January 03, 2008

Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble Open House

The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble will be holding a free open house on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7 PM.
Led by famed klezmer musician Jeff Warschauer
Free Open house: Tuesday, January 15, from 7-9 PM
Six paid sessions, Tuesdays at 7 PM: January 22 and 29, February 5, 12, 19 and 26
*Play wonderful music while making new friends and having a great time!
* Open to all instrumentalists who play and read music at at least an intermediate level
* Study with an internationally recognized master instructor
* Learn tunes from the diverse klezmer tradition
* Develop tools for improvisation
Single session class fee: $30. Discount for Workmen's Circle members and/or those attending all six sessions: $150
Sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33 Street, Manhattan (between Park and Madison).
For more information, please contact Dana Schneider at 212 889-6800 x 271 or email: dschneider@circle.org
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New Yiddish Songs by MIryem Khaye Seigel

Miryem-Khaye Seigel's new website has some delightful songs she composed. Gib a kuk. http://www.amks.wordpress.com
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And the Trains Kept Coming . . . to The Prophets

Cantata Singers & Ensemble
David Hoose, Music Director

World Premiere: Lior Navok's
And the Trains Kept Coming . . .
Cantata Singers Commission
Kurt Weill: The Prophets from The Eternal Road
First Boston performance

Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3 p.m.
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall,
30 Gainsborough St., Boston

617-868-5885

Available at www.cantatasingers.org
https://secure.cantatasingers.org/orderforms/tickets_season07-08.htm
TICKETS: $54, $34, & $20; $5 discount for WGBH members. $15 for students and seniors (section C tickets only).
Limited student rush tickets available 30 min. before concert time with $10 cash and student ID.

Jordan Hall Box Office
30 Gainsborough Street in Boston
(617-585-1260) or BosTix at Faneuil Hall & Copley Square.

Israeli born composer Lior Navok gives voice to the unspeakable tragedies of the Holocaust. Continuing the powerful stream begun by Donald Sur's Slavery Documents and spurred on by T.J. Anderson, Navok's Slavery Documents 3: And the Trains Kept Coming . . . also takes its texts from primary source documents this time from Holocaust correspondence, including communications that implored the Allies to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the European death camps, transport train schedules, and scribbled notes wedged into the cracked walls of the barracks. Weill s thrilling The Prophets, from his colossal pageant The Eternal Road no less than the history of the Jewish people takes its inspiration from the prophecies of the Book of Jeremiah.

Read more about the program at http://www.cantatasingers.org/concerts.html

Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3 p.m.
And the Trains Kept Coming . . .
With guest artists from

Kurt Weill: The Prophets from The Eternal Road
First Boston performance
PALS Children s Chorus
Johanna Hill Simpson, Conductor
Spectrum Singers
John W. Ehrlich, Music Director

Soloists include
James Petosa and Jason McDowell-Green, narrators
Rockland Osgood, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone
Karyl Ryczek, soprano
Majie Zeller, mezzo-soprano
Stephen Williams, tenor
Brian Church, baritone
Dana Whiteside, baritone

Pre-concert discussion with Lior Navok
6:45 Friday and 1:45 Sunday in NEC's St. Botolph Hall

On January 18 & 20, 2008 in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Cantata Singers & Ensemble under Music Director David Hoose presents the world premiere performances of Israeli composer Lior Navok's And the Trains Kept Coming . . .

Navok has based the texts for And the Trains Kept Coming . . . on primary source Holocaust documents including correspondence that implored the Allies to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the WWII death camps in Europe, train transport schedules, and scribbled notes wedged into barrack walls. These compelling texts have inspired a rare musical confrontation between a heartless political war machine and the personal anguish and death of millions of innocent people.

And the Trains Kept Coming . . . represents the third commissioned work in Cantata Singers' "Slavery Documents" stream, begun in 1990 with Donald Sur's Slavery Documents and later lengthened by T.J. Anderson's own musical confrontation with American slavery.

Kurt Weill's The Prophets, from his colossal pageant The Eternal Road which chronicles the history of the Jewish people, complements Navok's monumental work. Music Director David Hoose leads the Cantata Singers chorus, soloists, orchestra, and guest singers from The Spectrum Singers and PALS Children's chorus in these world premiere performances.

Tickets are $20, $34 and $54, with group discounts available. Order at 617-868-5885 or online at www.cantatasingers.org.

Season sponsors include:

This program is funded in part by The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., 7 East 20th Street, New York, NY; and grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts:
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