WEVD and the Sounds of Jewish New York | LIVE from NYPL

Описание: Live musical performances and a panel conversation celebrate the Library’s acquisition of rare sheet music and manuscripts from the legendary New York radio station WEVD. For event details, speaker bios, and more, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/...

Featuring:
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Hankus Netsky
Henry Sapoznik
Zalmen Mlotek
and more!


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It has been said that WEVD was the soundtrack of Jewish New York for much of the 20th century. Founded in 1927, the city’s most popular Yiddish radio station billed itself as “the station that speaks your language.” WEVD’s original programming featured performances of Yiddish folk and theater music, concert and choral music, cantorials, Hassidic chant, klezmer, and more, much of it composed by its staff of composers and arrangers such as Joseph Rumshinsky, Alexander Olshanetsky, Sholom Secunda, Sam Medoff, Joe Garnett, and Abraham Ellstein.

This year the station’s massive music library, once nearly lost and destroyed, assumes its new home at the Library as the David and Ina Shiff WEVD Music Collection. To mark the occasion, musicians will perform new arrangements from selected pieces, and artists and scholars will discuss the enduring relevance of the station’s history and the creative output that it helped produce.

Presented in cooperation with the National Yiddish Theatre/Folksbiene.

This program is part of the Celebrate 350 Lecture series, a permanent tribute to the anniversary of the arrival of Jews in New York City.


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