Welcome to the 2008 Jewish Music Festival

EVENT: Degenerate Music: The Music of Weimar Berlin

Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:30 PM

Susan Waterfall, piano & The Mendocino Music Festival Chamber Players
Erin Neff, vocalist

After World War I, Weimar Berlin was a cauldron of artistic ferment as avant-garde artists and intellectuals, most of them Jewish, struggled to create a modern German culture. Exuberant freedom and hectic experimentation masked a sense of impending doom. After 1933, Hitler denounced them all as “degenerate” and their forced exile carried Weimar modernity to the rest of the world. A re-creation of this fascinating and pivotal era with cabaret and chamber music of Kurt Weill, Arnold Schoenberg and Hans Eisler, together with photographs and film of the period.

Location: JCC East Bay, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley
$15 members/seniors/students, $20 general

Presented in association with The Goethe-Institut San Francisco & The Mendocino Music Festival

Performer bios:

• Heather Lauren Klein
• Ginger Kroft Barnetson
• Daniel Gildar
• Melinda Blake
• Michael Krasny
• Natalia Vershilova
• David Wall
• Lorin Sklamberg
• Charlotte Cohn
• Teslim
• Alla Gladysheva
• Golem
• Kaila Flexer
• Lord Loves a Working Man
• Gari Hegedus
• Benzion Miller
• Jessica Ivry
• Jonathan Russell
• Chen Zimbalista
• Glenn Hartman
• Avi Avital
• Jewlia Eisenberg
• Aaron Alexander
• Frank London
• Mariana Sadowska
• Stuart Brotman
• Brandon Seabrook
• Ron Caswell
• Art Bailey
• Steven Hrycelak
• Randall Weiss
• Robert Howard
• Leslie Ludena
• José Gallardo
• Katja Cooper
• Rachel Brice

The Jewish Music Festival is a program of the
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (JCCEB)