Singing By way of the Darkness brings an ensemble of Toronto artists collectively to rejoice the enduring nature of Jewish music that survived the Holocaust. The live performance takes place on January 14.
The performers embody Aviva Chernick, Judith Lander, Lenka Lichtenberg, Theresa Tova, and music director Fern Lindzon. Every of them attracts on their very own musical heritage in reviving the music of the darkish interval of European historical past, in addition to presenting authentic music impressed by it.
JazzInToronto’s Inventive Director Ori Dagan performs host for the night that mixes historic storytelling with music efficiency. It illustrates how artists can use their creativity each as a refuge, and a way of resistance, throughout tough instances.
The efficiency comes after three reveals on the ROM in a collaboration that was commissioned together with the exhibit Auschwitz: Not Lengthy In the past. Not Far Away.
The Live performance
Choices embody:
- Telling Tales by Theresa Tova and John Alcorn
- Numbers on My Arm by composer Rebekah Wolkstein, with Yiddish textual content from the Terrace Holocaust
- Survivors Group on the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
- Bear in mind the Solar by Rachel Cohen and Lenka Lichtenberg, utilizing a Czech poem by Lenka’s grandmother Anna Hana Friesova, translated to English by Lenka
- Underneath Dayne Vayse Shtern (Underneath Your White Starry Heaven) with music by Abraham Brudno and
- Yiddish lyrics by Abraham Sutskever, translated to English by Hindy Nosek Abelson
- Nje Buditche, a Roma music from Auschwitz, collected by Esther Bejarano, with an English translation by Lenka Lichtenberg
- Arvoles Yoran por Luvias (Bushes Cry for Rain), a Judeo Spanish people music
- Seerauber-Jenny (Pirate Jenny) by Kurt Weill (composer) and Bertolt Brecht (lyrics)
- Shtil Di Nacht (Nonetheless the Evening) by Hirsh Glik, English translation by Theresa Tovahs with Hindy Nosek Abelson
- Rikordus di mi Nona in Judeo-Spanish by Flory Jagoda z”l
- Weigala by Ilse Weber, English translation and association by Lenka Lichtenberg
- Vu Ahin Zol Ick Geyn (Inform Me The place I Shall Go) with music by Oscar Strock or Zigmund Berland, and lyrics by S. Korntayer, Theresa Tovahs with Hindy Nosek Abelson
- Zog Nit Keyn Mol (Don’t Say By no means) Hymn of the Partisans, music by Dmitri Pokrass, Yiddish poem by Hersh Glik
Performers
Aviva Chernick
Award-wining Aviva Chernick is a multi-lingual world music artist, singing in Hebrew, Ladino, and English. She leads and excursions together with her personal ensemble, Aviva Chernick and La Serena Quartet, creating reimagined Judeo-Spanish people music to deliver that musical heritage into the current day. She can be a founding member of the Canadian world music group Jaffa Highway. She has carried out throughout North America, Israel, and Brazil, and lately in Dubai. Her recordings have been nominated for a number of JUNO and Canadian People Music Awards.
Judith Lander
Judith Lander is a local of Winnipeg, She is a singer, Broadway actress, cabaret performer, and composer for ballet with a global popularity. Efficiency credit embody starring in Jacques Brel is Alive and Properly and Residing in Paris on Broadway. She additionally carried out it alongside Brel himself at Carnegie Corridor. Judith additionally co-starred in Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill underneath the mentorship of Lotte Lenya. Judith can be a passionate educator with a busy personal studio.
Lenka Lichtenberg
Lenka Lichtenberg is a JUNO Award profitable vocalist, composer, cantorial soloist, and producer who recurrently excursions internationally. She attracts from Toronto’s intercultural scene to create her personal distinctive sound. Her 2023 album Thieves of Goals, primarily based on poems she found that had been written by her grandmother whereas imprisoned within the Theresienstadt focus camp, garnered a JUNO Award for Finest World Album of the Yr. She has additionally gained a number of Canadian People Music awards, and been nominated a number of instances for a number of others.
Theresa Tova
Theresa Tova has toured the world as Yiddish Diva!, and wrote, co-produced, and starred in Nonetheless The Evening, which took him 4 Dora Awards, and earned a nomination for the Governor Common’s Award for English-language drama on the 1999 Governor Common’s Awards. The daughter of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors, she was born in Paris, and raised in Calgary, Alberta. The singer and musical theatre actress mixed Jewish music, vaudeville and klezmer in Nonetheless the Evening, a narrative of two younger ladies who survive the Holocaust in a Polish forest.
Fern Lindzon
The JUNO nominated pianist, vocalist, and organized Fern Lindzon has carried out in jazz golf equipment in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa and Waterloo, and at a number of music festivals in Ontario. She has composed and improvised music for traditional silent movies which had been screened on the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Toronto Silent Movie Pageant and the Classic Movie Pageant. Fern has recorded a number of albums of jazz, together with the JUNO nominated Like a Circle in a Spiral.
- Discover particulars and tickets for the January 14 live performance [HERE].
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