Have a Safe Weekend East Coast!

Varda & Udi Spielman with Meir Finkelstien --Shalom Rav

Sh'ma Yisrael

Sh'ma Yisrael by Leib Glanz-- As YouTube captures comparisons of performance
Kol Rina Choir
Arrangement by Raymond Goldstein
(Where we can hear another superb arrangement by Goldstein).



Kol Rina Choir - Youth at the Center Series Mishkenot Shaananim Jerusalem
Cantor - Netanel Baram
Conductor - Roi Azulai
Arrangement by Raymond Goldstein

and Lieb Glanz from older recording


or another modern cantorial rendition by Cantor Moshe Muller



and not least, David Apfel

Zemirot Database

A new website where participants can record versions of zmirot. Add text, a history, and your mp3. There's a song index and a "members list" for those who wish to join (it's free). It would be nice if people would add composers names in the history section to tunes, if they are known!!

http://www.zemirotdatabase.org/index.php

Starr Fellowship for "Music in Jewish Life" At Harvard

The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University invites applications for the 2012-2013 Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica on the theme:

"Music in Jewish Life"

Applications are welcome from candidates across the disciplines treating topics related to Jewish music and its place in Jewish experience. Projects may span historical and/or contemporary subjects and may draw on a range of archival and/or ethnographic sources. The terms of the Starr endowment specify that projects must be of an academic and scholarly nature, whatever their topic or disciplinary orientation.

Ph.D. degree required

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cjs/fellowships/Starr%20Fellowship/Starr.html

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus Auditions

AUDITIONS TO JOIN OUR CHORUS
Auditions for the JPPC for the 2011/2012 season
will be held in the evenings of September 6, 7 and 8, 2011,
from 6:00 to 8:30 PM
at The Marseilles
230 West 103 St
New York City.

Auditions by appointment only, scheduled in advance.
Email Lisa at information@thejppc.org
If unavailable the 3 eves listed above,
please contact Lisa to schedule another time.
The JPPC sings only in Yiddish. Knowledge of Yiddish is *not* required to sing in the Chorus. Ability to read musical notes or sight-sing is beneficial. MP3s or CDs of vocal parts with lyrics are provided. Rehearsals are held on Mondays at the Marseilles, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, from September through early June, except on Jewish and some national holidays. First rehearsal is on Monday evening, September 12th.

Hy Wolfe: An Evening of Songs and Stories

MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2011
6:30PM CONCERT at YIVO

YIVO presents Hy Wolfe in a concert performance, accompanied by Herbert Kaplan at the piano. New York stage actor and singer Hy Wolfe returns to our stage with a show featuring Yiddish theater and folk songs and stories.

Wolfe worked with, and learned from, many of the brightest stars of the Yiddish theater, and is a living link with a glorious tradition. The show includes a tribute to the late Shifra Lerer, the last of the greats from the classical period of the Yiddish theater.

This is an opportunity to spend a delightful evening with one of the most entertaining performers on the stage today. With English translations throughout the program, this evening will be a pleasure for Yiddish speakers and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Admission: $10 general, $7 YIVO members
Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street - NYC

Hy Wolfe is the artistic director of the Yiddish National Theatre and the director of CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organization). His first language is Yiddish; he acts with equal ease in English and Yiddish. Mr. Wolfe has performed on stage, screen, and television.

Herbert Kaplan toured for nearly 10 years with his brother as a two piano team, then attended Yale University School of Music and the Vienna Akademie. He has been the music director and/or arranger of countless musicals and the composer of four.

Amy Winehouse - The Girl Done Good: A Documentary Review

A 2008 documentary about the life and works of Amy Winehouse: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/amy_winehouse_the_girl_done_good_a_documentary_review/

Mycale

Kontzert Hapiyyut Hagadol קונצרט הפיוט הגדול

קונצרט הפיוט הגדול Start Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 11:00pm
Location: היכל התרבות רח' המכבים 5 פתח תקווה
http://www.facebook.com/l/IAQCAZGkZ/www.petah-tikva.muni.il

ענקי הפיוט בעולם לראשונה על במה אחת וביצירות חדשות

משה חבושה - ישראל
דוד שירו - ארה"ב
ניהול מוסיקלי וניצוח: אריאל כהן
בליווי התזמורת המזרחית הישראלית ומקהלת החזנים "שירה חדשה"
כרטיסים במכירה מוקדמת 50 ש"ח באגף לתרבות תורנית 03-9052455, 073-7373866
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242344335805824#!/event.php?eid=242344335805824

First International Terezin Music Conference

Leeds College of Music (UK) is proud to announce it first International Terezin Music Conference in February 2012, and the launch of the Terezin Music Hub. For more information, call for papers, booking, draft programme, etc, please visit: http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-enterprise-conferences-terezin-music-conference.htm

Feel free to contact terezinmusic@lcm.ac.uk for further details, and follow the Hub on Twitter: @TerezinMusicHub

Monajat featuring Galleet Dardashti

Thursday, September 15 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Granoff Performance Center, Tufts University
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155

Monajat (Fervent Prayer) by innovative performer Galeet Dardashti, is inspired by Selihot, the poetic prayers of forgiveness recited during the month preceding the Jewish High Holidays according to the Middle Eastern tradition. Dardashti, a musician and anthropologist of Persian descent, re-imagines the Selihot ritual in collaboration with an acclaimed ensemble of musicians, an electronic soundscape, and dynamic video projections by video artist and designer Dmitry Kmelnitsky.

As only one of six cities in the US where this dynamic concert will happen, the Boston Jewish Music Festival is very excited to have been selected by the Foundation for Jewish Culture to present this important new work along with our co-presenters, the New Center for Jewish Arts and Culture, the Tufts University Music Department and Tufts Hillel.

Tickets are $25 and are available through the New Center at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/30895

The New Jewish Culture Network has received major support from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation. Additional support provided by the Milken Family Foundation, Sylvia M. Neil, and other individual donors.

Love Notes- A musical festival celebrating Tu B'Av

Temple Emanuel, Temple Sinai and Shalom Cares Present Love Notes, featuring the music of
• Rabbi Joe Black and Troy Dexter (of the Wilson Phillips Band)
• Cantor Regina Heit
• Cantorial Soloist Bryan Zive and Kol Echad
• Steve Brodsky and the Shabbat Unplugged Band and special guest Cantor Robbi Sherwin
Sunday, August 14 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location 14800 E. Belleview Dr.
Aurora, CO
Temple Emanuel Denver
Bring a picnic, blankets, lawn chairs and join us for a summer evening musical festival on the grounds of Shalom Park.

There is no cost, but RSVP required at www.lovenotesfestival.org.

Shuttle service available with pre-registration ($10 each) from Temple Sinai and Temple Emanuel. Register online.

Fund raiser for film

Dr. Nurit Jugend writes JMWC and asks to post this letter below about an upcoming documentary film : They Played for their Lives. http://www.TheyPlayedForTheirLives.com

Dear friends & family,

Imagine yourself in the year 1939, you re a young musician and music is the one thing that can save your life...

One of the most absurd and unbelievable phenomena during the Holocaust, is that while being Jewish condemned you to death, being a musician earned you respect and appreciation by the very same persecutors - the Nazis.

Our documentary tells these extraordinary stories of musicians who faced these exact circumstances: music was the one thing that could and would eventually save their lives and the lives of those they loved.

As we enter the final stage of filming, we need your help to complete the film.
We ve started a fundraising campaign http://igg.me/p/33015?a=34338&i=shlk to help cover costs of two remaining shoots by survivors from LA. Once we capture these last stories we will begin editing and post production, and shortly thereafter be ready to debut the film.

Preserving these remarkable stories for the future generations, and for the Jewish community as a whole is something that cannot be done without your support!

Please take a moment to visit our online fundraiser and consider making a 100% tax deductible donation. If donating is not an option, you can still help out in a huge way by spreading the word and posting this link http://igg.me/p/33015?a=34338&i=shlk on your facebook page, twitter feeds, your organization's website, and simply by sharing it with friends and family.

We have only 60 days to raise the necessary funds before the campaign is over!

Please pass this email to your family and friends.

Thank you for your attention!

My best wishes,

Dr. Nurit Jugend
Project director and producer
http://www.TheyPlayedForTheirLives.com

Pitom (Where Jewish Music Meets Metal!!) avec André Daneau

"Pitom (Where Jewish Music Meets Metal!!) avec André Daneau" at
The Montreal Jewish Music Festival - Festival de Musique Juive de Montréal
Start Time: Monday, August 29 at 9:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, August 30 at 12:00am
Location: La Sala Rossa
4848 Boul. St-Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
Featuring: Yoshie Fruchter (guitar), Shanir Blumenkrantz (bass), Jeremy Brown (violin) and Kevin Zubek (drums)

More Info
Pitom est un groupe de musique juive hybride jazz-punk-sludge-métal – style qui ne peux venir que d’une culture vagabonde. Après un premier succès avec la maison Tzadik qualifié de « début éblouissant » par le Wall Street Journal, Pitom continue de faire évoluer son genre musical unique avec un deuxième album intitulé Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes. Composé par le guitariste et meneur du groupe Yoshie Fruchter comme hommage ...acoustique au jour de repentance juif et produit par le bassiste de Pitom, Shanir Blumenkranz, cet album représente l’exploration profonde de l’intensité spirituelle et psychologique liée à cette célébration. Leur musique insaisissable est créée par une guitare déjantée accompagnée d’une basse heavy métal au son lourd et sombre et d’un violon aux mélodies qui montent en flèche. Le spectateur a besoin que la batterie bouscule les instruments pour les ramener sur terre. Par ailleurs, Pitom a joué dans tout le pays ainsi qu’en Europe de l’Est et de l’Ouest. Le groupe a notamment participé à l’Atlantique Jazz festival en France, au festival Otwarda Twarda de Varsovie et à des festivals de musique juive à Washington, à Detroit et à New York.

Artistes : Yoshie Fruchter (guitare), Shanir Blumenkrantz (basse), Jeremy Brown (violon) et Kevin Zubek (batterie)

Pitom is a Jewish jazz-punk-sludge-metal hybrid - the kind of music that could only come from a culture known for wandering. Coming off a successful first album on Tzadik records, which the Wall Street Journal called a "dazzling debut," Pitom continues to evolve their unique brand of music with their second release entitled, “Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes." Composed by bandleader and guitarist Yoshie Fruchter as a sonic homage to the Jewish day of repentance, and produced by Pitom bass player Shanir Blumenkranz, "Blasphemy" is an intense exploration of the mental and spiritual intensity associated with this holiday. With its cacophonic guitar, surly heavy-metal bass and a soaring violin, the music is so ethereal that the listener needs those mosh-pit drums to rocket them back down to Earth. Pitom has performed all over the country and in Eastern and Western Europe including the Atlantique Jazz Festival in France, Otwarda Twarda festival in Warsaw, and Jewish music festivals in Washington DC, Detroit and New York.

Featuring: Yoshie Fruchter (guitar), Shanir Blumenkrantz (bass), Jeremy Brown (violin) and Kevin Zubek (drums)

MJOR new Review of Jewish Opera

Musica Judaica Online Reviews has a new article by Jeffrey Shandler that reviews the Milken CD Vol. XVI: Heroes and Heroines: Jewish Opera. http://mjoreviews.org/author/musicajudaica/.

Nusach Radio Update

Winston Weilheimer writes that his radio show is available at Live365.com, which hosts many stations where you can listen to just about anything you would like, including The Nusach Internet Radio Network. You have to subscribe. It does not cost unless you wish to become a VIP (No commercials) and you find Winston's home page at: http://www.facebook.com/l/UAQDD0SjpAQCr5SJvcNTBkMR839w_TAAcofJtz6KMXmx5dA/www.live365.com/stations/53860?play

. or < br/> http://www.live365.com/index.live

Free concert! Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express

Event: Free concert! Alicia Svigals' Klezmer Fiddle Express
With Christina Crowder, accordion, Brian Glassman, bass, and Aaron Alexander, drums, who will get everyone up and dancing!!
Start Time: Thursday, August 18 at 7:00pm
End Time: Thursday, August 18 at 10:00pm
Location: Putnam Valley Main Fire House
265 Oscawana Lake Road
PUTNAM VALLEY TOWN BOARD CONCERT SERIES -- FREE and open to the public, thanks to a generous grant from the ANNE ANASTASI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION. No reservations necessary.

Perry Robinson Trio including Assaf Hakimi, bass and Dani Benedikt, drums

Thursday, August 18 at 10:00pm - August 19 at 3:00am
Location The Zone - Ha Ezor
HaRechev 13
Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
הרכב 13, 62595 Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel
Hours Mon - Thurs: 9:00 pm - 4:00 am
About האזור - מי, מי במול, מה ומו
Description
לאחר שהייה ממושכת במעמקי המחתרת האורבנית התל אביבית, ולאחר התמודדות לא פשוטה עם רשויות מסוגים שונים בעקבות אותה מחתרתיות, ה"אזור" הועתק לרחוב הרכב 13, (כן כן, במקום בו עמד הברזילי הנודע) ושודרג בכמעט כל היבט אפשרי. רעש, השכנים, מקום, איוורור, חום ועשן אינם מהווים בעיה, ואפשר כעת להתרכז בייעודו האמיתי של המקום - מפגשים ומוסיקה. תקראו לזה סלון, ג'אמייה, אולם הופעות בוטיק, מתנ"ס של מוסיקאים או פשוט ב...ר - איך שזורם.

האזור כרגע בהרצה ופתוח מידי יום מהשעה 21.00 ועד אחרון המוסיקאים השיכורים למעט ימי שישי. לרגל אירוע משמח זה, הכניסה חופשית למעט בימי הופעות שם מחיר הכניסה משתנה בהתאם להרכב. דבר נוסף וחשוב, המקום ללא עישון, והמעשנים יהנו לגלות את חצר העישון המפנקת שעומדת לרשותם טענות, ביקורות , בקשות, שאלות, הזמנות יתקבלו בברכה בעמוד זה.
See More Email musicfromthezone@gmail.com
Phone 0544467240
Website http://haezor.com

Romanian Internet Radio Interviews Maury Epstein

Jerusalem Musician Maury Epstein and Jerusalem Rabbi/Bar Ilan Professor Raffi Shochet will be interviewed this coming Monday night from 7 to 8 p.m. (Israel time) on Romanian internet radio station, www.jcc.ro

Breslov Bar Band "Have No Fear" Anniversary Concert

Breslov Bar Band "Have No Fear" anniversary concert @ Drom NYC
with Egypt 2000
Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm
Location: Drom
85 Avenue A (bet 5th & 6th streets), New York, NY
The $10 cover includes a copy of "Have No Fear".

The Breslov Bar Band plays Traditional Eastern European Hasidic music reimagined, ranging from melancholy midnight meditations to full-throttle ecstatic dance.
Doors open at 7. Egypt 2000 at 8. Breslov Bar Band at 9.
What people are saying about "Have No Fear":

“This CD is the happy answer to the question, ‘Five Breslovers walked into a bar...’ This is a fun, fun CD.” -- Ari Davidow, Klezmer Shack

“Judging by this debut album, a formidable new band... The arrangements and interpretations lean towards funk and a very contemporary idiom, without ever losing the spiritual undertones and overtones of the Breslov material... The album is totally consistent and compelling, with not a weak track anywhere." -- Rainlore's World of Music

“There’s a remarkable range of music in this set, from meditative pieces like ‘Adir Ayom,’ to the full throttle rock ‘n’ roll religious devotion expressed in ‘Ani Ohev Et HKB’H,’ to the reggae of ‘Mi Yiten’...” -- Ottawa Jewish Bulletin

“The Breslov Bar Band is a perfect fusion of these two spheres — traditional Hasidic music on the one hand, and a thoroughly contemporary sensibility on the other... While the band moves between styles from song to song, the overall aesthetic is one of intelligent and energetic rock music, only with Jewish musical modalities rather than Blues as its foundation.” -- Ezra Glinter, The Arty Semite

“One issue we may face today, though is how to access the sounds of the Jewish people’s past... Without our musical heritage contributing to those of our generation who are currently producing musical output, we risk severing today’s Jews from works of the past. Fortunately, there’s groups like the Breslov Bar Band...giving new voices to old melodies.” -- Gideon Klionsky, Kfar Jewish Arts Center

More Music in California

Wednesday, August 10, 8:30pm, California Klezmer, at Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center in Berkeley. Dance lesson with Bruce Bierman at 7:30pm. Tickets: $10. More info: 510.525.5054, ashkenaz.com.

King Django, Yiddish Princess, Schmekeletc

Saturday, August 6 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location Fontana's Bar
105 Eldridge St, New York, NY 10002-4405
Phone +1 (212) 334-6740
Website http://www.fontanasnyc.com
Rock!! Grrrrrrrr.
8pm Schmekel
9pm King Django Roots & Culture
10pm Yiddish Princess
3 AMAZING BANDS. ONLY $8.

... King Django, internationally known as one of America’s premier reggae and ska artists, now introduces his most unique and vivid assemblage yet. Travelling the halls of both his beloved Jamaican vibration and Jewish heritage, King Django’s Roots & Culture Band pairs musical and blood families in a titillating twist of traditional Hebrew folk, klezmer, reggae and ska with a Brooklyn bend.

Looking to reconcile your love of power pop and hard rock with your love of Yiddish music? Your search is over. Behold, Yiddish Princess: a double guitar onslaught, with drums beating you into submission. Analog synths beckoning and a voice that can shatter ice and coo you into mellifluous bliss. Alts oyf Yiddish!

Schmekel is Queer Jewcore from Brooklyn — 100% Transgender, 100% Jewish! Their music offers a Bar-Mitzvah buffet of punk, klezmer, jazz, rock, and polka influences, while their lyrics combine bawdy humor and critical awareness, encouraging audiences to laugh at butt jokes while deconstructing systems of oppression. “Schmekel” is Yiddish for “little penis.”

3 AMAZING BANDS. ONLY $8.

Ramzailech - Debut Album Release Party

Event: Ramzailech - Debut Album Release Party - רמזיילך - השקת האלבום Start Time: Saturday, August 13 at 10:00pm
End Time: Sunday, August 14 at 1:00am
Location: Levontin 7, Tel Aviv
Special guests and hardcore klezmer party.
tickets: 40NIS at the concert night, 30NIS by ordering before at 03-5605084


רמזיילך! - הופעת השקה לאלבום הבכורה ב13.8 בלבונטין 7 ת"א
ההופעה המרכזית שלנו בעיר הקיץ, יהיו אורחים והרבה הרבה שמיייייייח!
כרטיסים: 40 ש"ח ביום האירוע, 30 ש"ח בהזמנה מוקדמת בטלפון 03-5605084
Join the group: www.facebook.com/ramzailec​h

More Siddur Learning Aids

Here's another way, with liturgical texts from the Siddur, (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Kulanu)... http://kakatuv.com/index.html that has Hebrew text, transliteration and translations overlays in pdf format. These are on printable sheets and have page numbers corresponding to popular siddurim. After you have the texts, you can also get the music at Siddur Audio: http://www.sidduraudio.com/links.html

Yiddish Fiddlers on Radio

Yiddish fiddler's program is a an entire Yiddish radio program of songs themed around fiddlers. Take a listen. Winnepeg's CKJS 810 regularly features this Yiddish Radio program in online live streaming music.
http://www.ckjs.com
The Complete Archive is available at:
http://www.mediafire.com/?a89rz2pppl7hh
The files are in MP3 format. They take several minutes to download.
Rochelle Zucker is the hostess for the program.