I left The Kennedy Center Terrace Theater last night walking about in that peaceful sort of glow one gets after an experience of great beauty; a kind of encounter that seems to refocus the world in front of one’s eyes, till it seems opaquely luminous with inner light; the kind that more than a little suggests that though life’s lived in vanishing moments, something about the whole thing must endure. In other words, I had a good time. The music was awfully good. The program was Wandering Stars: Two Centuries of European Jewish Song, put on by Pro Musica Hebraica, an organization with a mission, since its founding in 2008, to bring the rich legacy of Jewish art music out of obscurity and into the concert hall.
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