Kolot HaLev Presents Les Chansons Juives: Portraits of Jewish Music in France

Les Chansons Juives will feature compositions from different French and Jewish liturgical traditions and works by French masters who were Jewish, such as Jacques Halévy and Darius Milhaud, or Christian, such as Georges Bizet and César Franck. Familiar symphonic melodies will become traditional Hanukkah music. Chorales from the Central Synagogue of Paris, plus folk and liturgical music from Bordeaux, Provence, and elsewhere, will celebrate a distinctive Gallic-Jewish key. Joining Kolot HaLev will be the Rochambeau Choir of Washington, DC, led by Simon Charette.