TIN PAN ALLEY
TO TEREZIN
January 15, 2012
3:00pm
Skokie Public Library
5215 Oakton Street
Skokie, IL
In connection with the Skokie Public Library’s Maurice Sendak exhibit, VOX 3 Collective explores the music of the 1930s in both the New World and the Old. Maurice Sendak’s creative innovation in children’s literature is well-known; the author has credited the bustling sights and sounds of his own childhood as an inspiration for his work. Born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Sendak felt roots on both sides of the Atlantic, in the jazzy clubs of New York and the shtetls of Eastern Europe. Thus, this program features are the jazzy sounds that poured out of Tin Pan Alley studios, alongside escapist cabaret tunes from interwar Germany, and music written to cope with tense times in Poland. A jazz trio accompanies VOX members in works by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Ilse Weber, Cole Porter, Jerzy Petersburski, Harold Arlen, and Viktor Ullmann.
Tin Pan Alley to Terezin is performed Sunday, January 15 at 3:00pm in the Petty Auditorium at the Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton Street, Skokie. Admission is free.
Performers include:
Heather De Souza, soprano | Magdalena Golecka, mezzo-soprano
Ashlee Hardgrave, soprano | Elizabeth Rudolph, soprano
Brian von Rueden, baritone
Members & Guests of VOX 3 Collective
James Morehead, music direction & piano
TIN PAN ALLEY TO TEREZIN
music of the 1920s and 1930s
