Event

A Rainbow of Jewish Songs

Metropolitan Playhouse is pleased to present Sephardic singer Nicole Murad and veteran Uruguayan-American pianist, conductor and composer Pablo Zinger in a joyful concert of Jewish music and culture through songs in Ladino the Spanish Jewish dialect Yiddish the German Jewish dialect English and Spanish.

Zinger and Murad bring their Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Latin-American and North-American backgrounds together in a program of Sephardic songs predating the 1492 expulsion from Spain, Yiddish songs reflecting the pre-Holocaust Ashkenazy culture of Eastern Europe, and Jewish influenced composers from South America and the United States.

Selections will include:
Songs in Ladino - "Una matica de ruda", "Adio querida" and Avram Avinu".
Songs in Yiddish - "Mayn Shtetele Belz" and "Rozhinkes mit Mandelen".
Compositions influenced by Jewish music by composers such as Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein and Astor Piazzolla.

More Information: www.metropolitanplayhouse.org

NICOLE MURAD is a dulcet- toned, classically trained singer who traces her Sephardic lineage back to 1492 Toledo. She has researched and performed the Ladino repertoire extensively. PABLO ZINGER is a veteran Uruguayan-American pianist, conductor and composer and renowned expert on Spanish and Latin American music. His parents left Galizia (Poland-Ukraine) for South America in 1939