August 2019

2019 Faye Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture: The Magid Chronicles

Thursday, September 26, 7:00pm

Veretski Pass in collaboration with Joel Rubin proudly present The Magid Chronicles, an instrumental collection based on pieces collected by Sofia Magid. The concert combines archival work with new compositions, arrangements and improvisations. Free and open to the public.

2019 Faye Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture: The Making of the Magid Chronicles

Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 pm

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Magid Chronicles. This presentation details the project’s development based on the field work of Sofia Magid, the Jewish ethnographer who worked intensively to document Jewish music in Belarus and Ukraine during Stalin’s regime in the 1920s and 30s. Free and open to the public.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.