[Cz-L] Evening of Yiddish songs by Czernowitz authors

The Congress for Jewish Culture presents a new program of Yiddish songs
"The Secret of My Heart: Songs of Poets and Composers from Czernowitz"
with the young singer Asya Vaisman, accompanied by
Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) and Art Bailey (accordion).

Kavehoyz
Thursday, May 17, 2007
7 PM
Atran Center
25 East 21st Street
New York, NY
Contribution: $8

Program details at http://dersod.googlepages.com

Asya Vaisman was born in Chernovtsy in 1983 and lived in Moscow before moving
to the US in 1991. She received her BA in Yiddish from Barnard College, and she
is currently writing her dissertation on the Yiddish songs of Hasidic women at
Harvard University. Asya has composed music to the lyrics of several Yiddish
poets; one of her songs recently appeared as the title track on the CD Shtile
Trit of the Munich klezmer band, Massel-Tov. Asya has performed with
the Columbia and Harvard Klezmer Bands and at various Yiddish and Klezmer
workshops and festivals around the world, including Weimar, St.Petersburg,
and Jerusalem. Last summer she was on the staff of Klezkanada, where she
lectured and led a singing group.

(Moderator's note: This message was originally posted on the Congress for Jewish
Culture mailing list, and is being shared with us by our newest member, Yankl Meilach.
Welcome, Yankl! Moderator Bruce Reisch)
Received on 2007-05-15 13:56:12