Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir 31st Annual Spring Concert
Sun, Jun 12
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
This year's major major piece will be the chorale, Oyfn Fidl (on a fiddle) based on the Sholem Aleichem story. With special guest Sulam.
Time & Location
Jun 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
For the 31st Annual Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir Spring Concert, the major piece will be the chorale, Oyfn Fidl (on a fiddle), about a boy so enamoured of the sounds of the fiddle all he wants to do is play. Oyfn Fidl is based on the short story by Sholem Aleichem and performed this year in commemoration of his 100th yortzayt.
Conductor: David Millard
Accompanist: Elliot Dainow
Soloist: Stephen Aberle
Narrator: David Skulski
Guest artists: Sulam
Hebrew text meets Jewish World Music, inspired by music from the Middle East and Africa, as well as flamenco, klezmer, Yiddish, gypsy and Jewgrass styles.
Our 2016 Spring Concert Repertoire:
Dire gelt (Rent money) trad; arr. D. Millard
Di Zun Vet Aruntergeyn (The sun will set) M.L. Halpern/Ben Yomen; arr. M. Zuckerman
Fond Memories of Ivje Trad; arr. T. Garber;
Oyfn Fidl (On a Fiddle) V. Heifetz; arr. I.E. Ronch
Yidish iz mayn loshn (Yiddish is my language) Z. Weinper/M. Rauch
Yidl mitn fidl (Yidl with a fiddle) I. Manger/A. Ellstein
Od yishama (It will yet be heard) Jeremiah 33:10-11/S. Carlebach
Admission: $18 per person
Event Image: Marc Chagall, Le Violoniste Bleu (1947)
