International Jewish Music Festival in October

IJMF 2011: October 21-31...Nationwide in the Netherlands!
http://www.ijmf.org/Site/Welcome.html

The 2011 International Jewish Music Festival will bring an unprecedented variety of Jewish music to audiences throughout the Netherlands. Finalists and winners from our 2010 Jewish Music Competition will perform in venues big and small spread across the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam (Paradiso), Den Bosch (De Toonzaal), Tilburg (Paradox), Utrecht (Merkaz), The Hague (LJG), Santpoort-Noord ('t Mosterdzaadje) and Baarn (Pauluskerk).

The growing list of featured ensembles includes: The Heart & the Wellspring (Israel) / Mames Babegenush (Denmark) Yonit Shaked Golan & Gabi Argov (Israel) / Duo Bilitis (Netherlands) Vent D'Ouest Klezmer Band (France) / Trio C tot de Derde (Netherlands)

Jewish Music Network (JMN)
In 2010 IJMF created a new organization: the Jewish Music Network. The JMN promotes Jewish music throughout the Netherlands year-round. Thanks to the bi-annual competition (next edition: October 2012), IJMF has developed at network of first class ensembles, well-established groups as well as ones that are just breaking through. By connecting these artists with an array of top Dutch venues, the JMN hopes to further boost their careers while broadening the availability of Jewish music to a Dutch audience nationwide.

JMN Calendar
An important initiative of the JMN is the new online Dutch national Jewish music calendar. Ensembles and venues post their upcoming concerts so that you'll never again have to miss that favorite ensemble when their in the neighborhood. For the complete schedule and a list of the 35+ partner venues, take a look at our website - http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InternationalJewishM/fd1ff70963/dd0f152f70/e4669eb325 .

IJMF & Paradiso
Paradiso is one of the world's leading "culture temples", and we are therefore thrilled that they will bring the winners of the 2010-competition's jury prize (The Heart & the Wellspring, Israel) and audience prize (Mames Babegenush, Denmark) to Amsterdam on October 23 as part of IJMF 2011.

Yael Naim in Amsterdam

This Saturday, April 2 at 8:30 pm, Paradiso presents the Israeli singing sensation Yael Naim, whose single "New Soul" recently gained world fame thanks to an Apple television advertisement. Her recently released third album She Was A Boy is a sparkling folk/jazz/pop combination. Tickets/info at www.paradiso.nl -
or
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?InternationalJewishM/fd1ff70963/dd0f152f70/be202d5892

ATELIER KLEZMER

Vendredi 8 avril 20h30; concert de Hotegezugt avec Vincent Thvenaz ( l?orgue!!!) au Temple de Chene, route de Chene 153, 1224 Chene-Bougeries (Geneve, CH).
Samedi 9 avril de 11h - -18h30 et dimanche 9 avril de 9h -- 16h30: travail musical en groupes
Dimanche10 avril -- 17h: audition-concert des participants et des animateurs.
L?atelier sera conduit par Michel Borzykowski (instr. vent et danse), Pier-Yves Tetu (accordeon) et Bianca Favez (violon) du groupe HOTEGEZUGT. Il est destin? aux musiciens de tous ges et tous niveaux.

Lieu: Salle Paroissiale St-Francois, 16 av. Petit-Senn, 1225 Chene-Bourg (Geneve, CH)
Cost: 150.- Frs (130.- pour membres MusiJeunes).
Repas en commun (apportez vos piques-niques!). Boissons offertes.

Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band

Monday, March 28 · 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location East 6th Street Community Synagogue, Max Raiskin Center
325 East 6th Street
New York, NY

Join the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band at their monthly Monday Night Jazz Rabbi Invitational Concert. $10.00 Cover
NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and Grammy winning trumpeter Frank London.The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today, such as Pam Fl...eming, Rob Henke, Jordan Hirsch, Paul Shapiro, Jessica Lurie, Marty Fogel, Zach Mayer, Aaron Alexander, David Chevan, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, Mathias Kunzli, Uri Sharlin, and many others. The repertoire will consist of original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers, in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.

Ayn Sof Arkestra!
Trumpets - Pam Fleming,Frank London, Jordan Hirsch, Rob Henke
Trombones - Ben Williams, Art Baron
Saxophones - Greg Wall, Jessica Lurie
Paul Shapiro, Zachary Mayer, Martin Fogel
Guitar - Eyal Maoz
Keys - Uri Sharlin
Bass - David Chevan Drums - Aaron Alexander

Evolving Music with Ayelet Rose Gottlieb

Monday, March 28 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm
The Local 269
269 East Houston Street (corner of Suffolk)
New York, NY
7pm – Vocal Improv Session 11 vocalizations engage in masterful swordplay with sonic bass explorations” — Times Union
Nicole Peyrafitte (voice), Andrea Wolper (voice), Ayelet Rose Gottlieb (voice), Francois Grillot (bass)

“Spoken-word and multilingual

8pm – Pangeae
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb (voice, compositions), Amanda Monaco (guitar), Carmen Staaff (piano), Sean Conly (bass), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)

“a powerful voice” - Jazztimes

9pm – Michael Attias & Satoshi Takeishi
Michael Attias (alto sax), Staoshi Takeishi (percussion)
"great authority and passion" - AAJ

10pm – Thunk
Stephen Gauci (sax), Kenny Wessel (guitar), Michael Bisio (bass), Jeremy Carlstedt (drums)

"Gauci is among the most significant tenor saxophonists to emerge in recent years" - AAJ

Steven Greenman/Kurt Bjorling Violin-Tsimbl Duo Concert

Klezmer Concert and Spaghetti Supper
Sunday, April 3 · 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Park Synagogue East - 27500 Shaker Blvd, Pepper Pike, OH
Join Park's final chometz meal before Passover, featuring Park's klezmer teacher and performer Steven Greenman and master clarinetist and tsimbl player Kurt Bjorling.
Opening act: Park Teen Klezmer Band
$10 Adults, $5 children
Family special: 2 adults and 2 children $25
Any questions: Call 216 371-2244 Ext. 165
Sponsored by the Wolf Religious School and Park Synagogue Sisterhood

Elizabeth Swados "From the Fire"

“From the Fire” an oratorio with music by Elizabeth Swados will be performed March 23-27, 2011
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
For information and tickets, call (212) 229-5488 or
e-mail boxoffice@newschool.edu

The work, with music by Elizabeth Swados, writer/director, Cecilia Rubino, the poet, Paula Finn, and designed by Bonnie Roche-Bronfman, commemorates the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911. The fire was a completely devastating tragedy that resulted in the loss of life of over 146 working Jewish and Italian girls. Trapped behind locked doors, the tragedy led to workplace reforms and galvanized the Progressive Movement. To read more about this event see: http://www.trianglefromthefire.com/home.shtml

KlezCalifornia This March

Afternoon of Song and Dance

Nigunim Concert 3/26/11
Saturday, March 26, 4:00pm, Afternoon of Song and Dance,
presented by the Nigunim Chorus.
Nigunim Chorus performance: A tribute to singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman, and other gems in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew.
· Spring-time Sing-Along: Old favorites and a few less-familiar songs, with lyrics provided.
· Klezmer and Israeli dancing: Easy-to-follow circle and line dances led by dance leader Bruce Bierman.
· After the show, walk to Saul's Deli for a free dessert with purchase of an entree and presentation of a ticket to the Afternoon of Song and Dance.
At JCC East Bay. Tickets: $10 at the door. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. More info: 510.528.8872, mail[at]nigunim.org, www.nigunim.org.



Beyond the Pale in Berkeley and San Francisco
Beyond the Pale
Saturday, March 26, 8:00pm & Sunday, March 27, 9:00pm.

For more than a decade, Toronto's Beyond the Pale has been making its distinctive brand of boundary-busting Euro-folk fusion. Mixing Klezmer, Balkan, and Romanian styles with an eclectic range of North American influences, the band members' diverse musical and cultural backgrounds intersect in a shared impulse to push the boundaries of contemporary acoustic roots music into new realms.

Beyond the Pale has performed at festivals, theatres, and clubs across Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including New York's famed Carnegie Hall, and the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland. The group is in the Bay Area on the way to its first tour to Australia.

Two performances, both co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia:

Saturday, March 26, 8:00pm, At Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley. $15 suggested donation. No-one turned away. Tickets at brownpapertickets.com/event/158450. More info: subterraneanarthouse.org.

Sunday, March 27, 9:00pm. At Amnesia Bar, San Francisco. Tickets: $10. More info:
amnesiathebar.com, 415.970.0012.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration

Triangle demonstration
Sunday, March 27, 1:00-3:00pm,
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Centennial Commemoration in Words and Music.

In this program commemorating the fire's centennial, Judy Baston will explore the Jewish responses to the tragedy, and Sonoma State University Professor Elaine Leeder will discuss the dramatic life of Rose Pesotta and the influence of other Jewish women, such as Rose Schneiderman, in the labor movement. Jill Tallmer will lead the audience in Yiddish labor songs of the era, including Dos Lid Funem Trayengl-Fayer (Ballad of the Triangle Fire) and Arbeter-Froyen (Working Women).

At BJE Jewish Community Library, San Francisco. Co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia. No charge. More info: www.bjesf.org/adults_events.htm, 415.567.3327.

Klezmer Brunch with The Gonifs Sunday, March 27, 1:00-3:00pm, Klezmer Brunch with The Gonifs.

Reservations are recommended to hear The Gonifs (Jeanette Lewicki, Peter Jaques, Daniel Fabricant, Darren Johnston) play rocking klezmer music & Yiddish songs about love, justice and potatoes.

At Porto Franco Art Parlor, an intimate, all-ages space in San Francisco. Second floor; no elevator. Admission and vegan/vegetarian food for sliding scale donation, $0-$100. Tickets: portofrancoart.com. If you want to attend but are not able to pay, drop a message to sergei[at]portofrancorecords.com. More info: madamlewicki.com.

Most Musical Nation Book Review

Musica Judaica Online Reviews has a new online review on Jim Loeffler's book The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. http://mjoreviews.org/

Shifra Lerer z"l

The Yiddish actress Shifra Lerer died at 95. The New York Times ran this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/arts/shifra-lerer-actress-in-yiddish-theater-dies-at-95.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss. This editor was fortunate enough to sit in on a special class lecture she gave at Columbia University 10 years ago. She was terrific in person as well as on the stage.

Klezmer Conference at University of Montreal

Henri Oppenheimer will be leading a conference on klezmer music
. at University of Montreal at 7:30
3200, Rue Jean-Brillant, Montreal
The event occus this Monday, March 21 2011.
.
. This conference is designed for non-specialists, and covers some basic elements of the history of Jews in Europe, an overview of the different instruments, different origins of the repertoire, discussion about what makes the "Jewish sound" (and, 'is there a "Jewish sound"?), a segment about "klezmer orchestration". There will also be a review of main bands and artists in the world. Since some members of the group Magillah will attend, there will probably be a few pieces at the end.

For information contact Henri Oppenheim (514) 272-8635 in Canada.
http://www.magillah.com
http://www.kleztory.com
http://www.myspace.com/henrioppenheim

Andy Statman Trio

Saturday, March 19th, 10 PM - big Purim Party in Brooklyn @ the Jewish Music Caf? (http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com/)

Tuesday, March 22nd, 9PM - Charles Street Synagogue with a special musical guest, Larry's Springsteen cohort and current E-Street band member Charles Giordano on accordion
For Information see: www.AndyStatman.org

Triangle Fire Remembered

the culminating centennial event — An evening of music, spoken word poetry, and solidarity in commemoration of the 146 victims will be held in New York City. The event is free but you must have a ticket for admission. Get your tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/164102

You’ll get to hear Metropolitan Klezmer performing klezmer music written about the tragedy, uncovered 100 years later. Spoken word poetry from youthful voices from the New York City area. Clara Lemlich’s historical speech from the very stage where the Uprising of the 20,000 began. Solidarity Forever by the NYC Labor Chorus. Irish folk rock from Larry Kirwan of Black 47. Worker testimonials from Bangladesh, Egypt, and West Virginia.

The event takes place in the evening following the annual memorial commemoration at the site of the fire. The list of performers and speakers include:
Brian Jones (MC)
Mary Anne Trasciatti (Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition)
Metropolitan Klezmer
Alessandra Belloni and Daughters of Cybele
Gioia Timpanelli (storyteller)
DreamYard (NYC youth poets)
LuLu LoLo (portraying Rose Schneiderman)
Caitlin Belforti (portraying Clara Lemlich)
Larry Kirwan of Black 47
New York Labor Chorus
Kalpona Akter (Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity)
Cecil Roberts (Mine Workers)
Chaumtoli Huq (Taxi Drivers)
Ai Jen Poo (Domestic Workers Union)
Jibari Hill (Catfish Farm Workers)
Annelise Orleck (Labor and Working Class History Association)

For more information contact: 646-448-6402 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              646-448-6402      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              646-448-6402      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
The sponsors of the evening:
The Cooper Union
The Education and Labor Collaborative
The Labor and Working Class History Association
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
The Sparkplug Foundation

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED)

Jim Loeffler speaking at Jewish Music Forum

On Thursday, March 24th at 7 PM, in conjunction with YIVO, the Jewish Music Forum will present The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, the title of a fascinating new book by Dr. James Loeffler, the Founder and first Executive Director of ASJM's Jewish Music Forum.

Quoting from the book jacket below gives you additional details about this wonderful evening which will have live musical examples. Providing these music examples for Dr. Loffler's talk, we are very grateful to have performers from YIVO's Krum Young Artist Series. A reception and book singing will follow:

"No image of pre-revolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new classical conservatories. At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to modern Jewish identity? Drawing on previously unavailable archives, this book offers an insightful new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture.

This event, which will be held in the auditorium at the Center for Jewish History, is free and open to the public, however, because of limited space attendees are requested to make online reservations for seats: www.yivo.org/reservations

The Jewish Music Forum is an organization devoted to the study of music in Jewish life in all of its historical and contemporary diversity. Founded in the fall of 2004 under the auspices of the American Society for Jewish Music, with the support of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History, the Jewish Music Forum seeks to provide a thriving habitat for interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarly exchange in the growing academic field of Jewish musical studies as well as a critical intellectual resource for specialists across a spectrum that includes cantors, composers, performers, students, educators, artistic directors, journalists, and others from the fields of musicology, anthropology, literature, Jewish studies, and American studies. By linking together members of these communities, the Forum serves as an academic professional network and intellectual resource for all who are interested in the role of music in Jewish life.

PURIM WITH HADAG NAHASH

Saturday March 19th - 11:00pm
HADAG NAHASH - Booming out of Jerusalem in 1996 HADAG NAHASH, became the biggest band Israel has to offer. Its music combines fresh Hip Hop, rock, reggae and funk sounds, and serves as a melting pot of tight grooves with Middle Eastern flavor. Their unique sound attracted many dedicated followers, as well as vast media reception. They’ve gained momentum year after year, and today are considered the best selling Hip Hop artist in Israel.

In addition to a headlining LIVE appearance, PURIM at City Winery will see DJ sets by DJ Moshe Bonen(Maydalleh), special Purim cocktails, munchies, sweet treats and special surprises, costume contests and more.

Presented by TEEV Productions, MAYDALLEH and CITY WINERY.
City Winery
155 Varick St. @ Vandam in Soho
212.608.0555

ASEFA CD Release Resonance

Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry and Spirituality

With ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck, and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila
part of The NEXT New York Conversation

Join Leonard Lopate, ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas and voices from within the Brooklyn Sephardic community for Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry, and Spirituality, an exploration of Sephardic sacred poems through live musical performance and conversation. The event is presented as part of The NEXT New York Conversation series.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
at 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Tickets: $20
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Today in Brooklyn, where disparate Jewish groups from the Middle East are engaging one another in an unprecedented way, the piyyut – the Hebrew term for a sacred poem – serves as an expression of a specific type of Jewish identity. Spanning five centuries since the expulsion from Spain in 1492, these piyyutim express unique conceptions of the relationship between humanity and the Divine and serve as the backbone of the quasi-classical musical traditions of different Sephardic immigrant groups who now call New York home.

Following an introductory discussion, Thomas, accompanied by his ensemble Asefa and other traditional musicians, will present a lively musical performance of Sephardic piyyutim. Intertwining musical performance with discussion, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila will illuminate how the intersection of Kabbalistic and Sufist thought in Sephardic cultural history inspired piyyutim.

Panelists:
Samuel R. Thomas
Rabbi Gad Bouskila
Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Musicians:
Victor Esses, oud
Rachid Halihal, violin
Rabbi Avraham Amar, vocals
Shemtob Levi, vocals
Rabbi Mihael Kakon, vocals

Musicians of Lenox Hill Perform an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo- Kyung Park, will perform
an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music
at Temple Israel of the City of New York,
112 East 75th Street, New York City

The program includes the New York City premiere of the Piano Trio in F Major by Marcel Tyberg, whose works were thought lost in the Holocaust. The program also features Alexander Borodin s String Quartet No.2 in D Major, Frederic Chopin s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 for Solo Piano, and Three Watercolors for Flute, Cello and Piano by Philippe Gaubert. Admission to the concert is free with a suggested donation of $20.

Composer Marcel Tyberg's voice was silenced when he was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In the years immediately before World War II, Marcel Tyberg was a promising young composer whose Second Symphony had been premiered by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Rafael Kubel?k. Prior to being deported, Tyberg entrusted his scores to the family of one of his students. The scores were rediscovered in 2005 in the care of that student, Dr. Enrico Mihich, who is now a leading cancer research doctor living in Buffalo. For more than six decades, Mihich carried the scores with him, trying to find a conductor who would pay attention to them. Finally, in 2005, he found a willing and enthusiastic partner in the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta. Tyberg's music is extremely powerful, rich and profound, Falletta has declared, and very worthy of performance and recording. She says Tyberg's Trio reveals music of profound beauty, ingenious orchestration and vibrant neo-romanticism .As a result of Falletta's enthusiastic reading of Tyberg's scores, a Tyberg Musical Legacy Fund has been established in Buffalo at the Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies. Tyberg's Trio, along with his Symphony No. 3, has been recorded on the Naxos label by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic. The Trio was first performed in Buffalo in 2006. This will be the first performance of the Trio in New York City.

New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as "exemplary throughout" and "extremely impressive, technically and musically . The performers, who are all graduates of The Juilliard School and have won dozens of national and international awards and competitions between them, include Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, Sean Katsuyama, cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director.

Cantor Robert P. Abelson of Temple Israel will introduce the Tyberg Trio and tell the incredible story of the loss and rediscovery of Tyberg's music. Cantor Abelson has been a member of the New York City Opera and is a specialist in Yiddish Art Song. He is featured on a recording of Composers of the Holocaust, rated as one of the best recordings of the year by Jewish Week.

The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 13th year, is made possible by gift to Temple Israel by the late Muriel Levy in memory of her husband, Dr.Hyman Levy and their son, Jerrold Levy, fulfilling her vision to continue the music she and her husband loved and support the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

Music Forgotten and Remembered

TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2011 | 8PM
Location: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 W 67th St
Tickets: $25; $15 for seniors
To order, call Naomi at 212-294-6140

Israeli-American violinist Yuval Waldman will be giving a solo recital of "Music Forgotten and Remembered" at New York's Merkin Concert Hall on Tuesday March 29, 2011, at 8 PM. The program presents rarely performed gems composed by Eastern European Jews, many of whom perished during World War II or were silenced by Soviet repression.

Born in the Ukraine to Holocaust survivors and the Artistic Director of Music Bridges International, Waldman was able to rediscover these pieces by searching music libraries and obscure music collections in Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, and Israel. They represent a wide spectrum of stylistic influences on Jewish composers: impressionistic, neoclassical, folk, and klezmer. These pieces fill an unexplored gap in early twentieth-century Jewish music repertory that fully deserves to be heard today.

"Music Forgotten and Remembered" presents the first New York performance of five of these rediscovered works:

"Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes" (1952) was composed by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, an outstanding Russian-Jewish composer and close friend of Shostakovich, whose intervention with authorities probably kept Weinberg alive. The piece is a brilliant fantasy on Moldavian and Jewish themes.

"Lullaby," an arrangement of a traditional Hebrew song, was composed in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943 by Gideon Klein, a young Czech-Jewish composer. Shortly after he wrote the piece, Klein was transferred to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.

"Colloque Sentimentale," an impressionistic prelude on the poem of the same name by Paul Verlaine, was written in 1920 by Czech Jaromir Weinberger, who escaped the Nazis by emigrating to the United States, where he ended up on the music faculty at Ithaca College.

"Variations on 'Hatikvah'" is a virtuoso violin solo written in the early 1900s by then famous, now forgotten Ukrainian klezmer violinist and composer Yehiel Goizman.

"Entrata" from Concerto da Camera (1945) is a seldom-heard master work by the Russian emigre and avant-garde composer Arthur Lourie.

Rounding out the program are two French violin masterpieces: "Sonata in A Major" for violin and piano by Cesar Franck, written for the great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye, and Maurice Ravel's "Tzigane". Mr. Waldman dedicates the performance of these pieces to his mentors Josef Gingold, who was a student of Eugene Ysaye, and Zino Francescatti, the foremost representative of violin French romantic school, who performed the "Tzigane" with Maurice Ravel.

Waldman will be assisted by Ukrainian-Israeli pianist Inesa Sinkevych, a prize winner in the Arthur Rubinstein International Competition.

A limited number of tickets has been made available to YIVO. All proceeds from their sale will benefit the YIVO Institute.
Tickets: $25; $15 for seniors
To order, call Naomi at 212-294-6140
Location: Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th Street For more information about Yuval Waldman, visit his website, www.yuvalwaldman.com

Music of Jack Gottlieb at Temple Emanuel

Friday, Mar 11th 5:15 PM and Saturday, Mar 12 10:30 AM
Temple Sanctuary (Fifth Avenue at 65th Street)
All are invited to celebrate the music of Jack Gottlieb in honor of the composer’s 80th birthday. Several of Mr. Gottlieb’s compositions were commissioned for Emanu-El and have been part of the Temple’s musical repertoire. At the Friday evening service, Cantor Lori Corrsin will be joined on the bimah by the Temple Emanu-El Choir, conducted by K. Scott Warren and accompanied by guest organist Andrew Henderson.

JACK GOTTLIEB (1930 – 2011) was born and raised in New Rochelle, N.Y. He received his bachelor’s from Queens College, his master’s in fine arts from Brandeis University and a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Illinois, where his teachers of composition were Karol Rathaus, Irving Fine, Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillip. He also studied with Aaron Copland and Boris Blacher at the Berkshire Music Center. Max Helfman, noted composer of synagogue music, was his first mentor and the first to inspire Mr. Gottlieb to write sacred music. Mr. Gottlieb passed away February 23, 2011.

ANDREW HENDERSON is director of music at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. A native of Thorold, Ontario, Dr. Henderson holds degrees in music from Cambridge and Yale universities and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Juilliard.

More About Jack Gottlieb: (from the MIlken Archive of Jewish Music) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9vG19Kk_k