Reform Rosh Hashanah

Break Dance Rosh Hashanah

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!

Rosh Hashanah -- Mendy Pellin Style

Shana Tova -- Dip Your Apple

Fountainheads Rosh Hashanah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlcxEDy-lr0

Mahler Songs Newly Released on Bridge Records

A new CD of Mahler Songs on BRIDGE RECORDS by mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselbock has been released. http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9341

Gustav Mahler
The Austrian mezzo-soprano, Hermine Haselböck, winner of the Vienna Musikverein's* Alexander* *Zemlinsky Prize*, sings three of Gustav Mahler's great song cycles, accompanied by pianist Russell Ryan. Hermine Haselböck began her studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna with Rita Streich and Hartmut Krones. She completed her studies with Ingeborg Ruß at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and, after graduating with artistic merit, attended master-classes with Kurt Equiluz, Kurt Widmer, Christa Ludwig, Edith Sélig-Papée, Sena Jurinac and Marjana Lipovsek. Ms. Haselböck's burgeoning career has included performances in recital and with orchestras in many European capitals, as well as in New York's Carnegie Hall. Hermine Haselböck's other Bridge CDs include *Lieder by Franz Schreker *with baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan, BRIDGE 9259); and *Lieder by Alexander Zemlinsky *(with pianist Florian Henschel, BRIDGE 9244).

Hermine Haselböck, mezzo-soprano
Russell Ryan, piano
BRIDGE 9341

Neshama Carlebach in Eastern US Tour

Neshama Carlebach will be performing in several venues in the coming months. Here is a sample listing:
For more information: See her website http://www.neshamacarlebach.com/
Oct 31, 8PM
Temple Emanuel Social Hall
424 25th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451,
A Night with Neshama Carlebach in memory of Sharon Elstein z'l Admission will be free , donations to Temple Emanuel in memory of Sharon will be gratefully accepted at the door. For further information please call 757-428-2591or send an email to admin@temple-emanuel.hrcoxmail.com

Nov 5, 7:30 PM
BETHESDA JEWISH CONGREGATION (in The Memorial Hall)
6601 Bradley Boulevard
Bethesda, Maryland 20817
Neshama and her band will be performing at Bethesda Jewish Center's 10th Anniversary celebration. For reservations and further information, please visit www.bethesdajewish.org

More visits:
Nov 10, 7PM
The Carlebach Shul
305 West 79th Street
NYC, 10024
Neshama and her band will perform in honor of the Yahrzeit - the 17th anniversary of her father's passing.. For tickets and further information please call 212-580-2391 or visit www.carlebachshul.org


Nov 12, 8PM
Congregation Keneseth Israel
2227 Chew Street
Allentown, PA 18104
Neshama and her band will be performing with The Rev. Roger Hambrick and members of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir. For further tickets and further information, please visit http://www.kiallentown.org


Nov 19, 8PM
The Jewish Center
435 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
Neshama and her band will be performing with The Rev. Roger Hambrick and members of the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir. For tickets and further information please visit www.thejewishcenter.org or call 609-921-0100

Yael Naim at City Winery

Oct. 29 and 30, 2011
Yael Naim: She Was A Boy Out
http://citywinery.com/events/201875
Tickets:
Bar Stools $25.00
Reserved Tables $28.00
Reserved Best Tables $32.00
VIP Tables $32.00

Their differing roots and their multiple passion for music unites them: YAEL NAIM releases a second, four-handed album together with DAVID DONATIEN, as a new collection of graceful songs.

After the worldwide success of the feel-good album, released in 2007, YAEL NAIM unveils her second album today « She Was a Boy ». Closeted in a Parisian apartment for two years, YAEL NAIM and DAVID DONATIEN perfected Yael’s songs in Hebrew and English, which culminated in a commercial and artistic success (Victoire de la Musique 2008, for the Album of the Year World Music category).

Following the use of the song « New Soul » in a promotional advert for Apple, it entered the Top Ten on the US sales chart. Since then however, the Parisian flat has been turned into a studio; more space, but the same passion to make an album at their own pace. Having made great use of these past three years by playing anywhere where there was even a slight echo of their music, and to taste the pleasures of the fringe (a tribute to Joni Mitchel, on the Beatle’s album “Let it Be”, a collaboration with the National Jazz Orchestra and a representation at the Pleyel concert hall), YAEL NAIM has given her all to this process that she herself qualifies as a particularly intimate way to create songs. At the same time, DAVID DONATIEN involved musicians such as Thomas Bloch, Lionel, Stéphane Belmondo and the pianist Éric Legini.

Furthermore, the French artist Tété was invited to the banquet table of sessions, alongside the “eternally- young” tender singer, Spleen , Jacques Daoud and Yoed Nir (cellist), as well as the usual friendly crew of musicians that regularly join them on stage.* YAEL offers us a mix of gentle as well as heartbreaking songs, crossed with those that don’t resemble theirs like for example the light tempo of “Come Home”, or of their dreams in “My Dreams” and their certainties, using the richness of Balkan chords as in “She Was A Boy”, in which Yael, still just a child, encounters a young woman who is not like the others and not of their opinion. “I Try Hard” uses a mix of the artist’s words and that of the woman. At times, the album transports us to the world of cinema, “My Dreams”, and its underwater chorus’ are worthy of an Esther Williams aquatic ballet and she doesn’t hesitate to dive into her innermost soul: it’s in a bluesy, lamenting fashion that “Never Change” presents not the most flattering of self portraits.

We salute the jolting parade of New Orleans orchestras in “Mystical Love” that Lee Dorsey himself would have been proud of. The coming together of India and the West, the melismatic singing in “Man From Another Woman”, which ends by smiling at the young woman (lost in translation and lost in love) in “The Game is Over”. Finally, on “Today” and “If I Lost the Best Thing”, Yael and David haven’t hesitated in accompanying their singing with a simple violin or solo guitar in order to better preserve the intimacy of the songs. Strength and fragility, a trek around the world (jazz, variety pop, classical), and a soul-searching journey of self, here the voices and melodies vibrate within the compositions of Yael, and so does the listener.

Similar artists: Sarah Bareilles, Regina Spektor, Feist...

Famous songs: Too long, New Soul, Toxic...

Tatiana Fleischmann at Klezmer Brunch

Oct, 2, 2011
Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on our brunch menu on Sunday mornings from 10am to 2pm. **Please note that the live music is played from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a short break in the middle.

Tickets are just $10 to cover for live music and does not include food or drink. Children 13 and under are free for the music. We have a full brunch menu available upon request.

On select weekends we welcome Rabbi Dan Ain from The New Shul to lead thoughtful discussion on theology, spirituality and the movements of the cosmos. The Rebbe's table to open to all to attend.

ABOUT TATIANA PLUS

The lead singer of the trio – TATIANA FLEISCHMANN – sings in English, Yiddish, Russian, Ladino, Gypsy, French, Spanish, and mingles the Klezmer style, European chanson, Gypsy traditions and modern Russian art singing with added elements of jazz, rock, flamenco, exploring every dramatic opportunity of these genres.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Tatiana has had a distinguished career as a theater performer and singer. She was a member of the award-winning theater companies "Na Krasnoj Presne", “O.Tabakov Studio” and “The Nikitsky Gate”. As a prominent Eastern European song performer she is perhaps best known for her role as lead singer in Loyko, the renowned Gypsy/Klezmer group who achieved international fame in the 90’s.

Later she sang with the virtuoso violinist/guitarist Oleg Ponomarev, was part of a celebrated trio "BIS", enchanting audiences around the world with the innovative heady cocktail of soulful and heart-wrenching Klezmer music spiced with gypsy tunes.

Her guitar dates back to the 19th. Century and is an authentic piece by a celebrity craftsman who produced the best-sounding Gypsy guitars for the Royal band.

With her original style, Tatiana offers a unique interpretation of the songs and lets the audience hear the pieces performed as they have never heard them before. Her soft and colorful vocals, as well as mastery of both the piano and guitar have won her fans and critical acclaim all over the world.

Andrew Yegorov – Guitar Solo
Victor Smirnov – Accordion, Piano, Wind Instruments
Tatiana Fleischmann – Vocals, Guitar, Piano

The Boston Camerata celebrates The Sacred Bridge

The Sacred Bridge
December 3, 2011 8:00 pm - Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
For tickets and prices, visit http://www.bostoncamerata.org/tickets.html
Back by popular demand, a second interfaith celebration, a holiday program unlike any other. Discover with The Boston Camerata the common musical roots of Jewish, Arabic, and Christian religions, and the astonishing and beautiful interactions among these traditions. Joel Cohen and The Boston Camerata are joined by members of the Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble.
http://www.bostoncamerata.org/ The Sacred Bridge as performed in concert by The Boston Camerata

I. Songs of exile
Anonymous (Sephardic, Jerusalem) Boray ad ana/Criador hasta cuando Creator, why have you imprisoned your Dove? Why have you put her in chains? She is alone, without her children, crying Father, Father, Father...

Al naharot bavel (Psalm 137)
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, And our tormentors asked of us mirth: 'Sing us one of the songs of Zion.' How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

II. The Sacred Bridge
Anonymous (Gregorian, Ashkenazic) In exitu Israel/ B'tset Yisrael (Psalm 114, Latin and Hebrew versions) When Israel came forth out of Egypt,The house of Jacob from a people of strange language;/Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion...

Obadiah the Proselyte (12th century) Mi al har horeb (Eulogy of Moses)
Who other than Moses stood on Mt Horeb at sudy? Who other that Moses led my flock in the desert, bringing them forth water? To the heavens he came to God. Know, my people, 'That your light has come. The Glory has shone upon you.'

III. Jewish Minstrels in the Christian Middle Ages
Mathieu le Juif (13th century) Par grant franchise
I must sing to you, unfaithful lady who torments me. False lovers make true love perish; I have served you faithfully, yet you mock me. Why have you thus betrayed me? For your love I have forsaken my Law, my God. May God make your face so wrinkled and old that all will hate you, save me!

Sueskint von Trimberg (13th century) Wa heb'uf (melody: Der Wilde Alexander, 13th c.)
What sorrow is now thrust upon me, now that my noble patron is gone. Now I must flee the court, let my hair and beard grow long. I shall live in the old Jewry, with a long coat and hat. Slow shall be my walk, and sad my song.

Isaac Gorni (13th century) A poet's life (translated from the Hebrew) IV. Jewish folksongs of the Mediterranean
Anonymous (Morocco) En ciudad noble y encina (instrumental)

Yo hanino, tu hanina
I am Hanino, you are Hanina, these shall be our names, and the children born to us, Aman, will be like the moon and the sun, Derman, like the moon and the sun...

Morena me llaman
They call me the dark one, but I was born fair; I lost my color from travelling so much. Clad in green and scarlet, the betrothed girl speaks thus to her beloved. A ladder of gold and ivory was made for them to climb...The king's son calls me the dark one, and if he summons me, I shall go.

Anonymous (Balkans) La rosa enfloresce
The rose blooms in the month of May, and my heart saddens with the pains of love. The nightingale sings and sighs... Come quickly, O thou my soul, or else I shall die. Carpentras (18th century) Eftach sephatai berinah (Circumcision)

I open my lips with happiness. We shall sing tomorrow at dinner. I will praise God Highest on the tambourin and the violin... May the child being circumcised today become a wise man; may the exiles and the wanderers be returned; may the redeemer of Zion come!

INTERMISSION

V. Songs of Mystical Spain
Anonymous (Sephardic) Respondemos, Dio de Abraham Answer us, O God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in our hour of death.

attributed to Alfonso el Sabio (1221-1284) Virgen madre groriosa King of Castille
Vigin Mary, full of Glory, Sainted wife and daughter of God, who can glorify you?

Anonymous (Sephardic) Kaddish (instrumental) with Alfonso el Sabio Madre de Dios, ora por nos
Mother of God, pray for us on this day of judgement, when the trumpets shall sound and the dead shall be raised.

Alfonso el Sabio Des oge mas quer eu trobar (instrumental)
Gran dereit (instrumental)

Anonymous (Sephardic, Balkans) Cuando el rey Nimrod
As King Nimrod raised his eyes to heaven, he saw the star above the Jewry, announcing the birth of Abraham, our much loved father.

attributed to Abraham, cantor of Gerona (12th c.?) Ahot ketana
The little sister [i.e. the Jewish people]prepares her prayers and intone her praises. O God heal her sickness, and may her misfortunes cease from now on.

Alfonso el Sabio Muit e benaventurado (instrumental)

Anonymous (Sephardic) El nora alila
O God, grant pardon to the people of Israel; raise your eyes to those who are yours; may Michael, Elijah and Gabriel proclaim the joyful news of redemption.

Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut

Event: Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut sings Kabbalos Shabbas - Modjitz!
Start Time: September 16, 2011 at 6:30pm
Location: Emet V'Emunah, 1 Narkis Street, Nachlaot Jerusalem

Bessarabian Tantshoyz

Thursday September 15, 7:00PM-10:00PM
Special Bessarabian Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party & Artist Interview
Featuring master clarinetist Isaac Sadigursky with Michael Alpert
Admission $10
Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Ave. in Manhattan by St. Mark's Place

The Great Yiddish Theater Composers Facebook Site

The Great Yiddish Theater Composers Facebook Site is quite a lively facebook page filled with details about Yiddish Theater composers (obviously), but is a fan page full of events, celebrations, links to websites, factoids and comments, questions, puzzlers, and more. You'll have to join the group and see.

The Vilna Ghetto Theater

CONCERT - The Vilna Ghetto Theater: Yiddish Poetry Set to Music (1941-1943)

On the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto. Excerpts from four revue shows from the famous Vilna Ghetto Theater. In English (songs in Yiddish)
Sophie Michaux, voice. Eugenia Gerstein, piano. Susanne Klingenstein, lecture.
Thursday, September 8, 7:00 pm
Brandeis University, Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Waltham, MA
Sophie Michaux was born in London raised in France. She studied classical music at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, graduating in 2010 with a degree in Early Music. She then went to Venice to study at the Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminar (directed by René Jacob). In the fall of 2010 she came to Cambridge, where she is currently studying voice at the Longy School of Music with Anna Gabrieli. Although Ms. Michaux is concentrating on the classical opera repertoire, her rich mezzo-soprano also makes her a sought-after soloist for jazz and tango ensembles.

Eugenia Gerstein was born in Moscow, Russia. After early training in piano and music theory at Moscow music schools, she pursued graduate studies at Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk, focusing on choral conducting and the teaching of choral disciplines. She taught at the Music Teachers' College in Voronezh, where she chaired the Department of Music Theory. Since leaving Russia in 1994, Eugenia Gerstein embarked on a career in music education and choral conducting.

Susanne Klingenstein was born in Germany. After studying various literatures, history and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and Brandeis University, she pursued Yiddish literature and postgraduate work in American literature at Harvard University. In 1991 she earned a PhD in American Studies. She teaches philosophy and history of medical culture as lecturer in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology at the Harvard Medical School. She is a regular contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and is currently writing an introduction to Yiddish literature for Beck Verlag in Munich.

Music and the Holocaust ORT websie

ORT has produced a website devoted to some aspects of music and the Holocaust. It takes a look at musicians and composers affected by the war, either fleeing or winding up in concentration camps. The website includes links to additional sources and readings, as well as clips of music and images.
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/

London Klezmer Quartet

Thursday 8 September
Doors open 7pm
Concert starts 9pm

Camden, London
London Klezmer Quartet @ The Green Note
106 Parkway, London NW1 7AN

All welcome for the London Klezmer Quartet's concert of new arrangements& compositions plus old favourites at the Green Note. Come early and dine at this fine vegetarian cafe and music venue.
www.londonklezmerquartet.com

Tickets£10 from www.wegottickets.com/evenue/480
Transport: Camden Town tube

Alexandria Kleztet in VA

Saturday, September 10 -- The Alexandria Kleztet
Potomac Overlook Regional Park
2845 Marcey Road
Arlington, VA 22207
703-528-5406
7 to 8:45 pm
Free!

If it rains (always a decent possibility), we go inside the auditorium at the Nature Center!

The Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European/Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. New arrangements of traditional melodies and original songs by members of the band draw upon jazz, classical, world beat, rock and other musical genres to create a unique and entertaining sound.

The band is based in the Washington/Baltimore area and has performed throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. http://www.kleztet.com/

New TV series MUZIKA available online

A new series MUZIKA produced by Shalom TV is available online. Their first portrait is of Noa (Achinoam Nini), the Israeli singing star. It's a good show, with interviews and clips of her performing. You will learn a lot about Noa, already one of our favorite musicians.

http://videos.shalomtv.com/video/muzika-noa-achinoam-nini-aug-2-2011

EAST VILLAGE KLEZMER & YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES

East Village Klezmer & Yiddish Culture Series
Tuesdays at The Center for Jewish Arts and Literacy
325 E. 6th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.) NYC (6th St. Community Synagogue)
curated by Aaron Alexander
New Expanded format!

6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
7 - 7:50PM Yiddish Class, led by Dmitri Stiepovitch $20
8 - 9:15PM Concert (see schedule below) $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 - 11PM Klezmer Jam Sessions, led by concert artists, or, Margot Leverett, Pete Rushevsky, Aaron Alexander and others, with Yiddish dance instruction by Lisa Mayer and guests. $5 (free with Concert or Workshop) Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink)

*generous discounts available* for students, seniors and members of 6th St. Community Shul, Workmen?s Circle, CTMD, Klez Kamp and Klez Kanada attendees, and volunteers.
Questions? Contact: info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

*Opening Night: Sept. 13 Jake Shulman-Ment Band*
Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer, improvisor, teacher, and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world's leading practitioners of the klezmer violin. As a child in New York, Jake's immersion in Yiddish culture and the klezmer revival movement, as well as rock, jazz, and classical music, formed him into an eclectic musician with multiple influences at work simultaneously. In an effort to explore more deeply the roots of the Jewish music he grew up with, Jake has done extensive research and study with Roma musicians in Romania and Hungary. He has synthesized his experiences and travels into an original sound, sometimes departing quite far into a realm of experimentation, but always remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music.
Band:
Jake Shulman-Ment: violin, vocals
Benjy Fox-Rosen: bass, vocals
Ben Holmes: trumpet
Art Bailey: accordion
Pete Rushefsky: tsimbl


*Upcoming Concert Schedule:* *Sept. 20 Alicia Svigals Trio
Sept. 27 Adrienne Cooper Ensemble
Oct. 4 Lisa Gutkin w/Pete Rushevsky and Remy Yulzari
Oct. 11 Joel Rubin & Pete Rushevsky
Oct. 18 Sukkos Party with Litvakus, feat.Dmitri Slepovitch
Oct. 25 Jim Guttman Bessarabian Breakdown
Nov. 1 Lisa & Sruli's Family Band
Nov. 8 Eve Sicular, Isle of Klezbos
Nov. 15 Klezmerfest
Nov. 22 Pete Sokolow
Nov. 29 Matt Darriau's Shabbes Elevator
Dec. 6 Michael Winograd Trio
Dec. 13 Joanne Borts
Dec. 20 - Khanike Party with Yale Strom's Hot Pastromi & Aaron Alexander?s Midrash Mish Mosh

Volunteers Needed! please email a@aaronalexander.com

Metropolitan Klezmer at City Winery

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER plays City Winery KLEZMER BRUNCH
Sunday, September 18
155 Varick Street, btw Vandam & Spring
West Soho, NYC 10013
212-608-0555
http://citywinery.com/events/186078
City Winery begins brunch seating at 10am.
Live music onstage 11am-2pm.
Full menu & winelist (no minimum order).
Tickets $10, kids under 13 enter free!

An at Fort in Tel Aviv

Sept 6th 1t 9:30PM
Shablul jazz Tel-Aviv

מועדון שבלול
האנגר 13 נמל תל-אביב 03-5461891
With David Friedman-vibes, Gilad Dobrecky-percussion.It's a rare opportunity to hear David play in Israel. The group will be playing original material by all three musicians. www.shabluljazz.com *special discount if you mention you are on Anat's mailing list!!!*

Hotegezugt in Concert at the Festival des Treteaux

HOTEGEZUGT sera en concert au “Festival des Tréteaux" samedi 17 septembre 2011 à 19h
au Temple de Genthod, 1294 Genthod-Bellevue (Genève, Suisse).

MUSIQUE KLEZMER avec Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Bianca Favez (violon), Patrice Mugny (accordéon), Frédéric Berney (contrebasse) et David Morhain (percussions).

Entrée libre!
Informations: http://www.genthod.ch et www.borzy.info

Concert de Noëmi Waysfeld & Blik et Denis Cuniot

Sunday, September 4 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Cercle Bernard Lazare
10 rue Saint Claude
Paris, France
Journées européennes de la culture et du patrimoine juifs
"Patrimoine et Modernité"
Du Traditionnel à l'electro
Yiddish and Russian music

Best Hits of Klezmer Music & Prince of Kosher Gospel

Gala Evening
Sunday, September 4 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Rolf-Liebermann-Studio des NDR, Oberstraße 120, 20149 Hamburg.
So. 04. September 2011, 19:00 Uhr: GALA-Abend, Rolf-Liebermann-Studio des NDR, Oberstraße 120, 20149 Hamburg.
Einziges Konzert in Hamburg mit der Star-Besetzung der Klezmer-/Jazz /Gospel-/Musical-Szene
Leon Gurvitch Project feat. Special Guests aus den USA: Kantor Joshua Nelson „The Prince of Kosher Gospel“, Musical-Star Ethan Freeman

Das Ensemble um Komponisten und Pianisten Leon Gurvitch entwirft ein neues Bild des zeitgenössischen Jazz in Europa in einer originellen Synthese von osteuropäischer Folklore und Einflüssen der modernen Improvisationskunst. Die fünf Ausnahmemusiker gastieren regelmäßig auf renommierten Festivals und sind mehrmals mit dem Programm „Klezmer meets Jazz“ auf Tour gewesen.

Afroamerikanisch-jüdischer Kantor Joshua Nelson verbindet die klassische jüdische Liturgie mit dem Gospel- Stil und der Rhythmik, aber auch mit den Jazz- und Blues-Elementen der afroamerikanischen Tradition. Nelson ist in der jüdischen Community der USA und in Israel ein Star, der nicht nur Synagogen, sondern Konzertsäle füllt.

Bekannt durch zahlreiche Rollen in Musical-Produktionen wurde der in New York geborene Ethan Freeman von den Lesern der Fachzeitschrift „musicals“ zum besten Darsteller des Jahres 1999 gekürt. Als Solist in Konzerten, Liederabenden und Fernsehshows ist er in 10 Ländern aufgetreten, u.a. in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall und bei den Londoner „Proms“.

Joshua Nelson – Vocal
Ethan Freeman - Vocal
Chad Thorne – Vocal

Leon Gurvitch – Klavier, Melodica, Arrangement
Inna Vysotska – Vocal
Vladimir Karparov – Saxophone, Klarinette
Omar Rodriguez Calvo – Kontrabass
Dimitris Christides – Schlagzeug, Percussion

Eintritt: € 20,- (erm. € 15,-)
Karten an der Abendkasse & im Vorverkauf: Konzertkase GERDES, Rothebaumchaussee 77, 20148 Hamburg.
Tel. 040/45 33 26 oder 040/44 02 98.

Mehr Info:
http://www.leon-gurvitch.de/de/concerts/index.php?id=1273

Book Review on Strom's Dave Tarras Bio

Jonathan L. Friedmann has a book review of Yale Strom's book Dave Tarras: The King of Klezmer
http://www.thedailyrabbi.com/featured-jewish-blogs/dave-tarras-the-king-of-klezmer/

Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam

Composer Meira Warshauer's In Memoriam September 11 and Caesaria will be presented in the U.S. and Germany in several formats by several ensembles on Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11, 2011.

The World and German Premiere performances of the cello choir version of In Memoriam (for 6 celli, adapted by Mirel Iancovici from the version for solo cello and strings) will be given by Mr. Iancovici and I Multicelli in Bottrop at Martinskirche on September 10 at 7:00 PM, in Gelsenkirchen at the New Synagogue on the 11th at noon and in Gladbeck at the Martin Luther Forum Ruhr on the 11th at 6:00 PM. Other composers on these programs include J.S. Bach, Mozart, Ravel, Samuel Barber, Max Bruch and John Tavener. Special guest soloist will be Felicia Hamza.

In Memoriam, in its clarinet/cello transcription, will be performed on 9/11 - 2:30 PM by Cross Island's cellist Suzanne Mueller clarinetist Joseph Rutkowski, Jr. at Firefighters Memorial Park (Jon's Park) in Great Neck Plaza, New York. The ensemble has presented other performances throughout Long Island in 2010 and 2011. ..more
The piece, in its original version for solo cello will be performed on September 11 at 3:00 PM by Robert Jesselson as part of the University September Concert Series in the Recital Hall of the School of Music at University of South Carolina in Columbia. Jesselson has previously performed this version in Vermont, North Carolina, Maine, South Carolina and Ohio, as well as in England, Taiwan and Korea. You can hear his performance online at http://www.kalvos.org. It was also broadcast on Kol Israel radio in an hour-long program of the music of Meira Warshauer in Spring 2002.

This version will also be performed by Diana Golden at a 9:00 AM September 11th Memorial Service at St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts, near Walden Pond.

Marvin Rosen will be airing In Memoriam as part of his We Remember September 11 marathon, beginning September 10 at 7:00 PM on WPRB 103.3 FM Princeton University radio. Listen online at http://www.wprb.com/.

Ms. Warshauer's Caesaria for soprano and piano (from a text by Hannah Senesh) will be performed by Serena Hill, soprano as part of September 11, 2001: A Community Remembers - 4:00 PM that day at the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center of Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. Special guests will be the college's dance ensemble.

The composer writes about In Memoriam, "I wrote these sketches during the days of watching the horror of the attacks of September 11: the collapse of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania - I didn't have a piece in mind, or consciously set out to write one. But the sketches seemed to belong together, afterwards, and to fit the solo cello - It is my way of holding each other in our loss."

The piece is also available in versions for violin solo (commissioned by Gregory Harrington and performed by him as part of his five city tour of New Zealand in March 2008), violin and cello duo, violin and bass clarinet duo, clarinet solo, clarinet and bass clarinet duo, and solo cello with string ensemble or string orchestra.

Cellist Andrea Yun presented the solo cello version at the University of Texas San Antonio in 2003.

The version for solo cello and string orchestra was premiered in February 2003 at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, by solo cellist Ina Esther Joostand the King David Strings (members of the Jerusalem Symphony) conducted by Anita Kamien. Ms. Joost also performed the solo version in Israel, the U.S., Brazil and Germany.

Cellist Christopher Johns also performed the soloist and string orchestra version with the Tallis Chamber Orchestra in Wilmington, North Carolina in 2009.

Orit Orbach performed the solo clarinet version at the International Clarinet Festival in Israeland theclarinet and bass clarinet version was premiered in 2004 at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina.

Program notes and a study score for the solo cello version of In Memoriam September 11 are available at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/compositions_chamber.html. String orchestra materials are available at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/compositions.html#.

Audio excerpts of solo cello and cello and strings recordings of the piece can be found at http://meirawarshauer.com/NEW/pages/sound_links/In_memoriam.html.

Survived Irene -- Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Timeless Blessing

Leonard Cohen in 2009 in Ramat Gan. Given the past week up and down the East Coast, thought some folks might feel the need to hear this blessing

המועדון הקאמרי - ברוח יהודית

Wednesday, September 21 · 8:30pm - 10:00pm

המרכז למוסיקה ע"ש פליציה בלומנטל
ביאליק 26
תל אביב

קובי רובינשטיין - כינור
נועה שריד - כינור
גלעד הראל- קלרנית
גילי רדיאן- שדה - ויולה וכינור
הלל צרי - צ'לו
מיכל טל - פסנתר
נתנאל גרינשטיין - פסנתר

בתכנית: פרוקופייב - פתיחה על נושאים יהודיים לקלרנית, רביעיית מיתרים ופסנתר מיו - סויטה לכינור, קלרנית ופסנתר שולמית רן - דואו לקלרנית וצ'לו סטוצ'בסקי - מיני דואט לכינור וצ'לו
בלוך - בעל שם פאול בן - חיים - שירים ללא מלים ג'ון ויליאמס - סויטה לכינור ופסנתר "רשימת שינדלר"

Journal of Synagogue Music Online

As you may know, The Cantors Assembly has digitized it's past issues of the Journal of Synagogue Music online. They are available in PDF format at http://www.cantors.org/ca_jsm_docs.php along with their conference proceedings. These journal issues are searchable in a general way... that is, a search term will be found from the search in all documents with that word, but the reader will have to open the specific issues (pdf) and then use his/her Adobe Acrobat reader's "find box" to pinpoint the keyword in the document. The reader must search each of the documents separately for the search term. Still, this is a remarkable addition to the study of Jewish music and having access to so many interesting articles from the last half century from distinguished cantors and writers is a tremendous boon to Jewish educators and all of us interested in Jewish synagogue music.

Ayana Haviv Website

Ayana Haviv, a session soloist working in California, is an Israeli born soprano who has a wide range of stylistic abilities. She works in both film and live performance. Her website claims her "specialties" include:
opera, art song, oratorio, boy soprano, straight tone, atonal, choral. Pop, light jazz, light rock, indie/alternative, gospel, soul, R&B, country, musical theater, children's voices, characters, ethereal/ambient, animation. Slavic, African, Celtic/Irish, Middle Eastern, Israeli, American, Jewish, Klezmer, Ladino, Bulgarian, Balkan, & Yiddish folk music.

http://www.ayanahaviv.com/ Listen to samples on her site or see photos in the gallery.

Shir Ami Website

The musical group Shir Ami has a website with sound clips, information about the artists and news stories. Starting out as a group of young musicians in Bucks County, PA, they have traveled and performed internationally, collaborated with Pro Musica Hebraica. Use the contact information page to find out about upcoming performances or journeys.

Hearing Shofar Collects Websites

Michael Chusid has collected websites dealing with the Shofar called "Hearing Shofar: The Still Small Voices of the Ram's Horn".. and wrote a book. He's been blogging stories, sermons, poems and tales, and hsitorical data about the Shofar for the last couple of years. You might also enjoy his tagging taxonomy about his blog, or some of the more arcane anecdotes. Well worth the browse and exploration.

http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com/2009/11/links-to-shofar-websites.html

Joseph Achron Society focuses on publication

The Joseph Achron Society, led by Sam Zerin, put out a fundraising call for publication of Achron's works:
the Joseph Achron Society fundraiser ends tonight! Online donations are quick and easy, and will help us publish the first edition of Achron's brilliant Paganini Caprice transcriptions!

You know as well as I do: more than half of Achron's important legacy has never been published -- despite high praise from the likes of Heifetz and Schoenberg -- and thus remains inaccessible to most of today's performers.

For the first time in almost 100 years, the Achron-Paganini Caprices will be easily available in print to performers world-wide! Let us work together. Help us with a tax-deductible donation today -- and receive a free score!

Here is the link again: http://www.razoo.com/story/Achron-Paganini-Caprices

Thank you for your help.