CD Release Nigounim

Le nouveau CD piano et harpe "NIGOUNIM" Shimon REUBEN ,Piano & Nehama REUBEN, Harpe doit sortir en janvier 2011 distribution Ness Music , des improvisations composées par Shimon REUBEN.
Beaucoup d'amitié à tous

Michèle EJNES BOHBOT / Nehama REUBEN נחמה ראובן
Harpiste Concertiste & Compositeur Harpe Hébraïque
Site web http://nehama-reuben.jimdo.com/

Michèle EJNES
ADJOINTE de DIRECTION ( en retraite )
COORDINATEUR PEDAGOGIQUE
CONSEILLER AUX ETUDES
PROFESSEUR "HORS CLASSE"
Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional
22 rue de la Belle Feuille
F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
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Shimon REUBEN BOHBOT & Nehama REUBEN
נחמה ראובן & שמעון ראובן
Concertistes et Compositeurs
Shimon= Piano Concertist Hebrew & Jazz Music Composer
Nehama = Harp Concertist Hebrew Music & Composer
DUO REUBEN: Piano & Harpe
Site Web http://shimon-reuben.jimdo.com/
Site Web http://nehama-reuben.jimdo.com/
shinehreuben@gmail.com

Kaplan Commissioning Project

for composers of Jewish heritage:
Saint Mary¹s University Concert Band

The seventh Helen and Sam Kaplan Foundation Commission for a new Concert Band composition written by a composer of Jewish heritage is outlined below. Any questions should be directed directly to Dr. Janet Heukeshoven, Director of Bands at Saint Mary¹s University of Minnesota. Contact information is provided at the end of this notice.

Amount of Commission: $5,000.00 plus travel/expense allowance for a campus visit at the premier of the composition.

Description of the Composition:
The work will be scored for standard concert band instrumentation, appropriate difficulty level for advanced high school bands and collegiate ensembles. (A ³grade 4² level of difficulty by current educational standards.) The orchestration of the 2012 project may be extended to include solo voice or voices.

The composition is expected to be approximately 5 minutes in length.

The composition will be based on Jewish melodic material, either folk or religious sources.
Expectations of the composer:

The selected composer will interact with SMU band students regarding the composition. He/she will also be requested to attend the premier and present a lecture/seminar on the commissioned work and music composition in general.

Past commissioned composers have spent an average of 4 days in residency surrounding the premiere.

The composer will provide SMU a full score and one set of parts. Additional duplication of parts as needed for the ensemble will be the responsibility of the university.

The composer retains all copyrights and will acknowledge SMU¹s role in the commission of the composition upon future publication and/or distribution.

The SMU Concert Band will present the premier performance at a mutually agreed upon concert date during the 2012-2013 academic year. The composer will have the opportunity to conduct the premier performance if she/he chooses to do so.

Past Commissioned Composers:
2000: Steven Barnett: Halleil: O Praise the Lord for concert band
2002: Lee Kesselman: Let Peace Descend for choir and wind ensemble
2004: Philip Rothman: Departure Point for solo piano and wind ensemble
2006: Judith Lang-Zaimont: Israeli Rhapsody for concert band
2008: Marc Kibrick Bernstein: Ashkenazi Fathers for jazz combo (with soloist or soloists) and concert band
2010 Paul Richards: If You Could Only See the Frog for concert band

Application process and deadline:
Interested Jewish composers should send a letter of introduction, resume, scores and recordings of three representative compositions, and a SASE for return of scores and recordings (optional) by March 15th 2011 to:

Dr. Janet Heukeshoven
Kaplan Commission Project Chair
Saint Mary¹s University Music Department
700 Terrace Heights #58
Winona, MN 55987-1399

Scores submitted for consideration need not be band compositions, but should demonstrate wind and percussion writing. Composers who have applied for the Kaplan/SMU Commission in the past are encouraged to re-apply.

Please note that application materials will be returned only if a self-addressed stamped envelope is enclosed for return postage. If there is no SASE the materials will be kept in the Kaplan Commission Project archive for music student use and study.

For additional information please contact Dr. Heukeshoven at 507.457.1675 or email at: jheukesh@smumn.edu .

Duo Brikcius Travels to Algiers

FESTIVAL CULTUREL INTERNATIONAL DE MUSIQUE SYMPHONIQUE & DUO BRIKCIUS - 2 CELLOS TOUR

You are invited to the 2e Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique "Duo Brikcius - 2 Cellos Tour" concert of two Czech cellists (and siblings) Anna Brikciusova and Frantisek Brikcius. Concert will be on Monday 13th December 2010, 7pm, at the Theatre National Algerien (10 Rue Hadj Omar, La Casbah, Alger Square Port Said, Algiers).

In addition to Fantasie IV (2008) by the Czech composer and organist Irena Kosikova, Duo Brikcius will play Duo for Violin and Cello (1939-40) by Terezin composer Gideon Klein, as arranged for two cellos. Concert will feature music by L. Boccherini, W. A. Mozart, G. Rossini, P. Hindemith, G. Klein and I. Kosikova as well.

In the cooperation with the Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique and the Ministry of foreign affairs. More info is available on websites http://www.Brikcius.com , http://www.OrchestreSymphoniqueAlgerien.com , http://www.MZV.cz/Algiers and http://www.iKosik.com.

DUO BRIKCIUS - 2 CELLOS TOUR:
13th December 2010, 7pm, Theatre National Algerien

DUO BRIKCIUS:
Anna Brikciusova - Cello
Frantisek Brikcius - Cello

Elie Wiesel in Concert Melodies and Stories from Long Ago

Elie Wiesel is best known as the one who will not let the world forget..... But for those of us who live in the world of Jewish music, we know Elie Wiesel has another voice....the voice of a singer...a lover of Jewish music....a choral conductor and, most of all, a friend and the honorary president of the Zamir Choral Foundation.

Those who were at the 2009 North American Jewish Choral Festival will never forget the moment that Professor Wiesel took the stage, his voice clear, strong, and poignant as he sang the songs of his youth.

Now you have the opportunity to recapture that moment when you join Elie Wiesel and The Matthew Lazar Singers and orchestra, live in concert, at New York's 92nd Street Y
on Saturday, December 18th for:
Elie Wiesel in Concert: Melodies and Stories from Long Ago
A rare opportunity to see the Nobel Prize-winner, scholar, teacher and peace advocate in concert!
Matti Lazar will be conducting this once-in-a-lifetime concert.
It will be a night to remember.
Register at www.92y.org
For more information, click HERE HERE
or call 212.415.5500 Learn more about the event
here

Speil un Tanz

Enjoy a piece from a concert held 1 September 2010 in Berlin.
Leon Gurvitch - Piano, Melodica
Frank London - Trumpet
Vladimir Karparov - Saxophon
Omar Rodriguez Calvo - Contrabass
Dimitris Christides - Drums

Jewish Music Blogspot

http://jewishmusicsite.blogspot.com/
Looks like several blogs have found the videos on YouTube provide great Jewish music as well as everything else in the world.The Jewish Music Blogspot has a lot of good videos gathered together.

Yeedle Werdyger in Brazil

ENCHANTED:A new Generation of Yiddishsong CD Release

ENCHANTED:A new Generation of Yiddishsong
A New CD by Adrienne Cooper

The League for Yiddish is pleased to announce that this wonderful new CD is now available. This new release of Adrienne Cooper promises to be the Yiddish music gem of the year. It is a bold foray into the unexplored, with sound collages, beautifully rendered ballads and delicately set folk songs on a colorful palette of styles and arrangements. Cooper is joined by the powerful forces of Marilyn Lerner, Frank London, Mike Winograd and others. This CD is destined to be an instant classic, not only for Yiddish music, but for world music in general. Enchanted features 13 songs and is accompanied by a booklet with the lyrics in transliteration and in English translation.

Track List

Peace in the Streets / Sholem-lid
In the Darkness / In der finster
Bear from the Forest / Ber fun vald
My Unrest / Umru mayne
Borsht
Gefilte fish
The Helper / Bahelferl
The Ballad of How the Jews Got to Europe
A Song Book / A liderbukh
Cups of Wine / Di bekhers mit vayn
Glückl's Ballad of Mother Love
Autumn Song / Harbstlid
A Good Week / A gute vokh

Simply put - the music is beautiful, deep, and compelling. I have had a sound I had been searching for for many years in my head & heart, longing to hear expressed and concretely manifested in the world - this creation by you and your musicians fulfills that longing, and then some.
- Lloyd Wolf

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!
Cost: $16 plus postage (U.S. - $5; Canada - $6; Foreign/overseas $5). $2 for each additional CD.
Add 8.65% sales tax for NY State residents.
Checks are payable to: League for Yiddish. Checks or credit card information may be mailed to: League for Yiddish, Inc., 64 Fulton St., Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038.
You may also order at
www.leagueforyiddish.org.
Allow 2 weeks for delivery.

Adrienne Cooper is internationally recognized as one of this generation's stellar performers and teachers of Yiddish vocal music. She has worked at the heart of the klezmer revival scene, defining a wholly original interpretation of Yiddish song. She has performed and recorded with The Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass AllStars, Zalmen Mlotek, The Three Yiddish Divas, Marilyn Lerner, Michael Winograd, Alicia Svigals and Mikveh, Joyce Rosenzweig and many more. Cooper's inspired innovations in music and culture production have been recognized by awards, grants and commissions from The Jewish Museum, United Synagogue, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National and NY State Endowments on the Arts and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

A New Voice in Yiddish Music CD Release

A NEW VOICE IN YIDDISH MUSIC
"I Can't Complain But Sometimes I still Do"
Jane Peppler accompanied by Aviva Enoch
The League for Yiddish is pleased to announce that this wonderful new CD is now available from their online store The recording features 14 songs and and a waltz - a natural, intimate atmosphere, evocative and original. There are a few old favorites, some rarely-heard marvels, and two original compositions.
Track List Zing, bruder, zing! Birobidzhan Di elter Epes fun gornisht Gris, bagris Don un Donye A bisl libe Hilda's waltz Fraytik af der nakht Harbstlid Got fun Avrom Bobenyu Glik A yidishe khasene Ta'am haman
To listen to several of the songs go to:
http://yiddish-nc.com/league-for-yiddish.html
or click
HERE

"The recording's greatest virtues are the selection of songs and the well-tailored folkish arrangements. The duo presented songs from various genres: songs which are rarely sung and even more rarely recorded. This is the first time this reviewer has heard the songs "Zing, Brider, Zing" (Sing, brothers, sing) and "Birobidzhan." The melody for "Birobidzhan" is utterly beautiful and the piano and fiddle twine in and out, with delicacy... Peppler composed a fine original melody for the folk song "Hob Ikh Mir a Mantl" (I Have a Coat) and added a new verse to the song "Gris, Bagris" (Greet, greet).... Since the majority of CDs today emphasize klezmer music, and not Yiddish songs, it's a pleasure to hear a recording which expresses such love of Yiddish word and song." -- Itsik Gottesman, Forverts, Nov. 11, 2010

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!
Cost: $12 plus postage (U.S. - $5; Canada - $6; Foreign/overseas $5). $2 for each additional CD. .
Add 8.65% sales tax for NY State residents.
Checks are payable to: League for Yiddish. Checks or credit card information may be mailed to:.
League for Yiddish, Inc., 64 Fulton St., Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038. You may also order at.
www.leagueforyiddish.org.
or click
HERE
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League for Yiddish has music book available

The League for Yiddish is pleased to let you know about two books that are now available.
From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs,(2010) "Oh, what a joy, what a pleasure! This book, an anthology of the music and songs of David Botwinik, is a singular demonstration of a life devoted to Jewish continuity. Between the covers of this songbook... the sounds and melodies of the Jewish soul sing out. At a time when few people read Yiddish poetry, Botwinik's music breathes fresh life into these poems."-- Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz, Director of Judaic Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia

The book From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs is a collection of musical compositions by the Vilna-born Montreal composer David Botwinik. These are new Yiddish songs: solo and choral works, complete with English translations, piano accompaniments, and chords. Underneath the musical notation one can read the words in Yiddish as well as in transliteration in Latin characters. There are 56 songs in this 392-page hardcover book, among them, 10 original songs with both lyrics and music by David Botwinik. In addition, the book contains David Botwinik's music to the poetry of 25 Yiddish poets: Moshe Bernstein, Wolf Younin, Ida Massey, Leib Naidus, Abraham Sutzkever, J. I. Segal, Shmerke Kaczerginski, M. M. Shaffir, Zalman Shazar, and others. The children's section contains Botwinik's musical setting to poems of Elchanan Indelman, Mates Olitsky, Perl Halter, Simon Frug, Shmuel Tsesler, and others.

Publication information:
David Botwinik, Fun khurbn tsum lebn: naye yidishe lider/From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs with English Translations (New York: League for Yiddish, 2010), 392 pp. [ISBN-13: 978-1-878775-18-4], $40.

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! The book is now available.
Cost: $40 plus postage (U.S. - $5; Canada - $18; Foreign/overseas $31). Add 8.65% sales tax for NY State residents.
Checks are payable to: League for Yiddish. Checks or credit card information may be mailed to:
League for Yiddish, Inc., 64 Fulton St., Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038.

You may also order at www.leagueforyiddish.org
or
HERE .

Eyal Maoz and AVi Avital

Eyal Maoz (acoustic guitar) / Avi Avital (mandolin) – solos and duets.
Curated by Marc Ribot and Marco Cappelli
Date: Tuesday, December 14 at 10 PM
Venue: Watty and Meg Retaurant
Venues address: 248 Court St. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Telephone: 718- 643 0007
Event URL: www.wattyandmeg.com
Cover price: $10
Music genre: Acoustic guitar - Experimental
Event description:
Curated by Marc Ribot and Marco Cappelli, Eyal Maoz is invited to perform a solo set at this intriguing concert series that brings two acoustic guitarists into a 30 minutes solo set each, and a duet session, that may be joined by Ribot or Cappelli.

Eyal Maoz is a renown guitarist and composer, Tzadik and Ayler Records artists, bandleader and member of numerous music ensembles and a guest guitarist of John Zorn’s Cobra.

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim
Featuring guitarist Eyal Maoz -- Two of the most interesting bands join forces in this special night of music. from Tzadik Records
Monday, December 13 between 8:30 to 10:30 PM.

Community Synagogue/Max D. Raiskin Center.
325 E. Sixth Street
(between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
East Village
New York, NY 10003
Telephone 212.473.3665
For Information, visit: http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/#sw
YouTube Previews Somewhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYe8-6uMYU
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103764873028117&bcode=cVR0E&sfrm

Cover price: $10
Music genre jazz/world/rock
Edom: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz – guitar; Brian Marsella – keyboards; Shanir Blumenkranz – bass and Yuval Lion – drums.

www.eyalmaozmusic.com

Rashanim: Rashanim ('noisemakers' in Hebrew) combines the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. With Jon Madof – guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz- bass and Mathias Kunzli – drums.

www.jonmadof.com

About Eyal Maoz: "There's no doubt Eyal Maoz is in an exclusive club of post-Jimi Hendrix guitarists who include Nels Cline, Hilmar Jensson, Scott Fields, David Torn, and the legendary Terje Rypdal.”–Michael G. Nastos –All Music Guide September 2009

New Jewish Music by Sy Kushner

"...from my soul..."
New Jewish Music by Sy Kushner
Volume Three

Nulite Music announces the release of the third album of original melodies by Sy Kushner. Entitled, "...from my soul...", Sy is backed up by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians.

Please click here for more information.

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble

This year Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble will be performing Sat night, December 25th 2010, 7:30 PM
at Congregation Ohawe Shalom in Pawtucket, RI
671 East Ave, corner of Glenwood

Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for children under b-mitzvah
Lively & Moving Music, world class musicians, a comfortable environment, a little humor thrown in. Refreshments for sale. Plenty free parking.

Fishel Bresler plays clarinet, flute, mandolin & harmonica; Shelley Katsh plays keyboard & accordian. They are joined by Beth Bahia Cohen on Strings and Bob Rakalam Moses employing both traditional & creative forms of percussion.

A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Hanukkah Happens 21
The Brotherhood of Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA is proud to present
A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN (A Musical Tribute marking 20 years since his passing)
Hazzan Elias Rosemberg
with the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Dr. Joshua Jacobson, Conductor
Thursday , December 23, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA.
Concert admission (open seating): Adults $25; Children under 13 $15
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For information and tickets visit www,templeemanuel.com /hh-xxi HHConcert@gmail.com;
or call: 617-558-8100

Posted by jmwc at 08:05 PM

Candlelight-- The Maccabeats YouTube Video