Mark Levy, Songster,
Lecturer, Humorist
I am offering the following lectures:
Romancero - Sephardic Music Klezmer 101
Jewish Humor Golden Age of Yiddish Theatre
Music of Israel Jews 'n Jazz!
Romancero!
The folk ballads and songs of the Sephardic Jews of Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Syria, and the Balkans are some of the most beautiful melodies in the Jewish tradition. We will trace their origins, and listen to live and recorded presentations.
Nu, You Think That's Funny? A Century of Jewish Humor in America From Myron Cohen to Rosanne Barr, Jewish jokesters have had a disproportionate influence on 20th century American comedy. Hear and see vintage recordings and clips from vaudeville, borsht belt, TV and film and learn why and how Jews have made us laugh for a hundred years.
Lecturer, Humorist
I am offering the following lectures:
Romancero - Sephardic Music Klezmer 101
Jewish Humor Golden Age of Yiddish Theatre
Music of Israel Jews 'n Jazz!
Romancero!
The folk ballads and songs of the Sephardic Jews of Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Syria, and the Balkans are some of the most beautiful melodies in the Jewish tradition. We will trace their origins, and listen to live and recorded presentations.
Nu, You Think That's Funny? A Century of Jewish Humor in America From Myron Cohen to Rosanne Barr, Jewish jokesters have had a disproportionate influence on 20th century American comedy. Hear and see vintage recordings and clips from vaudeville, borsht belt, TV and film and learn why and how Jews have made us laugh for a hundred years.
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Golden Age of Yiddish Theater From its beginnings in Romania to Second Avenue in New York, Yiddish theater actually enjoyed two "golden ages." Avrom Goldfaden, Boris Thomashevsky, Jacob Adler, Molly Picon, Aaron Lebedef, Jenny Goldstein, Moishe Oysher- just a fraction of the great actors and singers who graced the Yiddish stage over a 50 year period-- will be seen and heard on vintage recordings and film.
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The Music of Israel From the early Chalutzim (pioneers) in Palestine to the latest rock, we'll sample the music of the Jewish state and learn how it develops from the polyglot of settlers and musical idioms of the 20th century.
Jews 'n' Jazz: Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Sophie Tucker, George Gershwin, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Dinah Shore-- only a few of the 20th century's jazz giants who were of Jewish background-- is the subject of a new course taught by Mark Levy. The course will trace the development or America's Jewish jazz singers, composers, and instrumentalists through the Dixieland, ragtime, swing, bebop, modern and post-modern periods. Hear rare recordings of these innovators and see footage from early talking pictures of their later Hollywood appearances. |