$15 youth, $25 Senior/Student, $30 general admission
Tickets available through Eventbrite.

For this special event, Veretski Pass presents a program of formerly lost melodies of pre-Holocaust traditional, Ukrainian-Jewish music, as well as dances from Ukraine.

PLUS: Join us at 3:00 p.m. for a 30 minute scholarly talk with violinist/violist, scholar and teacher Cookie Segelstein - Veretski Pass: UNDER THE HOOD: Using Jewish Archival Materials to Create New Music and Arrangements, at no extra cost; the talk is free to concert ticket-holders. Thank you, Klez California, for the grant covering this talk!

In this short talk, Cookie will explore ways that musicians can balance old-school research and learning with digital resources. How does Veretski Pass use Jewish archival collection materials to compose and arrange new music? This presentation shows their creative process, from gathering materials, to the treatment of the smallest melodic fragments, to using whole melodies. Cookie will show elements of this, including music sources, tempo and key treatments, melodic and rhythmic variations.

Concert Program: This new program combines traditional folk resources from Ukraine with Veretski Pass' own new compositions. With both traditional and contemporary folk gestures, in concert with the traditional style of improvisation, this collection draws on sources of Ukrainian Jewish music that are in peril, being housed in the Vernadsky National Library in Kiev, Ukraine, and being digitized by volunteers from the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital manuscript Project (KMDMP), which includes members of Veretski Pass.