SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Repertory Company is presenting two remarkable virtual music events this month.
JFest (Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival) will be hosting the 19th Annual Klezmer Summit at 7 p.m., Thursday evening, Nov. 19 featuring Yale Strom’s band, Hot Pstromi, in their first concert as a full band since the onset of Covid-19. Hershey Felder will be featured in Paris Love Story, streamed from his home in Florence, Italy, for four performances, at 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov.22, and at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 23, through Wednesday, Nov.. 25.
In addition to Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, San Diego Music Awards’ Top World Music Band of 2020, the Klezmer Summit will include performances by actress Tovah Feldshuh, who recently played Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Sisters in Law, and Rebecca Jade, San Diego Music Awards winning singer/songwriter. The concert will feature klezmer and jazz standards as well as a tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The video will be on demand until Thursday, Nov. 26. Tickets are $18.
To order on line, go to: https://securesite.sdrep.org/13841 or phone the Lyceum Box Office: (619) 544-1000.
Hershey Felder’s Paris Love Story, is a bit different from his other one-man shows in which he impersonates famous composers.
Although this one is, indeed, about the great French Impressionist composer, Claude Debussy, and touches on highlights of his life, it is also autobiographical, relating episodes of Felder’s youth in Paris. As to be expected from Felder’s previous shows, it is liberally peppered with deliciously played examples of Debussy’s music.
Tickets are $55 per household. For ticket information, call (619)-544-1000.
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Eileen Wingard, a retired violinist with the San Diego Symphony, is a freelance writer specializing in coverage of the arts. She may be contacted via eileen.wingard@sdjewishworld.com