Carnegie Hall

Join YIVO for a performance of the music of Khantshe in Amerike by students of the Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program. A 1912 operetta with music by Joseph Rumshinsky, play by Nokhem Rakov, and lyrics by Isidore Lillian, it touches on serious topics that include love, gender, women’s suffrage, and the changing social status of women in turn-of-the-century America and was noted for having put “American rhythm” on the Yiddish stage for the first time.