Afro-Semitic Experience in Boston

The Afro-Semitic Experience is making its Boston debut this Wednesday, October 11 at 6:30 p.m. They will be playing at Cathedral High School, 74 Union Park Street, Boston.
At 2:30 Baba Coleman and Babafemi Alvin Carter, Jr. will be presenting a drumming workshop for the students and then at 6:30 will be the concert.

Joining this concert will be special guests Art Blakey, alumnus Kalim Zarif on piano (Warren is in Nepal!!) and Paradox Trio's very own Matt Darriau on clarinet and sax. Admission is free, but seating is limited. For more info please call 617-542-2325.

Tell your friends and invite them to join in, as this is a low key (but hi-energy) event.

di bostoner klezmer around for the holidays

Thursday, October 12th at 7:30 P.M. at the Stoughton Public Library.
Join "di bostoner klezmer" for a free, freylekh concert on Boston's South Shore. Accordionist Matt Wulf's original pieces will be featured, along with a new Terkisher by trombonist/melodicaist Brian Bender. The library is located on 84 Park Street on the corner of Walnut Street and Park Street (a.k.a. Route 27). For directions, call the library at 781-244-3711 or go to http://www.ocln.org/directions/STOUGHTON.html

Shabes October 14, 2006
Temple Emanuel in Worcester for a morning musical service starting at 9:30 A.M.
(address is 280 May Street, phone: 508-755-1257)

Motzi Shabes, October 14, 2006 in the evening - from about 6:30 to 9:00 P.M. - at the always-lively service at Temple Beth Zion (Moshe Waldok's shul) at 1566 Beacon Street, Brookline. It's on the C branch of the Green Line just outside of Washington Square, and a few stops after Coolidge Corner. On-street parking is also available) Phone 617-566-8171.

Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska offers Jewish Music Symposium

A two-day academic symposium called "'I Will Sing and Make Music': Jewish Music and Musicians Throughout the Ages" will be held October 29-30, 2006. It is The Nineteenth Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium being held in Omaha Nebraska. This year's theme on Jewish music has as keynote speaker Josh Jacobson of Northeastern University. http://puffin.creighton.edu/klutznick/
Presenters include:

Theodore Albrecht
Kent State University
"Beethoven's Quotation of Kol Nidrei? A Circumstantial Case for Sherlock Holmes"

Paul Eisenstein Baker
University of St. Thomas (Houston)
"Leo Zeitlin and the Early Twentieth Century Society for Jewish Folk Music"

Emily A. Bell
University of Florida
"Revitalizing the Synagogue Ritual: Cantor David Putterman's Annual Service of New Music at New York's Park Avenue Synagogue"

Dan W. Clanton, Jr.
University of Denver
"'From Biblical Times to Lyrical Rhymes': The Assertion of Jewish Identity in Music as Cultural Resistance"

Marsha Bryan Edelman
Gratz College
"What Do You Mean, 'It Doesn't Sound Jewish?': Debunking Myths and Defining Models for Extra-Liturgical Music"

Anat Feinberg
College of Jewish Studies Heidelberg
"To Play or Not to Play: Jewish Musicians in Germany After 1945"

Susan M. Filler
Chicago, IL
"The Music of Yiddish Theater and Its Influence on Broadway"

Rabbi Jonathan Gross
Omaha, NE
"Make a Note of That: The Importance of the Ta'amei Hamikrah in Understanding the Torah"

Charles Isbell
Louisiana State University
"Musical Notations in the Biblical Book of Psalms"

Joshua Jacobson
Northeastern University
KEYNOTE-"Jewish Music: What Is That?"

Daniel Juette
University of Heidelberg
"Public Space and Jewish Music in Renaissance Italy"

Charles Jurgensmeier, SJ
Creighton University
"Solomon Sulzer and Ranz Schubert: A Musical Collaboration"

Rita Ottens
City University of London
"'It'll Still Take Some Time Until We Will Get Over It': A Field Report from the Klezmer Scene of New Germany"

Joel E. Rubin
University of Virginia
"'They Danced It, We Played It': Adaptation and Revitalization in Post-1920s New York Klezmer Music"

Sharon Bernstein at Kavehoyz

Sharon Bernstein will perform a concert of Yiddish songs of angels and streets, accompanying herself on the piano,
Thursday, October 19, 7pm
Congress for Jewish Culture
25 E. 21st St., Manhattan (between Park and Broadway, take the "6" train to 23rd street)
$7 admission includes coffee, tea and pastries.
For more information, call 212-505-8040

"ZUN MIT A REGN" (Sun and Rain) in St. Petersburg

The Amsterdam Jewish Music Projects Foundation will be taking part in the Russian Centennial Celebration for Dmitri Shostakovich with the programme "Zun mit a regn" (Sun and Rain) that is to be performed at the Shostakovich Conferences in St. Petersburg on 12 and 13 October. The programme, which premiered in the Netherlands, includes chamber music and songs composed by Shostakovich himself and by his friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Veniamin Basner. The central source of inspiration for the works on the programme is the music of the Jewish people, oppressed in Russia during the Stalin regime. The works will be performed by singer Sovali (soprano), violinist Grigory Sedukh, cellist Alexander Oratovski and pianist Paul Prenen. The performances are supported by the Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fund.

Concerts:
. 12 October 2006, 7 PM at the Composers Hall, St. Petersburg
. 13 October 2006, 4 PM at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Museum Apartment (with lecture by Julia Broido)

The complete program includes:
M. Weinberg, Jewish Songs, Op.13 (Y.L. Perets) (1943)
M. Weinberg, Sonata for Cello Solo, No.1, Op.72 (1960)
D. Shostakovich, Prelude and Fugue, Op.87, No.8 in F sharp minor for piano (1950-51)
D. Shostakovich, "From Jewish Folk Poetry", Op.79, Nos.1, 3, 5, 7 (1948)
D. Shostakovich, Piano Trio No.2, Op. 67 (1944)
V. Basner, Poem for Violin and Piano, Op. 7, No.1
V. Basner, Songs from the musical "Jewish Luck", Op. 45 (1994)

From the reviews of previous performances in the Netherlands:

Eindhovens Dagblad: "Brilliant Yiddish lyricism!"

Enschede Synagogue: "The impressive programme went over very well with the audience. Everyone found it fascinating to witness how original Jewish music that was barely known, if at all, was brought back to life.."

Jan Roelofs' review of the concert at Museum 'De Buitenplaats' in Eelde: "How does one describe atmosphere? Not with words like professional or virtuoso, although they were certainly applicable. In any case, the atmosphere of the concert was created by the Jewish sounds, the melancholy and sometimes heartbreaking grief that could be heard, by the sounds and rhythms that said, "I shall persevere and won't let them grind me down," by the Yiddish lyrics translated so professionally they could almost be followed word for word. Yet the atmosphere was of course predominantly determined by (the musicians). In a beautifully structured programme of songs and instrumental works (partly performed as solos), they exhibited their professionalism, virtuosity and above all their pleasure in singing and playing. The warm cello and violin sounds, the beautiful, supple and agile voice and the pianist who conjured up a rich palette of sounds from the grand piano, were important ingredients in the special atmosphere of this concert.."

The DSCH Journal: "This was an unforgettable event in which the musicians gave their all. Bravo!"

Information:
Jewish Music Projects, c/o Sofie van Lier, phone: 020-6623675
Grigory Sedukh, phone: +7 (812) 2334808
info@joodsemuziekprojecten.n OR / jmp@tiscalimail.nl.
See also: www.joodsemuziekprojecten.nl.