Event
Panorama Jazz Band: "Ocho Kandelikas"
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Virtual/Digital
Description
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park presents the Panorama Jazz Band. New Orleans clarinetist Ben Schenck organized a combo with the original concept to perform New Orleans Traditional Jazz and add an occasional number from the Caribbean or Eastern Europe. Before long, however, the musicians in the band gradually became more fascinated by Jewish klezmer, the Creole beguines of Martinique and folk music from the Balkans and Latin America.
"Ocho kandelikas" ("Eight Little Candles") is a simple but catchy Hanukkah song which describes a child's joy of celebrating the holiday as well as lighting the candles in the menorah. It was written by Flory Jagoda, a Jewish-American composer, singer and guitarist, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1925.
The song is in Ladino, the Spanish-derived language traditionally associated with the Sephardic Jewish community, Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain before the 15th century. Flory Jagoda was born into the Sephardic community and her music has been significant in reviving and maintaining interest in Ladino, which is facing the threat of language extinction.
The song is in Ladino, the Spanish-derived language traditionally associated with the Sephardic Jewish community, Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain before the 15th century. Flory Jagoda was born into the Sephardic community and her music has been significant in reviving and maintaining interest in Ladino, which is facing the threat of language extinction.
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