Pro Musica Hebraica Started

Jim Loeffler announces the news that the Pro Musica Hebraica will launch their inaugural concert. The new organization has website with details about the upcoming April concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC featuring the musicians of the Juilliard School with a guest appearance by Itzhak Perlman. www.promusicahebraica.org
Pro Musica Hebraica Inaugural Concert
The Musicians of The Juilliard School featuring Itzhak Perlman

The Terrace Theater
The Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
Thursday, April 10, 7:30 PM
For ticket info: http://www.promusicahebraica.org/ti.html This concert will feature some of classical music’s premier young voices from the Juilliard School of Music along with a special appearance by the legendary Itzhak Perlman, accompanied by his long-time collaborator, pianist Rohan De Silva. The performers include Juilliard’s Graduate Resident Quartet Biava String Quartet (Austin Hartman and Hyunsu Ko, violins, Mary Persin, viola, and Jason Calloway, cello) together with guest artists clarinetist Tibi Cziger, bassist Andrew Roitstein and percussionists Alexander Lipowski and Michael Caterisano and the N-E-W Trio (Andrew Wan, violin, Gal Nyska, cello, and Julio Elizalde, piano).

Works to be performed will include several rare masterworks from the early twentieth-century Russian Jewish school of composers. These include Alexander Krein’s 1910 Jewish Sketches, #2, Joel Engel’s Dybbuk Suite (1922), Leo Zeitlin’s Eli Zion (1914), Solomon Rosowsky’s Fantastic Dance, and Mikhail Gnesin’s Requiem Trio (1943). Complementing these older pieces will be a performance of composer Osvaldo Golijov’s contemporary classic, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994). For further information on these pieces, please see The Musical Tradition.

For information on purchasing tickets, http://www.promusicahebraica.org/ti.html

Vienna Jewish Choir on YouTube

Click on the YouTube arrow to view clips from a concert of the Vienna Jewish Choir. Their website states they are due for a concert Feb. 13 in Boca Raton Florida http://www.wiener-juedischer-chor.com/wjc.htm

Clarinet Forum

Merlin Sheperd is moderating a brand new section of the Greek and Turkish clarinet forum, dedicated to Klezmer clarinet. http://www.gtc-music1.com/ Subjects currently under scrutiny include: Ornamentation, Phrasing, Tonality, Timbre and general technical section Vocal Ornaments transferred to instrumental playing Repertoire, Genres and Crossover. Merlin

CD Release 'Bessarabian Hop'

This Sunday February 17 2008 Michael Winograd is the releasing the new CD 'Bessarabian Hop' The CD release party will take place at the
Workmen's Circle @ 8pm
doors @ 7ish
45 E.33rd Street, $10
Sunday 2/17

w/ Joey Weisenberg - mandolin
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Pete Rushefsky - tsimbl
Daniel Blacksberg - trombone
Nick Cudahy -bass
Richie Barshay - percussion

Michael Alpert and Judith Berkson - vocals

Michael Winograd - clarinet

and guests

there will be singing!
there will be dancing
there will be eating!
there will be blowing! (specifically for the clarinet and trombone)
there will be hitting! (specifically for the tsimbl and percussion)
there will be bowing!
there will be squeezing and plucking!
there will be SPECIAL GUESTS!
there will be NORMAL GUESTS!
there will be music!
there will be chairs!
there will be CDs FOR SALE!
there will be clapping! (we hope)
there will be Yiddish!
there will be English!
there wont be Spinach!

please come and tell all your friends

Treasures of the YIVO Sound Archives

Treasures of the YIVO Sound Archives
With Lorin Sklamberg (Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Sound Recordings)

A fascinating survey of YIVO's audio holdings. Examples will include rare commercial and private audio and video recordings of Yiddish folk, theater and art songs, cantorial and klezmer music.
Wednesdays, March 19-26 and April 2, 2008, 7:00-8:30 PM

$90 ($75 for YIVO members)