LMCC Grantee
2025 Manhattan Arts Grant
Full Blossom Concert
We are excited to share long-awaited footage from July's "Full Blossom" concert at El Sol Brillante community garden on 13 July with beloved writer Irena Klepfisz reading poems as our special guest.
Irena Klepfisz reads poems by Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Rokhl Korn: For Korn's "fun yener zayt lid," Irena gives first her own translation — "On the Poem's Other Side" — and then the original Yiddish. Plus Irke's enlightening commentary on the stage adaptation of I.B. Singer's "Yentl," apropos of our Klezbos songs at this concert dedicated to the memory of Jill Sobule & Jill's own "Music from Yentl" for a later version of that theater piece. (We had been Jill's house-band for these originals).
This project was made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the funding agencies — The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council; The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation, and administered by LMCC.
