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The soul of the Jewish people – duet

In the club of Kyiv Hesed with great success was held the first solo concert of wonderful creative team Duo "Nigun" (Helen Winn and Irene Sidorovskaya, artistic director – Helen Winn).

Nigun is a Jewish song. In these amazing "nigunim", the soul of the Jewish people is manifested very exactly, as nowhere else: its culture, lifestyle, language and music. And also - attitude to parents, to children, to neighbors, to religion, to work, to home, to peace, to yourself, to life and death – it is all transmitted through the art of Jewish song.

To recreate the Jewish folk music today means to bring life to the environment where is Yiddish, the language of European Jewry. Today it is particularly important, as well as the last native speakers leave and the less they are, the clearer it becomes: the Yiddish language and the disappearing culture associated with it are particularly valuable.

Such selfless activity in Kyiv ICF "Jewish Hesed Bnei Azriel" has been successfully lead by Helen Wynn and Irina Sidorovskaya – the extremely talented vocalists and musicians. They often performed with the Jewish repertoire in large and small concerts in front of wards of the Fund, but only now showed us a solid and varied song program - the result of years of work.

In their inimitable performance sounded rousing "Rondo", "A bisl Zun", "A gute woh", "Hava Nagila" (the last two were performed with the participation of vocalists Felix Schuster and Igor Burak), lyric songs "Zi shpeit", "Creneze", "Pave", the poignant lullaby "Ingele", a delicate waltz "A bisele Mazel", the nostalgic song "A tiny place". Traditional Hebrew repertoire was presented by the old Sabbath song about angels "Shalom Aleichem" (with Felix Schuster), as well as modern compositions "Ali" and "Adam". The last song is a result of joint creativity of "Nigun" with Hesed ensemble "Smayliki" (Natalia Ugryumova, Olga Ovdienko, Helen Grishchenko, Helen Abramskaya, Irina Demenko).

The audience enjoyed a lot the theatrical composition "Oh, in the forest!". There, in a wonderful intertwining of well-known Ukrainian songs with the famous Jewish, was shown a comic story of courtship of a boy in love to a girl and the reaction of her strict mother...

Actually, it should be mentioted that in the performance of a talented Jewish artists every song is a small musical performance – sometimes comedy, sometimes the drama, and sometimes even the tragedy. And in the most cases – everything at once, because in Jewish art the tears and laughter are inseparable.

The concert was graced with violin songs "Chiri-bim" and "Ba mir bist du shine", performed by Felix Schuster, the author’s song "Tel Aviv" performed by Emil Krupnik, who also was leading the concert.

The concert ended with a joint choral song "Lomir alle in einem" (Let's do it all together!), which was echoed and applauded by numerous standing public – despite of the heat with the summer swimming and cottage season and the heat in the room, there wasn’t room to swing a cat...

The soul of the Jewish people – duet

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