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| NYR@TBE and The Congress for Jewish Culture Coffeehouse Concert Series LOCATION: Temple Beth Emeth 83 Marlborough Road Ditmas Park, Brooklyn (B or Q to Church Avenue) Donation: $10 Tuesday May 22nd 7:30 PM Mitch Smolkin Performs the Songs of Rexite the Wunderkind
Actor, singer and producer Mitch Smolkin's 2008 debut album "A Song Is Born" was called "the most exciting, inventive, beautiful, and just plain interesting Yiddish album in years". He will be coming to us from Toronto to present the work of Yiddish songster Seymour Rexite, contextualizing through Rexite's music and wife Miriam Kressyn's translations, the meeting of Yiddish and the American Songbook. |
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