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The performance will feature world famous actor and singer Theodore Bikel? Dutch singer/storyteller Shura Lipovsky? Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco? and international conductor/pianist Tamara Brooks. Bridge to Peace is a transformative concert, according to Brooks, “Music is a special kind of bridge — reaching over time and ethnicity, over chasms of silences, able to speak and understand in tones when we are unable to utter words. Songs of loss, of pain, of grief and sorrow — and songs of hope and joy — are common to all,” says Brooks. “When we sing each other’s songs, we understand our common humanity.”
Tickets are $35 and $25 for members.
About the Concert
The roots of Bridge to Peace were planted in October 2004, when Brooks and Lipovsky went to Mostar, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, to prepare the musicians of the interethnic Mostar Sinfonietta for a program of Bosnian, Sephardic, and Yiddish music. Their first concert took place in Holland for The Musicians Without Borders conference. In the summer of 2005, Bikel, Lipovsky, Kljuco, and the Mostar Sinfonietta performed in a concert tour of Poland under Brooks’ direction. Bridge to Peace premiered in Holland and was performed at the Krakow Jewish Music Festival in 2005. The quartet will release a CD in spring 2008, and a documentary of Bridge to Peace is in production.
About the Performers
Theodore Bikel created the role of Captain von Trapp in the world premiere of The Sound of Music. But the role he has been most identified with ever since 1967 is Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which by last count he has played more often than any actor — over 2000 times. In addition to recording over 20 albums and performing in concert halls all over the world, he has had a prominent film career including roles in The African Queen, I Want to Live, and The Defiant Ones. Shura Lipovsky is the director of Yiddish song at the Jewish Music Institute, University of London.
She is one of the bestknown singers of Yiddish song in Europe. She has performed and taught in Russia, the United States, and Canada. Merima Kljuco has worked internationally with many renowned artists and ensembles. As a soloist she has performed with several orchestras, including the Philharmonische Orchester Bremen, the Holland Symphonia, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and most recently at the St. Magnus Festival on Orkney, Scotland. -- www.mjhnyc.org
Posted April 4th, 2008 by ruzik_tuzik
