Charming Hostess La Lega

Performed March 8, 2012 at CUBoulder. The Ginzburg Geography is based on the life and work of Italian antifascists Natalia and Leone Ginzburg. Exploring their journeys of love, resistance, exile, and liberation through the mediums of music and radical cartography, The Ginzburg Geography features new music composed and performed by Charming Hostess and developed from the writings of the Ginzburgs as well as from the Italian regional traditions of Turin, Abruzzo and Rome, places central to the their lives. This performance will include music from Italian Jewish liturgy, the oldest and most remote in Europe, as well as Italian antifascist songs, and work chants to resistance anthems. Charming Hostess is a music ensemble at the intersection of voice, text and diaspora consciousness. Founded by Jewlia Eisenberg in 1998, our mission is to make lovely noise about complex ideas. We draw from the sounding body, mostly voices and winds, handclaps and heartbeats, sexbreath and silence. Individual voices and communa