Blog on Music for Frum People

A new blog about musical concerts and events of interest to frum Jews, from Israel, such as concerts with men and women sitting separately, and so on. The link for the English version is below:
http://dos-music-english.blogspot.com/

Judith Shatin Compositions -- Upcoming Performances

Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi, for solo piano, will be performed by noted pianist Jose Lopez at the Bass Museum in Miami on 8/17/08 at 3:00 p.m. The address is 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach. For more information, visit www.bassmuseum.org.

A new version of Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi, for string quartet, has been commissioned by the Cassatt Quartet. It will be premiered by them on 10/2/08 at 8:00 p.m. at the Thalia Theatre of Symphony Space (Broadway and 9th St), in New York City. For more information visit www.cassattquartet.com.

And for more information on the composer, who frequently composes on Jewish topics, visit www.judithshatin.com. More about Florida program:

Sunday, August 17
3:00PM

Concert - A Program of Music by Jewish Composers

The program features works by Jewish composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Selections include the astounding "Fairy Tales" composed in 1910 by the 13-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold, possibly the greatest musical prodigy of all time, the enigmatic French virtuoso Charles Valentin Alkan’s "Petites Fantaisies," and the works of two women composers from different centuries: 19th-century composer Fanny Mendelssohn (older sister of Felix Mendelssohn) and contemporary composer Judith Shatin.

Performed by pianist José López, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Florida International University School of Music.

Free with museum admission

For more information about Judith Shatin, visit her webiste at: http://www.judithshatin.com/

New Music Blog from Israeli musicologist

Avior Byron has a blog about music, --some Jewish music in Israel, and general music in Israel. http://www.bymusic.org/index.php

Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem Launches Blog

The Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has launched a blog website that covers some of the more scholarly aspects of Jewish music and offers links to the exhibits, publications, and information of the Centre. You can hear a lot of interesting things here, so be sure to keep this on your RSS feeds. http://www.jewish-music-research.blogspot.com/

Teruah Blog about Jewish Music

I'm so happy there are a slew of new Jewish music blogs out there.... They are letting us all know about all sorts of aspects of Jewish music that's happening. One blog has listings of other blogs, --which is very helpful to anyone who likes to check things out online---... more and more happenings in Jewish music and more and more sound and video online as well. You can subscribe to many by RSS feeds and get info when there's something new afoot. They even get the news about us at JMWC!
Teruah is one most everyone will want to take a look see. http://teruah-jewishmusic.blogspot.com/

Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Features Legendary Yiddish Entertainment Family on its Website

The Judaica Sound ArchivesR (JSA) at Florida Atlantic University Libraries has obtained the rights to offer on its website a major collection of performances by the Bursteins, one of the most enduring family names in Yiddish entertainment.

The JSA, located on FAU's Boca Raton campus, created the collection from holdings that had been donated to the archives at different times and from different sources. It includes 33 albums and features the combined works of Pesach Burstein, who produced musicals for audiences worldwide in the 1920s; his wife, Lillian Lux, who joined his troupe when she was 17; and their twins, Susan Burstein-Roth and Mike (Burstein) Burstyn. One can listen to the Burstein family audio collection and read about the family's accomplishments at www.fau.edu/jsa.

Mike Burstyn, the only member of the popular "Four Bursteins" who is still performing, said he is delighted to share his family's legacy with the world. "There is a resurgence of interest in Yiddish culture, but not many people are actually able to hear Yiddish the way it was spoken," said Burstyn, who lives in Los Angeles. "Being able to listen to these great old Yiddish songs will ensure that Yiddish will not become a dead language like Latin. This will be educational and an inspiration to future generations. I am extremely pleased with what the JSA has been able to accomplish."

Burstyn's appearances on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in concert halls in the United States, Israel, and around the world qualify him as a cross-over entertainer who is appreciated by both Yiddish-speaking and English-speaking audiences.

The history of the Yiddish musical theater as told through the experiences of the Bursteins was documented in the 1999 award-winning film, Die Komediant, which is now on DVD. The film, based on an autobiography that Pesach Burstein co-authored with his wife, was released after he died in

1986 at age 90. An English translation of Burstein's memoirs, edited by Gershon Freidlin, was published by Syracuse University Press in New York in 2003 and was titled: What a Life! The autobiography of Pesach'ke Burstein.

Lillian Lux died in 2005 at age 86.

Susan Burstein-Roth, a successful writer and philanthropist who lives in New Jersey, praised the JSA's online collection of recordings, many of which she herself didn't know existed. "I am extremely pleased, overjoyed," said Burstein-Roth. "I was so overwhelmed that it made me cry. The beauty of the website is stunning. It is just wonderful."

Burstein-Roth left the stage at 19 to marry and to raise a family. She is a passionate supporter of Israel, founder of the Eshet Chayil Foundation and has become very involved in the Davidic Dynasty project and the King David Museum.

The JSA has been accumulating recorded music and voices of the early 20th century since 2002. It has become a major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings.

Songs from Bukovina

Sunday, June 22, 1:30 PM Emily Socolov and Itzig Gottesman will speak in Yiddish, on their recent trip to the Ukraine, and in particular the Bukovina. They will show many slides. After the talk Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Itzig will sing 6 or 7 songs from Bukovina, including older folksongs, and Beyle's interwar Chernovitz-based repertory and original songs. Also possibly, a song that was sung at Gimpel's Yiddish Theater in Lviv/Lemberg in the early 1900s. The talk is entitled "On the Trail of Our Yesteryears" and takes place at the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue
Bronx NY, corner 208th st.
one block from Montefiore Hospital.

information 917-930-0295 admission: $3.50

Rochelle Zucker Winnipeg Jewish Radio Show

Jewish Radio Show
Sunday June 22, 2008
English - 1:30 to 2:00 PM CDT
Yiddish 2:00 to 2:30 PM CDT (3:00-3:30 PM EDT)
CKJS 810 Winnipeg
online live streaming
http://www.ckjs.com (click on Listen Live)
or if you have a problem with popup blockers you can try this direct link http://www.ckjs.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.asp

Argentina.

On June 22, Rochelle is hosting both the English and Yiddish parts of the show.

For the English part is guest Ivan Sifrim, a young Jewish musician and composer who immigrated to Winnipeg from Buenos Aires with his family about 10 years ago. As well as talking to Ivan and featuring several of his compositions, the show will also play several songs (not necessarily Jewish music) by Argentinean Artists who happen to be Jewish. (and there are lots of them)

Playlist and featured Artists for the English Show

Ciudad de Nostalgia - Zully Goldfarb (written by her son Diego Goldfarb)
Emily - Written and performed by Ivan Sifrim
Freckles - Ivan Sifrim
Sher bamate - Orquesta Kef
Buen Viaje - Alejandro Lerner
Pepper - Ivan Sifrim

For my normal show, Rochelle will feature Yiddish Music - both old and new from Argentina.

Playlist

Tango Margarita - Jacob Sandler
Basavilbaso - Max Zalkind
Yidishe Mame - Zully Goldfarb
Dona Dona - Duo Mir (Alejandro Levy and Celia Birnbaum)
Mayn Heym in Belgrano (Caseron de Tejas) - Zoila
Nign Simcha - Orquesta Kef
Tsigayner - Alejandra Czarny
Tumbalalaika - Der Faier

Zully Goldfarb - Tango Singer, Yiddish Singer and Yiddish Tango Singer, will be performing this year at the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto.

Rochelle Zucker
http://www.ckjs.com

Sisters of Sheynville Rock NXNE

The Sister of Sheynville were one of only two Jewish bands out of over 550 in total at NXNE, but they got great reivews... must be the "cheesy stage banter".... "well, the great news is that this was the first year - apparently- that Jewish music was included into this particular music festival, NXNE." For the great review with the rankings, see: http://chartattack.com/damn/2008/06/1617.cfm Also check out the website for the Sisters of Sheynville at: http://www.sonicbids.com/SistersofSheynville or some sounds at http://www.sistersofsheynville.ca/music/01%20Ketsele%20Broyges.mp3