Community Calendar

Two leading voices in contemporary klezmer unite for a dynamic double bill. Violinists Jake Shulman-Ment & Abigale Reisman’s Two Strings blend old-world Yiddish string traditions with bold improvisation, while Ira Temple & Michael Winograd reimagine klezmer and Yiddish music for today’s stage.

The Smith College Gamelan Ensemble celebrates 30 years of music-making with a special anniversary event. In the style of a Javanese klenèngan, light refreshments and drinks will be served, audience members may come and go freely, and any former gamelan members present may partake in the music-making. Featured guests include former directors of the Smith Gamelan. Traditional Javanese gamelan ranges from the slow and serene to the lively and joyful, played on bronze percussion, drums, and many other instruments. Free and open to the public.

Experience the transcendent music of kora master Ablaye Cissoko and French accordionist Cyrille Brotto. Their project Djiyo (“water”) flows across cultures, blending Manding and Occitan traditions into meditative, lyrical soundscapes. Hailed as “a gem from start to finish” (Songlines UK), the duo’s intimate performance is a graceful dialogue of kora, voice, and accordion—at times contemplative, at times quietly ecstatic, and always deeply human.

The Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) is a groundbreaking work by Argentine composer Martín Palmeri that blends the dramatic rhythm of tango with the powerful expression of choral music. It is a setting of the mass in Latin, and the music uses the style of the nuevo tango, following the model of Astor Piazzolla, and includes elements from the history of church music, such as extended fugues in the opening and closing movements. In similar style is Palmeri’s Jüdische Kantate, composed in 2022: variations on Yiddish and Hebrew songs on texts from the Old Testament in the original language and in Latin.
Crescendo Chorus; soprano Nadia Aguilar; Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti, bandoneón; and an instrumental ensemble with clarinet, piano, and strings, directed by Martín Palmeri and Christine Gevert.

The Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) is a groundbreaking work by Argentine composer Martín Palmeri that blends the dramatic rhythm of tango with the powerful expression of choral music. It is a setting of the mass in Latin, and the music uses the style of the nuevo tango, following the model of Astor Piazzolla, and includes elements from the history of church music, such as extended fugues in the opening and closing movements. In similar style is Palmeri’s Jüdische Kantate, composed in 2022: variations on Yiddish and Hebrew songs on texts from the Old Testament in the original language and in Latin.
Crescendo Chorus; soprano Nadia Aguilar; Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti, bandoneón; and an instrumental ensemble with clarinet, piano, and strings, directed by Martín Palmeri and Christine Gevert.