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.