'A Living Legacy' Exhibition at HUC

A LIVING LEGACY: AMERICAN JEWISH LITURGICAL COMPOSERS OF THE 20th & 21st CENTURIES A multi-media exhibition celebrating the creativity and contributions of Samuel Adler, Charles Davidson, Jack Gottlieb, Michael Isaacson, Gershon Kingsley, Stephen Richards, Bonia Shur, Simon Sargon, Ben Steinberg, and Yehudi Wyner and reflecting the enduring inspiration of their mentors
On View: November 12, 2006 - January 31, 2007
Museum Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am - 5 pm; Fridays, 9 am - 3 pm;
Also Sunday, December 10, 10 am - 2 pm
Information/Tours: 212-824-2205
Admission: Free, Photo ID required

'Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish' at National Arts Club

Monday, December 18, 2006 at 8 PM
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (at 20th St. between Park Avenue & Irving Place), New York City
Free event.

Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish Slide Lecture, Musical Performance & Booksigning
In his latest book, Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish, composer and author, Jack Gottlieb chronicles how Jewish songwriters and composers transformed American popular music of the mid-twentieth-century. Dr. Gottlieb will play piano and show vintage images as he illustrates the connection, citing instances where Yiddish songs and cantorial music were adapted by Jewish songwriters as they penned tunes for Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood. The book (which includes a CD) will be available at NAC member discount. A reception will follow.

Milken Archive Releases 50 CD set

Milken Archive Completes First Phase of Multi-Year Recording Project with Release of 49th and 50th CDs- and Complete Box Set

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, the most comprehensive exploration of music related to Jewish life in America ever undertaken, has reached a major milestone with the release of the 49th and 50th CDs in its pioneering recording series on Naxos American Classics.

These discs illustrate two of the Archive's primary goals: to reconstruct and preserve for current and future generations major musical manifestations of the American Jewish experience and to reveal the intersection of Jewish composers and Jewish subject matter with some of the major genres in Western classical music. The Milken Archive has also released a deluxe box set of <http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=51> all 50 Milken Archive CDs. This set is available for $349*, $100 less than if all 50 CDs are purchased individually.

The Jewish Music Center can recommend this collection to academic and public libraries starting or continuing collections of American or Jewish music. There are additional notes and materials included in the boxed set that may be of interest to those who wish to read more material about the music on the collections. Great <http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=4> Songs from the Yiddish Stage, Volume 1: Abraham Ellstein & Other Songwriters of His Circle Great <http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=34> Songs from the Yiddish Stage, Volume 2: Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn - Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky & Other Songwriters of Their Circle Great Songs of the <http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=50> Yiddish Stage, Volume 3: Joseph Rumshinsky and Other Songwriters of His Circle continues the Milken Archive's project designed to recreate-through newly reconstructed and historically accurate orchestrations as well as idiomatic performances-one of the richest expressions of the American Jewish experience and to bring this vibrant, accessible genre to life for current audiences. A major form of live entertainment for immigrant generations from the late 19th century through the 1940s, the Yiddish musical stage also influenced broader forms of popular American culture, including the Broadway musical and Tin Pan Alley. This latest volume features songs from both Yiddish musical theater, commonly known as Second Avenue, and Yiddish vaudeville. It centers around one of the leading avatars of Second Avenue, Joseph Rumshinsky, who made several lasting innovations to the genre, and also includes songs by three of his contemporaries. Performers include Robert Abelson, Bruce Adler, Robert Bloch, Joanne Borts, Amy Goldstein, Benzion Miller, Nell Snaidas, Elizabeth Shammash, and Simon Spiro, with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Elli Jaffe, conductor, and the Barcelona Symphony/National Orchestra of Catalonia led by Jorge Mester. Also available from the Milken Archive: Scenes <http://www.milkenarchive.org/cds/cds.taf?cdid=21> from Jewish Operas, Volume 1 Scenes from Jewish Operas, Volume 2 includes excerpts from works inspired by eastern European Jewish life, the Hebrew bible, and the persistent dilemma of Jewish identity. Two of the 20th century's most esteemed Jewish literary figures are represented among these operas: Bernard Malamud, whose Jewish stories occupy an acknowledged place in American literature and whose Lady of the Lake, from the famous collection, The Magic Barrel, has been set by Elie Siegmeister; and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose famous story about mysteries, superstition, sexual repression and daily existence in Jewish eastern European village life is reinvented for David Schiff's opera Gimpel the Fool. The third opera, Hugo Weisgall's Esther, which is based on the biblical narrative about the heroic Jewish wife of the Persian king who saved her people from imminent destruction, was premiered at New York City Opera in 1993 and hailed as one of the most important American operas of its generation.

Participating artists on this recording include Theodore Bikel, Ted Christopher, Marcus DeLoach, Juliana Gondek, Robert MacPherson, Carol Meyer, the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz, and the University of Michigan Opera Theatre led by Kenneth Kiesler.

Click here to read details about this CD .

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Reva LeSheva and Special Guest Josh Lauffer

Thursday November 30th
8:30pm $18
More info and Advance tickets at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street (between 6th & 7th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
F train to 7th Avenue. Parking available.

Artist-in-Residence Opportunity

Sarah Beller is serving as co-coordinator for the Artist-in-Residence program at the National Havurah Committee's Summer Institute, a week-long celebration of Jewish learning and living attended by a diverse group of Jews from all over North America (Conservative, Reconstructionist, Reform, Renewal, Orthodox, single, partnered, young, old, LGBT, etc.).

Under a grant from the Poretsky Foundation, the NHC sponsors two Jewish Artists-in-Residence to teach and be part of the Institute community. The application forms are available online, and those who wish may apply.

The Poretsky Artist-in-Residence grant is ideal for those wishing to explore a participatory project or thematic course idea in a supportive community that itself includes a number of talented artists. The program is particularly searching for artist-teachers who can help others become art-makers for the week, and who will participate actively as both teachers and learners in the Institute community that forms each summer. For more details, please see www.havurah.org the letter and application (due November 28).

Rabbi Joe Black & Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Rabbi Joe Black with The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band in Two Hanukkah Concerts!
Wednesday, December 20 (sixth night of Hanukkah)
6:00 pm Family Concert
7:30 pm Community Concert
Temple Sholom of Chicago
3480 N. Lake Shore Drive
Doors and concessions open 1/2 hour before each concert
Tickets
$12 advance/$15 at the door
Children age 3 and under free
Family maximum $50 advance/$55 at the door
Come early - stay late! One ticket price for one concert or both!
Be a Maccabee!
For $250, receive a reserved parking space in the Temple Sholom lot the night of the concert, reserved concert seats for up to 6 people, a Rabbi Joe Black CD, & a Maxwell Street Klezmer Band CD. Maccabee spaces are limited! Reserve your tickets today!
Order on-line at www.chicagojewishdayschool.org
Or mail your check to Chicago Jewish Day School
5959 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660
Questions? Call 312.738.8340 or e-mail
hanukkahconcert@aol.com
Tickets will not be mailed. Your reservation will be Will Call
All proceeds benefit the Chicago Jewish Day School
Limited paid parking available at Mid City Garage at 3440 N. Broadway, 3440
Lake Shore Drive,
3600 Lake Shore Drive and The New York at 3660 N. Lake Shore Drive.

Flashes in the Darkness CD Release

In honor of her newly released CD, Flashes In The Darkness, Talia Applebaum will be performing in RBS. In the home of Chava Ashkenazi, Nachal Yarden 120/11
Date: Wed. November 22nd
Time: 9:00 PM
Entrance fee: 20 NIS
Cost of CD: 50 NIS

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Berlin

Dienstag, 21. November 2006, 21 Uhr

Ort: Maschinenhaus in der Kulturbauerei, Knaackstr. 97
Eintritt: VVK: 12,- Euro (zzgl. VVG) // AK: 15,- Euro
Karten unter: 030 – 44 31 51 51
Beginn: 21 Uhr

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo

Eben klagt und weint sie noch - und im nächsten Moment hüpft sie fröhlich davon und rennt, getrieben von purer Lebensfreude, immer schneller, die Violine von Deborah Strauss, gefolgt von der federleichtfüßigen Gitarre Jeff Warschauers. Die Musiker aus Brooklyn sind - konzertant und pädagogisch - Koryphäen in Sachen Klezmer und Yiddish Music. Sie waren Mitglieder der Klezmer Conservatory Band und haben mit Itzhak Perlman musiziert. Manche Lieder dieser wunderbaren, leisen CD singt Jeff Warschauer, der auch begnadeter Mandolinist ist, alleine - mit hellem traurig-frohen Tenor. Wenn Deborah Strauss singt, dann ist es filigran, behutsam, hört bei Duettpassagen genau auf ihren Partner hörend. Aber kaum sind Tränen und Schwermut von den Saiten gewischt, tanzen die Instrumente - wie beiläufig aus dem Handgelenk geschüttelt, hochvirtuos.

Bo Shir Ivri , Come Thou Hebrew Song-- A NEW BOOK

The publication of a new book "Bo Shir Ivri (Come, Thou Hebrew Song) - Songs of the Land of Israel: Musical and Social Aspects" (Haifa University Press, 2005) by Dr. Talila Eliram, will be celebrated in the auditorium of the music dept. at Bar Ilan University, on Wednesday, 22 November, 2006, 7:30pm. Free admission. Please confirm your participation (or leave a message) at either: 08-9432870, or 054-8032870

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos in East Village

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos perform together at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, an East Village cultural landmark for 30 years!
Tuesday, November 21st
8pm double bill, $8 cover charge
as part of the club's monthly Women Take the Bandstand series
236 East 3rd Street (between Avenues B & C), NYC
hotline: 212-505-8183

www.nuyorican.org
www.metropolitanklezmer.com
www.myspace.com/metroklez
www.myspace.com/klezbos

Metropolitan Klezmer octet and the Isle of Klezbos sextet are internationally-acclaimed NYC-based bands treating tradition with irreverence and respect. Savoring a panorama of Yiddish-based music while subverting stereotypes, both groups specialize in fabulous arrangements of lesser-known gems found in hidden archival niches such as obscure vintage feature soundtracks and Soviet Yiddish theater newsreels, as well as composing genre-defying originals. Both groups include vibrant versions of rollicking folk dance, melodic trance, hard-swinging Yiddish classics and tango in their repertoire, while each creates exuberant, eclectic covers such as a Balkan-driven "Pick a Pocket or Two," a Yiddish/boogaloo-styled "Comes Love," and even the cantorial/klezmer versions of hits from Guys & Dolls.

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos have released four award-winning CDs on Rhythm Media Records to date, with several more releases currently in post-production. The bands have appeared in broadcasts on CNN Worldbeat, PBS In The Life, the German network ARD's Rhythms of New York, as well as on radio stations worldwide, in soundtracks and soundscapes from Showtime's The L Word to the SITI Theatre Company's Score Off-Broadway to Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, as well as at concert halls, nightclubs, college campuses and music festivals internationally since 1994.

Isle of Klezbos has toured from Vancouver BC to Vienna Austria. Metropolitan Klezmer plays Yiddish music from all over the map on an astonishing array of instrumentation; bandmate backgrounds range from Albanian to Zydeco. Both groups are led by drummer Eve Sicular, bringing together the best of New York's downtown and World Music scenes for a collaborative adventure in sounds from delightfully rambunctious to ethereally exquisite. Versatile and virtuosic, their CDs thus far: 'Yiddish For Travelers,' 'Mosaic Persuasion,' 'Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos,' and 'Surprising Finds.' The two latest releases include studio cuts as well as live tracks from shows at Joe's Pub, The Knitting Factory, and Tonic. Other bonus tracks include home-audio excerpts of tenor Phillip Karpel, grandfather of MetroKlezmer/Klezbos vocalist Deborah Karpel. Latest projects also include live band performance in the multi-media program, The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film.

ABOUT METROPOLITAN KLEZMER: "Anything but stereotypical, and nothing but terrific... one of the best klezmer bands in the world today" - Shaun Dale, Cosmik Debris

"Influences that range from old school Arabic music to Latin Jazz to Motown... not only exuberantly eclectic but also very danceable. Expect an eccentric cultural lesson from these modern-day purveyors of time-honored traditions." - J. Bachman, flavorpill

"One of the best traditional klezmer bands around" - George Robinson, Jewish Week

ABOUT ISLE OF KLEZBOS:
These women will make you shake your tushies.” - Richard Gehr, Village Voice “Talent as strong as its name is provocative” - Bob Makin, Courier News “Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre” - The New Yorker “Great ears and great hearts” - Catherine Madsen, Der Pakn Treger, National Yiddish Book Center

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos bandmate bios include performance, touring and/or recording with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, The Microscopic Septet, Indigo Girls, Amy Sedaris, Jimmy Scott, Toshi Reagon, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Cole, Burning Spear, David Krakauer, Sarah MacLachlan, Bill Frisell, Robert Palmer, Charming Hostess, Arrow, Andy Statman, Maxi Priest, Hot Keys, and Bruce Springsteen, among many others. Various members are graduates of The Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the American Institute of Musical Studies, and other individual studies include teachings from masters from Mohammed El Akkad to Licia Albanese.

Shalom Kids by Roberta Seltzer CD

A new CD for children called "Shalom Kids" is now available through CD Baby by Roberta Seltzer.Roberta Seltzer is a children's performer whose warm voice delights both youngsters and adults. She entertains extensively at temples, schools, libraries and organizations, where she builds a warm rapport with her audience. In her CD SHALOM KIDS, she shares some of her favorite Shabbat melodies and familiar playsongs.

Roberta serves as music specialist at various temples, day schools and community centers. Sound clips for the CD are available at CD Baby. http://cdbaby.com/cd/seltzer

Ruth and Naomi Raise Your Spirits in Israel

www.raiseyourspirits.org On stage in Alon Shvut, Gush Etzion, Israel is the season's newest SMASH HIT musical production - RUTH & NAOMI in the Fields of Bethlehem.

RUTH & NAOMI is the fourth production of the Efrat/Gush Etzion Raise Your Spirits Summer Stock Festival. It follows Andrew Lloyd Webber's "JOSEPH & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and two other original musicals, "ESTHER & The Secrets in The King's Court" and "NOAH! Ride the Wave!" "ESTHER," "NOAH!" and "RUTH & NAOMI" were all written by the team of Arlene Chertoff, Toby Klein Greenwald and Sharon Katz. The music for "RUTH & NAOMI" was composed by Mitch Clyman.

Raise Your Spirits has already performed for more than 20,000 women and raised more than 400,000 NIS for charity.

This year's production is totally sold out until the middle of November, but tickets are still available for November 20th and November 30th.

For ticket information, contact Tanya - tanyac@netmedia.net.il , 050-659-0265.

Hanukah Hopkele - Yiddish klezmer keilidh

Live klezmer music and dance with attitude!
The Hanukah Hopkele - Yiddish klezmer keilidh.
Sunday 17 December 2006
Doors open 7.15pm, first dance 7.45pm

Merlin Shepherd's Chanukah Dance Band will provide the musical entertainment (Merlin Shepherd on clarinet, Ilana Cravitz on violin, Polina Shepherd on accordion and Julia Doyle on bass) and your dance caller for the evening will be Sue Foy, all the way from Budapest. Your last chance to bop the klezmer way in 2006!
Venue: 40 Hallam Street, London W1. Nearest tubes: Great Portland Street; Oxford Circus.
http://www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.html Tickets £15, £12 concs. Call 020 8985 3724 or email hopkele@hotmail.co.uk to book. This special party is being hosted and supported by Central Synagogue, and forms part of the Jewish Music Institute's Autumn/Spring programme.

Ruby Harris Klezmer band around Chicago

Thursday, December 7, 7pm
Ruby Harris Klezmer band
At the Chicago Public Library
Budlong Woods, Lincoln at Bryn Mawr

And
The Ruby Harris Band
With Even Shesiyah
Sunday, Dec. 17, 7 pm
At the Schaumburg Lollapajewza
At the Prairie Center for the Performing arts

On Guitar,Violin, Mandolin, & Vocals
Ruby Harris:

Voted "entertainer of the year" by Wild Chicago. Ruby is an annual fixture at the Chicago Blues Festival with Fruteland Jackson. Ruby has performed at sold-out concerts at The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York, at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. He has performed before President Clinton and the Democratic National Convention. He opened shows for Ray Charles, Little Feat, the Big Wu and Leftover Salmon.

Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour

The Klezmatics will be in conert for a Woody Guthrie music performance to bring Happy Hanukkah music to Washington state.
When: December 12, 7:30pm
Where: Kirkland Performance Center
350 Kirkland Avenue
Kirkland, WA 98033
Info: Adult $36 Senior $32.50 Youth $15 Group $32
All tickets subject to a $1.00 service fee
(Youth is 25 and younger; Senior is 62 and older)
For information call Kirkland Performance Center at (425) 893-9900 or visit www.kpcenter.org
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity, Kirkland Performance Center welcomes The Klezmatics to their 2006-2007 line-up midseason. The Klezmatics will perform Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour at KPC December 12. The Klezmatics will be presenting a contagious celebration of Hanukkah, marrying their soulful and ebullient Jewish roots to Woody Guthrie's poignantly mesmerizing and newly discovered lyrics. This program highlights their two most recent CD releases: the multi-cultural folk sounds of "Wonder Wheel" and the ecstatically danceable, hoe-down worthy "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah."

American Democracy Inspires Jewish Music

Meira Warshauer Look to the Light will be performed on November 12 at Princeton University as part of American Democracy Inspires Jewish Music and Poetry Program

Meira Warshauer’s Look to the Light for SATB and piano, with text by Rabbi Dan Grossman will be performed by Sharim V’Sharot, central New Jersey’s select Jewish choir, Elayne Robinson Grossman, Music Director, as part of their “American Democracy Inspires Jewish Music and Poetry” program on Sunday, November 12 – 1:00 PM in Frist Hall on the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Look to the Light portrays Chanukah themes of light and freedom through the lens of American experience, with references to George Washington and Billings, Montana.

This program is free and open to the public, however reservations are required. For reservations and more information, call (609) 443-1623 or visit http://www.SharimVSharot.org.

In addition to the musical portion of the program, Robert Reinstein, Dean of The Beasley School of Law, Temple University will discuss the exercise of free speech, religion, and the right to petition for the redress of grievances as guaranteed by the Constitution. Esther Schor, Professor of English, Princeton University, joins Elayne Robinson Grossman in discussing and performing poetry and music inspired by the First Amendment. More about this online at http://www.sharimvsharot.org/events.htm.

Sharim V’Sharot’s mission is to perform the music of the Jewish people and to impart the passion of Jewish life through the experience of fine musical performances. The program on November 12 is supported by the “We the People” initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities through a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The “We the People” initiative supports projects that advance the study, teaching, and understanding of American history and culture. This program is also co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University; The Beasley School of Law, Temple University; The United Jewish Federation of Princeton Mercer Bucks; Rider University’s Hillel; and the Sharim V’Sharot Foundation. Visit them online at http://www.SharimVSharot.org.

Meira Warshauer’s compositions have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, and Asia. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina, Dr. Warshauer studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the America Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. In 2000, she received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of S. Carolina.

Dr. Warshauer is a Visiting Lecturer at Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina . Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light, chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label and "Revelation" for orchestra, included on the MMC CD Robert Black Conducts. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications. Her latest Bracha Newsletter is online at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/march06/MW_nws_030906.htm. You can find much more about her at http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/.

Le festival NIGUNIM

Le festival NIGUNIM (Mélodies) a débuté avec brio. Ceux d'entre vous qui ont assisté au concert de Gerard Edery peuvent en témoigner!

Et voici les deux évènements du week-end prochain:

Samedi 11 novembre à 20h Salle Ernest Ansermet (Maison de la Radio, 66 Bd Carl Vogt)

TOHU veBOHU musiques klezmer, arabo-andalouse et de la Renaissance avec: Michel Borzykowski: saxophone, Christine Niggeler: accordéon, Bianca Mihaies-Favez: violon, Adrien Gaubert: contrebasse, Adel Degaichia: chant, percussion & cordes, Claude Jordan: flûtes, Cecilia Knudtsen: viole, Laura Mendy: clavecin, Patricia Esteban: flûtes & percussion, Julie Mazille: flûtes & chant

et:

Dimanche 12 novembre à 17h Salle Robert Dunand ( 9 rue du Marché, Carouge)

CONTES JUIFS EN MUSIQUE pour enfants et adultes de 7 à 777 ans! avec 2 invités successifs:

- Rose Bacot (voix et clarinette): "Zlateh la chèvre" (d'après I.Bashevis Singer)

- la Compagnie "2 temps 3 mouvements": "Otto, autobiographie d'un ours en peluche" (d'après Tomi Ungerer) avec Nathalie Athlan, Sylvie Zahnd, Marc Athlan & Proum-Proum: Mise en scène et chorégraphies : Rossella Riccaboni

Billets en vente:
à l'entrée
aux guichets ResaPlus (liste sur www.resaplus.ch)
par téléphone: 0900 552 333 (1 fr/minute)

tarifs et autres infos sur www.amj.ch
Le comité de l'AMJ se réjouit de vous y retrouver avec de la belle musique et de l'amitié!
pour l' AMJ:
Michel Borzykowski
tel: +4122 755 41 23
borzy@freesurf.ch
site AMJ: http://www.amj.ch
site klezmer: http://borzykowski.users.ch

CHOIRS AND CANTORS BRING ON THE LIGHT THIS CHANUKAH

Over 250 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 10, 2006 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan. For more information about this concert, please call (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337. A Festival of Choirs is free of charge and open to the entire community.

The seventh annual concert will feature cantors and their volunteer adult and children's choirs from all over the New York metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Friday, December 15, 2006.

"There is no better way to usher in the festival of Chanukah than to see people from all ages, literally from age five to 85 singing together," according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. "We all look forward to continuing this wonderful tradition for many years to come."

Highlights of the concert will include a 100-voiced combined children's choir singing the song, "Raise up the Menorah" written by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. Opening the concert will be singer/songwriter, Julie Silver, along with all of the concert participants singing her new song, "It's Chanukah Time." Another highpoint will be the concert's finale, "Bring on the Light," a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for the Festival of Choirs in 2001.

Cantor Garfein will be joined in concert by Rodeph Sholom's Cantorial-Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein. Also participating in the concert will be Cantors Josee Wolff and Suzanne Bernstein and Cantorial-Interns, Todd Kipnis and Donna Mashadi, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Daniel Singer, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Manhattan; Cantor Irena Altshul, Temple Israel, Manhattan; Cantor Kathy Barr, Village Temple, Manhattan; Cantor Steven Pearlston, Free Synagogue of Flushing, Queens, New York; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY; Cantor Claire Franco, Community Synagogue, Port Washington, NY; and Cantor Micah Morgovsky, North Country Reform Temple-Ner Tamid, Glen Cove, New York.

Accompanying the cantors and choirs will be acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger, Jonathan Faiman. Joining Mr. Faiman will be the "Festival of Choirs" combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Dror Ben-Gur, winds, and Dan Freeman, bass guitar.

S'huenyos De Espana: An Evening of Ladino Music

East Midwood Jewish Center's Club Oasis presents S'huenyos De Espana: An Evening of Ladino Music on Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $25 (gen. adm.), $20 (students/seniors), $free (12/ under).
Tickets can be purchased 24/7 online at http:// www.brownpapertickets.com/event/8447
or by phone at 800-838-3006 (reference event #8447).

This night will feature Cantor Sam Levine (vocals & guitar), Marjorie Sanua (vocals), Ben Lapidus (tres, cuatro, guitar), Jeremy Brown (violin, mandolin), and Ira Epstein (percussion). Refreshments will be available.
Ladino, derived from Hebrew and Spanish, can be thought of as a Sephardic analogue to Yiddish (a conflation of Hebrew and German) and is currently spoken by about 150,000 people, primarily in Israel, Turkey and Greece.
For more details on our event, the performers, and the language, please see: http://www.emjc.org/2006/11/an_evening_of_ladino_music.html
East Midwood Jewish Center
1625 Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11230
718/338.3800
www.emjc.org

By train: Q to Avenue J or Avenue M.
By bus: B49 or B9 to Avenue L & Ocean Avenue.
By car: from the Belt- exit 11N to Flatbush Avenue, left on Avenue L,
right on Ocean Avenue. From the Brooklyn Bridge: Left on Tillary Street, right on Flatbush Avenue. Pass through roundabout, staying on Flatbush Avenue. Right on Ocean Avenue. We are between Avenues K & L.

‘Ud & Piyyut 2006 The Legacy of Asher Mizrahi

This year’s Ud U’fiyyut (a co-production of the JMRC and the Confederation House in Jerusalem, in the framework of the International ‘Ud Festival Jerusalem, 2006) bears the title: Mi-qeddem U-miyyam: The Legacy of Asher Mizrahi

This concert is dedicated to the work of Asher Mizrahi – poet, musician, composer, artist and a teacher of Hebrew and music – who was born in Jerusalem in 1890, lived more than 40 years in Tunisia, and died in Jerusalem in 1967. Mizrahi wrote songs in Ladino, Hebrew Piyyutim of longing to Zion, as well as Arab-Tunisian songs, performed in the 1930' and 1940' by the most prominent musicians of his time, both Jews and Arabs.

The 'Ud Ufiyyut series, initiated by the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, together with the Confederation House in Jerusalem as part of the International 'Us Festival, Jerusalem, is meant to bring closer the academia and the stage. This program portrays the work of a remarkable poet and musician, whose influence on the tradition of song and Piyyut, in Tunisia as in Jerusalem, cannot be overestimated.

Performers: Elad Gabai, qanun and musical direction; Moshe Luk, Hadas Pal-Yarden, vocals; David Menahem, vocals and nay; Yaniv Raba, ‘ud; Moshe Nuri, Percussions

The concert will take place in the Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem (6 Shama st.), on Sunday, November 12th, 2006, at 9pm.

Come Celebrate Joel Mandelbaum & Friends at PeaceSmiths

On Sun., Nov. 12, 2006 at 3PM PeaceSmiths, The Elie Siegmeister Society, and The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science and the Arts, Inc. proudly present A Concert of Music by Joel Mandelbaum & Friends, launching the celebration of his 75th year, with Helene Williams, soprano; Antoinette Blaikie, oboist; and composers Jay Anthony Gach, Leonard Lehrman, & Joel Mandelbaum, the latter two at the piano, at First United Methodist Church, at 25 Broadway (Route 110 - "the last church on the left," going south), in Amityville, NY. Info: 631-798-0778. A donation of $8 is suggested.

Two pieces will receive their world premieres at this concert: Elie Siegmeister's "Outside My Window," on a text by poet Kim Rich, who will also be present; and Mandelbaum's setting of his own (June 10, 2005) "Letter to Jewish Week," composed for the occasion. On Mon., Nov. 6 at 1pm, Lehrman will be interviewed on WUSB, 90.1 FM, discussing his own letter which appeared in the Oct. 29, 2006 NY Times Book Review, and reading Mandelbaum's letter, which takes issue with a columnist's assertion that "God Is A Republican."

The program also includes 4 songs by Jay Anthony Gach and 5 by Leonard Lehrman, among them settings of texts by Langston Hughes, Kim Rich and William Jay Smith, along with "Let's Change the Woild!" "Threescore Years Ago," and "Where Do I Belong?" from E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman - coming to PeaceSmiths Mar. 16, 2007. As a special encore, Susan Blake will premiere a new, updated version of Mandelbaum's "The Causes Are Waiting For You" from his 1983 musical, "As You Dislike It."

Other Mandelbaum works to be performed include his settings of Millay and Shakespeare, Prelude for Piano, Song for Oboe & Piano, and 2 Songs with Oboe & Piano on texts by Susan Fox, including "The Great Bell of Cuzco" in which the composer will play the chimes. He will also improvise on themes from the audience. Following will be a reception - with birthday cake!

The concert will be recorded and aired on public television as part of PeaceSmiths' regular weekly cable access programs. This program represents an expansion of the usual PeaceSmiths offering, to include the works of composers of serious concert music, much of it on social themes, but written in an idiom designed to expand the rhythmic and harmonic palate of the repertoire most often heard at PeaceSmiths coffeehouse and forum programs. PeaceSmiths is a nonprofit community organization doing educational, activist, cultural, and mutual help projects for peace and justice.