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certs annually and introduces her
audiences to the varied sounds of
Jewish music, from traditional Hebrew
or singer songwriter Laura
songs to Ladino to music transcribed
Wetzler, Jewish music is
by Ethiopian Jews. She performs in
more than just a vocation.
Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English.
It's a birthright.
"My mission is to share with
As a youngster, she
the community how diverse
Laura W etzler: we are," said Wetzler from her
watched her mother conduct
"It's imp ortant
a choir at their Reform tem-
home in Park Slope, N.Y. "So
that
mus is come
ple in Bayshore, N.Y., and
many Jewish musicians
from a re al, hon-
her mother's large Jewish
became
famous playing other
est place within
record collection was one of
music.
Why
can't we all be
you.
Wetzler's earliest introduc-
who we are and explore our
tions to music.
own music?"
"I have pictures of my mother,
Wetzler's own work with Jewish
pregnant with me, conducting the
music began at the age of 15 when her
choir," Wetzler said. "This is very pri-
mother passed away and she took over
mal music for me. The seeds of Jewish
her teaching position at their syna-
identity are planted very young, and
gogue.
you develop a real emotional link to
"I was teaching kids in kinder-
the music."
garten through seventh or eighth
Wetzler will be at Beth Abraham
grade, and I was only a few years older
Hillel Moses 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.
than that myself," she recalled. "But I
21, in a concert co-sponsored by the
had been exposed to the music from
Walter Litt Jewish Music Fund and
such a young age that teaching it did-
the Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
n't seem like such a leap."
Cultural Commission.
Even when she branched out onto
She appears in more than 125 con-
the folk music circuit, her background
formed the music she wrote.
Melinda Greenberg is a staff writer
"My Jewish experience was
for our sister publication the Baltimore
expressed through music," said
Jewish Times.
Wetzler, who is director of the music

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