Semer Ensemble

The golden age of Jewish music – songs of love and jealousy, of war, of the Torah and dreams of socialism were all united under Hirsch Lewin’s Semer label in Berlin of the 1930s. Commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin and premièred in 2012, the all-star Semer Ensemble reconstructed the old recordings and undertook a rousing rearrangement. Since then, these eight musicians have toured the world and captivated people with their music. Now the ensemble returns with its first CD to the Jewish Museum’s Glass Courtyard where the journey began!

As an introduction to the evening, clips of the original recordings will be played before the concert. In an interview with bandleader Alan Bern, record and music historian and editor of the German National Discography Rainer Lotz tells of his search for the long-lost Semer records.