Motzei Shabbat at Temple Beth Shalom
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanalehCalling all Jews and other interested parties! Yes, I know there are lots of other things going on this Saturday night, but with coolness like this, how could I not at least mention the Tremont Street stuff to y'all?
TBS Jewish Culture Lecture Series:
"What's Jewish about Jewish Music?"
with Rabbi Norman Janis
Saturday, January 24
7:30-9:00pm
Downstairs at Tremont St. (the Vestry)
Music that "sounds Jewish": Is there really anything distinctively "Jewish" about it? What makes it sound that way? Can the "Jewish soul" be expressed in song? What kinds of music can legitimately be called Jewish? Folk songs, liturgy, Tin Pan Alley standards? Sitting at a keyboard, Norman Janis will address these questions -- talking, singing, and playing.
Norman Janis is rabbi to the Worship & Study Congregation at Harvard Hillel, succeeding his friend and teacher Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. Previously, he served for many years as a cantor. He is founder and director of Jubal's Lyre, a vocal and instrumental ensemble that presents "the Hebrew Bible and its music" (next concert, on Psalm texts: March 31 at Boston University). He has given numerous lecture-recitals of Yiddish art songs (next recital: June 27 at the National Yiddish Book Center) and can be heard singing Yiddish lullabies on the CD "Sleep My Child" (Blue Hill Recordings). Rabbi Janis earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Linguistics Department with a dissertation on the cantillation of the Hebrew Bible.
We hope you can attend this lecture. Please bring friends! Refreshments will be served. $5 donation requested. For more information, please contact TBS's Program Director, David Dolev: 617-864-6388; programs@tremontstreetshul.org.
Then afterwards, head on upstairs to the...
20s&30s '80s DANCE PARTY!
Saturday, January 24
8:00pm-midnight
Upstairs at Tremont St. (the Gimel Room)
Styx, the Fixx, the Eurythmics... Men At Work to Men Without Hats... if you're a child of the '80s, you'll love this event! Guaranteed to take you back -- whether it's to the high school gym or the third-grade school bus.
From 8 to midnight, the party will be raging upstairs at Tremont Street (in the Gimel Room). Bring your friends, your dancing shoes, and -- for extra credit -- your legwarmers or parachute pants. (No, you don't HAVE to dress '80s... but, like, ohmigod, when you see the outfit I'm putting together, you're gonna wish you had! Let's just say it involves Neon. Green. Spandex. Fer shurr! -- Ed.)
We'll provide the music as well as snacks and soft drinks (kosher, of course). No RSVP required. Admission: $5 singles, $9 couples. **Dues-paid TBS members receive an additional $1 discount! Contact![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chanaleh for additional info.
TBS Jewish Culture Lecture Series:
"What's Jewish about Jewish Music?"
with Rabbi Norman Janis
Saturday, January 24
7:30-9:00pm
Downstairs at Tremont St. (the Vestry)
Music that "sounds Jewish": Is there really anything distinctively "Jewish" about it? What makes it sound that way? Can the "Jewish soul" be expressed in song? What kinds of music can legitimately be called Jewish? Folk songs, liturgy, Tin Pan Alley standards? Sitting at a keyboard, Norman Janis will address these questions -- talking, singing, and playing.
Norman Janis is rabbi to the Worship & Study Congregation at Harvard Hillel, succeeding his friend and teacher Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. Previously, he served for many years as a cantor. He is founder and director of Jubal's Lyre, a vocal and instrumental ensemble that presents "the Hebrew Bible and its music" (next concert, on Psalm texts: March 31 at Boston University). He has given numerous lecture-recitals of Yiddish art songs (next recital: June 27 at the National Yiddish Book Center) and can be heard singing Yiddish lullabies on the CD "Sleep My Child" (Blue Hill Recordings). Rabbi Janis earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Linguistics Department with a dissertation on the cantillation of the Hebrew Bible.
We hope you can attend this lecture. Please bring friends! Refreshments will be served. $5 donation requested. For more information, please contact TBS's Program Director, David Dolev: 617-864-6388; programs@tremontstreetshul.org.
Then afterwards, head on upstairs to the...
20s&30s '80s DANCE PARTY!
Saturday, January 24
8:00pm-midnight
Upstairs at Tremont St. (the Gimel Room)
Styx, the Fixx, the Eurythmics... Men At Work to Men Without Hats... if you're a child of the '80s, you'll love this event! Guaranteed to take you back -- whether it's to the high school gym or the third-grade school bus.
From 8 to midnight, the party will be raging upstairs at Tremont Street (in the Gimel Room). Bring your friends, your dancing shoes, and -- for extra credit -- your legwarmers or parachute pants. (No, you don't HAVE to dress '80s... but, like, ohmigod, when you see the outfit I'm putting together, you're gonna wish you had! Let's just say it involves Neon. Green. Spandex. Fer shurr! -- Ed.)
We'll provide the music as well as snacks and soft drinks (kosher, of course). No RSVP required. Admission: $5 singles, $9 couples. **Dues-paid TBS members receive an additional $1 discount! Contact
chanaleh for additional info.