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Troy Savings Bank Music Hall presents Les Yeux Noirs
Troy, N.Y.--Les Yeux Noirs is a French Klezmer band of eight musicians with boundless energy, technical complexity, soaring improvisations and spontaneity who capture the magic and emotion of Gypsy music from Roumania, Hungary, Russia with a good dose of Yiddish folklore.
On Saturday, January 18 at 8 p.m., the band will bring its joyous and often nostalgic music to the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
In the same way that American Klezmer music has become popular in recent years, gypsy and Yiddish music has also won fans all over the world.
Les Yeux Noirs now tours worldwide spreading the culture of the Diaspora to places that Jews have not heavily settled, including such remote places as East Africa and Malaysia. It is only recently that they have brought their music to the American stage.
The San Francisco Examiner says "...The electrifying French band Les Yeux Noirs is all about celebrating life rather than death."
Les Yeux Noirs gives voice to gypsy and Yiddish melodies passed down through the ages that are so much a part of our universal consciousness.
The arrangements leave plenty of room for rhythm and spontaneity.
According to the group founder, violinist Eric Slabiak, "We don't want to dilute gypsy music, but by the same token, we don't want to fall into weepy cliches of gypsy and Klezmer music. So we adapt a tune, or if need be, we try to make it a little more emotive. There's no rigidness in the hand. We don't compose music. We're just adapting traditional tunes, and all six of us sit down and do the arrangements."
For prices, more information or reservations, call the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall box office at 518-273-0038.
Tickets can also be purchased online and the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall's full season schedule can be viewed at www.troymusichall.org.
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, named a national historic landmark in 1989, is in use more than 150 days a year.
Since it opened its doors in 1875, the Hall has hosted performances by numerous world-renowned artists including Marion Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter Seeger, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, and Artur Rubenstein, among many others.
01/02/03
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