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Music in Our Time: 2012
Wraps Up the Season

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Presented by the American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish  Historical Society, the concert at the Center for Jewish History. Music  in Our Time: 2012, wrapped up ASJM's 2011-12 season on Sunday, June  3rd.
A felicitous blend of contemporary styles and a variety of vocal and instrumental combinations it proved to be a simulating and ejoyable program.   Featuring a rarely heard piece by Leonard Bernstein (Piano Trio, for  piano violin and cello), by students from the Mannes College of Music, and songs  by Hugo Weisgall (selections from The Golden Peacock, a delicious set  of Yiddish songs for soprano) performed by Ena Freeman (soprano) and Laura Leon
(piano). In addition, Ben Yarmolinsky's (Menasche Songs, for baritone,  set to texts by the late Samuel Menashe, who received the first “Neglected Master” award); Jody Rockmaker's (Marsyas for harp and oboe, based on  the Greek myth of Marsyas finding the aulos (oboe) created by Athena); and the  award-winning composer Mark Zuckerman's (Managerie for soprano, flute  and piano, bases on texts by the French poet Robert Desnos), received wonderful  performances by the students from Mannes College The New School of Music, were  at were both impressive and moving.


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