songs by Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Admission is free.

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joel epstein
moshav magshimim 56910
israel
972-3-9333316
972-52-333316
972-3-7255889 (fax)
yoel (at) netvision(dot)net(dot)il
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