January 20, 2013

Host Eve Sicular has put together a wide-ranging selection of 20th and early 21st century music that she dubs the "something old, something new, something balkan, something jew-ish show."  Her selections include music related to the documentary, Cabaret Berlin: The Wild Scene, showing this week at the NY Jewish Film Festival; Sly and the Family Stone;  new albums,  Bad Old Songs (Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird), and Forshpil (Forshpil); Molly Picon;  and little-known Jewish composers Mikhail Gnesin and Alexander Krein, who are among the earliest Jews admitted to the music conservatories of Czarist Russia.