Event
Music Monday: Panorama Jazz Band "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel"
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Monday, December 14, 2020
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Virtual/Digital
Description
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park presents the Panorama Jazz Band. New Orleans clarinetist Ben Schenck organized a combo with the original concept to perform New Orleans Traditional Jazz and add an occasional number from the Caribbean or Eastern Europe. Before long, however, the musicians in the band gradually became more fascinated by Jewish klezmer, the Creole beguines of Martinique and folk music from the Balkans and Latin America.
"I Have a Little Dreidel" also known as "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" (is one of the best known and most popular songs associated with Hanukkah. The song, which celebrates playing the traditional dreidel game, is often taught to and performed by children at public schools in North America. Its use in movies and television programs has resulted in it becoming familiar to both Jewish and non-Jewish alike throughout the English-speaking world. The song exists in both English and Yiddish language versions. The lyrics for both versions are sometimes attributed to Samuel S. Grossman though the melody has been attributed to both Samuel Goldfarb and Mikhi Gelbert.
Go grab your Dreidel and spin it in time with the Panorama Jazz Band as they dazzle with their rendition of one of the most famous songs in the Jewish musical canon!
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