An intimate concert series, the Rising Song Salon welcomes musical artists whose work sits at the intersection of Jewish text and storytelling into Hadar’s beit midrash for an exploration of song, source material, and creative process. In conversation with Hadar’s R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, each artist will share songs from the heart, inviting the audience into their music’s story. Come ready to listen, sing, and ask questions!  

Khumesh Lider with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen

Khumesh Lider are tragicomic retellings of Tanakh stories from  Eastern European Yiddish poet Itzik Manger’s 20th-century collection of poetry.  Characters like Adam and Eve and Abraham and Sarah are plucked out of Canaan and set in interwar Eastern Europe. Hasidim, Turks, Egyptians, and Canaanites collide in the mythical geography that Manger creates. Basya and Avi’s original musical settings of this poetry weave together a singer-songwriter aesthetic with theater, pop, and world music influences, arranged with lush vocal harmonies throughout. 

Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen are veterans of the Yiddish music scene. Basya is most widely known for composing for the groundbreaking Pharaoh's Daughter, a 7-piece ensemble that travels effortlessly through continents, key signatures, and languages, forming a vibrant collage of East/West, old/new, Ashkenazi and Sephardic enlivened by flutes, electronica, and strings. A singer, songwriter, and producer, Avi has worked with the leading lights in new Yiddish music over the last 20 years, including Adrienne Cooper and Daniel Kahn, members of the Klezmatics, and as a guitarist with Pharaoh’s Daughter. For the past several years, Basya and Avi have been collaborating on this project and are anticipating a recording in the next year. 

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