Filmed at Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal, Canada in 2000
Produced, directed and edited by David Kaufman

25 years ago, filmmaker David Kaufman captured Brave Old World live in concert at the very apex of the band’s creativity and vitality. Watching this breathtaking film, you’ll have a front-row seat as Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart Brotman perform music from two of the band’s groundbreaking CDs, “Blood Oranges” and “Bless the Fire,” classics of New Jewish Music that are still unsurpassed. By no coincidence, the film takes us back to the era when Brave Old World first arrived in Weimar to teach workshops that were to grow into Yiddish Summer Weimar. So it is only fitting that we begin the YSW25 film series by revisiting the musical inspiration that put us on the path we’ve followed until today.

Language: Yiddish with English subtitles (songs), English (spoken)