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"Old World" Klezmer Concert

An evening with Alicia Svigals & Pete Rushefsky 8pm Saturday, February 28 $16 members / $18 nonmembers Open Center 83 Spring St., NYC (212) 219-2527 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 borne aloft by the otherworldly sounds of the harp-like "tsimbl", or Jewish hammered dulcimer.....

The evening of Feb 28, the world's leading klezmer fiddler, the renowned Alicia Svigals, co-founder of the legendary Klezmatics, presents a program of these ancient and ecstatic Jewish melodies, accompanied by "tsimbler" Pete Rushefsky, one of the few musicians in the world to have mastered this traditional instrument. Join these two great figures in the revival and revitalization of "Old World" Jewish music a week before Purim for a musical communion with beloved ghosts from this Eastern European past. www.opencenter.org Posted by jmwc at February 25, 2004 07:07 PM