Week of Jewish music

Week of Jewish Music  took place on September 03-15, 2009 in Riga. It is the first festival of Jewish music in post-war Latvia.

 Concert of Jewish music 5770, devoted to the Jewish New 5770 year took place on September 10, 2009 in Latvian National Opera. Participants: male's choir «Balsis» with program «Melodies of the Burned Synagogues», choir «Hassidic Capella», cantor of Riga Choral Synagogue Zeev Shulman, soloists of the Bolshoy Theater, cantor Colin Schachat (Israel), National Opera Orchestra. 
In the program - Jewish cantors’ music, fragments from operas, popular Jewish songs.

This concert is the completion of large-scale six-year project of «Shamir» «Latvia. Synagogues and Rabbis. 1918-1940 », whose goal was to show the diversity of Jewish life in pre-war Latvia. During the concert in the foyer of LNO the exhibition «Synagogues of Latvia» was opened to the public.  

This concert is the culmination of Jewish Music Week. Seven concerts are to show the full diversity of Jewish music - from cantors’ singing to folk music and klezmer, as well as a concert for children, women, dramatic performance about the Holocaust, and - for the first time in Latvia - the concert of Sephardic music (music of Spanish Jews).