| General Interest
Classes
Music
Avenue A to the Great White Way: Treasures
From the Cutting Room Floor/AM2 Henry Sapoznik
Join Henry Sapoznik to hear choice examples of the archival
recordings which didn’t make it into his anthology,
“From Avenue A to the Great White Way: Yiddish and American
Popular Songs 1914-1950,” including amazing performances
by Jenny Goldstein, Peisachke Burstein and Naftule Brandwein.
Hear some of the greatest Yiddish records ever made and the
fascinating stories behind them.
From Second Avenue
to Lenox Avenue/PM2 Pete Sokolow
A rare opportunity for non-musicians to hear Pete Sokolow’s
insights on the relationship of early jazz and popular music
and Yiddish music from 1920 to 1955. The “Perfesser”
will demonstrate at the piano and share examples of historic
recordings from his amazing personal collection. Not to be
missed!
Meditation and
Melody/PM1 Frank London
This class will focus on learning and singing D’veykus
nigunim and other prayers as forms of introspection.
Instrumentalists are welcome to bring their instruments.
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