New York: Flory’s Flame: The Life and Music of a Balkan Sephardic Composer Flory Jagoda –

February 16, 2016 at American Sephardi Federation in New York, NY.

The American Jewish Historical Association and the American Sephardi Federation present:

Flory’s Flame

Movie and Concert:

Flory’s Flame is a compelling one-hour documentary about the life and music of renowned 90-year old Sephardic composer and performer Flory Jagoda. The documentary interlacesFlory’s personal narrative with selections from her moving September 2013 Celebration Concert at the US Library of Congress.

A National Heritage Fellow — the highest honor given by the US to traditional artists — Flory was born in Sarajevo to a musical family whose roots stretched back to Spain for hundreds of years prior to the Jewish expulsion during the Inquisition in 1492. Living in small Jewish communities in Bosnia over the ensuing centuries, the songs and lyrics of their culture were lovingly passed down relatively intact, ultimately reaching Flory, the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Flory has spent her career composing, recording and performing thismusic worldwide, which culminated in the sold-out Celebration Concert in September 2013 in the prestigious halls of the US Library of Congress, where she was joined onstage by 25 musicians with whom she has performed over the years.

Flory’s Flame features impactful selections from that concert as well as sound bites from interviews with her, family members and colleagues about her challenging but ultimately triumphant life path and her mission to ensure continuity of her family’s cultural legacy through hermusic.

Post-screening conversation with Flory Jagoda!

Address: 15 W 16th St, New York

by Maurice Moore

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