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The broadcast will feature KCB founder and director, New England Conservatory Contemporary Improvisation Department co-chair, and former Center vice president for education, Dr. Hankus Netsky, and Aaron Lansky, the Center’s founder and president. It will include a historical overview of the band’s history, along with exciting video concert footage from over the years, including excerpts from such acclaimed productions as?A Jumpin’ Night in the Garden of Eden?(1986),?The Fool and the Flying Ship?with Robin Williams (1991), and two PBS Great Performances specials, “In the Fiddler’s House” with Itzhak Perlman (1997) and “Rejoice" (2014), featuring?the KCB along with Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak?Meir Helfgot. The program will present Netsky and Lansky?in conversation with?LA Times?and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan, along with tribute greetings from well-known KCB collaborators, including Itzhak Perlman and Joel Grey.??

?MacArthur Fellow Aaron Lansky is credited with not only single-handedly rescuing the rich world of Yiddish literature from its path toward near extinction in the mid-twentieth century but also with making that literature accessible worldwide through the massive digitization and translation projects he launched through the Yiddish Book Center.?Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and scholar Hankus Netsky has been instrumental in?transforming the once forgotten Eastern European Jewish instrumental genre known as "klezmer" into one of the most ubiquitous and widely recognized contemporary strains of world music.?He is also?credited with?mentoring several younger generations of the music's best-known practitioners.?Their discussion will explore how forty years of activism has assured Yiddish literature and music?an enduring place?not only in the world of Jewish culture but among the world's most cherished cultural traditions..?

?The KCB and the Yiddish Book Center have been celebrating together throughout the histories of both organizations, beginning with the band’s appearance at the Center’s milestone events in Amherst as early as 1981 and continuing more recently with their performances as perennial headliners at the Center’s Yidstock Festival of New Yiddish Music. The event will be co-sponsored by numerous other cultural organizations, including KlezKanada, Golden Land Concerts & Connections, Jewish Arts Collaborative (JARTS), Yiddish New York, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New England Conservatory, the American Society for Jewish Music, and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. The program is made possible in part with the generous support of Peter D. Mark in loving memory of Eugene L. Mark.

?The 90-minute special will be presented live via Zoom starting at 2pm and will also stream live on the?. If you’d like to reserve a virtual seat in the Zoom audience, which will allow you to submit questions,?.

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