The William Petschek Family Music Program
SummerNights 2010 is the 13th 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.
Please note, at 8:00 pm the galleries close for the evening.
Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors (65 & over) $12
LIVE MUSIC
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Thursday, July 1
Appalachian and Southern fiddle meet Eastern European klezmer when classically trained clarinetist Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys take the stage.
SOLD OUT
Second Date Added: Thursday, July 29
Ansambl Mastika
Thursday, July 8
Ansambl Mastika's music draws from the myriad styles of Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean basin, and the Middle East. The band blends spontaneity and a global sensibility, resulting in a new Balkan uproar.
The Sexteto Rodriguez Cuban-Jewish All Stars
Thursday, July 15
Percussionist and composer Roberto Rodriguez leads talented Cuban-American and Israeli musicians in the creation of a unique Latin klezmer sound that echoes Cuban roots dance music and traditional Jewish klezmer.
SOLD OUT
Rana Santacruz
Thursday, July 22
Influenced by the golden age of Mexican cinema, the magical realism novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, musicians like Tom Waits, the Smiths, and the Pogues, and American bluegrass, Santacruz has won over audiences of all stripes at venues like Austin’s South by Southwest, New York’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, and LA' s J. Paul Getty Museum.
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Thursday, July 29
Appalachian and Southern fiddle meet Eastern European klezmer when classically trained clarinetist Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys take the stage.
SOLD OUT
Images: Slavic Soul Party! photo by Valerie Trecchia, and Museum visitors in the auditorium.
GREAT ART
Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey
March 14 - August 01, 2010
America’s favorite monkey, the irrepressible Curious George, is always in trouble! In a great turn of fate, he helped his creators get out of life-threatening danger. Nearly 80 original drawings for Margret and H. A. Rey's children’s books and documentation related to their escape from Nazi-occupied Europe are on view.
Modern Art, Sacred Space: Motherwell, Ferber and Gottlieb
March 14 - August 01, 2010
In 1951, renowned architect Percival Goodman commissioned Abstract Expressionist artists Robert Motherwell, Adolph Gottlieb, and Herbert Ferber to create contemporary works of art for the modern synagogue in Millburn, New Jersey, that he designed. The exhibition features the three site-specific works by these artists, as well as studies, in-progress photographs, and an architectural model.
South African Photographs: David Goldblatt
May 02, 2010 - September 19, 2010
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most highly regarded photographers, was witness to apartheid’s infiltration into every aspect of South African life. His photos do not look at the large events or the public face of violence; rather they focus on the world of ordinary people and the minutiae of everyday life, illuminating the depth of injustice and the character of the people who impose it and who struggle against it.
The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez
March 14 - September 07, 2010
Visual artist Dor Guez offers perspectives from different generations of a Christian Arab family. Counted among 125,000 Christian Arabs, the Monayers consider themselves a minority within a minority.
South African Projections: Films by William Kentridge
May 02, 2010 - September 19, 2010
South African William Kentridge’s art is internationally acclaimed for its dramatic narrative invention and for its extraordinary technique. Grounded in recent South African history, Kentridge's complex narratives address personal and universal concerns of love, greed, jealousy, and memory.
Culture & Continuity: The Jewish Journey
A two-floor permanent exhibition spanning 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture.
The 2010 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, A State Agency.
