Klezmer at Midrash 10/25/2011
Opening: Mauro Perelman (Ac. Guitar) and David Ganc (Flute)
SHOW | NEW AND TRADITIONAL JEWISH MUSIC with
MERLIN SHEPHERD [clarinet]
POLINA SHEPHERD [voice and piano]
Merlin & Polina are amongst the world’s leading players of traditional east European klezmer style. And they represent two nations although their families come from very close geographical locations. At the end of the 19th Century, Merlin?s great-grandparents emigrated from Ukraine and Romania to escape pogroms and seek a better life in the west. Polina”s grandparents escaped from the Shoah (Holocaust) by fleeing from Kiev/Odessa to Siberia. The different and yet vital sustenance of his western Jewish upbringing and her eastern one have brought them to a unique closeness in musical, creative and spiritual terms.
With their deep training, musical experience and by using tradition musical pieces, these two world class musicians bring their audiences forward to a deeper understanding of the latter day Yiddishkeit.
TUESDAY 10/25/2011 | 08:30 PM | R$20
MIDRASH CENTRO CULTURAL
Rua General Venâncio Flores, 184
Leblon – Rio de Janeiro – RJ
55 (21) 2239-1800
