May 7, 2018

Tango Shalom

Pablo Zinger and Nicole Murad
photo: Adriana Sananes

Metropolitan Playhouse is pleased to welcome back Sephardic singer Nicole Murad and veteran Uruguayan-American pianist, conductor and composer Pablo Zinger in a joyful concert of Jewish music and culture through songs in Ladino  the Spanish Jewish dialect  Yiddish  the German Jewish dialect  English and Spanish.

Featuring songs in Yiddish, Ladino, Polish, French, English and Hebrew, Tango Shalom includes tangos by such composers as Benzion Wittler, Jerzy Petersburski, Artur and Henryk Gold, Enrico Macias and Leonard Bernstein, as well as Sephardic classics re-interpreted through a tango sensibility, and songs from the golden era of Yiddish culture in New York City, including favorites made famous by such stars as Molly Picon and Fanny Brice.