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Bustan Quartet, Babel/Askenaz & Basya Schechter
Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Holy Harmony
Congregation Sherith Israel, 2266 California Street, San Francisco
Co-sponsored by Congregation Sherith Israel
Day Passes: $43-50 Purchase Online
Afternoon Program Tickets $25 adv./$30 door; Doors at 1:30pm Program begins at 2:00 p.m.
Evening Program Tickets $25-30; Doors at 6:00pm, program begins at 7:30pm
Spend the day in the glorious refurbished sanctuary of San Francisco’s Congregation Sherith Israel as Jewish Music Festival presents: Holy Harmony. This special event will feature back-to-back performances with ground-breaking new musical projects bridging eras, continents, and cultural divides:
Schedule:
1:30 p.m. Doors
2:00 p.m. Basya Schechter (afternoon program)
4:00 p.m. Babel/Ashkenaz (afternoon program)
5:30 p.m. Dinner (open to all ticket holders)
7:30 p.m. Bustan Quartet (evening program)
2:00pm Basya Schechter Performs Songs of Wonder
Musical Settings to the Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Singer/songwriter Basya Schechter (of Pharaoh’s Daughter) and ensemble explore the link between liturgy and spirituality in this project that sets her original music to the Yiddish poetry by revered civil rights activist and philosopher Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Performance co-sponsored by the Peoplehood Initiative of the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture and the Koret Foundation, and The Judaica Collection at the Doe-Moffitt Libraries, University of California, Berkeley
4:00pm “Babel / Ashkenaz”:
Frank London (of the Grammy-winning group the Klezmatics) and Yair Dalal (Israeli violinist and oud master of Iraqi background) bring together Eastern and Western Jewish liturgical traditions, with percussionist Dror Sinai, and others.
7:30pm Bustan Quartet
Reunited members of Israel’s internationally acclaimed Arab / Jewish ensemble draws equally on Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions, flamenco, and jazz improvisation to create a stunningly original world of sound.
More info on Bustan
Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Office of the Provost, in association with the Department of Music, Magnes Museum, Townsend Center for the Humanities; Israeli Law, Labor, Economy and Society, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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