Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell
"Jews, Race, and Public Memory” 44th Annual Conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society
University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Oct 26, 2019
5:00 PM EDT
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Vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and accordionist Dmitri Gaskin have set out to create new musical idioms by combining two distinct older ones: African American spirituals and the music of Jewish Eastern Europe. Drawing from a diverse collection of folk songs, lullabies, art and religious music, this program mobilizes an array of historic genres to create a repertoire of songs authentically inhabiting the sounds and histories of two traditions.
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Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell Biography
Twelve years after making his professional operatic debut in the world premiere of Appomattox by Philip Glass, Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell is now a vocalist, composer and arranger specializing in Yiddish song. This work has brought him to stages in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, New York, Tel Aviv, London, Berlin, Warsaw and Krakow, Symphony Space in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Anthony has recently released an EP with klezmer trio Veretski Pass called Convergence, combining a century of African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish music.
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