Reclaimed Rhythms: Jewish Women's Voices

May 10, 2025

7:00 PM

Arts & Culture

Reclaimed Rhythms: Jewish Women's Voices

Outdoor Stage

Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Open Stages is Brooklyn Conservatory of Music’s annual free, outdoor musical event featuring dozens of artists. For the second year in a row, The Neighborhood will be curating a stage of Jewish music for Open Stages. This year, our stage will highlight music that reinterprets and remixes texts from the Hebrew Bible, featuring artists Lainie Fefferman and Yula Beeri.

Lainie Fefferman’s ensemble will present work from Here I Am–a song cycle that brings a fresh perspective to ancient sacred literature through original and heart-provoking musical composition. For this performance, Here I Am will be performed by Kamilla Arku (keyboard), Lainie Fefferman (vocals, percussion), Sybil’s Chloe Holgate and Lily Holgate (vocals, violin, percussion), and James Moore (electric guitar).

Yula Beeri's project, Song of Songs Update 0.2, sounds like a fascinating blend of ancient inspiration and modern creativity. It reimagines the lyrical beauty of the Song of Songs through a mix of electronic elements, live vocals, and instruments, creating a unique and immersive experience. Beeri, known for her work with Nanuchka, World Inferno, and Y&I Indiga (just to name a few), brings her signature style to this project, offering a fresh take on the timeless themes of love and expression.

Featuring

Lainie Fefferman

Lainie Fefferman makes music by putting dots on lines, drawing curves in software, writing code in boxes, and finding new and surprising ways to wiggle her vocal chords. Her music often meditates on jewish themes or texts; she loves using humor and food to support and complement her musical endeavors; she finds ways to use vocoders whenever possible. Her most recent commissions for the creation of original works have been from Recap Quartet, Greg Oakes, JACK Quartet, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Ensemble Decipher, Tenth Intervention, So Percussion, Make Music New York, Experiments in Opera, ETHEL, Kathleen Supové, TILT Brass, James Moore, Eleonore Oppenheim, and Dither. Her one-woman voice & electronics feminist song project "White Fire," an electroacoustic meditation on the heroines of the Hebrew Bible, was released as an album on Gold Bolus Recordings in 2023. Her album “Here I Am,” a nine-movement meditation on different Hebrew Bible excerpts scored for vocalists and large ensemble, was released on New Focus Recordings in 2024. She is a co-founder and director of New Music Gathering, an annual conference/festival hybrid event for the international New Music Community. She had a wonderful time getting her doctorate in composition from Princeton University and is a programming/performing member of Princeton-based laptop ensemble Sideband. She is half of the composer nerd synth pop duo The Beverage Station and will be releasing the band’s first album “Little Grey Cells” on Gold Bolus Recordings in May of 2025. She currently teaches and advises a fabulous bunch of music makers as a professor of Music & Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology and recently concluded her time as artist in residence at Nokia Bell Labs. For more info, visit: http://lainiefefferman.com

Yula Beeri

Yuli Yael Be’eri’s professional career as a performer began at the age of 9, Performing for Shimon Peres, the President of Israel, at The School Of Arts. She went on to star in Israeli film, television, and advertising campaigns, before moving to New York City to pursue a career as a musician. In her years in New York, she has fronted major rock acts, played bass at international music festivals, founded an independent non-for-profits arts and production organization, all while pursuing an aggressive agenda as composer, arranger, music producer and new media creator. Yuli continues to expand her creative horizons, with a multitude of projects.

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