14th Annual Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Concert & Award

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This event is produced in cooperation with GOH Productions. In-Person Event at Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street in Manhattan. Admission: $28 in-person/$20 livestream (admission is included in the YNY Full Festival Pass).
Adrienne Cooper (1946-2011) was an inspirational performer, activist, teacher and mentor to so many of us in the Yiddish velt. Each year, YNY and the AC-DIY Committee remembers Cooper with the annual Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Concert and Award, the centerpiece of the festival’s programming. Now in its 14th year, the concert is always a spectacle, and serves as a place for the community to honor an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to Yiddish language, arts, scholarship and/or activism. The Dreaming in Yiddish Award was created to support artists and scholars as they embark on, in Adrienne’s words, “the boundless, utterly unexpected adventure of working in Yiddish.” Each year we honor Adrienne’s memory by gathering musicians, artists, activists, Yiddishists and friends in celebration of the world that she helped create and grow. This year’s recipient is Michael Alpert, one of the most influential figures in the global renaissance of Yiddish music and culture.
Alpert, a National Heritage Fellow of the United States — the nation’s highest honor in the traditional and heritage arts — has been a pioneering multi-instrumentalist, singer, ethnographer, and educator for over five decades. His award-winning work with ensembles including Brave Old World, Kapelye, Khevrisa, and Itzhak Perlman’s In the Fiddler’s House has shaped generations of performers and listeners alike.
A native Yiddish speaker and cultural bridge between East European-born tradition bearers and contemporary artists, Alpert is celebrated both for preserving the roots of Yiddish folk and klezmer music and for composing a new body of Yiddish songs that speak to today’s world.
The Dreaming in Yiddish Award Concert — presented in association with Yiddish New York and GOH Productions — will feature Michael Alpert and friends in an evening of music, memories, and celebration.
Previous awardees: Jenny Romaine, Michael Wex, Joshua Dolgin, Irena Klepfisz, Shura Lipovsky, Yefim “Fima” Chorny & Suzanna Ghergus, Nikolai “Kolya” Borodulin, Shane Baker, Jeffrey Shandler, Rokhl Kafrissen, Daniel Kahn and Deborah Strauss.

This event is produced by YNY in partnership with GOH Productions and the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Committee. Image of Adrienne Cooper by Eric Drooker.

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