The Historic Event!

How do you say "go fly a kite" in Yiddish? one way is "Kish in Toches". Another way is to have Lipa make a Siyum on Mesechtas Megilah in the middle of the concert!


I just came back to Brooklyn and all i can say is "what a concert". The songs, the arrangements, the performers... And the audience, how they were into it! You could feel the energy in the the hall buzzing in the air. A surprise all star cast lead by The one and only MBD... There wasn't a moment of boredom during the entire 3 hours of the show. When Lipa Schmelzter and Sheya Mendlowitz kept on repeating that this concert will be something else, i thought to myself, yeah that's what they all say! but now after i saw what they were actually referring to, i couldn't agree more, this "Event" was in fact something out of the ordinary.

There is so much more to talk about but I'm exhausted, and besides I'm sure there will thankfully be many other writeups and articles from respective bloggers and news sources, that to write one myself is just not necessary.

I think one person who does not get the sufficient credit he deserves is the man behind the show, Sheya Mendlowitz. besides for being the producer of the entire show in general, there were those moments tonight which had Sheya Mendlowitz style written all over. The Perchei choir, Boruch Chait, Abie Rotenberg and as well as MBD's song selection, the typical sweet taste of good old Jewish music which when you hear today you know it's with Sheya behind the curtain. If you take a close look at some of the best concerts and best albums performed and released in the last 25 years of Jewish Music, you will see Sheya's famous signature written under the "A Production of" category.

It's interesting to note, prior to tonight, it seemed that Lipa was to be the main performer with perhaps 15 to 20 percent of the time to the other performers. Now although Lipa was the star of the evening, (i say that even with MBD getting probably the biggest ovation of the night), i don't think he even got 40 percent of the show time. But nevertheless, the rest of the performances were of such solid quality that this was not an issue at all.

Another interesting side note is the fact that there was no M.C. at the concert tonight. I actually like the idea. Kind of original.

I just want to say one last thing, March 1st, 2009 or Hey Adar, 5769, which ever way you refer to it, will forever be known as the night of a huge victory for Jewish music in this century.

The Jewish Music Report has already written up a full review. Check it out here.

The all new Pirchei Choir singing Carlebach's Eilecha, a popular Pirchei song.


The crowd going just a little too crazy, at the end.