ORCHESTRA MEMBERS

Noam Zylberberg - vocals / piano/ artistic direction

Michał Górczyński - clarinet / saxophone

Michał Robak - clarinet

Maurycy Idzikowski - trumpet

Filip Mazur - trumpet

Dagna Sadkowska – violin

Zofia Endzelm - violin

Olga Owczynnikow - violin

Mikołaj Majkusiak - accordion

Andrzej Izdebski - guitar / banjo

Łukasz Owczynnikow - contrabass

Krzysztof Szmańda – percussion / vibraphone

We shall conclude the second day of the festival with a performance and dance party reminiscent of the tango nights popular at Polish cabarets, cafés and dance clubs during "the years of grace" between the two world wars. That gratifying short period of national independence and freedom of expression encouraged many artists to create songs of inspiration and ingenuity.

A revival of tangos by Jerzy Petersburski, Moshe Wilensky and other composers, highly popular in both Warsaw and Tel Aviv during the 20^th century twenties and thirties.

Mała Orkiestra Dancingowa (MOD), under the direction of Noam Zylberberg, plays early Polish pop. The twelve-piece ensemble plays the music of the interwar period Warsaw in a nostalgia-free manner, using surviving recordings to reconstruct songs in their original arrangements and perform them, remaining faithful to the original style. In 2018, the orchestra released its first album.

Post WWI Warsaw was a multicultural and cosmopolitan city, open to new and experimental ideas, embracing and absorbing external influences. In one point in time, the Warsaw audience was exposed to Berlin and Paris style cabaret theaters, Austrian operettas, new American popular music and Latin-American dances, as well as more familiar Polish, Jewish and Roma traditional music. These rare intercultural relationships allowed a new and unique style to take shape, and by the 1930’s there was already a clear distinguishable Polish style of popular music, aimed at the middle and upper class of Warsaw. The scale and scope of creative work was astonishing, and during the course of a decade, the artists of Warsaw had introduced thousands of new original Polish songs, many of which have been long forgotten.

Noam Zylberberg studied orchestra conducting at the Jerusalem Academy of Dance and Music under the instruction of Prof. Avner Biron. In Israel, he has worked as conductor, pianist and arranger, with the Israel Camerata Jerusalem Orchestra and Meitar Ensemble, among others. For the past several years, he has been living in Warsaw, where he founded Mała Orkiestra Dancingowa.

Sponsored by the Polish Institute Israel