Music
A tsebrokhn harts / zolst shtarkn - original tkhines by Ariel Shapiro
A medley of two original tkhines performed by A Glezele Tey at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity on March 23rd, 2025. Tkhines are everyday prayers written for and by women & gender non-conforming people, often in Yiddish, that were popular from the late 1600s to the early 1900s. Ariel adapted and set these tkhines to music as part of a cohort with Der Tkhines Proyekt in January 2024.
"I rewrote the words to express what I needed to pray for in these times of both immense grief and urgent calls to action. These songs are meant to be sung when you’re feeling stuck in the heartbreak and overwhelm of it all, when you need strength for the long journey ahead, as well as around kitchen tables, in the streets, and anywhere they can help tear down systems of injustice and occupation to build a freer world." -Ariel
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence, MA; March 2025.
Hot zikh mir di zip tsezipt / Rumshinsky's Bulgar
A medley of Hot zikh mir di zip tsezipt, collected by Ruth Rubin, and Rumshinky’s Bulgar. Performed with special guest Alicia Svigals, and Asya Vaisman Schulman leading dancing!
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence MA; March 2025.
Beregovsky Medley
A medley of two tunes from the Beregovsky collection, performed by A Glezele Tey at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity on March 23rd, 2025. Moyshe Beregovsky was one of the foremost ethnomusicologists of traditional East European Jewish music, collecting over 7,000 pieces of music through his extensive field work in eastern Europe from the 1920s to the 1940s.
Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity, Florence, MA; March 2025.
Behusher khosid & Galitzianer tants
A medley of traditional klezmer tunes: Behusher khosid (recorded by Romanian-Jewish tsimbl player Joseph Moscowitz in 1919 in NYC) and Galitzianer tants (recorded by clarinetist Sam Beckerman in 1924 in NY).
November 2023 at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence, MA.