122 E Culver St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
USA
For over three decades, Yale Strom has been one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer music, history and culture. Since he began in 1981, Strom has been composing his own New Jewish music, which combines klezmer with Khasidic nigunim , Roma, jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs. He composed original music for the Denver Center production of Tony Kushner’s The Dybbuk. He also composed all the New Jewish music for the National Public Radio series Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories from the Old World to the New, hosted by Leonard Nimoy, His many recordings run the gamut of traditional klezmer to “new” Jewish music and have appeared on Top Ten, Year’s Best and critically acclaimed lists across North America.
Strom is also a compelling educator. He is an artist-in-residence in the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University, a position that was created for him. His research has resulted in books, documentary films, CD recordings, plays and photo-exhibitions that have been seen and heard all over the world.
He will play locally with his wife Elizabeth as well as the Rural Street Klezmer Band. Formed in 2002, this group consists of musicians from throughout the Phoenix area and is currently based out of Temple Emanuel in Tempe
Tickets $18 ($10 for AZJHS and NowGen Members)
Visit https://azjhs.org/ or call 602-241-7870
This program is supported in part by a generous grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
