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Vocalist to Explore Common Ground Between Yiddish Song and Black Spirituals

(HOUSATONIC, Mass.) – Vocalist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell will perform “Convergence: Spirituals from the Shtetl, Davvening from the Delta,” a recital blending Yiddish art songs and African American spirituals, at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House on Saturday, August 8, 2015, at 8pm. As a Jew-by-choice, Russell, a former professional opera singer, discovered the soul-deep connections between…