Vancouver Jewish Folk Choir 2024 Spring Concert
Sun, Jun 02
|Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
Mir nemen zikh/We gather round. The choir's first spring concert since the Covid lockdown.
Time & Location
Jun 02, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, 6184 Ash St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 3G9, Canada
Event Description
Come join us for an evening of new mostly-Yiddish music, choir and audience favorites, and some musical surprises by the multi-talented members of the choir.
The choir has comissioned three new songs for the 2024 Annual Spring Concert. One of of the pieces featured is a brand-new arrangement of Itsik Manger's poem "Sankt Bescht" by our conductor, David Millard. We will also be featuring a choir favorite: the Yiddish choral version of Lewis Carroll's "The Jabborwocky". There will be snacks (and maybe more :))
Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 7pm
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
6184 Ash Street, Vancouver
Admission: $15 per person
Wine and snacks included in ticket price. Please contact the organizers if cost is a barrier to entry.
Mir Nemen Zikh Arum
Mir Nemen Zikh Arum (We come and gather round) is a new song commissioned by the choir in 2021 and composed by Polina Shepherd, a UK-based singer, choral director and composer. Shepherd’s new setting of a poem by Soviet Yiddish poet Meir Haratz describes the human impulse to come together in moments of adversity. In the few years since, it has become one of our most popular and versatile songs, and we have sung it in a variety of contexts, from political fundraisers to Passover Seders.
The text reads:
“We who are conquered by the strongmen in command
We who are at odds with the leaders of the world
We the dissatisfied from everywhere
In our diversity, we all come together”
(translation Anna McClennen)
Yomervokhets / Jabberwocky
