KADYA Youth Choir Yiddish Summer Weimar Present Opening Concert

KADYA Youth Choir is a groundbreaking collaborative project of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Arab-Jewish Community Center(AJCC) in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, in cooperation with the Schola Cantorum Weimar. On Saturday, July 15, at 8:00 PM, a diverse group of young musicians, including veterans of the Children's Song Workshop and members of the Schola Cantorum and the AJCC's Voices of Peace choir, will present the results of a joint musical journey. Over the course of two weeks of intense rehearsals in Jaffa and Weimar under the direction of Yair Dalal and Alan Bern, the singers delved into a unique repertoire: a set of Yiddish children's songs composed by Alan Bern to poems by the Polish-Jewish poetess Kadya Molodowsky. Integrating the diverse musical and linguistic heritage of the choir members, who hail from Israel and Germany and speak (and sing in) five different languages - Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic, German and English - the project invites everyone to discover the poetry of Kadya Molodovsky and its significance for young people of all cultural and religious backgrounds. Line up: KADYA Youth Choir, Alan Bern (USA/D) - accordion, piano, Yair Dalal (IRQ/IL) - oud, violin Shereen Daniel (IL) – voice, Diana Matut (D) - voice, choir coach www.othermusic.eu