Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh in Providence

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh play Klezmer & Hassidic Music
5 Saturday Evenings 8 – 10 PM $9
Nov. 28, Dec. 26 2009, Jan. 30 & Feb. 23 2010
In Providence, at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House
209 Douglas Ave.

Directions: 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot, (down the hill from Staples & Whole Foods): Go right on Orms along side the Marriot, over rt 95, then take first right onto Douglas Ave. We're 1/2 mile down on the right, just past the rt 95 S entrance.
For more specific directions go to
http://www.brooklyncoffeeteahouse.com/or email us at Breslersmusic@gmail.com

A Taste of Russia

A Taste of Russia: Sholem Aleichem as you Least Expect Him -- this Wednesday! With wonderful Yiddish vocalist Adrienne Cooper. Join Sid Jacobson JCC, Suffolk Y JCC and The Workmen's Circle for an evening of hilarious, touching and unexpected readings and songs in honor of Sholem Aleichem's 150th birthday. Dessert and coffee served.
Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Location: Sid Jacobson JCC
Fee $20 / members, Suffolk Y-JCC and Workmen Circle members $15. www.sjjcc.org.
Call for availability -- 516-484-1545 ext. 173

Click here for Sid Jacobson JCC website http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maanwNmabT6OxbIFEx6eafpQav/

Fanny Mendelssohn Portrait Exhibited

The Jewish Museum in NYC has a new acquisition: Portrait of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, 1842, by 19th century German artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, has been added to the "Modernity" section of Culture and Continuity. The subject of this portrait was the sister of famous composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a talented composer and musician in her own right. Fanny Hensel was the wife of a fellow painter, Wilhelm Hensel, whom Oppenheim met in Rome with the Nazarenes. Oppenheim, widely recognized as a portraitist, is known as the first Jewish artist to have benefited from the Emancipation, when new civil rights permitted Jews entry into academies of art for the first time in Europe. Extensively patronized by the Frankfurt branch of the Rothschild family, Oppenheim characterized himself (immodestly) as "a painter to the Rothschilds and the Rothschild of painters."
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/CultureAndContinuity
The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York NY 10128

Tova sings Beyle

Start Time: Thursday Nov.19 2009
Cocktails at 6:30 PM Show 8 PM
New Yiddish Repertory Theater
45 East 33rd Street New York 917 670-1631

TOVA and MATT play NEW YORK
A special evening of Dinner Cabaret

We will pay tribute to NEA honoree Beyla Schaechter-Gottesman, bringing contemporary styling to Beyla's wonderful Yiddish songs. Don't miss this one!!!

A Harvest of World Sounds

with performers OUT OF ISLA, SARAH AROESTE & NADINA MAURI

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:00pm
Location: Puppets Jazz Bar, 481 5th Avenue Park Slope- Brooklyn, NY

A special Fall concert featuring dynamic world music acts blending a multitude of influences in a harvest of Latin, French, and Sephardic sounds. International acts Out of Isla, Sarah Aroeste and Nadina Mauri perform at Puppets Jazz Bar (481 5th Avenue Park Slope- Brooklyn, NY). Tickets $6 w/ a two-item minimum. (For tickets and more info: http://www.puppetsjazz.com or call 718-499-2622)

Sharing the bill for the first time, these three world music acts blend original sounds, both vocal and instrumental, from across the globe and offer an intimate, rich program to herald in the Fall at Puppets Jazz Bar, a venue that features some of the hottest new up-and-comers and legendary jazz artists in the world.

Sephardic Songs Workshop

New North London Learning
Wednesday 4th of November 2009 at 8.00 pm
Sephardic Songs Workshop
Learn Folk Songs and tunes for Shabbat and Channukah at the New North London Synagogue.
register via the NNLS office to reserve your place: office@nnls-masorti.org.uk or 020 8346 8560

An Evening of Baroque Jewish music at the Kennedy Center

Charles and Robyn Krauthammer proudly present:
An Evening of Baroque Jewish music at the Kennedy Center
Apollo Ensemble
An evening of Baroque Jewish music:
The Apollo Ensemble presented by Pro Musica Hebraica

Making its U.S. debut, Amsterdam's Apollo Ensemble performs a concert of Baroque Jewish musical treasures, one night only, at the Kennedy Center. A highlight is the American premiere of Dio, Clemenza e Rigore, an anonymously composed oratorio for an eighteenth-century Italian Jewish holiday synagogue service. Don't miss this rarely performed work. This concert is presented by Pro Musica Hebraica, devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it believed lost, forgotten, or rarely performed, in a concert hall setting.
Apollo Ensemble
Thu., Nov. 5 at 7:30 | Kennedy Center Terrace Theater | Seats $38

Program:
CACERES - Le-el elim, Cantata for two voices and basso continuo (1738)
MARCELLO - Salmo 15/Ma'oz Tzur (1724-1727)
For alto, violincello, bassoon, harpsichord, and baritone
De ROSSI - Trio sonatas for two violins and basso continuo (ca. 1620)
UNKNOWN - Dio, Clemenza e Rigore, Hoshana Rabbah in Casale Monferrato (1733) (U.S. Premiere)

Tickets also available at the Box Office or charge by phone
(202) 467-4600 | Toll-free (800) 444-1324 | TTY (202) 416-8524 | Groups (202) 416-8400

Dubrow Talk on Lazar Weiner at Milstein Conference in NYC

MILSTEIN CONFERENCE ON NEW YORK AND THE AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009, 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
MILSTEINCONFERENCE@YIVO.CJH.ORG or 212-294-6157


One day public conference celebrating history of Jewish life in New York, achievements of Jewish communal organizations, treasures of Jewish archives. Conference marks culmination of 3 years of work on the Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project. Morning Sessions feature presentation on Jewish organizational archives and a roundtable discussion by Jewish agency leaders, Afternoon focuses on papers by scholars on a wide range of political, social and cultural issues and the evening session features a discussion by New York area archivists to discuss the rich resources found in New York and how to preserve them for the future. Funded by the Milstein Family Foundation and the Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation. Organized by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in partnership with the 92nd Street Y, the Educational Alliance, F.E.G.S Health and Human Service System, NYANA and Surprise Lake Camp. Archival repositories participating: Archives of American Jewish Committee, Hadassah, HIAS, JDC, Yeshiva University and YIVO. DATE: Monday, November 2, 2009. 9:30 to 7:30 pm. Place: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, NY. Full details at www.yivo.org Upcoming Programs.

ADVANCE REGISTRATON REQUIRED: RSVP: milsteinconference@yivo.cjh.org milsteinconference@yivo.cjh.org or call 212-294-6157.

3 sessions in the afternoon 1:00-5:30: AFTERNOON PROGRAM

"EXPLORING CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEMES IN THE NEW YORK JEWISH EXPERIENCE: AN ACADEMIC DISCUSSION"
3 sessions in the afternoon
"Overcoming Barriers: Integrating into American Life"
Moderator: Hasia Diner, New York University.
Shira Kohn, "Educated Advocates: Jewish Responses to the Discrimination Debates at New York Colleges and Universities, 1945-1960"

Kirsten Fermaglich, "From Mordechai to Max: Name-changing in New York City Landsmanschaft Records, 1875-1975"

Miyuki Kita, "Breaking the 'Gentleman's Agreement': Jews and the 1945 New York Fair Employment Practices Act."

"Displaced Persons, Social Welfare, and the Role of New York Communal Agencies at Home and Abroad"

Moderator: Beth S. Wenger, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca Kobrin, , Columbia University,. "Beyond the Myth of Mobility: Jewish Social Welfare Agencies, Jewish Immigrant Professionals and the Challenges of Adaptation to Life in New York City, 1948-1954"

Beth B. Cohen, "Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America"

Heidi Heft LaPorte and David Strug, "The Role of the New York Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in the Child Welfare Cuban Refugee Service Program"

Rebecca Cutler, " New York and the Transnational Activism of American Jews in the Post World War II Era."

"Media, the Arts and the Jewish Communal Agenda."

Moderator: Hadassah Kosak, Yeshiva University

Marsha A. Dubrow, "Playing Musical Chairs: Lazar Weiner and New York's Shifting Jewish Communal Musical Landscape of the 1920s through the 1960s"

Roberta Newman, "Delayed Pilgrims: The Radio Programs of the United Service for New Americans, 1947-1948"

Ellen Kellman, "Aiding the Immigrant Reader: The Jewish Daily Forward and its "Gallery of Husbands Who Have Disappeared" (ca. 1909)

6:15 - 7:30 EVENING PROGRAM

"PRESERVING THE TREASURES OF NEW YORK JEWISH ARCHIVES: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION"

Moderator: Steven Siegel, Archivist, 92nd Street Y Archives. Discussion by New York area archivists, presentations on the treasures and collections of local Jewish archives and a public dialogue on the challenges facing Jewish archives today.

Archives and panelists include: American Jewish Committee Archives, Charlotte Bonelli, Chief Archivist; Hadassah Archives, Susan Woodland, Archivist; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Archives, Valery Bazarov, Director, Location and Family History Service; The JDC Archives, Linda Levi, Assistant Vice-President and Director of Archives; Yeshiva University Archives, Shulamit Berger and Deena Schwimmer, Archivists; YIVO Archives, Ettie Goldwasser, Archives Projects Coordinator, and Fruma Mohrer, Chief Archivist.

Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music at JMF

Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music (with music examples from the composer's collection) -- a unique interview by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang.

On Sunday, November 8th at 3 PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15th West 16th Street, NYC

The Jewish Music Forum presents a unique interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Steve Reich about his Jewish Music, with music examples from the composers own collection. Mr. Reich will be interview by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang. The Jewish Music Forum is free to the public. Reservations for the Steve Reich Talk will be taken on a first-come first-served basis. Call 212-874-4513.
Steve Reich was recently called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE), “ ...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “… among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London). Steve Reich, a traditional Jew, has composed a considerable body of important Jewish works, both on Hebrew texts and music with Jewish themes.

After his formal training, at Cornell, Juilliard and with Luciano Berio at Mills College, Reich not only studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, and Balinese Gamelan, Semar Pegulingan and Gamelan Gambang, but also studied the traditional forms of cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew Scriptures in New York and Jerusalem. Steve Reich is a traditional Jew. Among his compositions are a number of Jewish-based works, including his compelling 1981 settings of Hebrew Psalm texts, Tehillim.

Mr. Reich's 1988 piece, Different Trains, marked a new compositional method, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments. The New York Times hailed Different Trains as "a work of such astonishing originality that break through seems the only possible description....possesses an absolutely harrowing emotional impact." The piece, recorded by the Kronos Quartet, received a 1990 Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Composition."

The Cave, Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's music theater video piece exploring the Biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, was hailed by Time Magazine as "a fascinating glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century." Of the Chicago premiere, John von Rhein of The Chicago Tribune wrote, "The techniques embraced by this work have the potential to enrich opera as living art a thousandfold....The Cave impresses, ultimately, as a powerful and imaginative work of high-tech music theater that brings the troubled present into resonant dialogue with the ancient past, and invites all of us to consider anew our shared cultural heritage."

In addition to receiving the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Mr. Reich was awarded The Polar Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of music in May 2007. The prize was presented by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The Swedish Academy said: "...Steve Reich has transferred questions of faith, society and philosophy into a hypnotic sounding music that has inspired musicians and composers of all genres." In 2006, the same year Mr. Reich’s 70th Birthday was celebrated by performing organizations around the world with festivals and special concerts. Steve. Reich won the Preamium Imperial Award in Music, an important international award given by Crown Prince Hitachi in Tokyo in areas of the arts not covered by the Nobel Prize.

The Jewish Music Forum, is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, with additional support from the American Jewish Historical Society.

The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) serves as a broad canopy for all who are interested in Jewish music. Its members include cantors, composers, educators, musicologists, ethnologists, historians, performers and interested lay people – as well as libraries, universities, synagogues and other institutions. The Society sponsors a number of important programs and projects which provide greater access to Jewish music. In addition, the Society produces conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes at which scholars, students and others may benefit from the musical expertise of the Society's members.

With offices at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, as an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Jewish Historical Society has established and maintains links similar institutions in Jewish communities throughout the world, and has developed strong ties with students and faculty members at American universities and seminaries. The American Society for Jewish Music is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization funded through membership dues, grants and corporate and individual contributions.

The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM), which recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary can trace its roots back to several earlier Jewish Music Societies and associations, first in Europe and then in America. Among the European models were the Kinnor Zion Society (1902-08) in St. Petersburg and the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1902-18), also in St. Petersburg and elsewhere within the Russian Empire. After the Revolution, members of these groups published their compositions under the imprint of Juwal, Publication Society for Jewish Music (later called Jibneh) with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Predecessors of the ASJM in the United States included Mailamm (Makhon Eretz Yisraeli L'-Mada'ey ha-Musika) (1932-39), founded by Miriam Zunser and some émigré members of the early European groups; and the Jewish Music Forum (1939-63), founded by Abraham Wolf Binder, which in turn became the Jewish Liturgical Society of America (1963-74). In 1974 the latter group was reorganized as the American Society for Jewish Music, Inc., under the direction of its first President, Albert Weisser.

The American Society for Jewish Music presents and produces a variety of programs that are presented each season for the general public at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Its core programs include live concerts; the Charlie Bernhaut Collection of Jewish and Cantorial Music; its academic collegiums, the Jewish Music Forum; its scholarly journal Musica Judaica, and a new online Review section; a digitized collection of scores from the Society’s St. Petersburg roots; ASJM Matters, a periodic newsletter distributed on the Internet; a composition competition to stimulate the composition of new music on Jewish themes; and three important searchable databases.

Dudu Fisher at Symphony Hall in Boston

Special Half Price Tickets to see Dudu Fisher
Live in Concert at Boston Symphony Hall – November 1, 2009

Known for his stirring performance on Broadway as Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES and as a world famous Israeli cantor, Dudu Fisher brings an exciting and visually stunning show to Boston’s Symphony Hall on Sunday, November 1, at 7:30 PM. Based on his highly successful PBS special, IN CONCERT FROM ISRAEL, Fisher will take the audience on an inspired journey connecting his talent as a Broadway performer, cantor, and contemporary artist with music and stories that celebrate the beauty of Israel's landscape, culture and people.

We are pleased to offer half-price tickets to those who mention this announcement by calling 617-266-1200 or by visiting www.bostonsymphonyhall.org/dudufisher.

Fisher has performed on the stages of Broadway, the West End in London, Israel, and throughout the world, including singing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta, recording an album of show tunes with the London Symphony Orchestra, and performing for Britain's Royal family and Bill and Hillary Clinton. He is the only Broadway performer whose Broadway contract allows him to observe the Jewish Sabbath by not performing on Friday evenings and Saturday matinees, a recognition of his talent and dedication to the role and a constant source of pride and accomplishment in his career.

Fisher’s Fall 2009 North American Tour is a celebration of the PBS television special that capitalizes on his incredible vocal and artistic range and features a repertoire that goes well beyond the television show. It tells the story of a cantor who finds success on the stages of Broadway, but who never forgets his home or the musical landscape of Israel. The tour concludes with shows in Toronto on November 5 and in Baltimore on November 7. For more information about him visit www.dudufisher.com.

Dubrow Talk on Lazar Weiner

YIVO is holding a conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.

The 4:15 to 5:30 pm afternoon session will include a paper by Marsha Dubrow, a musicologist at CUNY, on Lazar Weiner, and how Weiner's music was felt in different parts of the Jewish community. The paper will include illustrations and samples.

From 5:30 to 6:15 there will be an Evening Reception.

In the evening, from 6:15 to 7:30 there will be a Roundtable of Archivists on the Preserving the Treasures of Jewish Archives, with participation from 92nd Street Y Archives, American Jewish Committee Archives, Hadassah Archives, HIAS Archives, JDC Archives, Yeshiva University Archives and YIVO Archives.

For the full program and to register, please visit: http://yivo.org/events/index.php

Sy Kushner CD Release Performance

Klezmer Brunch at City Winery
Sy Kushner CD Release Performance
Nov.1, 2009
11.a.m. and 1.p.m.
Sy Kushner will be making a rare public appearance when he performs at City Winery* on Nov.1. He will be playing original tunes from his newly released CD, "Journeys". Accompanying him will be some of New York's top klezmer musicians.

Sy was one of the founders and musical director of The Mark 3, a trendsetting Jewish music ensemble in the mid 60's. More recently, he has released 3 CDs as well as books of transcriptions of both his own music as well as klezmer classics.

For more info, visit his website at nulitemusic.com

City Winery is located at 155 Varick Street in lower Manhattan.Doors open at 10 a.m. Show times are 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Music charge is $10 for both shows.

Jewish Music Radio Returns to London s Airwaves this weekend

London is to have a Jewish music show once again after a 2-year absence. The Jewish Program will air on east-London based ethnic radio station NuSounradio for an hour every evening at 7pm.

Presenters Zev Gruber and Yitzchok Mordfield will bring listeners some of the latest and greatest hits Up until June 2007, Soundradio 1503AM carried several Jewish programmes, but upon its collapse that ended.

Now listeners will be able to once again tune in and hear Jewish music on the radio by tuning in to the frequency of 92FM or at www.nusoundradio.com.

Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Call for Papers

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/L’Association des études juives canadiennes (ACJS /l'AÉJC) will be holding its 34th Annual Conference May 30-June 1, 2010 at Concordia University in Montreal as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference provides a platform for original scholarly research in Canadian Jewish history, life and culture. Individuals are invited to send proposals for learned paper presentations in either English or French twenty minutes in length (approximately 2,000 words) that concern some aspect of the Canadian Jewish experience.

Potential presenters are asked to submit a paper proposal by Tuesday, January 5, 2010. The paper proposal should comprise a 400-word abstract formulated to clearly and concisely state the main argument of the scholarly paper and indicate how it will contribute to existing scholarship in the field of Canadian Jewish Studies. It should also include a bibliography of relevant sources. The abstract should be sent as a .doc or .rtf attachment, double-spaced in Times New Roman font, with the paper title clearly indicated at the top. The name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail of the potential presenter as well as the title of the proposed paper should be located in the body of the e-mail only (and not in the attached abstract). University students are asked to send an accompanying letter of support from their academic advisor. All proposals will receive anonymous peer review, after which point communication with presenters will occur by mid-February of 2010.

All presenters must be current members of ACJS at the time that proposals are submitted (i.e. January 5, 2010). Proposals from individuals who are not current members of ACJS will not be reviewed. Membership information for ACJS can be found on our website: http://www.acjs-aejc.ca/membership.html

Partial financial support to defray travel and accommodation costs is available for presenters who have been members of the ACJS for at least one full calendar year prior to January 2010 (i.e. presenters must be in good standing for both 2009 and 2010 in order to be eligible for support). University students are exempt from this requirement, and are also eligible for additional top-up support. In all cases, because ACJS support funds are limited, presenters (including students) are expected to apply first to their host institutions for whatever funds may be available to them locally. Applications for financial support, which will be sent to eligible presenters along with the notice of acceptance of their paper proposal, will be due the first week of March, with results to be communicated by the end of March.

As the ACJS annual conference is part of the larger national conference body called the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, ACJS conference participants whose paper proposals have been accepted must register in advance for the Congress by paying the required fees for both the general Congress registration and the ACJS conference registration. Early bird registration rates are available before April 1, 2010. Participants will receive details on registration from the Program Chair and are also invited to consult the Congress website for details: www.congress2010.ca. Please note that presentations from individuals who have not pre-registered for the Congress and ACJS Conference will not be included in our Preliminary Conference Program.

Please e-mail proposals to Prof. Rebecca Margolis, Program Chair, rmargoli@uottawa.ca

Song is the Pen of the Soul—An Interfaith Interchange

Song is the Pen of the Soul—An Interfaith Interchange
Sunday, November 15
Wilson Chapel
Andover Newton Theological School
3:30–5:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Seating is limited - please register now.

Dr. Joshua Jacobson and the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Reverend Burns Stanfield and the Andover Newton Community Choir
Commentary by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann and Priscilla Deck

Please join the Zamir Chorlae and the Andover Newton Community Choir for a rousing performance, discussion and sing-along of inspiring music from Jewish and Christian faith traditions. Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will discuss the Jewish spiritual music tradition, illustrated by the Zamir Chorale of Boston under the direction of Dr. Joshua Jacobson; the program will feature selections of Hassidic music and works by Louis Lewandowski, Shlomo Carlebach and Ernest Bloch. Priscilla Deck will lead a discussion of Christian spiritual music, complemented by a performance by the Andover Newton Community Choir, directed by Reverend Burns Stanfield.

You’ll have a chance to join in the singing, led by Cantor Louise Treitman. The afternoon also includes an opportunity to learn more about the many programs of Hebrew College’s School of Jewish Music (SJM), ranging from pluralistic cantorial ordination to certificate programs in Jewish sacred music and Jewish music education.

For more information, please contact Renee Tepper, 617-559-8622, rtepper AT hebrewcollege.edu

Dr. Joshua R. Jacobson, DMA, Acting Dean of the School of Jewish Music and one of the foremost authorities on Jewish choral music, is Visiting Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College and Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University. He is also founder and director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston. His many musical arrangements, editions and compositions are frequently performed by choirs around the world. His book, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation, was published by the Jewish Publication Society in 2002.

A Jewish innovator who has devoted his career to pluralistic Jewish education, Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann became the eighth President of Hebrew College on July 1, 2008. Previously the founding Headmaster of Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, he was also Founding Director of BIMA-The Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts. A frequent lecturer on Jewish education, he has published numerous journal articles on Jewish education and has contributed several chapters in books on religious education. Rabbi Lehmann is a former member of the Zamir Chorale of Boston.

After a period of recording and performing as a professional musician, Burns Stanfield was ordained in 1991 as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) to pastor Fourth Presbyterian Church, a congregation in a low-income neighborhood of South Boston. Once near closing, Fourth Presbyterian has since grown substantially and is now a vital community presence. Reverend Stanfield conducts the Andover Newton Community Choir as part of his class, Christian Worship, Christian Music, and also teaches at Harvard Divinity School. He continues to write music, perform and record.

Priscilla Deck, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Andover Newton Theological School, has always maintained a parallel career as a free-lance violinist. Although she sees herself primarily as a church musician, she frequently serves as an art and music critic to area newspapers and journals. Convinced of the unique spiritual power of the aesthetic experience, she teaches in the Worship, Theology and the Arts program at Andover Newton.

Dan Aran Breathing CD Released

An Israeli musician living in Brooklyn, Dan Aran just released his new CD Breathing containing a number of compositions by him. Aran is known in NY as a "brush specialist" and has got what the doctor ordered. Take a deep breath and listen to Breathing.. It's sure to put you in the right place.

Segundo Mundo

Segundo Mundo is a little klezmer orchestra formed in 2005. The group name is associated with the origin of this ancient music. Klezmer was born in a region of Central Eastern Europe known as the "second world." The group performs originals versions of the most well known popular songs. "Segundo Mundo" performs every Sunday in the neighborhood of "San Telmo", in Buenos Aires. The band has also played in hundreds of private events and in almost every place of Buenos Aires. The orchestra took their music to other cities in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Several times Segundo Mundo performed in Radio and Television. Highlights include active involvement in the First World Klezmer Music in Argentina (KLEZFIESTA) presented at the National Center of Music at the Teatro Presidente Alvear, the Obelisk and the Greek Amphitheater. In this festival, "Segundo Mundo", presented their first recording, called Libertranz . You can find out more about this group by visiting their website at:
www.smklezmer.com.ar

Klezmer Shpil Orchestra

The ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra by Berl Portnoy (Israel) was founded in 1991 in Petrozavodsk (Russia). Between 1992 and 1995 the orchestra traveled intensely, appearing at numerous festivals and concerts in Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway.In 1993 the Klezmer Shpil's first solo CD was produced and marketed in Finland. The orchestra's second recording was produced in Sweden in 1995.In 1996 the orchestra re-located to Israel, where it soon became a well-recognized feature of the local klezmer scene. Today the ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra is known not only in Israel but also around the world. It boasts multiple appearances at concerts, events, and other Jewish music venues. The ''Klezmer Shpil'' orchestra promotes traditional Klezmer music, Yiddish folksongs and the songs of the Yiddish theater.

http://www.geocities.com/klezmer_shpil/thegroup.html

Kulmus Hanefesh: A musical journey into the Hassidic niggun

The Jewish Music Research Centre in Jerusalem has released a new CD : Kulmus Hanefesh: A musical journey into the Hassidic niggun. The recordings are edited by Seroussi Edwin, the director of the Centre and Shaked Yuval, a composer. Performances by HaOman Hai ensemble in association with the Jewish Music Research Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Music Center. The album, released in 2009, includes a CD and a booklet in Hebrew.
Price: $ 20 / 80
For more information: http://www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il/store.asp?cat=21&in=0&id=2085&act=view

International Jewish Music Festival -- Amsterdam

The 15th edition of the International Jewish Music Festival will be held in the brand new concert halls of the Amsterdam Conservatory. We welcome back the winners from last year's international competition for a weekend filled with music.

The ensembles will give concerts and workshops in the most diverse Jewish music sub-genres: hip-hop and reggae for kids, Yiddish song, Sephardic music, klezmer and Balkan music, close harmony and classical.

The free Open Podium gives starting ensembles and soloists a chance to take the stage and show what they've got. The bustling Jewish Cultural Market will feature booksellers, CD's, sheet music and various Jewish cultural organisations. And our grand prize winner from last year, She'Koyokh, will host a swinging Jam Session, also free and open to everyone.

Our generous sponsors make possible an array of free events, low-cost concerts & workshops, and senior and student discounts, ensuring the most diverse, accessible, and successful festival ever!

Tickets, schedule & complete program information: http://www.ijmf.org/ October 23-25, 2009!!

The Jewish Romantics Chamber Concert

THE JEWISH ROMANTICS
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON NOVEMBER 5

The Jewish Museum will present The Jewish Romantics, a concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth, at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street on Thursday, November 5 at 7 pm. This performance features a roster of gifted young artists from Mannes College, which continues its yearlong music festival, "The Mendelssohn Salon." Felix Mendelssohn and his musically talented sister, Fanny, were hosts and guests at cultural gatherings known as salons, which included the great composers of their day. This concert explores the music of the Mendelssohns and of other important Jewish composers of the 19th century Romantic period.

The November 5 program is a co-production of Mannes College, The New School for Music, and The Jewish Museum.

Musical selections will include:
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn - Drei Stücke zu vier Händen
Sophia Munoz and Hyun Jin Lee, piano
Selections from Hebrew Melodies for Viola & Piano, Op. 9
Josef Joachim Christian Atanasiu, viola; Daniel Laor, piano

Giacomo Meyerbeer - Songs
Katharine Dain, soprano; Dina Pruzhansky, piano

Fromental Halévy - Two arias from La Juive
Crissida Tyler, soprano; Laetitia Ruccolo, piano

Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Elad Kabilio, cello Javor Bracic, piano

Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Program tickets at The Jewish Museum can be purchased online at the Museum's Web site, www.thejewishmuseum.org.

An infrared assistive listening system for the hearing impaired is available for programs in the Museum's S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Auditorium.

Public programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Major annual support is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, A State Agency. The stage lighting system has been funded by the Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer. The audio-visual system has been funded by New York State Assembly Member Jonathan M. Bing.

About Mannes College

Since its founding in 1916, Mannes College has become one of the world's leading conservatories, internationally recognized for its musical and pedagogical excellence, and for its commitment to artistic and human ideals. Mannes's distinguished alumni include eminent pianists Richard Goode and Murray Perahia; acclaimed conductors Yves Abel, Semyon Bychkov, Myung Whun Chung, and JoAnn Falletta; the iconic diva Frederica von Stade; and Metropolitan Opera company members Olga Makarina, Patricia Risley, and Danielle de Niese. Its outstanding faculty includes opera legend Regina Resnik, pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Richard Goode, as well as renowned artists-in-residence such as Yefim Bronfman, the Orion String Quartet, and Deborah Voigt. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/concerts .

About The Jewish Museum

Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established on January 20, 1904 when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, The Jewish Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information (NOTE: NEW MUSEUM HOURS)

Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11am to 5:45pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

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Solo Piano Concert by Lilia Valitova

SOLO PIANO CONCERT BY LILIA VALITOVA, COMPOSER AND PIANIST Lilia Valitova, will perform the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy; piano compositions based on Jewish folk and liturgical melodies; and newly composed original Baha i-inspired piano songs. The event will take place on Saturday, November 21, at 7 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (in Kensington) , One Lawson Road, Kensington CA 94707. Adult general admission, $18; children 13 and under, free. CDs will be available for purchase. For more information, please visit www.LiliaValitova.com

Festival de musiques juives anciennes "Kol Haneshama"

L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive (www.amj.ch)
a le grand plaisir de vous annoncer le
Festival de musiques juives anciennes

"Kol Haneshama"

Dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Khagiga Yehudit"
Le Tendre Amour (Barcelone): Musique des fêtes des communautés juives d'Italie et des Pays-Bas aux 17ème et 18ème siècles.
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091115.htm

Dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Ayn naye lid"
Lucidarium (Genève, Milan): Prières et chansons profanes ashkénazes inédites de l'aube de la culture yiddish - en première suisse!
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091122.htm

Dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Me la amargates tú"
Me la amargates tú (Hollande, Israël): chants judéo-espagnols, joués sur des instruments du Baroque et de la Renaissance, comme cela aurait pu se faire du 15ème au 17ème siècles, si...
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091129.htm

Ces 3 concerts auront lieu à la Cité Bleue, 46 avenue de Miremont, 1206 Genève.

Billets : 30.-
tarif réduit : 20.- pour chômeurs, AVS, AI, chômeurs, étudiants, carte 20ans-20Frs.
réduction supplémentaire de 10.- pour membres AMJ

Abonnement 3 concerts: 80.-
tarif réduit : 50.-
réduction supplémentaire de 30.- pour membres AMJ

Informations et réservations: www.amj.ch
amj@amj.ch

Serban Nichifor Music Commemorates Holocaust

Serban Nichifor, a Romanian composer, has a website with his music that commemorates the Holocaust. This can be found at http://www.shoahmusic.lx.ro . There are videos attached to listening to the music.

Michael WInograd Klezmer Trio in Boston

MW Klezmer Trio plays a special concert in Cambridge at the Western Front Club, Presented by the New England Conservatory of Music. celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the NEC Jazz Dept.

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio:
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Carmen Staaf - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass, vocal
also on the bill is Hankus Netsky, with his ensemble

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Western Front Club
Western Front Club is at 343 Western Ave
$10 for the evening, all proceeds go to the Conservatory

soirée malasartes

soirée malasartes Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 8:30pm - 11:30pm
Location: La sala rossa
4848 boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, QC H2T 1R6

3 Nouveaux disques!
Plein de musiques veloutées et intelligentes!
Malasartes musique fête ses trois ans d’existence et célèbre avec trois lancements + une soirée exceptionnelle de musique!

Migration, du trio à cordes cordâme, le nouveau né de l'esprit raffiné, innocent, parfois tordu, et techniquement souverain de Jean Félix Mailloux, contrebasse, Marie-Neige Lavigne, violon, et Julie Odile Gauthier-Morin, violoncelle, accompagnés par Rémi Giguère, guitare, Pierre Tanguay et Ziya Tabassian, percussion.

Le premier CD de Nozen, quatuor d'«ultraspace surfers» montés sur une vague de musiques juives et de jazz contemporain, formé par Damian Nisenson, sax et composition, Bernard Falaise, guitare, Jean Félix Mailloux, basse, et Pierre Tanguay, batterie, enregistré en concert au Upstairs Bar and Grill en juin 2009.

interview, le premier CD soliste d'Amy Horvey, trompettiste de la Saskatchewan, installée à Montréal. Son CD, solo trompette, nous amène dans un univers sonore qui met en perspective le féminisme, l'art du conte et l'expérimentation.

Malasartes a été fond/ par Damian Nisenson, qui en assume la direction artistique, et a été conçue comme un lieu de rencontre entre les sons originaux, inspirés et profonds d'une communauté de musiciens créateurs, et les oreilles qui allaient garder ce trésor, qui rend la vie plus heureuse et plus belle.

Trois ans et 12 CDs plus tard, nous sommes fiers du travail accompli, d'avoir pu apporter au monde et à la vie de quelques milliers de personnes, nous y compris, un petit grain de bonheur, d'authenticité et de beauté. Et ce n’est qu’un début!

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer Music

World Premiere Performances of Meira Warshauer’s Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra in Wilmington and Brevard, NC, and Columbia, SC

Tekeeyah (a call) - Concerto for Shofar/Trombone and Orchestra, will be given its World Premiere performances with shofar/trombone virtuoso Haim Avitsur on the following dates.

http://www.wilmingtonsymphony.org/.

http://www.boamusic.org/bp.htm.

http://www.music.sc.edu/ea/orchestra/index.html.

Tekeeyah (a call) is the first concerto ever written for shofar/trombone soloist and orchestra and was commissioned by a consortium of orchestras that also includes the Western Piedmont Symphony (Hickory, NC), John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neal Gittleman, Music Director.

Tekeeyah (a call) during a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Spring of 2008, has written this about the piece, "I believe our time calls for an awakening to our true essence as human beings. The shofar (ram’s horn), with its natural power and centuries of service in calling Jews to awaken, can be an important instrument in this collective renewal of purpose. The trombone's breadth of range and dynamics complements and extends the expressive capacity of the shofar.”

http://www.readthebeatmagazine.com/Oct09-Warshauer-Classical.htm.

Like Streams in the Desert video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OqrQV8z1U&feature=related. The piece is featured on her critically acclaimed Albany Records Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works.

http://www.meirawarshauer.com.

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