LILITH MAGAZINE SINGS OUT ABOUT THE AGES OF WOMAN
Each One of Us Is Getting Older Every Day

Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 PM
Admission is FREE, Photo ID required for entrance
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
One West 4th Street (Between Broadway and Mercer)
New York City

Feminist notes on being Jewish, female, and still kicking, this intergenerational evening of Jewish women's music presents cabaret singer Leslie Hollis, composer Mira J. Spektor's mini-musical "Give Me Time," and original klezmer music with Shira Shazeer of Fish Street Klezmer.

At this special LILITH event, Leslie Hollis will showcase a segment of her upcoming show "A Tribute to Dorothy Fields." Fields was the first woman elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Jewish woman with enormous talent, courage and drive who managed to break into the male world Broadway lyric writing. Hollis's just-release CD is "I Fall in Love Too Easily." She'll be performing with pianist Woody Regan.

"Give Me Time," with music by Mira J. Spektor and lyrics by June Siegel and Caroline Crippen, is about a "mature couple" who meet on a park bench in Florida and decide to call off middle age! The mini-musical is sung by Darcy Dunn and Mark Singer with musical direction and piano by Barbara Ames and stage direction by Lou Rodgers.

Shira Shazeer and Ken Richmond, young musicians of Klezmaniacs fame, come together to form the new klezmer and Yiddish song duo called Fish Street Klezmer, in the tradition of Mina Bern, Ben Bonus, Shifra Lerer and others. Richmond plays violin and guitar, Shazeer plays accordion and mandolin, and both musicians sing. As a part of the klezmer world of the new millennium, they work to preserve, revive, and create traditions of klezmer and Yiddish song--this evening all about women.

This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of Aging, on view from September 2, 2003 through June 25, 2004. The exhibit's curator Laura Kruger says that "Aging is a process that begins with birth. It's a lifelong journey affecting all the dynamics of human relationships, creativity, memory, continuity, and growth. Jewish texts are full of references to values intrinsic to the aging process-- respecting elders, honoring parents, recognizing 40 as the age of understanding, 50 as the age of counsel, 60 as wisdom, and 80 as strength." Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, mixed media, and video, contemporary artists from Israel and North America reflect on the diverse aspects of aging, including creativity and vitality, anxiety, physical change, loss, intergenerational responsibilities, and optimism.

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This exhibition is co-sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC) and JDC-ESHEL (The Association for the Planning and
Development of Services for the Aged in Israel), with additional support by
UJA-Federation of New York.