THE VOCAL RECORD COLLECTORS' SOCIETY

PRESENTS


FROM SYNAGOGUE TO STAGE
THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN OPERA:
PART FOUR

By

Ed Tapper

After ringing in the VRCS's 2007 and 2008 seasons, and then returning for a March 2009 outing, we are pleased to announce that Ed Tapper is back to a January ringing in for our 2010 season. Our distinguished visitor from Boston is the owner, guiding light and mystic mainspring of Orpheus Performing Arts Treasures, specializing in operatic recordings, books, manuscripts, autographs and anything else which may constitute operatic memorabilia. He also teaches music history and opera history (the latter a program he created) at the University of Massachusetts and at Suffolk University, is a noted lecturer throughout the New England area, and makes frequent radio and television appearances.

In his first three programs, Mr. Tapper covered the influence of Jewish musical idioms on early European church and secular music, the increasing number of Jewish composers active in European musical life in the nineteenth century, the emergence of famous Jewish singers starting with Giuditta Pasta, the triumphs of Jewish composers in American classical, film and show music, and last but not least, the incredible number of important Jewish concert and opera singers active over the past century or two. While he has not divulged where this fourth part of his subject will lead, we imagine it will continue concentrating, as did his 2009 program, on the latter group through the medium of their recordings, and that most of these will be heard, as they were in prior years, in music of Jewish composers or lyricists. However, as necessity demands, Mr. Tapper is never averse to introducing an occasional SGG (Special Guest Goy) to fill in a blank here and there (mostly there).

Mr. Tapper's prior programs were such big successes that we immediately asked for follow-ups before he had left the building, and now here is his latest one. Anyone who attended any or all of these prior offerings will tell you that you would have to be meshuga to miss Part Four (and even the goyim at the VRCS can write chapter and verse on meshuga!), so do plan to be with us in January.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 8, 2010
TIME: 7:30P.M. SHARP
PLACE: CHRIST CHURCH BASEMENT AUDITORIUM
PARK AVE. & 60TH STREET
N. Y. C.


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