Dvora Lapson, character dancer and pantomimist, will appear in a recital of original Jewish compositions tomorrow evening, at the City College auditorium. The program includes Chassidic, Kabbalist, Biblical, and modern Palestinian motifs. The numbers are: “Chasunah,” (the guests and festivities at an old-time Jewish wedding), “Rebbe Elimelach,” (a jolly Jewish folk character), “Yeshiva Bachur,” student, (a Chassidicmotif), “Longing Maiden,” (based on Bialik’s “Songs of the People”), “Moishelach,” (Chassidic children’s motif). “Shomer,” (heroic character of Pioneer Palestine), “Joy of Work,” (symbolic of the new Jew in Palestine), “Arabian Romance,” (love theme at the well), “Trumpeldor,” (martyr of Tel-Chai, 1921), “Mekubalim,” (pilgrimage of Kabbalists to Miron, in Galilee), “Sabbath,” (the Jewish mother welcoming the Sabbath), and “Queen Esther’s Crown,” 1933.
Musical compositions by Achron, Binder, Bonime, Goldbarb, Kadison, Lowe, Saminsky, Weinberg and many folk themes are used to accompany the dances. Vladimir Dubinsky, violincel# list, will be guest artist, and Pola Kad### son, pianist.
Dvora Lapson’s recital is under auspices of the “Hechalutz Music ###ciety,” which is interested in the ### vancement of Jewish music and ### dance. The committee of sponso### headed by David Pinski, playwr### Prof. Jacob Weinberg, composer; ### liam Edlin, writer, and Saul Ra### artist.
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