Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra

It's a "Budapester, professional klezmer band, playing traditional jiddish and Jewish songs arranged by Laszlo Szirtes..." Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra would love to place outside Hungary. You can see the website www.szirtes-jeko.hu and get an idea about the band.

20th Annual KlezKamp

The dates for the 20th annual KlezKamp have been set: December 26 – December 31, 2004 at the Swan Lake Resort Hotel in the Catskills. Please click on the following link for more information and a report about KlezKamp 19: http://www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm

KLEZMER - MUSIC MINUS ONE

From Yale Strom comes a series of klezmer music books (WORLD MUSIC: KLEZMER - MUSIC MINUS ONE) that will help the budding klezmer musician to learn to play klezmer.

Each book has a brief history of klezmer and describes the scales and ornametations that differentiate klezmer from other folk genres from Eastern Europe. Also each book has five tunes. Three traditional tunes: Ma Yofes, Romanian Hora &Bulgar and Stoliner Nign and two original compositions by Strom, The Silver Crown and Dorohoi Khusidl, which is actually based upon a few bars Strom heard from a klezmer in Dorohoi, Romania in 1981. Each book has all the marked parts and the CD. The CD has two cuts of each tune, one of the entire ensemble and one without the melody instrument. The musician and play the written melody as is or improvise as the harmony and rhythm parts are always heard. The tunes were recorded by Strom's klezmer band Hot Pstromi (violin, accordion, clarinet, tenor saxophone, bass and percussion). This book is a great for all who want to learn to play klezmer. UE31529: World Music - Klezmer with CD for flexible ensemble ( 2 melody instruments (C,Bb, Eb), accordian, bass (guitar, electric bass), percussion editor: Yale Strom retail: US $ 27.95 UE31568: World Music - Klezmer with CD Play Along Violin for violin (guitar/keyboard ad lib.) and CD editor: Yale Strom retail: US $ 15.95 UE31569: World Music - Klezmer with CD Play Along Clarinet for clarinet ( guitar/keyboard ad lib.) and CD editor: Yale Strom retail: US $ 15.95 UE31570: World Music - Klezmer with CD Play Along Flute for flute ( guitar/keyboard ad lib.) and CD editor: Yale Strom retail: US $ 15.95 UE31571: World Music - Klezmer with CD Play Along Saxophone for alt/tenor saxophone ( guitar/keyboard ad lib.) and CD editor: Yale Strom retail: US $ 16.95 The following items will be in stock with Warner Bros. within the next 3-4 weeks. Initial orders can be placed by calling the Noteservice line at 800-628-1528. The items are still listed as NEW in the system. Most music dealers have accounts with Warner Bros. The larger chains, of course, all do. Special orders will be accepted for out of stock items.

MILKEN ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC

DAVE BRUBECK: Jazz icon, pianist and composer Dave Brubeck wrote this cantata in an attempt to heal the rift between the Jewish people and American blacks that emerged in the late 1960s, especially after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968...DAVE BRUBECK, BRUCE ADOLPHE, and more...

DAVE BRUBECK'S THE GATES OF JUSTICE (CD #8.559414) Based on biblical and Hebrew liturgical texts, quotations from Dr. King's speeches, Negro spirituals and the Jewish sage Hillel, with lyrics by Brubeck's wife Iola, it was intended to underscore and resurrect the spiritual parallels between Jews and blacks. For more information, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=12 BRUCE ADOLPHE (CD #8.559413) This disc features three works by composer, author, educator and performer Bruce Adolphe, currently the composer-in-residence of the Chamber Music Society of New York's Lincoln Center: (1) Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering, a virtuoso song cycle for soprano, guitar, and French horn based on folk poetry in Ladino, the Castillian Spanish/Hebrew vernacular of Mediterranean Sephardi Jews; (2) a scene from Adolphe's opera, Mikhoels the Wise, about the life and death of the most prominent figure of the post-revolution Soviet Yiddish Theater; and (3) Out of the Whirlwind, a six-movement oratorio based on Yiddish poems and songs written by members of the Jewish resistance in the ghettos during World War II, and by other Holocaust victims. For more information, go to http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=11

Alicia Svigals & Mikveh

DATE: Sunday, February 15, 2004 WHO:Alicia Svigals, Klezmer Violin WHEN: 7pm & WHAT: Mikveh: The Women's All-Star Klezmer Band WHEN: 9pm & WHERE: at Satalla. 37 West 26th St. NYC WHY: great klezmer

2 sets: Alicia 7pm Admission $12 Before the big klezmer bands of New York arose with their brass and clarinets, there were the archetypical Jewish orchestras of the old world, led by the fiddle and bourne aloft by the otherworldy sounds of the harp-like 'tsimbl', or Jewish hammered dulcimer. Renowned violinist Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Klezmatics and the world's foremost klezmer fiddler, presents a program of those ancient and ecstatic Jewish melodies. Accompanied by 'tsimblist' Pete Rushefsky, one of the few musicians in the world to have mastered this demanding instrument; virtuoso bass player Jim Guttman of the Klezmer Conservatory Band; and N.Y.'s top scholar of the Jewish groove, drummer Aaron Alexander of Hasidic New Wave. Come prepared to party with Alicia in the ancient manner, and to commune with beloved ghosts from the East European Jewish past. More about Alicia at www.aliciasvigals.com Mikveh The Women's All-Star Klezmer Band 9pm Admission $12 Mikveh: Alicia Svigals, Adrienne Cooper, Lauren Brody, Susan Hoffman Watts, Catherine Popper Mikveh is a supergroup of the top women in klezmer, including renowned Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper, Klezmatics founder Alicia Svigals on fiddle, charismatic trumpeter Susan Watts of the Hoffman klezmer dynasty, ethnic accordion wizard Lauren Brody, and soulful bass player Catherine Popper. Together, they rock out with sizzling dance music and riveting Yiddish/English songs, both ancestral and ! brand new. More about Mikveh at www.Mikvehklezmer.com :::::: S A T A L L A :::::: 37 West 26th St. NYC :::: 212.576.1155 ::::: Satalla.com

THE STRAUSS/WARSCHAUER DUO

Town and Village Synagogue and the Jewish War Veterans of the USA will present a free concert of klezmer music and Yiddish song on Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 2:00 PM.

Featuring: Deborah STRAUSS and Jeff WARSCHAUER With special guests: THE COLUMBIA KLEZMER BAND Directed by Joey Weisenberg Coached by Jeff Warschauer DEBORAH STRAUSS' KIDS KLEZMER ENSEMBLE Coached by Deborah Strauss THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE TUESDAY NIGHT KLEZMER ENSEMBLE Coached by Jeff Warschauer Town and Village Synagogue is located at 334 East 14th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues in New York City. For more information: Jeff Warschauer at 718 399-1147 or warschauer@aol.com

Esther Ofarim

Not that it's really new, but if you're looking for info on Esther Ofarim, just visit.... A fan website with information about her life and work at www.esther-ofarim.de

REPERTOIRE EXPLORER

...an idealistic publishing activity looking for participants and partners which may interest you...

Peter Dietz pdietz@musikmph.de www.musikmph.de Peter WRITES: If somebody studies music seriously his situation is deeply frustrating. Most music not part of the small repertoire well known and often played, is no longer available or has never been printed. And there is not a single publishing house keen to print these scores again or for the first time for study purposes, as there is no business to be expected. Two years ago, we and some musicloving friends, who all were suffering from this sad fact, decided to change the situation and began to publish the music, we missed for a long time. This was the beginning of REPERTOIRE EXPLORER- (cataloque on http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/information/information.html) Within these two years of the project an international circle of like-minded people met ­musicians, journalists, musicologists, conductors and all kinds of music lovers - and succeded in publishing more than 180 scores of rare music (including the new full score series OPERA EXPLORER) Without a financier in the background, but with the skills, the enthusiasm and the love of all members, as “amateurs³ in the true sense of the word: people who work out of dedication. Meanwhile you can find our scores in all important music libraries all over the world. We would be thrilled to print many more works as study score ­ our desired list of rare music is very long and we do have the love and power to increase our activities ­ but there is one main problem making publishing very difficult and tough going: the prefaces. In the beginning of our project we decided that every score will contain a competent foreword in professional quality, both in German and English. This decision was a matter of our heart, since we were not interested in producing sloppy, too expensive copies of precious works of art, but to dedicate ourselves to every individual work and to document its specific originality. Unfortunately we and all friends and contributors cannot do more work than we do now (We seriously protest the 24 hour-day). So we are looking for people, who would enjoy to contribute to this project, either by translating prefaces from German to English (we need native speakers) or by writing original prefaces in English. This is an urgent need, for symphonic and chamber music as well as for opera. Our enterprise is based on an idealistic idea, and one rule of this activity is: “You scratch my back, and I´ll scratch yours.³ We do not pay money, but we try to favour each other whereever we can. So, if you like to share this activity, the easiest way to return the favour is sending you a score of your choice in return, but maybe you even have better ideas what we can do for you? And besides the question of prefaces every idea, inspiration, advice, cooperation or whatever will come to your head is warmly welcome. Many thanks for your interest and help. From Munich to whereever this mail will be read Peter Dietz pdietz@musikmph.de www.musikmph.de

Mit der Kale Tantsn

Khupe's first CD, a live recording from 1999, is finally available in the US. http://www.cdbaby.com/khupe2 Live klezmer music in the traditional manner.

Jewish Music Reviews

Seth Rogovoy, author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music," has reviews of new CDs on his website... Rogovoy writes regularly on the Jewish music and cultureal scene. His works are available online at The Rogovoy Report: http://www.rogovoy.com/

Klezmer in Boca

Jan. 31 at the FAU Auditorium in Boca Raton will be Soulfarm, Golem, and the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band... For ticket info: 561-297-3737 GOLEM "from Eastern Europe to East New York" http://www.golemrocks.com MAXWELL STREET http://www.klezmerband.com/ SOULFARM http://www.soulfarm.net/nonflash/main.htm

Bach Society Presents Yiddish Song

The Columbia University Bach Society will present three chamber pieces by Robert Cuckson. Two of the pieces are based on Yiddish texts; the song cycle for mezzo-soprano is based on poems by Yiddish writer Binem Heller and will be a world premiere. The Bach Society is honored to perform these works and to host a discussion! www.bachsociety.com The Columbia University Bach Society cordially invites you to a coffeehouse concert: An evening of chamber music by Robert Cuckson Saturday, February 7, 2004 8:30pm FREE Admission. Party Space of Lerner Hall. (114th and Broadway, entrance inside campus) Music Director: David Rosenmeyer. Special presentation by the composer.

Inna Barmash & Friends

"Inna Barmash & Friends: A New Generation in Old Song" Performance: Thursday, January 22, at 8:00 PM. Park Slope, NY For details:

At the monthly Yiddish Kavehoyz at Congregation Beth Elohim (the Garfield Temple) in Park Slope: 274 Garfield Place (corner 8th avenue), Brooklyn. . Admission $5.00 includes kosher pastry and coffee. The Kavehoyz is cosponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture and Congregation Beth Elohim. Take the #2,3 trains to Grand Army Plaza, the Q to 7th ave or F to 7th avenue. For information: 718-768-3814 ext. 218.

Film & CD "Shalom Ireland",

Ceilizemer did the musical soundtrack. The film will be playing at this year's New York Jewish Film Festival. For screening schedules coming up: New York Jewish Film Festival screenings of "Shalom Ireland": Jan. 28, 2004 6:00pm Jan. 29, 2004 1:00pm and 6:00pm The Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theatre www.jewishmuseum.org/home/page.php?id=filmfest Jan. 31, 2004, 5:00pm Feb. 1, 2004, 3:00 pm (this screening will be followed by a discussion with Rabbi David Rosen) Feb. 2, 2004, 5:00 pm Feb. 4, 2004, 5:00 pm The Jacob Burns Theatre, Pleasantville, NY www.burnsfilmcenter.org

Sound and Music Computing '04

October 20-22, 2004 IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France http://smc04.ircam.fr/ The first SMC edition is organized by IRCAM. It will take place during the IRCAM Resonances 2004 Festival, a ten-day long music technology forum combining conferences, workshops, open house and concerts from Wednesday October 13th until Friday October 22nd, 2004. Sound and Music Computing (SMC) is supervised jointly by AIMI (Associazione Italiana di Informatica Musicale) and AFIM (Association Française d'Informatique Musicale). The preliminary web page is at: http://smc04.ircam.fr/ Papers submissions are solicited in all the sound/music computing fields. A special session on "Improvisation with the computer" is organised during the first day (Oct. 20th), for which papers are solicited as well. SMC'04 co-chairs: Gérard Assayag, IRCAM Carlos Agon, IRCAM Marc Chemillier, U. Caen

Khupe

Berlin-based duo Khupe will give klezmer workshop on March 10, 2004 in Austria.... following their appearance at Vienna's remarkable Accordion Festival.

All instruments welcome! Prepare for a possibly wild session that night... For details check the website of the festival, which also hosts accordion wizzards Alan Bern & Guy Klucevsek this year: http://www.akkordeonfestival.at Or check the site of list member Ruth Schwarz' centrum in Vienna: http://members.chello.at/zentrumimwerd

Zagnuts at NuBlu

Balkan music event. Zagnuts invite you to join them at NuBlu on the night before Golden Festival starts, Thursday, January 15th. Shake off the cold with two great nights of spirited music, energetic dancing, crazy people and plenty of good eats and drinks. 36 bands! THURSDAY! Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar Playing at NuBlu Thursday, Jan 15, 11 pm 62 Ave C, NYC between 4th and 5th Streets http://www.zagnutcirkus.com http://www.nublu.net FRIDAY & SATURDAY! Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 20 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying. Friday, Jan 16 at Hungarian House 213 E 82nd St. (btw 2nd & 3rd Ave's) Manhattan, New York Lobby phone: (212)650-1974 Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5 7:30-8:45 pm: Balkan dance workshop with Michael Ginsburg and members of Zlatne Uste 8:45 pm-12 am: Ethnic snacks and great live music Saturday, Jan 17 at Good Shepherd School 620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way) Manhattan, New York Directions Donation: $27, students $18, children (6-12) $8 6 pm-until 3 am: The whole deal - multiple music venues, snacks, party, etc. 36 bands! Information: zufestival@zlatneuste.org (718) 859-4759 http://www.zlatneuste.org

Voices of Sepharad

Voices of Sepharad have been working together since 1990. They are based in Twin Cities, Minnesota...They have a new website... www.voicesofsepharad.com David Harris and Judith Ingber cofounded the group. Harris specializes in Sephardic music and the vocalist. Mick LaBriola (percussionist) ; Judith Brin Ingber (dancer, choreographer); David Burk (guitar, ‘ud, chumbush, bass) and David Rockne Stenshoel (violin) round out the group.

Ghetto Tango

Adrienne Cooper, one of the great vocal interpreters of Yiddish music, Dan Rosengard, pianist/arranger, late of Saturday Night Live, & Frank London, famed trumpetter/Klezmatics/ All-Star Brass Band bring to life the extraordinary cabaret music of war-time Eastern Europe.

Sunday, January 18, 2004 8 pm Admission $15 at S A T A L L A 37 West 26th St. NYC 212-576-1155 http://www.satalla.com/ In the Nazi-mandated ghettos during World War II, audiences gathered in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear newly-created songs, rooted in Jewish folk song, European cabaret, American jazz and Argentine tango. Jewish performers tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local key: satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and heartsick, creating something scarcely conceivable: art at the edge of the abyss.

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews

Completely revised website, sponsored by UC DAVIS, far richer repository of transcriptions and mp3s...

The launch of the Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews website, newly revised. You may access it at: http://www.sephardifolklit.org

YIDDISH CLASSES AT THE MANHATTAN JCC

Yiddish classes at a variety of levels are being offered through the JCC. Check out the listings and levels of the classes.

YIDDISH FOR BEGINNERS Learn to read and speak Yiddish through conversation and using a textbook. No previous knowledge of Yiddish is required.
10 Mondays, 1:30 - 3 pm Jan 12 - Mar 22, except Feb 16 YDBG1/USPW4
10 Tuesdays, 6:30 - 8 pm Jan 13 - Mar 16 YDBG2/USPW4
YIDDISH FOR ADVANCED BEGINNERS The next step for students who have taken Yiddish for Beginners.
10 Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm Jan 13 - Mar 16 YDAB1/USPW4
10 Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8 pm Jan 14 - Mar 17 YDAB2/USPW4
INTERMEDIATE YIDDISH The next step for students who have taken Yiddish for Beginners and Yiddish for Advanced Beginners.
10 Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3 pm Jan 14 - Mar 17 YDIN1/USPW4
10 Mondays, 6:30 - 8 pm Jan 12 - Mar 22, except Feb 16 YDIN2/USPW4
Fee for each course: $225 members/$280 nonmembers YDIN/USPW4 Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St., New York, N.Y.
For more information, or to register, please call 646-505-5727. Instructor of most of these classes: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky, M.A. Yiddish Linguistics, Columbia University.

JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS

FREE. Symphony Space, NYC, on January 19, 2004, 6:30pm A COMMUNITY CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Reconnect to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work for justice and equality as the entire community comes together for an evening of choir songs and inspirational readings.
PETER NORTON SYMPHONY SPACE
2537 BROADWAY AT 95 ST. NYC
Featuring: Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus, Binyumen Schaechter, conductor
Kol Echad Multiracial Jewish Children's Choir
St. John's Baptist Church Choir
St. Joseph's of the Holy Family Catholic Church Choir
St. Mary's Episcopal Church Choir
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism Choir

Masters of Ceremonies Canon Frederick B. Williams, Rector, Church of the Intercession Ruth Messinger, Executive Director, American Jewish World Service
FREE and open to the public. No pre-registration.
Seating is first come, first serve, doors open at 6:00 PM.
For more information, call 646.505.5708.

Avraham Fried

An interview on the Radio with Avraham Fried, the orthodox popular music singer, entertainer and composer, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004, 9pm on FiveTownsRadio.com Avraham Fried is one of the best known singers in frum circles today. He has made over 20 recordings of music and often works with Mordecai Ben David as well as putting out his own albums. He is often interviewed in the media for comments on his Jewish music activities. His website is: http://www.thinkjewish.com/fried_music.html

Judith Cohen & Tamar Cohen Adams

à Montréal le 24-1-04, Chansons judéo-espagnoles et des régions crypto-juives du Portugal, du Moyen-Àge, de la diaspore sépharade.... Montreal on January 24, Judeo-Spanish songs, songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of Portugal, medieval songs, songs of the Sephardic diaspora... Saturday/samedi 24-1- 2004 , 20h Gelber Conference Centre, 1 Cummings Square, Montreal, Canada $3 /$5 information, (514) 345-2627 ext. 3017 http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/

BEYOND THE PALE recording concert

Be part of the audience--lend your energy-- for the recording of a concert for a CD with Beyond the Pale-- in Toronto... BEYOND THE PALE with special guest JOSH DOLGIN - LIVE CD RECORDING SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 8pm & SUNDAY JANUARY 25, 2pm AL GREEN THEATRE, MILES NADAL JCC (750 Spadina, at Bloor) Tickets $15, $12 for students. Call CENTRAL BOX OFFICE at 416-504-PLAY or order online at www.torontoboxoffice.ca BEYOND THE PALE is: Bret Higgins (bass), Bogdan Djukic (violin) Milos Popovic (accordion), Eric Stein (mandolins), Martin van de Ven (clarinets) For more info on the band visit www.beyondthepale.net

Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung Foundation

Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung (Foundation) in Mainz Germany at: http://www.anni-eisler-lehmann-stiftung.de Scholarships for Jewish musicians...

The Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung site is in German, English and French. The Stiftung Foundation was founded by Anni-Eisler-Lehmann who was born in Mainz, studied to be a singer but had her career taken away by the Nazis. She returned to Germany after the war a rebuilt her family's fortune but was never able to rebuild her own career. At the end of her life, with the help of friends, she founded the Anni-Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung. The foundation's primary goal is that of awarding scholarships to young Jewish students of vocal and instrumental music who wish to study in Mainz, Germany. Contact at the address below or address requests for application information to info-ael@a-e-l-stiftung.de

NEFESH: SONGS FOR THE SOUL and more

Reviewing some CD releases of the last couple of years... and there are a few that might be mentioned. Here are some people might enjoy perusing... NEFESH: SONGS FOR THE SOUL The Music of Synagogue 2000 Sung by Merri Lovinger Arian Produced by Craig Taubman Published by Synagogue 2000 As sung by Merri Lovinger Arian, Synagogue 2000's Director of Programs, these thirteen joyous and inspiring songs have become a highlight of Synagogue 2000 conferences and seminars. Written by composers as Craig Taubman, Danny Maseng, Benjie Ellen Schiller and Debbie Friedman, "these songs express the inspiring dimensions of Judaism's spiritual journey." Complete details and an order form can be found at http://www.synagogue2000.org Or phone Rhonda Slater in our L.A. office: 310-440-1218. ********************************************** WHO AM I Neal Katz KatzMusic.com ********************************************** Sing to the Eternal The Gerard Edery Ensemble Sefarad Records Corp. 392 Central Park West Apt. 17Y New York, NY 10025 Phone/Fax: (212) 662-9712 email www.sefaradrecords.com **********************************************

Tanz mit mir - Yiddish Ballroom Dance

A double cd, packed with yiddish hits, all in ballroom dance rhythms...

Re-release of hits such as: shein vi di levone, belz, yiddishe mamme, zing feigale zing, oyfen preypechik and many others, 40 in total, all in tango, waltz, cha cha cha, rumba , passodoble and twist arrangments. The double c.d. is divided to a vocal c.d. including talents such as the Barry Sisters , Max Perlman , Israel Itzhaki , The Bursteins, and many others, while the second c.d. is instrumental Release date : January 11th 2004, Israel. CD price as single at £13.50 (that is $20) + £1.50 postage to anywhere in the world, from Noa Lachman Jewish Music Distribution PO Box 67 Hailsham BN27 4UW UK Free phone: 0800 7811 686 Tel/Fax: (44) 01323 832 863 Website: www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk email: email

Aminadav Aloni Music Foundation

A website dedicated to the music and life of composer Ami Aloni. Information about scholarship funds to encourage young composers of Jewish music is also available. http://alonimusic.org/.

Israeli born Aminadav Aloni left a legacy of music. A catalogue of his works searchable by title and keyword is on the website.

KLEZMERQUERQUE 2004

A Southwestern celebration of Klezmer music and dance into the 21st century: featuring a weekend of concerts, dance parties, classes and lectures on the music and dance of the Eastern European Jewish People.

Klezmerquerque announces: "February 20th through February 22nd, 2004 This year's featured performer/teacher: Margot Leverett (world-renown virtuoso Klezmer clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader) is one of the foremost of the new generation of klezmer clarinetists. 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 and Mikveh in 1999. She started her own band "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" in 2001. Her solo CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," was released in 2001 on Traditional Crossroads (CD4296) to glowing reviews. She tours nationally and has performed and taught traditional and original klezmer music at festivals and workshops around the world.

Presented by Congregation Nahalat Shalom (Inheritance of Peace congregation) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Schedule of Events:

Friday, February 20th, 6:30 pm: Freylekhe Shabbes featuring a 'danced' Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a potluck vegetarian dinner (7:00) and a concert (7:30) by our featured guest artist Margot Leverett followed by dancing to Klezmer music with ABQ's own hot klezband: 'The Rebbe's Orkestra' with Margot Leverett. Yiddish dances lead by Rikud dance troupe and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb. ($10.00 - suggested donation).

Saturday, February 21st Events:

10-11:30am: Yiddish dance class and video presentation with Rikud dancers. ($18).

11:45am-12:15pm: Klezmer music class with Margot Leverett ($18).

12:30-1:30pm: Saturday afternoon lunch and lecture presented by Albuquerque Academy teachers Stuart Lipkowitz and Danny Packer. A powerpoint presentation of the culture of East European Jews--life, family, work, community, immigration, etc. ($5-10 donation).

2:00-3:30pm: Music class - Margot ($18) or dance class - Rikud ($18) choose one.

7:00pm: Dance party with Margot Leverett accompanied by the 18-plus piece intergenerational Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer band and Saturday students. Dances lead by Rikud and student dancers. ($10 - free for Saturday students)

Sunday, February 22nd, 12:00-1:30pm: Music class ($18) or dance class ($18).

Event price: $60 for 2 parties, lunch/presentation, & 4 classes payed BEFORE Friday eve. Feb. 20th. Individual classes and events can be payed for at time of class/event. Discounts for students, seniors, and fixed/low income - please inquire.

Lodging: Hotels and B&B's within 1/2 to 2miles - call/e-mail coordinator for info. Close to Historic Old Town, museums and Rio Grande Nature Center and trails. Ski areas: Sandia Peak (40 mins. from ABQ), Santa Fe (1.5 hours), Taos, Angelfire & Red River (2.5-3.5 hours)

All events held at: Nahalat Shalom, 3606 Rio Grande Blvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos), ABQ, NM
Mailing Address: PO Box 40723, Albuquerque, NM 87196-0723
Phone: (505) 343-8227, WEB: www.nahalatshalom.org
Event coordinator: Beth Cohen, E-mail, Ph: (505) 243-6276

A Musical Celebration of Passover

Los Angeles, CA. Autry Museum of Western Heritage. Passover already?, No, but ... Celebrate Women’s History Month by featuring a cast of female Cantors. Sunday, March 21...

Cantor’s Allison Wissot (Temple Judea of Tarzana and West Hills), Judy Greenfeld (Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills), Cantor Beth Wasserman Rosenfeld, soloist Nancy Linder (Temple Beth David of Westminster, Orange County), and Hazzan Mike Stein (Temple Aliyah of Woodland Hills) will present event Cantor Ari Perelmuter (Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach) serves as the program’s musical director. This program will take place at 7:30 p.m. outside in the museum Plaza. Special V.I.P tickets are $27.00 for museum member; non-members are $30.00 (These tickets include preferred seating at the show, apost-show wine, cheese and dessert reception, and a 20% discount on the purchase of a museum membership). General admission is $8.00 for museum members; non-members are $18.00. Call Ticket Web for reservations at (866) 468-3399, or visit www.ticketweb.com. For information visit www.autry- museum.org or call (323) 667-2000, extension 354. Autry Museum of Western Heritage 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Hazamir: The International Jewish High School Choir,

300+ Jewish teenagers to present world premieres at Merkin Hall in New York Feb. 16.

Marsha Edelman announced : A concert of Jewish choral music to be presented by 300+ teenagers from across the US, Montreal and London!Hazamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, will be in Merkin Hall at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 16 (Presidents' Day) in a program featuring selections from Europe, Israel and the US, including the world premier of two selections written especially for Hazamir by Stephen Glass and Charles Osborne.

YIVO bleter

YIVO bleter, New series, vol. IV has a lot of new material on Eastern European Jewish folklore, folk songs, theater performances, and more. Chana Mlotek's annotated publication of 42 folk songs is included....

These are mostly love songs and ballads. There is also material on Moyshe Beregovsky's purim-shpiln. Mark Slobin, Itsik Gottesman, Robert Rothstein have writings. There is an index to former columns Chana and Joseph Mlotek column from the Forverts. It's available at the Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle. www.jewishbookcenter.com or

JMWC Top Jewish Music Accomplishment for 2003

Mazel Tov from The Jewish Music WebCenter: Congratulations Stephen!! This is probably the most significant accomplishment of 2003 on the Internet for Jewish music...

"Ladies and Gentlemen! -- It gives me the greatest of pleasure, after more than 7 years of travail, to announce that over 2,000 sheets of shul music have now been scanned and put on the www.shulmusic.org site."-- so starts the announcement of Stephen Simpson. Simpson's accomplishment is significant in the history of Jewish music online. http://www.shulmusic.org/
The shul music list (http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe.cgi/jewishshulmusic), will give updates as to when the next batches will be on-line. The uploaded files are:
Yamim Noraim basics, taken from 2 choirs: 18 MB
Sulzer in zipped file: 84 Mb
Lewandowski - all three volumes (Shabbat, Yom Tov and recitatives): 100 MB
Basic Shabbat choral material: 14 MB
Index of all known liturgical music composers: 2 Mb
The Blue Book in a zipped file: 44 MB
The Goldfarb (son and father) Yamim Noraim Songster from 1926: 4 Mb
The URL is: http://www.shulmusic.org/latest_updates.htm
Bio: Stephen Simpson grew up in north-west London where he heard the beauty of Jewish liturgical music through singing in his orthodox synagogue choir. After immigrating to Israel, he started a shul choir in Rehovot, Israel. Stephen felt keen disappointment by the decline of choral music in synagogues in Israel. This led him to the current digitization project. He plans to continue to make Jewish music from the early 1800s available to others through the web.

Jewish musicians from Poland

Ada Holtzman has begun a wonderful webpage dedicated to Jewish musicians from Poland before World War II.

Ada Holtzman has created a wonderful table of contents to the Isaachar Fater book (in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew) "Jewish Musicians in Poland between the Two World Wars". There's a biography of Fater and several musicians taken from the book. She's translating chapters from the Hebrew version to English. The book was originally written in Yiddish. http://www.zchor.org/fater/musicians.htm http://www.zchor.org/fater/lexicon.htm

Halil Duo

Piano and Flute duet, perform classical and Jewish music. Biographical information and clips of music available on the website. http://www.halilduo.com/

ARI BEN MOSES BAND

ARI BEN MOSES BAND invites you to celebrate the launch of www.aribenmosesband.com. Upcoming is information about the band's upcoming CD release "Only the Spirit" featuring the ultrafunky track "Jungle Science" with master percussionists from Ghana and the Dominican Republic.

Italian Jewish Musical Traditions

At the recent Jewish Studies conference in Boston, December, 2003, Francesco Spagnolo gave more insights into Italian Jewish music. The CD will allow you to follow this new important area of research. Selections and commentaries by Francesco Spagnolo (Yuval Italia, yuval@powerlink.it). 42 tracks.

Italian Jewish Musical Traditions From the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)
Part of the Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, No. 14, edited by Edwin Seroussi. Produced in Jerusalem - Roma, 2001, by The Jewish Music Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma. Scholarly edition.

The CD comes in a box with a booklet either in English/Hebrew or Italian/Hebrew, with an introduction to the traditional Italian Jewish music repertoires, and commentaries for each of the 42 tracks presented in the selection. Leo Levi (Casale Monferrato, 1912- Jerusalem 1982) was the first scholar who devoted his research to Italian Jewish oral musical tradition. "The recordings collected by Italian-Israeli ethnomusicologist Leo Levi throughout the 1950's constitute a unique testimony to the wealth of Italian Jewish musical traditions. The first and only extensive aural documentation of a fascinating cross-cultural world, these melodies take the listener on a musical journey across Jewish Italy, painting the portrait of a lost world. A large portion of this orally transmitted heritage was lost over the first half of the 20th century, and can only be heard in recordings." The CD is available through the Jewish Music Research Center at the Hebrew University jmrc@cc.huji.ac.il .

AF DI GASN FUN DER SHTOT

This is an extraordinary album with tremendous creativity at all levels. The poetry and music of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman is a modern miracle. To have such splendid NEW YIDDISH SONGS in 2003, --in and of itself-- makes this album quite worthwhile....

AF DI GASN FUN DER SHTOT-On the streets of the city-
A new collection of Yiddish songs written by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Featuring: Michael Alpert, Sharon Bernstein, Adrienne Cooper, Margot Leverett, Frank London , Peter Rushefsky, Binyumin Schaechter, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Lorin Sklamberg, Deborah Strauss, and Theresa Tova.
In addition, special care was obviously taken to match the song with the performer, because each of the voices is especially fitted and suited to that selection, in their timbre, mood, and interpretations of the songs. Having heard numerous albums by each of the performers, I was highly impressed by the tight fit of selection to singer. New to me is the delightfully clear voice of Sharon Jan Bernstein. Adrienne Cooper and Theresa Tova were perfect in every nuance. This "all star cast" included Michael, Margot, Frank, Deborah and Lorin as listed above. The composer, Beyle Shaechter-Gottesman also sings her ballad to September 11th. With all the insight and weight of the Yiddish community's enormous losses, this song became especially poignant with the simple rendition of this memorial. One remembers that thousands of Americans attempted to express their feelings about this event in song, so it is fitting that a Yiddish song becomes such an effective conveyance to express the grief of New York. Of special note also is the maturity in Peter Rushefsky's playing. It's a pleasure to witness the growth of this rising artist in several recent albums. This album insert includes texts in Yiddish, transliteration and English translation. For more information: http://www.yiddishlandrecords.com/ This album is highly recommended by JMWC