Lunch & Learn

Tue 13 Dec, 10 am. 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19123-2495. William Kuhn, Rabbi, 215-627-6747. Congregation Rodeph Shalom - [email][events]

Join us at University of Pennsylvania to hear Robert Freedman discuss Selected Video & DVD Clips of Klezmer, Folk & Theater Songs. Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 10 AM Introduction: Bob and Molly Freedman are the founders and current curators of the Jewish Sound Archive at the University of Pennsylvania. Bob has practiced law for over fifty years and Molly is a retired social worker. While pursuing their careers they indulged their passion for collecting Jewish recordings wherever they traveled.

The Library of the University of Pennsylvania is the beneficiary of Bob’s and Molly’s more than fifty years of collecting and twenty-five years of cataloging some 33,000 songs on approximately 6000 phonograph albums (33rpm and LPs, cassettes, videos and DVD’s). The archive includes
Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino folk and art songs, theater music, klezmer music, cantorials, chassidic music, and spoken word.

References to authors, composers and performers of the recorded material as well as publications in which original text, transliteration and melody line can be found are integrated in the catalog, easily searchable, web site posted by the University.

Location: The presentation will be in the Meyerson Room on the 2nd floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, 34th and Walnut Streets. A picture ID will be required for admission to the library. There will be someone at the admission desk to guide our group.

Since parking can be a problem in the University area, the 21 and 42 buses running on Walnut and Chestnut are recommended.

Thank you to Mery Kostianovsky for organizing.