Dec

17 2017

FILM | "Body and Soul: An American Bridge"

2:00PM - 3:30PM  

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
4132564900 [email protected]
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Contact Sarah Bleichfeld
4132564900
[email protected]
http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar?id=7621&view=Detail

The early performance history of the jazz standard “Body and Soul.” Composed by Johnny Green in 1929, the song was introduced on Broadway by Jewish torch singer Libby Holman; trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong ushered the song into the jazz canon the following year.

USA, 2016, 58 mins., directed by Robert Philipson, English.

COST:
Student | $4
Member | $6
General Admission | $8