Frank London / Ghetto Songs
»Venice« Easter Festival
The world’s first ghetto came into being 500 years ago in Venice. Other cities already had their Jewish quarters, but only in Venice was there a town-within-a-town, surrounded by a wall and gates. For the inhabitants, this meant both protection and a lack of freedom. New York-based klezmer musician Frank London has studied the specific music that grew up in cultural isolation, and has designed a programme that combines Venetian gondola songs, synagogue music, medieval Italian poetry, Biblical texts and political songs.
Performers
Frank London musical director, trumpet
Svetlana Kundish voice, cantor
Karim Sulayman voice
Brandon Ross voice, guitar
Francesca Ter-Berg voice, violoncello
Greg Cohen double bass
Ilya Shneyveys piano, keyboard, accordion
Zeno de Rossi drums
Programme
Ghetto-Songs
Donny Hathaway
The Ghetto
Salamone Rossi
O dolcezz' amarissime
Frank London
Ve' etah el Shaddai
Jacob Sandler / Boris Tomashefsky
Eli, Eli / aus: Berukhah, oder: Der yidisher kenig fun poyln oyf eyn nakht
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Musa
Nirdi natan recho
Mordechaj Gebirtig
Minutn fun bitukhn
Benedetto Marcello
Maoz tzur
Reynaldo Hahn
La barcheta
Frank London
Amore an
Dovid Beyglman
Makh tsu di eygelekh
Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes
O morro n
Frank London
Il tramonto di fossoli
Claudio Monteverdi
Nigra sum
War
The world is a Ghetto
Frank London
Oseh shalom
Anonymus
Gumboots
Frank London
Tah
Capreto
Festival
Venice