Schola Cantorum on Hudson Explores Judeo-Christian Choral Music Sacred Bridge

Three mid-March Choral Concerts in Caldwell, Jersey City and Manhattan will light up a sacred bridge.
Schola Cantorum on Hudson, the critically acclaimed 30-voice choral ensemble based in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, will perform choral music highlighting the Judeo-Christian heritage with its 12th Ethnic Celebration Series Concert in three venues. Entitled Sacred Bridge, this second concert program of Schola's season will first be performed at Caldwell College on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, New Jersey, on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 4 pm, reprised on Sunday, March 18, at 4 pm, at Historic Holy Rosary Church, 344 Sixth Street, between Monmouth and Brunswick Streets in Jersey City. The third concert will be performed at St. Malachy's Church, The Actors' Chapel, 239 West 49th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue) in New York City, Monday, March 19 at 7:30 pm.

The ensemble, under the artistic direction of Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, will sing works that exemplify the Judeo-Christian “bridge” by composers such as Barber, Thompson, Rossi, Di Lasso, Mendelssohn, Lewandowski and Braun.

Tickets for all performances are $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors and students. Advance tickets and season subscriptions may be purchased at a reduced price online at www.scholaonhudson.org, by phone at (201) 918-3011, or by email at scholatix@gmail.com.

Organizations, educational institutions, and groups interested in purchasing a block of ten or more tickets receive a special group rate. Please email SCHGroupSales@gmail.com for more information.

Additional information regarding this concert or the ensemble and its activities can be obtained online at www.scholaonhudson.org or by calling 201-918-3009.

YAACOV ELKOBI in Concert at Le Centre d'art et de Culture Paris

LE CENTRE D’ART ET DE CULTURE
ESPACE RACHI Présente,
L’événement judéo Oriental
YAACOV ELKOBI en Concert...
Pour notre plus grand plaisir, LE CENTRE D’ART ET DE CULTURE accueille le mardi 20 mars 2007 à 20h30,
et pour la première fois en France en concert exclusif, l’Artiste ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI’’

Dés l’âge de 9 ans, il commence à chanter avec son père lors de concerts de musique séfarade, Andalouse et Judéo-Oriental sur les plus grandes scènes en Israël, aux USA, en Europe et aujourd’hui en France . Le Ténor Gabriel ELFASSI qui parraine le jeune prodige et Artiste ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI ’’, souhaite faire découvrir au public français son talent et sa performance exceptionnelle. Il s’est produit récemment en Israël avec des artistes et musiciens de renom,‘’ LIOR ELMALIAH, RABBI HAIM LOUK , JO AMAR, BENJAMIN BUZAGLO, EMILE ZRIHAN ’’ au concert événement ‘’ANDALUSIT ORCHESTRA SAISON 2006 ’’. Invité comme PAYTAN JUNIOR ‘’ L’UNESCO ’’ en octobre 2006 au 7eme CONCERT INTERNATIONAL DE HAZANOUT, il séduit le public parisien par sa prestation qui lui fait mériter une ‘’ STANDING OVATION ’’. Avec déjà trois albums à son actif ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI ‘’ est considéré par les spécialistes de la musique Andalouse et Orientale, comme l’artiste plus prometteur de sa génération. Accompagné par ‘’Michel SUISSA’’ et sa formation musicale, '’ YAACOV ELKOBI ’’en Concert est pour tous les amateurs de musique orientale et Judéo Andalouse, un événement à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte ...

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PREVENTE : CARRE D’OR, 50€, ADULTES, 20€, ETUDIANTS, 15€.
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New Klezmer Podcast website

There is a new website that is offering podcasts about klezmer music. It's called Klezmerpodcast and so far has two features. http://klezmerpodcast.com/

Jewish Music Roundtable at Music Library Association

The Music Library Association and the Society of American Music are holding a joint annual conference in Pittsburgh February 28-March 4, 2007. As usual, the Jewish Music Roundtable will present a program, which is scheduled for Thursday, March 1, 2007 at 2:00pm

This year the program features a program entitled "Lost and Found: Jewish Music in America". The program Chair is Judith S. Pinnolis, Brandeis University.

The papers will be:
Jewish Identity and the Search for Spiritual Authenticity: Jewish Composers in the New York Composers’ Forum, 1935–1940
by Dr. Melissa de Graaf, University of Miami

On the Trail of Leo Zeitlin’s Manuscripts
by Paula Eisenstein Baker, University of St. Thomas, Houston

and
Estelle Liebling: John Philip Sousa’s Jewish Diva
by Judith S. Pinnolis, Brandeis University

For details about the conference, location, program, and costs to attend, see:
http://www.pitt.edu/~mla2007/index.htm The program schedule is located at:
http://www.pitt.edu/~mla2007/program.htm

Zamir Choral Foundation New Address

Zamir Choral Foundation has a new address:
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 825
New York, NY
10115
Phone: (212) 870-3335
Fax: (212) 870-3336
Email: Zamirfdn@aol.com
Web: www.zamirfdn.org

Meira Warshauer Symphony No. 1 World Premiere

World Premiere Performance of Meira Warshauer Symphony No. 1 Living, Breathing Earth by Western Piedmont Symphony of North Carolina was a great success. The two other orchestras who helped commission the work will have first performances in March and April.
The Symphony was commissioned by the Western Piedmont Symphony, the South Carolina Philharmonic (their Premiere performance will be on March 24 - http://scphilharmonic.com/) and the Dayton Philharmonic (their Premiere performances will be given on April 26 and 28 - http://www.daytonphilharmonic.com/).

You can find much more about Meira Warshauer at http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/.
The greatly successful World Premiere performance of Meira Warshauer’s Symphony No. 1 – “Living, Breathing Earth” was given by the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Conductor, on Saturday, February 3, 2007 as part of their Masterworks III concert at the First Baptist Church in Hickory, North Carolina.

Classical Voice North Carolina’s review of the premiere performance included this paragraph, “In the first movement, nature could not provide better sound effects of the cicadas, the orchestra buzzing and chirping throughout. The second movement recalls a nighttime canoe ride in the Peruvian rainforest, with the sparkling reflections of stars and fireflies in the dark, still water. This section is so gorgeous and emotional that it could bring tears to one's eyes. The third depicts the playful dance of the butterflies and sunlight at the river's edge. The fourth movement takes us into space, where we look onto the living, breathing, pulsating earth and its many changing colors.” The review also praised the Western Piedmont Symphony’s performance and concluded with, “"Living, Breathing Earth" deserves to be heard many, many more times, not only for its message that life on earth is in danger, and that we must be good stewards of the environment, but because it is such beautiful music.” Read the complete review at http://cvnc.org/reviews/2007/022007/WPiedmontS.html

Her latest Bracha Newsletter, containing full program notes for Symphony No. 1, is online at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/jan07/MW_nws_010907.htm You can also read Carson Cooman’s marvelous Three Questions Before the First Night interview in England’s Music & Vision daily at http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2007/01/meira-warshauer.htm.

Ocala Cantors in Concert

Ocala - The Third Annual Cantorial Concert, "On Wings of Song" presented by Temple Beth Shalom will be held at 4:00 pm on Sunday, March 11 at the Appleton Art Museum, 4333 NE Silver Springs Blvd. in Ocala, FL

An unforgettable musical event to benefit the future programs and activities of the temple will highlight Jewish cultural songs and contemporary musical gems. Featured performers include Rabbi/Cantor Samuel Berman and his cantorial colleagues Cantor Harold Orbach, Cantor David Sislen, Cantor Riselle Bain, Joy Katzen-Guthrie, Chana Olmstead, Steve Berman and Dale Berman.

Tickets are $20 and may be purchased by calling Gary Green 352.347-2481.

Preferred seating options include: "soprano" benefactor $300, 4 tickets; "tenor" patron $150, 2 tickets; "baritone" sponsor" $75, 1 ticket. *30*

Rabbi Samuel Berman
Temple Beth Shalom of Ocala
1109 NE 8th Avenue
Ocala, FL 34470
Phone: (352) 624-3499
Email: rabbisam@earthlink.net Website: www.jewishocala.org

Have Yiddishecup, Will Travel

The Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band announces some of their schedule:
March 3 Park Synagogue, Cleveland 7:15 p.m.
For information: www.parksyn.org
March 19 Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio 8 p.m.
For information: http://www.muc.edu/campus_events/campus_events

April 22 Israel Independence Day, Cleveland 8 p.m.
www.yiddishecup.com

SOCALLED SEDER in London

Thursday 22nd March, 2007
SOCALLED SEDER: Socalled, Sophie Solomon, Bukky Leo, Max Reinhardt, Boujemaa Bouboul

The Grand Hall, The Cobden Club, 170 Kensal Road, London W10 5BN (nearest tube: Westbourne Grove)
8pm. £8
Book online at www.jcclondon.org.uk to reserve your ticket. Door Policy at the Cobden Club requires your names in advance.
The Slave Trade was made illegal in Britain in 1707. To celebrate these 200 years of equality in the UK the JCC invites you to a blistering Passover affair of live funk and hiphop, visual artistry and performance you will never forget:

Featuring:
SO CALLED: conducting a symphony of hip hop beats and old Jewish record samples
SOPHIE SOLOMON: Europe’s most charismatic Jewish fiddler.
BUKKY LEO: Fela Kuti and Tony Allen’s afro-pioneering horns player.
MAX REINHARDT - legendary Austrian theatre wizard cum world music DJ
PLUS SPECIAL GUEST: Gnawan multi-instrumentalist BOUJEMAA BOUBOUL

Produced by YaD Arts for the Jewish Community Centre
www.jcclondon.org.uk

Posted by jmwc at 07:35 PM

Gail Javitt: Like A Braided Candle: Songs for Havdalah

Gail Javitt announces the release of her first CD "Like a Braided Candle: Songs for Havdalah". The entire album is devoted songs for Havdalah, and it may be the first, or only one, of its kind to specialize in just this music. Gail put several years of research into finding just the right music for this collection. Songs are in Yiddish, English and Hebrew. It's available through CD Baby with some sound samples and more details about the album http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gailjavitt

Yiddish Dance in Geneva

3ème stage de DANSES YIDDISH
Organisé par les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch
Samedi 24 mars 2007 de 13h à 18h00
et
Dimanche 25 mars 2007 de 11h à 17h00

au Centre Musical du Grand Lancy -- Geneva
63, Av. des Communes Réunies
(trams 13, 15 et 17, arrêt "Palettes")

Venez découvrir et pratiquer quelques unes des danses traditionnelles juives d'Europe de l'Est: Hora lente, freylekh, bulgar, sher, patsh tants, terkish, khosidl, etc.

Animation: Steven WEINTRAUB (USA)
Musique 'live' avec l'ensemble klezmer MENTSH (Paris)
Le samedi est dévolu aux 'débutants'. Le dimanche est prévu pour les 'avancés' et ceux qui souhaiteront approfondir ce qu'ils auront appris la veille !
Le dimanche se conclura à 17h30 par une démonstration publique (entrée libre).

Coût par journée (samedi ou dimanche): 50 Frs /personne & 70 Frs /couple, membres AMJ, AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc.: 40 & 60 Frs). Pour les deux jours: 80 Frs /personne ou 100 Frs /couple membres AMJ, AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc.: 70 & 90 Frs).

Chaussures légères à semelle claire / robe ou jupe recommandée pour les dames. Nombre de participants limité ! inscrivez-vous rapidement !

Fiche d'inscription à renvoyer à Michel Borzykowski, 12 ch. Franconis, CH-1290 Versoix, fax: +4122 776 14 94

borzykowski@infomaniak.ch tel: +41 22 755 41 23
Organisation: les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch

BAM BAM BAM Krakauer Clarinet on Golijov

On Saturday, March 10, 8p.m., David Krakauer will be performing Osvaldo Golijov's "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. It's the world premiere of the newly orchestrated version of this music, so there will be quite a bit of excitement. The program is called "Bridge to the Beyond" as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). at the Howard Gilman Opera House. Peter J Sharp Building. Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 For all the details, go to the Brooklyn Philharmonic website:http://www.brooklynphilharmonic.org/events_calendar.php?page=calendar#bb This concert features works by two of the greatest Jewish orchestral composers, Gustav Mahler and Osvaldo Golijov. Golijov was raised in Argentina by Eastern European parents and combines klezmer and tango with orchestral music, making him a completely unique voice in the world of music. The program includes the New York premiere of Golijov’s newly-orchestrated Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind about 12th century Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor, featuring popular klezmer clarinet player David Krakauer.

Asefa at the Southpaw for Purim

Asefa
Southpaw - Shushan Purim Party
March 4, 2007
8:00pm @ Southpaw
125 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
It's the post-purim WreckRoom!
Table tennis, pool, darts, pinball, poker and other fine amusements... mikey palms will be behind the bar with incredible drink specials! the WreckRoom is a free event and is from 8 to 2am.
Sharing the bill with us will be Rashanim, dj handler & Y-Love and Juez.

Hidden Talent! for Purim

Following the trend started by Queen Esther, a new women's arts organization reveals...

Hidden Talent!
Women performing only for women!

Come see vocalists - songwriters - dancers and more!
THIS SUNDAY

for women only!

Shir La Maalote: Elevating the World Through Song & Dance
Sunday, February 25, Shows at 4 pm and 7:30 pm
Schottenstein Cultural Center of Yeshiva University
239 East 34th St, near 2nd Ave, NY 10016

Tickets: www.pwt-concert.eventbrite.com Questions: pwta@verizon.net

Featuring....
Chanale Fellig, Adena Kozak, Nehedar, Rena Needle, Tziporah Miriam Halperin, Leslie Ginsparg, Yachad Dance, Debra Landau, Leah Sigal, Sara Gita Sobel, Rachel Kohl Finegold, Chaya & Faige Glaser, Claudia Amzullag, Anna Shoen, Gabrielle Orcha, Lori Leifer, Chana Leah Schwartz, Tsivia Glinert, Penny Klein, Elena Merlis, Kol Isha A Cappella, & Kol Neshama!

Do not miss this spectacular performance by the rising stars of the Women's Only Performing World!

A production of Professional Women's Theater February 2007
www.chanalesings.com
Believer, Crown of Creation, Vatispalel Chana, Chanale & Friends, all available at a Judaica store near you or www.jewishjukebox.com.

West Bank Story wins Oscar for Best Live Action Short

Here's a letter just received from the musical group Yuval Ron about the Oscar awarded last night:

Dear All,
I am thrilled to share with you the news that tonight we won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short FIlm for the film West Bank Story, directed by Ari Sandel. This is a great victory for us as the film is a musical and the music (the songs and the score which I composed) has a central and very important role in the film (as in any musical). I am so glad for this award because this film was created to revive hope for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The film was successful in bringing out the humanity in both sides, and highlighted the courageous few who overcome the bias, follow true love and struggle for peace. May this victory and recognition, give those of us who work to increase the light, more power and more opportunities, to make a difference and slowly create a critical mass that would bring end to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Thank you for all the people who worked in my team (too many to name) to create the music for West Bank Story, especially for the good people who have worked with me on numerous projects in film and TV: singers Amick Byram, Ahmed El Asmer, Steven Memel and the percussionist Jamie Papish for their contribution to the score. Also thank you to the director Ari Sandel for coming up with the crazy idea to spoof West Side Story in present day Palestine!.... to my wife Carolyne for her support.....and to Silan for the good fortune.

Peace,
Yuval Ron

www.yuvalronmusic.com www.myspace.com/yuvalronensemble

Jewish Music Cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn

LIVE AT
THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9TH STREET
PARK SLOPE
BROOKLYN, NY

YEHUDA GLANTZ
SATURDAY MARCH 10TH
DOORS OPEN 8:45PM
COVER $20


BLUE FRINGE AND HEEDOOSH
SATURDAY MARCH 24TH
DOORS OPEN 8:45
COVER $15

WWW.JEWISHMUSICCAFE.COM

Wondering about the Wonder Wheel Grammy

If you want to know more about the album Wonder Wheel (JMG Records, JMG 18033-02, 2006) performed by that incredible Jewish band, the Klezmatics, -- that just won a Grammy in World Music-- there's a great article on the Klezmershack that explains a lot about the project. http://klezmershack.com/articles/cherlin/klezmatics/

Another article about the album appeared in The Forward which you can read about online http://www.forward.com/articles/where-the-borscht-sounds-like-the-sea/

22nd Jewish Music Festival California around the San Francisco Bay Area

Wow. What a a lineup of artists... Wish I was there! Soooo!! you WestCoasters will have a great time...because you can be there... if you're anywhere near San Francisco, you will not want to miss this incredible group of artists. --JMWC

http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/

The 22nd Jewish Music Festival is almost here. It's being held around the San Francisco Bay Area
This year’s Festival will be held from March 8-25 and feature concerts throughout the Bay Area. Performers include Aires de Sefarad; Michael Alpert; Peter Apfelbaum; Avi Avital; Steven Bernstein; Dan Cantrell; Kitka; Klezmer Buenos Aires; Pharaoh’s Daughter and more! OPENING NIGHT of The Jewish Music Festival San Francisco Bay Area

Musical Fortunes: New music based on Jewish and Romani (”Gypsy”) Routes.
A premiere of new music based on a history of rich collaboration; a tradition mined by Oakland composer/performer Dan Cantrell with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Michael Alpert, Rumen Shopov, Dusan Ristic and dancers Rachel Brice and Elizabeth Strong.
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
Thursday, March 8, 7:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Creative Work Fund, The East Bay Community Foundation – Fund for Artists, The MAP Fund – a project of Creative Capital, and Leonard Kurz, in memory of Ursula Sherman

Klezmer Buenos Aires/Lerner Moguilevsky Duo:
Surrender yourself to the ecstatic joy of this virtuosic duo, coming direct from Argentina with their stellar blend of klezmer, Argentinean folk music, tango and jazz improvisation. Their lightning transitions between flutes, clarinet, harmonica, accordion, piano and percussion leave audiences clamoring for more.
Thrust Stage / Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St., Berkeley
Saturday, March 10, 8:00 pm
Produced in association with La Peña Cultural Center of Berkeley

Tales From Terezin: A Musical Journey.
In memory of Sylvie Braitman
Violinist Randall Weiss and The Bridge Players present music originally performed at Terezín concentration camp. Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, 290 Dolores Street (at 16th), San Francisco, Sunday, March 11, 4:00 pm
To order tickets: 415.861.6932 × 310
or email programs@shaarzahav.org
Co-sponsored by Congregation Sha’ar Zahav

Ensemble Lucidarium:
“Pure energy on period instruments” – one of Italy’s premier early music ensembles makes their Bay area debut with “La Istoria de Purim,” a program devoted to the music and poetry of the Jews in Renaissance Italy that has delighted audiences and critics from Paris to Budapest. This ensemble of eight won an award in 2004 from the European Association for Jewish Culture for the CD production of this richly-nuanced, rarely heard repertoire.
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

The Symbolic Power of Jewish Music:
A conversation with vanguard musicians of John Zorn’s Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture CD label, including Ben Goldberg, John Schott, Basya Schechter, and Steve Bernstein, and others. Moderated by Myra Melford, UC Berkeley
The Jazzschool
2087 Addison Street, Berkeley
Saturday, March 17, 2:00pm
Produced in association with The Jazzschool in Berkeley

Pharaoh’s Daughter:
Blending psychedelic sensibility and pan-Mediterranean sensuality, Basya Schechter leads her band through Hasidic chants and Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, with spiritual styling filtered through percussion, flute, strings and electronica.
Thrust Stage / Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St., Berkeley
Saturday, March 17, 8:00 pm

Steven Bernstein with Peter Apfelbaum and Friends presents Diaspora Blues:
From Berkeley, these now New York-based cutting edge composer/ performers are stretching the definition of Jewish music. Diaspora Blues is based on the work of legendary cantor Moshe Koussevitsky, and was originally recorded in 2002 with the Sam Rivers Trio. This is the West Coast premiere.
Thrust Stage / Berkeley Repertory Theatre
2025 Addison St., Berkeley
Sunday, March 18, 7:30 pm

Poetry Slam on the Theme of Diaspora:
For rules and complete information, please visit:
www.berkeleypoetryslam.com. The three finalists will have the opportunity to showcase at Community Music Day for additional monetary prizes. Details to follow on the Community Music Day event page
Starry Plough Pub
3101 Shattuck Ave.
at Prince Street, Berkeley
Wednesday, March 21, 8:30 pm
Tickets are first-come, first-serve, at venue only

Noa:
Israel’s leading international concert and recording artist dazzles audiences with songs inspired by Yemenite roots infused with jazz, classical and rock have created a unique sound, not to be missed.
JCCSF
3200 California St. (at Presidio), SF
Wednesday, March 21, 8:00 pm
Call 415-276-1511 for tickets.
Co-sponsored with the Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Avi Avital:
This young Israeli mandolin master will showcase contemporary Israeli composers; he recently won first prize in the international competition for plucked strings “Città di Voghera” (Italy); and has played solo with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Milano and others.
JCCEB
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
Thursday, March 22, 2:00 pm
Produced in association with the Consulate of Israel

Aires de Sefarad with Jorge Liderman:
Born in Argentina, trained in Israel and the US, this now-Berkeley based composer brings a highly original twist to Sephardic music. The music will be performed by Duo46. The concert will open with the mandolin master, Avi Avital.
Congregatin Beth El
1301 Oxford St., Berkeley
Thursday, March 22, 2007. 8:00 pm
Produced in association with Congregation Beth El in Berkeley

Community Music Day:
Poetry Slam Finals, interactive workshops, children’s concert, Instrument Petting Zoo, and performances throughout the day showcasing high quality local artists. Guaranteed to bring out your inner musician.
JCCEB
1414 Walnut St., Berkeley
Sunday, March, 25, 11-5 pm
Produced in association with Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Co-sponsored by Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF) and the Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman

See http://www.jewishmusicfestival.org/ for all the details.

'OySongs' for Music downloads

Oysongs is a site where you can download and buy Jewish music online. There are music files for listening and there is some sheet music from many different artists in the Jewish music world. You can search by song, album, sheet music or artist. Featured artists include Beth Schafer, Benyamin Ginsberg Trio, Peri Smilow, Doug Colter, Jeff Klepper, Shefa Gold, Julie Silver, Eric Komar and more. http://www.oysongs.com/

KlezKanada Scholarship Opportunities

The 12th KlezKanada season has opened its Youth Scholarship Program. KlezKanada takes place each year north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the B'nai B'rith camp, and each summer is filled with exciting music, dance, theater, arts and Jewish culture of all kinds. If you haven't been, check it out. And if your child plays an instrument, and you are looking for the perfect family music camp, KlezKanada will be one of the best experiences yet. http://www.klezkanada.com/site/scholarships.php

"The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Jeffrey Shandler
March 9th
"The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction " Location: The Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St. New York City
Date: Friday, March 9, 2007
Time: 10:30 AM to Noon

Admission: This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society
and the American Society for Jewish Music
The Jewish Music Forum lecture series continues, with an investigation of the cantor's life, art, and spirituality as narrated through various modes of communication:
"The Media and the Messenger: Transforming the Cantor's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Presented by:
Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Respondents: Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University, and Dr. Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University Co-sponsor: Working Group on Jews/Media/Religion at the Center for Religion and Media, New York University

In brief:
Jeffrey Shandler will discuss how American cantors' interactions with new media of the past century transformed their art and their stature as performers. Their engagement with sound recordings, sheet music, motion pictures, and radio and television broadcasting created new possibilities for cantors that tested the limits of their traditional role as shliah tsibur (communal messenger). Of special interest is how cantors have become subjects of mediations, especially in narratives in which the cantor's life and career figure as exemplary tales of the encounter of Jewish tradition with the challenges of modernity.

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Distinguished panel:

Dr. Jeffrey Shandler, a scholar of modern Jewish culture, is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. His publications include Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (2005), Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (2003), Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (2002), and While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust (1999).

Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor, Professor of Performance Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her publications include Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864-1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki) (1977); Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (1998); The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (edited with Jonathan Karp) (in press); and They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt) (in press).

Dr. Mark Slobin is a professor of music at Wesleyan University and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. His books include Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants and Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World, both of which received ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award, and Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan.

About the Jewish Music Forum:

The Forum is a colloquium in which invited lecturers present original research in a flexible format that is followed by response and open discussion. With the support of the American Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, launched its new series at the Center for Jewish History in the spring of 2005. The Jewish Music Forum is devoted to the study of Jewish music in all of its historical and contemporary diversity.

Clarinets in Safed this Summer

Looking for something great to do in Israel this summer? If you are a clarinetist you can find the perfect way to learn, have fun, and play great music. The 4th annual celebration of classical, jazz and klezmer music is once again being led in the old city of Safed by Giora Feidman. Experience instruction, master classes and performances from August 6-13 in Safed, Israel. For details, see the http://www.jmwc.org/pdf/KlezmerinSafedAugust07.pdfflyer (it's a pdf file so you need Adobe Acrobat to open).

"Purim in Khelm"

You are cordially invited to four free New York-area performances of a new Yiddish musical comedy, "Purim in Khelm", presented by the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene and sponsored by the City University of New York.
"Purim in Khelm" features a professional cast, klezmorim, and original Yiddish songs, and is presented in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles.
PURIM IN KHELM
by Motl Didner and Miryem-Khaye Seigel

An original Yiddish musical comedy
Presented with English and Russian supertitles

Featuring: Ashley Adler, Leizer Burko, Itzy Firestone, Richard Kass, Susanne Nancy Kobb, David Mandelbaum, Stuart Marshall, Freydale Zynstein-Oz, Harry Peerce and Miryem-Khaye Seigel
With Art Bailey, Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer
FOUR FREE PERFORMANCES sponsored by the City University of New York
1) Tuesday, February 27 - Hunter College, Kaye Playhouse - 7 PM. Free tickets: 212-772-4448

2) Tuesday, March 6- Lehman College, Lovinger Theater - 2 PM. Free tickets: 718-960-8025

3) Wednesday, March 7 - Queens College, Colden Auditorim - 2 PM. Free tickets: 718-793-8080

4) Thursday, March 8 - Brooklyn College, Whitman Theater - 2 PM. 718-951-4600

Info: Folksbiene 212-213-2120
Folksbiene.org

FROM THE JAWS OF THE LION

FROM THE JAWS OF THE LION
On 25 March, 2007, in the advent of Yom HaShoah veHaG'vurah, the Felicia Blumenthal Music Center in Tel-Aviv will present a concert of art songs by Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson (1904-1992). Composed before his deportation, during his imprisonment in the concentration camps of Vichy France, and after his escape from his captors, the music is set to texts of Yiddish and Hebrew poets such as Sutzkewer, Reisen, Rosenfeld, Kipnis, Bialik, and Tschernchowsky. The songs give expression to manifold aspects of Jewish life in the Diaspora, the anxieties of survival, and joy in the renaissance of national Jewish life in the old new homeland. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson's creative process was nourished by the musical traditions of the former Austro-Hungary and the ancient modes of Jewish liturgy. Much of his music miraculously survived the ravages of WWII.
THE ARTISTS
Singers: Eva Ben-Zvi, Soprano, Joshua Breitzer, Tenor, Eliyahu Schleifer, Baritone, Mikhal Shiff Matter, Mezzo- Soprano. Pianists: Ahouvah Babayoff Kremer, Aya Schleifer.
Time: Sunday, 25 March 2007, 8:30 PM
Venue: The Felicia Blumenthal Music Center and Library
Bialik Street, 26
Tel-Aviv 61048
www.fbmc.co.il
The title of the program is derived from the phrase "Free us from the jaws of the lion," from the well know text by the 16th century poet Israel Najara . Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson set it to music while a prisoner in the Saint Cyprien Concentration Camp in Vichy France.

Dan Blacksberg Ensemble featured in Philly Series

Diaspora Series - "celebrates Purim with a special show featuring some of the most innovative musicians in Klezmer and Jewish-inspired music."
Sunday March 4
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
8 p.m. FREE All Ages
West Philadelphia Orchestra
Dan Blacksberg Ensemble
Dan Blacksberg, Trombone
Michael Winograd, Clarinet
Jon Barrios, Bass
Jason Nazary, Drums

http://www.myspace.com/diasporaseries

Klezmer Cruise

Information about a Klezmer Cruise Apr 29-May 11, 2007 with Arkady Gendler. The website has all the information. http://www.magma.ca/~klezmercruise/

PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER & ASEFA

This Week!
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER AND ASEFA
IN CONCERT
THIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17th
DOORS AT 8:30pm $12

Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street (between 6th & 7th ave.)
Park Slope Brooklyn
more info at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

An All-Women's Music & Dance Festival!

SUNDAY, February 25, 2007
SHIR LA MA'ALOTE: Elevating the World Through Music and Dance A concert for women only to benefit Professional Women's Theater, an organization which seeks to promote all-female performance opportunities, featuring known and rising stars in the Jewish women's performing world! Singer-songwriters, dancers, vocalists....
Chanale! ~ Debra Landau ~ Rachel Kohl Finegold ~ Emilia Cataldo ~ Gabrielle Orcha ~ The Light Peddler's Band ~ Rena Needle ~ Tziporah Miriam Halperin...And MORE!
Show I: 4:00 pm
Show II: 7:30 pm
Reception & CD Fair: 6:15 - 7:15 pm
Yeshiva University's Schottenstein Cultural Center
239 East 34th St. between 2nd & 3rd Aves. NY, NY 10016
Tickets: http://pwt-concert.eventbrite.com/
$30 in advance, $36 at door / $15 students / all proceeds considered charity For further information, please contact pwta@verizon.net or 646-234-1542.
"Elevating the World through Music and Dance"

Beethoven & Golijov

Audiences of the Marin Symphony’s Sunday, February 25 and Tuesday, February 27 concerts will be treated to two epic works in one program: Beethoven’s majestic Symphony No. 7 and contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, performed by solo clarinetist Todd Palmer. Also on the program is Kodály’s Galanta Dances. Alasdair Neale conducts.

The Marin Symphony concerts will be held on Sunday, February 25 and Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30pm at Marin Center, San Rafael, California. Tickets at $65, $50 and $27 are available at 415.499.6800 (students half price). Free pre-concert talks with Maestro Neale begin at 6:30pm in the concert hall. Audience members are invited to meet clarinetist Todd Palmer, Maestro Neale and members of the orchestra immediately after the Tuesday, February 27 concert at the Symphony’s regular Tuesday Night Wrap Party, Four Points by Sheraton Lounge, 1010 Northgate Drive, San Rafael. No host bar. Click www.marinsymphony.org/accessible.htm

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 needs no introduction. Written in 1811-12, its second movement, the stately and sweepingly melodic Allegretto, was immediately so well received that the audience of the 1813 premiere requested its encore. In the centuries since its first performance, the work has become one of the most popular in the classical music repertoire.

According to critics and performers alike, Golijov’s work, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, is destined to follow suit in its popularity. Originally conceived as a clarinet quintet, the work was recorded by soloist Todd Palmer with St. Lawrence String Quartet in 2002 on the EMI Classics label. (Mr. Palmer was awarded a $20,000 recording grant from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture to fund this project.) The recording became one of the top ten best-selling classical music CDs of 2003, receiving two Grammy nominations and the Prelude Award from the Netherlands for best chamber music recording of 2004.

Clarinet soloist Todd Palmer, who will be performing the work with the Marin Symphony on February 25 & 27, says of this work, “It’s too early to put the ‘masterpiece’ label on it, but this is a remarkable piece—musically, the first of its kind.” He observes that the first great clarinet quintet came from Mozart, two hundred years ago. Then, a hundred years later, came the Brahms clarinet quintet. Both works have become pillars of the clarinet repertoire. “I believe (the Golijov work) will become the next great clarinet quintet after the Brahms.” Mr. Palmer adds with a smile, “And it’s coming another hundred years later.”

Marin Symphony audiences will hear a concerto version of this work, brought to the concert hall through the auspices of Magnum Opus, a commissioning project funded by philanthropist Kathryn Gould and designed to provide nine new orchestral works over five years to be premiered by three San Francisco Bay area orchestras: the Marin Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Oakland East Bay Symphony. Soloist Palmer notes of the orchestral work, “It has enlarged string forces. It’s the same piece of music, and the big moments of the original quintet sounded orchestral anyway. I think it’s a testament to any great piece of music that it can withstand being made into different versions.”

Listeners—particularly fans of Klezmer music—will find much to love in this piece. A compellingly soulful work, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind blends orchestra, solo clarinet and the inflections of chant and Klezmer rhythms to yield a sound that clarinetist Palmer calls, “emotionally powerful. It’s a very intense work with moments of great beauty.” Undoubtedly, Osvaldo Golijov’s unique compositional style derives from his unusual upbringing in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Golijov himself writes of the piece, “The movements of this work sound to me as if written in three of the different languages spoken by the Jewish people throughout our history. This somehow reflects the composition’s epic nature. I hear the prelude and the first movement, the most ancient, in Aramaic; the second movement is in Yiddish, the rich and fragile language of a long exile; the third movement and postlude are in sacred Hebrew.” The Boston Globe echoes these sentiments when it calls the work “a 35-minute survey of Jewish history and Jewish music—full of mystery, pain and celebration.” Isaac the Blind was a 13th century kabbalist rabbi of Provence, France.

Mr. Golijov, 46, ranks among the most sought-after composers in the world. In the past four years alone, he has received a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and a commission from New York City’s Metropolitan Opera. In 2000, the premiere of Golijov's St. Mark Passion took the music world by storm. The CD of the premiere of this work, on the Haenssler Classic label, received Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations in 2002. In January and February 2006, Lincoln Center presented a Festival called “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov,” featuring multiple performances of his major works, chamber music, late nights of Tango and Klezmer, and a night at the Film Society. Future projects include a collaboration with director Francis Ford Coppola on the score of his upcoming film, Youth Without Youth. Other projects include works for the Kronos and St Lawrence quartets, and for Yo-Yo Ma with the Boston Symphony. --

Regina Resnik Presents Crossing All Boundaries

Sunday, March 25, 2:30 P.M.
Regina Resnik, narrator; Katherine Whyte, soprano; Audrey Babcock, mezzo-soprano; Michael Philip Davis, tenor; Milos Repicky, piano; Annaliesa Place, guest violinist
$25 adults, $20 students/seniors, $15 members

Museum of Jewish Heritage: Edmond J. Safra Hall
36 Battery Place
Battery Park
New York, NY 10280

Crossing All Boundaries is the final concert in a three-year-long retrospective on Jewish classical song. Presented and narrated by opera legend Regina Resnik, the program features songs and operas on Jewish themes by famous composers, such as Kaddish by Ravel, the rarely heard Hebrew songs of Glinka, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, the brilliant and evocative Song Cycle on Jewish Folk Poetry by Shostakovich, and the New York premiere of Letter to Warsaw by Thomas Pasatieri. Classics by Tchaikovsky, Massenet, and Schubert, sung in Yiddish, and originally made popular by the great Jewish singers of the past, round out this unique concert.
Regina Resnik has had an opera career spanning more than 60 years and more than 80 roles in the great international opera houses. She became famous for roles such as Carmen and Mistress Quickly. In 1987, Regina Resnik made her musical theater debut as Fraülein Schneider in Cabaret with Joel Grey, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Since 1997, she has been the host and narrator of the concert series "Regina Resnik Presents" - which she co-founded and co-produces with her son, tenor and stage director, Michael Philip Davis. The series has become an important presence in New York musical life, having offered such diverse programs as "Beethoven in Song," "The Gypsy in Classical Song," and "The Classic Kurt Weill."

Jewish classical composer wins Grammy

Osvaldo Golijov has been named the winner of the Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his opera Ainadamar ("Fountain of Tears"). The recording, released by Deutsche Grammophon in May 2006, has also been recognized as the Best Opera Recording.

The recording features Dawn Upshaw as Margarita Xirgu, Kelley O'Connor as Federico García Lorca, and Jessica Rivera as Nuria — the same three artists who created the roles at the 2003 premiere. They are joined by the Women of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Robert Spano. The recording award also recognizes producers Valérie Gross and Sid McLauchlan.

The opera, premiered at Tanglewood in 2003, has continued to receive praise from critics and audiences both for the recording and for live performances from Los Angeles and Santa Fe to New York and Atlanta. Upcoming productions will bring Ainadamar to Chicago, Boston, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Adelaide Music Festival in Australia.

This is Golijov's first Grammy win, however he has been previously recognized with several other nominations. Last year, the song cycle Ayre was nominated for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Prior to that, the 2002 EMI CD Yiddishbbuk and the 2000 recording of La Pasión según San Marcos also received nominations.

JEWISH HIP HOP with Modular Moods at Jewish Music Cafe

MODULAR MOODS AND THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE PRESENT
JEWISH HIP HOP EXTRAVAGANZA!
Leaders of the Jew School Hip Hop Showcase
Saturday February 10th
@ The Jewish Music Cafe
Doors @ 8:30pm - $12
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215
Subway: Take the (F) Train to 7th Avenue or the (R) train to 9th Street
Y-Love (born Yitz Jordan) is an MC unlike any other. He is a black convert into the Bostener sect of chassidus (a mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He is among the most innovative freestylers on the scene, weaving seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Most unique is Y Love's revival of Aramaic, the ancient language used to discuss Jewish Law. With each word he spits in the tongue of the Talmud, Y-Love breathes new life into Hasidism, and hip-hop one beat at a time. www.modularmoods.com

Nosson Zand (a.k.a. N.I.Z.) is a 25 year-old rapper from Boston, Massachusetts. N.I.Z. was raised as a Conservative Jew; however, he currently lives a Chabad lifestyle, which is in large being a follower of Lubavitcher Rebbe, a prominent Jewish spiritual leader. N.I.Z. is looking to bring positivity and intelligence to a hip-hop industry which he feels is in desperate need of spiritual uplifting. N.I.Z. has been rapping for over 10 years and has performed with artists such as Matisyahu, The Last Poets, and Toots and the Maytals. www.myspace.com/jewishrap

dj handler The brains behind Modular Moods and many of the hyped parties in and around NYC, dj handler's music defies stereotypes. He frequently includes collaborations with non-electronic musicians, creating textural fusions of live and recorded sound. He references Ashkenazic cantorial music, traditional Yemenite melodies and hip hop. dj handler is a multi cultural maestro that spins a mix of Baile Funk and Afro Beat blended with 80's free style and hip hop, which gets the most famous US clubs to resemble the craziest festivals abroad.

Erez (dj handler) currently runs Modular Mood Records, an independent record label that produces a variety of hip-hop, rock and klezmer-jazz bands. Modular Moods began in Washington, D.C., but has since moved to New York City where it continues to thrive and collaborate with other artists and organizations all across the board, such as The Workmen's Circle, DJ Rekha, MC Paul Barman, Daniel Carter, and Heeb magazine to promote the arts, and specifically a variety of cultures fused with a modern edge. London Radio's 104.4 FM called him, "One of New York's hottest Jewish musicians" and Heeb Magazine listed him in their "Top Hundred Heeb". He resides and maintains his label, Modular Moods, within the auditory heart of Brooklyn. www.modularmoods.com/djhandler

contact:
Erez a.k.a. dj handler
718.290.5372
djhandler@modularmoods.com
www.modularmoods.com

New York Musical theatre Festival

The New York Musical Theatre Festival, the original home of Altar Boyz, [title of show], The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Gutenberg! The Musical, the Big Voice and Nerds:// A Musical Software Satire, among many others, will be accepting submissions for their Next Link Project from JANUARY 1, 2007 through MARCH 1, 2007. The Next Link Project is the NYMTF central series of new musicals, accounting for 18 of the 30+ productions in each year's festival. NYMTF maintain an open submissions policy and a blind evaluation process to ensure that writers from every level of the theatre community, from working professionals to those whose work has not yet been produced, are given the opportunity to participate.
For complete information:
http://www.nymf.org/
For more information, and to begin the online submission process, see: http://www.nymf.org/Page-101.html

World of the Piyut in English

Top musicologists and other scholars from Snunit, Avi Chai Foundation, and Hebrew University, among others, have a new website with an English version up and running: An Invitation to Piyut. Accroding to the site: "There are two archives at the core of the website. The central archive is a collection of piyutim and melodies. Here you can find piyutim divided into various categories and run a general search on all of the piyutim. Each piyut has two central “pages.” The first offers an in-depth look at the piyut, presenting different perspectives of background, commentary, and explanation. The second is a list of melodies, including a range of melodies and performances of the piyut. The second archive contains texts and melodies not classically defined as piyutim – such as selections from Psalms or traditional Jewish prayers. This category of the archive is necessary because there is a close functional relationship between these types of texts and melodies and the world of piyut, both aesthetically and in terms of practical traditional uses."
You can explore, hear and read about this amazing collection of Jewish traditional music at:
http://www.piyut.org.il/english/

Budowitz New 2-CD album

Recorded in Zurich and Geneva, the Budowitz klezmer ensemble has a new 2-CD set of Jewish instrumental music available. A MUST! Check it out here: http://www.goldenhorn.com/display.php4?content=records&page=ghp029.html Budowitz:
Christian Dawid:C-Clarinet, Baraban
Tamás Gombai:Violin
Cookie Segelstein:Violin
Sándor D. Tóth:Three-string Bratsch (Viola), Baraban (Drum)
Zsolt Kürtösi:Three-string Bass, Three-string Cello
Joshua Horowitz: Tsimbl, 19th Century Button Accordion

Anat Fort CD 'A Long Story' --US Release in March

Anat Fort announces the US Release of the CD, "A Long Story"which is coming out on ECM on March 6th. See her website at: www.anatfort.com Bio from Anat Fort website:
www.anatfort.com:
Pianist Anat Fort was born in Israel and began her classical music education there at the age of five. Her early attraction to improvisation and interest in jazz ultimately led to a summer session at the Eastman School of Music and enrollment in the jazz program at William Paterson University. While there, she started composing and continued to perform different styles under the guidance of jazz notables Rufus Reid, Norman Simmons, Harold Mabern and Vic Juris.

Upon graduation, Anat moved to New York and studied classical composition with Harold Seletsky and improvisation with Paul Bley, further reinforcing her diverse musical inclinations. Anat's 1999 debut CD containing original compositions, Peel, was followed by the formation of the Anat Fort Trio with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider, a collaboration subsequently voted "one of the best jazz shows of 2003" by All About Jazz-NY.

The Trio performs regionally and internationally at venues such as Symphony Space, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Makor, Cornelia Street Cafe and participated at the JVC Jazz Festival in 2005, sharing a concert featuring Anat as soloist. Her next CD will be released under the ECM label soon and the Trio is excited to record their first CD in early 2006.

Anat is a prolific and active composer and arranger. In 2000, she was commissioned to write Tzohar for string orchestra and improvising piano, performing it with the chamber orchestra Ramat-Gan in Israel. Since the premiere, she has performed it with the Palo-Alto Symphony in Palo Alto, California and the professional orchestra in residence at William Paterson University.

Her next commission, K'tanot (for chamber ensemble), was premiered in 2002 by the Musica Nova Consort at the Tel-Aviv Biennial for contemporary music. She has since received two composition grants from the Jerome foundation and was recently commissioned to create five new arrangements of Israeli music by the Opera House in Tel Aviv, Israel.

As a resident New Yorker since 1996, Anat has had the privilege of playing with such influential artists as Paul Motian, Joe Williams, Horacee Arnold, Perry Robinson, Al Grey, Ben Monder, and Ed Schuller.

Happy 10th Anniversary JMWC !!

The Jewish Music Web Center is celebrating 10 years online this month! My first research bibliography and organized list of Jewish websites appeared in February, 1997. I went live with the www.jmwc.org domain name the following February-- making this our 10th anniversary year. In 1997, there were fewer than 75 websites devoted to Jewish music. Today, there are hundreds. The astounding growth of the Internet has allowed connections to people devoted to Jewish music all over the world.

Thank you ALL for a wonderful 10 years!

Yours,

Judy
--Boston, MA

When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up CD Release

Cantor Judy Greenfeld has released a new CD "When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up" which is a collection modern day renewal-style melodies to prayers for the beginning and end of the day. Each song is based primarily upon traditional texts which are set to new music. Cantor Greenfeld, Gordon Lustig, Meir Finkelstein and Sheryl Braunstein are the featured composers on the album. The album has spoken text of prayer as well as traditional texts helping listeners to have guided focus on the meanings of the prayers. Cantor Greenfeld has a wonderful, clear voice which is especially suited to the new age, quiet, relaxing music prevalent on the album. This is not an album geared toward children, although it is appropriate for them with a warm and friendly sound. This album has plenty of English spoken and sung text mixed with some of the Hebrew prayers. More information about her CD can be found at www.nachshonminyan.org/otherWorks.html

Cantor Judy Greenfeld is the founder and spiritual leader of the Nachshon Minyan (www.nachshonminyan.org) in Encino, California. Cantor Judy Greenfeld did her undergraduate work at the University of Arizona and received her ordination as well as a Master’s Degree in Jewish Sacred Music from the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (www.ajrca.org), a pluralistic rabbinical and cantorial seminary based in Los Angeles. Cantor Greenfeld is the co-author (with Dr. Tamar Frankiel) of two books, Minding the Temple of the Soul and Entering the Temple of Dreams which detail a new approach to Jewish prayer through movement and meditation. She has lectured and taught movement and prayer at retreats and synagogues around the United States. One of the highlights of Cantor Greenfeld's work with the Nachshon Minyan includes authoring a prayer book which reflects a blending of Conservative and Reform traditions. It will be published by the Ktav Publishing House in 2007 and will be accompanied by a CD now in production. Her latest CD, "When You Lie Down and When You Rise Up: Jewish prayers to begin and end your day in a meaningful way" features original music for evening and morning prayers. A resident of Encino, she is married to Michael Greenfeld and is the proud mother of Samantha and David.

Cantor Greenfeld is licensed to officiate at lifecycle events including bar and bat mitzvah services and weddings. She can be reached at CGC1@aol.com. More information about her CD can be found at www.nachshonminyan.org/otherWorks.html.

Strauss/Warschauer Duo play fat Jewish War Veterans

Jewish War Veterans Stuyvesant-Cooper Post 235 invites you, your family and your friends to our fourth-annual free and open-to-the- public klezmer concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 4, 2007. The concert will be held at Town & Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street near First Avenue. Doors open at 2:45 p.m.

Headlining the concert again will be the internationally acclaimed Strauss/Warschauer Duo of Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer. Also performing are three local ensembles: The Columbia University Klezmer Band, Generation K and the Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Workshop.

YIDDISH THEATER: A LOVE STORY

ONE MORE SCREENING AT THE PRESTIGIOUS
SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday FEB 4th
at 10:30 am
at the Metro Theater 4
in Santa Barbara

We are grateful to all of you, that helped us be chosen out of hundreds of film at this great festival to have an additional screening.
Synopsis.
Enter the funny, larger-than-life world of Yiddish Theater through this documentary film about the amazing woman who has kept the oldest running Yiddish Theater in America alive. Zypora Spaisman is a Holocaust survivor who conquers all hearts in her passion for art, lifeand Yiddish. This heartwarming story of one unique woman's struggle portrays the fight of both an old art form to stay relevant and an old actress to find mean ing and a stage in a society that worships youth. Shot in real time in one of the coldest winters in NY, Zypora's theater has one week to raise funding to keep their show going. Many miracles occur during this week. But will they be enough to save this critically acclaimed Yiddish show?

The film includes unique scenes withmany of the last remaining stars of the Yiddish stage as well as leading experts from the Yiddish world, including Seymour Rexite, Shifra Lerer, Zypora Spaisman, Zalmen Mlotek, Nahma Sandrow and many more.

A must see film for anyone who loves theater !
For more info:
Film Festival: www.sbiff.org

Film:
http://www.jewishsantabarbara.org/calendar/calendar.html

MYSPACE:
http://www.myspace.com/yiddishtheateralovestory

Lorin Sklamberg in California in Feburary

Monday February 12 at 8pm
Coffee Gallery Backstage
2029 North Lake
Altadena, CA 91001
www.coffeegallery.com
Solo show!

Thursday February 15 at 8pm
Red Yiddish Salon
LACE
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
www.yiddishkaytla.org
Informal talk about the YIVO Sound Archives and the Klezmatics with recorded and live music.

Saturday February 17 7:30pm
Acoustic Music San Diego
4650 Mansfield Street
San Diego, CA 92116
www.acousticmusicsandiego.com
Solo show!

Sunday February 18 at 10am
Congregation Shaarei Torah
550 South Second Avenue
Arcadia, CA 91006
www.shaareitorah.org
Solo show!

For updates, go to www.myspace.com/lorinsklamberg

Yiddishe Cup in Mid-West Swing

Yiddishe Cup concerts in Michigan and Ohio are:
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sat. Feb. 3
8 p.m.
The Ark
316 S. Main St.
http://www.theark.org>www.theark.org
734-763-8587
$20


Peninsula, Ohio (Akron area)
Sat. Feb. 10
8 p.m.
Happy Days Visitor Center,
Cuyahoga Valley Nat'l Park Ass'n
http://www.cvnpa.org/
330-657-2909
$15

Verestski Pass at Univeristy of Chicago Folk Festival

<2 hour Yiddish dance workshop at the University of Chicago Folk Festival on Sunday 4 March from 2 to 4 pm. Accompanying the class will be the wonderful Verestski Pass (Cookie Segelstein, Josh Horowitz, and Stu Brotman) who will also be appearing in concert Saturday and Sunday nights, and giving a free klezmer music workshop earlier on Sunday. http://www.uofcfolk.org/New/home.html
In Eastern Europe, the roots of "world music" go back centuries: historically, Jews, Christians, Moslems, Rumanians, Ukrainians, and Roma played music together in this multicultural area where professional musicians had to know as many musical styles as the diverse peoples among whom they lived. Veretski Pass, a trio of veteran klezmer artists, plays Old Country Music that ranges from melodies of Medieval Poland and dances from Bessarabia, Ruthenia, and Bukovina to music originating in the Ottoman Empire -- much of which they learned from field recordings they themselves gathered.

Cookie Segelstein (Budowitz, New Haven Symphony Orchestra), Joshua Horowitz (Budowitz), and Stuart Brotman (Ellis Island Band, The Klezmorim, San Francisco Klezmer Experience, Brave Old World) synthesize raw energy and polished musicianship to produce music of unusual depth and power on a variety of traditional instruments, including violin, viola, button accordion, bass, bassetl (three stringed bass), basy (three stringed Polish folk cello), baraban (Jewish style drum), and tsimbl (hammered dulcimer).

Composition Competition

American Recorder Society ▪ Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet ▪ Composition Competition

The American Recorder Society, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (ALSQ), is pleased to announce its composition competition for recorder music. The competition’s goal is to expand the recorder quartet repertoire with new music for professional recorder players by composers from the United States and Canada.

Further information on ALSQ is available on their web site: http://www.loekistardust.nl/html_en/index.html Entries will be evaluated by members of the ALSQ and Dutch composer Peter-Jan Wagemans. The quartet will premiere the first prize composition during the American segment of their Flutes on Fire tour in February 2008. At the discretion of ALSQ, second and third prize compositions may also be performed during this segment of the tour. The 2008 Flutes on Fire tour will include additional venues in Japan, Taiwan, and Europe. Winning compositions may be selected by the quartet’s agents for performance at one or more of these locations.

The first prize composition will be featured on a CD of music by American composers to be released by ALSQ in 2008 on the Channel Classics label. At the discretion of ALSQ, second and third prize compositions may be included on the recording. The CD insert will include a brief biography of the composer(s).

The program proposed for the Flutes on Fire U.S. tour will feature new waves in contemporary repertoire for the recorder. The winning pieces from the competition will join works by American composer Kenji Bunch, Great Britain’s rising star Graham Fitkin, Russian Hindemith award winner Lara Auerbach and Dutch enfant terrible Jacob ter Veldhuis.

Compositions may include any sizes of recorder, and may require that players switch between sizes, as long as there is sufficient time to do so. Composers may explore avant-garde techniques such as blowing across the mouthpiece, flutter tonguing, etc. Descriptions of sizes and ranges of the recorder will be available on the ARS web site:
www.americanrecorder.org. Further information on ALSQ is available on their web site:
http://www.loekistardust.nl/html_en/index.html

Composition Criteria: Quartet with any size, combination of recorders.

Composer residency: United States or Canada; no age limits
Time duration: 7-10 minutes
Level: For Professional Recorder Players
Judges: ALSQ members and one European composer
Prizes: $1500 First Prize, $750 Second Prize, $500 Third Prize
Entry fee: $75 for the first score, $30 thereafter for each successive score
Important dates:
*September 10, 2007 --Deadline forentries
*January 2008 --Winner announced
*February 2008 --Composition performed on US tour of ALSQ 2008
*Composition recorded by ALSQ

EAST VILLAGE VISITS SCHULHOFF, GREEN, RAVEL, SCHOENFIELD, & EHRLICH

DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
Mimi Stern-Wolfe Artistic Director
EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
presents
FEEDBACK: Jazz & Pop Influences on Contemporary Music
SUNDAY: FEBRUARY 11, 2007 @ 3PM
works by:
ERWIN SCHULHOFF: Hot Sonata for saxophone and piano
RAY GREEN: Holiday for Four for viola, clarinet , bassoon and piano
MAURICE RAVEL: Blues Movement from Violin & Piano Sonata
PAUL SCHOENFIELD: Cafe Musique for Piano Trio
MARTY EHRLICH & Friends: Jazz compositions

PERFORMERS: Lori Berkowitz, vliola; Gili Sharett, bassoon; David Hopkins, clarinet ; Marilyn Dubow, violin Downtown Chamber Trio : Rieko Kawabata, violin; Daniel Barrett, cello Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano;
Special Guests: MARTY EHRLICH, saxophone & friends
St. Marks in the Bowery (Tenth Street & Second Avenue)
Suggested Donation: $10; sen/stu/$8; 212 4771594
www.downtownmusicproductions.org

Joel Rubin Ensemble in NYC

New York City:
Joel Rubin Ensemble with Kálmán Balogh
Special guest: Pete Rushefsky
Wednesday, February 7, 7pm
Makor
Location: Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street
The Steinhardt Building (35 West 67th Street) is located on the north side of 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.
$15.00
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5PF13 On the New York and DC concerts, the ensemble will be performing "Midnight Prayer," a suite of Joel Rubin's arrangements of Russian Jewish instrumental klezmer and hasidic music. Clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Rubin is the new Director of Music Performance in the McIntire Department of Music at UVA and an internationally acclaimed interpreter of the klezmer tradition. He studied with Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman, attended the California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA in performance from the State University of New York at Purchase. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University (London). He has been the founder and clarinetist of some of the most internationally respected klezmer ensembles, including the pioneering revival group Brave Old World. Rubin has concertized throughout Europe, North America and Asia, appearing at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zürich, and Lincoln Center.