Brave Old World's "Song of the Lodz Ghetto" @ the 1999 Ashkenaz Festival

Brave Old World’s “Song of the Lodz Ghetto” (“Duz gezang fin geto Lodzh”) is based on the rare songs of protest, anguish and satire performed in the streets of Nazi-occupied Poland’s Lodz Ghetto between 1940 and 1944. But this program is far more than simply historical reproduction. "Song of the Lodz Ghetto” links the past and the present in a profound performative collage, rendered inimitably by one of the world’s most innovative Jewish music ensembles. This archival presentation is co-presented with Yiddish Summer Weimar, commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2021. Michael Alpert – vocals, violin, guitar, poyk Alan Bern – piano, accordion, melodica Kurt Bjorling – clarinet, bass clarinet Stuart Brotman – bass, fiddle, trombone, tsimbl Recorded September 5, 1999, at Premiere Dance Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, as part of the third Ashkenaz Festival. http://www.ashkenaz.ca https://yiddishsummer.eu/