Jewish Music Web Center Announcements

Katchko: Three Generations of Cantorial Art

Deborah Katchko-Gray announces the release of the compilaton Katchko: 3 Generations of Cantorial Art, featuring the music of Adolph Katchko, and including a CD of music sung by Cantor Katchko-Gray. The book is a combination of scholarly articles about the lives and work of Cantor Adolph Katchko (1866-1958) and CantorTheodore Katchko (1927-1997) and music. Essays on the nature of the cantorate, and transcripts of talks given by the cantors, as well as still photos from the film "The Voice of Israel", family memorabila, letters, programs, and testimonials, all lend to the interesting archival presentation in the work. In addition to this background material, the important musical works of Adoph Katchko are presented in score with guitar chords in "female friendly" vocal ranges. These vocal arrangements by Deborah allow this music to become available to everyone, including modern female cantors who wish to sing the music of the "Golden Age" of cantors. The collection is published by Tara Publications and is available at http://www.jewishmusic.com/

Israel Women Composers Forum

This website is in English and Hebrew. It lists Israeli women composers and a catalog of their musical works, with links to composer homepages, and news and events..
http://www.womencomposers.org.il/default.asp

SUMMERNIGHTS FOUR-CONCERT SERIES AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM

Margot Leverett kicks off the series, beginning Thursday July 2nd at 7:30pm

NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum's popular SummerNights program returns, presenting live world music in a concert setting on four Thursdays in July. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm. Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, performing their unique mix of bluegrass and klezmer, kick off SummerNights on July 2. This cosmopolitan concert series features critically acclaimed musicians offering innovative interpretations of music from all over the world. Other scheduled performers include Musette Explosion with accordionist Will Holshouser and guitarist Matt Munisteri echoing on French jazz of the 1930s and 40s with fiery improvisations; the virtuosic brass band music of SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!; and Ljova and the Kontraband performing a mix of Eastern-European melodies, Latin rhythms and jazz-inspired improvisations. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Tickets for each concert 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 or visit http://www.thejewishmuseumorg/

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40+ FREE JULY EVENTS AT SUMMER ON THE HUDSON:

JULY 19: FRANK LONDON’S KLEZMER BRASS ALL-STARS AT RIVERSIDE PARK SOUTH

More than 40 free events with internationally acclaimed artists will be presented in July at the 9th annual Summer On the Hudson, one of New York City’s largest free summer festivals, The six-month series, which opened May 3 and runs through October 11, is an annual summer arts and cultural festival in Riverside Park South, West 59th St. to West 72nd Street at the Hudson River, presented by The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

There will be an enormous variety of other events in music, dance and theater, most running through August, as well as kayaking, yoga, pilates and kids’ soccer and basketball. performances Food and drink is for sale at the park’s Pier I Café. All events are FREE to the public and are programmed by Robin Schatell, Riverside Park Director of Programming.

For more information, please call 311 or (212) 408-0219, or visit www.nyc.gov/parks/soh, or www.riversideparkfund.org.

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London KlezFest coming up

Klezmer and Balkan Music Workshop in Devon 21 June. Visit http://www.ilanacravitz.com/devon.html

Upcoming is the London KlezFest, 9-14 August. Visit http://www.jmi.org.uk/ for details.

Vanessa Paloma Sings Mose salio de Misrayim

YouTube of a traditional Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) song from Northern Morocco called Mose salio de Misrayim, telling the story of Moses and his encounter at the burning bush which led him back to Egypt to confront Pharaoh. This was filmed at the Jewish Museum of Casablanca, the only Jewish museum in an Arab country. Features the singing of Vanessa Paloma.

KlezKanada presents NOZEN at the Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival

KlezKanada at the Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival
June 18 - June 25, 2009 @ 10PM

June 18, 2009
Time: 10:00 PM
Organization: KlezKanada/The Segal Centre
Categories: Concerts
Location: 5170, Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine H3W 1M7
Open to public
JUNE 18, 2009: NOZEN
Steeped in the chassidic and klezmer musical traditions and percolating with the avant-garde, Nozen’s influences range from John Coltrane to John Zorn’s Massada and from old style klezmer players like David Tarras and Naftuleh Brandwein to Frank London and David Krakauer. Anxious, curious, eclectic. Damian Nisenson (saxophones and composition), Jean-Felix Mailloux (doublebass), Ziya Tabassian (percussion), Luzio Altobelli (accordion).

Description:
KlezKanada in conjunction with The Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival presents a week-long program of Jewish music. From June 18th to June 25th KlezKanada brings its long-standing tradition of late-night KlezKabarets to the Segal Centre. The program will explore the diversity that exists in the ever-growing Jewish music world. And of course each night's featured act will be followed by an open mic jam session, so bring your instruments and voice. See below for the schedule and description of acts.

2009 FESTIVAL CONCERTS OPENING JUNE 29 @ USDAN CENTER

Metropolitan Klezmer plus.... much more.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER opens series on JUNE 29,
Cellist Edward Arron Also Featured.

Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), now entering its 42nd season and declared a 'Best O'f class or camp for 2009 by TimeOutNY/Kids, NY Metro Parents and Long Island Press, will open its series of Festival Concerts, private educational performances for its students, on Monday June 29 at the Center¹s 200-acre woodland campus. These will be in addition to many special workshops that will offer by the visiting artists for Usdan students. The Center¹s 2009 season runs from June 29 to August 14. Usdan is located at 185 Colonial Springs Road, in Huntington, Long Island.

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Klezmer Guy Blog

Another music blogger... by Yiddish Cup:
http://www.yiddishecup.com/blog/

North American Jewish Choral Festival

20th Annual

North American
Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley
Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

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HA'OROT-THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK

Tonight Tuesday, June 16th
8pm
GREAT SHOW ! GREAT BAND !
Cover $15
CD release concert of
HA'OROT-THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK by
Greg Wall's 'LaterProphets'

The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th Street (Between 6th & 7th Avenues)
Brooklyn NY 11215

Serving delicious Gourmet Pasta Dishes, Wraps, Cheese Cake , Beer and more !

Featuring Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein
The lineup is:
Rabbi Greg Wall saxophones, clarinet,shofar, moseno
Shai Bachar keyboards
Dave Richards bass
Aaron Alexander drums
Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein spoken word

Some cuts from the just released on Tzadik Records CD -HA'OROT-THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK can be heard here:
www.myspace.com/orotharav

More info and directions at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years!

WHAT: Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years!

WHO: Confirmed performers include: Theodore Bikel, Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton, The Klezmatics, Judy Kaye, Susan Werner, David Amram, Beyond the Pale, Artie Butler, Patricia Conolly, David Krakauer, Hankus Netsky, Sarah Horowitz, Serendipity 4 (Theodore Bikel, Tamara Brooks, Merima Ključo and Shura Lipovsky), and Michael Wex.

WHEN: 7:30pm Monday, June 15, 2009

WHERE: Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York City

TICKETS: Tickets range from $30 to $500.
Carnegie Hall Box Office - www.carnegiehall.org or 212.247.7800

THE KLEZMATICS JOIN STAR-STUDDED LINEUP FOR THEODORE BIKEL BIRTHDAY CONCERT
AT CARNEGIE HALL ON JUNE 15TH

Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton Among Special Guests at June 15th concert to benefit Juvenile Law Center
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More Time to Access Jewish Music in NYC

The Center for Jewish History, located in the heart of New York City, is pleased to announce that they have improved access to the collections of partners by extending the operating hours of the Lillian Goldman Reading Room and the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute to five days a week!

Scholars, students and the general public now have the opportunity to conduct onsite research on Mondays from 9:30am – 7:30pm, Tuesdays – Thursdays from 9:30am – 5:30pm, and Fridays from 9:30am – 1:30pm.

In addition to offering extended hours, the Center provides access to our partners’ collections through its Online Public Access Catalog (www.collections.cjh.org), a unique tool that offers seamless searching of library, archival and museum holdings through a single portal.

Researchers can also view more than 1,200 electronic archival finding aids and two annotated bibliographies offered by the Center, Women in Daily Life: An Online Bibliography and Holocaust Resources: An Annotated Bibliography of Archival Holdings at the Center for Jewish History. The Center’s Holocaust bibliography is exceptional in that it emphasizes archival holdings, a rarity among Holocaust reference guides.

The Center for Jewish History is a partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history, and art: the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, the Yeshiva University Museum, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The combined collections of the partners have made the Center the single most important resource, outside of Israel, for the study of the history and culture of the Jewish people with access to over 100 million archival documents and 500,000 volumes.

To learn more about the resources of the Center for Jewish History and its partners, please visit www.cjh.org.

Yiddish Lullaby

Music in Our Time: 2009

Sunday, June 7th at the Center for Jewish History
Celebrating the Siegmeister Centenary
"Music in Our Time," the annual concert of Jewish music by contemporary composers, presented by the American Society for Jewish Music in association with the American Jewish Historical Society, will be given on Sunday, June 7th at 3 PM at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC).
For tickets $18 ($12 members); $6 for Students and Seniors, call 212-868-4444 or
www.smarttix.com or
contact the Box Office: (917) 606-8200 /
href="mailto:boxoffice@cjh.org">boxoffice@cjh.org.
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Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos

Today: Thursday, May 21
Trinity Wall Street, NYC - FREE & outdoors!
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Isle of Klezbos (with special guests) plays the historic, beautiful downtown environs of Trinity Wall Street for outdoor festivities, FREE & open to the public: Lower Broadway at Wall Street, NYC.
One fun set of klezmer & more among the trees & gravestones: live music and free lemonade.
http://trinitywallstreet.org or 212-602-0800
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Wild Illusions: New Yiddish Sounds

Wild Illusions: New Yiddish Sounds
Adrienne Cooper, Michael Winograd and Friends
Thursday, May 21st , 8 pm @
The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
$15.00 JCC Member, $20.00 Non-Member
For more information, or to register, please call 646-505-5708.
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1022&pID=1000

Singer Adrienne Cooper and Michael Winograd, NY music scene audacious talent, team up in a debut project (preview to a new recording) with spectacular players Dan Rosengard (piano), Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar), Benjy Fox-Rosen (bass), Greg Mervine (drums), Jon Singer (marimba), and Sarah Gordon and Niki Jacobs (vocals).

New arrangements to songs by Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Fima Chorny, Josh Waletzky, Polina Shepherd-Ashkenazi, Beyle Shaechter-Gottesman, Hirsh Blohstein, Meir Kharatz, Dovid Edelstadt. Original songs by Adrienne Co oper and Frank London are from Jenny Romaine’s celebrated La Mama theater production of The Memoir o f Gluckl of Hameln.

Adrienne is thrilled to bring together this intergenerational Yiddish music encounter with new band arrangements by Michael Winograd. The project showcases a remarkable phenomenon - the contemporary resurgence of a Yiddish song movement, featuring work by living Yiddish composers and lyricists from the ages of 23-85, living in Brooklyn and the Bronx, in Kishinev, Moldova, Brighton, England, and Hoboken, New Jersey. This artistic convergence connects over a century of Yiddish culture=2 0makers in a “conversation” that spans continents, genres, generations, and the abyss of 20th century Jewish history.

Aren't American Mashups Fun?

Kinda a strange thing here... Arlo Guthrie captured on YouTube doing Tzena Tzena... sorta.

Jewish Choral Festival Boston

Jewish Choral Festival
Sunday, May 17,
7:30 pm at Northeastern University's Fenway Center,
77 St. Stephen Street at the corner of Gainsborough Street.
Hebrew College and Northeastern University jointly present a festive concert,
featuring the four choirs resident at Hebrew College:
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, Koleinu, Kol Rinah and Shir Tsiyon. The combined forces of more than one hundred singers will present a program of classical and contemporary Jewish choral music.
COST: $20 ($10 students and seniors)
Click here to buy tickets.

KlezMITron at MIT

Sunday May 17 2009, 8 -- 11 pm
MIT Student Center, Sala de Puerto Rico (2nd floor)
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

KlezMITron, the MIT klezmer band, will play for dancing at the MIT international folk dance! Yaron Shragai will teach and lead some easy klezmer dances, including the hora, freylahks, buglar, and chusidl. Beginners welcome.
Admission is by donation.

For more information, see http://mit.edu/fdc and http://klezmitron.mit.edu

And You Shall Know Us by The Trail of Our Vinyl Lecture

Josh Kun-
And You Shall Know Us by The Trail of Our Vinyl: Music, Memory, and the Politics of Jewish American History
Wednesday, May 20, 7:30 pm
ADMISSION: $10 General; $8 Members; $5 Full-Time Students

For more than eight years, cultural critic and USC professor Josh Kun, along with co-author Roger Bennett, scoured the nation's thrift stores and garage sales for forgotten Jewish musical treasures. Their book about the quest features the covers of more than 500 albums by a range of artists, from Yosele Rosenblatt to Barbra Streisand and everyone in between. Join Kun for a lively multimedia lecture about some of his favorite finds and the album cover's role in the way Jewish American history gets told. A book signing follows the program.

Light dinner fare and beverages, including beer and wine, are available for purchase before the program.

London Fiddles on Fire

Saturday, 18 April, Ilana Cravitz will be playing some of her favourite klezmer tunes with Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) and John Bone (accordion) in a concert at Kings Place, the great new venue near Kings Cross station. It's a 45-minute programme starting at 12.45. You can find more details and book tickets online at:
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes/ilana-cravitz-klezmer-fiddle

The concert is part of the Folkworks: Fiddles on Fire festival, where Ilana will be teaching a workshop as well. More about this amazing fiddle-fest at:
http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/music/weekly-themes?theme=49

http://www.ilanacravitz.com/

Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet

Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet will present a Concert
Sunday, April 12, 2009
9:30pm - 11:30pm
in Givatayim
תיאטרון גבעתיים
For info:
037325340

'Twas the Night Before Pesakh in ole NY town...

Metropolitan Klezmer: full octet, 15th Anniversary Show
Tuesday, April 7: Night Before Pesakh!
@ Drom, 85 Avenue A (btw E 5th-6th St) NYC
http://dromnyc.com
music sets from 7:30pm til 9:30pm, doors open 7pm
$10 + two-drink or food minimum
Full tapas menu and bar
Tel: 212-777-1157
Tickets: boxoffice@dromnyc.com
Dinner & table reservations: reservations@dromnyc.com
Event page
METROPOLITAN KLEZMER - as in photo above:
Ismail Butera (accordion)
Pam Fleming (trumpet/flugelhorn)
Melissa Fogarty (vocals)
Michael Hess (violin/ney flutes)
Dave Hofstra (upright bass/tuba)
Debra Kreisberg (clarinet/alto sax)
Reut Regev (trombone)
Eve Sicular (drums/leader)

Photocredit Angela Jimenez
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Levontin 7 in London

Levontin 7 in London
Tuesday 12th May, from 7pm
Tel Aviv's hippest live music, Levontin 7, visits London for one night only in residence at the Barfly in Camden. Come and listen to some of the best and most adventurous sounds from London-based Israeli musicians Koby Israelite and Noam Inbar, Oy Division and HaBiluim, and singer-songwriter Lail Arad.
Barfly, 49 Chalk Farm Road NW1
£10
Book online on JCC for London
or call 020 7431 9866

Eyal Maoz's Edom

Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik Records) in a concert.
New Middle eastern experimental jazz-rock.
Check it out at www.eyalmaozmusic.com
With:
Eyal Maoz-guitar and compositions
Brian Marsella - organ
Shanir Blumenkranz - bass
Yuval Lion - drums
at
BAM Café.
30 Lafayette Avenue (between St. Felix Street and Ashland Place) Brooklyn
Tel: 718- 636-4100
Saturday, April 4th 9PM. Free concert !

AND
Brooklyn Library
Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn
718-230-2100
Thursday, May 7th 7PM.
Free concert !

Eyalmaozmusic.com
Tzadik.com

Music of Theresienstadt in Hartford

Music of Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie von Otter at Immanuel Congregational Church, Hartford
Sunday, April 26, 2009
7:30pm

On Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 7:30pm, the Woodland Concert Series will be presenting an important musical and cultural offering to the Hartford area. Featured will be mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in a program of music composed by Jewish composers during their imprisonment at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. She is being assisted in this concert by the noted violinist Daniel Hope, and by her regular accompanist, Bengt Forsberg.

Tickets are $30 general admission, $20 for seniors or students and $40 for preferred seating. While tickets may be available at the door, we strongly suggest they be purchased in advance by contacting the Woodland Concert Series at 860-527-8121 or by going to their website: woodlandconcertseries.org. Immanuel Congregational Church is handicapped accessible. The Church is located at the corner of Farmington Avenue and Woodland Street in Hartford, and there is plenty of free parking close by. Continue reading "Music of Theresienstadt in Hartford"

20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival

20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

* Celebrate the joys of Jewish music with hundreds of singers, and the finest conductors and clinicians from across North America (and beyond)
* Enjoy daily "community singing" and participate in an "instant choir"
* Hear outstanding ensembles in nightly evening concerts featuring the best in Jewish choral music
* Attend daily workshops focusing on a wide array of musical topics with outstanding clinicians
* Jewish Hallelujah Chorus Festival Tradition - Singing the "Jewish Hallelujah Chorus" (Lewandowski's Psalm 150)
NAJCF Brochure

GREG WALL'S 'LATER PROPHETS'

GREG WALL'S 'LATER PROPHETS'
CD Release Party of their new recording!
Ha'orot- The Lights of Rav Kook
http://www.myspace.com/laterprophets
10:15pm
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street
Brooklyn NY 11215

Saturday March 28th
Doors 9pm Cover $15

MOSHE WEIDENFELD
& New Moments
http://www.myspace.com/mosheweidenfeld
9:15 pm

The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street
Brooklyn NY 11215

The Passover Seder Symbols in Song

Thanks to Irving Berlin and Barry Levy, we have a new Seder Song on YouTube

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