Kiryas Joel in 1978
Archival footage
An early moving-image record of Kiryas Joel while a new Satmar settlement and its institutions were still taking shape.
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Music · Arrangement · Performance
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Shea Kaller and his band shape a live medley from the work of composer and arranger Mona Rosenblum.
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The control of pace, transitions, instrumentation, and ensemble reveals arranging as a craft in its own right. The performance offers a direct window into the professional work built by a musician raised in Kiryas Joel.
Outside the frame. The repertoire belongs to Mona Rosenblum's wider Jewish musical legacy. Its place here documents Shea Kaller's craft and the musical exchange surrounding Satmar life, not the Satmar origin of every melody.
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Satmar gathering at Nassau Coliseum
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A mass gathering organized around Satmar opposition to Zionism, showing the public, disciplined, institutionally organized form that protest can take.
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