Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom Presents Sephardic Melody

On February 2 at 1pm, in Schnurmacher Chapel, Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom will celebrate Sephardic Melody, a rich cultural heritage expressed both in contemporary music and traditional, which blends influences from the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Turkey, Greece, and the Mediterranean. Guest artists, Paul Woodiel, on fiddle, and guitarist Steve Gibb join cellist Eliot Bailen and flutist Susan Rotholz in a program of Sephardic instrumental and vocal interpretations both ancient and new, including music from the 19th century collections of Emanuel Aguilar, the pianist composer, and brother of the remarkable author and Jewish historian Grace Aguilar. Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom, under the artistic direction of Eliot Bailen, highlights both the best of the chamber music repertory and our Jewish heritage in music in a series of free community concerts. Admission is free and a light lunch is served preconcert . Please rsvp by phone to 646 454 3039 , and by email to chambermusic@rodephsholom.org. Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, can be reached by subway or bus to 86th Street and Central Park West. Walk three blocks south to 83rd Street.

Klezmer in Charlottesville, VA

internationally acclaimed clarinetist Joel Rubin and tsimbalist Pete Rushefsky will be offering a rare evening of klezmer and hasidic duets Tues., Jan. 29, 2008, 7:00 pm, at the Gravity Lounge in Charlottesville.

The duo will perform Eastern European Jewish instrumental klezmer music and hasidic nigunim (religious melodies of spiritual elevation), including material from Midnight Prayer, recorded in Budapest with the 8-piece international Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble for the New York label, Traditional Crossroads (2007), the forthcoming Nign of Reb Mendel Futterfass, and other projects.

For more information, see http://www.gravity-lounge.com/