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5:30 pm- 9:30 pm Tue, Mar 12, 2013

Mark Slobin & Michael Alpert

The Magnes, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley
Free Program

Presented by The Magnes with support from Ray Lifchez. In association with UC Berkeley, the Graduate Theological Union and the 28th Jewish Music Festival

5:30 pm – History of American Jewish Music, a lecture by Mark Slobin

Part of the Berkeley Seminars in Modern Jewish Culture series. A leading ethnomusicologist, Professor Mark Slobin teaches Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University. Among his books are Chosen Voices: The Story of the America Cantorate (1989). Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants (1982), and Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World (2000).

7:30 – Festival Closing Program – A Sweet Diaspora Song: Paths of Jewish Music in America

Performance by Michael Alpert, in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes).

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The Jewish Music Festival is a fiscally sponsored project of the JCC East Bay