The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket

When:
March 25, 2017 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
2017-03-25T19:30:00-04:00
2017-03-25T22:00:00-04:00
Where:
Snyder-Phillips Hall- RCAH Theater
362 Bogue St
East Lansing, MI 48825
USA
Cost:
Free
The Yellow Ticket @ Snyder-Phillips Hall- RCAH Theater | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

The Yellow Ticket is a multimedia event featuring a rare 1918 silent film and an original score by renowned klezmer violinist/vocalist/composer Alicia Svigals, performed live along with virtuoso new-music pianist Marilyn Lerner. Alicia Svigals is the world’s foremost klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics and a 2014 NEA MacDowell Fellow in composition. Jazz pianist/improviser Marilyn Lerner performs to acclaim internationally, from her native Montreal to Havana, from Jerusalem to Amsterdam and the Ukraine. Her musical career has been marked by a deep exploration of traditional and free jazz, new music tinged improvisation, and Ashkenazic folk music. Joel Rubin, clarinetist, ethnomusicologist, and Associate Professor of Music and Director of Music Performance at the University of Virginia, will also perform. Joel Rubin has long been considered by many to be the leading performer of Jewish instrumental klezmer music in the world today.

“The Yellow Ticket,” a very early production of the German film company UFA-Pagu, was made at the end of World War I and on the eve of the Russian revolution, stars an adolescent
Pola Negri, who would later become the legendary femme fatale of the silent era, and tells the story of an innocent young Jewish woman from a Polish shtetl who is constrained by anti- Semitic restrictions to lead a double life in a brothel while attempting to study medicine in Tsarist Russia. The film includes precious footage of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw and the people who once lived there.