BackRoom Boston & BFNJM Presents: Wild Burning Rage & Song — Replies to Scottsboro

BackRoom Boston & The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music Presents: Wild Burning Rage & Song — Replies to Scottsboro

In-person & on Zoom

This concert-lecture brings a turbulent period in American history to life as Professor Amelia Glaser joins Uri Schreter, Heather Klein & Anthony Russell in a performance of their new settings of Yiddish & English poetry of the 1930s written in direct response to one of the most famous miscarriages of American justice—& the birth of the American Civil Rights movement—the Scottsboro trials.

Amelia Glaser, professor & author of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine | Uri Schreter, composer & pianist | Heather Klein, composer & vocalist | Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, composer & vocalist

Reception with light bites & open top shelf bar follows the performance.