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EL LEGADO DE SEFARAD. Songs of the Sephardim
The Legacy of Sepharad. The 525th the anniversary of the Jewish expulsion from Spain
Instituto Cervantes Chicago is pleased to present a five weeks program aimed at showcasing the vitality of Sephardic culture in today's world. After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Iberian Peninsula Jews have kept alive a rich and diverse cultural legacy. The idea behind this program is to celebrate the music, literature, film, language, gastronomy and other aspects of Sephardic culture, with a particular emphasis on contemporary expressions of this historically important heritage.
$20 general admission; $15 students and members of Instituto '
The event is first come, first served and capacity is limited. We only allow late admittance during a pre-determined program break.
For more information please visit http://chicago.cervantes.es & http://albertomizrahi.com/biography/
Presented in partnership with the Consulate General of Spain; Consulate General of Israel; Rifka Cook and Carlos Zorea.
Inna Naroditskaya is a specialist in Azerbaijanian and Eastern music cultures, Russian music, gender studies, and diasporas. She has published articles and reviews in Ethnomusicology and Asian Music as well as essays and articles in Azerbaijanian and Russian publications. She has authored two books: Song from the Land of Fire: Azerbaijanian Mugam in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods (Routledge, 2003) and Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage (Oxford University Press, 2011). She was editor of Music and the Sirens (Indiana University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Manifold Identities: Studies on Music and Minorities (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2004). Naroditskaya is the recipient of the Center for the Education of Women prize, a Rackham research grant, the Harvard University Davis Senior Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio Scholarly Residency, and funding from the International Institute and School of Music at the University of Michigan. She is also the producer of numerous radio programs.
For more information: http://www.music.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/inna-naroditskaya.html
Albero Mizrahi
Greek-born tenor, Alberto Mizrahi, one of the world's leading interpreters of Jewish music, is Hazzan of the historic Anshe Emet Synagogue, Chicago. He has thrilled audiences worldwide on the pulpit, in recitals, symphony and opera performances. His repertoire spans nine languages and a myriad of styles, making his performances unique in the field.
His debut appearance with Maestro Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, narrating the Schoenberg Kol Nidre," received mention in the New York Times and has been released as a CD on the CSO label. He was a soloist in the Beethoven Societys Penderecki Festival, in Warsaw, where he narrated the maestros 7th Symphony and sang his Kadysz with the Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as in Bialystok, Caracas, Graz, and on a televised performance (available on YouTube) in Warsaw, with Maestro Penderecki conducting. He has sung in front of two U.S. Presidents; George W. Bush, at the White House Hanukkah celebration, and Barack Obama, at the U. S. Capitol for Days of Remembrance. Hazzan Mizrahi most recently performed recital programs in Copenhagen, Paris, Pisa, Saarbrucken, Strassbourg, and throughout the United States. He has also performed with major symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and Israel, including the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Atlanta, Houston, Haifa, Jerusalem, Barcelona, NDR-Hanover, and the Sinfonica Simon Bolivar. Hazzan Mizrahi is featured on the film 100 Voices: a journey home (Cantors Assembly), the celebrated PBS concert, CANTORS: a faith in song (Amsterdam Portuguese Synagogue), and in Music Festivals in the U.S., Israel and Europe.
He has performed and recorded with the legendary jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck and his quartet (Gates of Justice), the great Theodore Bikel (Our Song), Howard Levy and the Trio Globo (Matza to Menorah) and understudied Luciano Pavarotti in Ballo in Maschera with the Miami Opera.
Hazzan Mizrahi is President of the Cantors Assembly, on the Board of the Jewish Theological Seminary, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Mercaz, Zamir Choral Foundation and on the faculty of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School-J.T.S., New York.
Mizrahis extensive discography numbers over 25 CDs including six for the Milken Archive on Naxos; FESTIVAL DELIGHTS; THE HIGH HOLY DAYS (with Schola Hebraeica); BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD Iⅈ BIKEL & MIZRAHI: our song; ALBERTO MIZRAHI: My Song; ALBERTO MIZRAHI AT MENUHIN HALL; and MATZAH TO MENORAH, a recording of Passover and Hanukkah songs with the TRIO GLOBO.
"Mizrahi was charismatic and fearless, unabashedly emotional the tone full and goldenhe held you spellbound." London Times
The hazzan here, often improvising with the soul-stretching intensity of John Coltrane, is the internationally renowned Alberto Mizrahi Nat Hentof Wall Street Journal
PROGRAM:
Songs of love
Si La Mar
Noches, Noches
Adio Querida
Fel Shara
Alberto Hemsi Op. 7
El Rey Por Muncha Madruga
Tres Hijas Tiene El Buen Rey
Ah, El Novio No Quere Dinero
Sephardi liturgy
Adon Haselihot (Yom Kippur)
Bendicho Su Nombre (Shabbat)
Lecha Dodi A. Bensoussan (Shabbat)
Holiday Songs Piano
Hamisha Assar (Tu BiShvat)
Kadesh Urchatz (Pesach)
Un Cavretica (Pesach)
Sevivon jazz (Hanukkah)
Ocho Kandelikas (Hanukkah)
Sephardi Tunes from Greece/Turkey (arr. A. Mizrahi)
Shalom Aleichem
Tzur Mishelo
La Comida, La Manana
Encores as needed: Piano
Greek Lecha Dodi) / Shabchi Yerushalayim / Granada
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