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Dvar Torah musical bkmark: Zoe Aqua [1]

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Date: 2022-08-28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Y_qzaTl1Q

This is an excerpt of the first track of Zoë Aqua's new album "In Vald Arayn"! The full album will be released September 1, 2022 through Borscht Beat Records: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/ This musical excerpt is from the first song on the album, "Welcome to the Welcome (Bulgars)".

https://www.jta.org/2022/08/26/…

Before the Holocaust, Cluj, Transylvania’s unofficial capital, was 13% Jewish — about the same percentage of Jews as are in New York City today.

“I think of New York now as a very Jewish-seeming place, and it’s 13% Jewish. So then I think, ‘okay, Cluj used to have that feeling,’” says violinist and composer Zoë Aqua. “Jews in Transylvania were historically Hungarian speakers, so you wouldn’t necessarily be walking down the street and hear Yiddish, but the city had a Jewish presence and it was part of the culture,” just like New York today.

Those sort of connections — across Eastern European cultures and between Jewish communities then and now — have inspired Aqua’s first solo album of original compositions. “In Vald Arayn” (Into the Forest), which will be released Sept. 1, reflects Aqua’s immersion in Transylvanian folk music in Cluj, Romania, where she is living through spring 2023 on a Fulbright research grant.

In particular, she is studying the way musical folk traditions are passed on from generation to generation.

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