Jewish Songs at an Exhibition
Sharon Bernstein and Stu Brotman
A multi-media performance of music and art
Yiddish singer Sharon Bernstein (voice & piano) and klezmer pioneer Stu Brotman (bass, tsimbl & percussion) bring unique music to paintings by self-taught Toronto artist Mayer Kirshenblatt’s portraits of Apt, Poland before the Holocaust. This powerful mix of traditional and modern Yiddish song and visual art is presented in conjunction with the exhibition They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of Jewish Life in Poland, at the Judah L. Magnes Museum, September 10, 2007-January 13, 2008.
Saturday, September 8, 8:30pm
JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
Tix at Brown Paper Tickets
info at 510-848-0237
$12 JCC and Magnes Museum members, Seniors and Students
$15 General
Co-presented by the Judah L. Magnes Museum
archives- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Creative Work Fund
- East Bay Community Foundation-Fund for Artists
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Lufthansa German Airlines (Official Airline Sponsor)
- Koret Foundation
- Kurz Family Foundation
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund