AN ERWIN SCHULHOFF RETROSPECTIVE

THE LEO BAECK INSTITUTE and the AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH MUSIC present
AN ERWIN SCHULHOFF RETROSPECTIVE
performed by Mimi Stern-Wolfe's Downtown Chamber Players
Wednesday May 25 at 7:30 PM
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
Tickets: $15; $10 for students, seniors
Reservations: www.lbi.org/schulhoff

The Leo Baeck Institute and the American Society for Jewish Music are proud to present Mimi Stern Wolfe's Downtown Music Productions in "An Erwin Schulhoff Retrospective," a concert of chamber works by Schulhoff, along with an academic presentation of his life and musical legacy, May 25th, 7:00 PM, at the Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th street. The prolific Schulhoff, a Jewish composer born in Prague, perished in a concentration camp at Wurzberg, Bavaria in 1942.

The program will include the following works of Erwin Schulhoff”:
** Hot Sonata for Saxophone and Piano (1930) performed by Marty Ehrlich, saxophone and Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano.
** dance solos from his vast array of piano music, including tango, blues, ragtime, waltz and the famed Piano Sonata #1 performed by piano soloist, Mimi Stern- Wolfe.
** String Quartet #1 performed by the Downtown Chamber Quartet with Marshall Coid, vl; Rachel Golub, vl; Veronica Salas, viola; and Mary Wooten, cello)

Dr. Michael Beckerman, Professor of Music at New York University, the Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music will be the featured speaker at this concert and will deliver a presentation of the life and works of Erwin Schulhoff

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, founder/director of Downtown Music Productions and the Downtown Chamber Players, has long been committed to presenting music by composers who died in the Holocaust. Her first major event took place in January 1989 when she presented "Composers of the Holocaust" at the 14th Street Y. The program featured works by 11 composers, including Schulhoff, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein. A highlight of evening was the moving and historic appearance of pianist Edith Kraus, brought from her home in Israel to perform Viktor Ullmann's Sonata No. 6, which she had premiered under the supervision of the composer at Theresienstadt some forty years earlier.

Stern-Wolfe and her Downtown Music Productions followed with numerous concerts featuring Schulhoff music. Reviewing a February 1990 concert, James R. Oestreich noted that "..(Schulhoff's blend of noe-classical works) are eminently well suite to this era of stylistic fusion, and it seems likely that Mr. Schulhoff's music will soon reach a wider public." (The New York Times, February 4, 1990) Alex Ross, reviewing a later concert, remarked that Schulhoff mastered "a brilliantly quirky, jazz and folk-inflected style." (The New York times, February 1, 1994).

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was born in Prague to a prosperous, art-aware, Jewish family with some musicians among them. He found his vocation early and studied under some of the most noted teachers of his day, including Max Reger and Claude Debussy. In Germany and Prague, Schulhoff quickly became prominent as a pianist and a composer of tart, highly polished chamber music. His works were premiered at many major contemporary music festivals throughout the inter-war years, and he was regarded as one of the first Central European composers to respond to the harmonic and rhythmic impulses of the dance tunes and period jazz which flooded Europe after World War I. In his 30's, the composer also became a prominent recording and broadcast performer. At the time of the Nazi/Soviet anti-aggression pact, Schulhoff sought to protect himself by taking Soviet citizenship while remaining in Prague. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Schulhoff was interned at Wulzberg, Bavaria, where he died of typhus fever in 1942.

www.downtownmusicproductions.org

HaZamir at Carnegie Hall

HaZamir at CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT - SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2016
HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir Gala Concert on Sunday April 3, 2016 @2:30pm.
ADDRESS
Carnegie Hall, The Stern Auditorium/Perelman Hall, 881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019
Take the elevators or stairs off the main Box Office lobby on 57th Street

385 singers from cities across America and Israel. Maestro Matthew Lazar is founder and director. HaZamir draws together a network of twenty-five American chapters and six Israeli chapters. Each chapter teaches its singers throughout the year a shared repertoire of classical and contemporary Jewish choral music.
DIRECTIONS
[Subway A] [Subway C] [Subway B] [Subway D] [Subway 1] | Get off at 59th Street / Columbus Circle.

PROGRAM FEATURES
Music from 3 continents (US, Europe and Asia) spanning 3 centuries and 3 languages, English, Hebrew and Yiddish. The program displays the high caliber and variety of Jewish music available in the 21st century and also demonstrates the commitment and discipline of the singers, who master a demanding repertoire and learn about their heritage in the process. The concert boasts a dazzling array of vocal arrangements - from soaring, large-scale works sung by the entire choir, to smaller ensembles, to demanding solos.

SPECIAL AWARD
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein receives the Zamir Choral Foundation's Kinor David Award. Rabbi Lookstein retired this year as the Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, where he has been Rabbi since 1958; he also this year became Principal Emeritus of the Ramaz School, where he has been Principal since 1966. Throughout the last decades, Rabbi Lookstein has been a strong voice for mixed choral singing at Ramaz and throughout the Jewish community

TICKETS $150, $100, $90, $75, $60, $50,
http://wizadjournal.com/hazamirgalaconcert23/?id=878
212-247-7800

INFO: http://www.zamirchoralfoundation.org
The concert includes music from both the U.S.and Israel including settings of traditional and more contemporary texts. The program displays the high caliber and variety of Jewish music available in the 21st century and also demonstrates the commitment and discipline of the singers, who master a demanding repertoire and learn about their heritage in the process. The concert boasts a dazzling array of choral arrangements - from soaring, large-scale works sung by the entire choir, to smaller ensembles, to demanding solos, all of which seamlessly blend singers from the different chapters, along with over sixty alumni. The concert features the world premiere of a setting of Psalm 96, by Samuel Dylan Rosner. Rosner who is now seventeen is remarkably the youngest composer to have his work performed by HaZamir.

BACKGROUND
HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir gives Jewish teenagers the opportunity to sing first-rate Jewish choral music at the highest performance level. The HaZamir program includes musical and educational retreats, international concertizing, a leadership development track, a chamber choir, an alumni choir, and a burgeoning parents’ council to cultivate family involvement. Now celebrating its 23rd anniversary, HaZamir is a project of the Zamir Choral Foundation, the only international organization dedicated to using Jewish choral music as a vehicle to foster Jewish identity, pluralistic community and engagement. A remarkable achievement in both music and education,

Social Action Concert: Galeet Dardashti and Divahn

April 2, 2016 - 8:30pm
Beth Am Shalom Synagogue
295 Soundview Avenue, White Plains, NY
Join us for an evening of extraordinary music. Our guest artists, Galeet Dardashti and her band Divahn, are popular throughout the United States for their Sephardic-Middle Eastern music.
Galeet Dardashti and Divahn
Following a family tradition of distinguished Jewish and Persian musicianship, Galeet Dardashti leads the renowned all-female power-house Middle Eastern Jewish ensemble, Divahn. The group has gained an international following with its fresh and fiery renditions of traditional and original Middle Eastern Jewish songs: lush string arrangements, eclectic Indian, Middle Eastern, and Latin percussion, and vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. As one of the few groups performing Mizrahi music in the US, Divahn welcomes its audiences to a beautiful sphere of shared Jewish and Muslim culture.

Visit Galeet Dardashti's website. http://www.galeetdardashti.com/

Presented by the Social Action Committee. Concert proceeds will benefit the Children's Center for Learning (a Headstart program for homeless children) and the Midnight Run. Refreshments will be served.

$25: 18 and under
$30: Adults (advance purchase)
$35: Adults at the door (subject to availability)
Click here for tickets.
Contact Barbara Weinreb for details.
Bet Am Shalom Synagogue
914-946-8851
weinrebs@verizon.net

Hebraic Jazz in Jerusalem

Concert exceptionnel de Harpe Hebraique et Piano jazz *avant Pessah, pour tous publics !!!* *Nehama REUBEN & *Shimon REUBEN Unique couple au monde *Harpe hebraique et Piano jazz **Concertistes virtuoses internationaux * Celebres melodies and famous jewish and jazz music
*Mercredi soir Wednesday 13 Avril 2016 - 20h*
*Hall Harmonia 27 Rehov Hillel Jerusalem*
*Reservations 052 235 2010 tel, sms & whatsapp.*
Tickets 50sh sur place le soir du concert,
on site the night of concert

Sortez du nettoyage de Pessah, jetez les fausses notes, venez ressourcer votre coeur et votre ame, en ecoutant et en respirant les sons divins et enchanteurs de la harpe de Nehama REUBEN et du piano de Shimon REUBEN, agrementes de leur humour personnel et d'une ambiance musicale pure, authentique et regeneratrice.

Unique couple au monde Harp hebraic & piano jazz 40 ans de concerts internationaux.
Leave the cleaning of Pesach, throw wrong notes, come to give happiness to your heart and your soul, by listening and breathing the divine and enchanting sounds of the harp Nehama REUBEN and piano Shimon REUBEN, decorated with their personal humor and pure authentic musical and regenerative atmosphere.

DREAMING IN YIDDISH: ADRIENNE COOPER MEMORIAL CONCERT

Saturday Dec 26, 2015 8:00 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage36 Battery Place New York, NY
Admission: $36Students: $18Patrons: $180
Buy tickets online: http://dreaminginyiddish2015.brownpapertickets.com/

All proceeds go to the Adrienne Cooper Fund for Dreaming in Yiddish, which supports artists working in Yiddish. Co-sponsored by YIVO in association with Yiddish New York, GOH Productions, The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Celebrate the life and work of Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish singer, scholar, and former Assistant Director at YIVO. Stars of the klezmer and Yiddish world, including Frank London, Sarah Gordon, Michael Winograd, and Joshua Dolgin present an evening of music from In Love and In Struggle: The Musical Legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund (YIVO, 1999), an album that featured Adrienne and reflects her passion for justice and Yiddish. This year’s concert also awards Joshua Dolgin (a.k.a. Socalled) with the 2015 Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Award for his work as a singer, composer, hip-hop artist, and puppeteer.

Judith Berkson Presents Cantorial Music from the YIVO Archive

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 at 7:00pm
YIVO Institute at The Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York

Acclaimed singer musician Judith Berkson presents arrangements of music from the YIVO sound archives, including from unreleased and rare recordings from Eastern European cantorial singing from the "Golden Age" of Cantors. Berkson, Frank London, Lana Cencic, and Cleek Schrey, reinterpret the sounds of Chagy, Karniol and Sophie Kurtzer. Berkson has composed new music inspired by the YIVO sound collection.

The New York Times has written: Of Judith Berkson's CD Oylam: "Standards and Schubert and liturgical music, swing and chilly silences...I can't get enough of it."

For more information and to buy tickets, visit the YIVO website: yivo.org/berkson Performance includes: Farfisa and Viscount vintage analog organs, vocals, effects, trumpet and Hardanger d'amore fiddle.

Judith Berkson is a soprano, pianist, composer and cantor, and has composed and arranged music for the Kronos Quartet.

Poland's Klezmer Heritage Sunday

Poland's Klezmer Heritage Sunday, November 22, 2:00PM
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present Jankiel's Legacy: Poland's Klezmer Music Heritage. All Polish schoolchildren know the character of Jankiel, the wise, old Jewish tsimbl (dulcimer) player featured in Pan Tadeusz, the epic masterpiece by Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz.

For hundreds of years, Jewish klezmer developed in shtetls throughout historic Polish territories as well as in cities like Warsaw, Krakow, Vilna, Lviv, and Lodz. In recent decades there has been a resurgence of interest among Poles in Jewish music, and today Poland is home to some of the world's largest Yiddish music festivals. Join Walter Zev Feldman (NYU in Abu Dhabi), a pioneer of the klezmer revival and one of the music's leading scholars, along with acclaimed tsimbl player and CTMD Executive Director, Pete Rushefsky, the celebrated klezmer flutist Adrianne Greenbaum (Mount Holyoke) and violin virtuoso Jake Shulman-Ment for a multi-media presentation and performance exploring Poland's klezmer heritage.

Admission: $10, members/seniors/students: $7.
At the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street in Manhattan. (2:00PM)

Presented in partnership with the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History. Special support for this event was made possible by the Eli Kleinman Fund for Jewish Education of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest. For more information: https://www.yivo.org/Polands-Klezmer-Music-Heritage

21st Century Masters of the Klezmer Violin

Tuesday night, November 3, 7PM - Center for Traditional Music and Dance is pleased to copresent Fidl-21st Century Masters of the Klezmer Violin at the beautiful Museum at Eldridge Street in NYC. ?Featuring Alicia Svigals, Deborah Strauss and Jake Shulman-Ment who will tell their personal stories of how they became intimately involved in the revival of the klezmer violin tradition. Moderated by ethnomusicologist Amanda Scherbenske. Click below for more information....http://www.eldridgestreet.org/event/concert-fidl-21st-century-masters-of-the-klezmer-violin-and-jam/
Co-presented with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance
$20 adults; $14 students and seniors
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002 Museum Site: 212.219.0302

Harp and Piano Concert June 17 in Jerusalem

Jerusalem Mercredi 17 juin 2015. 20h. Rosh Hodesh Tamouz.
Projet "Shalom Lishmo" Rosh Hodesh Tamouz
Concert exceptionnel de Nehama REUBEN, concertiste virtuose et compositeur à la Harpe Hébraïque et de Shimon REUBEN, concertiste virtuose et compositeur au Piano Jazz, couple d'artistes de renommée mondiale.
20h. Buffet d'entrée. Présentation du projet "Shalom Lishmo" par Alexandra Bennaim et Myriam Mettoudi. Salle Harmonia 27 rehov Hillel Jerusalem Centre ville.Paf: 45 shReserv: 054 632 0313. ​​Nehama et Shimon REUBEN
Un couple unique au monde, uni dans la vie comme dans la musique concertistes virtuoses internationaux et compositeurs

Harpe Hebraique et Piano Jazz specialisés en musiques juives et jazz dans leurs propres improvisations et arrangements Nehama & Shimon REUBEN ont fait l’alya de Paris et vivent a Jerusalem, apres 40 ans de carrière musicale internationale

1000 Years of French Jewry: A Concert in Words and Music

Sunday, May 17, 2015
7pm
Temple Emau-El
99 Taft Avenue
Providence, RI
A concert on the music of the 1000 year history of French Jewry, from Rashi to today, will take place at Temple Emanu-El in Providence, RI, Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 7pm. The concert will include music of every era and genre from classical, folk to jazz, with an original script narrated by Professor Bill Miles, and accompanied by renowned pianist Judith Lyn Stillman. Instrumental soloists from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, along with Cantors Lynn Torgove, Brian Mayer and Maayan Harel and choral singers from Shir Emanu-El Choir, Kol Kesem Hazamir along with other choral singers will participate.

Advanced tickets are $50, $36 and $15 with tickets at the door at: $55, $40, $20.
Contact: 401-331-1616 or visit: www.teprov.org

Two Lifelong Journeys Through Jewish Music

recologie*
presents
The Ken Maltz /Sy Kushner Klezmer Duo
Two Lifelong Journeys Through Jewish Music

Ken Maltz and Sy Kushner's combined years of experience in the field of Jewish music is more than 80 years. From time to time, they have collaborated on each others' projects, Ken recording and performing as a guest artist with the Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble and assisting in the release of Sy's very popular klezmer music transcription fake books, while Sy has performed with Ken's bands including Kapelye, one of the first bands of the klezmer revival. They have come together as a duo to perform lesser known, but beautiful works within the klezmer repertoire and beyond.

Wed. May 6, 2015
recologie*
49 Lawton Street
New Rochelle, New York
7:00 p.m.
$15Music Cover
plus Two Drink Minimum or Food Equivalent
General Admission tickets will be available at the door

"Technically adept and heartfelt clarinet playing."
Michael Dolan, The Washington Post

The Kushners are the great biblical begots of klezmer music.
Jonathan Mark, Associate Editor, Jewish Week

Nashir in NYC!

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale presents
On Sunday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will present its annual concert at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York.

The eclectic program features works by Eric Whitacre, Yehezkel Braun, Gil Aldema and Salomone Rossi, in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, French and Lugandan.

Tickets are $24 (preferred seating), $21 (general admission) and $17 (seniors/students).
For further information, contact Merkin Concert Hall (212-501-3330) and on
the web at www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/MCH.

Music In Our Time at CJH in NYC

Music in Our Time: 2015
Concert May 31 2015 3pm
Music from Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind; Yulzari's Le Grand Méchant, l'Oud and Il était une Fois; Kaminsky's Duo for Cello and Piano; Cohen's Steal a Pencil for Me; Fine's A Short Alleluia; and Ladino songs by Neumann. Performed by Charles Neidich, Rémy Yulzari, Ilana Davidson, Laura Leon, Donna Breitzer, Nadav Lev, and artists from Mannes College The New School of Music.

Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 American Society for Jewish Music/American Jewish Historical Society/Center for Jewish History members; $9 students, seniors

Purchase Tickets presented by American Jewish Historical Society and American Society for Jewish Music

Neshama Carlebach Live!

NESHAMA LIVE!

May 3, 7PM
Neshama Carlebach and Josh Nelson in Concert
Leo Baeck Temple
1300 N Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA, 90048
For further info please visit jewishwisdomandwellness.org

May 7, 7PM
Washington DC JCC
1529 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Neshama is honored to be opening the Washington Jewish Music Festival Series with her band, Reverend Milton Vann, members of The Glory to God Singers and special Guest Appearance by Josh Nelson.
For further information please visit wjmf.org/neshamacarlebach

Kol Rinah Chorale's 2015 Spring Concert

Kol Rinah, Westchester’s Jewish Chorale's Spring Concert
Date: Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 4 PM
Address: *Yorktown Jewish Center*,2966 Crompond Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Admission: GA $22; Students/Seniors $18. Group Rates, Advanced Sale Discounts
Other Information visit: www.kolrinahchorale.org
or call (914) 243-9059
Music genre: Kol Rinah, led by Benjamin Gruder, offers an eclectic concert of songs from a rich Jewish heritage, ranging from liturgical to contemporary, in English, Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew.

Kol Rinah performed by invitation within the last year at the North American Jewish Choral Festival and at the Westchester Jewish Heritage Festival, as well as at other venues.
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Kol Rinah, the Jewish Chorale of Westchester, was founded in April of 2001 by two singers who wanted to bring Jewish music to a community wider and more diverse than is typically reached by synagogue choirs. Kol Rinah has approximately 25 singers who enjoy performing Jewish music and sharing Jewish cultural expression with others. Kol Rinah is often hired to sing at private events like religious school graduations, women’s group lunches, and senior programs, their favorite performances are the large concerts that draw audiences of 50 – 150 people from throughout the county, many of whom have never heard the diversity of Jewish music spanning many hundreds of years from all over the world. Kol Rinah finds that audience members of every faith tradition are able to share the uplifting spirituality and entertainment their concerts provide.

Kol Arev in Concert in Cambridge, MA

Kol Arev and the Seraphim Singers
A concert about "Jerusalem: Holy, Disputed, Lamented"
Jennifer Lester, Music Director
Sunday, April 26, 2015 3:00pm*
First Church (Congregational)
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA
$20 regular / $15 students & seniors
*Composer panel discussion at 2:30pm

This collaboration with Kol Arev Chamber Choir of Hebrew College features music inspired by the holy city of Jerusalem, including ancient psalms, world premieres by Israeli composer Avner Dorman and Boston's Joseph Ness, and works by Aaron Copland, James Woodman, Mikołaj Zieleński, Manuel de Sumaya, Volker Wangenheim, and more. With Heinrich Christensen, organ.
Visit www.seraphimsingers.org for more information.

Susan Leviton & Lauren Brody at New York Klezmer Series

Tues. April 28, 2015
NY Klezmer Series Proudly Presents: Susan Leviton & Lauren Brody

The New York Klezmer Series
Tuesdays at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th Street, NY NY 10023
212-877-4050

All Concerts & Dance Parties begin at 7:30pm; $15. Jam sessions follow Klezmer Instrumental Music Workshop 5:30-7pm $25
Full night pass – $35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

Tickets: $15 at door
Doors open at 7pm.
For more info go to www/aaronalexander.com/wp

Renowned performers Susan Leviton and Lauren Brody will be opening a world of Jewish music and some of its related Eastern European roots on Tuesday night, April 28, 2015 at 7:30pm, as part of The New York Klezmer Series, at the Stephen Wise Synagogue. For decades Susan and Lauren have been on the forefront of bringing the culture alive to audiences of all ages, and their collaboration brings the finest of two brilliant voices and repertoires together, along with Lauren’s extraordinary piano and accordion skills.

Susan is one of the few people to embrace the tradition of women’s unaccompanied singing, but she is also a seasoned performer who has been on featured with bands such as the Old World Folk Band, and performers including members of the Klezmatics, Michael Winograd, Zalmen Mlotek, Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss, and countless others. She’s recorded stunning music that garners rave reviews around the world.

Lauren, a founding member of both Kapelye and Mikve, is one of the world’s foremost experts in traditional Bulgarian music, and her singing and accordion-playing in Yiddish performances is legendary. She travels the world as a bearer of Yiddish musical tradition. Lauren will be both accompanist, instrumental soloist, and vocalist for this very special concert, which brings together voices that blend like sisters’, in a range of music chosen to delight, surprise, and encourage an ongoing exploration of our musical roots.

Upcoming at the NY Klezmer Series

May 5 Yale Strom’s Hot Pstromi w/David Licht
May 19 Jeff Warschauer/Sarah Myerson Graduation Concert & Dance Party
May 26 Arnold Hammerschlag Group w/Sam Bardfeld, Wil Holshouser
June 2 Zingeray -Yiddish Song - w/Itzik Gottesman & Friends
June 9 TBA
June 16 Tantshoyz w/Avia Moore-Dance Leader, Aaron Alexander Klezmer Kapelye w/Michael Winograd, Patty Farrell & the Workshop Band

questions? newyorkklezmer@gmail.com
Aaron Alexander - Artistic Director

Tickets: $15 at door
Doors open at 7pm.

London Klezmer Quartet

London Klezmer Quartet
Thursday 23 April, 7pm
SOAS Concert Series
Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1X 0HG
FREE ENTRY
www.londonklezmerquartet.com

Anshe Emet’s 13th Annual Kaplan Concert Presents Alberto Mizrahi and Friends: A Global Mélange of Music

Anshe Emet's annual Kaplan Concert will honor Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi and his 25 years of service to the synagogue. The concert will include performances from world famous Hazzanim who will be in Chicago for the annual Cantors Assembly.

Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi
One of my goals as incoming President of the Cantors Assembly is to find ways to meld the traditional modes and magnificent music of our past with more contemporary melodies and musical interpretations.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) April 13, 2015 Anshe Emet Synagogue announced that its 13th Annual Dr. Arnold Kaplan Concert will be a musical celebration that will include participation from Hazzanim (Cantors) from all over the U.S. in honor of Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi’s 25 years of service to the Congregation and his installation, that evening, as president of the Cantors Assembly, the largest body of Cantors in the world.

The celebration called, Alberto and Friends: A Global Mélange of Music, is set for May 6, 2015, Wednesday, beginning at 7:30 at Anshe Emet, 3751 N. Broadway, Chicago, Il.

The Cantors Assembly will hold its annual convention in Chicago, May 3-7, drawing 250 Cantors from around the world. The meeting will culminate with the Kaplan concert that will feature a world class array of Hazzanim including, Roz Barak, San Francisco, CA; David Feuer, Palm Beach, FL, Herschel Fox, Encino, CA; Magda Fishman, Stamford, CT; Kim Komrad, Gaithersburg, MD; Jacob Benzion Mendelson, White Plains, NY; David Propis, Southfield, MI; Mike Stein, Woodland Hills, CA; Sol Zim, Hollis Hills, NY; with accompanist, Craig Terry (Lyric Opera), and special guests, Grammy Award winning Howard Levy and his ensemble.

“One of my goals as incoming President of the Cantors Assembly is to find ways to meld the traditional modes and magnificent music of our past with more contemporary melodies and musical interpretations, “ Hazzan Mizrahi said. “During the convention, we will spend a great deal of time exploring the history of Jewish music while we also seek out new musical experiences that the Cantors can bring to their synagogues to give their congregants additional paths to appreciate prayer and engage in spiritual life.

“We are calling the evening ‘Alberto Mizrahi and Friends’ because colleagues and close friends of mine from around the U. S. will participate. And the ‘Global Mélange of Music’ refers to the diverse music the concert goers will be able to enjoy, from Ladino music, Yiddish music, contemporary Israeli songs, Country style fiddling and an operatic duet,” Hazzan Mizrahi added.

Tickets are $20 and available at: ansheemet.org/Kaplan.

About Anshe Emet Synagogue
Anshe Emet Synagogue is one of the oldest and most prominent congregations of Conservative Judaism in America. It is well known for a variety of prayer services, a multi-generational membership and a broad range of programming.

Eleanor Reissa Concert in NY

Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center-Bronx
Annual Holocaust Program
A concert by the well known Yiddish singer, actress and director Eleanor Reissa

Sunday, April 26th 2015 1:30 PM
Contribution: $3.50 Members free
Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx

917-930-0295
Corner 208th street, nr. Montefiore Hospital
D train to 205th St. or 4 train to Moshulu Parkway

Itzhak Perlman: "In the Fiddler's House" Anniversary

Carnegie Hall
Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene [NYTF]
Performance Tuesday, March 31, 2015 | 7:30 PM
Itzhak Perlman: "In the Fiddler's House"
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/3/31/0730/PM/Itzhak-Perlman-In-the-Fiddlers-House/

Maestro and violinist Itzhak Perlman joins the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) for its centennial gala concert presentation of "In the Fiddler's House.” The performance features Klezmer musicians Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling, Judy Bressler, Frank London, Hankus Netzky, Lorin Skamberg, Andy Statman, and The Klezmer Conservatory Band, along with special guests. Performers

Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Michael Alpert, Vocals, Guitar, Accordion, and Violin
Alan Bern, Piano
Kurt Bjorling, Bass Clarinet and Tsimbl
Judy Bressler, Vocals and Percussion
Frank London, Trumpet
Hankus Netzky, Music Director, Saxophone, and Piano
Lorin Skamberg, Vocals and Accordion
Andy Statman, Clarinet and Mandolin
The Klezmer Conservatory Band

Coming Out of Hibernation Purim Beach Party

Andy Statman Trio
Andy Statman, Jim Whitney and Larry Eagle
After lots of shivering and shoveling, we're back and busy - and celebrating with the perfect antidote to the weather:
a Purim Beach Party!
Tuesday 3 March at 8PM -
The Charles Street Synagogue
53 Charles St (@ West 4th) New York NY
http://www.andystatman.org/The_Andy_Statman_Trio/Welcome.html

From Paris to Peretz: A Musical Tour with JPPC

Tickets now on sale!
Sunday, May 31, 2015
4:30 PM
New York City
From Paris to Peretz: A Musical Tour Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus
Conductor Binyumen Schaechter
Featured soloists
Cantor Joel Caplan
Di Shekhter-tekhter (Reyna & Temma)
Description below
This year's concert takes you across the ocean, featuring old and new Yiddish songs about Paris, Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Israel and elsewhere - including the songs Beltz (in Moldavia)
Rumeynye (Romania)
Varshe (Warsaw)
Vilna (Vilnius)
and Ba di taykhn fun Bovl
(By the Waters of Babylon)
And musical settings of works by I.L. Peretz, The Father of Yiddish Literature

The cantata Oyb nisht nokh hekher (If Not Higher Still) And his poem Ale mentshn zaynen brider (All People Are Brothers) inspired by and set to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"
Oh, and this will be a Beethoven World Premiere - an instrumental section of Beethoven's 9th Symphony newly adapted for chorus!
English translations provided
Symphony Space 2537 Broadway (corner 95th Street)
New York City
Tickets: $40, $25; groups of 15 or more: $30, $20
SymphonySpace.org
Get Tickets Here
(212) 864-5400

Two Life-Long Journeys Through Jewish Music

The Ken Maltz/Sy Kushner Klezmer Duo
Feb 28, 2015
8pm
recologie
49 Lawton Street
New Rochelle, NY 10801
914-278-9350
info@recologie.com

Ken Maltz and Sy Kushner's combined experience in the field of Jewish music is over 80 years. From time to time, they have collaborated on each others' projects, Ken recording and performing as a guest artist with the Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble and assisting in the release of Sy's very popular klezmer music transcription fake books, while Sy has performed with Ken's bands including Kapelye, one of the first bands of the klezmer revival. They have come together as a duo to perform lesser known, but beautiful works within the klezmer repertoire as well as original works.

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Cafe Crawl for the Boston Jewish Music Festival

As a part of the Boston Jewish Music Festival's Cafe Crawl, a duo formation of di bostoner klezmer is tickled to announce that they will be performing on Thursday, March 5 from 8:00-10:00 P.M. at Kolbo (437 Harvard St., Brookline/Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA).

Come hear some rare, tasty, flashy, meditative, authentic klezmer and Hasidic music from clarinetist Dena Ressler and Digital and Acoustic Accordion World Champion Cory Pesaturo.
The festival has a wonderful selection of artists - see bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/ for the complete offerings. Transportation: Kolbo is on the #66 bus from Harvard and Dudley Squares & within walking distance of the Coolidge Corner stop of the "C" Green Line. On-street and municipal lot parking is available (assuming that we don?t get another 2-4? of snow by then :-(

Sacred Bridge Program in Cambridge, MA

Sunday, March 29 2015
3:00pm
Longy School of Music
Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 3:00 pm 27 Garden Street, Cambridge MA

Discover the common musical roots of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, and the astonishing and beautiful interactions among these traditions. The program includes elements of Jewish liturgy, Gregorian and Koranic chant, songs and texts of Jewish minstrels, Sephardic folksong, medieval Spanish Cantigas, and Judaeo-Islamic music from the ancient Andalusian tradition. The Boston Camerata is joined by Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble.
Below is a link to the Artistic Director’s Program Notes.
http://www.bostoncamerata.com/download/SacredBridgePgmFullNotes.pdf
For tickets, see the boston camerata website: http://www.bostoncamerata.com/blog/upcoming/touring/

Jewish Music Forum features Ezro Malakov

The Jewish Music Forum is offering a program being given at the Center for Jewish History
on Monday, March 2nd at 7 PM.
Celebrating the release of an important new book by Dr. Evan Rapport, Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Oxford University Press), with live music examples by some of New York's most respected Bukharian musicians led by master singer Ezro Malakov, this promises to be a wonderfully informative and entertaining evening. Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
Please RSVP at: info@jewishmusicforum.org
Reception to follow. Additional information about the program, Dr. Rapport and the performers is below. I hope you will be able to join us on Monday, March 2nd. Admission is free. Please RSVP to info@jewishmusicforum.org. As the Soviet Union stood on the brink of collapse, thousands of Bukharian Jews left their homes from across the predominantly Muslim cities of Central Asia, to reestablish their lives in the United States, Israel and Europe. Today, about 30,000 Bukharian Jews reside in New York City, settled into close-knit communities and existing as a quintessential American immigrant group. For Bukharian immigrants, music is an essential part of their communal self-definition, and musicians frequently act as cultural representatives for the group as a whole. Ezro Malakov, master singer, tradition bearer, and leader of the Bukharian Jewish community, performs with the Ezro Malakov Maqom Ensemble for Dr. Rapport’s talk which promises to be an engaging discussion of the transformation of Bukharian identity through music. The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, sponsors the talk, with additional support from the American Jewish Historical Society.

Dr. Evan Rapport is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music His interests include American music, Jewish musical life, intersections of composition and improvisation, music and poetry of Iran and Central Asia, and issues of ethnicity, race, and representation. He has published on subjects as wide ranging as punk rock's relationship to the blues, arrangements of George Gershwin's concert works, the idea of "ethnic music" in New York, and rap music.

Ezro Malakov was born in 1938 in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan, into a prominent family of rabbis and singers. He moved to Tashkent in 1976, where he sang in the Uzbekistan national tv and radio orchestra. Since arriving in New York in 1992, Mr. Malakov has served as a cantor at one of the most important Bukharian synagogues in Queens and sparked renewed interest in Bukharian religious music. He has performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Jewish Music Festival (San Francisco), and the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music (Morocco).

Morris Hollender: A Musical Tribute

Morris Hollender: A Musical Tribute with Hankus Netsky With Henry Carrey, Jessica Kate Meyer, Miryem-Khaye Seigel and the NEC Jewish music ensemble

An afternoon devoted to this unforgettable man, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia, who shared so many amazing songs and melodies
Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:00 PM
Temple Beth Israel25 Harvard Street Waltham, MA
(781) 894-5146
http://tbiwaltham.org/

Swing Dance with the Seth Kibel Quintet

Saturday, February 14 -- Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC)
Swing Dance with the Seth Kibel Quintet
800 South Rolling Road
Catonsville, MD 21228-5317
443-831-6422
8:30 to 11:30 pm
In the "Barn." A joint production of CCBC (Catonsville) and ChileSwing.
$10 for undergraduate students with a valid school ID card.
$12 for CCBC employees with valid CCBC ID card and those over 64 years.
$15 for the public. Beginner lesson included at 7:30 pm.
Sean Lane on piano, Ed Hrybyk on double bass, Wes Crawford on drums, and special guest vocalist Renee Tannenbaum!
Here's the FB event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/909518649078677/

Basya Schechter & Pharoah's Daughter

Saturday, Feb. 8 PM

Highland Park Conservative Temple-Conregation Anshe Emeth

201 South 3rd Ave.

Highland Park, NJ



More info here:

http://hpct-cae.org/wp-dev/events/shirainu-jewish-music-concert/

Advance ticket at reduced price available through (and including) Feb. 1.

Paul Cohen Recital in NYC

Faculty Recital: Dr. Paul Cohen. Included will be Dr. Steve Cohen's Sonata for Soprano Saxophone (2002) accompanied by Dr. Allison Brewster Franzetti at the piano.
Sunday, January 25, 2015, at 7:30 PM
Greenfield Recital Hall
Manhattan School of Music
120 Claremont Avenue (enter at Broadway and West 122nd Street, NW corner)
New York, NY 10025
for more info: (212) 749-2802

LABAmusic: Alicia Svigals, Yoav Gal, Nadav Lev

Friday January 9 and Sunday January 11 (with brunch included!)
LABA, A Laboratory of Jewish Culture,
presents award-winning opera and contemporary music,
featuring LABA fellowship alumni Alicia Svigals, Klezmer Violinist, Yoav Gal, and Nadav Lev.

From world music to indie opera, their diverse voices are united by the common thread of Jewish culture - a mesmerizing tapestry of some of the best original music made in downtown NYC.

Where: 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, New York, New York 10003
When: Friday 1/9 at 8 pm, Sunday 1/11 at 11:30, including brunch!
Tickets: $15, free with APAP badge.

Get Tickets here: http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maarAJgackqVDbIFEx6eafpQav/

Alicia Svigals: Violinist/vocalist/composer, world?s foremost klezmer fiddler, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics will perform her Seduction in Eynaim: A Maternal Song Cycle: settings of poetry on the double-edged helix of inheritance across generations of women. With celebrated accordionist William Schimmel.

Yoav Gal, pioneering 'indie opera' creator, will present his Shekhinah song cycle, which constructs the history of the feminine personification of the Jewish people, and her relationship with a hyper-masculine God.

Nadav Lev, multifaceted, innovative guitarist and winner of Andres Segovia Award, appears in his duo with Remy David Yulzari, combining classical, Spanish and Jewish-Sephardic music traditions; and in New Strings Attached, music with classical and electric guitar, with world-renowned mezzo Rinat Shaham.

Shimon & Nehama REUBEN in Hebrew Harp and Jazz Piano Concert

Shimon and Nehama Reuben sommes invités à donner un Concert pour le Festival de Harpe d'Israel
le Lundi 22 decembre 2014 à 19h
Stadion Blumfield Music Center
11 Rehov Sheerit
Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel.
programme "Harpe Hebraique & Piano Jazz": musiques juives en jazz.

Gerard Edery and His Virtuoso Musicians Hanukkah Concert

American Society for Jewish Music & American Jewish Historical Society presents :
The Hanukkah Concert
Featuring Gerard Edery and His Virtuoso Musicians
Dec 21 2014 3:00PM
Concert, Reading, Menorah Lighting, Singing, Refreshments
Price: $9.00 - $18.00
Seating: General Admission
Center for Jewish Historyv
15 West 16th Street New York, New York 10011 • Tel: 212.294.8301
To get tickets:

Widely regarded as a master singer and guitarist, Gerard Edery has a remarkable range of ethnic folk styles and traditions from around the world, including songs from Europe, the Middle East, South America and ancient Persia. Collaborating with virtuoso musicians, Edery energizes this repertoire for contemporary audiences. A special guest will open the program with a story from the pen of a great Jewish writer, plus menorah lighting, singing and refreshments.

David Broza at 92nd St Y

David Broza
Date: Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 7:30 pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Price: from $55.00
To see Broza in concert is to be mesmerized” — New York Post

One of the world’s reigning troubadours, David Broza personifies Israel at its finest while also drawing from his roots in Spain, England and the US. He returns to 92Y for his 19th annual Not Exactly Christmas Eve Concert, a yearly tradition that began in 1995 and has been hosted by 92Y since 2001.

Make your holidays complete by joining 92Y for a beloved annual event with this Israeli superstar.

David Broza, vocals & guitar
Julio Fernandez, guitar
Yonatan Levi, guitar
Jay Beckenstein, saxophone
Uri Kleinman, bass
Yoni Halevi, drums
Yuval Lion, drums

Zamir Chorale and Zamir Noded

A concert featuring world premieres by David Burger and Benjie Ellen Schiller and a "Taste of Hanukkah" performed by the Zamir Chorale and Zamir Noded
Sunday, December 14, 2014
7:30pm
Conducted by Matthew Lazar
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, NYC
All seats $40/$25 for students
Tickets at http://tickets.kaufman-center.org or by phone at 212-501-3330.

Zion’s Muse: Three Generations of Israeli Composers --Ariel Quartet

Ariel Quartet
Zion’s Muse: Three Generations of Israeli Composers

Terrace Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C.
Sunday, December 14th, 2014, 7:30 PM
Musicians
Ariel Quartet
Gershon Gerchikov, violin
Alexandra Kazovsky, violin
Jan Grüning, viola
Amit Even-Tov, cello

Tickets

Individual tickets ($44 each) are available at The Kennedy Center’s website or by calling (800) 444-1324. Alternatively, you can save $20 by subscribing to both this concert and the May 7, 2015 performance. To subscribe, call the Kennedy Center Subscription Office at (202) 416-8500, Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Concert Summary

Israel is less than 70 years old and yet it has produced three generations of visionary composers. In this 2014 Hanukkah-timed concert, Pro Musica Hebraica presents the young Israeli virtuosos of Ariel Quartet to trace the arc of modern Israeli music. The award-winning ensemble will perform two early classics by the founding father of Israeli classical music, German-born composer Paul Ben-Haim, together with a passionate late 1960s quartet composed by the middle generation master Mark Kopytman on the eve of his departure for Israel, and a moving spiritual meditation by contemporary composer Menachem Wiesenberg.

Performance Timing: Part One – 40 min.; Intermission – 15 min.; Part Two – 38 min. Concert Program

BEN-HAIM: Prelude for string quartet –based on a traditional Sephardic tune (1973)
BEN-HAIM: String Quartet No. 1 (1937)
KOPYTMAN: String Quartet No. 3 (1969)
WIESENBERG: Between the Sacred and the Profane (1998)
“Exceptional boldness and confidence—a blazing, larger-than-life performance that seemed to celebrate the triumph of the human spirit, even from the depths of chaos.”—The Washington Post, on Ariel Quartet

Zalman Mlotek's Magical World of Yiddish Song

Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 3pm
On Stage at Kingsborough Community College
All performances take place at the Leon M. Goldstein Performing Arts Center on the campus of Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York 11235.
For ticket information click here
Presented in Association with The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene
Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene and one of the world's leading authorities on Yiddish music, joins guest vocalist Magda Fishman for a moving musical journey that follows the migration of Yiddish songs from Eastern Europe to the bustling streets of New York's Lower East Side and onto the Broadway stage and Hollywood screen.

Mlotek vibrantly illuminates how Yiddish music helped shape and inspire American music from the likes of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cab Calloway, Neil Sedaka, and many more popular American musical icons. With simultaneous English translation on a large screen.

Guest vocalist Magda Fishman served in the Israeli Army Orchestra and was lead singer for the hit Israeli Dance/Pop group Power Source. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, and the Prague State Opera.

Hanukkah Reception with the Artists after the Show!

"Deserves at least three cheers. His work is both fresh and true to its Yiddish sources."
- The New York Post (on Zalmen Mlotek)

Hannah, a new Chanukah Opera

On Mon. Dec. 1 at 7pm The Bryant Library in Roslyn will present the seventh and final concert in the series, "Jewish Opera Lives!" featuring soprano Helene Williams and composer/conductor/pianist Leonard Lehrman. This series, which began in Boca Raton last March and has featured concerts in Teaneck, Morristown, Freeport, East Hills, and Jericho, has been a lead-up to the US premiere of HANNAH, an anti-war feminist Chanukah opera with music by Leonard Lehrman on a libretto by the composer and Orel Odinov Protopopescu. The performances will take place Tues. Dec. 9, 8pm at Community Presbyterian Church, 12 Nottingham Rd., Malverne, NY and Tues. Dec. 23 7pm at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 W. 4th St. in Manhattan.

This will be its New York City premiere, semi-staged, with soloists, chorus, piano, organ, violin, tambourine and 261 slide projections.

The 21-member cast features 9 soloists and The Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, including one rabbi and 8 cantors*, accompanied by organist Pedro D'Aquino and the composer conducting from the piano. Admission is by donation. A copy of the libretto will be given to anyone contributing $25 or more. No one will be turned away. (*Cantors Meredith Greenberg, Raphael Frieder, David Katz, Galit Dadoun Cohen, Fredda Mendelson, Janet Leuchter, Moshe Bear, and Erik Contzius; also Jonathan Kline, Helene Williams, Rabbi Joshua Minkin, and others)

For more information, see: http://huc.edu/news/2014/11/06/new-york-city-premiere-biblical-opera-hannah "HANNAH brings to life the lost legend of the daughter of Mattathias, who confronts her family and community at her wedding ceremony, in protest against the oppressive practice of 'the law of the first night.' Resonant with the stories of Dinah, Esther, Lilith, and Judith, the opera presents the hidden *her*-story which instigates the Maccabean revolt. Deeply informed by the biblical and midrashic tradition, Leonard Lehrman and Orel Odinov have composed a *tour de force* which will enrich our musical ears and our understanding of Jewish history."
--Rachel Adelman, PhD, Professor of Hebrew Bible Hebrew College, Newton, Mass.

The central legend on which the opera is based is disputed as to authenticity, but is known to date back to the 2nd century C.E.: Hannah's tearing off all her clothes at her wedding shames her father and her brothers into taking action against the oppressive regime. The hegemon (overlord) Nikanor is killed, but so is Hannah's beloved Eleazar, whose peacemaking efforts give way to the violence of her brother Judah ("the Maccabee"). In the final scene, Hannah prophesies that her youngest brother Simon will be the sole survivor of the Civil War she has unintentionally ignited. He promises to remember her, "by lighting the earth with candles."

For further information please visit <tinyurl.com/LJL-Hannah>. To join the indiegogo campaign to raise funds to pay for the lighting of the production, please visit .

Posted by jmwc at 01:24 PM

Dave Levitt Trio at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

NY Klezmer Series Presents: Dave Levitt Trio, w/Mike Cohen & Christina Crowder Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, New York
The Dave Levitt Trio
Dec. 2, 2014 at 7:30pm
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St. NY NY 10023

Klezmer Instrumental Workshop w/Dave Levitt 5:30-7pm $25 per class Concert begins at 7:30pm; $15. Jam sessions follow Full night pass – $35 (includes class, Tantshoyz & jam sesson)
Dave Levitt – Trombone
Mike Cohen – Clarinet
Christina Crowder – Accordion


Dave Levitt is a fourth generation Klezmer musician and is known as a leading authority on this music as well as its history. Mr. Levitt has performed and lectured at the National Yiddish Book Center, Eldridge St. Museum and Synagogue, Center for Jewish History among many others. He wrote the text for the Levitt family exhibit which is on permanent display at the Yiddish Book Center in S. Amherst, Massachusetts.

Three veteran klezmorim, The Dave Levitt Klezmer Trio present to audiences authentic interpretations of Eastern European Klezmer music. They perform dance, popular and concert music stemming from Poland, Russia, Hungary, Roumania, as well as Yiddish Theater favorites. Tying in history and language, the trio consists of accordion, clarinet, and trombone and invites audiences to sing and move with the group’s dialogues and conversations in music.

Songs of the Heart with Raymond Goldstein

Please join us 7:30 for concert, 5:30 for dinner.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
for a memorable concert of cantorial and Hanukkah music by Israeli composer Raymond Goldstein who will be joined by Cantors Chaim Dovid Berson, Sanford Cohen, Brian Mayer and Gideon Zelermyer (formerly of West Hartford), Adrian Durlester, pianist and instrumentalists. Additionally, The Beth El Adult and Children's Choirs, Children's Choirs from The Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford and Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford will raise their voices under the direction of Cantor Joseph Ness.

Admission is $20. $15 for seniors and students. Children under 12 free. Tickets available at temple office or at the door.

Beth El Temple
2626 West Albany Ave
West Hartford, CT
call for information: 860-233-9696
bethelwesthartford.org

Enjoy fresh falafel and Israeli salads for sale by Yosi Kosher Catering before the concert. Israeli dinner ($10 per person) begins at 5:30pm (no rsvps required) and Concert @7:30 pm. Concert tickets available for purchase at the door or in advance in the Temple office.

Klezmer Influences in American Jewish Music

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 | 7:00pm
SIDNEY KRUM YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERT SERIES
Admission: General $12 | YIVO Members $8
Box Office: smarttix.com | (212) 868-4444
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street - NYC

For years, American Jewish composers have been integrating klezmer and Yiddish folk songs into new classical music, inventing a new form of artistic and cultural Jewish expression. In this unique lecture-demonstration, we present three of these outstanding and rarely performed pieces—Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind by Osvaldo Golijov, Six Yiddish Scenes by Paul Alan Levi, and Café Music by Paul Schoenfield—and delve into the intricacies and challenges of performing American Jewish music today. Special guests include internationally-acclaimed clarinetist Todd Palmer, who will discuss the klezmer and mystical elements of Dreams and Prayers; pianist and composer Paul Alan Levi, who will speak with Michael Leavitt, President of the American Society for Jewish Music about interpreting Yiddish Art Songs today; and Yuval Waldman, artistic director of the Sidney Krum Concert Series, who will introduce the hybrid klezmer-jazz elements in the closing piano trio Café Music

The Sidney Krum Young Artists Concert Series is made possible by a generous gift from the Estate of Sidney Krum.

Michael Leavitt is President of the American Society for Jewish Music and a Founding Director of the Museum of Yiddish Theater. His firm MPL Productions, Inc. specializes in advertising and marketing for the arts, as well as concert, recording and radio production. In the fields of music and dance, he has managed and worked with major performers at home and abroad. For more than three decades Michael Leavitt has been a consultant and advisor to arts organizations around the country, as well as state and national agencies.

Paul Alan Levi is an acclaimed composer. His most significant works, for chorus, orchestra, and soloists include, the Mark Twain Suite and the Passover Oratorio, Dayenu, both of which premiered in Carnegie Hall. Levi has received numerous awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; New York Choral Society; New Amsterdam Singers; and Robert DeCormier Singers, among others. His Songs for the Synagogue, composed with Rabbi/Cantor Mark Lipson, has been regularly performed in concert and as part of Shabbat night services throughout the United States. Levi has written many works for chorus, solo voice, piano, chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as scores for film and television. Recent works include: Venetian Mazes for piano solo (premiered at Tenri Cultural Institute); Second String Quartet (premiered at Merkin Concert Hall); Dateless Calendar for chorus and chamber ensemble (commissioned and premiered by New Amsterdam Singers); and Light at Play for orchestra (to be premiered this December by American Chamber Orchestra, Fairfield, CT).

Todd Palmer (clarinet) has appeared as soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, educator, arranger, and presenter in a variety of musical endeavors around the world. A three time Grammy nominated artist, he was a winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions and grand prize winner in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Auditions. He has made solo appearances with the Atlanta, Houston, BBC Scotland orchestras; St. Paul, Cincinnati, Montréal, and Metamorphosen chamber orchestras. His recital performances include Weill Hall and 92nd Street Y in New York, the Kennedy Center, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with some of the world’s finest string ensembles such as the St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo and Pacifica quartets; sopranos Kathleen Battle, Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy and Dawn Upshaw; in addition to many other notable instrumentalists. He has championed Osvaldo Golijov’s klezmer quintet The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind; premiered David Bruce’s Gumboots at Carnegie Hall with the St. Lawrence Quartet; and commissioned Ricky Ian Gordon’s theatre work, Orpheus and Euridice, which was presented by Great Performers at Lincoln Center. Most recently he premiered Crosswalk, a new work for clarinet and dance by choreographer Mark Morris.

Yuval Waldman, born in Russia and educated in Israel, the United States and Europe, has enjoyed great success as a violinist, conductor, and educator. Waldman has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel and given recitals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London, and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 2005 Maestro Waldman founded Music Bridges International, to foster cross-cultural music exchange programs that feature the music of different countries. Under the Music Bridges banner, he organized the successful Young Artsist Strings Competition at the “Tchaikovsky’s Homeland” Center in Izhevsk/Votkinsk, Russia.

Joanne Borts Stars at Gala Pre-Khanike Concert

GALA PRE KHANIKE (CHANUKAH ) DINNER & CONCERT
“OY MAME, BIN IKH FARLIBT”
FEATURING
BROADWAY & YIDDISH THEATER STAR
JOANNE BORTS
WITH DAVE LEVITT & HIS 7 PIECE KLEZMER ORCHESTRA
Master of Ceremonies
Fyvush Finkel
DATE & TIME: Monday, DECEMBER 15, 2014 6:15 PM
MENU: GLATT KOSHER KHANIKE DINNER WITH LATKES
PLACE: SUTTON PLACE SYNAGOGUE – 225 E 51ST. NYC
(Between 2nd & 3rd AVE) HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE
MEMBERS $ 40 GUESTS $ 45 CONCERT ONLY $ 25 (8:15 PM)
RESERVATIONS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE BY DECEMBER 8, 2014
RESERVATION INFORMATION CALL RUTH 516 569-1678/ E-MAIL YAFAC18@aol.com
Kindly send check payable to YAFAC and mail to RUTH HARRIS, TREASURER
379 BARNARD AVE
CEDARHURST, NY 11516
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Heather Klein in Concert

Heather Klein in Concert
Featured at: Osher Marin JCC
Friday, November 14th @ 12:45 pm
$8 members/$10 non-members
www.marinjcc.org

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel and Sender Botwinik at Haverford

Join Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel and Sender Botwinik for a concert today Monday, Nov 3 2014 for the Yiddish Culture Festival
at Haverford College in Philly
Tell your Philly friends!
Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Sender Botwinik in Concert Yiddish Culture Festival 2014
Monday, November 3, 4:30PM–5:30PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Haverford College,
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
Welcome - Yiddish Culture Festival 2014

New York Andalus Ensemble --Et Dodim Kalah Oct 30

The New York Andalus Ensemble will perform Oct. 30 2014 at 7;30
at the CUNY Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Ave (corner of 34th) NY, NY
$13 Adults, $10 students

The_New York Andalus Ensemble presents Et Dodim Kalah (It’s the Time of Courting, O Bride!), an evening of music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa. Reflecting the cultural pluralism that characterizes this music, the 20 members of the ensemble perform repertoire in Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish Ladino, emphasizing the region’s shared tradition while cherishing the individual cultures that comprise it.

The New York Andalus Ensemble is led by ethnomusicologist and performer Dr. Samuel R. Thomas. As an artist and scholar for over fifteen years, his work centers on musical cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as jazz traditions and American popular genres.

The mission of this ensemble is to bring participants from varied backgrounds together to experience the rich and varied cultures of the Maghreb and al-Andalus through musical study and expression. The New York Andalus Ensemble is co-sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music, the Music Programs of the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, the Middle Eastern-Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC), the American Sephardi Federation, JAMs, and the Institute of Sephardic Studies.

NewYorkAndalusEnsemble

Don't Miss Figelin! New York, Princeton, Philadelphia

Figelin
Come see three of the hottest traditional fiddlers in an all-women, all-fiddle extravaganza that mixes North German dance music, songs and ballads with Jewish klezmer music, Hasidic melody, and Yiddish song. Put them together and the effect is explosive -wild fiddles, earthy grooves and three vibrant voices!

See more about upcoming concerts:
New York:
For Yiddish poetry lovers: Readings and Music with Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein for the launch of her new book,
A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586 - 1987
October 21 @ 6:30 PM Eldridge Street Synagogue
October 22 @ 6:30 PM Anne Frank Center
October 27 @ 8 PM
Branded Saloon603 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn NY
October 28 @ 7:30 PM (Workshop 5:30 - 7)
Aaron Alexander's New York Klezmer Series
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th St, NYC

Princeton:
October 25 House Concert and Potluck with Special Guest,
Super-Fiddler Amy Zakar
RSVP to: deborahjstrauss@cs.com

Philly:
October 23 Little Shul
2015 S 4th St, Philadelphia, 19148
October 29 @ 7:30 PM House Concert, Party, Dance and Jam!
5028 Larchwood Avenue, Philadelphia 19143
RSVP to: deborahjstrauss@cs.com

Figelin: Three Women, Two Cultures, One Love

North German and Yiddish Folk Music for Violins and Voices
Figelin is an exciting new collaboration of three internationally acclaimed violinists. Deborah Strauss is a pioneering Yiddish performer and educator who has been at the forefront of the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene for more than 20 years. Vanessa Vromans is one of the most talented musicians of the new klezmer generation. Originally from Australia and now based in Berlin, she is admired both for her mastery of traditional klezmer style and for pushing its boundaries through improvisation and new compositions. Born in Berlin, Vivien Zeller is a mesmerizing performer who has dedicated her career to the revitalization of North German folk music. Together with the band "Kwart" she was honored with the prestigious German RUTH World Music Prize.

For more information on any of these appearances: deborahjstrauss@cs.com

Music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa in NYC

Et Dodim Kalah_ (It’s the Time of Courting, O Bride!) Come hear The New York Andalus Ensemble
Thursday, October 30, 2014
7:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave. (at 34th St.)

The New York Andalus Ensemble will present _Et Dodim Kalah_ (It’s the Time of Courting, O Bride!), an evening of music and song from al-Andalus and North Africa.

TIckets: $13 adults/$10 students, available at the door or at www.newyorkandalusensemble.comor
(http://www.asefamusic.com/NYAndalusWEB/performances.html).

In al-Andalus (Southern Spain), peoples of the three Abrahamic faiths—Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—shared their arts and sciences for more than five hundred years, creating a multicultural canon of music and poetry. Since 1492, Jews and Muslims in North Africa have carried the musical traditions forward from al-Andalus. Today, the musical expansion from over five centuries ago to the present day flourishes in New York City with the New York Andalus Ensemble. Reflecting the cultural pluralism that characterizes this music, the ensemble sings in Arabic, Hebrew, and Ladino, emphasizing the expressive quality of the region’s shared tradition while cherishing the individual cultures that comprise it.

“You won't want to miss the chance to see such a diverse and versatile group.”
—Spain Culture, New York

The New York Andalus Ensemble is led by ethnomusicologist and performer Dr. Samuel R. Thomas. As an artist and scholar for over fifteen years, his work centers on musical cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as jazz traditions and American popular genres. Dr. Thomas lectures on topics including Muslim-Jewish confluences in music, philosophy, and poetics, and diaspora studies. Dr. Thomas is also artistic director of the critically acclaimed ensemble ASEFA.

New York Andalus Ensemble - Mission Statement

The mission of this ensemble is to bring together participants from varied backgrounds to experience the rich and varied cultures of the Maghreb and al-Andalus through musical study and expression.

For centuries, religion has played an integral part of life in this region. Therefore, several of the ensemble’s sung texts have embedded references to religious ideas—primarily from Islam and Judaism—because they cannot be separated from the cultural life of the people. However, texts that promote a particular religious ideology or modern political agenda will be avoided. In learning these songs, we are not promoting any particular religion, religious agenda, or political persuasion. We want room for what is part of the culture of the region to come through as a learning experience. The NYAE comprises individuals who understand this mission and can appreciate it. We welcome you in learning about the musical traditions of the Maghreb and al-Andalus, and in the opportunity to share this illustrious culture with many people.

The New York Andalus Ensemble is co-sponsored by the Foundation for Iberian Music, the Music Programs of the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, the Middle Eastern-Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC), the American Sephardi Federation, JAMs, and the Institute of Sephardic Studies.

"Yiddish is a M'Khaye"

Hits and Skits from Second Avenue to Pitkin Avenue
with Hy Wolfe, Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Steve Sterner
6:30 PM
Monday, October 27, 2014
Yiddish Artists and Friends Actors' Club (YAFAC)
Fall Dinner and Concert
A glatt kosher dinner will be served.
Sutton Place Synagogue, 225 E 51st St, New York, NY
Members: $40
Guests: $45
Reservations required to yafac18@aol.com
Send checks to Ruth Harris, Treaurer. 379 Barnard Ave., Cedarhurst, NY 11516
Phone: 516-569-1678


Miryem-Khaye Seigel and Sender Botwinik in Concert
Yiddish Culture Festival
Monday, November 3, 2014
4:30PM–5:30PM
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
Haverford College,
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
Welcome - Yiddish Culture Festival 2014
For More Info:
Jeff Tecosky-Feldman
jtecosky@haverford.edu

Carolyn Enger at Kosciuszko Foundation Concert

The Kosciuszko Foundation is having an exciting program featuring works by Sean Hickey, Karol Szymanowski, Arvo Part and Ned Rorem performed by Carolyn Enger, pianist. She will perform selections from her New York Times critically acclaimed "Best in Classical Recordings for 2013" CD, Ned Rorem: Piano Album I, 'Six Friends.'
Thursday, November 6, 7 PM
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th St.
NYC
www.thekf.org
PROGRAM Karol Szymanowski Prelude Op. 1, No. 1 in B minor Prelude Op. 1, No. 3 in D flat major Arvo Part Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka Fur Alina Fur Anna Maria Passacaglia fur Violine und Klavier Spiegel im Spiegel fur Violine und Klavier Fratres fur Violine und Klavier Mozart-Adagio fur Violine, Violoncello und Klavier Intermission Sean Hickey The Birds of Barclay Street Reckoning Ned Rorem Barcarolle No. 1 Pieces from "Piano Album l" Six Friends Barcarolle No. 2 About the Carol Enger

"Lauded for her sensitive, nuanced playing, American pianist Carolyn Enger is a musician who consistently entrances her audiences. Anthony Tommasini – Chief Music Critic of The New York Times wrote "This year the classical music critics of The New York Times had plenty of options when selecting their favorite recordings of 2013….Among the 90th Birthday tributes this year to the essential American composer Ned Rorem, this recording especially stands out. The fine pianist Carolyn Enger plays Mr. Rorem's complete Piano Album l, a collection of tender yet pungent miniatures written for friends, intimates and personal occasions from 1978-2001."

"In the New York area she has delivered her distinctly personal concerts at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Spectrum and the Tenri Cultural Center.

For an extended bio, please click here to visit Ms. Enger's website. http://www.carolynenger.com/index.html

Carol Enger at Spectrum in NYC

upcoming concert. Carolyn Enger will present an exciting program featuring a concert premiere of a work by Sean Hickey, solo and chamber works by Arvo Part and solo works by Ned Rorem.

Joining Carol will be violinist Josh Henderson and cellist Susan Mandel.

Sunday September 14, 3 PM
Spectrum
121 Ludlow St.
NY, NY
www.spectrumnyc.com

London Klezmer Quartet in Clapham

LKQ's concert and Summer Tea Dance in Clapham http://www.omnibus-clapham.org/events/london-klezmer-quartet-tea-dance is Sunday 13 July at 4.30pm

LKQ album launch http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/the-london-klezmer-quartet/ is Weds 20 August at 8pm

WunderKammer Klezmer in NYC

ISLE of KLEZBOS sextet presents: 16th annual KlezBiGay Pride show Monday, June 30 2014 “WunderKammer Klezmer”
7PM til 9PM - FREE & outdoors*!
El Sol Brillante Garden
East 12th Street between Ave's A/B, East Village NYC
(*Rain location TBA at Klezbos.com as needed)
Isle of Klezbos performs for our 16th annual celebration of KlezBiGay Pride, with this year's theme saluting the spirit of our hosts at El Sol Brillante Garden & the legacy of so many creative neighbors in the East Village: "WunderKammer Klezmer" will feature our full sublime sextet in our only all-gal NYC concert of the summer, returning to the wonderful urban foliage oasis surrounded by the fanciful wrought-iron fence created by artist/eco-journalist Julie Dermansky. Surprise special guest performers and any rain location info may also be announced at our website below, as well as Isle of Klezbos' Facebook page and Twitter feed @klezbigal.

http://Klezbos.com
ISLE of KLEZBOS
Debra Kreisberg, clarinet & alto saxophone
Pam Fleming, trumpet & flugelhorn
Shoko Nagai, accordion
Melissa Fogarty, vocals
Saskia Lane, double bass
Eve Sicular, drums |bandleader

Special guest artists / craftspeople may also be in attendance: Stay tuned! (MC's and cameo performers at this downtown event in past years have included luminaries Lisa Kron, Jennifer [Circus Amok] Miller, Julian Fleisher, Deb Margolin, Peter Cramer and more.)

El Sol Brillante Garden is located on the south side of East 12th Street between Avenue's A & B in Manhattan's East Village. (In case of inclement weather, an indoor venue for KlezBiGay Pride will be announced via Isle of Klezbos' Facebook page, website at Klezbos.com, and Twitter @klezbigal.) We are thrilled to return once again to the lush vegetation, imaginative layout and beautiful collective spirit of El Sol. For garden info and previews:

http://www.earthcelebrations.com/gardens/12ab_1.html
http://www.evpcnyc.org/elsolsr/index.html

Isle of Klezbos sextet was formed in 1998 by drummer/bandleader Eve Sicular as an organic offshoot of NYC-based Metropolitan Klezmer octet. The soulful, fun-loving all-gal powerhouse sextet released their latest recording in April: the band's CD "Live From Brooklyn" launched to a full house at Joe's Pub (at the Public) and rave reviews, with band appearances this spring on Seth Rudetsky's SiriusXM radio shows and a feature in The Huffington Post [by Mallika Rao] as well as interview with drummer/leader Eve Sicular on HuffPost Live with host Josh Zepps. The group's music has been heard on broadcasts from "CBS Sunday Morning" to "The L Word," with commissions coming from the likes of Grammy nominated Scissor Sisters and visual artist Kiki Smith. Isle of Klezbos was awarded a coveted performance for Chamber Music America's World Music & Jazz genres, and ensemble tours have included festivals from Vienna to Vancouver, and colleges from Stanford to Skidmore to Sewanee. The band looks forward to summer appearances also at Oskar Shindler Performing Arts Center in West Orange NJ as well as the Midwest, and 2015 concerts in San Antonio TX and beyond. Last month's collaborative appearance with Jill Sobule for her "Yentl" songs NYC premiere with Isle of Klezbos as houseband was another rousing success at Joe's Pub.

KlezBiGay Pride performances featuring Isle of Klezbos & friends have been held every June since 1999 at venues ranging from Vienna’s KlezMORE Fest, to CB’s 313 Gallery [folk & world music sister club next to legendary CBGB], to City Winery. El Sol Brillante Community Garden, established in 1977 on the site of three demolished tenement buildings, has welcomed Isle of Klezbos festivities annually since 2009. This year's festivities are made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts [NYSCA] with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council [LMCC]. Thanks also to our fiscal sponsor, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice [JFREJ].

Eve Sicular | drummer, bandleader Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos
http://metropolitanklezmer.com
http://klezbos.com
http://youtube.com/evesicular
TEL: 212-475-4544 CELL: 347-804-4439 FAX: 212-677-6304 sicular@gmail.com Skype: eve.sicular Twitter @klezbigal

London Klezmer Quartet in Summertime

London Klezmer Quartet concerts and courses coming up

12 June, Camden, London. Music starts at 8.30pm
London Klezmer Quartet in concert at the Green Note, also featuring gorgeous Romanian melodies from the Brasov String Band - Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) and Flora Curzon (violin).
Read more ( http://www.greennote.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2499 )
Book tickets ( http://www.wegottickets.com/event/270180 )

13 June, Hitchin, Herts
Concert at Benslow Music. Details and booking ( http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=775 )

17-23 June, Riga, Latvia
Midsummer tour in Latvia. More info ( http://www.londonklezmerquartet.com/gigs.html )

28 June, Leigh on Sea, Essex Leigh Folk Festival. Details ( http://leighfolkfestival.com/ )

20 August
CD celebration at The Vortex. Book tickets ( http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/the-london-klezmer-quartet/ )

Play klezmer 13-15 June, Herts Weekend klezmer course. Details and booking ( http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=775 ) 7-11 July, central London Klezmer at the SOAS Summer Music School, 7-9pm every day. Book ( http://www.soas.ac.uk/music/summermusicschool/07jul2014-klezmer-music.html ) 29-31 August, Youlgrave, Derbyshire Weekend course. Details ( http://www.londonklezmerquartet.com/gigs.html )

Laible Ben Moshe with Jewjah Jam Band

Millinery Center Synagogue Presents:
Singer Songwriter "Laible Ben Moshe" Along with "The Jewjah Jam Band"
Featuring:
Michael Poulad; Guitar; Yaniel; Vocals & Keyboards; & JJ Horowitz; Drums
This Thursday June 12 2014
@ 8:00 pm
1025 Ave of the Americas
(6th Ave. & 38th St.)
Donation: $12
Doors: 7:30
For More Info:
Call us @ (646)262-5061
Email: Millinerysyng@gmail.com

Pete Sokolow's 'Klezmer Plus Trio" w/Ken Maltz, Marty Confurius

June 10, 2014
5:30 - 7pm - Instrumental Klezmer Workshop w/Pete Sokolow
Concert 7:30pm
NY Klezmer Series Presents: Pete Sokolow's 'Klezmer Plus Trio" w/Ken Maltz, Marty Confurius
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th Street, NYC
(212) 877-4050
info@swfs.org
5:30 - 7pm - Instrumental Klezmer Workshop w/Pete Sokolow $25
7:40 - 9ish - Concert $15
9 - 9:45 Klezmer Jam Session
Full Night Pass $35

Peter Sokolow – piano, Ken Maltz – clarinet, and Marty Confurius – bass, pay tribute to the “Legends of Klezmer” by performing the music of Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwein, Max Epstein, Shloimke Beckerman, Sidney Beckerman, and others who brought this wonderful sound to America. The group is widely acclaimed for their spirited and authentic interpretations of the music made popular by the Twentieth Century’s masters of the klezmer style.

Pete Sokolow has perhaps done more than any living person to revitalize the art of Klezmer Music. He wrote, along with Henry Sapoznick, the earliest book of transcriptions “The Compleat Klezmer” which remains a must have for klezmorim, as well as arranging and keyboard method books for the klezmer musician. He has taught at most of the major Yiddish Culture Festivals for the past 30 years. He maintained a busy schedule of weddings & bar mitzvahs, concerts and club performances (think 300 gigs a year), for decades.

Accompanist for Dave Tarras, The Epstein Brothers, Bandleader of Klezmer Plus, and founding member of Kapelye, among others…. If you only come to one concert this year, this is the one.

AND this concert will be held upstairs in the Sanctuary of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, using their famed Bosendorfer piano with the extra keys. It's a chance to hear Pete Sokolow on an incredible instrument in a beautiful setting with a wonderful group.

Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival

Metropolitan Klezmer plays Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival The Museum at Eldridge Street: Bi-cultural Block Party, 14th annual!
Sunday, June 8, 2014
12 noon til 4PM ~ FREE event
12 Eldridge Street
Lower East Side/Chinatown NYC 10002
http://eldridgestreet.org/events
http://www.eldridgestreet.org/event/14th-annual-egg-rolls-egg-creams-festival/
METROPOLITAN KLEZMER returns to Eldridge Street Synagogue: FREE & open to the public! Outdoors as weather permits. In case of inclement weather, performance will be located in the synagogue's historic, beautifully restored sanctuary. Yiddish heritage meets traditional Chinese culture, in the overlapping downtown neighborhoods of New York's Lower East Side / Chinatown. Metropolitan Klezmer six-piece lineup performs sets from 12PM til 4PM: Festivities commence with klezmer parade down Eldridge Street at noon. Klezmer sets continue through the afternoon, with community encounters to include two music features with Yiddish instrumental music welcoming Chinese performers for special jam sessions.
Museum Site: 212.219.0302; Administrative Office: 212.219.0888

Metropolitan Klezmer returns to play Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival: The Museum at Eldridge Street's annual block party, taking place every June, is a joyous cross-cultural celebration paying homage to the Jewish and Chinese communities of our neighborhood. Enjoy FREE music, food, folk art demos and crafts, including two Metropolitan Klezmer sextet sets & our opening parade/processional! Plus Chinese opera, Yiddish and Chinese lessons, mah jongg, scribal arts and more. Special performance this year will include traditional Chinese musicians jamming on select Metropolitan Klezmer feature tunes.
http://www.eldridgestreet.org/event/14th-annual-egg-rolls-egg-creams-festival/

AMERIKE DI PREKHTIKE

Yiddish blues?! Yiddish jazz?! Yiddish pop?! Yiddish spirituals?! A concert unlike any other !
(With English translations)
AMERIKE DI PREKHTIKE
("America the Beautiful")
SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2014, 4:30 PM
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus
Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (corner 95 Street), New York City

This two-hour concert, celebrating 360 years of American Jewish life (1654-2014), will include Yiddish music in distinctly American musical styles: blues, jazz and pop numbers, spirituals, standards, Second Avenue theatre hits, labor anthems, and more. In these works you will recognize America's pervasive influence on Jewish culture - and vice versa.

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu in Potsdam

Potsdam Musikfestpiele Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu
18-06-2014, 20:00, Mittwoch
Potsdam, Germany
"Music from the Spanish Jews"

For details:
http://www.musikfestspiele-potsdam.de/programm/programm-2014/veranstaltung/spanien-im-herzen.html
www.mlat.org
Spanien im Herzen
Lieder und Musik der sephardischen Juden
Neue Kammern Sanssouci / Ovidgalerie
Preise: 35 € | 30 €
Derzeit ausverkauft Diese Veranstaltung ist derzeit ausverkauft. Restkarten können ab zwei Wochen vor der Veranstaltungsbeginn telefonisch erfragt werden.

Uralte Romanzen und zeitlose Chansons voller Sehnsucht und Melancholie Künstler

ME LA AMARGATES TÚ
Esteban Manzano, Tenor
Doret Florentin, Blockflöte
Tulio Rondon, Viola da gamba
Sarah Ridy, Barockharfe
Juan Martinez, Perkussion
Beschreibung

[Ohrzeit] 19.00 Uhr: »Sephardische Musik heute«
Doret Florentin im Gespräch mit Dr. Jelle Dierickx

Der Traum von einem friedlichen Miteinander der Religionen und Kulturen, wo Orient und Okzident ihr Bestes vereinen - im maurischen Spanien wurde er gelebt. Als die katholischen Könige 1492 die Juden aus Spanien vertrieben, war der Glanz von Al-Andalus verweht. Zehntausende suchten in den Ländern rund ums Mittelmeer eine neue Heimat, ihre Nachfahren leben heute über die ganze Welt verstreut. In ihrer Sprache, dem Ladino, und ihren Liedern lebt die Erinnerung an »Sepharad«, die alte Heimat, fort. Im Ensemble ME LA AMARGATES TÚ haben sich Musiker aus aller Welt zusammengefunden, um die Klänge Sepharads zu neuem Leben zu erwecken. Die Preisträger des Internationalen Wettbewerbs für jüdische Musik faszinieren mit orientalisch schillernder Melodik und rhythmischen Drive. Und in Esteban Manzanos samtweiche Stimme werden Sie sich sowieso verlieben ...

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu in Israel

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu Israeli Festival 7-6-2014, 21:00 YMCA
Jerusalem, Israel
"My heart remembers"
Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu with guest singer, mezzo soprano Bracha Kol
For details and tickets:
http://israel-festival.org/?one_page_portfolio=%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%91%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%98%D7%A1 www.mlat.org

“ליבי זוכר”- רומנסות וקנסיונים מספרד העתיקה

אנסמבל “מֵה לָה אָמַרְגָּטֵס טוּ” מארח את הזמרת ברכה קול

זוכה פרס התחרות הבין לאומית למוסיקה יהודית לשנת 2008, אנסמבל מה לה אמרגטס טו, נוסד בהאג, הולנד, והמשותף לכל החברים בו הוא אהבתם למוסיקה הספרדית של הקהילה היהודית בחצי האי האיברי, בתקופת תור הזהב ולאחר גירוש ספרד (1492).

בהופעותיו משלב האנסמבל בין שירי לדינו לבין שירים ספרדיים מהמאות ה-15 וה-16. חברי האנסמבל מתמחים במוסיקה עתיקה, ומנגנים בכלי נגינה שנבנו בדמות הכלים המקוריים מתקופת הרנסנס והבארוק.

לאחר סיורים בינלאומיים, יגיע האנסמבל לישראל ויציג תכנית עשירה ובה שירים המתארים את חיי היומיום בחצי האי האיברי, ונושאים כגון אהבה, צער, בדידות, ייאוש ושמחה. מקורות ההשפעה לכל היצירות הללו הם המוסיקה הספרדית, הטורקית, הערבית והבלקנית.

בקונצרט משלב האנסמבל בין מאפייניהם המסורתיים והעממיים של השירים לבין אלמנטים מוסיקליים מן המאות ה-15, ה-16 וה-17.

אסטבן מנסאנו (ארגנטינה) – טנור
דורט פלורנטין (יוון/ישראל) – חלילית
טוליו רונדון (ונצואלה- ארצות הברית) – ויולה דה גמבה
שרה ראידי (אנגליה/בלגיה) – נבל בארוק
חואן מרטינז (מקסיקו) – כלי הקשה

Allen Watsky's Djangle Box Project

NY Klezmer Series Presents: Allen Watsky's Djangle Box Project
Tuesday May 20 at 7:30pm
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St., New York, New York 10023
5:30 - 7pm - Instrumental Klezmer Workshop $25
7:30 - 9ish - Concert $15
9 - 9:45 Klezmer Jam Session
Full Night Pass $35
Djangle Box Project plays a combination of original compositions by Al Watsky, and traditional melodies. They explore the intersections of Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Roma, Yiddish, dance, trance and Jazz.

Allen Watsky is widely known over the past years for being the funky guitarist behind David Krakauer, Fred Wesley and DJ Socalled’s ”Abraham Inc.” Project. He’s toured as well with Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness and Josh Dolgin’s groups, as well as many other projects. He has been in the klezmer scene for years, attending Klez Kamp, Klez Kanada and other workshops. He has been a professional musician for decades and is also known as one of the finest Luthiers in the business.

Here he will be presenting selections from an upcoming CD with a fantastic group of musicians.
We’re Eclectic, Not Electric !
www.alwatsky.com
Al Watsky - guitar
With David Licht – percussion,
Brian Glassman – double bass,
Marty Fogel – horns
Billy Newman -classical guitar.

Prayers for Fellow Prisoners with Ullern Kammerkor

Norway's Ullern Kammerkor at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC
Thursday, May 29th at 7 PM
Prayers for Fellow Prisoners
by Kristian Hernes on a text by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Norway's Ullern Kammerkor
Gjermund Brenne, Conductor
A program of music by composers active in the Terezin Concentration Camp and who perished during the Holocaust. In addition, the concert will have two pieces by Kurt Weill.

presented by the American Society for Jewish Music
The Center for Jewish History / 15 West 16th Street / NYC 10011
www.jewishmusic-asjm.org
No admission. However, seat reservations at info@jewishmusic-asjm.org or call Phone: 212.874-3990 / Fax: 212.874-8605 /
Tickets also at: Smarttix.com

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale Concert

Sunday, June 1, 2014
7 pm in Merkin Concert Hall

Led by conductor Ben Gruder, this ensemble will present an evening of Jewish choral music from the spiritual to the whimsical. Works include pieces by Yehezkel Braun, Leonard Cohen, Moshe Wilenskyand Eric Whitacre.

Tickets: $24 preferred/$21 general admission/$17 student/seniors
Tickets available by phone or at box office only.
Students must show ID

Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street
New York, NY 10023
Tel. 212-501-3330

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Sung Among Friends

Thursday, May 15, 7:00PM

Sung Among Friends: Intimate Georgian and Yiddish Singing Traditions

City Lore Performance Space, 56 East First St, Manhattan (Lower East Side), NY



This intimate concert held in close company presents the kind of traditional singing shared socially among friends and family. Informal and at times competitive, Georgian table singing, presented by members of the Zekari Georgian Men's Choir and Yiddish zingerayen, presented by some of the finest proponents of the tradition, including Michael Alpert, Carol Freeman, Sarah Gordon, Esther Gottesman, Janet Leuchter, Jerry Marcus, Ethel Raim, Paula Teitelbaum and Josh Waletzky, exemplify a practice found in many cultures of using the time after a meal to carry on in song.

This event is presented by Brooklyn Arts Council, in co-sponsorship with CATCH (Center for Art, Tradition and Cultural Heritage), Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, City Lore, and Dancing Crane Georgian Cultural Center. At the brand new City Lore
Performance Space, 56 East First St, Manhattan (Lower East Side)

The Yellow Ticket in Seattle

The Yellow Ticket in Seattle, Monday 5/12

Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals performs her original score live to a screening of 1918 silent film The work, which was awarded the Foundation for Jewish Culture's 2012 New Jewish Music Network commission, is currently touring the U.S. and Canada. Next stop: as part of a Music of Remembrance concert at Benaroya Hall, Seattle. This performance, with Alicia on violin and pianist Marilyn Lerner, will also be the premiere of a new version of the score for clarinet, violin and piano, commissioned by Music of Remembrance and featuring Seattle Symphony clarinetist Laura DeLuca.

Remarkably progressive for its time, The Yellow Ticket (1918) is the first film to explore the discrimination of Jews in Tsarist Russia and stars famed Polish actress Pola Negri, Hollywood?s first European silent film star. Filmed on location in German-occupied Warsaw, it tells the story of Lea, a young woman who hides her Jewish heritage to study medicine. Pushed towards prostitution to pay the rent, Lea is saved by a beloved professor with a secret of his own.

Svigals performs her score live with Canadian new music virtuoso, pianist Marilyn Lerner.

Thanks to a grant from the Still Point Fund, Svigals' Yellow Ticket tour also premieres a newly digitized version of the film, created so that audiences can view it for the first time in almost a century at the proper speed, in high definition and with intertitles accurately translated from the original German.

7:30 p.m. | Monday, May 12, 2014
6:45 p.m. | Meet the Composers: Alicia Svigals and Lori Laitman

Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Tickets: http://www.musicofremembrance.org/~musicofr/concert/spring-concert-yellow-ticket

Two World Premieres!

Clarinetist Laura DeLuca joins the Klezmatics? Alicia Svigals in a performance of Svigal's new score to enliven this special screening of the classic 1918 silent film starring Pola Negri. And the World Premiere of Lori Laitman's song cycle, In Sleep The World Is Yours, setting the haunting verses of Selma Meerbaum Eisinger, a gifted young poet who perished at age 18 in a Nazi labor camp. See: Alicia's website - aliciasvigals.com

The Yellow Ticket production was commissioned by the Foundation for Jewish Culture?s New Jewish Culture Network, a league of North American performing arts presenters committed to the creation and touring of innovative projects. The Yellow Ticket received its debut at the Washington Jewish Music Festival presented by the Washington DC Jewish Community Center through a commission made possible by the Arthur Tracy "The Street Singer" Endowment Fund. The New Jewish Culture Network has received major support from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Sylvia M. Neil, the Milken Family Foundation and other donors. Photos courtesy of Tina Chaden (Alicia) and Chris Randle (Alicia and movie).

From Babylon to Broadway

Sunday, June 8, 2014
Concert begins at 2:00 PM
Yorktown Jewish Center
2966 Crompond Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY

For an enjoyable adventure into the world of multi-cultural songs, hear Kol Rinah Chorale's eclectic offering of music inspired by Sephardi, Ashkenazi and Biblical traditions, ranging from ancient to contemporary melodies/liturgical to secular themes, including Broadway, Renaissance, Israeli and Spiritual genres.

Conducted by Ben Gruder and accompanied on piano by Connie Prener. Free kosher refreshments. Sunday, June 8, 2014 Concert begins at 2:00 PM at the Yorktown Jewish Center, 2966 Crompond Rd, Yorktown Heights, NY. Tix at the door: GA $22; Students/Seniors, $18. Group Rates, Advanced Sale Discounts and other Information at: www.kolrinahchorale.org or call 914-243-9059.

Anat Fort in Jerusalem

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23 2014, Anat Fort will be taking a trip to Jerusalem, to perform a project she's been dreaming about for nearly ten years. Anat has arranged some of the most beautiful songs that were written by Natan Alterman and composed by Sasha Argov. Alterman is one of Israel's most prominent poets, and Argov is one of its key musical figures. The show will feature a great team of players PLUS video art. Tickets are going fast...please join Anat tomorrow as this will be special!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 23rd at 9PM
W/Amos Hoffman-guitar and oud, Yorai Oron-bass, Shay Zelman-drums, Tamar Singer-video art and special guest-Daphne Armony-voice!
Beit Avi Chai
44 King George St.
Jerusalem
www.bac.org.il
For those of you who cannot make it, you can watch here LIVE here:
http://www.bac.org.il/live

Zamir Boston Elijah Rocks

Monday, May 19, 7:30 pm, "Elijah Rocks" at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA:

Reserve your tickets now for our season finale, "Elijah Rocks." This multimedia presentation will bring to life some of the great stories from the Bible. Experience the creation of the world, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus, Joshua at the walls of Jericho, Elijah with the fiery chariot, Shadrach in the furnace, and more. Special guest: the incomparable singer/songleader Nick Page. This year, Zamir is delighted to honor Charles Coe, noted poet and arts advocate; and Heather Zacker, Zamir alumna extraordinaire and healthcare executive. For tickets: ofa.fas.harvard.edu or contact: manager@zamir.org.

HAVANA NAGILA in NY

THE KLEZMATICS present HAVANA NAGILA featuring ARTURO O'FARRILL, SOFIA REI, LEWIS KAHN, REINALDO DE JESUS & OTHERS
Sunday, March 23 at 5:00pm
The Town Hall in New York, New York
Havana Nagila is a joyful celebration of New York’s unique Latin and Jewish musical heritages. The Klezmatics update historic Yiddish tunes for contemporary listeners, creating a Grammy-winning style emulated worldwide. This spring, they will team up to craft an unforgettable evening with renowned Latin pianist & composer Arturo O’Farrill, Sofia Rei, Lewis Kahn, Reinaldo de Jesus and others

D’var Shirah at Eldridge Street

"D’var Shirah will explore the intersection of Jewish text and music, recognizing the inspiration that one brings to the other, and the creative possibilities to be found within that synthesis." The Academy for Jewish Religion invited you to experience a one-night only, pre-Pesach encounter between instrumentalists, vocalists, and spoken-word artists.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
7:30 p.m., followed by a dessert reception for all.
Museum at Eldridge Street
The historic synagogue space on New York City's Lower East Side.
LOCATION: 12 Eldridge Street
NYC Featuring instrumentalists:
Frank London (trumpet)
Marty Ehrlich (reeds)
Ronen Itzik (percussion)
Zack Lober (bass)
Rob Schwimmer (piano)
Zoe B. Zak (accordian)

In collaboration with:

AJR rabbis, cantors, students and friends, including:
Cantor Lisa B. Segal
Cantor Meredith Greenberg
Arthur Strimling
Rabbi Jill Hammer
Rabbi Hanniel Levenson
Trisha Arlin
Tehila Wise

Rebecca Teplow Concert

Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
,
Eric Brown Theater, Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
411 East Clinton Ave
Tenafly, New Jersey 07670
Click for ticket info
About Rebecca:
http://rebeccateplow.com/

Ayn Neue Lid--When Yiddish Was Young

Lucidarium, a group specializing in music of the MIddle Ages and Renaissance, will have an upcoming tour of Holland. This tour is part of the group's plan "to teach people that there is more to Jewish early music that Salomone Rossi and Sephardic songs played on recorders and viola da gambas..."

The program is "Ayn Neue Lid - When Yiddish Was Young," created with a grant from the EAJC and the Rothschild Foundation Europe.
Here's the schedule -

za 22 feb, 20.15 uur | Utrecht, Geertekerk
zo 23 feb, 14.30 uur | 's-Hertogenbosch, De Toonzaal
di 25 feb, 20.15 uur | Amsterdam, Waalse Kerk
wo 26 feb, 20.30 uur | Rotterdam, Laurenskerk (19.45 inleiding)
do 27 feb, 20.15 uur | Westzaan, Zuidervermaning
vr 28 feb, 20.15 uur | Deventer, Penninckshuis


For more info -
http://www.oudemuziek.nl/musici/lucidarium/

Like Wildflowers, Suddenly

Like Wildflowers, Suddenly
Sunday, March 2, 4:00 pm
Congregation Mishkan Tefila
300 Hammond Pond Parkway,
Chestnut Hill, MA
Zamir is delighted to join Cong. Mishkan Tefila in honoring Cantor Aryeh Finklestein.
The program will feature the stunning oratorio Like Wildflowers, Suddenly, composed by Cantor Charles Osborne, lyrics by Cantor Finklestein. For more information: visit www.mishkantefila.org click here.
This program is part of the Boston Jewish Music Festival

New York Klezmer Series on Tuesday

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel will be opening the New York Klezmer Series with the Dave Levitt Trio, featuring Mike Cohen (clarinet), Christina Crowder (accordion) and Dave Levitt (trombone). It's a wild mix of original and revived material, including songs from the repertoire of Marty Levitt and Harriet Kane. Come hear songs you won't hear anywhere else!

Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th St., NYC
http://aaronalexander.com/wp/concert-schedule
Concert: $15. Jam session afterward.
Klezmer Instrumental Music Class, 5:30-7pm. $25 per class.
Full night pass – $35 (includes class, concert & jam session)

Yuval Ron Ensemble in Concert

Mystical Music and Dance of the Middle East
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Location: The Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center,
University of Northern Iowa campus, 8392 University Avenue, Ceder Falls, IA
Admission: Adults: $29, $23, $23, kids $1
Buy tickets: Phone: 1-877-216-3663, Email: tickets@uni.edu, Online: http://ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS%3AUNI%3AUGB14%3AGBA30%3A&linkID=twuni&shopperContext=&pc=&caller=&appCode=&groupCode=YRE&cgc=">Click Here
For more information: http://www.gbpac.com/upcoming-events/e-328/yuval-ron-ensemble.aspx

Hanukkah Happens 24 on Jan 19 in Newton

The Brotherhood and Music Committee of Temple Emanuel present Hanukkah Happens 24 Jewish Love Songs
Sunday, January 19, 2014, 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton
Featuring:
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director, and Hazzan Elias Rosemberg
Concert admission (open seating): TE Members - $25; Non-members - $30; Seniors (70+)
$25; Children under 13 - $15; Tickets night of concert $30
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For more information and tickets, please visit templeemanuel.com
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-4jc9DHS1FW5YOewU4GeSI4Os25a_TIOzVQB_9OzQ-JnP797VaOmqVRNy_Syex3iSnouRbLEH_JFipG1eip1XE0r6G_cRISzYCEMy0IE7lv0oXbfv7AAaI4f07qfPP71xtgqrYeAkU1_KNmJq1sDrVx6OErlI02EVhRAX4YEfMz5GxSq4AHaXA33UrlF0LDNQpOKN7H_urM=&c=KwP9qy0FXOw1OXV5dqvm03dDsCQ2XIebrUXjjM2jDAiYdTEwJnqEMw==&ch=fiWeq1viea985AJ27Id9wr_vN8W8GiRN7hlImTE37I2eOBx5dNTb7w== HHConcert@gmail.com or call 617-558-8100.

London Klezmer Quartet DownUnder in Australia for January

London Klezmer Quartet is going on a tour to Australia , 5 January-15 February 2013. So if you live there or are visiting, here are their tour dates: http://www.londonklezmerquartet.com/oztour2014dates.htmlCheck it out also for the band's shows, dances and workshops in Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. Wow. Jewish music is everywhere!

Winter Jewish Music Concert in Miami

The Winter Jewish Music Concert is on Saturday, January 18th, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $18 per person, plus service charge. Tickets may be purchased online, or by calling 1-800-838-3006. More information at www.JewishConcert.org and to see program.

Jew Ja Jam Band & Peretz Levine

Come Join The Millinery Center Synagogue
This Thursday December 5, the 8th day of Chanukah
For an Unbelievable Concert Experience
Featuring Two Extraordinary Talented Musical Groups

The Jew Ja Jam Band
& Peretz Levine & Friends
Show @ 7:30pm
Admission $12
Location:
Millinery Center Synagogue
1025 Ave of the Americas
(6th Ave btwn 38th & 39th)
New York NY 10018

More Information:
Rabbi Hayim S. Wahrman
(646) 262-5061
Millinerysyng@gmail.com

100th Birthday Tribute to Richard Tucker

Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot and Neil Shicoff, tenor
In Tribute Concert to the Legendary Richard Tucker
December 14th, 2013, 8:00 PM
with Maestro Russell Ger, and the Park East Synagogue Choir
For reservations, please visit Park East Synagogue website: www.parkeastsynagogue.org
163 East 67th Street
NYC

Kurt Weill Songbook at Temple Emeth, Newton, MA

This Sunday -- November the 24th at 3PM.
The Bostonians present, “ The Kurt Weill Songbook.”
Temple Emeth, 194 Grove Street, Chestnut Hill, MA
Join Cantor Michael McCloskey, SJM ’07, as he hosts and performs in a concert of Kurt Weill musical theater selections. The concert also features four fantastic musicians, Richard Conrad, baritone, Philip Lima, baritone, Andrea Matthews, soprano, and Bill Merrill, pianist.

Stuart Hecht, associate professor of theater at Boston College, who has written a very erudite book exploring Jews and musical theater, called Transposing Broadway, will narrate the concert. He is quite an amazing resource, has worked with some amazing people including David Mamet, and was recently featured on PBS.

Klezmer in the Park in London

Sunday 1 September 2013, 1-6pm
Regents Park bandstand, London
http://www.jmi.org.uk
Bands all afternoon, and a new kids' zone! Ilana Cravitz and Vivi Lachs lead dancing. Featuring: Los Desterrados, Hamsa, The Turbans, Frank London’s UK Klezmer Allstars, Yiddish Twist Orchestra

Be there!

London Klezmer Quartet at Jamboree

Wednesday 21 August, 8.30pm, Jamboree, London
http://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/
London Klezmer Quartet gig, followed by jam session as part of the Klezmer Karousal series at the Cable Street venue. Other events in the series include Daphna Sadeh Trio (7 August), Don Kipper (14 August). 566 Cable Street, Cable Street Studios Courtyard, London E1W 3HB

Neshama Carlebach and The Green Pastures Choir

September 22, 2013
American Friends of Magen David Adom proudly presents "Higher and Higher"
Neshama Carlebach and The Green Pastures Choir
Congregation Beth Sholom
8231 Old York Rd
Elkins Park, PA
For tickets and further information call 215.947.7007 or visit
afmda.org.

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Isle of Klezbos Performs at Jewish Museum SummerNights Series

The all women's klezmer sextet, ISLE OF KLEZBOS, will perform at the Jewish Museum's "SummerNights" Series on Thursday, July 25 2013 as the final concert. Isle of Klezbos plays imaginative versions of eclectic Eastern European-rooted Jewish folk music, Yiddish swing and tango.
This event also includes an open bar with wine and light refreshments.
Doors open at 7pm, and the concert begins at 7:30pm.
The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.
July 25 concert tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. Visit TheJewishMuseum.org/summernights
to purchase tickets online. For additional information, the public may call 212.423.3337.
An infrared assistive listening system for people who are hard of hearing is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

SORRY> This concert is currently at capacity. Tickets are no longer available. Isle of Klezbos approaches musical tradition with irreverence and respect. Based in New York, this soulful, fun-loving, powerhouse all-women's klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Band repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing and retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals. Formed by drummer/leader Eve Sicular, Isle of Klezbos features alumnae of Juilliard, Eastman and Manhattan Schools of Music as well as Harvard, and has been honored with multiple awards by The New York State Council on the Arts, Outmusic, and Sparkplug Foundation. The ensemble has performed at venues such as Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Joe's Pub, the Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday, and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Isle of Klezbos' concert footage has been broadcast on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN WorldBeat, and PBS In The Life, and their music has also featured on The L Word (Showtime), and in film soundtracks for Grace Paley: Collected Shorts and I Guess I'm Not Going to Get to Vegas.

The SummerNights concert series has been funded by a generous endowment from the William Petschek Family.
Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided from public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo. The stage lighting has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer.
About The Jewish Museum
Widely admired for its exhibitions and collections that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is one of the world's preeminent institutions devoted to exploring the intersection of art and Jewish culture from ancient to modern times. The Jewish Museum organizes a diverse schedule of internationally acclaimed and award-winning temporary exhibitions as well as dynamic and engaging programs for families, adults, and school groups. The Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains a collection of 25,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York City. Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for visitors 18 and under and Jewish Museum members. Regular admission is Pay What You Wish on Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm, and free on Saturdays. For information on The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3200 or visit the website at TheJewishMuseum.org

Miryem-Khaye Seigel in NY and Boston this summer

Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel will be singing with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman in Long Island City on Wednesday, July 17, and with Dr. Hankus Netsky in Boston on Monday, August 5.
See details:
CYCO Book Sale and Reading/Concert
Wednesday July 17, 2013
5-9 PM
Book Sale (5-7 PM)
Reading/Concert (7 PM)
with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
and Miryem-Khaye Seigel

Free admission

CYCO Yiddish Book Center
51-02 21st Street
# 7-A-2 (7th Floor)
Long Island City, NY 11101
718 392-0002
cycobooks@aol.com

Travel Directions:

Auto- Take Queens Mid-Town Tunnel. We are the first building you see as you exit the tunnel. Take the extreme right toll both to pay toll. Take an immediate Right at the Borden Avenue Exit. Left turn onto Borden Avenue, first left on to 21st street. Start to look for parking - 51-02 21st Street.

Subway-Take the 7 train to the 2nd stop in Queens, Hunters-Point. Walk down the street to 21st street. Turn left at the corner onto 21st street, cross the street, walk another 100 feet along a path under a bridge. At end of path, walk up the stair case and cross over a small bridge Train Tracks (also) Exit traffic of the Queens Midtown Tunnel. While on the bridge, see the big building in front of you on the right -CYCO. Enter middle of street. 51-02 21st Street.

Take elevator to 7th Floor. ‎#A-2
http://www.cycobooks.org


Taking Extreme Measures: The Ongoing Rescue of Jewish Music
Lecture and performance with Dr. Hankus Netsky
Monday evening, August 5, 2013 at 7:30 PM
33rd conference of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers
50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street, Boston, MA
Information: http://www.iajgs2013.org/entertainment.cfm

Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies in Boston

Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies
LIVE ON BOSTON CITY HALL PLAZA
SUNDAY, JULY 21st, 4 P.M.
FREE and Open to the Public

This weekend begins the Outside the Box Festival (OTB), a new, free nine-day festival of over 200 music, dance, and theater events. The BJMF is presenting the grand finale, Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies is a unique multi-ethnic, Israeli and Indian ensemble that creating "world devotional music"--a unique mix of Indian Qawwali music with Hebrew lyrics. They've been hailed around the globe, and this is their U.S. debut.

Andy Statman Trio in NY concerts

Queens: Wednesday 22 May @ 7PM
(Andy on clarinet & mandolin, Jim Whitney on bass and guest drummer Jordan Perlson)
Queens College - Free Concert!
Lefrak Concert Hall
Reeves Avenue Queens, NY 11367

Brooklyn: Thursday 23May @ 8PM
Barb?s
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope
(followed at 10 PM by our friend Frank London's Songs of Zebulon)

http://www.andystatman.org/The_Andy_Statman_Trio/In_Concert.html

Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble

Sunday, May 26, 2013
11:00am until 2:00pm

at City Winery 155 Varick St, NYC
The Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble (from the Pioneer Valley of Central/Western Massachusetts) will perform a concert of original and traditional Klezmer music. Brian Bender - trombone, accordion, vocals, piano, poyk
Anna Sobel - fiddle, poyk, dumbek, piano, vocals, storytelling, puppetry
Special Guests:
Sruli Dresdner - clarinet, accordion, poyk, vocals
Lisa Mayer - fiddle, vocals
Tickets are $10.
Food is available at the venue.
www.citywinery.com/newyork/yiddishkeit-klezmer-ensemble-5-26.html The Yiddishkeit Klezmer Ensemble has recently released a CD entitled "A Freylekhs Far Ale". More info at: www.yiddishkeitklezmer.com/sound%20clips.html

Yiddish in the City

Heather Klein and Miryem-Khaye Seigel in Concert
Pianist: Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research/Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture
15 W. 16th St., New York, NY
Tickets: $15
http://www.cjh.org

Yiddish singing star Anthony Russell in Miami

Anthony Russell will perform in Miami on Sunday, June 9th at 4:00 p.m. in the first solo concert presented by the Winter Jewish Music Concert.

Tickets for the concert are now on sale online http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/ or by calling 1-800-838-3006. General admission for the concert is $18, and sponsor tickets are $36.

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell was profiled this week in the Times of Israel. "If you think you know what a Yiddish singing star looks like, think again. The new, hot name in the world of Yiddish musical performance is Anthony Russell, and he’s a 33-year-old, 6’1’’ African-American hipster from Oakland, California," the author wrote. "Baptist-born and Jew by choice, opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell’s ‘niggunim’ have soul." Read the rest of the article http://www.timesofisrael.com/just-your-typical-61-african-american-yiddish-singer/

The concert will include a variety of music—Yiddish music, music in Hebrew, and African American spirituals. Mr. Russell will be accompanied by Alan Mason, the Music Director of the Winter Jewish Music Concert.

The concert will be at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, 137 N.E. 19th Street, located in the heart of the new Miami—blocks from the Arsht Center, Wynwood, and Midtown.

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Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale presents
Music calm & boisterous plus a taste of Jewish a capella
On Sunday, June 2, at 7:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will present its annual concert at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York. The eclectic program features works by David Berger, Charles Davidson, Flory Jagoda and Bonia Shur

Tickets are $24 (preferred seating), $21 (general admission) and $17 (seniors/students).
For further information, contact Merkin Concert Hall (212-501-3330) and on the web at www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/MCH.

Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 19, 1943

Sunday, April 21, 2013
4:30-5:50pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Brandeis University Campus
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 19, 1943 An Evening of Songs and Testimonies from Letters, Diaries and Memoirs.

In October 1942 the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto was ordered. In January 1943 armed resistance to the deportations began forcing their suspension. On April 19, 1943, the Germans ordered Ukrainian auxiliaries to reenter the ghetto to round up the remaining Jews. The Jews managed to resist the assault for three weeks. On May 8 the fighters were killed, the remaining Jews deported to killing centers. The Warsaw ghetto with its 400,000 Jews was liquidated.

We are commemorating the courage and endurance of the Jews of Warsaw in an evening that features Yiddish songs and diary entries composed in the ghetto as well as letters and accounts written outside the ghetto by distressed Polish and German witnesses to the destruction.

Participants:
Narrators:
Susanne Klingenstein
Kathy Lawrence

Music:
Sophie Michaux (mezzo soprano)
Eugenia Gerstein (piano, choral conductor)
Temple Emanuel Choir

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Kol Rinah Spring Concert

Kol Rinah, Westchester's Jewish Chorale's Spring Concert
Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 3 PM
Address: Solomon Schechter School, 30 Dellwood Road, White Plains, NY 10605
Admission: GA $18; Students/Seniors $12. ($2 Discount for Advance Sales)
For more info, see: www.kolrinahchorale.org
or call (914) 243-9059
Music genre: an eclectic offering of songs from our rich Jewish heritage, ranging from liturgical to contemporary, in English, Yiddish, Russian and Hebrew

No Place On Earth

No Place On Earth
Documentary film with Yiddish voicework
Opening today, Friday, April 5
at Lincoln Center and Angelika Film Center
http://www.noplaceonearthfilm.com/showtimes/

Sholem Aleichem Tribute
Celebrating the life and work of the beloved Yiddish writer
Sunday, April 14 at 3:00 PM
Eldridge Street Shul, Co-presented with the Yiddish Book Center
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 students and seniors
http://www.eldridgestreet.org/index.php/april

A Living Connection: The Musical Lives and Legacies of Morris Hollender, Sonia Victor, and Marty Levitt
Dr. Hankus Netsky
(Founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band) performs with New York City klezmer musicians, Michael Winograd, Amanda Miryem Khaye-Seigel, and Dave Levitt in live examples of his talk.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., New York, NY
Free; reservations required at info@jewishmusicforum.org
Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
and the American Society for Jewish Music
http://www.jewishmusicforum.org/

Yiddish in the City: Heather Klein and Miryem-Khaye Seigel in Concert
Pianist: Dmitri Zisl Slepovitch
Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research/Center for Jewish History
Co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture
15 W. 16th St., New York, NY
Tickets: $15
http://www.cjh.org/

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME--NEW OPERA

STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME--
OPERA BASED ON LIVES
OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS JAAP & INA POLAK

Semi-Staged Concert Performances in New York on April 28 & 30 of a new opera in two acts by Gerald Cohen and Deborah Brevoort

These semi-staged concert performances will take place on:
Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m. at Shaarei Tikvah Congregation, Scarsdale, NY; and
Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m. at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY

Details can be found on Gerald Cohen 's website
www.geraldcohenmusic.com
Shaarei Tikvah Congregation is located at 46 Fox Meadow Road, Scarsdale NY. Individual tickets are $30 at the door; $25 in advance; $15 for seniors and $10 for students. Please contact (914) 472-2013 or office@shaareitikvah.org.

Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is located at 3080 Broadway (at 122nd st.), New York, NY. Tickets, available at www.jtsa.edu/stealapencil, are $25 in advance, $30 at the door; $15 for seniors; free for students with valid ID.

Based on the book of the same title by Jaap Polak and Ina Soep Polak, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME, a new opera premiere in Scarsdale and New York City, NY in late April, 2013. STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME is a love story set in two concentration camps during World War II. It is based on the true story of Jaap and Ina Polak, whom the composer has known for the last 25 years, and who just celebrated their 100th and 90th birthdays.

The Polaks, who live in Eastchester, NY, will be in attendance at each performance. In 2007, STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME was made into a compelling and award-winning documentary feature film by Academy Award® nominee Michèle Ohayon. The Polaks have dedicated their lives to teaching about the Holocaust and fighting prejudice. Jaap was one of the founders of the Anne Frank Center USA, and now serves as Chairman Emeritus.

These semi-staged concert opera performances will take place on
Sunday April 28, 2 p.m. at Shaarei Tikvah Congregation, Scarsdale NY; and on
Tuesday April 30, 7 p.m. at Feinberg Auditorium, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY.

New York-based composer Gerald Cohen (www.GeraldCohenMusic.com) is equally at home in the composition of chamber music, choral music, opera, and liturgical music, for all of which he has won awards and praise, and for which Gramophone Magazine noted his “linguistic fluidity and melodic gift”. His operas Sarah and Hagar, a two-act opera based on the story from the book of Genesis, and Seed, a one-act opera about love and choices for a post-apocalyptic Adam and Eve, have been performed in concert form. Cohen received a B.A in music from Yale University and a D.M.A in composition from Columbia University.

New York-based librettist Deborah Brevoort (www.DeborahBrevoort.com) is formerly from Alaska. An award-winning playwright and librettist, she moves easily between the worlds of theatre, musical theatre and opera. Her plays and musicals are produced regularly to enthusiastic reviews, including Time Out London who noted her “gift for high poetry.” Deborah holds a B.A. from Kent State University and MFA’s from Brown University and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

More biographical information about the composer and librettist is at the end of this release.

The action of the opera takes place in Amsterdam, at Westerbork Transit camp, and at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp between the years of 1943-1945. Thirty-year old Jaap Polak is unhappily married to Manja, a social butterfly with a sharp tongue. He falls in love with twenty-year old Ina Soep, whose boyfriend, Rudi Acohen, has been seized and deported to Poland by the Nazis. When the husband, his wife, and his new girlfriend are deported to Westerbork, they actually find themselves living in the same barracks. Jaap’s wife objects to the relationship and Jaap and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.

As Jaap says: “I’m a very special Holocaust survivor. I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend; and believe me, it wasn’t easy.”

Although friends and relatives of theirs, including Rudi, perished in the camps, Jaap and Ina survived the Holocaust. They have been married for over 65 years and now live in Eastchester, NY. A distinguishing feature of their book of letters is how they allowed the story to unfold; unedited; their shortcomings and faults are just as easy to see as their nobility, and their honesty makes the story compelling and real. The Village Voice wrote that their story “offers a corrective to the sentimental prevailing notion that the Shoah only happened to saints.”

The cast and a small instrumental ensemble will be conducted by Ari Pelto and with stage direction by Beth Greenberg. This production will star Ilana Davidson and Robert Balonek as Ina and Jaap, and the cast will also include vocal soloists Toby Newman, Nils Neubert, Cherry Duke. Ricardo Rivera, Matthew Singer, Miloslav Antonov, and Enrico Lagasca. Cori Ellison serves as dramaturg and artistic consultant.

Composer Gerald Cohen’s recent honors in composition include an Artist Residency in American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program, the 2008 Borromeo String Quartet Award of the Aaron Copland House, a 2007 Aaron Copland Award, the Westchester Prize for New Work, the American Composers Forum Faith Partners residency, and the Cantors Assembly’s Max Wohlberg Award for distinguished achievement in the field of Jewish composition. Cohen has received commissioning grants from Meet the Composer/National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York State Council on the Arts/Westchester Arts Council; residencies at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Yaddo; as well as Yale University's Sudler Prize for outstanding achievement in the creative arts. He is Cantor at Shaarei Tikvah Congregation in Scarsdale, N.Y. and is on the faculty of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School of The Jewish Theological Seminary.

Librettist Deborah Brevoort is best known for The Women of Lockerbie, which is performed throughout the US and internationally after winning the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award and the silver medal in the Onassis International playwriting competition. She wrote the opera libretto for Embedded with Patrick Soluri, which will be presented in the Ft. Worth Opera’s Frontiers Festival. She is a two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award in musical theatre for King Island Christmas with David Friedman and Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, with Scott Richards. Other works include: Crossing Over, an Amish hip hop musical with Stephanie Salzman; Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh drama about Elvis; The Poetry of Pizza, a comedy about love; The Comfort Team, about military spouses, The Blue-Sky Boys about NASA’s Apollo mission. She teaches at Goddard College, Columbia University and NYU.

GOLDEN MOLTEN STREAM: A Celebration of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry & Song

GOLDEN MOLTEN STREAM: A Celebration of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry & Song
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Book launch for Mystical Vertigo by Aubrey L. Glazer with performances by Jaffa Road, Cantor Aaron Bensoussan & Ernie Tollar, Aviva Chernick, Aaron Lightstone, Waleed Abdulhamid, jeff Wilson and Sundaar Viswantathan.

Featuring a closing set from JAFFA ROAD who have put these lively poems to music on their two Juno-nominated albums.

Top Canadian artists and musicians come together to celebrate today's flourishing cutting-edge poetry scene in Israel which Rabbi, artist and translator, AUBREY GLAZER brings to light in his latest book, Mystical Vertigo: Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide of Jewish Thinking.

In a performance-reading Toronto native and New York-based Glazer shares his lyrical translations alongside the original Hebrew poems, taking on topics ranging from magic and mysticism to doubt and death; and accompanied by leading world music performers: AVIVA CHERNICK, AARON LIGHTSTONE, WALEED ABDULHAMID, JEFF WILSON and SUNDAAR VISWANATHAN with guests CANTOR AARON BENSOUSSAN and ERNIE TOLLAR.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8 - 9:30 PM | $10 cover
The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West
Featuring a post-show reception & book-signing with Passover-friendly sweets & drink specials
RSVPing to this event will help us make sure there's enough Pesach goodies to go around!
For more information go to www.jaffaroad.com/news

Winter Jewish Music Concert presents Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell

Winter Jewish Music Concert presents its first solo concert
For details: http://www.jewishconcert.org

For five years the Winter Jewish Music Concert has presented large-scale concerts of Jewish music, with twenty or more singers at each concert.

On Sunday, June 9th, at 4:00 p.m., we will for the first time present a concert featuring only one singer. The performer at this very special event will be Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, who over the past year has gained attention as the new voice of Yiddish song. He will be singing from the songbook of Sidor Belarsky, one of the 20th Century's greatest singers of Jewish song.

Mr. Russell's personal story is compelling. He is a classically-trained African-American singer who converted to Judaism and whose partner is a rabbi. But just as compelling is his talent. As one critic commented, "The first time I played a recording of Anthony Russell singing a Yiddish song, it was as if thunder rolled through the house. His rich bass voice wraps itself around a song and makes it rattle the windows.”

Mr. Russell has performed Yiddish song in New York, Boston, Toronto, and Northern California, where he makes his home. This will be his first performance in the Southeast United States.

Mr. Russell will be accompanied by Alan Mason
(http://www.jewishconcert.org/alan-mason/) , the Music Director of the Winter Jewish Music Concert.

Tickets on sale for solo concert

Tickets for the Winter Jewish Music Concert's presentation of Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell are now on sale. General admission is $18, and sponsor tickets are $36. Tickets may be purchased online (http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/) or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

** Read about Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell:
Interview in the forward
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. Profile on Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-z-chesnoff/anthony-russel-jewish-singer_b_1753047.html:
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. Anthony Russell's web site https://sites.google.com/site/anthonyrussellbass/ .:
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Who is Anthony Russell?:
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Hailed as “The Paul Robeson of the Yiddish Song,” Anthony Russell has sung with various opera companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and the New York Metro area over the past ten years. He made his professional début with the San Francisco Opera Company in the world premiere of Philip Glass’s opera Appomattox. Recently, Anthony has devoted himself to performing the Yiddish art song repertoire of the Ukranian operatic bass Sidor Belarsky (1898-1975), most recently performing at the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, North America’s largest international Jewish music festival. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner of five years, Rabbi Michael Rothbaum. :
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Fathers and Sons: Adler and Weiner

Two families. Four award-winning composers. The Boston Jewish Music Festival presents a special afternoon of choral and chamber music. Featuring the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Kol Arev of Hebrew College, in a concert of the magnificent compositions of Lazar Weiner and his Pulitzer Prize-winning son, Yehudi Wyner, and Cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his son, Samuel Adler, recipient of the Aaron Copland Award for lifetime achievement in music, this extraordinary program will include participation from both Yehudi Wyner and Samuel Adler.

Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door here.
To get tickets in advance, click http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/ Presented in cooperation with the
Hebrew College School of Jewish Music
Sunday, March 10, 2013
4:00 pm
Northeastern University's Fenway Center
77 St. Stephen Street, Boston

SANDY CASH IN CONCERT

Saturday, March 9, 2013
8:30pm
A full-length concert hosted by Kehillat Moreshet Avraham in Jerusalem's Armon HaNatziv neighborhood.
For info, music and video, stop by my website: www.sandycash.com
SANDY CASH IN CONCERT
Kehillet Moreshet Avraham
22 Adam Street
Armon HaNatziv, Jerusalem

Info/Reservations: 02-673-7183 or mavraham@zahav.net.il
Entrance: 30 NIS General Public, 20 Members

Fathers and Sons: Adler and Weiner

Fathers and Sons Sam Adler and Yehudi Wyner
Two families. Four award-winning composers. The Boston Jewish Music Festival presents a special afternoon of choral and chamber music.

Featuring the Zamir Chorale of Boston and Kol Arev of Hebrew College, in a concert of the magnificent compositions of Lazar Weiner and his Pulitzer Prize-winning son, Yehudi Wyner, and Cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his son, Samuel Adler, recipient of the Aaron Copland Award for lifetime achievement in music, this extraordinary program will include participation from both Yehudi Wyner and Samuel Adler.

Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door here.
Presented in cooperation with the
Hebrew College School of Jewish Music
Sunday, March 10, 2013
4:00 pm
Northeastern University's Fenway Center
77 St. Stephen Street, Boston
http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/

Oneg Shemesh Concert

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Millinery Center Synagogue עדת כלל ישראל
1025 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York
9:00pm until 10:00pm
for Tix: $12 You can pay in advance at http://oneg.me/

Jewish Andalousian Music with Cantor Louk

Lundi 11 février à 20h, c'est à un concert dans la plus pure tradition judéo-andalouse des Piyoutim que nous invite la communauté israélite de Mulhouse. Le cantor Moshe Louk et son orchestre donneront à découvrir dans la synagogue de Mulhouse, une tradition musicale séfarade conservée depuis l'Espagne aux théâtres et cabarets de Paris, New York et Jérusalem, en passant par les mellahs du Maroc. Une musique qui a acquis ses lettres de noblesse en parcourant le monde, en suivant les pérégrinations des Juifs du Maghreb.

- En la Grande Synagogue de Mulhouse, 2 rue des Rabbins
- Billet unique : 12 € Réservation : 0389662122
http://www.judaicultures.info/spip.php?page=article&id_article=2220

The Holy Beggars Jam Band & Oneg Shemesh Live in Concert

The Millinery Center Synagogue Presents:
The Holy Beggars Jam Band & Oneg Shemesh Live in Concert
Thursday Night February 7th
Doors open @ 7:30 p.m.
Holy Beggars Jam Band 8:00 p.m.
Oneg Shemesh 9:00 p.m.
Cost: $12 Donation
Don't Miss these 2 Outstanding Performance!

Millinery Center Synagogue --Adath Klal Yisrael
1025 Avenue of the Americas
(6th Ave btwn. 38th & 39th St.)
New York, NY 10018
Millinerysyng@gmail.com
facebook.com/millinerycentersynagogue

Margot Leverett & Klezmer Mountain Boys

Margot Leverett & Klezmer Mountain Boys at The New York Klezmer Series
February 12, 2013
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York
30 W. 68th St., New York, NY 10023

NY Klezmer Series:

4 – 5 Kidz Klezmer Band of New York
5:30 – 7 Klezmer Music Workshop
5:30 – 7 Yiddish Dance Class w/Steve Weintraub
7:30 – 8:45 Concert
8:45 - 9:30 Klezmer Jam Session

Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered. The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, soulful and footstomping.

Margot Leverett is one of the foremost clarinetists of the klezmer revival. Classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, she was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 before moving on to establish a solo career. Her first CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," a tribute to classic klezmer of the 20's and 30's, was released in 2001 on Traditional Crossroads (CD4296) to glowing reviews.



Her current project, "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" is an all-star band combining the best of bluegrass and klezmer. Their self-titled CD, released to rave reviews in 2002, was choreographed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in a new work entitled "Klezmerbluegrass". Their latest release "Second Avenue Square Dance" features guest artists Jorma Kaukonen and Hazel Dickens and is available now from Traditional Crossroads.

Upcoming Dates
Feb. 26 - CTMD - Tantshoyz - Steve Weintraub Dance Leader, Deborah Strauss bandleader
Mar. 5 - Leviticus: Michael Winograd, Daniel Blacksberg, Todd Nuefeld, Tyshawn Sorey
Mar. 12 - Alicia Svigals & Patrick Farrell
Mar. 19 - CTMD - Tantshoyz - Steve Weintraub Dance Leader
Apr. 2 - Jake Shulman-Ment Band
Apr. 9 - Strauss/Warschauer Duo CD Release/Tantshoyz, Steve Weintraub Dance Leader
Apr. 16 - Lisa and Sruli’s Family Band
Apr. 23 - CTMD - Tantshoyz - Deborah Strauss Dance Leader
May 21 - Eve Sicular - Metropolitan Klezmer
May 28 - CTMD - Elaine Watts & Susan Watts Band, Etele DVD screening, concert, Tantshoyz - Deborah Strauss Dance Leader
June 4 - Double Bill: Levitt Legacy Tango Project w/Matt Temkin’s Poykler’s Shloft Lied
June 11 - Dmitri Slepovitch’s Litvakus
June 18 - Student Concert, Party w/Aaron Alexander & The Klez Messengers

CTMD Tantsheiser will have a different format: There will be a dance leader who will teach and a live dance band from 7:30 - 9:15 or so and an invitational jam session towards the end.

Daniel Kahn at Gramercy Theatre

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird is performing on March 11
at 7 PM
at the Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23rd St, New York, NY
Tickets are $20. http://bit.ly/WiPVNo

More about Daniel Kahn:
"Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird: Radical Yiddish Punkfolk Cabaret. Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer/songwriter, polyglot poet, translator, activist Daniel Kahn concocts furious, tender, electrifying and revolutionary Alienation Klezmer. "Accordion charged with punkrock... the free-spirited attitude of the New York Tzadik circle, cabaret flair, and scraps of Tom Waits." - Rolling Stone [Germany]" http://www.goldenland.com/daniel_kahn.htm

Ben-Ari for Purim

Miri Ben-Ari will appear on February 20 at 7 PM at the Gramercy Theatre - 127 East 23rd St, New York, NY.
Special Holiday Concert for Purim. Proceeds from each ticket sale will go to the Susan B Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
Tickets are $30 http://bit.ly/ZP7lE8

Y Engelman in Riverdale

Singer-songwriter and rabbi Yehoshua Engelman will be giving a concert of his original compositions in Riverdale in February. Liturgical as well as contemporary poetic texts will be performed while Engelman plays guitar and sings.
Saturday. February 9 at 6:30 PM
Location: Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
3700 Henry Hudson Parkway, Riverdale (Bronx), New York 10463
For information, call Telephone: 718.796.4730
Cover price: Suggested donation of $18

Rabbi Yehoshua Engelman, based in Jerusalem, will be playing songs of love from his four albums as well as previously unrecorded music. Yehoshua's sensitive and moving compositions ornament words from tanach, tefilah and modern Israeli poets. They are loved and sung in many places in Israel. Several of his musical settings are featured on piyut.org.
While Yehoshua has performed in Israel and abroad, this is a rare opportunity to hear him in New York.

Yehoshua served as the rabbi and educational director of the Yakar Study Centre in Tel Aviv, ran Yakar of London, taught on the Jerusalem Kolot Beit Midrash faculty and at Siach Yitzhak Hesder Yeshiva, and runs a private psychotherapy practice.

Metropolitan Klezmer in NYC

Metropolitan Klezmer at The Museum of Jewish Heritage
Tuesday, Dec 25, 2012, 1pm
The Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, NYC
646-437-4202
For tix and info: www.mjhnyc.org

Klezmokum in the Netherlands

Klezmokum has extended it's "Old & New Gold " program from last year with a tour again this year in Holland.. It's a program of their most popular pieces, with Michael Moore on clarinet and saxes.
23 December, 3-4:30pm
Mosterdzaadje, Kerkweg 29, Santpoort-Noord,
http://www.klezmokum.com/

Harmony in the Holy Land

Harmony in the Holy Land
Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012
Doors: 7:30pm
Show: 8:30pm
Free Entry
Donations appreciated
18 Mesilat Yesharim, Beit Mazia Theater, Jerusalem

With performances by Diwansaz, hosting Mark Eliyahu and Poet Rabbi David Menachem.
With additional performances and prayers with renowned spiritual teacher/healer, Thomas Hubl, Aliza Hava, Pesach Dahvid Stadlin, and religious/spiritual leaders of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

This event is part of the Birth 2012 global broadcast of over 40 events worldwide celebrating unity in diversity and calling for a new era of spiritual ascension for humanity.

In the region of Jerusalem, a spiritual message was given and received by three great messengers, Abraham, Mohammed and Jesus. An open channel to the Divine emanates from here, and is the reason why the three monotheisms hold it sacred. These great religions have had profound influence throughout history. Over the weekend of December 21st & 22nd, millions of people around the planet will be focusing their attention here for the healing of the Children of Abraham, for all people and nations.

Join us for this free concert event, which will feature a globally broadcast musical meditation and prayer for peace and healing in the holy land and around the world.

The event will be broadcast live at www.birth2012.com from 9-9:30pm JST, and throughout the evening at www.peaceday.tv

Hosted by The Elijah Interfaith Institute, The Jerusalem Peacemakers & Peace Day LIVE

www.elijah-interfaith.org
www.jerusalempeacemakers.org
www.peacedaylive.org
www.diwansaz.com
www.thomashubl.com

Concert in Honor of Jo Amar

A Concert to honor Jo Amar will be given on January 24, 2013 at the
Salle Rossini - Mairie du 9ème arrondissement
6 rue Drouot
75009 PARIS
FRANCE
at 8pm
Jo Amar was one of the great voices of Moroccan-Jewish music. He was an exceptional intepreter of Sephardic Jewish liturgical music as well as folk song.
For tickets and location map, visit:
http://www.weezevent.com/ccp50-concert-joamar

Meitar Ensemble in Tel Aviv

Meitar Ensemble's next concert: 20.12.12 at the CCEM, The Israeli Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv, will be the 2nd concert of the subscription series. A yearly subscription is still available: 9 concerts are left.
Mezzo Soprano: Andrea Baker (UK)
Join the Meitar Ensemble concert series and enjoy a season of contemporary music adventures.
For more information: http://meitar.net/concert-series

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus at Town & Village Synagogue

Saturday eve, December 15, 2012, 7:30 PM
New York City
featuring the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus with Conductor Binyumen Schaechter
24th Annual Cantor Louis Moss Memorial Concert
Where: Town & Village Synagogue
334 East 14 St.
(between 1st & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
Featuring Cantor Shayna Postman
T&V Synagogue Choir
T&V Junior Singers
with special guests
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
Conductor Binyumen Schaechter
Approximately 75 minutes, no intermission.
Tickets: $30
By Dec. 13: $25
College / Grad Student: $10
18 and under: Free
Make check out to T&V Synagogue & mail to address above or call Synagogue to pay by credit card: 212-677-8090 x0
For more info on JPPC: thejppc.org

Mogulesco: A Tale of Yiddish Theater

Mogulesco: A Tale of Yiddish Theater
Monday, December 3

The Tufts University Department of Music presents the musical revue Mogulesco: A Tale of Yiddish Theater, written by Mark Slobin, in the Distler Performance Hall at the Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center on Monday, December 3, 2012 at 8 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by the Tufts University Department of Music, Tufts Hillel, and 3Ps.

The performance features the work of Zelig (Sigmund) Mogulesco (1856-1914), who is often called the “Charlie Chaplin of the Yiddish theatre”. Mogulesco was known for his comedy, agility, and also songwriting. The performance is directed by Michael Morris with music by the Jumbo Knish Factory, Tufts’ Klezmer ensemble under the direction of Michael McLaughlin, and a cast of Tufts student performers.

Concert in Honor of Adrienne Cooper Dec 22 in NYC

A KHOLEM / DREAMING IN YIDDISH
A CONCERT IN TRIBUTE TO ADRIENNE COOPER
The world of Yiddish culture will be honoring Adrienne Cooper z"l with a concert to celebrate her life and work. Adrienne is best remembered as the magnificent voice of Yiddish song and teacher to thousands in the Yiddish and klezmer music worlds. Dec 22 2012 in NYC, there will be a concert that is bound to attract you and your friends, as well as plenty of the contemporary Jewish music world. The goal of the concert is to raise money to help establish a fund to continue her work, not just in recordings but for teaching for future generations.

Sat Dec 22 2012, 8 pm
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenue
http://kayeplayhouse.hunter.cuny.edu/tickets.shtml
Tickets: $18, $36, $54
(212) 772-4448

KlezFest with Hal Aqua and The Lost Tribe

DENVER-- Celebrate the holidays with Klezmer concert, featuring Hal Aqua and the Lost Tribe, Rabbi Joe Black and the Boulder Klezmer Consort. At the Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver. Two shows on December 24, 6:30pm and 9:00pm. For more information:
http://mizelmuseum.org/klezfest/

Winter Jewish Music Concert 2013 in January

Don't miss Jewish music from around the world: Yiddish, Cantorial, Ladino, Israeli, folk, pop, classical, jazz, tango and beat box (and magic too) in Miami, Florida.

Performed in the glorious 1926 Bertha Abess Sanctuary at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, the oldest Jewish sanctuary in continuous use in Florida. Located at 7 N13.E. 19th Street, the Temple is in Miami's vibrant urban center, five blocks north from the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and near the Wynwood Arts District, Midtown, and the Design District.

Tickets for the 2013 Winter Jewish Music Concert are now on sale.

The concert, with a huge cast of cantors and performers, will be Saturday evening, January 19th. Tickets are $18 per person (plus service charge), and can be purchased online (http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/) or by calling 1-800-838-3006. More information on the concert and tickets can be found on the concert web site, www.JewishConcert.org

This year, for the first time, there will be a pre-concert food reception, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Reservations for the food reception may be made at the same time you purchase your concert ticket.

Concert to be broadcast live nationwide

The Winter Jewish Music Concert is one of the country's leading concerts of Jewish music. Far more people want to attend than can fit in the exquisite Bertha Abess Sanctuary.

This year, to accommodate those who cannot obtain tickets, and to share the concert with people across the country, the concert will be broadcast live nationwide on Jewish Life TV (http://www.jltv.tv) , a national Jewish TV network.

Check your cable system for information on JLTV. For those who do cannot receive JLTV, the broadcast of the concert will be streamed live on the JLTV web site.

http://www.jewishconcert.org/2012-video/

Tel Aviv-Based VEGA Launches Electronic Music Initiative

Art Basel to Host Launch of Tel Aviv EDM Label
12/06/2012, Thursday
Miami Beach, FL
Art Basel, 151 NE 41st Street
Show: 6:00 pm
F r e e Admission.

As Israel and Gaza (hopefully) conclude their most recent conflict, a new music project seeks to unite the region on the dancefloor. They believe music is the best weapon against rockets and air strikes.

From the premier international modern and contemporary art show, Art Basel, a new music and art label will be born. The label, VEGA, will be based in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. The musical focus will be on EDM and will be as ethnically and spiritually diverse as Jaffa itself, one of the most consistently peaceful places for Jews, Christians, and Muslims to live and create together. So beneficial is this coexistence to the electronic music scene there that Jaffa is developing a reputation among djs as the Berlin of the Middle East.

Free Loops and Ecstatic Grooves: Tel Aviv-Based VEGA Launches Electronic Music Initiative at Art Basel Miami Beach with a Pop-Up Tent, Featuring Middle Eastern Sounds, Flavors and Feelings from the Region.

”Our goal is to dissolve the walls between people with music,” says the collective team behind VEGA, which includes Meir Kordevani and Adi Englman of the Tel Aviv based Picnic Magazine; and producer, Monica Haim. “We hope to unite music and art lovers across the Middle East, and beyond, via dynamic cultural exchanges.” This is the driving force behind VEGA, a new music and art label sparked in the often unsung, vibrant diversity of Israel, and born of a deep love of electronic music and its ability to open minds and melt boundaries.

To bring this energy to the world, VEGA will host its first major event—VEGA TEL AVIV MIAMI—with a pop-up Bedouin tent designed by hip Belgian firm Cnocspot (http://www.cnocspot.be/) in the middle of Miami’s Design District, at the heart of Art Basel Miami Beach.

Bass music and deep roots will mingle, as feelings and flavors from the region (including camels!) will mix with the edgy, compelling sounds of the Middle East (featuring high-intensity sets by charismatic Yemenite-Israeli singer Ravid Kahalani, Israeli dub/grime DJ Laroz, and by free-thinking, jazz-inspired Lebanese DJ Morphosis). The goal: to show how eclectic, ecstatic music can inspire togetherness, and to shine a light on the traditions of tolerance and coexistence that continue in the Middle East—despite uncertain times.

When: December 6, 2012; 6:00 pm – 12:00 am
Where: 151 NE 41ST ST (between North Miami Ave and NE 2nd Ave)
More info: www.vega-now.org
Free admission
In 2011, this team debuted in Miami with The Culture Club by Picnic Magazine Tel Aviv, a 4-day event that showcase the creative spirit of Tel Aviv.
From last year’s event in Miami:
http://www.cultureclubtelaviv.com/
http://vimeo.com/33095757 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UVTuslIEzpM#!
This year, the goal is to bring the sensual feelings of the whole region to Miami’s Design District.
Performers:
Ravid Kahalani: “Your language is my language,” striking singer and incandescent performer Ravid Kahalani says. “It doesn’t matter to which god you pray, so long as the melody comes from heart. This is exactly what I want to sing all the time, what I want to give people when I sing.” Kahalani does just that, both when the vocalist channels both his Yemenite Jewish roots and his love of bluesmen like Leadbelly, and in riveting electronica-driven sets. For this Miami performance, Kahalani will move from his rootsy Middle Eastern essence (backed by a hard-hitting live band), to pieces drawing powerfully on bass culture and club sounds (with help from Tel Aviv’s DJ Laroz, who has co-operated with Israel's top artists, writing and co-producing some of the most significant Israeli albums)—all of it boosted by Kahalani’s soaring, evocative, multi-octave voice.

Morphosis: Born in Lebanon, DJ/producer/electronic musician Morphosis (Rabih Beaini) fled his native land’s war and turmoil for Venice, Italy, where he found his signature approach. Transforming the house and techno that made up the bulk of his first sets, Beaini turned to his love of live spontaneity, musique concrète, and avant jazz (think Sun Ra) into nuanced, spacious bass music. A darling of the intelligent dance music scene, Morphosis relishes his life at the musical crossroads (he recently returned fulltime to Lebanon), where Arabic classical music and ecstatic jazz riffs meet serious grooves.

“What I do is try to work with a loop in a way to free it,” Beaini reflected in a 2011 interview. “Maybe it won't get free, but that is the process of it and that is how I work making music. All the modulations, all the sounds, the shapes: It is a matter of freedom.”

For this Miami launch, VEGA also celebrates its first musical release with a limited edition vinyl pressing of Sonne, written and produced by Morphosis (Rabih Beaini and performed live at the Rote Sonne, Munich), and was specially released for the launch of VEGA.

The Jerusalem based musician and artist, Daniel Kiczales will open the event with his audio-visual video piece called The Messenger (2011; please see still image from the video above). This piece, shot in Jerusalem, introduces a staged conversation between two sonic interlocutors: a traditional Muezzin call, inviting the Muslim prayers to come and pray in the mosque, and the artist himself, playing an electric guitar from an opposite hill. The video introduces a sequence of five acts in which the artist flirts with the Muezzin throughout one single day. The physical space that hosts this sequence of sonic flirtation is a beautiful yet complex one, a space that holds great potential for rich and diverse cultural dialogues and exchanges.

The event will also feature a debut presentation of the music-inspired, wood and marble sculpture, Meshuggah Gate Hold That Pyramid For Me, by the up and coming Jerusalem-based plastic artist and musician, Alma Ben Yossef. The piece will be embedded within Cnocspot’s pop-up scenography. On-site live video projections, lush graphic design, and Middle-Eastern style drinks and snacks will also be a part of this multi-sensory offering.

VEGA is an initiative launched by the same cosmopolitan, Tel Aviv-based and inspired crew behind the savvy, image-based Picnic Magazine (www.picnicmagazine.net), who with this new effort, shift their focus from visual art to music.

Producer and VEGA collaborator, Monica Haim, is also the creator of the independent documentary film, Awake Zion (www.awakezion.net), which, through music, explores the link between Judaism and Rasta, in a conscious attempt to celebrate the unexpected (but ever-present) connections between cultures.

Restless in the fine art world, the Picnic team longed to break visual art out of the confines of galleries, museums, and commercialism, with music as a mere backdrop, a supplement to the magazine’s populist approach to the image. Yet they realized, when they saw the electronic music scene in Tel Aviv expand rapidly and draw together fans from diverse backgrounds, that they had the order reversed. As a group, they joined forces and decided to launch VEGA, which puts music front and center, in hopes of uniting the disparate and shifting the cultural—and perhaps the political—landscape.

“Because we are situated in an area that is often associated–unfortunately with reason–with war and terror, VEGA exists to whole-heartedly convey a positive and constructive energy of unification through the arts,” the VEGA team notes. “Music, and especially electronic music, brings people together effortlessly, we’ve found.”

What is VEGA?

A star. A compass. A messenger of light.

VEGA is also a new music and art label coming from the Middle East, from Tel Aviv Jaffa, one of the few cities where Muslims, Christians and Jews peacefully co-exist.

Harnessing the thriving momentum of music in this part of the world, VEGA aims to access the prospect of peace via a carefully planned public program driven mostly by the genre of electronic music. At its heart, VEGA aims to bring a modern approach to an ancient dilemma.

To accomplish this, VEGA connects artists and audiences from different communities and backgrounds. It seeks to give birth to music and art productions that are constantly fueled towards the spirit of coming together. It is essentially a new kind of creative hub where music and art featured and nurtured as a cross-cultural bridge-building tool.

Cassatt Quartet to Play Gerald Cohen's "Playing for our lives"

From a Vanished World, a program of the In the Salon series.
The superb Cassatt Quartet will be playing Gerald Cohen's "Playing for ourLives," a tribute to the extraordinary story of the musicians and music of the Terezin concentration camp near Prague. The concert, at Symphony Space in Manhattan, will also include music by Viktor Ullmann and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $30; Members $25 / 30 & Under (with I.D.) $15
Symphony Space | 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990

This program of In the Salon features Terezin concentration camp composer Viktor Ullmann's Quartet No. 3, and Shostakovich's towering Quartet No. 8, dedicated to the victims of fascism and war, as well as a new work by Gerald Cohen, "Playing for Our Lives," a contemporary tribute to the musical life of the camp.

As Cohen explains, "the story of the music and musicians of Terezin is an extraordinary testament to the power of art to inspire the human spirit in times of great suffering. In the string quartet "Playing for Our Lives," I have used several important musical elements from Terezin – a Yiddish folk song, a children's opera, and Verdi's Requiem – as the foundation in weaving a musical memorial to the inmates of the camp."

A conversation between Terezin survivor Ela Weissberger and Gerald Cohen illuminates this powerful music.

"...deeply considered, emotionally supple performance..." --Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

Chanukah in Song by Kol Rinah

Celebrating Chanukah in Song by Kol Rinah, Westchester's Jewish Chorale, in Pleasantville,NY

On Sunday December 16th at 3:00 pm, be part of a lively celebration of Chanukah with Kol Rinah at the Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester, located at 600 Bear Ridge Road, Pleasantville, New York; http://www.rosenthaljcc.org/.

Refreshments will be served. GA $22; Students/Seniors/JCC Members, $17. ($2 Discount for Advance Sales). For Tickets, Group Rates and other Information visit: www.kolrinahchorale.org or call (914) 243-9059

From Psalm to Lamentation: A Concert of Cantorial Masterpieces

Pro Musica Hebraica presents
From Psalm to Lamentation: A Concert of Cantorial Masterpieces
with
Cantor Netanel Hershtik,
The Hampton Synagogue Choir
& The Amernet String Quartet

A concert honoring a rich tradition of cantorial masterpieces capturing their fundamental duality: joy and despair, longing and redemption, the deeply haunting and the wildly celebratory.
Sunday, December 2 at 3 pm
Co-presented with the Eldridge Street Museum
Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

Purchase online http://psalmtolamentation-eorg.eventbrite.com/#
or call (212) 219-0888, ext. 205.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors. A limited number of VIP premier seats are available for $100.
Additional event at:
Thursday, December 6 at 7:30 pm
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Terrace Theater
Washington, D.C.
Purchase online http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=RNPMB
or call (202) 467-4600.
Tickets are $38 each.

Cantor Jack Mendelson joins Afro-Semitic Experience Thursday

The Afro-Semitic Experience is coming to Manhattan next Thursday, November 8, 2012 for a concert with Cantor Jack Mendelson and his son, Danny. Concert starts at 7:00 p.m.
Address: Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street
New York, NY

The group will be playing some new arrangements along with music from the CD "Further Definitions" (including "Adoshem, Adoshem, Parts I & II").

The museum web site, in referring to the concer writes: you should "expect a spiritual tribal jam." They're right!! Afro-Semitic with Jack and Dan Mendelson are going to reinterpret some classic works of hazzonos with the wow factor!

Bring your drums, your shakers and your dancin' shoes. ...gonna groove away those hurricane blues.

World Premiere of Meira Warshauer's Ocean Calling for Piano Duo

World Premiere of Meira Warshauer's Ocean Calling I for Piano Duo on October 7 Ocean Calling I: Waves and Currents will be given its World Premiere performance on Sunday, October 7 - 3:00 PM at the University of South Carolina Recital Hall as part of the Cornelia Freeman Concert Series.

Performers will be the Lomazov/Rackers Duo (Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers). Other composers on the program will include Verdi, Mozart, Kevin McKee, John Fitz Rogers and Tayloe Harding. Visit the duo at http://www.lomazovrackers.com/.

More about the October 7 performance at http://www.music.sc.edu/chamberseries/Septemberseries.html#CONCERT5.

Meira writes about the series and the piece, "Ocean Calling is a series of three compositions for two pianos, dedicated to the ocean. As I learn of large-scale contaminations, over-fishing, acidification from global warming, death of coral reefs, and more, I fear we take for granted the ocean's gifts, unaware that our survival is linked to the ocean's health. Covering 72% of the planet surface and providing half the oxygen we breathe, while regulating our climate with currents traversing thousands of miles, the ocean has been called our life-support system. I hope the Ocean Calling series will help us to renew our connection with this vital life source and its vast, mysterious realms."

"The first work in the series, Waves and Currents, revels in the joy of swimming at the seashore. A child of the sea, my earliest memories relate to the flow of tides and surf at the beach in North Carolina: diving into breakers, floating on the surface and jumping with crests and dips, ever watchful for the next wave about to roll and crash. Metric shifts, contrasting textures, and glissandi, both on keys and on strings inside the piano, help convey the swirling energy of waves, currents, wind, and spray. A metal chain rustles on vibrating strings to mimic the white noise of the breakers, while attentive use of the damper pedal suggests liquid, underwater resonance, contrasted with bright, dry sounds above the surface."

"A second composition, Ocean Calling II: From the Depths, will focus on the incredibly varied and fantastical creatures of the sea as they face new threats to their fragile habitats. In Ocean Calling III, I hope to connect to the expanse of the sea, its call and echo, ancient reverberations attuning us to this life-sustaining medium, calling us to respond."

Ocean Calling I was commissioned by Gail Anastasian, Janna Baker and Laurie Walden in memory of their mother Patricia M. Baker, lover of nature and dear friend of the composer.

More about the October 7 performance at http://www.music.sc.edu/chamberseries/Septemberseries.html#CONCERT5.

Ocean Calling I: Waves and Currents will receive its 2nd performance, and Midwest Premiere on Friday, October 19 at Kobacker Hall of Ohio's Bowling Green State University, as part of the 2012 Bowling Green New Music Festival "Music and the Physical World"

Performers will be BGSU faculty Laura Melton and Robert Satterlee. The concert will also include works by Charles Ives, Kyle Gann (World Premiere), Daniel S. Godfrey (World Premiere) and Trevor Matthews.

John Zorn: ABRAXAS: Concert at the Stone, NYC

John Zorn: ABRAXAS: Concert at the Stone, NYC
Concert description:
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz: Abraxas: The Book Of Angels Volume 19 [#8302] – Stone Concert. October 9th, at 10 PMrd at The Stone, NYC

Producer and bassist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz has been a mainstay of the downtown scene for over a decade now, working with and producing CDs by Daniel Zamir, Cyro Baptista, Eyal Maoz, Jon Madof, Yoshie Fruchter and more. Here he steps out on his own to make one of the most tribal and primal installments in the Book of Angels series. Drawing on his Sephardic roots, Shanir plays gimbri throughout, giving the music a primeval Moroccan edge. Featuring the intense guitar pyrotechnics of Eyal Maoz (Edom, 9 Volt with Time Berne, Hypercolor) and Aram Bajakian (who recently has been tearing it up in Lou Reed’s new band) and the atavistic drumming of Kenny Grohowski, this is Ritualistic Jewish Rock for the 21st century from a brilliant young lion from the East Village via Brooklyn/Israel!

Featuring:
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Gimbri
Eyal Maoz, Guitar
Aram Bajakian, Guitar
Kenny Grohowski, Drums


Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/alephadzayin?feature=results_main

Youtube Song Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0w_c38I9MU&feature=plcp

venue website: http://www.thestonenyc.com

Venue: The Stone
Address: NW corner of Avenue C and 2nd St. East Village, Manhattan, New York City Zip 10009
Date: October 14.
Time: 10 PM
Cover: $10

Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express

Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express, with Patrick Farrell and Marty Confurius
TODAY!! On Sunday, September 9, the National Yiddish Book Center presents internationally renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals, with klezmer luminaries Patrick Farrell on accordion and Marty Confurius on bass.
Where:
The National Yiddish Book Center
Applebaum Driker Theater
Amherst, MA
For directions, mapquest Hampshire College, and then look for signs for the Book Center.
When:
Sunday, September 9, 2 PM
Tickets and info:
http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapSAHab92HPbIFEx6eafpQav/

London Klezmer Quartet

Upcoming Performances of The London Klezmer Quartet

Sunday 9 September, Klezmer in the Park, 2pm
Regents Park Bandstand, Regents Park, London NW1 4NR.
The event runs 1-5pm.
Event info ( http://www.jmi.org.uk/event/klezmer-in-the-park/ )

Monday 8 October, Bookmarks Bookshop, 6.30pm
Sholem Aleykhem Comrade! Music and words portraying Jewish life in revolutionary times presented by LKQ with David Rosenberg and Julia Bard of Jewish Socialist Magazine.
Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE


Wednesday 31 October, The Red Hedgehog, 7.30pm
An evening of Yiddish song and music, with LKQ and Yuri Vedenyapin. In association with the Spiro Ark ( http://www.spiroark.org/events ). The Red Hedgehog, 255 - 257 Archway Road, Highgate, London N6 5BS
Event info ( http://www.spiroark.org/events/828/london-klezmer-quartet/ )
Book tickets at http://www.spiroark.org/events/tickets/267%20/london-klezmer-quartet

Nechama Lifshitz to be Honored in Tel Aviv

An event in honor of the 85-th birthday of Nechama Lifshitz, a legend of Yiddish singing and a founder of the Artistic Yiddish Singing Workshop in Israel, will take place on 9/10/2012 7 PM at Beit Shalom Aleichem in Tel-Aviv. The new and old students of the master class directed by Nechama will sing in honor of her.

We invite you all to greet Nechama and wish her a freylekhn geburts-tog in every way you wish. All of your greetings will be read before Nechama and her family. For any questions concerning the event, please contact Diana Shapiro (diana.shapiro.adv@gmail.com).

Reflections of a Lost Poet

Avi Hoffman and Binyumen Schaechter
reunite with performances in
Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens this coming week!
The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene
and the
City University of New York
present
Reflections of a Lost Poet: The Life and Works of Itzik Manger
written by Miriam Hoffman
featuring
Avi Hoffman with Musical Director / Arranger / Pianist Binyumen Schaechter

This funny and moving performance follows the life of the great Yiddish poet Itzik Manger. Through his songs and poems, including Afn veg shteyt a boym, Yidl mitn fidl and excerpts from Di Megile-lider, we discover his joy and anguish as he lived through the best and worst of times. In Yiddish, with English and Russian supertitles. Hoffman and Schaechter were the creative team behind the hit revue, Too Jewish!
ADMISSION: FREE
This Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Two performances: 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center
Baruch College
55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on 25th St.),
New York, NY 10010
Reservations: 646-312-5073
Subway: 6, N, R; Bus: M1, M2, M3, M23, M101, M102, M103

Tuesday, September 11th at 2:00 pm
Lovinger Theatre, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
Lehman College
250 Bedford Park Blvd West
(between Goulden Ave and Paul Ave)
Bronx, NY 10468
Reservations: 718-960-8024
Subway: 4; Bus: Bx10, Bx26, Bx28

Wednesday, September 12th at 7:00 pm
Lefrak Concert Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College
65-30 Kissena Blvd
(enter on Reeves Ave., south of the LIE)
Flushing, Queens, NY 11367
Information: 718-793-8080
Bus: Q25, Q34, Q88
Groups for any of the performances: 212-213-2120 x204
This program is generously supported by the City University of New York.

The Alexandria Kleztet at Peabody

Wednesday, September 5 -- Tonight!
The Peabody Institute
1 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-659-8138
7 to 9 pm
Free, no tickets required!

Winter Jewish Music Concert 2013 in Miami

The Winter Jewish Music Concert is a concert like no other.
700 people gather in a historic 1926 sanctuary in downtown Miami to hear the best of Jewish music from around the world: Yiddish, cantorial, Ladino, Israeli, folk, pop, classical, jazz, and rap. The Winter Jewish Music concert was first presented in 2009, and each year has been sold out.

To make your plans, see: http://www.jewishconcert.org/

2 grand pianos in Berlin

Sunday, August 25th at 8PM
Closing ocnert of Jewish Cultural Days
A night of 2 grand pianos w/Omer Klein, Yaron herman, Anat Fort: piano
Haggai Cohen-Milo: bass
Ziv Ravitz: drums
Karen Malka: voice
Synagogue Rykestrasse
Rykestrasse 53.
10405 Berlin
http://www.synagoge-rykestrasse.de/

Tribute to Mickey Katz in Cleveland, OH

“Tribute to Mickey Katz” concert by Yiddishe Cup
WHEN: 7 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 9
WHERE: Alma Theater in Cain Park, Cleveland Heights
TICKETS: 216-371-3000, www.cainpark.com or www.ticketmaster.com

Read about all about Mickey Katz in the Cleveland Jewish News:

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/features/leisure/arts/article_f8858a68-d5a8-11e1-a7fa-001a4bcf887a.html

Kol B'Seder 40th Anniversary Concert!

Monday August 6, 2012
7:30-10:30pm
New CAJE3 Evening Concert
Montclair State University
1 Normal Avenue
Montclair, NJ
parking in the Red Hook lot
$10 at door, Box Office open at 7:15pm

Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band in Brooklyn

June 27, 2012
8:30pm

Gala Brooklyn Jazz/Klezmer Concert with The Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band Directed by Rabbi Greg Wall and Frank London
Wednesday, June 27th 8:30PM
Ocean Parkway Jewish Center
550 Ocean Parkway • Brooklyn, NY 11218
(between Ditmas Ave. and 18th Ave.)
Light refreshments will be served after the concert.
Cost: $12 if pre-registered; $15 at the door
PROMO code "OPJC-ML" price is $10
To register: www.JewishSinglesGalaxy.com

MORE WAYS TO SAVE
Once you register, you will be assigned your own referral code, and you will get credit for friends that attend events organized by Jewish Singles Galaxy, as well as credit for referrals they make to their friends. Like a coffee punch-card, as credits accrue, you will be able to attend future functions for free. This is a way of rewarding those who help spread the word and providing a way to help make events more affordable

MORE ABOUT BAND
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/ayn/

Lori Cahan-simon Ensemble in Chicago

Sunday, July 8, 2012
1:30pm
Goodman Auditorium • Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center 9603 Woods Drive • Skokie, Illinois

The Chicago YIVO Society presents the 2nd Annual Sarah Lazarus Memorial Concert featuring The Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble in a program of, “Vessel of Song: The Music of Mikhl Gelbart ” Lori Cahan-Simon, vocals; Steve Greenman, violin; Walt Mahovlich, accordion

Mikhl Gelbart set to music the works of over a hundred poets and dramatists, including Y.L. Peretz and Avrom Reyzen. His beloved songs have been taught not only in this country, but around the world, and have been recorded or sung by just about every singer of Yiddish song.

ADVANCE RESERVATIONS & PAYMENT REQUIRED!
General Admission $10 • Museum Members FREE but reservations required
Online (preferred) www.ilholocaustmuseum.org — click on “Museum Events” or phone 847.967.4889

East meets West: Yidishe Meydlekh at YIVO

THURSDAY 21 JUNE 2012 | 7:00PM
East meets West: Yidishe Meydlekh
Heather Klein, Miryem-Khaye Seigel
CONCERT | Co-sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture

California-based singer Heather Klein performs Yiddish songs from her new CD "Shifreles Portret." She will sing duets with special guest artist Miryem-Khaye Seigel. The program will include both known and lesser-known Yiddish theater songs.

Admission: $10
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Box Office: www.smarttix.com | 212.868.4444

Kabbalah at DROM

Friends from Marseille, France are coming to NY to rock your socks off!! On June 14th, Kabbalah is bringing their unique groove of Yiddish songs in English, German, and Russian, where rock, jazz, pop, hip hop, gypsy, Slavic and oriental music collide to create an amazing new sounds. Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7:00 PM
$10.00
Drom NYC • 85 Avenue A • New York, NY

Then the Ljuba Davis Ladino Ensemble celebrate there Album Release on June 15th. Davis has been a mainstay of the early West Coast Jewish music revival, who is now a passionate musical elder savoring the expressive force of a lifetime of song, celebration, and wisdom. Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM

And don't forget, the fourth annual Istanblive summer concert series is right around the corner.After an unprecedented three-year run at Central Park SummerStage, Istanbulive IV triumphantly debuts this year at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on July 28th. The best and most highly regarded Turkish pioneers and rising new comers will be performing live in New York City so don't miss it! For all the latest details, head over to Istanbulive.org.br />

Shirei HaOlam by Kol Rinah, Westchester's Jewish Community Chorus in Mamaroneck

Kol Rinah, Westchester s Jewish Community Chorus in Mamaroneck

On Sunday June 10th at 7:00 pm, hear Shirei, HaOlam: Songs of the World , a lively selection of choral music, sung by Kol Rinah, with Cantor Alan Sokoloff and Rabbi Seth Sternstein at the Westchester Jewish Center, 175 Rockland Avenue Mamaroneck. The program includes melodies from the older Spanish-Mediterranean, Italian and Balkan cultures to the newer Ugandan and Israeli cultures, as well as songs by Aaron Copeland, Frank Loesser, Leon Sher, George Gershwin, Charles Osborne, David Burger, Leonard Cohen, Benjie Schiller. GA $22; Students/Seniors/WJC Members, $17. Ticket info and Discounts: Wendy Segal at (914) 243-9059 or WWW.KOLRINAHCHORUS.ORG

1st Non-Annual Festival of Pan-Judeo Music and Pastries

Saturday, June 9, 2012
7:30pm until 10:30pm
Union Hall
702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
DeLeon + Yiddish Princess
plus Babka and Baklava from Leah Koenig

DeLeon's Sephardic rock and the power pop of Yiddish Princess will be paired with pastries from those respective traditions by acclaimed food writer Leah Koenig. In a city rich with festivals, this is the one you can't afford to miss.
Tickets are only $8 so get yours early: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4552385

The "Other Side" of Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver

Saturday, June 16, 2012
8:00pm in MDT

Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver are both internationally recognized contemporary Jewish songwriters and performers. As solo artists, they have shared their music in hundreds of communities around the world. Julie's warmth, charisma and creativity can be felt from the moment she walks on stage and captivates us with her powerful vocals and heartfelt message. Joe's infectious musical style and virtuoso guitar playing teaches while entertaining.

This show will be a rare opportunity for these two good friends to stretch beyond their traditional repertoire and share their "secular" sides. Expect to be touched, tickled and thankful for the breadth and scope of their considerable talents.

For more info: rabbijoeblack.com and juliesilver.com
$18 Advance; $20 Day of Show. $2 discount for Swallow Hill members
Swallow Hill Music Association
71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, CO 80210

Across the Blue Sea

A concert of Israeli, Armenian, Greek and Turkish songs of the Mediterranean Sea Come to Sing and Dance with The Yuval Ron Ensemble LIVE

Who: The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring the powerful voice of Hagai Batzri and special guests the Gypsy Roma musicians of Istanbul. The concert will include musicians Norik Manoukian (woodwind), Virginie Alimian (kanoun), Jamie Papish (percussion), David Martinelli (percussion), Yuval Ron (Oud and musical director) and the Gypsy Roma musicians: Master clarinet virtuoso Ferit Benli and percussionist, Ali Durac (darbuka).

Where: Temple Emanuel 8844 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
When: Thursday July 5th at 8:00 PM
Admission: Advance tickets online are $20 at
http://www.maticenter.com/ and tickets are $30 at the door.

Across the Blue Sea features music of the Mediterranean area, specifically Israeli Armenian Greek and Turkish folk and sacred songs. In addition to the musicians in the Yuval Ron Ensemble, the concert will feature singer Hagai Batzri, a powerful Iraqi Jewish vocalist and rabbi who specializes in Middle Eastern style singing. The program will also feature two master gypsy musicians, Ferit Benli and Ali Durace, who specialize in Gypsy Roma Turkish music for their only appearance in Los Angeles. Additionally, the program will include dancer Maya G. Karasso who has danced with Sting on his desert rose concert tour.

Formed in 1999, The Yuval Ron Ensemble endeavors to alleviate national, racial, religious, and cultural divides by uniting the music and dance of the people of the Middle East into a unique mystical, spiritual and inspiring musical celebration. The ensemble unites Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists who have been actively involved in creating musical bridges between people of various faiths and ethnic groups worldwide. The ensemble unties the sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism (Islamic mystical tradition) and the Christian Armenian Church into an unusual musical celebration. Bringing together artists from Arabic, Jewish and Christian ancestry the Yuval Ron Ensemble is dedicated to fostering an understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and religions.

The ensemble was invited by King of Morocco to present the Judeo-Arabic Andalusi music at the International Fez Festival of Sacred Music in June 2009. In April of 2008, the Ensemble was invited to headline the benefit concert for Seeds of Compassion the Dalai Lama s conference in Seattle, WA. In 2002 and 2005, the ensemble was featured at the World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles and was honored to be the first American- based Middle Eastern Ensemble to perform at an International Peace Festival 05 in South Korea. In addition, the Ensemble was chosen by the Mid-Atlantic Foundation and the national Endowment for the Arts to represent the United States and it s cultural diversity at the International Folk Music Festival in Lublin, Poland in 2005. In 2006 the Ensemble was the first to introduce the music of the Middle East to Chihuahua, Mexico at the International Chihuahua Festival and in 2007 it was featured in the International Oud Festival in Jerusalem, Israel.

Composer and Oud master, Yuval Ron works across different media and styles, actively seeking new forms of interchange and collaboration between musicians and other artists. His compositions have served as soundtracks for television programs and films such as Oliver Twist (UPN Newtork) and To Life (a CBS special), to dance works with the innovative dancer/choreographer Oguri (with music from these collaborations recorded on tow CDs, In Between the Heartbeat and In The Shadows), to concert works fro chorus, orchestra, and cello. He has also served as an impresario, helping to organize concerts at the UCLA Hammer Museum highlighting the diversity of musical styles to be found in the Los Angeles area.

But for many, Yuval is known for his deeply moving pan-Middle Eastern music. This group at once unites the music and peoples of the Middle East, incorporating elements of Armenian, Levantine, Arabic, Bedouin, Sephardic, and other stylings to create a fusion that is at once deeply traditional and still boldly innovative. His recordings include One and One Truth (with renowned Turkish Sufi musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek), Under the Olive Tree: Sacred Music of the Middle East, featuring the spectacular young Arabic singer Najwa Gibran, Tree of Life and Seeker of Truth also featuring Najway Gibran.

For more information, please contact 818-505-1355 or
info@yuvalronmusic.com. Yuval Ron can be reached directly 818-505-1355 or yuval@yuvalronmusic.com.

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale in NYC

On Sunday June 3rd at 7:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will perform and exciting and eclectic concert. Featured works include a David Burger setting of Hatikvah, and Elliot Levine setting of an e.e. cummings poem, and a Yair Rosenblum setting of 'Unetane Tokef' in a contemporary style. The program also includes pieces by Franz Schubert, W. A. Mozart, Salamone Rossi, Max Janowski and Matthew Lazar.

Where: Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Box office: 212-501-3330
kaufman-center.org/mch/buy-tickets

When: Sunday, June 3, 7:00 pm

Tickets: $24 premium
$21 general admission
$17 seniors and students*
*Tickets available only at box office or by phone. Students must show ID.

Top 10 Jewish Composers Concert in Brookline, MA

May 17 2012: Top 10 Jewish Composers Concert Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon St., Brookline, MA.

What is Jewish music? What constitutes a Jewish composer? The answers will be revealed at the Top 10 Jewish Composers concert on Featuring the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Kol Arev and Cantor Randall Schloss. Admission to this event is $20 general admission and $10 for senior citizens; students, faculty and staff of Hebrew College. Order tickets https://secure.hebrewcollege.edu/HebrewCollege/concerttix.htm.

Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, Special Passover Edition

Tuesday, April 10 2012
8:30pm
Sixth Street Community Synagogue, 325 East Sixth Street, NYC

Ayn Sof Arkestra is the hottest new Big Band in New York! The strange Jewish love child of Charles Mingus and Sun Ra, Ayn Sof is the Big Band that personifies Radical Jewish Culture. The Band was founded by Grammy Award winning Trumpeter and Composer Frank London and NYC's Jazz Rabbi, Greg Wall.

The Band features some of the most dynamic members of the NY Jazz scene, including Pam Fleming, Art Baron, Eyal Maoz, Frank and Greg, Rob Henke, Mike Cohen, Paul Shapiro, and Jessica Lurie. The repertoire is all original tunes or arrangements from the collective pens of the Arkestra, and reflects the diversity of todays NYC Jazz scene.

Ayn Sof Arkestra:
Saxes- Greg Wall, Mike Cohen, Jessica Lurie, Paul Shapiro, Zach Mayer, and Marty Fogel Trumpets- Frank London, Rob Henke, Jordan Hirsch, and Pam Fleming Trombones- Art Baron, Ben WIlliams, Jacob Garchik Rhythm- Uri Sharlin, Aaron Alexander, Bran Glassman, Eyal Maoz

$15.00 cover

Golem and Conspiracy of Beards @ Glasslands

Golem and Conspiracy of Beards @ Glasslands
One of the world's most beloved klezmer-rock band, Golem, teams up with San Francisco's Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-member bearded male choir singing the works of Leonard Cohen. It doesn't get more punk rock than that!
Tickets $10
Note: this is an early show and everyone will turn into a pumpkin at 11:30pm sharp, so get there on time!

Saturday, April 28 at 8:30pm
Location: Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211

Duo Lerner-Moguilevsky in Osnabrück, Germany

Duo Lerner-Moguilevsky
Klezmer-Improvisation from Buenos Aires
Friday, April 6, 2012
at 8:00pm in UTC+02 at Felix Nussbaum Haus
Osnabrück, Germany

Arcady Goldenstein & Benjy Fox-Rosen in Concert at Sixth Street Synagogue

Wednesday, Apr 4 at 08:00 PM
East Village Klezmer Series
Arcady Goldenstein & Benjy Fox-Rosen in concert!

Arcady will be accompanied by Deborah Strauss: violin, Jeff Warschauer: guitar, Benjy Fox-Rosen: bass, and Tyshawn Sorey: drums. Plus! The NYC premier of Benjy Fox-Rosen's new Gebirtig song cycle.

4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 - 9:15PM Benjy Fox-Rosen and Arcady Goldensteyn $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 - 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
For more information:
http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/eastvillageklezmer/

Arcady Goldenstein is the nephew of our dear friend and mentor, the late German Goldenshteyn, z"l. He grew up playing with his uncle, and this is a rare opportunity to hear Arcady play in NYC.

Arcady Goldenstein was born in Mogilev-Podolsk on the border of Ukraine and Moldova in 1963 and grew up in Moldova. He has lived in Israel since 1990. Goldenstein has played klezmer on the clarinet since childhood, and performed regularly in affairs of the Jewish community during the Communist era, which was in those days a somewhat risky venture. He has participated in many festivals in Israel and abroad, most recently the KlezKanada Festival and has toured in England and Germany. His ensembles have been awarded prizes at the Safed and Raanana Klezmer Festivals in Israel. He currently conducts the Haifa Klezmer Orchestra, and teaches clarinet in conservatories and in the public school system.

Benjy Fox-Rosen's Quintet presents an arresting synthesis of Yiddish folk songs, art songs, Klezmer music, and original compositions. Band leader Fox-Rosen - singer, composer, and bassist - is joined by some of the most compelling klezmer musicians in New York City. Together, they focus on the poetry of beloved Krakow songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig, presenting his poems as alluring and engaging art songs. Featuring: Benjy Fox-Rosen: voice, bass, Michael Winograd: clarinet, Patrick Farrell: accordion, Avi Fox-Rosen: guitar, and Tyshawn Sorey: drums

Evening of Yiddish Song: The Sidor Belarsky Songbook

The Congress for Jewish Culture and the New Yiddish Rep present
"An Evening of Yiddish Song-- The Sidor Belarsky Songbook"
Date: Sunday, April 1
Time: 5pm
Location: Temple Beth Emeth, 83 Marlborough Rd., Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. (B or Q train to Church Ave.)

Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell, an African-American classical singer of opera and lieder, has embarked on a project of personal anecdote, engagement and expression through Yiddish art song with his performance of selections from *The Sidor Belarsky Songbook*.

"Being an operatic bass (as Sidor Belarsky was) an African-American by birth and a Jew by choice, the recital repertoire of Sidor Belarsky provides a unique potential for me as an artist to actively embody the aspirations, desires and struggles of one diaspora culture enriched with the colors and experiences of another."

Learn more about this performer at his website: https://sites.google.com/site/anthonyrussellbass

Judith Shatin

Judith Shatin's Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
will be performed
by pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst
on 4/29/12 at 3:00 p.m. at the Roberts Music Center
4200 54th Ave S, Saint Petersburg, FL 33711
on the Eckerd College Recital Series
and
on 5/06/12 at 3:00 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.808.7000
in conjunction with the Judy Chicago Exhibition in Sacramento, CA.

Mary Kathleen Ernst website: www.marykathleenernst.com
My website: www.judithshatin.com

Program notes:

Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi was inspired by the folk song Eliahu HaNavi (Elijah the Prophet), often sung during the closing service of the Jewish Sabbath. The letters of Chai, which means life or living in Hebrew, symbolically stand for the number 18; hence, 18 variations. I decided to give the performer a choice regarding the ordering of the variations as a reflection of my sense of performance as a collaboration between performer and composer (and, for that matter, listener). It also reflects a dynamic conception of musical form. This means that there are 18! Or 6,402,373,705,728,000 possible orderings. In other words, there are six quadrillion, four-hundred-two trillion, three-hundred-seventy-three billion, seven-hundred-five million and seven-hundred-twenty-eight thousand possible versions! I composed this work while in residence at Brahmshaus in Baden-Baden during the summer of 1995. It is dedicated to the Abel family. Their warm welcome will not soon be forgotten.

Veretski Pass and Choral Music in CA

San Francisco: Sat, Mar 17, 8 PM
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell St.
Click here to buy online at brownpapertickets.com

Oakland: Sun, Mar 18, 4 PM
Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit St.
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The concerts showcase a variety of new and standard Klezmer music, and a wealth of choral music by Jewish composers, including richly scored six-part Shir Hama'alot by 17th century Italian composer Salamone Rossi, beloved works by Darius Milhaud and Felix Mendelssohn, a lush piece by 19th century composer David Nowakowsky called Hashkivenu #2, Sylke Zimpel's arrangement of the familiar folk tune Tumbalalaika, and compelling psalm settings by contemporary composers George Rochberg, Malcolm Singer, and Karen Tarlow.

For this program local composer Tina Harrington and Composer-Not-in-Residence Matt Van Brink each created new works that feature the two ensembles. Using energetic rhythms, Harrington's Vest Oysforn draws on the tradition of Eastern European folk music. The unique characters of two Romanian dances, the Doina and the Hora, are featured Matt Van Brink's work They Disappear.

Tickets are on sale now!
www.sfca.org/tickets
Advanced Purchase: $12 Student/$22 Senior/$25 General
At the Door: $15 Student/$28 Senior/$30 General
About Veretski Pass

Taking its name from the mountain pass through which Magyar tribes crossed into the Carpathian basin to settle what later became the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Veretski Pass offers a unique and exciting combination of virtuosic musicianship and raw energy that has excited concertgoers across the world. The trio plays Old Country Music with origins in the Ottoman Empire, once fabled as the borderlands of the East and the West. In a true collage of Carpathian, Jewish, Romanian and Ottoman styles, typical suites contain dances from Moldavia and Bessarabia; Jewish melodies from Poland and Romania; Hutzul wedding music from Carpathian-Ruthenia; and haunting Rebetic aires from Smyrna, seamlessly integrated with original compositions. Veretski Pass recently performed at the Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, and their CDs have repeatedly been on the 10- best recording lists of journalists. For biographies of individual members of Veretski Pass, please visit: www.veretskipass.com

About the Choral Artists

Nationally-recognized San Francisco Choral Artists has achieved renown through innovative programs and stunning performances presenting new works and masterworks of the last 600 years. Specializing in the music of living composers, SFCA has premiered over 175 works and collaborated with The Alexander String Quartet, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Composers Inc, The Whole Noyse, and others. Magen Solomon, Artistic Director since since 1995, avidly cultivates engagements with living composers to bridge the gulf between audience, composer, and performer. Active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician, she has worked with many noted conductors.

Dudu Fisher in Minneapolis

Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, One Night Only -- Israel's Foremost Singer and Broadway Star Dudu Fisher in a special celebration!
When: Monday, March 12, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m.
Where: Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN

To watch the short promotional video click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPFJOk4tv1g

To order tickets call 612.371.5656 or visit http://www.ilansharon.com/fisher for more information.
For groups of 10 or more, use coupon code GROUP to receive 50% off

Michael Winograd Klezmer trio en Concert Exceptionnel

Thursday, March 15, 2012
8:30pm until 10:30pm

L'UEJF Art et Culture t'invite en exclusivité au premier Concert à Paris du Michael Winograd Trio tout droit venu de NYC pour Toi!

Musique Klezmer d'exception, ambiance de folie et prix cassé pour ce Concert mémorable!

Le Michael Winograd trio (Michael Winograd - Clarinette ; Patrick Farrell - Accordéon ; Benjy Fox-Rosen - Contrebasse) réunit trois des meilleurs musiciens Klezmer de la scène New Yorkaise. Mêlant des mélodies traditionnelles puissantes à de nouvelles compositions, de somptueux arrangements de musique de chambre à des improvisations à couper le souffle, ce nouveau trio montant est en passe de redéfinir le son de la musique Klezmer contemporaine. A écouter d'urgence!

Réservation au : 01 43 31 93 60 ou en nous envoyant un mail facebook avec tes nom, prénom et nombre de places.
Espace rachi, Rue Brocha, (Off Boulevard de Port-Royal)
Paris, France
Artistiquement vôtre

Old World/New World Klezmer with Hot Pastromi

Sunday, March 18, 2012
3:00pm until 5:00pm

As part of our 125th Anniversary celebrations, Yale Strom and his band Hot Pstromi will put a new spin on traditional klezmer music, updating Lower East Side sounds that were all the rage when the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue first opened.

$20 adults; $15 students and seniors
Co-sponsored by The Workmen's Circle - In Memory of George Schein
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

2 Choruses in Boston

Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM Two of Boston's finest choruses presenting 400 years of the most beautiful music from the Christian and Jewish traditions.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
The Trinity Choirs
together in concert
120 voices
in historic Trinity Church, Copley Square, one of the America's architectural Jewels
with cantors Scott Sokol and Elias Rosemberg
To Order Tix: http://www.trinityinspires.org/concerts-events/music-for-all/zamir-concert/ The Zamir Chorale of Boston and the Trinity Choirs join together at Trinity in an unusual one-time concert featuring works of Lewandowski, Rossi, Lampl, Joshua Jacobson (Director of Zamir), Avni, Bernstein, Milhaud, Mendelssohn and Sulzer.

Tickets are available in three sections:
Blue section: $25 (best views)
Green section: $15
Yellow section: $5 (obstructed views)

Girls in Trouble at JCC in Manhattan

Thu, Mar 15, 2012
8pm
Brooklyn poet and multi-instrumentalist Alicia Jo Rabins’ “hauntingly lovely melodies” explore dark stories of biblical women and the hidden places where their complicated lives overlap with her own. In this one-time-only event, the JCC curates live performance of real bat mitzvah speeches, performed in musical conversation with Girls in Trouble’s songs. Hosted by stand-up comic JUDY GOLD With: New York Times best-selling author of Unorthodox, DEBORAH FELDMAN Glittery downtown performance artist GLENN MARLA 16-year-old actress SAM MOZES This performance event is presented in conjunction with The Laurie M. Tisch Gallery exhibit, Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age, and will be followed by a gallery wine reception.

tickets: $15/$20
334 amsterdam ave at 76th st, new york, ny 10023 | 646.505.4444
For ticket info: http://www.jccmanhattan.org/

“TWO VOICES, ONE VISION” CONCERT AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER

“TWO VOICES, ONE VISION” CONCERT AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ON MARCH 15 BLENDS CULTURAL SENSIBILITIES
Thursday March 15 at 7:30pm
at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, NYC

Two of Israel’s most popular singers -- Noa (Achinoam Nini), and Mira Awad,– blend Jewish and Arab musical sensibilities as a gesture of tolerance and understanding in an interesting cross-cultural musical collaboration on Thursday March 15 at 7:30pm at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. “Two Voices, One Vision,” A Concert of Coexistence, mirrors on stage the work on the ground of The Abraham Fund Initiatives in Israel. The New York and Jerusalem-based domestic advocacy group develops programs, public policies and societal models that promote the cause of a shared society between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens.

“Two Voices, One Vision,” weaves together folk-flavored contemporary music that reflects both Arab and Jewish sensibilities. The evening’s songs will be in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Performing with Noa and Mira will be some of Israel's leading instrumentalists, including the guitarist Gil Dor, Noa's long-time collaborator and music director.

Noa, from a Yemenite Jewish background, is one of Israel’s most prominent singing stars. The actress and singer Mira -- a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel -- stars on one of Israel’s most popular television shows (incidentally a comedy that tackles the thornier aspects of Jewish and Arab co-existence). Noa and Mira have appeared together on several occasions and have represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow in 2009, performing their song “There Must Be Another Way” for a huge, international television audience. In the fall they toured together in India to great acclaim.

Their collaborative, cross-cultural work is deeply personal and, in ways that Americans may not readily understand, a matter of serious personal and professional risk. (Threats are all too common.)

About their friendship, Mira has said, “there have been attempts to injure it and break it apart.” Noa has said, “despite the difficulties and the omnipresent pain forever threatening to engulf us, our resonance is so deep it often takes my breath away.”

The Abraham Fund Initiatives was founded in 1989. It has offices in New York, London and Jerusalem. Its international president is Ami Nahshon. Orni Petruschka and Howard Sohn serve as the Israeli and American co-chairs of the international board of directors.

Tickets from $75 to $250 are on sale through the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office, Broadway and 60th Street, 212/721-6500; www.jalc.org. For preferred patron tickets and post-concert reception information, please contact The Abraham Fund, at 212/661-7770, ext. 200, or e-mail info@abrahamfund.org

Di khumeshlider: les chants du Pentateuque

Dimanche 26 février 2012 à 17h
Théâtre de la Cité Bleue, avenue de Miremont 46, 1206 Genève

Di khumeshlider: les chants du Pentateuque d'après Itzik Manger
par le LufTeater de Strasbourg, avec Astrid Ruff et Rafaël Goldwaser. Mise en scène: Sabine Lemler. Musique originale de Jean-Raymond Gélis.

Spectacle joué en yiddish, surtitré en français

Les Chants du Pentateuque sont un ensemble de poèmes inspirés très librement du premier livre de la Bible. Itzik Manger met en scène les figures essentielles de la Genèse : Adam et Eve et leurs fils Abel et Caïn, les trois patriarches, Abraham, Isaac et Jacob les quatre matriarches et bien d'autres... Itzik Manger n’a pas besoin de "raconter" la Genèse: Tout le monde la connaît! Au contraire, il brode, fait des allusions, des anachronismes, joue avec les personnages, les époques, les situations, les mots… Ces procédés créent tout au long du spectacle des effets comiques irrésistibles.

Organisation: Les Amis de la Musique Juive amj@amj.ch http://www.amj.ch
Tél. 0041 22 320 86 28
Informations & réservation: Janine Schorderet
Tél. 0041 22 344 64 09
Fax. 0041 22 344 64 04
Billets: 30 CHF, tarif réduit: 20 CHF.
Réduction supplémentaire de 10 CHF aux membres AMJ. DEVENEZ MEMBRES!

East Meets East Concert -- Ethiopian singer Alula

Forest Hills Jewish Center, March 18, 6 PM
Beta Israel Cultural Foundation Inc. & Baker Dan LLC Present:
Forest Hill Jewish Center
106-06 Queens Boulevard Flushing, NY 11375-4248
(718) 263-7000
www.fhjc.org/

ALULA, Ethiopian-born singer/songwriter
accompanied by ALICIA SVIGALS, Klezmer Violinist and Band
in
EAST MEETS EAST CONCERT (East Africa Meets Middle East Meets East Europe)

Building upon his remarkable personal history, Alula weaves an unforgettable musical journey connecting East African, Middle Eastern, and Eastern Europe musical traditions, creating a unique, moving and memorable musical message of connectedness among faiths, races, and cultures.

THE MUSICIANS

ALULA - Vocals, Guitar, Kirar, Keyboard, www.alulamusic.com
ALICIA SVIGALS -- Violin, www.aliciasvigals.com
MAC GOLLEHON -- Trumpet, Trombone, www.newbrasscollective.com
ROBERT AARON -- Tenor Saxophone, Flute, www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Robert-Aaron-Trouble-Man
EVAN MAZUNIK -- Keyboard, Vocals, www.evanmazunik.com
SAMSON KEBEDE - Bass, www.soundcloud.com/arkigroove
JOHN METTAM -- Drums, Percussion, www.johnmettam.com
JEMEL ALSTON -- Vocals, http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MGfbIFEx6eafpQav/

SUNDAY, MARCH 18h, 2012 at 6PM
FOREST HILLS JEWISH CENTER
106-06 Queens Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11375-4248
Doors Open at 5PM.
At the Door: $22
Online: $20
Order Online at www.bakerdan.com
Please bring your email confirmation
Senior Citizens and Children under 13: $15
For Beta Israel Cultural Foundation, Inc.: www.binacf.org
For EAST MEETS EAST Concert: www.bakerdan.com
For Inquiries: baker@bakerdan.com 917-913-5719 Click here to check out Alicia's band on Youtube! http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MD6bIFEx6eafpQav/ Find Alicia on Facebook: Alicia's Facebook Page http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MD7bIFEx6eafpQav/

A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul with neshama Carlebach

A Community Experience to Uplift Your Soul Neshama Carlebach performing with Reverend Roger Hambrick & the Green Pastures Baptist Choir
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 8:00 pm - Doors Open at 7:00 pm
WHERE:
The Parker Playhouse - 707 NE 8th Street, Fort Lauderdale,
Florida 33304 - 954-462-0222

ADMISSION:
$26.50, $46.50, $66.50 - Special VIP Meet & Greet $101.50
Tickets available at the Parker Playhouse Box Office and online. There is a 10% discount for group sales over 20 people available at the box office and a 5% early bird special for advanced sales before January 25th.

SOUL STIRRING & UPLIFTING CONCERT PROMOTES UNITY AND HEALING PARTIAL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT GLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION DEDICATED TO TRANSFORMING SMILES AND LIVES

International Recording Artist Neshama Carlebach to Perform with The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir at The Parker Playhouse - January 31, 2012

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (January 19, 2012) - International recording artist Neshama Carlebach invites South Florida to a musically uplifting evening at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Tuesday, January 31, 2012, starting at 8:00 pm. The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir, led by the Reverend Roger Hambrick joins this captivating and spiritual singer in a performance that is at once uplifting, inspiring and a celebration of her late father's legacy, the incomparable Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

Neshama follows in her father's footsteps hoping to continue his mission of spiritual unity and healing through her music. He traveled the world spreading messages of love and peace and his life story is the inspiration behind the Broadway bound "Soul Doctor: Journey of A Rock-Star Rabbi" currently playing at the Parker Playhouse.

A portion of the proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Global Smile Foundation; through its outreach programs this organization alleviates the suffering of underserved patients born with facial congenital deformities with special emphasis on cleft lips and palates.

"My collaboration with Reverend Hambrick and The Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir is the ultimate manifestation of my father's dream for humanity," says Neshama. "Our work together has expanded my horizons and shown me that true spiritual unity is possible. We feel that music can help bring healing and beauty to our broken world."

The concert appeals to people of all faiths, backgrounds and perspectives. The powerful vocals and beautiful harmonies of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir complement Neshama's deeply moving and entertaining style as she sings her father's melodies, and inspiring original compositions.

Leo Zeitlin music at JMF in NYC

The Jewish Music Forum of the American Society of Jewish Music will present rare evening event, on Thursday, February 9th at 7 PM. Because these evenings have been so popular, you will need to make reservations to attend (see information below).

The topic is "The Music of Leo Zeitlin," one of the composers of the St. Petersburg School from the early 20th Century. On this occasion the wonderful performers from YIVO's Sidney Krum Young Artis Series will provide live music examples to accompany the talk, which will be given by Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker, with Dr. Michael Steinlauf at respondent.

Joining the Krum Young Artists will be Cantors Robert Abelson, Maria Dubinsky, and Martha Novick. The evening session will be held at the YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC), and will be taped for later broadcast on the web.

The talk is free and open to the public, so you need to make a reservation for seats. Please call YIVO at 212-294-6127.
The Center for Jewish History / 15 West 16th Street / NYC 10011
Phone: 212.874-3990 / Fax: 212.874-8605

Ya'alili by 8th Day

A chassidic duo blends pop with some instrumental elements of Sephardi music in this New York video taking place in a grocery store. Co-founded by brothers Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus, the duo has released 3 albums. 8th Day's sound is complimented by their catchy lyrics (mostly English with some Hebrew and Yiddish mixed in) and their spirited vocal harmonies. The group will appear at the
Hofstra Playhouse
Motzei Shabbat, January 7 at 8pm.
at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
118 Hofstra University, Hemstead, NY.
for tix: www.jewishtickets.com

This YouTube video has over a million hits.

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir

JIC Choir at Ramat Tamir Beit Avot (Motzei Shabbat Parshat Shmot)
Saturday, January 14 at 10:00pm
Location: Ramat Tamir
Golda Meir Boulevard, Ramot Road
Tel: 02-5724444
http://www.ramat-tamir.co.il/

The Klezmatics Present: An Evening of World Music

Monday, January 9, 2012
Time 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Where Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, New York
Join the Klezmatics and their guests, the legendary Irish band Lúnasa and New York’s French swing ensemble Les Chauds Lapin, for an unforgettable evening of world music at NYC’s Highline Ballroom.

The Brothers Nazaroff!

Sunday, January 8, 2012
Time 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.), Brooklyn, New York

The joyous public debut of the united heirs of legendary outsider Yiddish troubadour Nathan "Prince" Nazaroff, recorder of the mysterious 1954 Folkways EP "Jewish Freilach Songs", the missing link between our post-modern Babylonian exile and the lost Atlantis of Yiddish "Middle-Europe". Scattered all over the globe from Moscow, Berlin, Budapest, and New York, the lost Nazaroff brothers come together one time only at Barbes, in Brooklyn. Together, Pasha Nazaroff, Danik Nazaroff, Meyshke Nazaroff, Zaelic Nazaroff, and Yankl Nazaroff will celebrate the discordant, obscure, jubilant, ecstatic legacy of their Happy Prince.

Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal

APAP showcase Lenka Lichtenberg with guest artist Yair Dalal
January 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
New York Hilton, Regent Parlor 2nd floor, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan
Lenka Lichtenberg & Fray with guest artist Yair Dalal
Nominated 2011 World Music Artist of the Year by Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Prague-born Yiddish singer-composer with a captivating voice mesmerizes world and Jewish audiences everywhere with her latest project Fray. Her showcase also provides an intriguing preview of "Lullaby in Exile", her Yiddish/“Babylonian” collaboration with maestro Yair Dalal.

Sixth Street Synagogue Concert of Radical Jewish Culture

Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Time 9:00pm until 12:00am

Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival with Rafi Malkiel
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music
Sixth Street Synagogue
6th St @1st Ave

Klezmer Brass & Orkestar Bez Sali

Klezmer Brass & Orkestar Bez Sali
Thursday December 22, 2011 9 PM
Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft, downtown Berkeley
$15-$30 suggested donation
no one turned away for lack of funds
co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia

Light Chanukah candles (bring your own Chanukiah), nosh, and dance to klezmer brass and then Turkish-Romani/Bulgarian music by Orkestar Bez Sali. Celebratory ferments by Max Cadji & other delectables by Shayna Marmar (of Honeypie Cooking).

Klezmer Brass
Mike Perlmutter - alto saxophone/clarinet
Noah Levitt - trumpet
Peter Bonos - euphonium
Andrew Cohen - helicon
Sean Tergis - percussion
Aharon Boltsa - percussion

FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS BAND ALLSTARS at THEJEWISH MUSEUM

FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS BAND ALLSTARS
IN CONCERT DECEMBER 27, 2011
CELEBRATING HANUKKAH AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM
1109 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Band Allstars will perform a Hanukkah concert at The Jewish Museum on Tuesday, December 27 at 7:30 pm. This band has toured the world, bringing over the top exuberant energy to traditional Jewish roots music. Their 2005 CD Carnival Conspiracy was Rolling Stone magazine's #1 non-English recording. This concert will feature joyous Jewish-Gypsy-Balkan-jazz party sounds as well as favorite Hanukkah songs in new arrangements. Members of the band are trumpeter/composer Frank London, drummer Aaron Alexander, tuba player Ron Caswell, clarinetist Matt Darriau, trombonist Brian Drye, and accordionist Patty Farrell. Special guests for this concert include multi-instrumentalist and singer Michael Alpert and the Purchase Klezmer Mob.

This concert is part of See the Light(s): Hanukkah 2011 at The Jewish Museum. This annual celebration features eclectic music, family festivities, and more. Visit TheJewishMuseum.org/Hanukkah2011 for a complete guide to Hanukkah at The Jewish Museum.

Tickets for this program are $45 for the general public, and $40 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Tickets for lectures, film screenings and concerts at The Jewish Museum can also be purchased online at the Museum's web site. Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics and Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, and Ben Folds 5, and is featured on over 100 CDs.

Michael Alpert (voice, accordion, violin, guitar, percussion) has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of klezmer music for over 30 years. He in internationally known for his award-winning performances and recordings with Brave Old World, Kapelye, David Krakauer, and Itzhak Perlman, and is noted for his original Yiddish songs.

Aaron Alexander is a New York based klezmer and jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and educator. His original klezmer/jazz/world music band, Midrash Mish Mosh, has appeared at Makor and The Knitting Factory in New York, and at venues in Krakow, Vienna, and Toronto.

Ron Caswell is a member of The Stumblebums and Beat Circus. He has recorded and performed with They Might Be Giants, Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Orchestra, the Royal Brass, the American Composers Orchestra, and Max Roach.

Matt Darriau has been playing Irish, Balkan, klezmer and jazz music with the Klezmatics the band for the past 23 years. He leads his own Balkan rhythm quartet, Paradox Trio, and has composed music for dance, theater, and film including a recent commission from Chamber Music America for his avant-swing band, Ballin' The Jack. Brian Drye is the leader of Bizingas, and performs regularly with the improvising chamber ensemble The Four Bags. He co-leads the group Drye & Drye with his father, baritone saxophonist Howard Drye.

Patty Farrell leads the circus/new-music/comedy group Stagger Back Brass Band, inspired by a love of brass bands he first discovered on the streets of New Orleans. He is also a member of the chamber/folk group Ljova and the Kontraband and Panorama Brass Band, the Mardi Gras season parade outgrowth of Panorama Jazz Band of New Orleans.

An infrared assistive listening system for the hearing impaired is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The stage lighting system has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. The audio-visual system has been funded by New York State Assembly Member Jonathan Bing.

About The Jewish Museum
Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects-paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information
Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's website at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Anat Cohen at JCC in Manhattan

A virtuoso jazz saxophone and clarinet player, Anat Cohen is an established bandleader and prolific composer, conversant in modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles. Recently voted 75th Annual Clarinetist of the Year by Downbeat Readers and by the Jazz Journalist Association, her live show promises to be thrilling, adventurous, and energetic.

Thusday, Dec 15, 8 pm, $15/$20
Anat Cohen Quartet:
Anat Cohen on Clarinet & Saxophone
Bruce Barth on Piano
Joe Martin on Bass
Daniel Freedman on Drums

For tix and info:
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/performances?page=cat-content&progid=24529

She'Koyokh in London

10th December, 7.30pm (doors 6.45)
St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
Tickets: £12.00

St. Ethelburga's are delighted to welcome back She’Koyokh once again. This fabulously gifted Klezmer band, at ease performing in any environment. Inspired by the confluence of Eastern Europe’s musical cultures and traditions, this international ensemble have forged a sound straight from London’s melting pot - an exceptionally diverse repertoire of exhilarating, soulful Eastern European Jewish, Balkan, Turkish and Gypsy music.

Tel: 07776136609
email: music@stethelburgas.org

She'Koyokh final Cafe Mostra appearance of 2011 next Thursday:
15 December, 8pm
Cafe Mostra, 86 Stoke Newington High Street
She'Koyokh http://www.shekoyokh.co.uk/

Two Voices ... One Vision: Noa and Mira in Concert for Coexistence

NOA and MIRA
Thursday, March 15, 2012
7:30pm until 9:30pm
At New York's magnificent Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center

GALA CONCERT FOR COEXISTENCE BENEFITING THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES starring Achinoam Nini (Noa) and Mira Awad, Israel’s Jewish and Arab superstars performing in Hebrew, Arabic and English

For information about ADVANCE VIP PATRON TICKETS & POST-CONCERT CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS, contact info@abrahamfund.org; 212-661-7770, ext. 200

TICKETS TO THE PUBLIC GO ON SALE JANUARY 15th at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office; call 212-721-6500 or purchase tickets online at www.jalc.org (starting January 15th)

Rediscovering Joseph Achron

Monday, December 12, 2011 7:30pm until 9:30pm Location: Conservative Yeshiva (in the Old Beit Midrash), 8 Agron Street, Jerusalem, Israel Join us for pizza, music, and an exciting discussion on the important but forgotten musical legacy of Joseph Achron (1886-1943), one of the greatest composers of "Jewish Classical Music", and the efforts of a young organization to bring his works back to the stage.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Joseph Achron Society.

100 years ago, in December 1911, the brilliant young composer Joseph Achron wrote his first "Jewish" composition: "Hebrew Melody", Op. 33 for violin and piano. From that moment on, Achron became one of the most significant leaders of a movement to compose "Jewish Classical Music", a novel concept which had never before been developed. His work in this field – as a composer, philosopher, and cultural activist – shows a deep struggle with many of the same cultural and identity issues still faced by many Jews today. This, together with the strong artistic and historical significance of his musical work, offers a particularly important and meaningful, if unknown, counterpart to the well-known Jewish national literary and visual art traditions of Sholem Aleichem, Marc Chagall, and others.

Small- and large-group discussions will explore the question of "What makes music Jewish?", a question at the heart of Achron's legacy. We'll read excerpts from Achron's own writings on this subject and listen to samples of his music to spark ideas and further questions. In addition, Joseph Achron Society Founder and President Samuel Zerin will give a brief biographical overview of Achron's life, describe some of Achron's important ideas and achievements, and introduce the current work of the Joseph Achron Society in reviving Achron's forgotten legacy.

Karen Goldberg in Concert

Karen Goldberg, a singer songwriter, will appear in concert on December 3 at 7:30 at Temple Emanuel, 909 Berrymans Lane, Reistertown, MD, Tickets are $10 in advance or at the door. Call 410-526-3676 or email tescaconcerts@gmail.com

Tami and the Klezmen with the Hartford Symphony

Cantor Tami Cherdack, vocalist with Joel Schlank on trumpet
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Time: 1st show 3:00pm; 2nd show 8:00pm
Place: Bushnell Theater
166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106

Description Come hear THE KLEZMEN with The Hartford Symphony on Sat. Dec., 10th----2 shows---3PM and 8PM. Guest Soloist: Walter Mamlok on clarinet.

SONGS OF WONDER

Yiddish Poetry of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Set to Music
CD Release Concert
Basya Schechter
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 8 PM
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleeker St. NYC
212.505.FISH
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
pharaohsdaughter.com

The concert is presented by Moshe Rosenfeld and Golden Land Concerts & Connections, with support from the League for Yiddish/Afn Shvel, as well as the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene, The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter-Ring, Congress for Jewish Culture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.


לידער פֿון וווּנדער
די ייִדישע פּאָעזיע פֿון
אַבֿרהם־יהושע העשעל
באַלייט פֿון מוזיק

קאָנצערט לכּבֿוד דעם אַרויסקום
פֿון דעם נײַעם קאָמפּאַקטל
לידער פֿון וווּנדער
פֿון בתיה שעכטער

LKQ @ Rich Mix

LKQ @ Rich Mix
Start Time: Sunday, November 6 at 7:30pm
End Time: Sunday, November 6 at 10:30pm
Location: Rich Mix
35 - 47 BETHNAL GREEN ROAD,
LONDON, E1 6LA

Tickets £12 adv / £15 door.
Box Office: 020 7613 7498

http://www.facebook.com/LondonKlezmerQuartet

Konzert der Hamburg Klezmer Band

Hamburg Klezmer Band
Sunday, November 13 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm

St. Gertrud Kirche
Immenhof 10
Hamburg, Germany

http://www.st-gertrud-hamburg.de/terminkalender/Klezmer-Konzert-459

"The "Other Side" of Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver

The "Other Side" of Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver - Live at Swallow Hill
Start Time: Sunday, November 13 at 7:30pm
Location: Swallow Hill Music Association
71 East Yale
Denver, CO
(303) 777-1003
$18 Advance; $20 Day of Show. $2 discount for Swallow Hill members
This is a rare opporunity to see Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver stretch their traditional repertoire and pull out some tunes that they don't get to play very often in a public venue.

Rabbi Joe Black and Julie Silver are both internationally recognized contemporary Jewish songwriters and performers. As solo artists, they have shared their music in hundreds of communities around the world. Julie's warmth, charisma and creativity can be felt from the moment she walks on stage and captivates us with her powerful vocals and heartfelt message. Joe's infectious musical style and virtuoso guitar playing teaches while entertaining.

From Boston to Berlin

The Zamir Chorale of Boston invites you to From Boston to Berlin
A cabaret-style evening featuring
the Zamir Chamber Chorus
which will perform highlights of Zamir Chorale of Boston's upcoming concerts in the first Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin, Germany

Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Goethe-Institut*, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
(between Berkeley and Clarendon Streets)
******** Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director
Remarks by
Friedrich Löhr, German Consul General in Boston
Ralph Selig, International Authority on German-Jewish Chazzanut (liturgical music)
Light kosher refreshments will be served.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston is headed to Berlin, Germany, December 15-18, to represent the United States at the Louis Lewandowski Festival. Zamir will join six other choirs from around the world in paying tribute to the German Jewish composer who became world renowned because of his beautiful choral settings of the synagogue liturgy.

Funding for Zamir's travel is made possible in part by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Boston and an anonymous donor.

Complimentary admission for 2011 . Zamir donors $360+

General admission: Suggested donation $36.

Seating is limited, pre-registration only, RSVP

For further information: email manager@zamir.org [mailto:manager@zamir.org] or call: 617-244-6333.
* Directions: by public transportation: Subway (MBTA): Green Line, Copley Station
Parking: Boston Common Garage, entrance on Charles St.; Back Bay Garage, 500 Boylston St., entrance on St. James and Clarendon St.
Both parking garages are a 10 minute walk from the Goethe-Institut.

Love, Loss, Laughter - Favorite Yiddish Folk Songs

The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
with Conductor Binyumen Schaechter
Sunday, October 23, 2011, 4:00 PM
Bet Am Shalom Synagogue, White Plains, NY 10606
What: Afn pripetshik, Der Rebe Elimeylekh, Tum balalayke, Bulbes and a great bouquet of less-known Yiddish folksongs.
Also: Works by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Avrom Sutzkever, Josh Waletzky.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION PROVIDED.
Tickets: Book online at BetAmShalom.org
or call the Synagogue at 914-946-8851

Click here for the additional specifics about the concert:
http://thejppc.org/id3.html

Click here for more info about the JPPC:
http://thejppc.org/

Musical Mosaic Trio

Sunday, October 16 -- JCC of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20852
5 pm
Tickets are $25
Contact Ella Kagan at 301-564-0016 or Pavella2@yahoo.com For more info: www.jccgw.org/

. This band consists of Seth Kibel on assorted woodwinds, along with Moscow-born guitarist and vocalist Vladimir Fridman and, visiting from Germany, Russian balalaika virtuoso Alexander Paperny. We'll be playing lots of Russian folk music, along with a healthy offering of klezmer, latin, classical, and yes, even some American jazz.

Sounds of Survival: Music of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Temple Shalom of Newton Presents
Sounds of Survival: Music of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011 - 7 PM

Featuring Cantorial Soloist Jeri Robins, Northeastern University Gideon Klein Fellow, along with singers and musicians from both Hebrew College and the local community, as they present the stories of survival and the music of these extraordinary women, who played for their lives.

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz sounds like a contradiction in terms. How could beautiful music be produced by an orchestra surrounded by illness and death, starvation and cold, immense suffering, hatred and loss? Yet, participation in this orchestra was likely the source of salvation for the "orchestra girls." This concert will give voice to their experiences and, in so doing, remember not only those who survived, but also those who perished.

Tickets purchased in advance are $20 for general admission, $15 for students and seniors. Tickets purchased at the door will be $25. All tickets will be picked-up the night of the concert.

A dessert reception will follow the concert.

Call Loretta Zack at 617-332-9550 or email lzack@templeshalom.org with any questions.
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Soul of Spain

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 at 4:00 PM
World Festival of Sacred Music in LA presents:
The Soul of Spain
Sephardic Jewish music meets Gypsy Flamenco

Oscar-winning composer and oud master Yuval Ron leads a fiery evening of music and dance, bringing gypsy flamenco and Sephardic Jewish traditions from Andalusia to Santa Monica and the Westside. The 499-seat Broad comes alive with spinning flamenco dancers, undulating belly dancers, passionate singing, and the lightning- fast fingers of Spanish guitar - a night of musical virtuosity in an intimate setting. Featuring gypsy flamenco singer Jesus Montoya, dancer Briseyda Zarate, guitarist Jose Tanaka and the Yuval Ron Ensemble:

Maya Haddi - vocals, Norik Manoukian - woodwind, Jamie Papish - percussion, David Martinelly - percussion, Maya Karasso - Middle Eastern dance, Yuval Ron - oud and artistic director
Location: Broad Stage: 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Admission: $47 - $75 Broad Stage members receive 10% off their order.
More Info and Box office: Tel: 310-434-3200 or http://thebroadstage.com/show_info.php?show_id=11

Upcoming November Concerts for L'Association AMJ

L'association AMJ has two more concerts this Fall in November.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORAS

Brian Bender's Jewish-Latin-African-Caribbean-Middle Eastern band "LITTLE SHOP OF HORAS" will be performing on the second day (Sunday, October 2nd) of the 2011 NORTH QUABBIN GARLIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL in Orange, MA.

Forster's Farm
60 Chestnut Hill Road
Orange, MA

Little Shop of Horas website:
www.littleshopofhoras.com

Band Members:
Brian Bender - trombone, melodica, keyboards, vocals
David Tasgal - clarinet, fiddle, keyboards
Derrik Jordan - fiddle, guitar, congas
Anna Sobel - tabla, dumbek, poyk
Garrett Sawyer - electric bass, double bass
Dave Noonan - drums

Here is the entertainment lineup on Sunday:
Mother Turtle - 12:00
Richard Chase - 1:00
Gaia roots - 2:15
Little Shop of Horas - 3:45

Neshama Carlebach in Eastern US Tour

Neshama Carlebach will be performing in several venues in the coming months. Here is a sample listing:
For more information: See her website http://www.neshamacarlebach.com/
Oct 31, 8PM
Temple Emanuel Social Hall
424 25th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451,
A Night with Neshama Carlebach in memory of Sharon Elstein z'l Admission will be free , donations to Temple Emanuel in memory of Sharon will be gratefully accepted at the door. For further information please call 757-428-2591or send an email to admin@temple-emanuel.hrcoxmail.com

Nov 5, 7:30 PM
BETHESDA JEWISH CONGREGATION (in The Memorial Hall)
6601 Bradley Boulevard
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
Neshama and her band will be performing at Bethesda Jewish Center's 10th Anniversary celebration. For reservations and further information, please visit www.bethesdajewish.org

More visits:
Nov 10, 7PM
The Carlebach Shul
305 West 79th Street
NYC, 10024
Neshama and her band will perform in honor of the Yahrzeit - the 17th anniversary of her father's passing.. For tickets and further information please call 212-580-2391 or visit www.carlebachshul.org


Nov 12, 8PM
Congregation Keneseth Israel
2227 Chew Street
Allentown, PA 18104
Neshama and her band will be performing with The Rev. Roger Hambrick and members of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir. For further tickets and further information, please visit http://www.kiallentown.org


Nov 19, 8PM
The Jewish Center
435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
Neshama and her band will be performing with The Rev. Roger Hambrick and members of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir. For tickets and further information please visit www.thejewishcenter.org or call 609-921-0100

The Boston Camerata celebrates The Sacred Bridge

The Sacred Bridge
December 3, 2011 8:00 pm - Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
For tickets and prices, visit http://www.bostoncamerata.org/tickets.html
Back by popular demand, a second interfaith celebration, a holiday program unlike any other. Discover with The Boston Camerata the common musical roots of Jewish, Arabic, and Christian religions, and the astonishing and beautiful interactions among these traditions. Joel Cohen and The Boston Camerata are joined by members of the Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble.
http://www.bostoncamerata.org/ The Sacred Bridge as performed in concert by The Boston Camerata

I. Songs of exile
Anonymous (Sephardic, Jerusalem) Boray ad ana/Criador hasta cuando Creator, why have you imprisoned your Dove? Why have you put her in chains? She is alone, without her children, crying Father, Father, Father...

Al naharot bavel (Psalm 137)
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, And our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

II. The Sacred Bridge
Anonymous (Gregorian, Ashkenazic) In exitu Israel/ B'tset Yisrael (Psalm 114, Latin and Hebrew versions) When Israel came forth out of Egypt,The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;/Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion...

Obadiah the Proselyte (12th century) Mi al har horeb (Eulogy of Moses)
Who other than Moses stood on Mt Horeb at sudy? Who other that Moses led my flock in the desert, bringing them forth water? To the heavens he came to God. Know, my people, 'That your light has come. The Glory has shone upon you.'

III. Jewish Minstrels in the Christian Middle Ages
Mathieu le Juif (13th century) Par grant franchise
I must sing to you, unfaithful lady who torments me. False lovers make true love perish; I have served you faithfully, yet you mock me. Why have you thus betrayed me? For your love I have forsaken my Law, my God. May God make your face so wrinkled and old that all will hate you, save me!

Sueskint von Trimberg (13th century) Wa heb'uf (melody: Der Wilde Alexander, 13th c.)
What sorrow is now thrust upon me, now that my noble patron is gone. Now I must flee the court, let my hair and beard grow long. I shall live in the old Jewry, with a long coat and hat. Slow shall be my walk, and sad my song.

Isaac Gorni (13th century) A poet's life (translated from the Hebrew) IV. Jewish folksongs of the Mediterranean
Anonymous (Morocco) En ciudad noble y encina (instrumental)

Yo hanino, tu hanina
I am Hanino, you are Hanina, these shall be our names, and the children born to us, Aman, will be like the moon and the sun, Derman, like the moon and the sun...

Morena me llaman
They call me the dark one, but I was born fair; I lost my color from travelling so much. Clad in green and scarlet, the betrothed girl speaks thus to her beloved. A ladder of gold and ivory was made for them to climb...The king's son calls me the dark one, and if he summons me, I shall go.

Anonymous (Balkans) La rosa enfloresce
The rose blooms in the month of May, and my heart saddens with the pains of love. The nightingale sings and sighs... Come quickly, O thou my soul, or else I shall die. Carpentras (18th century) Eftach sephatai berinah (Circumcision)

I open my lips with happiness. We shall sing tomorrow at dinner. I will praise God Highest on the tambourin and the violin... May the child being circumcised today become a wise man; may the exiles and the wanderers be returned; may the redeemer of Zion come!

INTERMISSION

V. Songs of Mystical Spain
Anonymous (Sephardic) Respondemos, Dio de Abraham Answer us, O God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in our hour of death.

attributed to Alfonso el Sabio (1221-1284) Virgen madre groriosa King of Castille
Vigin Mary, full of Glory, Sainted wife and daughter of God, who can glorify you?

Anonymous (Sephardic) Kaddish (instrumental) with Alfonso el Sabio Madre de Dios, ora por nos
Mother of God, pray for us on this day of judgement, when the trumpets shall sound and the dead shall be raised.

Alfonso el Sabio Des oge mas quer eu trobar (instrumental)
Gran dereit (instrumental)

Anonymous (Sephardic, Balkans) Cuando el rey Nimrod
As King Nimrod raised his eyes to heaven, he saw the star above the Jewry, announcing the birth of Abraham, our much loved father.

attributed to Abraham, cantor of Gerona (12th c.?) Ahot ketana
The little sister [i.e. the Jewish people]prepares her prayers and intone her praises. O God heal her sickness, and may her misfortunes cease from now on.

Alfonso el Sabio Muit e benaventurado (instrumental)

Anonymous (Sephardic) El nora alila
O God, grant pardon to the people of Israel; raise your eyes to those who are yours; may Michael, Elijah and Gabriel proclaim the joyful news of redemption.

The Vilna Ghetto Theater

CONCERT - The Vilna Ghetto Theater: Yiddish Poetry Set to Music (1941-1943)

On the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto. Excerpts from four revue shows from the famous Vilna Ghetto Theater. In English (songs in Yiddish)
Sophie Michaux, voice. Eugenia Gerstein, piano. Susanne Klingenstein, lecture.
Thursday, September 8, 7:00 pm
Brandeis University, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Waltham, MA
Sophie Michaux was born in London raised in France. She studied classical music at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, graduating in 2010 with a degree in Early Music. She then went to Venice to study at the Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminar (directed by René Jacob). In the fall of 2010 she came to Cambridge, where she is currently studying voice at the Longy School of Music with Anna Gabrieli. Although Ms. Michaux is concentrating on the classical opera repertoire, her rich mezzo-soprano also makes her a sought-after soloist for jazz and tango ensembles.

Eugenia Gerstein was born in Moscow, Russia. After early training in piano and music theory at Moscow music schools, she pursued graduate studies at Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk, focusing on choral conducting and the teaching of choral disciplines. She taught at the Music Teachers' College in Voronezh, where she chaired the Department of Music Theory. Since leaving Russia in 1994, Eugenia Gerstein embarked on a career in music education and choral conducting.

Susanne Klingenstein was born in Germany. After studying various literatures, history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and Brandeis University, she pursued Yiddish literature and postgraduate work in American literature at Harvard University. In 1991 she earned a PhD in American Studies. She teaches philosophy and history of medical culture as lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard Medical School. She is a regular contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and is currently writing an introduction to Yiddish literature for Beck Verlag in Munich.

Alexandria Kleztet in VA

Saturday, September 10 -- The Alexandria Kleztet
Potomac Overlook Regional Park
2845 Marcey Road
Arlington, VA 22207
703-528-5406
7 to 8:45 pm
Free!

If it rains (always a decent possibility), we go inside the auditorium at the Nature Center!

The Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European/Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. New arrangements of traditional melodies and original songs by members of the band draw upon jazz, classical, world beat, rock and other musical genres to create a unique and entertaining sound.

The band is based in the Washington/Baltimore area and has performed throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. http://www.kleztet.com/

EAST VILLAGE KLEZMER & YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES

East Village Klezmer & Yiddish Culture Series
Tuesdays at The Center for Jewish Arts and Literacy
325 E. 6th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.) NYC (6th St. Community Synagogue)
curated by Aaron Alexander
New Expanded format!

6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
7 - 7:50PM Yiddish Class, led by Dmitri Stiepovitch $20
8 - 9:15PM Concert (see schedule below) $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 - 11PM Klezmer Jam Sessions, led by concert artists, or, Margot Leverett, Pete Rushevsky, Aaron Alexander and others, with Yiddish dance instruction by Lisa Mayer and guests. $5 (free with Concert or Workshop) Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink)

*generous discounts available* for students, seniors and members of 6th St. Community Shul, Workmen?s Circle, CTMD, Klez Kamp and Klez Kanada attendees, and volunteers.
Questions? Contact: info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

*Opening Night: Sept. 13 Jake Shulman-Ment Band*
Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer, improvisor, teacher, and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world's leading practitioners of the klezmer violin. As a child in New York, Jake's immersion in Yiddish culture and the klezmer revival movement, as well as rock, jazz, and classical music, formed him into an eclectic musician with multiple influences at work simultaneously. In an effort to explore more deeply the roots of the Jewish music he grew up with, Jake has done extensive research and study with Roma musicians in Romania and Hungary. He has synthesized his experiences and travels into an original sound, sometimes departing quite far into a realm of experimentation, but always remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music.
Band:
Jake Shulman-Ment: violin, vocals
Benjy Fox-Rosen: bass, vocals
Ben Holmes: trumpet
Art Bailey: accordion
Pete Rushefsky: tsimbl


*Upcoming Concert Schedule:* *Sept. 20 Alicia Svigals Trio
Sept. 27 Adrienne Cooper Ensemble
Oct. 4 Lisa Gutkin w/Pete Rushevsky and Remy Yulzari
Oct. 11 Joel Rubin & Pete Rushevsky
Oct. 18 Sukkos Party with Litvakus, feat.Dmitri Slepovitch
Oct. 25 Jim Guttman Bessarabian Breakdown
Nov. 1 Lisa & Sruli's Family Band
Nov. 8 Eve Sicular, Isle of Klezbos
Nov. 15 Klezmerfest
Nov. 22 Pete Sokolow
Nov. 29 Matt Darriau's Shabbes Elevator
Dec. 6 Michael Winograd Trio
Dec. 13 Joanne Borts
Dec. 20 - Khanike Party with Yale Strom's Hot Pastromi & Aaron Alexander?s Midrash Mish Mosh

Volunteers Needed! please email a@aaronalexander.com

An at Fort in Tel Aviv

Sept 6th 1t 9:30PM
Shablul jazz Tel-Aviv

מועדון שבלול
האנגר 13 נמל תל-אביב 03-5461891
With David Friedman-vibes, Gilad Dobrecky-percussion.It's a rare opportunity to hear David play in Israel. The group will be playing original material by all three musicians. www.shabluljazz.com *special discount if you mention you are on Anat's mailing list!!!*

Hotegezugt in Concert at the Festival des Treteaux

HOTEGEZUGT sera en concert au “Festival des Tréteaux" samedi 17 septembre 2011 à 19h
au Temple de Genthod, 1294 Genthod-Bellevue (Genève, Suisse).

MUSIQUE KLEZMER avec Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Bianca Favez (violon), Patrice Mugny (accordéon), Frédéric Berney (contrebasse) et David Morhain (percussions).

Entrée libre!
Informations: http://www.genthod.ch et www.borzy.info

Concert de Noëmi Waysfeld & Blik et Denis Cuniot

Sunday, September 4 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Cercle Bernard Lazare
10 rue Saint Claude
Paris, France
Journées européennes de la culture et du patrimoine juifs
"Patrimoine et Modernité"
Du Traditionnel à l'electro
Yiddish and Russian music

Best Hits of Klezmer Music & Prince of Kosher Gospel

Gala Evening
Sunday, September 4 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Rolf-Liebermann-Studio des NDR, Oberstraße 120, 20149 Hamburg.
So. 04. September 2011, 19:00 Uhr: GALA-Abend, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio des NDR, Oberstraße 120, 20149 Hamburg.
Einziges Konzert in Hamburg mit der Star-Besetzung der Klezmer-/Jazz /Gospel-/Musical-Szene
Leon Gurvitch Project feat. Special Guests aus den USA: Kantor Joshua Nelson „The Prince of Kosher Gospel“, Musical-Star Ethan Freeman

Das Ensemble um Komponisten und Pianisten Leon Gurvitch entwirft ein neues Bild des zeitgenössischen Jazz in Europa in einer originellen Synthese von osteuropäischer Folklore und Einflüssen der modernen Improvisationskunst. Die fünf Ausnahmemusiker gastieren regelmäßig auf renommierten Festivals und sind mehrmals mit dem Programm „Klezmer meets Jazz“ auf Tour gewesen.

Afroamerikanisch-jüdischer Kantor Joshua Nelson verbindet die klassische jüdische Liturgie mit dem Gospel- Stil und der Rhythmik, aber auch mit den Jazz- und Blues-Elementen der afroamerikanischen Tradition. Nelson ist in der jüdischen Community der USA und in Israel ein Star, der nicht nur Synagogen, sondern Konzertsäle füllt.

Bekannt durch zahlreiche Rollen in Musical-Produktionen wurde der in New York geborene Ethan Freeman von den Lesern der Fachzeitschrift „musicals“ zum besten Darsteller des Jahres 1999 gekürt. Als Solist in Konzerten, Liederabenden und Fernsehshows ist er in 10 Ländern aufgetreten, u.a. in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall und bei den Londoner „Proms“.

Joshua Nelson – Vocal
Ethan Freeman - Vocal
Chad Thorne – Vocal

Leon Gurvitch – Klavier, Melodica, Arrangement
Inna Vysotska – Vocal
Vladimir Karparov – Saxophone, Klarinette
Omar Rodriguez Calvo – Kontrabass
Dimitris Christides – Schlagzeug, Percussion

Eintritt: € 20,- (erm. € 15,-)
Karten an der Abendkasse & im Vorverkauf: Konzertkase GERDES, Rothebaumchaussee 77, 20148 Hamburg.
Tel. 040/45 33 26 oder 040/44 02 98.

Mehr Info:
http://www.leon-gurvitch.de/de/concerts/index.php?id=1273

Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam

Composer Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam September 11 and Caesaria will be presented in the U.S. and Germany in several formats by several ensembles on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11, 2011.

The World and German Premiere performances of the cello choir version of In Memoriam (for 6 celli, adapted by Mirel Iancovici from the version for solo cello and strings) will be given by Mr. Iancovici and I Multicelli in Bottrop at Martinskirche on September 10 at 7:00 PM, in Gelsenkirchen at the New Synagogue on the 11th at noon and in Gladbeck at the Martin Luther Forum Ruhr on the 11th at 6:00 PM. Other composers on these programs include J.S. Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Samuel Barber, Max Bruch and John Tavener. Special guest soloist will be Felicia Hamza.

In Memoriam, in its clarinet/cello transcription, will be performed on 9/11 - 2:30 PM by Cross Island's cellist Suzanne Mueller clarinetist Joseph Rutkowski, Jr. at Firefighters Memorial Park (Jon's Park) in Great Neck Plaza, New York. The ensemble has presented other performances throughout Long Island in 2010 and 2011. ..more
The piece, in its original version for solo cello will be performed on September 11 at 3:00 PM by Robert Jesselson as part of the University September Concert Series in the Recital Hall of the School of Music at University of South Carolina in Columbia. Jesselson has previously performed this version in Vermont, North Carolina, Maine, South Carolina and Ohio, as well as in England, Taiwan and Korea. You can hear his performance online at http://www.kalvos.org. It was also broadcast on Kol Israel radio in an hour-long program of the music of Meira Warshauer in Spring 2002.

This version will also be performed by Diana Golden at a 9:00 AM September 11th Memorial Service at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts, near Walden Pond.

Marvin Rosen will be airing In Memoriam as part of his We Remember September 11 marathon, beginning September 10 at 7:00 PM on WPRB 103.3 FM Princeton University radio. Listen online at http://www.wprb.com/.

Ms. Warshauer's Caesaria for soprano and piano (from a text by Hannah Senesh) will be performed by Serena Hill, soprano as part of September 11, 2001: A Community Remembers - 4:00 PM that day at the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center of Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. Special guests will be the college's dance ensemble.

The composer writes about In Memoriam, "I wrote these sketches during the days of watching the horror of the attacks of September 11: the collapse of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania - I didn't have a piece in mind, or consciously set out to write one. But the sketches seemed to belong together, afterwards, and to fit the solo cello - It is my way of holding each other in our loss."

The piece is also available in versions for violin solo (commissioned by Gregory Harrington and performed by him as part of his five city tour of New Zealand in March 2008), violin and cello duo, violin and bass clarinet duo, clarinet solo, clarinet and bass clarinet duo, and solo cello with string ensemble or string orchestra.

Cellist Andrea Yun presented the solo cello version at the University of Texas San Antonio in 2003.

The version for solo cello and string orchestra was premiered in February 2003 at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, by solo cellist Ina Esther Joostand the King David Strings (members of the Jerusalem Symphony) conducted by Anita Kamien. Ms. Joost also performed the solo version in Israel, the U.S., Brazil and Germany.

Cellist Christopher Johns also performed the soloist and string orchestra version with the Tallis Chamber Orchestra in Wilmington, North Carolina in 2009.

Orit Orbach performed the solo clarinet version at the International Clarinet Festival in Israeland theclarinet and bass clarinet version was premiered in 2004 at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina.

Program notes and a study score for the solo cello version of In Memoriam September 11 are available at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/compositions_chamber.html. String orchestra materials are available at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/compositions.html#.

Audio excerpts of solo cello and cello and strings recordings of the piece can be found at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/sound_links/In_memoriam.html.

Timeless Blessing

Leonard Cohen in 2009 in Ramat Gan. Given the past week up and down the East Coast, thought some folks might feel the need to hear this blessing

המועדון הקאמרי - ברוח יהודית

Wednesday, September 21 · 8:30pm - 10:00pm

המרכז למוסיקה ע"ש פליציה בלומנטל
ביאליק 26
תל אביב

קובי רובינשטיין - כינור
נועה שריד - כינור
גלעד הראל- קלרנית
גילי רדיאן- שדה - ויולה וכינור
הלל צרי - צ'לו
מיכל טל - פסנתר
נתנאל גרינשטיין - פסנתר

בתכנית: פרוקופייב - פתיחה על נושאים יהודיים לקלרנית, רביעיית מיתרים ופסנתר מיו - סויטה לכינור, קלרנית ופסנתר שולמית רן - דואו לקלרנית וצ'לו סטוצ'בסקי - מיני דואט לכינור וצ'לו
בלוך - בעל שם פאול בן - חיים - שירים ללא מלים ג'ון ויליאמס - סויטה לכינור ופסנתר "רשימת שינדלר"

Hy Wolfe: An Evening of Songs and Stories

MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2011
6:30PM CONCERT at YIVO

YIVO presents Hy Wolfe in a concert performance, accompanied by Herbert Kaplan at the piano. New York stage actor and singer Hy Wolfe returns to our stage with a show featuring Yiddish theater and folk songs and stories.

Wolfe worked with, and learned from, many of the brightest stars of the Yiddish theater, and is a living link with a glorious tradition. The show includes a tribute to the late Shifra Lerer, the last of the greats from the classical period of the Yiddish theater.

This is an opportunity to spend a delightful evening with one of the most entertaining performers on the stage today. With English translations throughout the program, this evening will be a pleasure for Yiddish speakers and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Admission: $10 general, $7 YIVO members
Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street - NYC

Hy Wolfe is the artistic director of the Yiddish National Theatre and the director of CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organization). His first language is Yiddish; he acts with equal ease in English and Yiddish. Mr. Wolfe has performed on stage, screen, and television.

Herbert Kaplan toured for nearly 10 years with his brother as a two piano team, then attended Yale University School of Music and the Vienna Akademie. He has been the music director and/or arranger of countless musicals and the composer of four.

Kontzert Hapiyyut Hagadol קונצרט הפיוט הגדול

קונצרט הפיוט הגדול Start Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 11:00pm
Location: היכל התרבות רח' המכבים 5 פתח תקווה
http://www.facebook.com/l/IAQCAZGkZ/www.petah-tikva.muni.il

ענקי הפיוט בעולם לראשונה על במה אחת וביצירות חדשות

משה חבושה - ישראל
דוד שירו - ארה"ב
ניהול מוסיקלי וניצוח: אריאל כהן
בליווי התזמורת המזרחית הישראלית ומקהלת החזנים "שירה חדשה"
כרטיסים במכירה מוקדמת 50 ש"ח באגף לתרבות תורנית 03-9052455, 073-7373866
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242344335805824#!/event.php?eid=242344335805824

Monajat featuring Galleet Dardashti

Thursday, September 15 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Granoff Performance Center, Tufts University
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

Monajat (Fervent Prayer) by innovative performer Galeet Dardashti, is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to the Middle Eastern tradition. Dardashti, a musician and anthropologist of Persian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

As only one of six cities in the US where this dynamic concert will happen, the Boston Jewish Music Festival is very excited to have been selected by the Foundation for Jewish Culture to present this important new work along with our co-presenters, the New Center for Jewish Arts and Culture, the Tufts University Music Department and Tufts Hillel.

Tickets are $25 and are available through the New Center at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/30895

The New Jewish Culture Network has received major support from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation. Additional support provided by the Milken Family Foundation, Sylvia M. Neil, and other individual donors.

Free concert! Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express

Event: Free concert! Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
With Christina Crowder, accordion, Brian Glassman, bass, and Aaron Alexander, drums, who will get everyone up and dancing!!
Start Time: Thursday, August 18 at 7:00pm
End Time: Thursday, August 18 at 10:00pm
Location: Putnam Valley Main Fire House
265 Oscawana Lake Road
PUTNAM VALLEY TOWN BOARD CONCERT SERIES -- FREE and open to the public, thanks to a generous grant from the ANNE ANASTASI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION. No reservations necessary.

More Music in California

Wednesday, August 10, 8:30pm, California Klezmer, at Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center in Berkeley. Dance lesson with Bruce Bierman at 7:30pm. Tickets: $10. More info: 510.525.5054, ashkenaz.com.

Klezmer in London, Sussex, Hampshire and Edinburgh

Late Summer Schedule for klezmer in London, Sussex, Hampshire and Edinburgh
For more klezmer info and resources e-mail
klezmer@hotmail.co.uk, or visit www.ilanacravitz.com

Tuesday 2 August
7pm
Hackney, London
LKQ Summer Cooler @ Pages of Hackney
70 Lower Clapton Road, London E5 0RN

The ever-popular London Klezmer Quartet returns to Pages with a Summer Cooler event. Enjoy live music, Pimms and strawberries while you shop for your holiday reading with 10%discount at Clapton's independent bookseller.
Entry £5 on the door
MORE EVENTS:

Wednesday 3 August
8.30pm
Eastbourne, E. Sussex
LKQ @ The Lamb Folk Club, Eastbourne
The Lamb Inn, High Street, Eastbourne BN21 1HH

LKQ on the south coast. Enjoy exuberant and passionate performances featuring violin, clarinet, accordion and cello. Bring your dancing shoes!
Entry £6

More information at http://www.lambfolkclub.freeuk.com/

Sunday 14 August
Kings Cross, London
Klezmer Session
The Boot, 116 Cromer Street, Kings Cross,
London, WC1H 8BS
Monthly London Klezmer Session

Come along and play your favourite klezmer tunes, and pick up more from fellow enthusiasts. Children welcome. Info and tunes are online at www.ilanacravitz.com/play.htm and www.ilanacravitz.com/resources.htm.
NB There will be no workshop this month.
Jam 2-4pm Free
Transport: Kings Cross/St. Pancras tube


Thursday 8 September
Doors open 7pm
Concert starts 9pm
Camden, London
London Klezmer Quartet @ The Green Note
Camden Parkway, London NW1

After a sell-out CD launch, the London Klezmer Quartet returns to the Green Note to play favourites from the album and new tunes.
Come early and dine at this fine vegetarian cafe and music venue!
Tickets On sale soon @£10 from
http://www.wegottickets.com/evenue/480
Transport: Camden Town tube


3-4 September Sussex Festival of JimNr Lewes

Event celebrating the life of accordionist Jim Marcovitch in music and performance art.
Info http://www.dirtyoldtown.moonfruit.com/#/festival-of-jim/4543799029


Friday 16 September
7.30pm
Bursledon, Hants

Klezmer Keilidh Greyladyes Arts Foundation, Bursledon, Southampton, Hampshire SO31 8BX

Fun for all the family, with Ilana calling the dances and the LKQ providing the music.
Part of the Hampshire Hog the Limelight rural touring scheme.
Tickets and info 023 8040 4649, susanosmond@hotmail.com


Monday 19 September
for 7 weeks6.30-8pm
Kings Cross, London
London Klezmer OrchestraOne KX, 120 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8BS

The London Klezmer Orchestra meets to practise repertoire and arrange music in a relaxed environment. All instruments and levels welcome. More info ( http://www.ilanacravitz.com/klezmerorchestra.htm ) and tunes ( http://www.ilanacravitz.com/music&sound.htm )
Please call 0782 551 0881 or email klezmer@hotmail.co.uk if you would like to attend.

Advance registration is now open for the autumn Klezmer Orchestra season (September to December fortnightly on a Monday). 7 classes @ £50 for the term if paid in advance, or £9 per session to drop in. Contact klezmer@hotmail.co.uk to book your place.

Location: corner of Judd Street, off the Euston Road directly opposite St Pancras/British Library


24-25 September
Edinburgh, Scotland
KlezEd! Edinburgh
The JMI Klezmer Caravan hits Edinburgh for a klezmer weekend!
Info Watch www.ilanacravitz.com/events.htm for updates or email klezmer@hotmail.co.uk to be kept informed.

Buy London Klezmer Quartet CDs via the website: click here for CDs or click here to go direct to PayPal
Download the album or individual tracks from http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LondonKlezmerQuartet

Hazmat Modine at Summernights

Thursday, August 4, 7:30 pm Concert-- SUMMERNIGHTS: HAZMAT MODINE Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the early 60s, blending early blues, hokum, jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R&B, and Jamaican rocksteady.

Tickets: $15 general public; $12 students/over 65; $10 Jewish Museum members

The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue
at 92nd Street, New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3200
Open Mon-Tue,Fri,Sun 11am-5:30pm; Thu 11am-8pm
Subway: 96 St
INFORMATION HOTLINE:
To reach the Museum's offices, call: 212.423.3200.
ONLINE INFORMATION:
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

Summer on the Hudson: FREE Riverside Park Divahn Concert

Galeet Dardashti and Divahn
Sunday, August 7 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location Riverside Park South, NYC
Summer on the Hudson: Amplified Sundays -
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
FREE
Featuring:

Galeet Dardashti: lead vocals, guitar, back-up percussion
Eleanor Norton: cello, vocals
Elizabeth Pupo-Walker: congas and cajon, vocals
Sejal Kukadia: tabla, vocals
Rebecca Cherry: violin, vocals

Pier I in Riverside Park South between between 65th/72nd Streets
Map of Location: http://maps.google.com/?t=​h&daddr=40.7797%2C+-73.988​9+%28Pier+I%29

Iranian-descended singer Galeet Dardashti leads Divahn's edgy all-female power-house ensemble. The group has engendered an international following, performing in venues ranging from international concert halls to the most prestigious clubs in NYC. Infusing traditional and original Middle Eastern Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies, entrancing improvisations, and funky arrangements, Divahn's thrilling live shows feature lush string arrangements, eclectic Indian, Middle Eastern, and Latin percussion, and vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. “Divan,” a word common to Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic, means a collection of songs or poetry. Through their music, the group creatively underscores common ground between diverse Middle Eastern cultures and religions.

S o u n d i n g W o r d at Baruch College Performing Arts Center

S o u n d i n g W o r d at Baruch College Performing Arts Center Tickets are $20 online and $25 at the door. Tickets for seniors and students are $18 online and $20 at the theater door. For tickets reservation call (866) 811 4111 or buy on line at www.teatroiati.org/program​s/pam

P E R F O R M I N G A R T S M A R A T H O N 2 0 1 1
Featuring:
S o u n d i n g W o r d: A powerhouse 2-day double bill of multi-media music engagement with performances of Avant-Folk & Contemporary Jazz by Sabrina Lastman & Sasha Bogdanowitsch.

Baruch Performing Arts Center
July, Saturday 30 - 10 pm
July, Sunday 31 - 3 pm

S o u n d i n g W o r d, a beautiful temporal and timeless storytelling of original compositions with voice, original instruments, walkmans, electronics and video, highlights two original performances:

River of Painted Birds by Sabrina Lastman is a musical performance created for solo voice, walkmans, electronics and video, combining composed sections and free improvisation. This piece is inspired by the poetry and texts of former political prisoners that wrote as a response to the repression, both during and after the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). River of Painted Birds was commissioned by NYSCA and premiered in 2010. This presentation at PAM will be a renewed version of the piece. Texts by Mauricio Resencof, Edda Fabbri, Henry Engler, and Adolfo Wasem. Visuals by Helen Dennis. Linux Audio Programming by Marcos Wasem. www.sabrina-lastman.com

Present, Past and Future Sees by Sasha Bogdanowitsch is an original solo multi-media work for voice, original instruments and electronics that explores the ancient vocal and instrument relationship of the bard through contemporary ears. This work utilizes various extended vocal techniques and text from a variety of poets alongside the composer’s unique language of sounds to dive deep into what the present, past and future holds. Present, Past and Future Sees was premiered in 2010. This presentation at PAM will be a renewed version of the work. www.sashabmusic.com

For more information: www.iatitheater.org
http://youtu.be/WmIxF-FwEK​4
Twitter Hashtag: #EVsound0884

LENKA LICHTENBERG a YAIR DALAL– BABYLONSKÉ PŘÍBĚHY V JIDIŠ

Thursday, July 28 · 9:00pm - 11:30pm
Location JazzTime
Krakovská ul. 19
Prague, Czech Republic

Koncert kanadské zpěvačky, bývale členky Semaforu (Lenka Hartlová), s Izraelským virtuozem a vynikající českou kapelou. Ashkenazi-Sephardic hudební fusion a ethno-jazz. Puvodni i tradicni skladby v neobvyklých aranžmá. Yair Dalal: oud, housle, zpěv; Lenka Lichtenberg: zpěv, klavir; Tomáš Reindl: tabla, perkuse; David Dorůžka: kytary; Petr Dvorský: kontrabas; Bharata Rajnosek: saxofony, flétna, klarinet, pozoun.

Klezmatics at HighLine Ballroom NYC

The Klezmatics

Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 8:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM Doors)
HighLine Ballroom,
431 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
http://www.highlineballroom.com/

GOYLEM ! Free Music and Life Concert in Geneva

Lundi 25 juillet 2011 à 12h30 GOYLEM ! sera en concert pour "Musique et Vie" à l'Eglise Luthérienne (Place du Bourg-de-Four, angle rue Verdaine et rue de la Fontaine, Genève, Suisse).
Musique klezmer avec Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Bianca Favez (violon) et Patrice Mugny (accordéon).
Entrée libre. Collecte en faveur de l’enseignement de l’art dans les écoles au Kosovo, afin de faciliter la compréhension et l’épanouissement des enfants, d’après une idées de Yehudi Menuhin et Werner Schmitt.
Informations: www.musique-vie.ch/Homepage francais.htm

AUTO DE FE Concert

AUTO DE FE - CONCERT commemorating Crypto-Jews
With Vanessa Paloma and Ariel Lazarus
Start Time: Tuesday, August 9 at 9:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, August 9 at 10:30pm

Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
8 Agron Street, P.O.Box 7456
Jerusalem, Israel
Tel. 02-625-6386 Ext. 4
A concert in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino, Haketía, Judezmo) of music as seen through the eyes of the Crypto-Jewish Community.

AUTO DE FE
(the official name the Inquisition gave for the ceremony to burn people at the stake)

AUGUST 9 AT 9PM
Doors open at 8:45

A concert in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino, Haketía, Judezmo) of music as seen through the eyes of the Crypto-Jewish Community.

Starting with the forced conversions of 1391 that ravaged Spanish Jewish communities and culminating with the Expulsion Edict of 1492, the great community of Spanish Jews was decimated and splintered. Many converted, others migrated throughout the Mediterranean and to the Americas and the land of Israel. Those who converted and stayed in the Iberian Peninsula were confronted with five centuries of Inquisitional horrors and harassment.

This concert features music that was sung by Conversos in Europe, Spain and the Americas that kept them attached to their Judaism as well as modern compositions by their descendants. Songs from the community in Belmonte, Portugal, as well as from Anousi poets in New Mexico and California linger together with prayers kept through the generations by women.

In our generation we are witnessing the return of unprecedented numbers of descendants of Conversos back into Judaism. This concert is dedicated to them and their strength in withstanding the test of time.

Internationally renowned singer and researcher of Judeo-Spanish, Vanessa Paloma, on medieval harp and vocals will be accompanied by composer and performer Ariel Lazarus on guitar with percussion accompaniment

SUMMERNIGHTS Series at Jewish Museum

Thursday Nights are SUMMERNIGHTS at The Jewish Museum
The William Petschek Family Music Program
Tix: www.thejewishmuseum.org/SummerNights or call 212.423.3337

SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.

Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors (65+) $12
Slavic Soul Party! - Thursday, July 21
Brash and strong as slivovitz, these musicians forge virtuoso brass band music melding Balkan and Gypsy sounds with American jazz and soul.

Michael Winograd Trio - Thursday, July 28
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions.

The Michael Winograd Trio will be performing on Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 pm as part of The Jewish Museum's popular SummerNights concert series. The ensemble - clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell, and trombonist Daniel Blacksberg - presents a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions. Winograd has performed at such international festivals as KlezKamp, KlezKanada, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, the Klezmer Workshop in Paris, the Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, and the Dawson City Music Festival, and has been called "one of the truly great new bandleader-composers on the New York City klezmer scene (The Forward)."

Hazmat Modine - Thursday, August 4
Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the 50s and early 60s, blending elements of early blues, hokum jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R & B and Jamaican rocksteady.

The Jewish Museum is located on 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, in Manhattan.

Different Trains by Steve Reich Performances in Jerusalem

A masterpiece by America's greatest living composer Steve Reich The Fleshquartet, part of the Jerusalem Season of Culture Series

When was the last time that a musical performance really took you to a different place? Different Trains, Steve Reich's timeless Grammy Award- winning composition is making its way, as we write, to the Kishle (a former Ottomon prison) at the Tower of David Museum, where Stockholm's very own Jewish Theatre will perform a fascinating visual interpretation of his work. Join us for a riveting and unique audio-visual experience.

Now thru July 21 For ticket Information: http://www.towerofdavid.org.il/English/General/Tower_of_David-Museum_of_the_History_of_Jerusalem The performances will premier on June 30 and will continue to July 21, running from Monday-Thursday and Saturday. Please book in advance: Tower of David Museum *2884 Bimot *6226 Entrance to the show involves a walk in the castle moat the stairs. We recommend comfortable shoes and warm clothes. Regretfully, due to the show's unique location, it is not accessible for people with dissabilities. The location has 120 sits capacity, unmarked. No Late entry. Photography, recording and documentation strictly prohibited. Different Trains by Steve Reich at The Jewish Theatre Stockholm From http://www.jerusalemseason.com/event/different-trains-steve-reichm: "It's not surprising that the New York Times crowned American Steve Reich "one of the most important living composers." His startling talent and fearless experimentation have produced a rich, varied and formidable musical repertoire.

Now Reich’s Grammy Award winning Different Trains (produced by The Jewish Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden) is on its way to Jerusalem, or more specifically, to an ancient Turkish prison, the Kishle, at the Tower of David; where it will be performed by Swedish string quartet The Fleshquartet amidst billowing glass shapes in play with light and shifting transparencies. Different Trains is a piece in three movements written for a string quartet. The melodies in the work are interwoven with recorded, spoken voices.

The prison, which was specially renovated for the event and holds a maximum of 120 people, was built above newly discovered archaeological finds dating back to the Second Temple period that will be revealed to the public for the first time as part on this visual concert.

The Fleshquartet (photo: Jonas Lindstr?m) performs this piece in a glass installation by artist Ann Wahlstrom. Large glass drops hover in the darkened room. Specially designed lighting units bring out refractions of different colors in them. Some drops are lying on the floor, but none has broken. “We wanted the objects to feel as large as people, so that the audience would be physically affected by them as well,” says Wahlstrom.

“I want the performance to be like an elegy", says Pia Forsgren, director of The Jewish Theatre and responsible for the stage direction as well as the concept and set design of the concert. "I want the images to transmit beauty, too. The beautiful glass shapes could be souls or bodies. Beauty here is a way of making communication possible, of allowing us to take in the unspeakable and of giving us strength". The visual concert also featured a new composition written by The Fleshquartet – Tears Apart – as a reflection and commentary on Reich’s Different Trains.

Steve Reich, one of the pioneers of minimalism, has had a strong influence on contemporary art music; the slow, repetitive rhythms, the phasing into different tempi, the shifts in canon. Different Trains was Steve Reich’s first work in which he “extracted” music from speech; he later developed this concept in The Cave and City Life.

The Fleshquartet has been active for over 25 years and has collaborated with a great variety of artists, including Robyn, Moondog and Elvis Costello. They have been involved in various productions for the stage, for instance dance performances by the choreographer Mats Ek and the Cullberg Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Paris Opera. In 2007 they released the album Voices of Eden."

Artistic Director, Jerusalem Season of Culture: Itay Mautner

Ger Mandolin Orchestra

You'll really enjoy listening to this sampler of the GMO, Ger Mandolin Orchestra. You'll probably recognize at least the first tune in this video. Enjoy!



Ger Mandolin Ensemble / 5-minute sampler - The Ger Mandolin Orchestra (GMO) is a memorial project of reviving the Jewish Mandolin Orchestra that was active in Gora Kalwaria,Poland between 1920 to 1930. Most of its members died in the Holocaust. Renowned mandolin artist Mike Marshall is the musical director of the ensemble that includes many of the best mandolin artists in the world. In addition to Mike Marshall, these include Avi Avital, Radim Zenkl, Jeff Warschauer, Eric Stein, Chris Acquavella, Dana Rath, Adam Roszkiewicz, Tim Connell, Sharon Gilchrist and Brian Oberlin.

Ditmas Acoustic @ The Sanctuary

Ditmas Acoustic @ The Sanctuary Sunday, July 24 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm Location Temple Beth Emeth of Flatbush 83 Marlborough Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11226-4301 · Phone: (718) 282-1596

Hampton Synagogue Hosts National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

6TH ANNUAL LABOR DAY WEEKEND CONCERT WITH THE NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE-FOLKSBIENE
Saturday, September 3, 9:00pm ~ Berman Sanctuary
Followed by dessert reception in the Edelstein Hall of the Kaylie Center
The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene presents “Rising Stars of the Yiddish Stage” Committed to finding new ways of bringing this rich cultural heritage to life for new generations, the Folksbiene presents an electrifying concert starring some of the hottest young talent performing new songs and new interpretations of the classics.

Dani Marcus | Nimmy Weisbrod | Rachel Yucht | Daniella Rabbani | Avram Mlotek | Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch | Shane Baker

Musical Direction: Zalmen Mlotek
An internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music, Zalmen Mlotek is the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene. Mlotek brought Yiddish-Klezmer music to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages as co-creator of Those Were the Days, the first bilingual musical

www.folksbiene.org | Subtitled in English | RSVP: 631.288.0534 ext.10 or online @ www.thehamptonsynagogue.org

The Hampton Synagogue
154 Sunset Avenue
Westhampton Beach, NY 11978

The Jewish Women of Rebetika

Monday, June 20, 2011
7pm
Legendary Greek Jewish Singers of the '20s. '30s, & '40s
Songs and Personal Histories of
Roza Eskenazi, Amalia Baka, Stella Haskil, and Victoria Hazan
featuring:
Carol Freeman - Vocals
Beth Bahia Cohen - Violin
Haig Manoukian - Oud

LOCATION: The JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St.
New York City
Information: 646-505-5708
www.jccmanhattan.org/multicultural
Admission $20, $15 members

Within the provocative world of the early twentieth century urban Greek Cafe Amans and Rebetika Houses, where flamboyant characters sang about desperate love, life, and death, and the seedy side of life, there were a surprising number of celebrated Greek Jewish female vocalists. Included among them were Roza Eskenazi, one of the most renowned Greek singers of all time, and Stella Haskil, who performed with the most famous musicians and composers of the time. On this side of the Atlantic, Jewish women, notably Amalia Baka and Victoria Hazan, found center stage in the immigrant Greek nightclubs and community centers of major urban centers, as well as within the American ethnic recording industry.

Although remarkably celebrated for their musical contributions to urban Greek cafe music and Rebetika, their life stories as Jewish women are not widely known. Using live performance and excepts from personal and family interviews, acclaimed vocalist Carol Freeman, together with virtuoso musicians Haig Manoukian and Beth Bahia Cohen, pay tribute to these Greek Jewish singers with a fascinating look into the songs and lives of these extraordinary women.

Information: 646-505-5708
www.jccmanhattan.org/multicultural
Admission $20, $15 members

GYPSY FEST 12

Saturday, May 28 · 9:00pm - 11:30pm Location
בית שמואל
World Union for Progressive Judaism
Jerusalem, Israel
Created By
סווינג דה ג'יטאן - הופעות, Pavel Levin, Oren Sagi
More Info
וידאו מהחזרה למופע- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQjLkHOA44

מופע בכורה פסטיבל האביב 2011
שבת, 28.05.11 21:00 בית שמואל - ירושלים - 02-6203463
http://www.beitshmuel.com/gypsy_fest.asp
משתתפים: שלישיית סווינג דה ג'יטאן: יעקב חוטר, אורי בן צבי- גיטרה צוענית, אורן שגיא- קונטרבס,

אמנים אורחים:
פבל לוין- כינור
אמיל קרויטר- אקורדיאון
גל דהן- קלרינט
אלון שגיא- גיטרה צוענית
שיר ­­­טפר- גיטרה צוענית
רקדנים: שירלי אושר, רן דוברובינסקי, מיכל תדמור, ערן טובי.
02-6203463
http://www.beitshmuel.com/gypsy_fest.asp
"Свинг де Житан" представляет новую программу в стиле "цыганский джаз" ("мануш").
В концерте принимают участие:
трио "Свинг де Житан" в составе-Яков Хотер,Ори Бен Цви-цыганские гитары,
Орен Саги-контрабас.
Гости программы:
Эмиль Кройтор-аккордеон
Павел Левин-скрипка
Алон Саги,Шир Тепер-гитары.
Танцоры:Ширли Ошер,Рон Добровинский,Яна Мейстельман,Эран Тоби.

Ditmas Acoustic Presents: Dina Maccabee & Myk Freedman

Ditmas Acoustic Presents: Dina Maccabee & Myk Freedman
Start Time: Sunday, June 5 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, June 5 at 10:00pm
Dina Maccabee (San Fransisco)
http://www.myspace.com/dinamaccabee

Myk Freedman (Brooklyn)
http://www.myspace.com/mykfreedman

The Sanctuary at Temple Beth Emeth
83 Marlborough Road, Brooklyn, NY 11226 (@ Church Ave)
Subway: Q train to Church Ave.
$10

Yiddish Songs from Vitebsk with Yale Strom, Elizabeth Schwartz & Franka Lampe

Thursday, May 19 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Internationales Theater Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstr. 5 - 7 / Zoo-Passage Tür Nr. 17
YIDDISH SONGS FROM CHAGALL'S VITEBSK
Gefühlvolles Klezmer-Konzert mit dem weltweit führenden
Künstler-Ethnographen und Violinisten Yale Strom,
der unverwechselbaren Klezmer-Sängerin Elizabeth Schwartz,
und der Balkan- und Klezmer-Akkordeonistin Franka Lampe.

Do 19.05.2011 19h00

Yale Strom (vio) betreibt intensive Forschung in jüdischen Gemeinden und Zigeunergemeinden Zentral- und Osteuropas sowie auf dem Balkan und zählt zu den führenden Künstler-Ethnographen des Klezmers. Er mischt Hasidic nigunim (Melodien meist ohne Text und Wort), Musik der Roma, Jazz, Klassik, Balkan - sowie sephardische Motive und spielte u.a. mit Andy Statman und Alicia Svigals. Elizabeth Schwartz (voc) machte sich einen Namen durch die dunkle Klangfarbe ihrer Stimme. Kritiker vergleichen Sie mit Größen wie Edith Piaf und Maria Tanase. Sie tritt in Jazz-Clubs, Konzerthäusern und in den größten Synagogen Europas u.a. in Budapest und Straßburg, auf. Franka Lampe (acc) erhielt Unterricht bei dem profilierten Akkordeonisten Alan Bern. Sie spielte bei Bands wie „Andrea Pancurs Federmentsh“ und „Brave Old World“ (USA). Lampe ist eine gefragte Bühnenmusikerin und Komponistin u.a. am Gorki Theater in Berlin.

Presse:
“Violinist Yale Strom reinvents the emotional shtetl music scene in which Gypsy and Jewish musicians slipped in and out of each other’s traveling bands in Eastern Europe”. (Montreal Gazette; Top Ten World Music Artists 2007)

“It is her voice that captivated the audience. Schwartz's smoky tones could single-handedly revive the magic of Jiddish songs. (...)” (San Diego Jewish Journal)

A soulful evening with Yiddish songs from Chagall’s Vitebsk. Emotional and captivating!

www.yalestrom.com| www.frankalampe.de
www.voiceofklezmer.com

Shpilkes Klezmer Band in Framingham May 28

Shpilkes Klezmer Band plays the lively, living melodies of the Jewish people, from the playful tunes and Yiddish songs of Klezmer to the passionate rhythms and Ladino songs of Sephardic music. SKB plays with shpilkes; an energy that makes it hard to sit still and encourages audiences to sing along with familiar melodies and even dance in the aisles. You can hear them at The Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 8:00 PM.
The Amazing Things Arts Center
160 Hollis St
Framingham MA 01702
Contact: 508-405-ARTS (2787). Tickets: $15, student/senior $14, member $12.
www.amazingthings.org
www.myspace.com/shpilkes

Opera at the Synagogue Choir of Rome's Tempio Maggiore for the first time in New York

Centro Primo Levi and the Museum of Jewish Heritage host Divinamente NYC Festival on the 150th Anniversary of the unification of Italy.

Sunday, May 22 at 2:30 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
Admission: $15 and $10 for MJH, CPL, ICI members
Box Office: (646) 437- 4202 - www.mjhnyc.org


Welcome remarks by the Consul General of Italy Francesco M. Talò and the Representative for International Affairs of the Jewish Community of Rome Giacomo Moscati. Introduction by Francesco Spagnolo, Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

For the first time in the US, the Choir of the "Tempio Maggiore" conducted by the renowned tenor Claudio Disegni and featuring the hazan of Rome, Alberto Funaro, and organist Federico del Sordo, will expose the New York public to the unique flavors and variations of the liturgical tradition of the Jews of Rome.

The concert will open with Giuseppe Verdi's "Và Pensiero," the Hebrew Chorus from Nabucco. This magnificent choral work, which has become a symbol of the unification of Italy, recalls the story of the Babylonian exile after the destruction of the First Temple. The program will celebrate unique examples of late 19th century compositions from the Jewish communities in Florence, Livorno and Rome as well as a 1920 version of Hatikvà by Armando Sorani based on the 17th Century ballade La Mantovana.

http://www.primolevicenter.org/Programs/Entries/2011/5/22_May_22___Divinamente_NYC_Festival_at_the_Museum_of_Jewish_Heritage_The_Choir_of_Romes_Tempio_Maggiore.html

Klezmer Concert Features Music of Dave Tarras

Yale Strom, one of the leading artists of klezmer culture, will perform the music of the "Benny Goodman of Klezmer", Dave Tarras - many of these Tarras' melodies have never been published or recorded before now.
Thursday, May 5 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!!!
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library
1 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY

Hot Pstromi clarinet virtuoso NORBERT STACHEL (Pink Floyd, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Ross, Roy Hargrove, Tower of Power, Boz Scaggs, Sheila E and many other world-class bands) will bring new exciting artistic interpretation to Tarras's tunes.

Strom will also discuss his new book, Dave Tarras:The King of Klezmer (Or-Tav), a Tarras-family authorized biography. Tarras is considered the most influential klezmer musician of the twentieth century. Even the great be-bop artists Charlie Parker and Miles Davis traveled to the Catskills to study the technique of this complex and compelling virtuoso. The book includes never-before published photos, music and biographical details.

Concert lineup: Norbert Stachel - reeds, Peter Stan - accordion, Sprocket - bass, David Licht percussion and Yale Strom - violin.

1 Grand Army Plz # 1
Brooklyn, NY 11238-5681
(718) 230-2100
Subway: Eastern Pkwy - Brooklyn Museum

Di Tsvey

Thursday, May 12 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Congregation Tifereth Israel
1354 E Broad St
Columbus, OH 43205
Steven Greenman
The "Di Tsvey in May Tour" continues with a fabulous concert at:
Congregation Tifereth Israel – Cultural Arts Concert
Steven Greenman and Pete Rushefsky will be joined with special guests:
Cantor Jack Chomsky – Tifereth Israel
Cantor Star Trompeter – Tifereth Israel
Gail Rose - Temple Beth Shalom

Tickets: $10
Phone: 614-253-8523, x. 115
Contact email: CantorJC@aol.com
www.tiferethisrael.org

Jewish Ghetto Cabaret - Yom HaShoah Program

Temple Emunah Yom HaShoah Program
Cost: FREE, and registration is not required.
When: May 01, 2011 | 07:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Where: Temple Emunah, 9 Piper Rd, Lexington, MA, Lexington, MA 02421
781-861-0300; wheelchair accessible

Special Features:
Jews in the various Ghettos during the Shoah had numerous cabarets of musicians and singers. Songs ranged from the sad and deeply somber in response to the death and horrific conditions within and without of the Ghettos, to parodies on the Nazis, to the typical songs sung in the cabarets of Europe before the war. The caliber was so high as to attract the attendance of German soldiers out of uniform.

Our Jewish Ghetto Cabaret program will be rich and varied and be presented by a small musical ensemble, soloists, and the Mak'haylah. You might be led to clap or laugh or cry deeply as did the Jews in the Ghettos. That is what life was like. Join us in commemorating the courage and zest for life that Jews displayed during the Shoah.

9th Daniel Pearl World Music Day-- Concert eSACHERe

Concert "eSACHERe" is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland and as part of the 9th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days.
"eSACHERe"
(12 composers of Swiss patron Paul Sacher)

CONRAD BECK (1901-1989): Drei Epigramme
LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003): Les mots sont alles ...
PIERRE BOULEZ (1925): Messagesquisse*
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976): Tema 'Sacher'
HENRI DUTILLEUX (1916): 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
WOLFGANG FORTNER (1907-1987): Thema und Variationen
ALBERTO GINASTERA (1916-1983): Punena No. 2
CRISTOBAL HALFFTER (1930): Variation uber das Thema eSACHERe
HANS WERNER HENZE (1926): Cappriccio
HEINZ HOLLIGER (1939): Chaconne
KLAUS HUBER (1924): Transpositio ad infinitum
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI (1913-1994): Sacher-Variation

FRANTISEK BRIKCIUS - cello
*Guests: JAN TALICH - conductor & eSACHERe Cello Ensemble

Monday 9th May 2011, 7pm
The National Gallery - Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague (U Milosrdnych 17, Praha 1, Czech Republic).
Print out Invitation "eSACHERe":
http://www.Brikcius.com/Doc/PressKit/2011.V.09.eSACHERe.Invitation.pdf R.S.V.P. ( rezervace@Brikcius.com )
Under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland CONCERT eSACHERe - 12 COMPOSERS OF SWISS PATRON PAUL SACHER (1906 - 1999)

You are invited to the concert of Swiss project "eSACHERe", by Czech cellist Frantisek Brikcus, held on Monday 9th May 2011, 7pm, at the National Gallery - Convent of St Agnes of Bohemia in Prague (U Milosrdnych 17, Praha 1, Czech Republic).

Concert "eSACHERe" will feature Czech Cellist Frantisek Brikcius with compositions of 12 world composers (Conrad Beck, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristobal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutoslawski). Event will host conductor Jan Talich and eSACHERe Cello Ensemble.

In the occasion of the 70th birthday of Swiss composer and maecenas Paul Sacher (1906 - 1999), Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked 12 composers to create dozen compositions for cello (eSACHERe). They were partially premiered in Zurich 2nd May 1976. Compositions are using theme from the name of Paul Sacher (Es, A, C, H, E, Re).

Concert "eSACHERe" is held under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland and as part of the 9th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days.

Program was supported by scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. In the cooperation with the National Gallery in Prague, Tiskap, Railreklam, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Entry is free, but thanks to limited capacity of the concert hall, we recommend to reserve your seats on following email: rezervace@Brikcius.com . More details on websites http://www.Brikcius.com .

FRAUENSTIMMEN: Women's Voices from Ravensbrück

May 1, 2011, 7pm - Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day.
Conceived and Directed by School of Jewish Music student and faculty member Lynn Torgove, 2011Gideon Klein Scholar. Performed by students from the Cantorial and Rabbinical program at Hebrew College, New England Conservatory and their friends, School of Jewish Music student Becky Wexler, Music Director.

This Musical Cabaret portrays the lives of 7 women who were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp - the only camp originally built as an all women's prison.

May 1, 2011, 7pm - Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. This is a 90 minute performance without intermission and there will be a post-performance discussion with performers.
The Fenway Center, Boston Massachusetts
77 St. Stephen Street, on the corner of St. Stephen Street and Gainsborough Street.
Sponsored by Northeastern University Department of Jewish Studies and Hebrew College.

Love, Loss, Laughter Yiddish Concert

The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus presents a Yiddish Song concert,
Sunday, June 5, 2011
4:30 PM
at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Benyumin Schaechter, conductor
Tickets A$30/$20. Groups over 10 Discounts available. Contact: symphonyspace.org or
Call: 212-864-5400

TORONTO JEWISH FOLK CHOIR'S 85TH ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011 AT POSLUNS AUDITORIUM The Toronto Jewish Folk Choir celebrates its 85th annual Spring concert by commemorating the original immigrant workers who founded the choir. Its performance - under conductor Alexander Veprinsky - features special guests Beyond The Pale (2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards' Instrumental Group of the Year).

The concert takes place at the Posluns Auditorium at Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, north entrance, 2nd floor (wheelchair accessible), Sunday, May 15, 2011, 3 p.m.

Tickets are $25; seniors and students, $20; children 12 and under free. Information and ticket reservations may be obtained by calling 416-789-5502 or e-mailing tjfolkchoir@sympatico.ca Info will also be available at www.winchevskycentre.org/institutions/choir.html and at the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir on Facebook.

The Choir's major work, In Amerike, vividly captures the immigrant experience in an evocative suite by Winnipeg composer Sid Robinovitch. The words are from In Kanade (In Canada), a two-volume novel in verse by the late Montreal Yiddish poet Sholem Shtern. The Choir performs the work with Beyond The Pale, the klezmer sextet that captured the "Pushing the Boundaries" prize at the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Awards, and was named Instrumental Group of the Year.

Celebrating her 35th season as the Choir's accompanist, pianist Lina Zemelman plays the piano part of In Amerike, and accompanies the Choir in a lively mix of music, in Yiddish, Hebrew, English and more. Soloists are sopranos Miriam Eskin and Galina Kuznetsov, tenor Martin Houtman, baritone Charlie Sise and bass Herman Rombouts.

Founded in 1925 primarily by immigrant garment workers, the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir is Canada's longest continuing Jewish performance group, with an illustrious history. While singing in many languages, the Choir prides itself on helping to keep the Yiddish language alive through its repertoire. More information on the Choir is at The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003439

The May 15 concert is presented with the assistance of the Toronto Arts Council, and Choir members and friends.

JTS Cantorial School Awesome Concert

JTS Cantorial School Awesome Concert Start Time: Thursday, April 7 at 7:30pm Location: 3080 Broadway

Afro-Semitic Experience in Middleton, CT

The Afro-Semitic Experience will be performing in Middletown, Connecticut in a couple of weeks. They are performing in concert on Saturday, April 16, 8:00 p.m., at Congregation Adath Israel 8 Broad Street, in Middletown. If you want more information about this concert the number at Adath Israel is (860) 346-4709.

Visit the still fairly new Afro-Semitic Experience web site. The site has lots of music, photos, and info about the band. Plus there is a news page that is updated on a fairly regular basis. The address is http://afrosemiticexperience.net/

ATELIER KLEZMER

Vendredi 8 avril 20h30; concert de Hotegezugt avec Vincent Thvenaz ( l?orgue!!!) au Temple de Chene, route de Chene 153, 1224 Chene-Bougeries (Geneve, CH).
Samedi 9 avril de 11h - -18h30 et dimanche 9 avril de 9h -- 16h30: travail musical en groupes
Dimanche10 avril -- 17h: audition-concert des participants et des animateurs.
L?atelier sera conduit par Michel Borzykowski (instr. vent et danse), Pier-Yves Tetu (accordeon) et Bianca Favez (violon) du groupe HOTEGEZUGT. Il est destin? aux musiciens de tous ges et tous niveaux.

Lieu: Salle Paroissiale St-Francois, 16 av. Petit-Senn, 1225 Chene-Bourg (Geneve, CH)
Cost: 150.- Frs (130.- pour membres MusiJeunes).
Repas en commun (apportez vos piques-niques!). Boissons offertes.

Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band

Monday, March 28 · 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location East 6th Street Community Synagogue, Max Raiskin Center
325 East 6th Street
New York, NY

Join the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band at their monthly Monday Night Jazz Rabbi Invitational Concert. $10.00 Cover
NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and Grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fl...eming, Rob Henke, Jordan Hirsch, Paul Shapiro, Jessica Lurie, Marty Fogel, Zach Mayer, Aaron Alexander, David Chevan, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, Mathias Kunzli, Uri Sharlin, and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Ayn Sof Arkestra!
Trumpets - Pam Fleming,Frank London, Jordan Hirsch, Rob Henke
Trombones - Ben Williams, Art Baron
Saxophones - Greg Wall, Jessica Lurie
Paul Shapiro, Zachary Mayer, Martin Fogel
Guitar - Eyal Maoz
Keys - Uri Sharlin
Bass - David Chevan Drums - Aaron Alexander

Elizabeth Swados "From the Fire"

“From the Fire” an oratorio with music by Elizabeth Swados will be performed March 23-27, 2011
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
For information and tickets, call (212) 229-5488 or
e-mail boxoffice@newschool.edu

The work, with music by Elizabeth Swados, writer/director, Cecilia Rubino, the poet, Paula Finn, and designed by Bonnie Roche-Bronfman, commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. The fire was a completely devastating tragedy that resulted in the loss of life of over 146 working Jewish and Italian girls. Trapped behind locked doors, the tragedy led to workplace reforms and galvanized the Progressive Movement. To read more about this event see: http://www.trianglefromthefire.com/home.shtml

Andy Statman Trio

Saturday, March 19th, 10 PM - big Purim Party in Brooklyn @ the Jewish Music Caf? (http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com/)

Tuesday, March 22nd, 9PM - Charles Street Synagogue with a special musical guest, Larry's Springsteen cohort and current E-Street band member Charles Giordano on accordion
For Information see: www.AndyStatman.org

Triangle Fire Remembered

the culminating centennial event — An evening of music, spoken word poetry, and solidarity in commemoration of the 146 victims will be held in New York City. The event is free but you must have a ticket for admission. Get your tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/164102

You’ll get to hear Metropolitan Klezmer performing klezmer music written about the tragedy, uncovered 100 years later. Spoken word poetry from youthful voices from the New York City area. Clara Lemlich’s historical speech from the very stage where the Uprising of the 20,000 began. Solidarity Forever by the NYC Labor Chorus. Irish folk rock from Larry Kirwan of Black 47. Worker testimonials from Bangladesh, Egypt, and West Virginia.

The event takes place in the evening following the annual memorial commemoration at the site of the fire. The list of performers and speakers include:
Brian Jones (MC)
Mary Anne Trasciatti (Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition)
Metropolitan Klezmer
Alessandra Belloni and Daughters of Cybele
Gioia Timpanelli (storyteller)
DreamYard (NYC youth poets)
LuLu LoLo (portraying Rose Schneiderman)
Caitlin Belforti (portraying Clara Lemlich)
Larry Kirwan of Black 47
New York Labor Chorus
Kalpona Akter (Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity)
Cecil Roberts (Mine Workers)
Chaumtoli Huq (Taxi Drivers)
Ai Jen Poo (Domestic Workers Union)
Jibari Hill (Catfish Farm Workers)
Annelise Orleck (Labor and Working Class History Association)

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The sponsors of the evening:
The Cooper Union
The Education and Labor Collaborative
The Labor and Working Class History Association
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
The Sparkplug Foundation

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED)

Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry and Spirituality

With ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck, and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila
part of The NEXT New York Conversation

Join Leonard Lopate, ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas and voices from within the Brooklyn Sephardic community for Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry, and Spirituality, an exploration of Sephardic sacred poems through live musical performance and conversation. The event is presented as part of The NEXT New York Conversation series.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
at 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Tickets: $20
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Today in Brooklyn, where disparate Jewish groups from the Middle East are engaging one another in an unprecedented way, the piyyut – the Hebrew term for a sacred poem – serves as an expression of a specific type of Jewish identity. Spanning five centuries since the expulsion from Spain in 1492, these piyyutim express unique conceptions of the relationship between humanity and the Divine and serve as the backbone of the quasi-classical musical traditions of different Sephardic immigrant groups who now call New York home.

Following an introductory discussion, Thomas, accompanied by his ensemble Asefa and other traditional musicians, will present a lively musical performance of Sephardic piyyutim. Intertwining musical performance with discussion, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila will illuminate how the intersection of Kabbalistic and Sufist thought in Sephardic cultural history inspired piyyutim.

Panelists:
Samuel R. Thomas
Rabbi Gad Bouskila
Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Musicians:
Victor Esses, oud
Rachid Halihal, violin
Rabbi Avraham Amar, vocals
Shemtob Levi, vocals
Rabbi Mihael Kakon, vocals

Musicians of Lenox Hill Perform an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo- Kyung Park, will perform
an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music
at Temple Israel of the City of New York,
112 East 75th Street, New York City

The program includes the New York City premiere of the Piano Trio in F Major by Marcel Tyberg, whose works were thought lost in the Holocaust. The program also features Alexander Borodin s String Quartet No.2 in D Major, Frederic Chopin s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 for Solo Piano, and Three Watercolors for Flute, Cello and Piano by Philippe Gaubert. Admission to the concert is free with a suggested donation of $20.

Composer Marcel Tyberg's voice was silenced when he was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In the years immediately before World War II, Marcel Tyberg was a promising young composer whose Second Symphony had been premiered by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Rafael Kubel?k. Prior to being deported, Tyberg entrusted his scores to the family of one of his students. The scores were rediscovered in 2005 in the care of that student, Dr. Enrico Mihich, who is now a leading cancer research doctor living in Buffalo. For more than six decades, Mihich carried the scores with him, trying to find a conductor who would pay attention to them. Finally, in 2005, he found a willing and enthusiastic partner in the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta. Tyberg's music is extremely powerful, rich and profound, Falletta has declared, and very worthy of performance and recording. She says Tyberg's Trio reveals music of profound beauty, ingenious orchestration and vibrant neo-romanticism .As a result of Falletta's enthusiastic reading of Tyberg's scores, a Tyberg Musical Legacy Fund has been established in Buffalo at the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies. Tyberg's Trio, along with his Symphony No. 3, has been recorded on the Naxos label by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic. The Trio was first performed in Buffalo in 2006. This will be the first performance of the Trio in New York City.

New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as "exemplary throughout" and "extremely impressive, technically and musically . The performers, who are all graduates of The Juilliard School and have won dozens of national and international awards and competitions between them, include Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, Sean Katsuyama, cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director.

Cantor Robert P. Abelson of Temple Israel will introduce the Tyberg Trio and tell the incredible story of the loss and rediscovery of Tyberg's music. Cantor Abelson has been a member of the New York City Opera and is a specialist in Yiddish Art Song. He is featured on a recording of Composers of the Holocaust, rated as one of the best recordings of the year by Jewish Week.

The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 13th year, is made possible by gift to Temple Israel by the late Muriel Levy in memory of her husband, Dr.Hyman Levy and their son, Jerrold Levy, fulfilling her vision to continue the music she and her husband loved and support the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

Music Forgotten and Remembered

TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2011 | 8PM
Location: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 W 67th St
Tickets: $25; $15 for seniors
To order, call Naomi at 212-294-6140

Israeli-American violinist Yuval Waldman will be giving a solo recital of "Music Forgotten and Remembered" at New York's Merkin Concert Hall on Tuesday March 29, 2011, at 8 PM. The program presents rarely performed gems composed by Eastern European Jews, many of whom perished during World War II or were silenced by Soviet repression.

Born in the Ukraine to Holocaust survivors and the Artistic Director of Music Bridges International, Waldman was able to rediscover these pieces by searching music libraries and obscure music collections in Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Israel. They represent a wide spectrum of stylistic influences on Jewish composers: impressionistic, neoclassical, folk, and klezmer. These pieces fill an unexplored gap in early twentieth-century Jewish music repertory that fully deserves to be heard today.

"Music Forgotten and Remembered" presents the first New York performance of five of these rediscovered works:

"Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes" (1952) was composed by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, an outstanding Russian-Jewish composer and close friend of Shostakovich, whose intervention with authorities probably kept Weinberg alive. The piece is a brilliant fantasy on Moldavian and Jewish themes.

"Lullaby," an arrangement of a traditional Hebrew song, was composed in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943 by Gideon Klein, a young Czech-Jewish composer. Shortly after he wrote the piece, Klein was transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.

"Colloque Sentimentale," an impressionistic prelude on the poem of the same name by Paul Verlaine, was written in 1920 by Czech Jaromir Weinberger, who escaped the Nazis by emigrating to the United States, where he ended up on the music faculty at Ithaca College.

"Variations on 'Hatikvah'" is a virtuoso violin solo written in the early 1900s by then famous, now forgotten Ukrainian klezmer violinist and composer Yehiel Goizman.

"Entrata" from Concerto da Camera (1945) is a seldom-heard master work by the Russian emigre and avant-garde composer Arthur Lourie.

Rounding out the program are two French violin masterpieces: "Sonata in A Major" for violin and piano by Cesar Franck, written for the great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye, and Maurice Ravel's "Tzigane". Mr. Waldman dedicates the performance of these pieces to his mentors Josef Gingold, who was a student of Eugene Ysaye, and Zino Francescatti, the foremost representative of violin French romantic school, who performed the "Tzigane" with Maurice Ravel.

Waldman will be assisted by Ukrainian-Israeli pianist Inesa Sinkevych, a prize winner in the Arthur Rubinstein International Competition.

A limited number of tickets has been made available to YIVO. All proceeds from their sale will benefit the YIVO Institute.
Tickets: $25; $15 for seniors
To order, call Naomi at 212-294-6140
Location: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street For more information about Yuval Waldman, visit his website, www.yuvalwaldman.com

Let My People Sing

Online Poster and website for AshkeNafard
March 11-12 2011
at Temple Sinai,
24 hours of music, dance and art featuring over 20 artists from around the world.
All events take place at
Sinai Temple
10400 Wilshire Blvd LA CA 90049

NJ Cantors Concert

NJ Cantors Concert at Temple Emanu-El in Edison.
Saturday night February 12, 2011 8pm.
http://www.edisontemple.org/Documents/index.cfm?id=1699&pge_prg_id=6032&pge_id=1174

and the SHLOCK ROCK (free family) Concert at Neve Shalom
Sunday morning at 9:40am. http://neveshalom.net/20110213.pdf
Temple Emanu-El, Edison, NJ - New Jersey Cantors' Concert Ensemble - February 12, 2011
www.edisontemple.org
Temple Emanu-El, Edison, NJ
100 James Street, Edison, NJ 08820 · 732-549-4442

Miryem-Khaye Seigel & Dmitri 'Zisl-Yeysef' Slepovitch in Concert!

Coffeehouse of Yiddish Folk Song, Old and New!
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, 7 PM
Temple Beth Emeth
83 Marlborough Rd. @ Church Ave.
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, NY
Q or B train to Church Ave, then walk 3 blocks west.
Donation $10

Kumt, hert a Yidish vort, un farbrengt in a heymisher svive!

A Jewish Star Singing Competition Finals

Time Sunday, February 20 · 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Location Brooklyn School of Music
883 Classon Avenue (Between President and Union Street)
Brooklyn, NY
The top 10 Finalists and top 3 Junior Finalists will be performing live in concert in front of 3 judges and a huge crowd to compete for the top spot in A Jewish Star Singing Competition.
Gershon Shapiro will be among the finalists.

Guest Star: Benny Friedman
Tickets prices are: $75, $ 50, $36, $25
All proceeds go to benefit the Jewish education for children with special needs.
You can buy your tickets here:
https://www347.safesecureweb.com/jewishtickets/soul_5771.cfm

HaZamir 18th Anniversary Concert in NYC

Time Sunday, March 27 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location Frederick P. Rose Hall: Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
865 Broadway # 400
New York, NY 10023-7503
(212) 875-5018

Are you a HaZamirnik who can't wait to grace the Lincoln Center stage? Are you a HaZamir Alum interested in reuniting with friends and singing a set with other Alumni? Are you someone who just can't get enough of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir?

Join us on this momentous occasion as we celebrate HaZamir's 18th Anniversary in concert.

Sirenot Ensemble do Hanoch Levin - "Assur Li Lashir" "I mustn't be singing"

♪♫ Ensemble Sirenot ♫♪ Time Thursday, February 17 · 8:30pm - 11:30pm Location Enav Centre - Tel Aviv Address Enav Cultural Centre, 71, Ibn Gvirol Phone No: 03-6045000,03-5217763 http://www.telavivcity.com/eng/map.asp?BusinessCode=1271 ♪♫ Ensemble Sirenot ♫♪
THE Vocal ensemble for young women who love to sing

Sirenot Ensemble is a chamber choir of young women bound by their love of music. Following its Israeli debut at the 2002 Abu Ghosh Music Festival, the group has performed in various venues in Israel and abroad (the Einav Center in Tel Aviv, the Mormon University, the Dormition Church in Jerusalem, the Kfar-Blum Music Festival, the Musica Sacra Festival in Germany, etc).

Email: sirenot.ensemble@gmail.com
Website: http://www.myspace.com/sirensensemble
Location: Ra'anana, Israel

Hopkele - Klezmer Keilidh

Time Sunday, February 13 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location Cecil Sharp House
2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
The Hopkele Klezmer Keilidh phenomenon returns to London this winter. Old style Jewish ceilidh featuring circle, square and chain dances. No experience necessary.

Klezmer dance leading by Guy Schalom with live klezmer music from the Hopkele House Band lead by Ilana Cravitz.

Book online here: http://ilanacravitz.com/shop2.htm
Or Call: 077149 45971

Shpilkes Klezmer Band on February 19

Time: Saturday, February 19 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: The UnCommon Coffeehouse
24 Vernon Street
Framingham, MA

Go for an evening of the lively, living melodies of traditional Yiddish and Sephardic folk music that sing of the human experience. Tickets are $7 ($4 for children under 14) and will be sold at the door. More information can be found at http://www.myspace.com/shpilkes or http://www.uuframingham.org/uch/.

"ניחוח שושנה"

Time Monday, February 14 · 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Location צוותא תל אביב - לונדון מיני סטור- רח' אבן גבירול

חמש שנים לפטירתה של שושנה דמארי
(1 בינואר 1923 – 14 בפברואר 2006).
כלת פרס ישראל לשנת תשמ"ח.
יונית שקד גולן, העוסקת בשימור הזמר העברי, תבצע במופע "ניחוח שושנה" שיתקיים ביום שני ה-14.2 על בימת צוותא, את השירים האהובים שנכתבו לשושנה דמארי במשך השנים. ותגיש ערב מחווה, אינטימי ומרגש הכולל את מיטב שיריה של מלכת הזמר העבר ...המופע יוקלט ויועבר בשידור חי ברשת ג'י.

שושנה דמארי נולדה בתימן בשנת 1923 ועלתה ארצה שנתיים לאחר מכן. כבר כנערה החלה דמארי לשיר כשהצטרפה לסטודיו לדרמה "שולמית" בתל אביב. בשנת 1943 הצטרפה לתיאטרן המוזיקלי "לי לה לו" שאת מרבית פזמוניו כתבו המשוררים נתן אלתרמן ומשה וילנסקי. שירם "כלניות", שביצעה על במת התיאטרון ב-1946, הפך להיות שירה הידוע ביותר ועל אף שנכתב כשיר טבע, הוא נתפס באותה תקופה כשיר מחאה נגד הבריטים (שחיילי הצנחנים שלו, בעלי הכומתות האדומות כונו "כלניות"). בין השירים שיבוצעו ע"י יונית שקד גולן בערב: "כלניות", "צריך לצלצל פעמים", "מגדלור", "הרועה הקטנה מן הגיא" ועוד.


ניהול מוסיקלי, עיבודים ופסנתר: גבי ארגוב
שירה: יונית שקד גולן
בס: גלעד אפרת
כלי הקשה ותופים: אילן קצ'קה
כלי נשיפה: עופר פלד
כרטיסים בקופת צוותא: 03-6950156
http://toolbar.g.co.il/reshet-gimel.html?gclid=CJjRmrTl7KYCFcoifAodQBD_Fw

The Magic and Mystery of Jewish Morocco

Time Sunday, February 13 · 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location The Baroque Room, 275 East Fourth St., 2nd Floor, St. Paul, MN

More Info Arriving directly from Casablanca, soprano Vanessa Paloma takes us on a journey through the mythical land of Morocco -- exploring its traditions, beliefs, and music. With Rose Ensemble musicians Ginna Watson, vielle, rebec, and harp; David Burk, oud; and Tim O'Keefe, percussion.
Previous concert:

MW Klezmer Trio w/Veveritse

Thursday, February 10 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location Jalopy Theater and School of Music
315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, New York 11231
Directions: http://www.jalopy.biz/directions.php
Performers:
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Patrick Farrell - box
BFR - bow
Veveritse - brass
http://www.veveritse.com/

Saints & Tzadiks: A Concert of Yiddish and Irish Songs

Wednesday, Feb 16 • 7:30 PM
University of St. Thomas, Jones Hall • 3910 Yoakum
For info:
www.jcchouston.org
Susan McKeown and Lorin SklambergIrish singer Susan McKeown and Klezmatics lead singer and accordionist, Lorin Sklamberg, present Saints & Tzadiks — a concert combining Yiddish and Irish songs. Culled from rare archive material and old recordings, McKeown and Sklamberg have selected songs on various themes from the Jewish and Irish traditions. The bulk of the Jewish material is drawn from the Ruth Rubin Archive at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Irish songs come from both the popular and the ancient Gaelic sean nos traditions.

$10 Adults / Children and Students Free

JCC Houston
5601 S. Braeswood
Houston, TX 77096-3907
(713) 729-3200
FAX: (713) 551-7223
Purchase Tix

Ben Holmes and Patrick Farrell Duo at East Village Klezmer Series

Time: Tuesday, February 8 · 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: 325 E. 6th St., New York, NY
East Village Klezmer Series
8:30 PM
...325 E. 6th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.) NYC

Two of the most amazing musicians of their generation come together to present an evening of music at the East Village Klezmer Series.

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance. The duo of Patrick Farrell (accordion) and Ben Holmes (trumpet) have collectively traveled to study music in Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary. The duo combines the results of these journeys with a deep knowledge of the Klezmer repertoire, original writing, the odd 60s pop chestnut, and a general love of a good melody regardless of the source to present an exciting and varied program.

Farrell leads his own group, Stagger Back Brass Band, playing original brass circus music, and is a member of new-music chamber ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband, Russian and Romanian Roma-music band Romashka, Michael Winograd’s Klezmer Trio and Serbian-style brass band Veveritse, as well as appearing with numerous other groups and individuals around town. Holmes leads his own quartet playing original jazz music, as well as appearing regularly with Romashka, One Ring Zero, the Klez Dispeners, Justin Mullens’ Delphian Jazz Orchestra, and many others. Tarras Band, a project he co-leads with the clarinetist Michael Winograd, recently recorded its first record, to be released in Spring 2011.

$15, drink included
pattysounds.com
ben-holmes.com

EAST VILLAGE KLEZMER SERIES
Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, New Jersey and Boston. We are lucky to have such a great group of musicians contributing to this endeavor. Please come out and support the series!

All shows start at 8.30 and cover is $15 (drink included) unless otherwise noted.

2011 SCHEDULE, remaining shows

Feb. 8 – Ben Holmes/Patrick Farrell Duo
Feb. 15 – The Levitt Legacy featuring Dave Levitt
Feb. 22 – Double Bill: From Berlin! -- Christian Dawid w/ Zev Zions & Aaron Alexander and from Boston! – Klezwoods – with Flip Kessler.
Mar. 1 – Encore Concert: Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Mar. 8 – from Montreal! – SHTREIML, featuring Jason Rosenblatt
Mar. 15 – Matt Temkin’s Yiddishe Jam Band / The Kadya Project
Mar. 22 – Dmitri Stiepovitch’s Tamevate Kapelye (Band of Fools)
Mar. 29 – Stephen Schwab and Kol Dodi
Apr. 5 – Isle of Klezbos – featuring Eve Sicular
Apr. 12 – Avram Pengas Ensemble
May 24 – Meron Music Festival featuring Breslov Bar Band, Aaron Alexander’s Meron Mish Mosh & Joey Weisenberg
May 31 – Matt Darriau Trio

MODEL WEDDING WITH DANCING

Time Tuesday, February 8 · 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location Congregation Ansche Chesed
251 West 100th Street
New York, NY
Alicia Svigals, Klezmer Violinist

A special Yiddish Dance party at Congregation Ansche Chesed, featuring master dance leader Steve Weintraub with live klezmer by Alicia Svigals's Klezmer Fiddle Express! Presented by CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, Congregation Ansche Chesed and Klezmer By Alicia Svigals. Beginners are welcome! Suggested contribution $5 per adult, $3 per child. With Christina Crowder, accordion; Brian Glassman, bass; and Aaron Alexander, drums.

Cantor Unplugged

Saturday, January 29 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location Congregation Sha'ar Zahav
290 Dolores St. (corner of 16th & Dolores)
San Francisco, CA

Join Cantor Sharon Bernstein and friends Carolyn Reiser, Cantor Leigh Korn, and Henry Carrey, as she throws off her cantorial persona and wanders through the (American) (Jewish) (Gay) songbook.

$10 members; $15 non-members; children 12 and under free
Congregation Sha'ar Zahav 415/861-6932

"Jewish Artists for Haiti Benefit Concert:Relief/Rebuilding"

"Spread the word: Big hearted event to raise effective funds for Haitian relief- best Jewish musicians in NY from Y Love to Frank London, Basya Schechter to Breslov Bar Band, Neshama Carlebach to the endless Ayn Sof Arkestra. Contribute!".

Event: Jewish Artists for Haiti Benefit Concert: Relief/Rebuilding
Start Time: Monday, January 10 at 7:00pm
End Time: Monday, January 10 at 10:00pm
Location: Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

Duo Brikcius Travels to Algiers

FESTIVAL CULTUREL INTERNATIONAL DE MUSIQUE SYMPHONIQUE & DUO BRIKCIUS - 2 CELLOS TOUR

You are invited to the 2e Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique "Duo Brikcius - 2 Cellos Tour" concert of two Czech cellists (and siblings) Anna Brikciusova and Frantisek Brikcius. Concert will be on Monday 13th December 2010, 7pm, at the Theatre National Algerien (10 Rue Hadj Omar, La Casbah, Alger Square Port Said, Algiers).

In addition to Fantasie IV (2008) by the Czech composer and organist Irena Kosikova, Duo Brikcius will play Duo for Violin and Cello (1939-40) by Terezin composer Gideon Klein, as arranged for two cellos. Concert will feature music by L. Boccherini, W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini, P. Hindemith, G. Klein and I. Kosikova as well.

In the cooperation with the Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique and the Ministry of foreign affairs. More info is available on websites http://www.Brikcius.com , http://www.OrchestreSymphoniqueAlgerien.com , http://www.MZV.cz/Algiers and http://www.iKosik.com.

DUO BRIKCIUS - 2 CELLOS TOUR:
13th December 2010, 7pm, Theatre National Algerien

DUO BRIKCIUS:
Anna Brikciusova - Cello
Frantisek Brikcius - Cello

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim
Featuring guitarist Eyal Maoz -- Two of the most interesting bands join forces in this special night of music. from Tzadik Records
Monday, December 13 between 8:30 to 10:30 PM.

Community Synagogue/Max D. Raiskin Center.
325 E. Sixth Street
(between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
East Village
New York, NY 10003
Telephone 212.473.3665
For Information, visit: http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/#sw
YouTube Previews Somewhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYe8-6uMYU
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103764873028117&bcode=cVR0E&sfrm

Cover price: $10
Music genre jazz/world/rock
Edom: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz – guitar; Brian Marsella – keyboards; Shanir Blumenkranz – bass and Yuval Lion – drums.

www.eyalmaozmusic.com

Rashanim: Rashanim ('noisemakers' in Hebrew) combines the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. With Jon Madof – guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz- bass and Mathias Kunzli – drums.

www.jonmadof.com

About Eyal Maoz: "There's no doubt Eyal Maoz is in an exclusive club of post-Jimi Hendrix guitarists who include Nels Cline, Hilmar Jensson, Scott Fields, David Torn, and the legendary Terje Rypdal.”–Michael G. Nastos –All Music Guide September 2009

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble

This year Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble will be performing Sat night, December 25th 2010, 7:30 PM
at Congregation Ohawe Shalom in Pawtucket, RI
671 East Ave, corner of Glenwood

Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for children under b-mitzvah
Lively & Moving Music, world class musicians, a comfortable environment, a little humor thrown in. Refreshments for sale. Plenty free parking.

Fishel Bresler plays clarinet, flute, mandolin & harmonica; Shelley Katsh plays keyboard & accordian. They are joined by Beth Bahia Cohen on Strings and Bob Rakalam Moses employing both traditional & creative forms of percussion.

A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Hanukkah Happens 21
The Brotherhood of Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA is proud to present
A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN (A Musical Tribute marking 20 years since his passing)
Hazzan Elias Rosemberg
with the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Dr. Joshua Jacobson, Conductor
Thursday , December 23, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA.
Concert admission (open seating): Adults $25; Children under 13 $15
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For information and tickets visit www,templeemanuel.com /hh-xxi HHConcert@gmail.com;
or call: 617-558-8100

Posted by jmwc at 08:05 PM

Entre jazz et Orient

Dans le cadre de l’exposition sur le centenaire de la synagogue de Lausanne, le 11 novembre 2010 à 19h, vous êtes cordialement invités à assister au concert de EL-BAZE : “Entre jazz et Orient”
au Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville, 2 place de la Palud, Lausanne

Un voyage des sens, un perpétuel métissage, voilà l’univers d’El-baze! Pour ce concert, elle sera entourée d’Amine Mrahi au oud et de Jean-Pierre Schaller à la basse.
Entrée libre! Venez nombreux! Faites passer l’information!

Tanzhoyz! Party like it's 1899

TONIGHT!
Monday, October 25 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location L'envers
185 Van Horne Avenue
Montreal, QC

Shake your tuches to the sounds of Eastern-European Jewish music with dance-leader Avia Moore, Chrisitian Dawid clarinet, Alexis Basque trumpet, Rachel Lemisch trombone, Jason Rosenblatt piano, Thierry Arsenault poyk and other guests.

Venez vous dégourdir les semelles sous la maestria de la danseuse Avia Moore, avec un orchestre composé du clarinettiste Christian Dawid, du cornettiste Alexis Basque,de la tromboniste Rachel Lemisch et du pianiste Jason Rosenblatt, en compagnie d'autres musiciens invités!

Suggested donation at the door $7.

Klezbos plays Brooklyn Museum

Klezbos plays Brooklyn Museum/First Saturday (FREE!)
First Saturday - Fred Tomaselli & lots more! (Even if you're not in NYC Nov 6th, please tell your friends: this is really fun & FREE.)

Start Time: Saturday, November 6 at 9:00pm
Location: The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
2 or 3 line --Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
For entire lineup: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

Lights of Fire

Lights of Fire
Start Time: Monday, November 8 at 8:00pm
Location: Heichal Shlomo
58 King George St
Jerusalem, Israel
KOL MEODECHA- Yiskah Sarah Petit, and Michal Yardeni
MORAN SABBAH, Rock/ Pop Singer/ Songwriter
DELIA SPIERS, Soul Singer/ Songwriter- Visiting from England
Doors open at 7:45.
Show Starts Promptly at 8:30
Tickets:
60NIS at the Door
50NIS in advance

FOR TICKET RESERVATIONS CONTACT
ANNIE ORENSTEIN: 054-632-3066
ROCHEL GRUNDMAN: 052-760-4911
VOTE FOR WHAT SONGS KOL MEODECHA SHOULD PLAY!
http://poll.fm/2cxk1

Harmony for Humanity in Memory of Daniel Pearl

Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 3pm
Sweet Plantain String Quartet
St. Marks in the Bowery
131 East 10th Street + 2nd Ave
Suggested donation $10-$12
If you're in NY.... this is a great way to honor the memory of Daniel Pearl and also hear some great music!

Beethoven Trio #5 in D op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost Trio"
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings"

Sweet Plantain String Quartet
Eddie Venegas, Violin
Yuko Naito-Gotay, Violin
Orlando Wells, Viola
David Gotay, Cello

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, Piano

For Information: 212-477-1594
DownTown Music Productions
East Village Concert Series
Sundays @ 3
MimiStern-Wolfe, Artistic Director
downtownmusicproductions.org
dmpmimi@verizon.net

Jewish Song and Prayer of Aleppo

Thursday, OCTOBER 21 @ 6:30PM
At the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC.

$10 at the door/ $5 for ASF members Reservations requested: 212.294.8350 x0 or email info@americansephardifederation.org

The liturgy of the Syrian Jewish community synthesizes the Maqam music of their Arab neighbors with their own Hebrew poetry and prayers. Mark Kligman, PhD, Professor of Jewish Musicology, will trace the development of this music which he explores in his book Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn. Isaac J. Cabasso, Cantor of Congregation Beth Torah, a Syrian synagogue in Brooklyn, NY, will lend his 50 years of experience in Syrian Hazzanut to the conversation, and perform excerpts of the prayers in various maqams. Musical accompaniment on the oud will be performed by Victor Esses, Cantor of Sephardic Synagogue, Brooklyn, NY. Joseph Mosseri, Cantor and founder of the Hazzanut Forum, will discuss the resurgence of Maqam music among the community's younger generation.

This program is presented in association with the American Society for Jewish Music

FROM BROADWAY TO BIMA! From the Profane to the Sacred

August 12, 2010
Thursday · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Temple Judea West Campus, 6601 Valley Circle Blvd, West Hills
Rabbi Cantor Alison Wissot, Cantor Mike Stein, Cantor Mimi Haselkorn, Cantorial Soloist Mark Britowich sing the music that lulled to Broadway, and the music that inspired to the bima.

USDAN CENTER STUDENTS TO PRESENT UNIQUE GALA PERFORMANCE OF ERNEST BLOCH'S SACRED SERVICE ON AUGUST 4TH.

CONCERT WILL HONOR BLOCH 50 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH.
CONDUCTOR AND SOLOIST ARE LEADING YOUNG ARTISTS.

On Wednesday evening, August 4th, Usdan Center students will present a historic performance of one of Ernest Bloch's greatest works, his Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh) for orchestra, chorus, and baritone soloist. Sacred Service has rarely been presented by young people, and its performance on August 4th will be an artistic point of pride for Usdan, and for its partner organization, UJA-Federation of New York.

Usdan's senior orchestra and chorus will close the Center's August 4th Gala Concert with two parts of Sacred Service. The ensembles, composed of high school-aged music students, will be conducted by Adam Glaser, a Usdan Center alumnus, and the conductor of Juilliard's top Pre-College orchestra. The critically acclaimed young baritone, Jesse Blumberg, will perform the cantor's role in Usdan's performance. Usdan's chorus will be prepared by Karen Lehman, conductor of the Center's senior choral ensembles

Musicians throughout the United States are honoring Bloch in 2010, the 50th anniversary of his death. Sacred Service was commissioned by San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El, and it was premiered there in 1934. Usdan's Gala will conclude with the dramatic scene that Bloch most loved. It is the moment when the Torah is taken from its ark, and presented to the congregation as the chorus sings "Torah tzivoh." Bloch considered this part of his piece to be the embodiment of his personal journey of reunion with Judaism.

Usdan's Executive Director, Dale Lewis, recently spoke of the significance of the Center's August performance: "Sacred Service was a watershed composition for Bloch, one that ignited his transition from a classical style of composition, to one that was deeply religious. As we look back on 50 years of musical history since Bloch's death, we now see his pieces as among the most significant examples of Jewish art produced in the United States. The Center's conductors look forward to introducing Bloch's music to our students, and to presenting a major work of historic and religious significance to our community." A former concert cellist, Lewis has performed the composer's entire repertory for the cello, including Schelomo, the Hebrew rhapsody for cello and orchestra that is among the most important concertos for the instrument. Lewis's performances of Bloch's Jewish Life suite were accompanied by the celebrated American composer, Yehudi Wyner, and his Carnegie Recital Hall debut, as winner of the New York Violin Teachers Guild competition, included a performance of Bloch's Supplication for cello.

For more information, visit www.usdan.com , write to info@usdan.com , or call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900. Usdan Center is an agency of the UJA-Federation of New York.The Center is on a 200-acre woodland setting at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Huntington. The acclaimed young American conductor Adam Glaser is now in his ninth season on the faculty of the Juilliard School, where he conducts Juilliard's Pre-College Orchestra in regular concerts at New York's Lincoln Center. Mr. Glaser was awarded the American-Austrian Foundation's prestigious Karajan Fellowship for Young Conductors, which sponsored his residence at the Salzburg Festival and the Internationales Orchesterinstitut Attergau in St. Georgen, Austria.

An active composer, Mr. Glaser has enjoyed performances of his works by 19 major orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, along with the orchestras of Victoria, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Illinois, Long Island, Richmond, South Bend, and Naples, and various college orchestras including the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Cornell University. His choral conducting engagements include appearances at the Oregon Bach Festival, and performances of his choral compositions and arrangements include those by choirs of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Kol HaKavod, a vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of Jewish music. He has appeared as a guest conductor of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Symphony (B.C.), and the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Glaser earned a diploma in orchestral conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music, a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division in composition, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English, Afro-American Studies and Music. Additional studies include piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory, and composition at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division.

Usdan's baritone soloist for Sacred Service will be Jesse Blumberg, an artist equally at home on opera, concert, and recital stages. He has appeared at The Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Ravinia Festival, and is the founder and artistic director of the Five Boroughs Music Festival. He has created roles in new operas produced by the Minnesota Opera and the Utah Symphony, and he performed the title role of Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, after which the Baltimore Sun raved, "Jesse Blumberg commanded the stage, physically and vocally. His virile baritone grabbed the melodic lines with remarkable dynamic force, lighting up the hall with his every appearance." In 2008 Jesse sang John Brooke in Little Women with Opera Delaware and reprised his role in The Grapes of Wrath with Pittsburgh Opera. In 2009 he performed Silvio in Pagliacci with Annapolis Opera and then debuted with the Boston Early Music Festival, as Mercurio in L'incoronazione di Poppea and Adonis in Venus and Adonis.

In concert, Jesse Blumberg has performed with American Bach Soloists, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Berkshire Choral Festival, Handel Choir of Baltimore, and the Waverly Consort. In 2005 he joined the Mark Morris Dance Group for a tour of the United Kingdom, and in 2007 he sang performances of Carmina Burana with the Pennsylvania Ballet at New York's City Center. As a chamber musician, Jesse has collaborated with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and the Ensemble for the Romantic Century. He has premieres two important chamber works for baritone: Lisa Bielawa's The Lay of the Love and Death at Alice Tully Hall in 2006, and Ricky Ian Gordon's Green Sneakers (with the Miami String Quartet) at the Vail Valley Festival in 2008. In 2006 he and pianist Thomas Bagwell gave a recital of Wolf Lieder, which the Washington Post described as "no less than revelatory." Also that year he and pianist Martin Katz presented an On Wings of Song recital for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, which has since been heard on various radio broadcasts nationwide.

In 2007 Jesse Blumberg was awarded first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Auditions, and in 2006 took second prize in the Lieder Division of the Liederkranz Foundation Awards. He has been recognized by Opera Index, Inc. and the Marian Anderson Prize for Emerging Classical Artists. In 2004 he was named a first place winner in the Art Song category of the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Vocal Competition. In 2003 Blumberg was awarded third place at the 10th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria, and in 2002 he won first place in the 2nd International Yrjš Kilpinen Art Song Competition. He received a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music and undergraduate degrees in History and Music from the University of Michigan.

Usdan Center, now entering its 43rd season, has introduced the arts to more than 50,000 Tri-State Area children since its founding in 1968. The Center, on a 200-acre woodland setting at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Huntington, is open to all young people from age 6 to 18. No audition is needed for most programs - rather, admission is based on an expression of interest in the arts. Each summer, 1,500 students are transported to the Center in air-conditioned buses every day. One-third of Usdan's students attend on scholarship. Although the mission of the Center is for every child to establish a relationship with the arts, the unique stimulation of the Center has caused many to go on to arts careers. Alumni include singers Jane Monheit and Mariah Carey, actresses Natalie Portman and Lisa Gay Hamilton, and members of major music, theater, and dance ensembles, such as the New York, Boston, and Los Angeles orchestras, to the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.

The 2010 season of Usdan Center opens on June 28, and continues through August 13. For information on applying for participation in the Center's program in Organic Gardening and Simple Food, or for more information about other programs at Usdan Center, visit www.usdan.com , write to info@usdan.com , or call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900. Usdan Center is an agency of the UJA-Federation of New York.

Posted by jmwc at 11:48 AM

June in London

some Jewish music events of interest in London are:
Saturday 12 June
4-5pm
Hopkele Klezmer Keilidh
Bermondsey Carnival, Southwark Park, London
Join us for revelry in the dance tent as part of the day's festivities at this free event. More information:
http://www.southwark.gov.uk/events/event/196/
Getting there:
* Bus: 1, 47, 78, 188, 255, 381, C10, P12
* Tube: Canada Water, Bermondsey
* Rail: South Bermondsey, Surrey Quays


Sunday 13 June
2-5pm
Klezmer workshop in Cambridge
The Hut, Fletcher's Terrace, Cambridge

Back by popular demand! Similar to previous workshops with Ilana Cravitz, there will be a chance to learn a tune and some accompaniment, and look at some of the modes and style elements that make Klezmer so haunting and joyful. Tickets £15 for the 3-hour workshop (includes tea and biscuits!).
Book in advance by emailing klezmerworkshop@benorganizzato.com


Sunday 13 June
6.30pm

Sunday 27 June
3pm
Flamenco Con Tres
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX

Steve Homes and Jeff Rodrigues (guitars) play a programme of flamenco-inspired original works and a sprinkling of Judeo-Spanish favourites, with Ilana Cravitz on violin.
Tickets £5

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale

The Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center presents:
Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale
Benjamin Gruder, Conductor
Sunday, June 13, at 8:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
http://kaufman-center.org/
129 West 67th Street, New York
212-501-3330

With a repertoire spanning continents and centuries, featured composers include: Giuseppe Verdi, Salomone Rossi, Yehezkel Braun, Zavel Zilberts and David Broza
Tickets: $24 preferred seating, $21 general admission, $17 students/seniors
Merkin Hall www.merkinconcerthall.org

The Golden Door: Jewish Music with American Accent in Boston

Koleinu, the Jewish Community Chorus of Boston is having a concert on Thursday, June 10 at 8pm at Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA. Cantor Gaston Bogomolni and Cantor Lousie Treitman will be the soloists. Carol Marton will direct. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. go to www.koleinu.org or call 617-559-8649 to get more information or order tickets.

Four Seasons Plus presents Klezmer Music Concert

Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz invite you to join us for a concert in this historic building in the woods!
Four Seasons Plus presents Klezmer Music Concert
with Cookie Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz

Date: Friday, May 14th, 2010
Time: 8 PM
Place: Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Church in the Wilderness
50 Emmanuel Church Rd.
Killingworth, CT 06419
Phone: 860-663-1800
Tickets: $20
Reception follows concert.

Chamber Music – New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York

On Thursday, April 22 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform “Chamber Music – New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York, 112 East 75th Street, New York City The program includes Three American Piecesfor flute and piano by Lukas Foss, Gershwin’s Embraceable You and I've Got Rhythm arranged for solo piano by Earl Wilde, Dvořák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb Major, B 162, Op.87 and Luminaria for violin and harp by Kenji Bunch, who has been called “a composer to watch” by the New York Times and is quickly emerging as one of the most prominent American composers of his generation.

New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as "exemplary throughout" and "extremely impressive, technically and musically”. The featured performers, Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo, violin, Sean Katsuyama , cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, Sivan Magen, Harp and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director, have each won international acclaimperforming with major orchestras and ensembles and winning many of the world's most prestigious music competitions. This concert brings these extraordinary musicians together to perform chamber music written by some of the world’s greatest composers as well as a new work by an emerging young star. Each of the composers on the program has been inspired by New York City and, at important points in their careers, called the City their home.

Says Artistic Director Soo-Kyung Park “I am so thankful to Temple Israel and our dear friend, the late Muriel Levy, for sponsoring The Musicians of Lenox Hill, and allowing these exceptional artists to have the opportunity to perform such beautiful, enjoyable chamber music together, at affordable prices, in the wonderful, intimate setting of Temple Israel.”

The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 12th year, is made possible by gift to Temple Israel by the late Muriel Levy in memory of her husband, Dr.Hyman Levy and their son, Jerrold Levy, fulfilling her vision to continue the music she and her husband loved and support the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

TICKET INFORMATION
Single Ticket $20
Seniors (60+) and Full Time Students (with ID) $10
Temple Israel Members FREE
Children under 18 FREE
To order tickets or for more information, call (917) 834-5399, visit
www.LenoxHillMusic.com, or write to musiciansoflenoxhill@gmail.com.

Please make checks payable to “Temple Israel of the City of New York”. Cash or check accepted at the door. Temple Israel of the City of New York is located at 112 East 75th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues, and can be easily reached on the 6 train (77th Street station). Parking is available in nearby garages.

L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive de Genève

Réservez déjà ces deux dates en avril:
Dimanche 18 avril à 18h, Théâtre Cité-Bleue, 46 Av de Miremont, 1206 Genève:
Yasmin Levy
Musiques judéo-espagnoles et flamenca

Dimanche 25 avril à 18h, Théâtre Cité-Bleue, 46 Av de Miremont, 1206 Genève:
Shira U'Tfila
Musiques judéo-espagnoles des Balkans

Ces concerts auront lieu à 18h au Théâtre Cité-Bleue, 46 Av de Miremont, Genève.

Informations: www.amj.ch, réservations: tél & répondeur: 00 4122 344 64 09,
fax: 004122 344 64 04 ou: amj@amj.ch

Billets: 30 CHF, tarif réduit: 20 CHF. Réduction supplémentaire de 10 CHF aux membres AMJ.
Billets en vente à l'entrée ou à l'avance:
Disco-Club : 22 Terreaux du Temple (en face de Manor) - T.022.732.73.66 du mardi au vendredi de 10h à 13h et de 14h à 18h30, samedi de 10h à 17h

Bibliothèque CIG : 21 avenue Dumas - T.022.317.89.70 lundi & mardi de 16h à 19h, mercredi de 10h à 12h et de 14h à 17h

Celebrating Women’s Voices

An amazing event will transpire on Wed, March 10, 2010
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Central Synagogue
123 East 55th Street
New York, NY

In the Jewish legal tradition there are rules restricting the female voice (kol isha) in public religious rituals. In a unique pre-Pesach program we celebrate these voices. Inspired by artist Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, an installation on permanent exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum celebrating famous women, we present a new take on a uniquely Jewish ‘dinner party’—the Passover seder. Join us to hear the glorious voices of Jewish women who will present familiar and not so familiar seder melodies reflecting the richness of Jewish music and the spiritual and aesthetic power of women’s voices. The evening will begin with a light supper and study of rabbinic texts taught by Rabbi Judith Hauptman, Talmud professor at Jewish Theological Seminary. The musical program will feature the voices of Sarah Aroeste, Ladino-rock musician; Melissa Berman, senior cantorial student at Jewish Theological Seminary; Cantor Angela Buchdahl of Central Synagogue; Adrienne Cooper, renowned interpreter of Yiddish song; Galeet Dardashti, Middle Eastern vocalist and composer; Sarah Mina Gordon, singer/lyricist of the band Yiddish Princess; Elizabeth Sacks, Associate Cantor at Central Synagogue and Basya Schechter, leader of the band Pharaoh's Daughter. Joyce Rosenzweig, music director at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah and faculty member at Hebrew Union College will provide piano accompaniment and master teacher Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses will weave the seder selections together with a narrative thread. Co-sponsored with and held at Central Synagogue, Lexington Avenue and East 55th Street.
Co-sponsored with and held at Central Synagogue, Lexington Avenue and East 55th Street.

Wed, Mar 10, 5:30–8:30 pm, $18 JCC & Central Synagogue members/$25

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Call 646.505.5708

Shir Appeal at Ner Tamid

Jewish A-Cappella Concert THIS Sunday 3pm at Ner Tamid

Shir Appeal: A Jewish A-Cappella Group
Tufts University, Boston

Shir Appeal is Tufts University's Co-Ed Jewish a cappella group, united by the love of music and Jewish culture, and one of the more acclaimed in the nation.

Shir Appeal sings many types of music, including traditional Jewish folk songs, Israeli rock, liturgical music, and American songs with Jewish themes.

General Admission: $15 ·
Seniors, Students and under 18: $10
Ner Tamid is located at 1250 Quintara Street and 22nd Avenue in The Sunset, San Francisco. It is accessible by public transportation and there is plenty of parking.

Yiddish concert in Tel Aviv

Yiddish Concert in Tel Aviv this Saturday, December 26, 2009
at 9:30pm.
Lenka Lichtenberg writes: "Hi! If you happen to be in Israel this week - you know where to find some fine new Yiddish music! Daniel Hoffman on violin, Kinneret Sagee on clarinet, Alexis Basque
on trumpet... good stuff!

Event: Yiddish concert in Tel Aviv this Saturday, December 26, 9:30pm
"Lenka Lichtenberg (voice, piano), Daniel Hoffman (violin), Kinneret Sagee
(clarinet), Alexis Basque (trumpet)."
Where: Cultural Center in Bet Ariela
Street: Shaul Hamelekh 25
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Metropolitan Klezmer Dec 25 Klezmer Special

Jewish Museum: Dec 25 Klezmer Special on Friday, December 25 at 12:30pm.
Eve says, "Metropolitan Klezmer plays that special day next week in NYC:
Friday 12/25 at The Jewish Museum.
Very special guests too.
Kids FREE, 12:30pm & 2pm sets... Santa Klez is coming uptown!
Event: Jewish Museum: Dec 25 Klezmer Special
"Santa Klez is coming uptown!"
Start Time: Friday, December 25 at 12:30pm
Where: The Jewish Museum (on 92nd St) NYC

Twenty Years of Hannukah Happens

The Brotherhood and Music Committee of Temple Emanuel proudly present
Hanukkah Happens - Twenty Years
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton
with the
Zamir Chorale of Boston
Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director
Cantor Elias Rosemberg, Hazzan
Concert admission (open seating): Adults - $25; Children under 13 - $15
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For more information and tickets, please visit templeemanuel.com
email HHConcert@gmail.com or call 617-558-8100.

Zamir Chorale at Merkin Hall

If you'll be in the New York City area on December 24, you will enjoy this evening of Jewish music. Matthew Lazar will conduct the Zamir Chorale in its

Annual Winter Concert

at Merkin Concert Hall (129 W. 67th Street) NYC,

at 7:30 p.m.



Featuring Cantor Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson as guest soloist, the program will include a wide range of gems from the Jewish choral repertoire, from (post-) Hanukkah favorites to Paul Ben-Haim's impressive "Roni Akara" to Maurice Goldman's "Strange Happenings" (aka Avremele Melamed) and Moishe Oysher's "Chad Gadya."



Tickets at $36 and $25 are on sale at the box office, 212-501-3330,
or online at www.kaufman-center.org

Yale Strom -- In Memory Of

Dec. 16th at 7pm the world premiere of
YALE STROM'S quartet "IN THE MEMORY OF..."

In the summer of 2008, musician Yale Strom traveled to Romania and discovered a musical treasure trove. In the upstairs women's balcony of the 1871 synagogue of Carei he found a box of old books including the cantor's music book with over 250 melodies notated by hand. THIS ROMANIAN JEWISH MUSICAL TREASURE HAD BEEN LOST UNTIL STROM'S DISCOVERY. In Memory of is a performance based upon the cantorial music he uncovered, and is dedicated to the Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Virtuoso cellist Mike Block and his string quartet will perform the new compositon.

After the quartet Cantor Ari Priven (Cong. Bnai Jeshurun) will sing some of the melodies from the "lost" cantor's book and then Yale Strom and Mike Block will perform melodies from the same work as klezmer pieces.

Location: Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street (off Canal)
Tel: (212)219-0302
Seniors 12.00 Public 15.00

MIKE BLOCK
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio. Since then, Mike has become an in-demand player in many musical genres, and has joined Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights, The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang Wei. As a composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band, and has also had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the MATA Festival

Celebrate Hanukkah with the Mama Doni Band at a Free Concert!

"Funky Music With a Jewish Twist" is what Mama Doni (aka Doni Zasloff) and her Band will bring to Tikvat Israel on Sunday, December 13 in a free concert open to the entire community. Winners of the 2008 "Simcha Award" at the International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, the Band's repertoire is a wild mix of musical styles--reggae, folk, classic rock, country, hip hop, klezmer, and theatrical--woven together with Yiddish terms and Jewish themes. And it's suitable for everyone, from "Babies to Bubbies"--hip young kids and their even hipper parents and grandparents. The Mama Doni Band is performing 13 concerts during December alone, in Los Angeles, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, but this is the only one in the Greater Washington area, so don't miss it! Read more about Mama Doni at www.mamadoni.com

The Concert begins at 4:30 pm, and is followed by Hanukkah candle lighting, the Hebrew Day Institute (HDI) Choir, dreidel playing, and Hanukkah crafts. There will be a brisket & latke dinner; tickets for the dinner are $12 for adults and $9 for children. To RSVP for the dinner (deadline is Dec. 6) or for more information, contact Lynn Berk at lberk@comcast.net or 301-762-7338 or Renee Salzberg at rsalzberg@hebrewdayinstitute.org or 240-399-6100. Tikvat Israel is located at 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville, MD., Rockville, MD. For directions, go to http://www.tivkatisrael.org. The concert is sponsored by HDI and the Joint Youth Department of Tikvat Israel & Shaare Tefila.

Israel Composers League Celebration of Mark Koptyman

יום הולדת למלחין מרק קופיטמן בהגיעו לגבורות, בשיתוף המכון למוסיקה ישראלית ואיגוד הקומפוזיטורים הישראלי
מוסיקה מאת קופיטמן ויצירות חדשות שמקדישים לו שלושה מתלמידיו

איל אדלר: בכורה
ארי בן-שבתאי: בכורה
מיכאל וולפה: בכורה
קופיטמן: יצירה חדשה לבסון סולו בכורה קנטוס II,
לשלישיית מיתרים
טריפטיך, לפסנתר
מעגלים, לקול, קלרנית, צ'לו ופסנתר

אנסמבל מיתר
עמית דולברג, פסנתר
רואי אמוץ, חליל
גלעד הראל, קלרנית
נדב כהן, בסון
משה אהרונוב, כינור
ענת אנגלמאיר, צ'לו
הרכב ייחודי, בראש מעייניו ביצוע מוסיקה קאמרית ישראלית ומוסיקה המבוססת על נושאים ועל רעיונות יהודיים. האנסמבל נוסד בשנת 2004 בידי עמית דולברג, מנהלו לאורך שנות פעילותו. האנסמבל מתמחה בביצוע מוסיקה ישראלית עכשווית, וככזה הוקדשו לו יצירות רבות בידי מיטב המלחינים בארץ. עוד מתמקד האנסמבל ברפרטואר חברי האגודה למוסיקה יהודית של סנט פטרבורג מתחילת המאה העשרים; מלחינים כגון גנסין, אנגל, וופריק ואחרון, בחלקו בנגינת בכורה ישראלית. האנסמבל מרבה להופיע בפסטיבלים בארץ וברחבי אירופה ונגינתו משודרת דרך קבע בקול המוסיקה, ברדיו פראנס, ברדיו רומניה <ובתחנות ברחבי ארה"ב. "מיתר" אנסמבל הבית של האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים, של הקונסרבטוריון הישראלי למוסיקה בתל אביב והאנסמבל הייצוגי בישראל של המרכז לתרבות ויצירה יהודית (CJCC), לוס אנג'לס. מלחין הבית של האנסמבל הוא איל אדלר. חברי האנסמבל זוכי מלגות קרן התרבות אמריקה-ישראל ומלגת משפחת ארקין. בשנת 2006 העניק שר התרבות לאנסמבל את פרס בנימיני, על מצוינות בפעילותו הענפה.

Pey Dalid "Open Eyes" CD Release Party at Brooklyn Bowl Dec. 24 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009 at 6:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Bowl
61 WYTHE AVENUE
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Bowl's First Annual Matzah Bowl
61 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211
Call 718-963-3369
Date: Dec 24th
Time: 6PM Doors 8:15 Bands
Pey Dalid - 10PM (At the door tell them your there to see Pey Dalid!)
Tickets 12/Adv 15/D.O.S.
To buy tickets online - http://www.brooklynbowl.com/upcoming-events
Other acts: Six Point Star -- Dov (Rosenblatt of Blue Fringe) -- Days Like Months (From Israel) -- Describe and Diwan

Habrera Hativeet at Zappa Herzliya

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 8:30pm - 11:50pm
Location: הרצליה, רח' מדינת היהודים 85
Description
הברירה הטבעית - חוגגים 30 שנה בזאפה הרצליה
ממשיכים את הסדרה והפעם אורחת : מירי מסיקה
Habrera Hativeet - Zappa Herzliya with special guest : Miri Mesika

Krakauer Plays with Detroit Symphony

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin will give the premiere performance of the Clarinet Klezmer Concerto, by Wlad Marhulets. The featured clarinet soloist is David Krakauer, one of the foremost musicians of the vital new wave of klezmer. The concerts will take place at the Orchestra Hall in Detroit on December 10th - 13th, 2009.
http://www.detroitsymphony.com/ShowDetail.aspx?id=2492
Max M. Fisher Music Center
3711 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Box Office Phone: (313) 576-5111
Box Office Fax: (313) 576-5109

Marhulet "DYBBUK" String Quartet Premiere

The string quartet Dybbuk by Wlad Marhulet was written for the New York based "J.A.C.K." quartet. The piece is inspired by Jewish folklore, in which a Dybbuk is a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. The piece depicts two aspects of Dybbuk - its wild and aggressive nature, as well as its memories from the past life full of suffering and tears.

The premiere is going to take place November 30th at 8:00pm.
in Paul Hall, Julliard School, NYC
60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway (at 65th St)
Upper West Side
212-769-7406
Subway: 1 to 66th St–Lincoln Ctr
Wlad Marhulets is a Polish composer of Jewish descent. Born in Minsk on May 1986, he began to be seriously interested in music at the age of 16. Wlad attended Academy of Music in Gdansk where he studied composition with Krzysztof Olczak, and later transfered to the Juilliard School in New York where he began studying with one of contemporary music's most distinguished composers, --John Corigliano.

Since identity has always been at the center of Wlad's music, he explores his heritage most ardently through his compositions. Acquaintance with Leopold Kozlowsky, known as the last klezmer of Galicia, as well as fascination of David Krakauer's recordings took on great importance for Wlad's development as a composer. Hence, the most important influences that his music is based upon include an amalgamation of klezmer and Jewish tradition.

Primarily interested in a synthesis of musical styles, Wlad is always at work on a variety of genre bending projects. His continuous crossing of borders between genres and styles has resulted in a large number of works. In spite of young age his compositional output numbers more that 50 items of orchestral, chamber, and solo pieces. The key works he composed include Concerto for piano and symphonic orchestra, Concerto Grosso for 3 violins and string orchestra, Symphonic Poem, Concerto for organ and symphonic orchestra, Sonata for violin and piano. Wlad is an exceptionally versatile person, having distinguished himself not only as a composer, but also as a painter, writer, graphic designer, and a clarinetist playing in ensembles spanning contemporary music to klezmer and experimental jazz.

MBD -- Live!

Tekeeyah Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra World Premiere

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer’s Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra on November 15 in Brevard, NC and November 17 in Columbia, SC

Composer Meira Warshauer’s Tekeeyah (a call) - Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra, will be given Premiere performances with the Brevard Philharmonic on November 15 –
3 PM at
Porter Center for the Performing Arts of Brevard College,
1 Brevard College Dr. in Brevard, North Carolina

and
with the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra
on November 17 –
7:30 PM at
the Koger Center for the Arts
1051 Greene St. in
Columbia, South Carolina.

Shofar/trombone virtuoso Haim Avitsur will be soloist at both performances. The November 15 Brevard Philharmonic will be led by their Conductor and Artistic Director Donald Portnoy in a program that also includes works by Brahms and Borodin. More about the concert and the Philharmonic at http://www.boamusic.org/bp.htm.

The November 17 University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra will again be led by their Conductor and Artistic Director Donald Portnoy in a program that also includes works by Berlioz, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. More about this concert and the USC Symphony at http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.

Tekeeyah (a call) is the first concerto written for shofar/trombone soloist and orchestra and was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras that includes the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Steven Errante, Conductor, Brevard Philharmonic, University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Donald Portnoy, Conductor and Artistic Director, Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory, NC), John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, Music Director along with Lilly Stern and Bruce Filler, and Linda and Bill Stern in loving memory of their parents, Jadzia and Ben Stern.

The composer, who began work on Tekeeyah (a call) during a residency at the MacDowell Colony in spring of 2008, has written this about the piece, “I believe this is a time which calls for awakening to our true essence as human beings. Our planet needs us, and we need each other, to care for and heal our suffering world. The shofar (ram’s horn), with its natural power and centuries of service in calling Jews to awaken, can be an important instrument in this collective renewal of purpose.” Read her complete program notes at http://www.meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/Program_notes/tekeeyah_notes.html. Read an online article about the new work at http://www.readthebeatmagazine.com/Oct09-Warshauer-Classical.htm.

Israeli trombonist Haim Avitsur has premiered over 60 new pieces encompassing a broad range of styles from solo trombone to chamber music and orchestra. Mr. Avitsur is Trombone Professor at West Chester University School of Music (PA) and at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, NY. From 2004-2007 Haim Avitsur was on the faculty of the University of Virginia as well as the Principal Trombonist of the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 he founded the Summer Trombone Workshop, which has a U.S. residency at Temple University. Much more about him at http://www.haimavitsur.com/.

Meira Warshauer’s music, performed internationally to critical acclaim, reflects her personal spiritual journey and communicates directly to the heart and soul of the listener. She has received many important awards and is the Nancy A. Smith Distinguished Visitor in Residence at Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC.

Ms. Warshauer has devoted much of her creative output to Jewish themes and their universal message. Bracha for violin and piano was recorded for the Feminissimo CD on Albany Records, which has also released her acclaimed Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works. Her work also reflects a love and concern for the earth. A profile of her Symphony No.1: Living, Breathing Earth was featured on the nationally broadcast PRI radio show Living on Earth in Spring, 2007, during the symphony’s premiere season with commissioning orchestras Dayton Philharmonic, South Carolina Philharmonic, and Western Piedmont Symphony.

Warshauer's music is published by Oxford University Press, Hildegard, Lauren Keiser Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications. Her website is at http://www.meirawarshauer.com and press photos are available at http://www.meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/presskit.html. Her Like Streams in the Desert video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OqrQV8z1U&feature=related.

In Memory Of... Strom Finds 'Lost Romanian Jewish Music'

Dec. 16th at 7pm the world premiere of Yale Strom's new quartet:
"IN THE MEMORY OF..." as part of a concert of
"Lost Romanian Jewish Music"
Start Time: Wednesday, December 16 at 7:00pm
Where: Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street (off Canal), NYC
Tel: (212)219-0302
Seniors $12.00; Public $15.00

In the summer of 2008, musician Yale Strom traveled to Romania and discovered a musical treasure trove. In the upstairs women's balcony of the 1871 synagogue of Carei he found a box of old books including the cantor's music book with over 250 melodies notated by hand. This Romanian Jewish musical treasure had been lost. In Memory of is a performance based upon the cantorial music he uncovered, and is dedicated to the Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Virtuoso cellist Mike Block and his string quartet will perform the new compositon.

After the quartet Cantor Ari Priven (Cong. Bnai Jeshurun) will sing some of the melodies from the "lost" cantor's book and then Yale Strom and Mike Block will perform melodies from the same work as klezmer pieces.

MIKE BLOCK
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio. Since then, Mike has become an in-demand player in many musical genres, and has joined Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights, The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang Wei. As a composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band, and has also had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the MATA Festival

Shem's Disciples with Candido Camero Team Up with David Amram and bobby Sanabria

New York Reggae/Hip-Hop Fusion Band Shem's Disciples is joined by Latin jazz Legend Candido Camero, renowned jazz instrumentalist and composer David Amram, and multi-Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria, to perform a special concert for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) Music Therapy program. The IMNF is a member of the Beth Abraham Family of Health Services.

The concert will take place on Wednesday, December 2
from 7-9p.m. at the
Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Tickets cost $50 and can be purchase by calling 718-519-5840 or e-mailing imnf@bethabe.org

Unsung Songs and Song Cycles

Works by Joel Mandelbaum will be performed
at 2 PM on Sunday, November 15th
at the Assembly Hall of the Community Church of New York, which shares
its facilities with the Metropolitan Synagogue, 40 East 35th Street, NYC

The performance will be repeated the following day
Monday, November 16 at 12:15
at Lefrak Concert Hall at Queens College.

With a range of settings written from 1958 to 2009, the concert is truly a major retrospective and will feature, among others, Emily Duncan-Brown and Roz Woll

Over a more than 50-year period of devotion to the art song in fourteen cycles, Mandelbaum has set poems by Millay, Leonie Adams, Karen Ethelsdattar, Bettina Blake, and Benjamin J.R. Stolper, among others.

Moscow Male Jewish Choir at Town Hall

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Moscow Male Jewish Choir
Wednesday December 9 2009
at Town Hall TOWN HALL

They've played the world's stages from Russian synagogues to Carnegie Hall, winning critical raves and fans among Jews and non-Jewish audiences alike.

A Broadway debut of the 20-voice Moscow Male Jewish Choir Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8 p.m., in Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10036. Tenor Joseph Malovany, celebrated cantor of New York s Fifth Avenue Synagogue, joins the choir and its distinguished founder, conductor Alexander Tsaliuk, in a concert that features a mix of liturgical works, Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian folksongs, classics and international favorites.

Tickets, $40 - $80, are available at Ticketmaster, 212-307-4100 www.ticketmaster.com. The Town Hall box office (212) 840-2824 (starting November,10) For more information and group rates call (718)-213-0076

MOSCOW MALE JEWISH CHOIR (www.hasidic-cappella.com)

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Moscow Male Jewish Choir also known as the Hassidic Cappella is a professional choir founded by their distinguished conductor, Alexander Tsaliuk.

One of the choir's earliest supporters was former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. At his direction, many music manuscripts confiscated from synagogues and Jewish ensembles by the KGB, were turned over to the choir. This music has become a cornerstone of its repertoire.

With the help of American cantors Moshe Schulhof (Miami) and Joseph Malovany, the singers, who span three generations, have learned Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish liturgy in order to perform this music. Many of their selections from the 19th and 20th centuries are performed in the more traditional Ashkenazic Eastern European Hebrew.

Besides numerous performances in Russia and C.I.S. countries, the choir s tours have taken it on several occasions to eastern and western Europe and the U.S. Many of these concerts have been with Cantor Malovany. It performed at the 60th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, at a concert honoring the King of Denmark for the salvation of his country s Jews during the Holocaust, and other celebratory events. It was the laureate at the 1992 Zimriya (choral festival) in Israel.

CANTOR JOSEPH MALOVANY Israeli-born, American tenor Joseph Malovany has been cantor of New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue since 1973. He is also Distinguished Professor of Liturgical Music at the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, Yeshiva University. In 2004, he became the first Jewish cantor to be named a commander of Poland's Legion of Honor (equivalent of knighthood) for his musical contribution to the international and Polish communities.

More information on Cantor Malovany can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Malovany . His many recordings are available at www.nachumsegal.com/music/listArtist.cfm?viewArtist=3242

Veretski Pass Concert, Ask Drs. Klez and Dance Party

Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, CT and THE PHYLLIS SILIDKER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Presents
Veretski Pass
Cookie Segelstein, Joshua Horowitz and Stuart Brotman
Friday, Nov 13, Music in the service with Rabbi and Cantor
Saturday, Nov 14th
7:30pm Havdalah Celebration
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time: 7:30pm - 10:30pm
8:00 pm -- Concert/Lecture including a performance of the "Klezmer Shul" followed by a Dance Party hors d’oeuvres and wine
(Admission Free )

Sunday, Nov 15
12:15, Lunch and learn for adults, Ask Drs. Kez

Temple Beth Tikvah
196 Durham Rd. (Route 79)
Madison, CT 06443
For further information, contact Cantor Goldberg at 203-245-7028, ext. 209.

London Klezmer Orchestra

Wednesday 11 November
7.30-9.30pm
London Klezmer Orchestra
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1

The London Klezmer Orchestra meets to practise repertoire and arrange music. For further information call William Millis on 020 8969 7019. Tunes online. Next session: Monday 23 November, 7.30-9.30pm at the same venue.

Entry £5


Saturday 14 November
3pm - 2am
Freylekh Klezmer Dance Band
The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1

Peace House 50th Anniversary Celebration & Benefit. A riot of entertainment to celebrate 50 years of Houseman's peace activities.

Freylekh Klezmer Dance Band (Jess Cohen - oboe; Ilana Cravitz - violin; Sarah Moore and Kath Moore - saxes; Martina Schwarz - accordion) plays at 10pm. Also on the bill: Ian Saville (magician), Leon Rosselson (folk singer).

Tickets £9 or £8.50. To purchase tickets or for more info please call: 020 7837 4473 or visit
www.housmans.com/peacehouse.php

DJ Rob and You Shall Know Us

Tuesday November 10
7:30pm
The Foundation Room--House of Blues
15 Landsdowne Street, Boston
New Center for Arts and Culture
Jewish vinyl will come to life in Boston as Roger Bennet, author of "And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl", a book chronicling the story of Jews in America from the 1940s through the recordings on LP. Performance by DJ Rob of the Israeli DJ crew Soulico.
Tickets $12 in advance, $20 at the door.
To Purchase Tickets visit: www.newcenterboston.org
or call: 617-531-4610
E-MAIL: TICKETS@NCACBOSTON.ORG

Yosif Feigelson Cello Concert of Mieczyslaw Weinberg in NYC

On Sunday, November 22nd at 3 p.m. celebrated Russian cellist Yosif Feigelson
will perform at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (30 West 68th Street, NYC).

The concert will feature four Cello Sonatas of composer Mieczyslaw (Moishe) Weinberg (1919-1996). Tickets and more information are available at the website: www.swfs.org or by phone at: (212) 877-4050.

Called "one of the most prolific, yet largely overlooked composers", Mieczyslaw (Moishe) Weinberg is author to 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets, operas, concerti as well as music to many movies including famous "The Cranes Are Flying". For more facts about composer visit www.mweinberg.info

Praised around the world for his outstanding mastery, dubbed by one of the critics " a Caruso of the Cello", Yosif Feigelson enjoys over three decades of a distinguished solo career. Former student of two great Russian masters: Rostropovich and Gutman, he is as much dedicated to bringing forward new music as his former mentors. His unique recordings of works for solo cello by M. Weinberg will be re-issued by Naxos in 2010. Visit artist's website at: www.yfeigelson.com

Sam Glaser in Newton, MA

A Family Concert with Sam Glaser A concert of original works and timeless classics Sunday, Nov. 8 1:30pm Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington Street Newton, MA Easy Access to Woodland T/Greenline D For tix call: 617-527-2410 $18; $14 for seniors

Klezmer en Buenos Aires

Klezmer Buenos Aires
Part of Klez California Fall Festival
Saturday, November 14, 2009
8:00pm
JCC San Francisco, CA
The Lerner Moguilevsky Duo has been wowing audiences around the world for over a decade, playing with an intensity and originality that makes believers of everyone who hears them. This is klezmer mixed with hints of tango and other Latin American rhythms. Fabulous! Public $35, JCC members $32, students $30.
Tickets at www.jccsf.org/arts, 415/292-1233 or in person at the JCCSF box office.
Stop by KlezCalifornia's information table!

"Tribute": The Chamber Music of Judith Shatin

Deering Estate, Living Artist Concert Series
Meet Judith Shatin
Venue: Deering Estate at Cutler, Miami, FL
Event Date: November 13, 2009
The concert begins at 7:00 pm; Meet the Artist Reception at 6:30 pm. Single tickets $25 on sale at the Visitor Center Ticket Office, or by calling (305) 235-1668, ext. 233. Directions: http://www.deeringestate.org/pages/Directions.aspx
On November 13 the Living Artist Concert Series at Deering Estate presents "Tribute" a concert featuring composer Judith Shatin with the Deering Estate Chamber Ensemble. They will perform Shatin's chamber works View from Mt. Nebo and Doxa linking historical wartime works by Louis Ferdinand of Prussia and Erich Korngold.
http://www.deeringestate.org/articles/Featured-Events-and-Programs/Living-Artist-Concert-Series-Nov-2009-.aspx

The Living Artist Concert Series (LACS) combines ensemble performances with lectures, visual art exhibits, environmental awareness and interpretive programs. It acquaints the public with the best of South Florida's artistic spirit through collaborations with faculty from the University of Miami and Florida International University, principal players of regional, national, and international professional orchestras, top youth performers and national/international guest composers. Concerts are held in the historic Stone House Ballroom - which provides intimate seating for 125 guests, possesses superb natural acoustics for chamber music and offers a perfect environment for the exhibition of visual art.

GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS

MERKIN CONCERT HALL AT KAUFMAN CENTER AND NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG PRESENT
GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS
NOVEMBER 17 AND 19 AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL
featured will be:
JASON GRAAE, SYLVIA McNAIR, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER
NOVEMBER 13 AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
featuring:
JASON GRAAE, LIZA FORRESTER, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER

MUSIC OF BOCK & HARNICK, BOLCOM & WEINSTEIN, DIETZ & SCHWARTZ, GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN, MALTBY & SHIRE, KANDER & EBB, LEIBER & STOLLER, LERNER & LOEWE, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN, RODGERS & HART

NYFOS¹s Fats and Fields program caused Talkin¹ Broadway to say "What can make you smile for two hours? New York Festival of Song"

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org ) will present Great American Songwriting Teams, an evening of famous and rarely-heard songs honoring the genius of America¹s classic collaborators, on Tuesday and Thursday November 17 and 19 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. Merkin Concert Hall is at 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues), New York, NY 10023. Tickets, $40 - $55 are available by calling 212-501-3330, or visitingwww.kaufman-center.org . In addition, there are group discounts and special $15 student discounts available by calling New York Festival of Song at 646-230-8380. The artists for Great American Songwriting Teams will be: Jason Graae, deemed ³A master of humorous song² by The New York Times; two-time Grammy Award-winning theater/cabaret star Sylvia McNair, who the New York Observer called ³Thrillingly adept at exploring the subtext of song²; and Broadway¹s popular Mary Testa, the Tony Award-nominee recently called ³Absolutely fab² by Entertainment Weekly. NYFOS co-founder and Artistic Director Steven Blier, ³A national treasure when it comes to the art of song (The New York Times) will serve as pianist, host and arranger.

Great American Songwriting Teams will also be presented November 13 at 7:30pm at the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center, under the auspices of The Vocal Arts Society of Washington, D.C. For this performance, the exciting young mezzo-soprano Liza Forrester, soon to make her New York City Opera debut in L¹Etoile, will replace Ms. McNair. Please visit the Kennedy Center¹s website, www.kennedy-center.org/calendar for details about tickets.

Posted by jmwc at 06:00 PM

LEV ARONSON MEMORIAL CONCERT

SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER | 3PM
CONCERT/BOOK PARTY
sponsored by YIVO
at the Center for Jewish History
http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php

The internationally renowned cellist Ralph Kirshbaum honors the memory of his late teacher Lev Aronson (1912-1988), a Holocaust survivor who played for many years with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with a rare New York recital. Mr. Kirshbaum will perform compositions by Aronson as well as works by some of the artists who influenced him.

The program will also feature a reading by author Frances Brent from her critically acclaimed new book, The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson (Atlas & Co.).

Admission: $25 General / $18 YIVO members
Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com

A Taste of Russia

A Taste of Russia: Sholem Aleichem as you Least Expect Him -- this Wednesday! With wonderful Yiddish vocalist Adrienne Cooper. Join Sid Jacobson JCC, Suffolk Y JCC and The Workmen's Circle for an evening of hilarious, touching and unexpected readings and songs in honor of Sholem Aleichem's 150th birthday. Dessert and coffee served.
Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Location: Sid Jacobson JCC
Fee $20 / members, Suffolk Y-JCC and Workmen Circle members $15. www.sjjcc.org.
Call for availability -- 516-484-1545 ext. 173

Click here for Sid Jacobson JCC website http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maanwNmabT6OxbIFEx6eafpQav/

An Evening of Baroque Jewish music at the Kennedy Center

Charles and Robyn Krauthammer proudly present:
An Evening of Baroque Jewish music at the Kennedy Center
Apollo Ensemble
An evening of Baroque Jewish music:
The Apollo Ensemble presented by Pro Musica Hebraica

Making its U.S. debut, Amsterdam's Apollo Ensemble performs a concert of Baroque Jewish musical treasures, one night only, at the Kennedy Center. A highlight is the American premiere of Dio, Clemenza e Rigore, an anonymously composed oratorio for an eighteenth-century Italian Jewish holiday synagogue service. Don't miss this rarely performed work. This concert is presented by Pro Musica Hebraica, devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it believed lost, forgotten, or rarely performed, in a concert hall setting.
Apollo Ensemble
Thu., Nov. 5 at 7:30 | Kennedy Center Terrace Theater | Seats $38

Program:
CACERES - Le-el elim, Cantata for two voices and basso continuo (1738)
MARCELLO - Salmo 15/Ma'oz Tzur (1724-1727)
For alto, violincello, bassoon, harpsichord, and baritone
De ROSSI - Trio sonatas for two violins and basso continuo (ca. 1620)
UNKNOWN - Dio, Clemenza e Rigore, Hoshana Rabbah in Casale Monferrato (1733) (U.S. Premiere)

Tickets also available at the Box Office or charge by phone
(202) 467-4600 | Toll-free (800) 444-1324 | TTY (202) 416-8524 | Groups (202) 416-8400

Dudu Fisher at Symphony Hall in Boston

Special Half Price Tickets to see Dudu Fisher
Live in Concert at Boston Symphony Hall – November 1, 2009

Known for his stirring performance on Broadway as Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES and as a world famous Israeli cantor, Dudu Fisher brings an exciting and visually stunning show to Boston’s Symphony Hall on Sunday, November 1, at 7:30 PM. Based on his highly successful PBS special, IN CONCERT FROM ISRAEL, Fisher will take the audience on an inspired journey connecting his talent as a Broadway performer, cantor, and contemporary artist with music and stories that celebrate the beauty of Israel's landscape, culture and people.

We are pleased to offer half-price tickets to those who mention this announcement by calling 617-266-1200 or by visiting www.bostonsymphonyhall.org/dudufisher.

Fisher has performed on the stages of Broadway, the West End in London, Israel, and throughout the world, including singing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta, recording an album of show tunes with the London Symphony Orchestra, and performing for Britain's Royal family and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is the only Broadway performer whose Broadway contract allows him to observe the Jewish Sabbath by not performing on Friday evenings and Saturday matinees, a recognition of his talent and dedication to the role and a constant source of pride and accomplishment in his career.

Fisher’s Fall 2009 North American Tour is a celebration of the PBS television special that capitalizes on his incredible vocal and artistic range and features a repertoire that goes well beyond the television show. It tells the story of a cantor who finds success on the stages of Broadway, but who never forgets his home or the musical landscape of Israel. The tour concludes with shows in Toronto on November 5 and in Baltimore on November 7. For more information about him visit www.dudufisher.com.

The Jewish Romantics Chamber Concert

THE JEWISH ROMANTICS
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON NOVEMBER 5

The Jewish Museum will present The Jewish Romantics, a concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth, at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street on Thursday, November 5 at 7 pm. This performance features a roster of gifted young artists from Mannes College, which continues its yearlong music festival, "The Mendelssohn Salon." Felix Mendelssohn and his musically talented sister, Fanny, were hosts and guests at cultural gatherings known as salons, which included the great composers of their day. This concert explores the music of the Mendelssohns and of other important Jewish composers of the 19th century Romantic period.

The November 5 program is a co-production of Mannes College, The New School for Music, and The Jewish Museum.

Musical selections will include:
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn - Drei Stücke zu vier Händen
Sophia Munoz and Hyun Jin Lee, piano
Selections from Hebrew Melodies for Viola & Piano, Op. 9
Josef Joachim Christian Atanasiu, viola; Daniel Laor, piano

Giacomo Meyerbeer - Songs
Katharine Dain, soprano; Dina Pruzhansky, piano

Fromental Halévy - Two arias from La Juive
Crissida Tyler, soprano; Laetitia Ruccolo, piano

Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Elad Kabilio, cello Javor Bracic, piano

Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Program tickets at The Jewish Museum can be purchased online at the Museum's Web site, www.thejewishmuseum.org.

An infrared assistive listening system for the hearing impaired is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

Public programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency. The stage lighting system has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. The audio-visual system has been funded by New York State Assembly Member Jonathan M. Bing.

About Mannes College

Since its founding in 1916, Mannes College has become one of the world's leading conservatories, internationally recognized for its musical and pedagogical excellence, and for its commitment to artistic and human ideals. Mannes's distinguished alumni include eminent pianists Richard Goode and Murray Perahia; acclaimed conductors Yves Abel, Semyon Bychkov, Myung Whun Chung, and JoAnn Falletta; the iconic diva Frederica von Stade; and Metropolitan Opera company members Olga Makarina, Patricia Risley, and Danielle de Niese. Its outstanding faculty includes opera legend Regina Resnik, pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Richard Goode, as well as renowned artists-in-residence such as Yefim Bronfman, the Orion String Quartet, and Deborah Voigt. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/concerts .

About The Jewish Museum

Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established on January 20, 1904 when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, The Jewish Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information (NOTE: NEW MUSEUM HOURS)

Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11am to 5:45pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

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World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer Music

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer’s Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra in Wilmington and Brevard, NC, and Columbia, SC

Tekeeyah (a call) - Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra, will be given its World Premiere performances with shofar/trombone virtuoso Haim Avitsur on the following dates.

http://www.wilmingtonsymphony.org/.

http://www.boamusic.org/bp.htm.

http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.

Tekeeyah (a call) is the first concerto ever written for shofar/trombone soloist and orchestra and was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras that also includes the Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory, NC), John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, Music Director.

Tekeeyah (a call) during a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Spring of 2008, has written this about the piece, "I believe our time calls for an awakening to our true essence as human beings. The shofar (ram’s horn), with its natural power and centuries of service in calling Jews to awaken, can be an important instrument in this collective renewal of purpose. The trombone's breadth of range and dynamics complements and extends the expressive capacity of the shofar.”

http://www.readthebeatmagazine.com/Oct09-Warshauer-Classical.htm.

Like Streams in the Desert video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OqrQV8z1U&feature=related. The piece is featured on her critically acclaimed Albany Records Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works.

http://www.meirawarshauer.com.

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