Toronto Jewish Folk Choir Concert at Toronto Ashkenaz Festival

Monday September 6, 2010
12:30 p.m.
Brigantine Room, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West

Did you miss the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir's Spring Concert this year? Or were you so captivated that you'd like to catch it again?

The Choir performs the Yiddish Suite No. 1 by Srul Irving Glick. Alexander Veprinsky conducts, with Lina Zemelman on piano. Cellist Esther Gartner reprises her role as soloist in the Glick suite. Anya Podrezo returns to perform the flute part, which Maestro Veprinsky created for the work. Esther was special guest in the May 2010 concert, which honoured the memory of her father, the Choir's beloved, long-serving conductor Emil Gartner, on the 50^th anniversary of his untimely death.

The program includes other works in memory of Emil, among them the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco and the Market Scene from Benyomin III, a utopian work based on Yiddish folk melodies by Gartner's cousin Max Helfman. Songs in Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) and many Yiddish favorites complete the concert. The Choir's popular soprano Miriam Eskin and bass Herman Rombouts are featured, along with other soloists from the Choir.

For more information, e-mail tjfolkchoir@sympatico.ca.