Concert: A Century of Jewish Composers with the Sylvan Winds

The SYLVAN WINDS is coming to Eldridge Street to celebrate the proud history of Jewish composers, from the 1920s to the 2020s! The Sylvan Winds will perform their renditions of pieces from Jewish composers of the last 100 years, from Czech composer Pavel Haas, who perished in the Holocaust, to Klezmer Revival numbers by Gene Kavadlo, to crowd favorites from George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, to contemporary Jewish composers Jan Radzynski and Zvi Avni.

Musicians: Svjetlana Kabalin (flute), Kathy Halvorson (oboe), Nuno Antunes (clarinet), Gina Cufari (bassoon, classically trained soprano), Zohar Schondorf (horn)

Program to Include: PAVEL HAAS Wind Quintet (1929); GENE KAVADLO Klezmer Dances; GEORGE GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess, “Summertime” (1934); LEONARD BERNSTEIN Candide, “Glitter and Be Gay” (1956); ZVI AVNI Wind Quintet (1959); JAN RADZYNSKI Serenade for Wind Quintet (1991)

Image Credit (left to right): Courtesy of the Museum at Eldridge Street, Scott Brevda (2023); the Sylvan Winds, Brian Hatton (2021).