The William Petschek Family Music Program
SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.
Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors (65+) $12
LIVE MUSIC
Hazmat Modine - Thursday, August 4
Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the 50s and early 60s, blending elements of early blues, hokum jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R & B and Jamaican rocksteady.
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Michael Winograd Trio - Thursday, July 28
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions.
Slavic Soul Party! - Thursday, July 21
Brash and strong as slivovitz, these musicians forge virtuoso brass band music melding Balkan and Gypsy sounds with American jazz and soul.
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Sexteto Rodriguez Cuban Jewish All Stars - Thursday, July 14
Back by popular demand, percussionist and composer Roberto Rodriguez joins Cuban roots dance music with klezmer influences.
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Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys - Thursday, July 7
Audience favorites Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys return with music that creatively combines klezmer and bluegrass.
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Images: Slavic Soul Party! photo by Valerie Trecchia, and Museum visitors in the auditorium.
GREAT ART
Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters:
The Cone Sisters of Baltimore
May 06 - September 25, 2011
Featuring 51 works of art—by Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh and more—from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s world-renowned Cone Collection, this exhibition focuses on the remarkable vision of two Jewish sisters and collectors, Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, and the personal relationships they formed with artists such as Matisse and Picasso, as they shaped their extraordinary collection.
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
March 11 - July 31, 2011
This exhibition presents 30 years of whimsical drawings and paintings by Maira Kalman. The author of several books including The Principles of Uncertainty and Ooh-la-la (Max in Love), Kalman is known for her lush illustrations and witty observations of the world around her.
The Line and the Circle: Video by Sharone Lifschitz
February 11 - August 21, 2011
In the darkness of a photographic darkroom, a conversation unfolds between a daughter and her mother. As they print 14 images taken between l959 and l982 at their kibbutz in the Western Negev, the images shape a conversation about family, history, and the demise of a socialist utopia.
Culture & Continuity: The Jewish Journey
A two-floor permanent exhibition spanning 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture.
The 2011 SummerNights concert series has been funded by a generous endowment from the
William Petschek Family. Public programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties.
