Spring in Tribeca Concert Series
Radical Amazment: Heschel’s Poetry to Music
Basya Schechter of Pharaoh’s Daughter
The Synagogue For the Arts
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Time: 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Synagogue for the Arts/Tribeca
49 White Street
New York, NY

RADICAL AMAZEMENT: A MUSICAL EXPLORATION OF THE POETRY OF ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

$20/$15 seniors and students

Basya Schechter of Pharaoh’s Daughter brings to the Synagogue For The Arts this unique program of songs from the early Yiddish poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. These beautiful poems written while he was a University student in Berlin, after leaving his Chasidic family in Warsaw, grapple with mans’ relationship to G-d, to love, to nature to existence, social responsinbility, and reflect his deep concern for life, and are the seeds for the impact he eventually had on Judaism. (performed in Yiddish, with programs with English translation)

Musical Direction – Uri Sharlin -piano, accordion; Frank London – trumpet; Megan Weeder – violin; Yoed Nir- cello; Rich Stein – percussion; Basya Schechter – oud, guitar, voice