Jacob-Ber Gimpel's Lemberg (Lviv) Yiddish Theatre was the first permanent and most important Yiddish theatre in the world.
The Theatre gave performances from 1889 till the begining of the Second World War. read more

Jacob-Ber Gimpel's Lemberg (Lviv) Yiddish Theatre was the first permanent and most important Yiddish theatre in the world.
The Theatre gave performances from 1889 till the begining of the Second World War. Sholem-Aleykhem visited Lviv in 1905 and based his novel "Wandering Stars" on his experiences there.

The international quartet: Efim Chorny (Moldova, vocals), Sasha Somish (Ukraine, vocals), Vanessa Vromans (Ned/Ger., violin, vocals) Susan Ghergus (Moldova, piano) will present  the rarest collection of the songs from the repertoire of this Theatre

Photos: Rüdiger Barz (Chorny/Ghergus), Ruslan Tsarev (Somish), Meike Lindek (Vromans) back

Every year, the final concert of the Yiddish Song Workshop creates an especially warm and openhearted atmosphere. How could it be otherwise, after the participants have spent a week immersed in gorgeous melodies that sing of love found and lost, hopes and dreams fulfilled and shattered, the sweetest pleasures and the bitterest disappointments of life? read more

Every year, the final concert of the Yiddish Song Workshop creates an especially warm and openhearted atmosphere. How could it be otherwise, after the participants have spent a week immersed in gorgeous melodies that sing of love found and lost, hopes and dreams fulfilled and shattered, the sweetest pleasures and the bitterest disappointments of life? Workshop directors Ethel Raim and Josh Waletzky from New York are joined by Sasha Lurje, Sveta Kundish, Efim Chorny and other artists and participants from around the world in this concert that explores the amazing depth and breadth of traditional and contemporary Yiddish songs.

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The extraordinary Yiddish Summer Weimar children will present their first CD, “Far dem nayem dor – For the New Generation”. read more

The extraordinary Yiddish Summer Weimar children will present their first CD, “Far dem nayem dor – For the New Generation”.
Together with the grownups (Alan Bern, Andreas Schmitges, Diana Matut, Vanessa Vromans, Martin Lilich) they will perform in a sing-along and dance-along concert. You will hear Yiddish songs suited for children and grownups alike. The songs will tell light hearted and dreamy stories about beautiful flowers, little sisters, African children and much more …

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Line Up
Alan Bern (USA/D) – accordion
Andreas Schmitges (D) – guitar
Diana Matut (D) – vocals
Vanessa Vromans (AUS/NL/D) – violin
Martin Lilich (D) – doublebass
Sprintse, Kreyndl & Trayne Neuberg (F/D) – vocals
Luca & Leon Pachonik (D) - vocals
Wenka Weber (D) - vocals back

Morton Feldman (1926-87) was a close friend and associate of John Cage. Like Cage, he explored composing as a way of enabling sounds to be heard for themselves rather than to express a composer's own personal, dramatic narrative. read more

Morton Feldman (1926-87) was a close friend and associate of John Cage. Like Cage, he explored composing as a way of enabling sounds to be heard for themselves rather than to express a composer's own personal, dramatic narrative. This gives much of his music an almost other-worldly quality. The Piano & String Quartet was one of Feldman's last works. In its single, 80-minute movement, a pattern of notes shifts gradually with each occurrence, like waves breaking gently on the shore in a dream. The work was recorded in 1993 by the Kronos Quartet with pianist Aki Takahashi.

Line Up
Ludovic Lantner (F) - violin
Sébastien Plays (F) -  violin
Sophie Mouson (F) -  viola
Mathieu Chastagnol (F) -  violoncello
Alan Bern (USA/D) - piano

Photos: David Duchon (Lantner, Plays, Chastagnol), dumais photo (Mouson), Ruslan Tsarev (Bern) back

Klezmer, klezmer, klezmer...  everywhere klezmer! But what IS klezmer actually? Bay mir bist du sheyn? Moscow Nights? Hava Nagila? The German National Anthem??? Is it folklore? Is it classic? Is it jazz? read more

Klezmer, klezmer, klezmer...  everywhere klezmer! But what IS klezmer actually? Bay mir bist du sheyn? Moscow Nights? Hava Nagila? The German National Anthem??? Is it folklore? Is it classic? Is it jazz? There seem to be many contradictory answers to these questions. Why are there all of these questions anyway? Is there some agreement among scholars or is all just a matter of opinion? If these questions interest you, or amuse you, or even make you a little angry, then come to this discussion-concert, led by some of the world's leading artists and scholars of klezmer music (whatever that is). You can expect to hear wonderful music and fascinating explanations. And of course you, too, are invited to ask questions and possibly even offer your opinion...

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The teacher and writer Kadia Molodowsky wrote poems for children, especially for those with little to call their own – little security, little education and often enough little attention and care.
Her poems and stories were meant to make daily life easier for children in difficult times. That’s why... read more

The teacher and writer Kadia Molodowsky wrote poems for children, especially for those with little to call their own – little security, little education and often enough little attention and care.
Her poems and stories were meant to make daily life easier for children in difficult times. That’s why they are as colorful as life itself: playful, serious, realistic, dreamy…

In our final presentation you will hear new songs composed especially for this workshop and for children based on the poems of Kadia Molodowsky.
 
In unserer Abschlusspräsentation hören Sie/hört Ihr neue Lieder, speziell für den Workshop und für Kinder geschrieben zu Gedichten von Kadia Molodowsky. Beyond that, there’s more to learn about the life of Jewish children in Poland and one very special teacher…

Photo: Sonja Pachonik back

World premiere! This concert presents music based on rare, previously unknown, pre-WWI klezmer recordings from Eastern Europe, brought to Weimar by master clarinetist and internationally renowned klezmer scholar Joel Rubin. read more

World premiere! This concert presents music based on rare, previously unknown, pre-WWI klezmer recordings from Eastern Europe, brought to Weimar by master clarinetist and internationally renowned klezmer scholar Joel Rubin. Rubin is joined by Yiddish Summer director, Alan Bern, along with Deborah Strauss, Ilya Shneyveys and more than thirty participants from Europe, North America, Israel and Japan in a concert of musical fireworks from 100 years ago that still burn brightly today.

Photo: Janina Wurbs back