Alicia Svigals & Uli Geissendoerfer

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Svigals, one of the world’s finest klezmer fiddlers, and Geissendoerfer, a jazz pianist, combine their talents to breathe new life into Moshe Beregovski’s revolutionary recordings of ancestral Jewish music. Beregovski, a scholar in the 20th century, set out to record the musical knowledge of Jewish Ukrainians in the face of the Holocaust, preserving thousands of songs on wax cylinders. In the 1990s, many of the cylinders were discovered in Kiev. Today, the musicians revive this rich heritage.

press release: The concert is free and open to public.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia; the Center for Jewish Studies; and the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture, with support from the Mead Witter School of Music and Mills Music Library.