Gala Benefit of Maison de la culture yiddish

Jean-François Zygel
piano, organ and artistic direction

accompanied by

Talila, voice,
Martine Bailly, cello,
Philippe Berrod, clarinet,

Presents

in homage to his great grandfather
Shalom Zygel, hazan in Poland

Mishpokhe
My Jewish family

« What is Jewish music? Klezmer, Yiddish or Ladino songs, Mendelssohn quartets, Bob Dylan, the Gershwin standards? There is not one sort of Jewish music, there are many. Just as there is not one but many families that we create for ourselves over time, over a lifetime. My own Jewish family is one of melodies and rhythms, the instruments and singers of Jewish  music and the improvisations of the hazanim, the cantors at the synagogue. The intensity of their expression haunts the memory of a continent at once immaterial and endlessly renewed.» 

Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 7.00 p.m.

Le Palace
8, Rue du Faubourg Montmartre - 75009 Paris

Informations tickets at:  Maison de la culture yiddish