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Highlights from summer events
Couldn’t make it to all our programs in
Amherst this summer? Now you can view video clips from our 2008 season,
including authors’ talks, workshops and even a spontaneous
musical performance.
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Michael Wex:
"Don't Knock
Me a Teakettle"
Bestselling author, translator and performer Michael Wex
presents a characteristically entertaining description of this common
Yiddish expression.
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the video
(4:00 minutes)
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Henry (Hank) Sapoznik on the Jewish Art Quartet
Hank Sapoznik introduces an exquisite 1933
recording of the Jewish Art Quartet. This selection was excerpted from
a workshop titled Station of the Nation: the Golden Age of
Yiddish Radio, presented during the Book Center's Paper
Bridge Summer Arts Festival.
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(5:36 minutes) |
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Socalled
Musician Socalled (Josh Dolgin) explores the
process of digital sampling and its impact on his rediscovery of the
Yiddish repertoire.
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(8:07 minutes) |
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Impromptu
Concert
Hankus Netsky, Michael Alpert,
Yuri Vedenyapin, and Grigory (Hersh)
Rikelman perform for Center visitors and summer interns.
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(5:13 minutes) |
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