“Jews on Broadway”
2020-01-26 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Jewish Federation of New Hampshire
Community Calendar
https://jewishnh.org/community-calendar/jews-on-broadway-1574726805

David Hirsch presents how everybody knows that most of the great Broadway songwriters were Jewish. But what, if anything, was Jewish about their words and music? Learn about the “Jewish Scale,” ambivalence in song, anglicization, and the curious quasi-Jewishness of Cole Porter in this investigation of our people’s greatest contribution to American music.David Hirsch has played bass in klezmer bands and the Portsmouth Symphony, sung Yiddish song recitals, acted in semi-pro musical theate...
