Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music presented a night of live music with Karyn Levitt, Soprano and Jed Distler, Piano. This event was part of Carnegie Hall's 2023-2024 season's series: Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice.

Many of Hollywood’s greatest film scores were written by émigré and exiled composers who fled Nazi Europe for Southern California. From dusty westerns and sweeping romances to the thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, this program celebrates the blending of the old world and the new to produce the uniquely hybrid sound of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

On Hollywood and Weimar: Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film
Written by Karyn Levitt
Performed by Karyn Levitt, Soprano and Jed Distler, Piano

Copyright 2024 Karyn Levitt / Royal Road Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
To book the show, contact GoldenLand Concerts and Connections: concerts@goldenland.com, or for more information, visit: karynlevitt.com

(This event took place at the Center for Jewish History on Wednesday, May 15, 2024)