SHABBAT ACROSS EARLY MODERN EUROPE: Baroque Jewish Music

The Longy Viol Consort offers a concert exploring the rich growth of Jewish musical culture throughout continental Europe in the Baroque era. Music written for Shabbat services in the 17th and 18th centuries forms the core of this program.

The concert includes music composed specifically for synagogue use in the Italian-Jewish community and the Sephardi community in Amsterdam, by composers such as Salamone Rossi (1570 -1630), Leonora Duarte (1610 -1678), Abraham Caceres (1718 -1740) and Cristiano Lidarti (1730 - 1795). It also includes some new arrangements of contemporary and familiar Shabbat songs created for early music instruments, which transport those pieces into a different realm.

This performance is generously underwritten by the Viola da Gamba Society of New England, via the Silbiger Grant.

Cover image: Dedication of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam on August 2, 1675.

NOTA BENES:

Doors Open at 5:15. Concert begins promptly at 6 and runs an hour without intermission.

All seating except FRONT ROW is unassigned.

Tickets cannot be refunded but can be transferred to a different attendee.

We recommend buying tickets online whenever possible. Tickets will be available at the door with payment in cash or check only, for $35.

CONGREGATION KEHILLATH ISRAEL is a traditional inclusive synagogue that actively embraces individuals, its community, and the world. An innovative and prominent voice in North American Jewish life since 1917, it is one of Brookline's oldest synagogues.

Longy Viol Consort is a new ensemble of voices and viols formed by students and graduates of the Longy School of Music under the direction of Jane Hershey. It is a flexible ensemble and often features guest performers, but the core members are singers Katja Pennypacker and Cannon McClure and instrumentalists Julian Bernal, Guinevere Conner, Matthew Dunn, Kevin Lubin, and Itzel Orellano Sierra. Longy Viol Consort loves to share rarely heard music with audiences, from fun English songs of the 16th century to gorgeous Jewish Baroque repertoire to premiering new operas about trees shaped like broccoli.

Host or Publisher Congregation Kehillath Israel