Old courtyards full of memories: Emil Krupnik at the club of ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel"

Our club hosted a creative evening of Emil Krupnik, a song-writer, singer, writer and journalist. The program was called "These old courtyards", by the name of nostalgic-aching song sketch.

Each of us has own dear courtyard in life – where we had fun, sang songs, played football or dolls. The yard where we spent romantic summer evenings or cleaned the snow on cold frosty morning! That is why the magic of so popular at the time hits and "yard" songs returned each of the listeners in the days of their childhood and youth. To your old favorite yard. The author, whose benefit concert took place at our stage, also has his own sacred places that inspired him for a heartwarming and lively concert.

Emil Krupnik is a poet, chansonnier and journalist, who worked in Ukrainian and Israeli media; for 30 years, he writes and performs songs in Yiddish, Russian and Ukrainian languages. Known as the singer of ironic chanson, Odessa songs, boldly combines well known songs with the author's interpretation.

In 2000 Emil released the song album "This Aliya" with sketches about the life of immigrants in Israel. There he was engaged in organization of concerts of bard classics Juliy Kim and Veronica Dolina. In 2002 he initiated Israeli-Russian festival "Bards Humor contest – 2002". And since his returning in 2005 to Ukraine, Emil Krupnik lives in Kiev. Worked in the "Vecherniy Kiev", "Facty", magazine "TOP 10", now he is an employee of the ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel". In our Hesed the distinctive and versatile talent of Emil Krupnik found its admirers.

So, this time energetically rousing melodies of the Jewish chanson interspersed with lyrics and "Cyganochka", and memories of classic compositions (the immortal "Murka", the cult "School of Solomon Plyar" performed by Simon Krupnik, a famous Odessa namesake of the bard) - with their modern interpretations, sometimes quite unexpected.

What wasn’t sung at the concert! The Kiev busters, the Odessa briefcase, Chernivtsi dancing, Israeli zuresh, bad weather, and longing for the wild. The high arrangement of the biblical Psalm "By the rivers of Babylon" was side by side with a naughty, streetwise, "Shiksotnik", the hot Hasidic song (by the way, sung in Ukrainian) with a frosty "Snowstorm/Purga." Humor and nostalgia, satire and lyricism, "memory and heart, warmth and love"...

The concert was attended by a musician, singer and composer Alexander Kot whose talent and ability to play professionally the various musical instruments proved to be very relevant – as an accompaniment to some of the songs sounded the accordion, the guitar.

The weather did not stop our visitors from coming to the concert - the hall of Hesed club was jammed to the rafters. The audience greeted the concert with warmth and enthusiasm, the degree of excitement escalated from song to song. The concert lasted two hours in a single burst, the audience were not tired and couldn’t let the artists go in the final round of applause...

Old courtyards full of memories: Emil Krupnik at the club of ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel"

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