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EMuNa will soon present in the Festival of Jewish Cultures

From One Shore to the Other...towards Liberty

In the footsteps of memory, imagination and music

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The wanderings of Jewish emigrants at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, from eastern Europe to the New World.

This concert will take place on June 29th, as part of the Festival of Jewish Cultures, its theme being Jewish American Culture. It is organized by the EmuNa association in cooperation with « Fond Social Juif Unifié » and is supported by the Embassy of the United States in Paris. The concert illustrates the difficult and painful process of transformation and re-birth of Jewish emigrants to America, through the contemporary novel forms of expression, as cinema and the musical.

In the first part a silent movie will be shown: Charlie Chaplin's short film (about 25 minutes) The Emigrant of 1917, accompanied by live music composed especially for this occasion by Olivier Dauriat, played by the EmuNa musicians.

In the second part will be played three extracts from musicals written by descendants of the first wave of immigration: West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Porgy and Bess and a few songs by George Gershwin (lyrics by Ira Gershwin), and finally The Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock.

Arrangements: Olivier Dauriat and Naaman Sluchin. Performance by ten musicians of the EmuNa group: Naaman Sluchin (violin), Bertrand Raynaud (cello), Nicolas Crosse (double-bass), Mihi Kim (flute), Jérôme Comte (clarinet), Benny Sluchin (trombone), Clément Saunier (trumpet), Primor Sluchin (harp), Olivier Dauriat (piano), Kate Combault (vocalist).