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will provide the musical entertainment (Merlin Shepherd on clarinet, Ilana Cravitz on violin, Polina Shepherd on accordion and Julia Doyle on bass) and your dance caller for the evening will be Sue Foy, all the way from Budapest.
Your last chance to bop the klezmer way in 2006! Voted "entertainer of the year" by Wild Chicago. Ruby is an annual fixture at the Chicago Blues Festival with Fruteland Jackson.
Ruby has performed at York, at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. He has performed before President Clinton and the Democratic National Convention. He opened shows for Ray Charles, Little Feat, the Big Wu and Leftover Salmon.
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity, Kirkland Performance Center welcomes The Klezmatics to their 2006-2007 line-up midseason. The The Klezmatics will be presenting a contagious celebration of Hanukkah, poignantly mesmerizing and newly discovered lyrics. This program sounds of "Wonder Wheel" and the ecstatically danceable, hoe-down worthy Meira Warshauer’s Look to the Light for SATB and piano, with text by Rabbi Dan Grossman will be performed by Sharim V’Sharot, central New program on Sunday, November 12 – 1:00 PM in Frist Hall on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Look to the Light portrays experience, with references to George Washington and Billings, Montana. This program is free and open to the public, however reservations are required. For reservations and more information, call (609) 443-1623 or In addition to the musical portion of the program, Robert Reinstein, Dean of The Beasley School of Law, Temple University will discuss the exercise of free speech, religion, and the right to petition for the redress of grievances as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Esther Schor, Professor of English, Princeton University, joins Elayne Robinson First Amendment. More about this online at musical performances. The program on November 12 is supported by the “We through a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
The “We the People” initiative supports projects that advance the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture. This Law, Temple University; The United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks; Rider University’s Hillel; and the Sharim V’Sharot Foundation. Dr.
Warshauer is a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia College, Columbia, of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light, chamber Robert Black Conducts. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications. Her Over 250 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.
M., Sunday, December 10, 2006 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan.
For more information about this concert, please call (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337. A Festival of Choirs is free of charge and open to the entire community.
over the New York metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Friday, December 15, 2006. "There is no better way to usher in the festival of Chanukah than to see people from all ages, literally from age five to 85 singing together," according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein.
"We all look forward to continuing this wonderful tradition for many years to come." choir singing the song, "Raise up the Menorah" written by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. Opening the concert will be singer/songwriter, Julie Silver, along with all of the concert participants singing her new song, "It's Chanukah Time.
" Another highpoint will be the concert's finale, "Bring on the Light," a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for Cantorial-Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein. Also participating in the Cantorial-Interns, Todd Kipnis and Donna Mashadi, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Village Temple, Manhattan; Cantor Steven Pearlston, Free Synagogue of Flushing, Queens, New York; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Franco, Community Synagogue, Port Washington, NY; and Cantor Micah Accompanying the cantors and choirs will be acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger, Jonathan Faiman. Joining Mr.
Faiman will be the "Festival of Choirs" combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Dror Ben-Gur, winds, and (violin, mandolin), and Ira Epstein (percussion). Refreshments will Ladino, derived from Hebrew and Spanish, can be thought of as a is currently spoken by about 150,000 people, primarily in Israel, For more details on our event, the performers, and the language, By train: Q to Avenue J or Avenue M.
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This year’s Ud U’fiyyut (a co-production of the JMRC and the Confederation House in Jerusalem, in the framework of the International ‘Ud Festival Jerusalem, 2006) bears the title: This concert is dedicated to the work of Asher Mizrahi – poet, musician, composer, artist and a teacher of Hebrew and music – who was born in Jerusalem in 1890, lived more than 40 years in Tunisia, and died in Jerusalem in 1967.
Mizrahi wrote songs in Ladino, Hebrew Piyyutim of longing to Zion, as well as Arab-Tunisian songs, performed in the 1930' and 1940' by the most prominent musicians of his time, both Jews and Arabs.
The 'Ud Ufiyyut series, initiated by the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, together with the Confederation House in Jerusalem as part of the International 'Us Festival, Jerusalem, is meant to bring closer the academia and the stage. This program portrays the work of a remarkable poet and musician, whose influence on the tradition of song and Piyyut, in Tunisia as in Jerusalem, cannot be overestimated.
Performers: Elad Gabai, qanun and musical direction; Moshe Luk, Hadas Pal-Yarden, vocals; David Menahem, vocals and nay; Yaniv Raba, ‘ud; Moshe Nuri, Percussions The concert will take place in the Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem (6 Shama st.), on Sunday, November 12th, 2006, at 9pm. On Sun.
, Nov. 12, 2006 at 3PM PeaceSmiths, The Elie Siegmeister Society, and The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science and the Arts, Inc.
proudly present A Concert of Music by Joel Mandelbaum Friends, launching the celebration of his 75th year, with Helene Williams, soprano; Antoinette Blaikie, oboist; and composers Jay Anthony Gach, Leonard Lehrman, Joel Mandelbaum, the latter two at the piano, at First United Methodist Church, at 25 Broadway (Route 110 - "the last church on the left," going south), in Amityville, NY. Info: 631-798-0778. A donation of $8 is suggested.
Two pieces will receive their world premieres at this concert: Elie Siegmeister's "Outside My Window," on a text by poet Kim Rich, who will also be present; and Mandelbaum's setting of his own (June 10, 2005) "Letter to Jewish Week," composed for the occasion. On Mon., Nov.
6 at 1pm, Lehrman will be interviewed on WUSB, 90.1 FM, discussing his own letter which appeared in the Oct. 29, 2006 NY Times Book Review, and reading Mandelbaum's letter, which takes issue with a columnist's assertion that "God Is A Republican.
" The program also includes 4 songs by Jay Anthony Gach and 5 by Leonard Lehrman, among them settings of texts by Langston Hughes, Kim Rich and William Jay Smith, along with "Let's Change the Woild!" "Threescore Years Ago," and "Where Do I Belong?" from E.
G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman - coming to PeaceSmiths Mar. 16, 2007.
As a special encore, Susan Blake will premiere a new, updated version of Mandelbaum's "The Causes Are Waiting For You" from his 1983 musical, "As You Dislike It." Other Mandelbaum works to be performed include his settings of Millay and Shakespeare, Prelude for Piano, Song for Oboe Piano, and 2 Songs with Oboe Piano on texts by Susan Fox, including "The Great Bell of Cuzco" in which the composer will play the chimes. He will also improvise on themes from the audience.
Following will be a reception - with birthday cake! The concert will be recorded and aired on public television as part of PeaceSmiths' regular weekly cable access programs. This program represents an expansion of the usual PeaceSmiths offering, to include the works of composers of serious concert music, much of it on social themes, but written in an idiom designed to expand the rhythmic and harmonic palate of the repertoire most often heard at PeaceSmiths coffeehouse and forum programs.
PeaceSmiths is a nonprofit community organization doing educational, activist, cultural, and mutual help projects for peace and justice. World-renowned New Jewish Music quartet Brave Old World, the super group of the Klezmer revival, brings forth a breathtakingly original program combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz. Virtuoso musicians Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling and Stuart Brotman join together to bring us a uniquely constructed theatrical evening exploring the beautiful and haunting Jewish melodies composed in the Nazi Ghetto of Lodz, Poland from 1941-1944.
Featuring original Lodz Ghetto street songs and Jewish music of prewar Poland, interwoven with Brave Old World's own arrangements and compositions, this is music of hope, redemption and the power of the human spirit. A rare opportunity for soul-soaring, spirit lifting Yiddishkayt that is simultaneously a universal testament to the human determination to survive and sing. In Yiddish, now with English supertitles so all can understand the moving and biting lyrics of Yankele Herszkowicz, Mirjam Harel, Michael Alpert, and other poets.
Not to be missed! ..
.new CD of this program on the Winter Winter label received a FIVE STAR REVIEW and a Critic's Pick by Billboard Magazine, and was named "Best CD of 2005" by New York's Newsday. This concert grabbed its listeners and wouldn't let go for a long time.
The American quartet provoked storms of applause and blew away their audience in the sold-out hall. -- Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung Come one and all! Kumt masnvayz!
Przydzcie masowo! A number of exciting things going on in the next week or two for Kleztet fans. On Monday, November 6, Kleztet will be giving another free concerts at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
This time it will be in the Dance Studio (B28) from 7 until 9 pm. The studio is pretty hard to find, so your best bet is just to get to Peabody, and then ask security (or a student) for Another event: Kleztet will be at the , in Monticello, New York at 9:45 pm on the evening of Saturday, November 11., 2006.
MUSICA ANTIGUA DE EDUARDO PANIAGUA, a group dealing with Spanish medieval music, will perform soon in Canada. On October 26th at the with the program "Three Cultures (Jewish', Muslim' and Christiian' Spanish medieval music and song)". and on Oct.
28th "Three Cultures" program at Givatayim Theater (Tel-Aviv, Israel), and on Nov 6th at the Jerusalem International Oud Festival, with the program "The Andalusian Oud". On Nov 22th the group travels to Germany where they will present "Sefarad in Al-Andalus" at the Cervantes Institute of Munich, as part of the "Jüdische Kulturtage".
Contact Klezmer Sefardi.
Jorge Rozemblum for details. Now in its 51st year, Britain's leading mixed voice Jewish choir, Square Synagogue on November 12th. at the synagogue, and includes a performance by a new male- Alderman and Benjamin Seifert, joined by Benjamin Wolf.
Finer, as cantors and cantorial soloists.
With music ranging from Yiddish opera to close-harmony, and including jazzy arrangements of Chanukah tunes, this promises to be a fun concert not to be missed. opera, King Ahaz, a choral work that has not been performed in public since 1912!
There will also be excerpts from Sullivan s Pirates of Penzance, recently created for a full-scale, off- The Zemel Choir, established in the UK by Dudley Cohen in 1955, is proud of its international reputation as one of the repertoire embraces all the traditional Jewish cultures, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Yiddish and Israeli. ZC regularly performs in major venues throughout the U.K.
and overseas, and besides singing well known favourites, are particularly proud to present new music, often specially commissioned, from contemporary We have travelled extensively to the U.S.A.
, Canada, Israel, and Eastern and Western Europe, and in 1993 participated in the Uprising. At the 1996 Zimriyah Choral Festival in Jerusalem we broadcast live on Israel Radio. Our latest overseas trip was in Czech Republic and Hungary.
in the spring of 2007. professional musical direction, and a strong commitment to rehearsals by its members. We come together not only to sing, but to be part of a warm and friendly social group.
We are always happy to welcome new members, and to find out more about us, visit our website at or phone our membership secretary on +44 (0)20-8868 8423.
Beverly Hills Concert Music and the Holocaust: Survival, Resistance and Response
"Music and the Holocaust: Survival, Resistance and Response" is a concert of rarely heard music composed in hiding, before deportation, and in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos.Chorale, USC Thornton School of Music Chamber Choir and student soloists, members of the Los Angeles Vocal Instrumental Ensemble ( la vie ), Cantor David Cane, and recordings made in the camps.
The program will include works from various composers in hiding, concentration camps and ghettos, including:
-- Cantor David Cane's performance of songs he was forced to sing in Auschwitz. -- A Jewish composer's eight-minute choral work, written in the Kreuzburg Civilian -- Short recordings made during the war in Kreuzburg. -- Commentary by Nick Strimple, Holocaust music scholar and USC faculty member.
WHEN: November 2, 2006 at 8:00 P. M.
WHO: Sponsored by the American Musicological Society, the Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles and the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church.
Conducted by Magen Solomon and Nick Strimple, both USC Thornton School of Music faculty members. TICKETS: $18 adult, $10 student. Reservations at 310.
271.5194, ask for Emily. Neshama Carlebach in NY.
The charismatic Neshama Carlebach, whose voice and enthusiastic presentation songs or liturgical music, will appear in a concert on Sun., Nov. 19th, at 3 P.
M., at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel, Henry Hudson Parkway East and West 250th Street, The Bronx, NYC. Modern, traditional and original songs will be featured.
Heritage Night at Shea Stadium, also will appear.
Tickets are: adults-$20 in advance, $25 at door; seniors-$15 and $20; students-$10 and $15. Take Exit 19 on Henry Hudson Parkway.
No. 1 Subway to 231st Street, then No. 7 or 10 buses.
BxM 1 or BxM 2 express buses from Manhattan. With featured artists Guy Mannheim, tenor, and Shirit-Lee Weiss, soprano
soloist with the New Israeli Opera, for an exciting musical journey from the streets of Jerusalem, through the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the cities of Western Europe after WWII, to the sparkling lights of Broadway. In a true celebration of the Jewish spirit, the program will Bernstein, Sondheim, and Weill, along with Israeli music by Naomi Shemer, Zohar Argov, and others.
Tenor Guy Mannheim has performed with the New Israeli Opera, the New York Chamber Opera, and in concerts and recitals in Israel, Germany, and group Musica Nova in addition to performing in works by young composers, and in musical and children's theater productions. With Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart Brotman
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nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely respectful but stunningly inventive." the Lodz Ghetto, a unique musical theatrical work featuring rare Jewish of Lodz, Poland. Combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music, and the vitality of jazz, the music of Brave Brave Old World has been creating, performing, and teaching klezmer and New Jewish Music throughout the world since 1989.
They have performed $20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 students/members
Tickets Wednesday, December 20, 7 P.M.
Basya Schechter, Jewlia Eisenberg, and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
An eclectic line-up of innovative, female performers will highlight the diversity of the Sephardic community and its musical traditions.
In addition to sharing a home at the Tzadik record label, these artists and revives traditional styles while creating a new, modern sound. combines Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings, and electronica. Pharaoh's Daughter has toured extensively throughout America, Europe, Greece, and the U.
K. Jewlia Eisenberg is the founder, bandleader, and performer behind incorporates doo-wop, Balkan harmony, and Andalusian melody. and adventurous texts.
Gottlieb's newest album, Mayim Rabim, is a Presented with Sephardic Music Festival, Modular Moods, and $20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 student/members Performances at 1 P.M. 3:30 P.
M.
the house down." If you missed last year's sold-out performance, Joshua Nelson is back again this year with two shows.
Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua Nelson's unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution Joshua Nelson, an African-American Jew known as the Prince of Gospel Music, has been hailed by critics across the world for his unique voice, Jackson's passionate vocal stylings. He has performed at major venues across the United States and internationally, and was the subject of the documentary Keep on Walking. $35 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students/members
Tickets are available online through or by calling 646 437-4202.
On Sunday, October 22nd at 3pm there will be a FREE concert commemorating the “Daniel Pearl Music Day” of Peace and Harmony. The concert will take place in the Rivers Memorial Building at Western New England College, 1215 violinist, an avid fiddler and a mandolin player who used his passion for music to form friendships across cultural and verbal divides. Danny lived a life that knew no geographical boundaries, with a spirit that knew no prejudice.
He joined musical groups in every community in which he lived, leaving behind a long trail of musician-friends around the globe. Every year around his October 10th birthday, musicians around the world reach WHEN: Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 7:30 PM WHERE: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City
Back to Babylon: 2600 Years of Jewish Life in Iraq, November 2-5, 2006,
During the first half of the 20th century, Jews were virtually the only instrumentalists in the Iraqi musical scene. All the musicians from Iraq Jewish (but one).
With the exile of the Jewish community in the 1950's, Their legacy is still strong today, both in the preservation of the traditional Iraqi Maqam, and in its influence on contemporary Israeli tradition. It will include traditional Sabbath Zemirot, pieces from the Born in 1955, composer, violinist and oud player Yair Dalal is one of the most prolific Israeli ethnic musicians today. Over the last decade he released nine albums, covering wide and varied cultural territories.
habitants. Dalal's family came to Israel from Baghdad and he has included a host of Iraqi traditional musical sources in his work.
Whether performing on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans and India.
Dalal is one of a to Israel in the 1950s, from whom he learned much of his craft. During the past years, Dalal has collaborated with top musicians from all over the globe, from different disciplines, including celebrated western classical conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, Shlomo Mintz, Maurice el Medioni and Mustafa Raza, Cihar Askin, Jerusalem Orchestra, and more. He participates and lectures in the for Traditional Music and Dance, Mendocino Middle East Music Camp, and the Mediterranean Musical Dialogue in Israel.
Suggested contribution is $15 at the door.
ALHAMBRA was founded in 1981 by its director and lead singer Dr Isabelle Ganz, who is a professor of music, a cantorial soloist, a conductor, and an international performer and recording artist. She is joined by five other equally skilled professionals for whom Judeo-Spanish music is a special love.
Haig Manoukian is considered one of the world's finest players of the oud - the fretless ancestor of our modern lute. Michael Hess, heard throughout New York playing klezmer music, performs on violin, riq (tambourine), kanun (trapezoidal zither) and nay (bamboo flute). Cantor Daniel Pincus is a lyric tenor whose repertoire extends to Bach, Schubert, and Salamone Rossi.
Peter Basil Bogdanos is an exceptional percussionist who performs and records, playing a broad repertoire ranging from pop, jazz, R B, to Middle-Eastern and Flamenco. Joseph Deninzon, who has been called the Jimmy Hendrix of the Violin, elicits extraordinary sounds from both electric and acoustic violins. ALHAMBRA has recorded many CDs and cassettes, which will be available for sale at the performance.
The Fulton Public Library , winner of 2005 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities / American Library Association "We the People" Bookshelves on Freedom and Becoming American, and in cooperation with the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center < > will present the last pair in a series of musical presentations entitled: "FREEDOM SONG!" The pair of events are scheduled for Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 1:30 pm in Fulton, NY at the David E. Vayner Branch Library of the Fulton Public Library, 365 West First Street (in the CYO Building) and at 7:00 pm in Oswego, NY at Safe Haven, 2 East Seventh Street (on the grounds of Fort Ontario).
The concerts, performed by 11 year-old Reyna and her father, Binyumen Schaechter are entitled “From Kinehora to Kuni-Ayland: Snapshots of the History of Jewish Life in North America (1654-2005).” A musical revue in Yiddish and English with translations provided. Both presentations will be followed by a time for discussion with the performers when light refreshments will be served.
These events are intended for multigenerational audiences and home-schoolers are especially invited to attend with their educators. Admission is free. These programs are presented in collaboration with the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center in honor of the 982 mostly Jewish refugees from Europe who were given haven at the decommissioned Fort Ontario from August 1944 through February, 1946, and the Oswego community which welcomed them.
Currently on display at the David E. Vayner Branch Library is a small traveling exhibit about Safe Haven which will remain on view through October 20, 2006. At the Carnegie Main Library, 160 South First Street in Fulton, there is a display of circulating materials covering various topics related to Judaism, Yiddish and the Holocaust.
REYNA SCHAECHTER has performed in Carnegie Hall with Neil Sedaka, Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall. Her solo work has been praised by Betty Comden, Sandy Duncan and Kitty Carlisle Hart. One of the Pripetshik Singers yugntruf.org>, Reyna stars in the exciting new film, Pripetshik Sings Yiddish! ergomedia.com> and was recently featured with Broadway star Mike Burstyn in the off-Broadway hit On Second Avenue. Last October, at age 10, Reyna was performed in a staged Yiddish reading with English super-titles of Bronx Express: A Local Comedy by Osip Dimov, Directed by Motl Didne at the famed Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre. BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER’S credits include 5 off-Broadway shows, 5 cast albums, 2 DVDs and 3 CDs including the recently released Zingt! A Celebration of Yiddish Choral Music sung by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus org> and conducted by Schaechter. In its review of Ben’s musical Double Identity, The New York Times wrote "Among [the shows’] assets.. . is the ear-catching score by Ben Schaechter, whose wide-ranging gifts have buoyed recent hit revues like That’s Life! and Too Jewish? and West. In Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson’s silent movie (1923), wedding in a traditional Polish shtetl. A night not to be missed. The Afro-Semitic Experience is making its Boston debut this Wednesday, October 11 at 6:30 p.m. They will be playing at Cathedral High School, 74 Union Park Street, Boston. At 2:30 Baba Coleman and Babafemi Alvin Carter, Jr. will be presenting a Joining this concert will be special guests Art Blakey, alumnus Kalim Zarif on piano (Warren is in Nepal!! ) and Paradox Trio's very own Matt Darriau on clarinet and sax. Admission is free, but seating is Tell your friends and invite them to join in, as this is a low key (but hi-energy) event. Thursday, October 12th at 7:30 P. M. at the Stoughton Public Library. Accordionist Matt Wulf's original pieces will be featured, along with a new Terkisher by trombonist/melodicaist Brian Bender. Street and Park Street (a.k. a. Route 27). For directions, call the library at Temple Emanuel in Worcester for a morning musical service starting at 9:30 A. M. - at the always-lively service at Temple Beth Zion (Moshe Waldok's shul) at 1566 Beacon Street, Brookline. It's on the C branch of the Green Line just outside of Washington Square, and a few stops after Coolidge Corner. On-street parking is also available) Phone 617-566-8171. The programme, which premiered in the Netherlands, includes chamber music and Weinberg and Veniamin Basner. The central source of inspiration for the works on the programme is the music of the Jewish people, oppressed in Russia during the Stalin regime. The works will be performed by singer Sovali (soprano), violinist Grigory Sedukh, cellist Alexander Oratovski and pianist Paul Prenen. The performances are supported by the Wilhelmina E. . 12 October 2006, 7 PM at the Composers Hall, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Museum Apartment (with M. Weinberg, Sonata for Cello Solo, No.1, Op. 72 (1960) 8 in F sharp minor for piano V. Basner, Poem for Violin and Piano, Op. 7, No. 1 Everyone found it fascinating to witness how original Jewish music that was barely known, if at all, was brought back to life.." "How does one describe atmosphere? Not with words like professional or virtuoso, although they were certainly applicable. In any case, the atmosphere of the concert was created by the Jewish sounds, the melancholy and sometimes heartbreaking grief that could be heard, by the sounds and rhythms that said, "I shall persevere and won't let them grind me down," by followed word for word. Yet the atmosphere was of course predominantly their professionalism, virtuosity and above all their pleasure in singing and playing. The warm cello and violin sounds, the beautiful, supple and the grand piano, were important ingredients in the special atmosphere of musicians gave their all. Bravo!" Jewish Music Projects, c/o Sofie van Lier, phone: 020-6623675 The first concert, on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 8 PM, is The Yiddish Voice of Love: Songs of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Featuring the work of teacher, songwriter, and one of America's premier Yiddish Poets, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the evening legacy. A recipient of the National Heritage for generations of Yiddish singers, including those revival of the last two decades. The performance Janet Leuchter, Miryem-Khaye Seigal, and Paula Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, Austria, but was raised in pre-war Romania, one of the centers of Yiddish intellectual culture. She survived the United States in 1951. Active as a teacher and songwriter, she began to write poetry and gained a subway musicians, to personal reminiscences, to descriptions of street life in her hometown, the Bronx. The renaissance of klezmer music in the United great pride in her work with children, writing songs young audiences. In 1998, she was New York City. In 2005 she received a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, House concert in Bethesda, MD Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Call German Goldenshteyn, a Holocaust survivor and Red Army veteran, notated over Ukrainian border with Moldavia, before moving to Brooklyn in 1994. He recorded his before his tragic untimely death in June at age 71, and had a second CD on the way, along with plans for concerts and workshops in Poland, Germany and Canada. German taught them all. All proceeds go to his widow, Mina, their daughter, Klava Rozentul, son-in-law Borya, and grandson Alex. Directed by clarinetist Alex Kontorovich, the evening will feature such renowned artists as Frank London, Jeff Warschauer, Margot Leverett, Susan Watts, Aaron Alexander, and Alicia Svigals, with many surprise guests throughout the night. Just try sitting still while listening to German’s collection of melodies! 7:00 pm FREE concert, open to the public! ... not only exuberantly eclectic but also very danceable. Expect an eccentric cultural lesson from these modern-day purveyors of VENUE: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West Experience the musical tradition of the European Jewish cabaret. The NBOS, an eight-member ensemble, revives hauntingly beautiful songs from these troupes and from composers and lyricists in exile. The performance will mix skits, comedy, and songs in German, Hebrew, Yiddish and English with scholarly commentary. Pre-concert talk (free to ticket holders): 6:15-6:45 p.m. , "Jewish Cabaret: The Stories Behind the Stereotypes" Philip Bohlman, Artistic Director, New Budapest Orpheum Society; Mary Werkman, Professor of the Humanities and of Music, University ·Ezra Altschuler and Chazak, songs to lift the soul. ) 15 shekels (students 10) with reservation by Monday, August 14, 1PM. Call (02) 993-4945 or email berot2@yahoo.com to reserve tickets! Her wedding and bat/bar mitzvah band, Klezmer by Alicia Svigals, LLC plays klezmer, jazz, rock etc. at parties from Boston to D.C. She can be reached at her website, After a run of successive roadblocks, Radio Gagarin is back with the latest in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer mash-ups at the NHAC. with Daz Dolczech, poetry from Tim Cumming, performance from Friends of Traverse the deserts of the Middle East, the mountains of northern India, and the warm waters of the Mediterranean with Eliyahu Sills and his Qadim Ensemble. The group and their music bring ancient musical traditions to a contemporary audience, allowing for a musical dialogue between the different cultures. The group performs instrumental pieces as well as songs with words in Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Farsi and Ladino. ! Yes. This is the world premiere for a new project with Michel Gentile and Roland Schneider. Tunes by all three. Lots of free playing in different configurations. Sounds from Israel, Canada, Germany. Anat is very excited about collaborating with Michel, one of the most unique flute players around. And, of course, Roland has been the drummer of choice in her trio for many years. And when the three get together. ..you have to hear it. .smokey sexy in a way that makes you think of love." WARREN SMITH: Chicago-born, dynamic leader of a vibrant musical ensemble, accompanist. Warren has many jazz CD's in his discography, performs internationally, and is an essential element in the development of Join the new jewish avant-garde collective for two sets of rock-blues, jazz-poetry, and dostoyevsky on speed. Featuring the Sway Machinery (with collaborators Jeremiah Lockwood (Balkan Beat Box, Carolina Slim) and Tomer Tzur (Beat the Donkey, Pharaoh's Daughter) team up with friends from music. Calling upon the sounds of Malian guitars, Saharan beats, Afro-pop horns and the B-L-U-E-S, The Sway Machinery goes knocking at the gates of prayer with muscles swollen and eyes clenched. , New York City). The EPYC treasures and educational resources. Thanks to major funding by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. , a broad group of educators from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Lithuania and Israel will participate in a series of lectures and workshops presented by renowned scholars. Lecturers include, among others, Professor Michael Stanislawski of Columbia University, Dr. Samuel Kassow of Trinity College, Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett of New York University. For more information on EPYC, visit . For more information on YIVO programs and events, visit . Jewish singer of Hebrew Religious Gospel Music. The concert is Sunday, July 30 at 3:00 PM (pre-concert program at 2:30 PM) at Thorne Auditorium, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. It's $45 for teens and adults and $20 for children 13 and under. Call 312-664-4475 or e-mail for tickets or more information. HIs website explains Joshua's particular background and cultural focus. It states: "His cultural and religious background and extensive travels through Israel influenced him to pioneer a new form of music he has termed KOSHER-GOSPEL MUSIC - Hebrew/Jewish music with a soul feeling. Growing up in a black Jewish synagogue, Joshua decided to take the soul Hebrew sounds prominent in many black synagogues and take them to the outside world, blending Jewish Liturgical and African American musical styles. In Joshua’s own words, “ Since the Jewish nation started in Africa , musically she shall return.” Through his unique talent, Electrifying performances and profound commitment to spiritual music, Joshua is transforming new listeners everywhere. 'I want to let people hear it and realize that it is not just good to listen to - it is good for the soul. ' "
Lovas, Moshikop and Kriwaczek’s new score takes us from traditional klezmer to contemporary electronica, from vaudeville to breakbeat. As love blossoms between East and West, and the musical narrative unfolds, traditional and modern worlds are brought into collision. Score is irreverent and highly entertaining.
19th October. Please contact the JCC for more information.
Join "di bostoner klezmer" for a free, freylekh concert on Boston's South Shore.
(address is 280 May Street, phone: 508-755-1257)
Motzi Shabes, October 14, 2006 in the evening - from about 6:30 to 9:00 P.M.
Sharon Bernstein will perform a concert of Yiddish songs of angels and streets, accompanying herself on the piano, 25 E. 21st St., Manhattan (between Park and Broadway, take the "6" train to 23rd street)
$7 admission includes coffee, tea and pastries.
"ZUN MIT A REGN" (Sun and Rain) in St. Petersburg
Shostakovich Conferences in St. Petersburg on 12 and 13 October.
. 13 October 2006, 4 PM at the N.A.
D. Shostakovich, Prelude and Fugue, Op.87, No.
V. Basner, Songs from the musical "Jewish Luck", Op. 45 (1994)
the audience.
JMWC Recommendation: "Not to be Missed"!
House concert in Riverdale, NY
House concert in Teaneck, NJ
House concert in Jamaica Plain, MA
Aaron Alexander, Alicia Svigals, and many more
17th at Southpaw.
SOUTHPAW (125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) is a large capacity, 5,000 square foot venue located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, bringing local, national, international artists, and dj’s spanning all musical genres. In 2004, Southpaw was chosen as one of the top 5 venues in all of New York City by TIME OUT NY.
(Wellness, Arts and Enrichment Center), the second concert in their World For more information or to request a listening device call Elaine Schenkel, WAE Center Program Coordinator, at 973-325-1494 x 16.
Motown, Metropolitan Klezmer interprets aged Yiddish favorites with a mixture of tradition and irreverence.
·Avron Alter, songs from the depths.
· and a special tribute to US Chassidic Reggae superstar MATISYAHU by Michaeli Sacks.
Chava Rachel, Neshama Carlebach and More Help Families in Jerusalem
Women are Raising their voices in Jerusalem,-- many concerts happening that will help support the displaced families in Israel:
Motsei Shabbat, August 12th at 9:30pm
Calling all women!
Evening of original music and spoken word performed by women for women!
Doors open at 8 pm, show begins @ 8:30pm
donated to a women's charity (to be announced at the show!
Headliners includes: Aliza Chava! (just released her latest CD in For info and concert tickets, please contact Yael Solomon @ 02-960-5404.
Tuesday, August 15 at 8PM
>From the War Zone: Tziona in Concert!
Open to women and girls.
Tziona Achishena Zilbershtein will share how music can be an _expression of tefilah, emunah and bitachon. Through sharing her inspiring original songs and integrating the audience through drum circles, harmonizing and improvised song, Tziona will touch our souls and teach us how to reconnect to the power of our prayer.
Motsei Shabbat, August 19 at 9:30pm
drums, there were the archetypical Jewish orchestras of the old world, led by 'tsimbl', or Jewish hammered dulcimer. Renowned violinist Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Klezmatics and one of the world's foremost klezmer fiddlers, presents a program of those ancient and ecstatic Jewish melodies, accompanied by the scene's top players on fiddle, tsimbl and string bass: Mimi Rabson, Pete Rushefsky and Alicia Svigals has played with and written for violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, the late poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, Hasidic superstars Avraham Fried and Lipa Shmelzer, and many others. She has appeared on David Letterman, MTV, Good Morning America, PBS' Great Performances, on NPR's Prairie Home Companion, Weekend Edition and New Sounds, and on the soundtrack for the L-Word.
Qadim is a word found both in Hebrew and Arabic meaning "ancient past" and "that which precedes" as well as "forward movement" and "that which will come." The band is aptly named as their ancient and timeless music bridges cultures from throughout the near east, such as Mizrakhi, Sephardic and Ashkenazi, with Arabic, Turkish, Persian and north Indian.
Eliyahu Sills is the founder of Qadim and plays the Nay (reed flute of the Middle East), Bansuri (bamboo flute of India), and vocals. He is joined by Rachel Valfer on vocals and Oud (Middle Eastern lute), and Jason Ranjit Parmer on Indian Tablas and frame drums from Turkey, Pakistan and Persia.
Piano, Flute, Percussion/Drums?
EVE PACKER; Bronx-born, poet/performer, author of 2 books, skulls head Press), 3 CD's w/jazz. From Donald Hall: "I salute her as the Weegee poet", from Dennis Duggan, Newsday:"..
midrashic poetics, instantenous interpretations from verbal semantics to music and back, and the raspy russinalising funk. Zalman Mlotek, director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, and his actors will present a sampler of Yiddish music and theater, during a lecture and performance entitled, A Musical Tour of the East European Jewish World , on Wednesday, June 28, from 7pm to 8:30pm as part of a 3 day program on Eastern European Jewish history and Yiddish culture.
at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St.Follow your Drummer. Habrera Hativeet in Boston
If you've never seen this group, you owe yourself a treat next week. **Highly recommended** by JMWC.
So follow the drummer this summer on Sunday, June 18, 1PM, Remis Auditorium
African, Indian and Middle Eastern roots, time-honored songs from Andalusian Spain, Yemen, and Morocco, Hasidic chants from Eastern Europe, and contemporary Israeli poetry. Their music bridges time, cultures, and mindsets in Israel and beyond. The group’s website can Tickets are $20 for MFA and Boston Jewish Film Festival members, students, and seniors; $25 general admission.
Front-of-house tickets To order tickets, contact the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Remis cultural promenade for the evening, each second Tuesday in June -- with admission to all museums FREE! We will perform various very new pieces and original arrangements of traditional and farflung music, from Yiddish sources and Subway: Q/B to 7ave or 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza.
Asefa includes Samuel Thomas on woodwinds and percussion, Noah Jarrett on upright bass, Eric Platz on drums and David Buchbut on Music Album of the Week: "Asefa," the eponymous debut by Samuel Thomas' band, gathers the sounds of klezmer and jazz together with and original compositions.
In addition to clarinet and sax, Samuel bendir (Moroccan percussion) and ghaita, (a type of African flute) for a mesmerizing effect. There are 2 vocal tracks, including Ki Eshmera Shabbat, a popular Sephardic song for the Shabbat meal. The rest of the album is instrumental, but even without words the universal language of music conveys the Spirit.
Asefa is the outcome of JATM, Jewish Awareness through Music, a project Thomas founded to Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.
Celebrating the centennial of Russia's leading 20th century composer, pianist, composer, and Shostakovich scholar at Buchman-Mehta School of Plitmann (soprano), Alma Mora (mezzo-soprano), Mark Saltzman (tenor) and Neal Brostoff (piano).
Dorfman will perform his "Trio, in Memoriam op. 79 (1948), written at the height of Soviet cultural repression and featuring Russian translations of Yiddish folk poetry, will also be performed. For more information, please call (818) 907-7194 or visit Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 7:00PM
Admission: $18 general, $15 seniors, $10 students, ASF/SH and Museum members.
Buy tickets online at or call the Museum's box office at 646-437-4202 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan.
One of the most dynamic ensembles in world music, Habrera Hativeet’s very formation in 1977 was a bold experiment in diversity that fused together artists with authentic Sephardic, African, Indian and Middle Eastern roots, time-honored songs from Andalusian Spain, Yemen, and Morocco, Hasidic chants from Eastern Europe, and contemporary Israeli poetry. Twenty-nine years later, "The Natural Gathering" still possesses a seemingly bottomless reservoir of uncompromising energy and creativity.
Toronto, Ontario: The high-energy female sextet Sisters of Sheynville
will be performing their upbeat Yiddish, English and original material Centre, Thursday May 25, 2006, at 8:30pm.
The Sisters are: Lenka Lichtenberg and Isabel Fryszberg (vocals), Fern Lindzon (vocals and piano), Kinneret Sagee (clarinet, Lorie Wolf (drums), and Rachel Melas (double bass).
Tickets are available $12 in advance and $15 at the door, Sun - Fri
(8:30am until evening hours) -from the Front Desk at the MNjcc, (Bloor Spadina)
or at the door one hour before the performance.
Info Line at 416 924-6277 ext. 143 or email .
night of foot-stomping swing and klez tunes, arranged with zest and animator will show you the steps!
This month, the band is celebrating its first birthday - a culmination vintage Yiddish swing to include more jazz, improvisation, and original material centered around lush 3-part harmonies. Notable performances in festivals, Leah Posluns Theatre, the Rex Jazz Bar and the Toronto Centre for The Arts.
Once again, Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson has worked his programming magic.
From romantic to rhythmic, from ancient to contemporary, psalms -- like you've never heard them before! Join Zamir for a transcendent evening of psalm settings from Israel, France, the U.S.
, Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, and featuring a rousing medley from African-American gospel traditions.
An extraordinary event in our new synagogue featuring Cantor Marcelo Gindlin, Cantor conducted by Dr. Noreen Green.
Dessert reception to follow. General Admission $65; Sponsorship $1,800 and $1,000
influenced by folk sounds of Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The "totally charismatic" (Jerusalem Post) Chen Zimbalista guest stars on marimba.
Alon Reuven solos on french horn. A Tapestry of Jewish Music: Princeton Pro Musica, Frances Fowler Slade, Music Director; and Sharim V'Sharot, Elayne Robinson Grossman, Pre-concert forum with conductors and composer 3 p.m.
, made possible Premiere of Lo, body and soul-this land (to poetry of Walt Whitman)
The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th St. NY, NY
and pop classics, as well as the World Premieres of new choral works from the 2005-2006 CAS Chorus Composition Grant recipients, Gerald Cohen and Mary Feinsinger.
Scenes from the opera: music by Gerald Cohen, libretto by Charles Kondek
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, Manhattan; Admission: $8 for information, call the American Society for Jewish Music: 212-294-8328
Stephen Andrew Taylor, Paradises Lost, libretto by Kate Gale
The Skirball Center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square Park South, within a few blocks of most subway lines, including West 4th St.
(A, C, E, F, V, and S), 8th Street (N, R, W), Astor Place (6) and Christopher Street (1).
Many opera composers only get to hear their works through their computer speakers. But since 1999, New York City Opera has offered American composers the opportunity to hear their compositions with a full orchestra and superb young singers.
VOX is the only program of its kind in the country, and it has offered audiences the first chance to hear works by composers such as Mark Adamo, Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, and Michael John LaChiusa that have gone on to define an American musical voice. This May, City Opera brings the VOX Showcase downtown to New York University's Skirball Center, an intimate new theater devoted to developing young audiences for live performances. The City Opera Orchestra will play excerpts from twelve innovative new works by both established and emerging composers.
Herschel Garfein, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Robert Carl, Harmony, libretto by Russell Banks Martin Hennessy, Letter to E. 11th St., libretto by Mark Campbell
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Leslie Adams, Blake, libretto by Daniel Mayers William Kraft, Red Azalea, libretto by Christopher Hawes
Thomas Pasatieri, Frau Margot, libretto by Frank Corsaro Readings of new works by Center for Contemporary Opera, Music Theater Group, Encompass New Opera Theatre, and American Opera Anne LeBaron, Crescent City, libretto by Philip Littell Stephen Andrew Taylor, Paradises Lost, libretto by Kate Gale
Max Stern, Messer Marco Polo
I.L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem,
MOTL PEYSI DEM KHAZNS ("Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son"), 2) a stirring musical adaptation of Peretz's classic short story, 3) selections from the new compact disc recorded by the JPPC, This unique program features the work of Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein, converts to Christianity, and Otto Klemperer, a convert back to Judaism, along with unheralded Jewish composers who wrote covertly during the Inquisition, under Communism, and in the Holocaust.
Works by Aldo Finzi, Pavel Haas, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and others will have their premieres in the Museum's Edmond J. Safra Hall. All of them are powerful expressions of the Jewish spirit.
Presented and narrated by $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 members/students
roles in the great international opera houses. She became famous for roles such as Carmen and Mistress Quickly. In 1987, Regina Resnik made her musical theater debut as Fraülein Schneider in Cabaret with Joel Grey, for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
Since 1997, she has been the host and narrator of the concert series "Regina Resnik Presents" - which she co-founded and co-produces with her son, tenor and stage director, Michael Philip Davis. The series has become an important presence in New York musical life, having offered such diverse programs as "Beethoven in Song," "The Gypsy in Classical Song," and "The Classic Kurt Weill"
Broadway at 122nd Street, NYC
Tickets are $7 for students; and $15 for anyone else.
There will be a wide variety of music performed by over half of the students of the HL Miller Cantorial School.
For ticket info, contact either Sara Horowitz or Rebecca Carl at This is a tsedakah concert.
ALHAMBRA plays the rhythmic and hauntingly beautiful Sephardic music of the Middle East, which melds the words and melodies of 15th century Spain, filtered through Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Arabic lands. ALHAMBRA was founded in 1981 by its director and lead singer Dr Isabelle Ganz who is a professor of music, a cantorial soloist, a conductor, and an international performer and recording artist.
She is joined by four other equally skilled professionals for whom Sephardic music is a special love. Haig Manoukian is considered one of the world’s finest players of the oud – the fretless ancestor of our modern lute. Michael Hess, heard throughout New York playing klezmer music, performs on violin, kanun (trapezoidal zither), riq (tambourine) and nay (bamboo flute).
Cantor Daniel Pincus is a tenor whose repertoire extends to Bach, Schubert, and Salamone Rossi. Peter Basil Bogdanos is a percussionist who performs and records, playing a broad repertoire ranging from pop, jazz, R B, to Middle-Eastern and Flamenco. Zev Feldman, Pete Rushefsky and Alicia Jo Rabins Basya Schechter, Curator for February series
Location: Corner of Ave.
C and 2nd St., Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC
A special night of music featuring the tsimbl-- also known as the cimbalom or Jewish/Eastern European hammered dulcimer. A string instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl employs over 100 strings to create a mystical harp-like sonority.
It was a popular instrument in Jewish klezmer ensembles across Eastern Europe from the 1500's through the first decades of the twentieth century.
Walter Zev Feldman (tsimbl) was a true musical pioneer when he revived the tsimbl's use in klezmer in the 1970's. He continues to be a leading performer and researcher of Jewish music and dance as well as a leading authority on Ottoman and other Central Asian/Near Eastern musics.
His Khevrisa ensemble's recording European Klezmer Music was released in 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways. When not performing, Feldman also serves as Artistic Director for the 92 St.Y's Jewish music concert series and holds faculty/fellowship appointments at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University.
Feldman recently co-directed the successful application for Turkey resulting in UNESCO naming the Mevlevi Dervish tradition as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) was first turned on to the tsimbl when he heard Feldman's seminal 1979 album Jewish Klezmer Music with mandolinist/clarinetist Andy Statman. He performs regularly with some of the leading performers of the klezmer scene, such as Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals.
A veteran faculty member of KlezKamp and KlezKanada, Pete also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, a NY-based non-profit dedicated to preserving the performing arts traditions of ethnic and new immigrant communities.
Alicia Jo Rabins (violin) is a rising star on the New York music scene. She has performed across Europe and North America as a member of the klezmer ensemble Golem.
Additionally, Rabins is well-known as a virtuoso of Old-Time music, having performed or recorded with the Mammals, Underbelly, Jay Ungar, Pete Seeger, Cliff Eberhart. Her acclaimed solo album Sugar Shack was released in 2003.
A concert of Piano Trios by Four Women composers will be held in New York on Sunday, March 19 at 3pm.
The composers are LERA AUERBACH, REBECCA CLARKE, FANNY MENDELSSOHN, CLARA SCHUMANN.
The concert will be held in St. Marks in the Bowery (19th and Second Avenue and performed by the Downtown Chamber Trio: RIEKO KAWABATA, violin; DANIEL BARRETT, cello and MIMI STERN-WOLFE, piano
At the Workmen’s Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline
TICKETS: WC Members: $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
Non-members: $15 in advance, $18 at the door.
Workmen’s Circle 1762 Beacon St., Brookline, MA 02445, or call for credit card payment.
Advanced payment must be received at the WC office by 5pm on the Thursday prior to the concert.
After the concert set, Deborah Strauss will teach and lead traditional Yiddish dances — freylekhs, khosidls and more — with live musical accompaniment. No previous experience needed!
in a riotous fusion of Havana, Harlem and the Catskills
Mendelson, with pianists Anthony Coleman, Tova Morcos and others
composers: Paul Dresher, Daniel David Feinsmith, Amy X Neuburg and John Schott
songwriter, honored this year by the NEA as a national treasure
THREE YIDDISH DIVAS 3/25 - Joanne Borts, Theresa Tova and Adrienne Cooper pour passion and artistry into Yiddish jazz, cabaret and theater songs.
featuring an exotic Instrument Petting Zoo, workshops and performances all day for all ages.
Italy, with Francesco Spagnolo, leading authority on Italian Jewish music, your tickets early!
Sunday, March 5, 11:30 am, Caffe Venezia, 1799 University Ave., Berkeley. $36 one price for all.
Bagels Bongos: Septeto Rodriguez brings the influences of Havana, Miami Special Guest: Irving Fields, 90-year-old creator of the now classic, recently re-released Jewish-Latino fusion record, Bagels and Bongos, heights. With NY jazz pianist Anthony Coleman, Tova Morcos and others. Presented in association with Temple Sinai.
Sunday, March 12, 7:30 pm, Jewish Fringes Celebrated Bay Area composers of New Music: Paul Dresher, Daniel David Feinsmith, Amy X Neuburg and John Schott premiere original works for a post-modern world.Thursday, March 16, 7:30 pm, Berkeley and recipient of the 2005 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award. She will March 23, 2:00 pm, BRJCC 1414 Walnut Street at Rose, Berkeley $15/ $12 Three Yiddish Divas with Joanne Borts, Adrienne Cooper and Theresa Tova.
A new generation of stars pours passion and artistry into Yiddish jazz, cabaret and theater songs, including the timeless repertoire of the Yiddish theater greats who inspired modern Broadway. Saturday, March 25, 8:00 pm, JCCSF $25/ $23, including JCCSF members JCCSF, California and Instrument Petting Zoo, interactive workshops, and performances throughout Levin, Charming Hostess, the Instant Klezmer Mandolin Orchestra, members of Kitka, Gary Lapow Songs from Coney Island, and Klezmer/Roma Dance Extravaganza. Guaranteed to bring out your inner musician.
For all ages! Sunday, March 26, 11-5 pm, BRJCC, 1414 Walnut Street at Rose, Berkeley $24 $7 students, seniors, BRJCC members, and children under 5 ~ Sunday February 26, 4:00 pm Protest Songs in Yiddish and Italian Sharon Jan Bernstein and Michael Alpert, of the band Brave Old World, The ~ Thursday, March 2, 6:30 pm John Schott on New Jewish Music ~ Tuesday March 7, 6:00 pm Daniel Feinsmith and John Schott On Composing ~ Friday, March 10, 8:00 pm A Taste of Cuban Klezmer With Roberto Rodriguez ~ Monday, March 20, 7:30 pm. Lehrhaus Workshop: Urban Ladino Music of Turkey Hadass Pal Yarden, of Yahudice.
~ April 29 and 30 KlezCalifornia Albert L. Schultz JCC Violinist Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould and guitarist Dr. Matt Gould, better known as Duo46,will perform "Aires de Sefarad" by award winning compsoer Jorge Liderman on Saturday ,February 4, 2006 at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael California .
The 46 Sephardic song cycle, about an hour of of music, is based on 500 year old Jewish folk Music from the Mediterranean. The concert will begin at 8:00pm with remarks by the composer. For tickets call (415) 444-8000 or An upcoming engagement of ASEFA on Feb.
8, 2006 in NYC-- "Diversity and Samuel Thomas with Yoel Ben-Simhon and Dudu Bohbot as Asefa, present a performance/ presentation on the music of the Maghrebi at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Australian born musical sensation. Devorah Hasofer's music speaks to Jewish women of all ages and of all backgrounds.
She touches upon Judaism's contemporary and classic music with sweet lyrics that reach the hearts and souls.
This concert is on Sunday, January 29, at the Israel Center,
22 Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem, at 8 p.m.
Klezmer for Kids!
Yiddish culture for school audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Students sing, dance, and ask and answer questions.
Duo, they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as America and Europe, are on the faculty of KlezKamp, KlezKanada and KlezFest at the University of London, and are curators of the Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music Yiddish Song.
* Stay to left off exit to Cambridge St.
* Go 4 traffic lights to Harvard St.
* Take left on Harvard for 1 block.
* Go 1 _ miles to Kenmore Square (huge Citgo sign.)
* Go over turnpike and take 1st left.
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David Berkeley at Club Passim on Feb. 1
David Berkeley will appear at in Cambridge, MA on Feb.1 at 8pm, Joe's Pub in New York on Feb. 2 and The Tin Angel in Philadelphia on the 3rd. Berkeley is an American singer-songwriter, with a voice compared by The New York Times as "lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.
" He's is a Harvard University graduate about whom Hillary Meister wrote in the on January 2, 2004, is influenced by synagogue services, and that in particular," a cantor with a beautiful voice "kept me going to synagogue" while growing up in New Jersey" He has several CDs, including Live from the Fez (2005), After the Wrecking Ships (2004), The Confluence (2002). The Confluence, was reviewed in incense and peppermints." Berkeley reported to Meister a couple of years ago that the music coming out of silent prayer was always the most powerful for him.
"I think the whole value that I place on expression for a connection and for healing is at least consistent with Judaism if not inspired by it." he said in the interview. "Once you're exposed to that kind of genre you look for people who say something that makes an emotional impact that requires something of the listener; not just candy," he said.
I'm always absorbing the world around me whether it's the music, newspaper or poetry." Berkeley, who spends most of his time writing and playing music, has performed with Shawn Mullins, Ben Folds and Marshall Crenshaw and is currently on the road promoting his new releases. His website includes photos, clips and a tour schedule.
spiritual themes. In cooperation with the Beverly Hills Presbyterian of Genesis in Jewish, Protestant and Catholic thought, liturgy, science, Participants in the afternoon symposium (2:30 p.m.
) include: Rabbi Shalom; Reverend Dr. Vahe H. Simonian, BHPC; and The Right Reverend The free evening concert (7:00 p.
m.) will feature music of the Creation story drawn from the many traditions of our time and of times past. In addition, winning entries in the First Annual Student Art Contest will students (K - 12) depicting creation themes, including the "Big Bang Space for both symposium and concert is limited.
Advanced reservations are required. Deadline: February 6, 2006. A festival dedicated to the evocative, exuberant work of this contemporary Argentine-American composer.
Osvaldo Golijov was born in 1960 and grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. With a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla. After studying piano and composition at the local conservatory he moved in 1983 to Israel, where he studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy and immersed himself in the colliding musical traditions of that city.
Upon moving to the US in 1986, Golijov earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with George Crumb.
Upon naming him its composer of the year for 2006, Musical America declared “The 45-year old Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov has emerged as one of the leading figures of contemporary music, with a multicultural style of exuberant dance rhythms and raw emotion that connects instantly to a wide range of audiences.” In addition to performances of Golijov’s major works, Lincoln Center’s “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov” features three late-night concerts in the Allen Room, including a performance by David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness! For tickets and details about the “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov” festival at Lincoln Center, call 212.
721.6500, click here, or visit . newest recording, Amid the Jasmine is finished and will be available on the website,
, on February 9th, 2006.
The Ensemble will be in the New York/New Jersey area, on Saturday, February
11, 2006. There will be a CD release concert at the Jewish Community Center of
Greater Monmouth County in Deal Park, New Jersey. The event will feature The Gerard
Cantors.
You can expect an evening filled with a multi-cultural spirit conveyed
through an eclectic mix of songs in Ladino, Spanish, Arabic and Hebrew from the
Sephardic and Middle Eastern traditions, as well as original songs by Gerard Edery.
The concert starts at 8:00 p.m.
and tickets are $25, $20 for seniors and students.
To order tickets or for more information, call Lisa Goldfarb at (732) 531-9100 Ext.
142.
Central in Song at Wix Hall, Central Synagogue in London
Central in Song at Wix Hall, Central SynagogueSynagogue on Wednesday 21 December, at 7.30pm.
This exciting collaboration sees Steven Leas and the Choir of Central Synagogue, who performed before the Queen last year at Westminster Palace, joined by the men of the highly acclaimed Choir of London, an ensemble of some of the UK's finest choral singers who are particularly noted for their innovative cross-cultural projects, and who performed in Jerusalem and Ramallah last year.
The programme, accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass, includes settings of prayers and psalms, from Renaissance polyphony to modern arrangements. Of Finkelstein and Stephen Glass, two of the most dynamic figures in the contemporary world of Jewish cantorial and choral music, born in Britain but living and working in North America.
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