An evening exploring new and recent work by composers of The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life’s Jewish Composers’ Working Group. Mirroring the working groups’ eclectic discourse over its 6-months of meeting, the music of this concert engages with a broad variety of themes including prayer, place, story-telling, tragedy, and comedy.

Works featured include arias from new and recent operas by Joseph Rubinstein, Daniel Schlosberg, and Rachel J. Peters; works for electronics and violin by Lainie Fefferman and Guy Barash with special guest violinist Cornelius Dufallo; Yiddish and Hebrew art songs by Alex Weiser, Karen Siegel, Chanan Ben Simon, and Jeremiah Lockwood; and a presentation from Chaia (Kaia Berman Peters)’s Kleztronica project. Librettists include Jacqueline Goldfinger, Danielle Durchslag and Amanda Quaid. Performers for the evening also include guest artists Katherine Henly and Rachel Doehring Jackson.