Neal Brostoff examines the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, which was established in 1908, and created an impressive repertory that drew European art music together with Yiddish and Russian folk traditions.

Brostoff will also be giving two concerts while in Ann Arbor:

Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm
McIntosh Theatre, Moore Building
Works by Schoenfield, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Copland, Weill, Ravel and Bloch. Mr. Brostoff will give a pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Saturday, November 4, 8:00 pm
Britton Recital Hall, Moore Building
Works by Schiff, Ben-Haim, Krein, Weinberg and Prokofiev. Mr. Brostoff will give a pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m.

Fine more information at concert co-sponsor Chamber Music Michigan's website: http://www.chambermusicmichigan.com/events

Photo: "Society for Yiddish music in Petersburg"
Ephraim Shkliar's Farn Opsheyd, published by the Society for Jewish Folk Music, St. Petersburg, 1910. Credit: The St.Petersburg Score Collection. A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music

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