Israeli & Ernest Bloch Music Competition 2012

Applications are now open for the Israeli Music Competition and the Ernest Bloch Music Competition.

The Israeli Music Competition was begun in 2008 and aims to familarise both professionals and students with the fascinating styles of Israeli music - a rich tapestry of sounds which produce a musical blend without equal; a fusion of Western musical idioms such as Klezmer (brought over with the first immigrants in the 1880s), and Eastern traditions brought by Jews from Arab countries.

The Ernest Bloch Music Competition was begun in 2009. Ernest Bloch (24 July 1880 – 15 July 1959) was a Swiss-born, American-Jewish composer and, since the 50th anniversary of his death was commemorated in 2009, the addition of the Ernest Bloch Music Competition to the Israeli Music Competition has drawn much worldwide interest. It has therefore been decided to make the Ernest Bloch Music Competition a regular part of the Israeli Music Competition.

Each competitor is asked to play a prescribed classical composition, a piece of their own choice, as well as an Israeli piece for the Israeli Music Competition and a piece by Bloch for the Ernest Bloch Competition.

http://www.israelimusiccompetition.org/

The first prize for the Israeli Music Competition is:

• £1,500
• a concert and live recording (including a lightly edited "auditorium-cum-studio" master CD) at the Jerusalem Music Centre
• a recital in one of London’s top venues sponsored by the JMI
  

The second prize for the Israeli Music Competition is:

• a performance with the London International Orchestra

Ernest Bloch Music Competition
The first prize for the Ernest Bloch Music Competition is

• £1000>
• a recital in one of London’s top venues sponsored by the JMI

The second prize for the Ernest Bloch Music Competition is:

• £500

For entry information, see the website: http://www.israelimusiccompetition.org/
Posted by jmwc at 04:58 PM

Adrienne Cooper: A Yiddish Light Goes Out

Adrienne Cooper Khane-freyde bas beyle-buni z"l.

Adrienne Cooper (1946-2011), a leading light of Yiddish song died early last night, December 25, of cancer in Roosevelt Hospital in NYC. She was surrounded by her family and friends. Ms. Cooper, one of the world's top figures of Yiddish music, brought Yiddish folk and theater music to modern audiences. She was a valued performer, not only for her impressive vocal qualities, but her masterful interpretive style and tremendous stage presence. She presented Yiddish song in such an expressive way that any audience could understand and appreciate it. Along with her feminist social conscience, she was a mentor and leader to thousands of musicians and students. She helped co-found "Klezkamp" and spread Yiddish culture throughout the world. She is survived by a daughter, Sara Gordon, and partner Marilyn Lerner, two brothers and her mother.

Adrienne Cooper was born September 1, 1946 in Oakland, California. Her grandmother made homemade wax discs of Yiddish folk and liturgical music, and her grandfather was a baritone ba'al t'fillah. Adrienne's mother was an opera and musical theater performer, and a prominent concert performer of Yiddish and Hebrew music. Cooper began studying voice in her late teens with her mother's teacher, Mary Groom Jones. She continued studying classical art song with Mina Lief at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. She then attended Hebrew University and received a BA in history. Later she continued voice training with Jennie Tourel and Simon Sargon.

After returning to the United States, she studied at the University of Chicago, where she received an MA in history. She first performed Yiddish songs in graduate school.

In 1975, Cooper moved to New York and was coached by Lazar Weiner, the prominent composer of Yiddish art song. She also studied with Yiddish poet and lyricist Wolf Younin. After taking summer courses in Yiddish language, she became an assistant director at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In 1985, she co-founded with Henry Sapoznik the multi-generational Yiddish Folk Arts Program, popularly known as "Klezkamp". Klezkamp successfully trains upcoming music professionals and others interested in folk education.

Cooper concertized internationally throughout Europe in such diverse places as Russian, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Poland, Germany, along with Israel, Canada and throughout the US. She performed and recorded widely with top klezmer bands such as the Klezmatics, Kapelye, and Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass AllStars, and performers such as David Krakauer, Zalmen Mlotek, and DJ So-Called. In recent years, she also participated and recorded in all women's groups such as Mikveh and a group calling themselves "The Three Yiddish Divas". Her success was also due to the exploration and expansion to new repertoire, as in her CD "Ghetto Tango" and her participation in a newly written theater piece, the critically acclaimed “The Memoir of Gluckl of Hameln (with Jenny Romaine and Frank London/Great Small Works Theater).” She also starred in “Esn: Songs from the Kitchen” with Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg.

One of her strengths was bringing intellectual as well as musical force to bear in her amazing collaborations in a wide variety of styles. With Marilyn Lerner, she composed new music to Yiddish poetry, "Shake My Heart Like a Copper Bell: On the Poetry of Anna Margolin" and collaborated with other women composers writing new Jewish music, such as Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Other works included the 1989 Partisans of Vilna and her 1995 solo debut cassette with Joyce Rosenzweig, Dreaming in Yiddish which was reviewed onThe KlezmerShack . Her most recent solo CD was Enchanted: A New Generation of Yiddishsong (Golden Horn Records, 2010). She is featured on film (most recently in the documentaries “Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner” and in “Making Trouble! Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women”) and her recent writings on Yiddish culture have appeared in Lilith Magazine and the journal Bridges.

Cooper served as Executive Officer for Cultural Programs and Jewish Journeys at The Workmen’s Circle for over a decade, where she produced programs in Jewish literacy and culture, following on the groundwork that was started by her as a leader in the revival of Yiddish culture.

Cooper received many awards and honors in her lifetime, including commissions from University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center and UCLA, The Jewish Museum, United Synagogue, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National and New York State Endowments on the Arts, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is the recipient of Klez Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Yiddish Arts and Culture. In December 2010 she also received the Marshall T Meyer Risk-Taker Award by the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice society.

On a personal note, I had the deep pleasure of studying with Adrienne Cooper as a student in her Yiddish song classes in the Zumer-progam by YIVO Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies held at Columbia in 2001. I also saw her perform many, many times in different venues, and each time was something very special. She made Yiddish song come alive, be an immediate presence, and have meaning in the modern world. We will miss this interpreter of dreams. Mit Liebshaft un sholem.

Another Hanukkah Song

A couple of years ago, Erran Baron Cohen recorded this and it is on the NPR site. http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=98443492&m=98503469

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio West Coast Tour

Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio West Coast Tour!
Starts Sunday, January 8 at 8:00pm
Details:
Sunday January 8th, 4pm Congregation Ohr Tzafon
2605 Traffic Way, Atascadero, CA 93422
http://www.congregationohrtzafon.org/
Michael Winograd Klezmer Trio:
Michael Winograd - clarinet
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass/vocals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0AgNtYQB2Q
Tour Dates:
1/8/12 – Congregation Ohr Tzafon, Atascadero, CA, 4pm
1/10/12 – Don Quixote’s Muisc Hall, Santa Cruz, CA, 7:30pm
1/12/12 – Ashkenaz, Berkeley, CA , 7:30pm (Benjy Fox-Rosen Band)
1/13/12- Temple Beth Israel (Pilgrim Church), Redding, CA, 7pm
1/14/12 – Havurah Shir Hadash, Ashland, OR, 7pm
1/15/12 – Rolling and Tumbling House Concert, Eugene, OR, 7:30pm
1/17/12 – ose Schnitzer Manor Geriatric Home, Portland, OR, 2pm
1/17/12 – Mississippi Pizza, Portland, OR, 9pm
1/20/12 – Temple Sinai Klezmer Shabbat, Glendale, CA, 7:30pm
1/21/12 – Yiddishkayt LA, Los Angeles, CA (more info soon)
1/22/12 – Temple Sinai Faux Wedding, Glendale, CA

Details
:
Sunday January 8th, 4pm Congregation Ohr Tzafon
2605 Traffic Way, Atascadero, CA 93422
http://www.congregationohrtzafon.org/

Tuesday January 10th, 7:30pm Don Quixote's International Music Hall, Opening for Califa, Featuring members of Fishtank Ensemble , Plotz , Ballet Afsaneh Tue. Jan. 10 at 7:30pm $12 adv./$15 door dance ages 21 +
Located just 10 minutes from Santa Cruz
Don Quixote's International Music Hall
6275 Highway 9
in Downtown Felton, CA 95018
http://www.donquixotesmusic.info/

Thursday January 12th, Doors at 7:00 pm, Lesson at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:30 pm $10 Veretski Pass, The Benjy Fox-Rosen Trio, Klezmer dance lesson with Dave Rosenfeld
1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley CA 94702
http://www.ashkenaz.com/

Friday January 13th, 7pm Concert, Temple Beth Israel at the Pilgrim Church (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) 2850 Foothill Blvd, Redding Ca Tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door (students $5) Click here to purchase now!
http://www.tbiredding.org/

Saturday January 14th, Havurah Shir Hadash, 7pm Concert. $10-15.
185 N Mountain Ave, Ashland, Oregon
http://www.havurahshirhadash.org/

Sunday January 15th, Rolling and Tumbling House Concerts, 7:30 pm for information & reservations RSVP: jacobs.strain@gmail.com
Eugene, Oregon
http://pages.uoregon.edu/mstrain/houseconcerts.html

Tuesday January 17th, Rose Schnitzer Manor Geriatric Home, 2pm 6140 Southwest Boundary St. Portland, 9722

Tuesday January 17th, 9pm. Mississippi Pizza, double bill with Underskore Orkestra.
3552 N. Mississippi Ave
Portland, Oregon 97227
http://www.mississippipizza.com/

Friday January 20th, 7:30pm Artists in Residence Klezmer Shabbat Service at Temple Sinai of Glendale, Ca
http://www.temple-sinai.net/

Saturday January 21st, 7:30pm Presented by Yiddiskayt LA and the City of West Hollywood, more info very soon, check http://yiddishkayt.org/

"Daniella Rabbani in Concert with Litvakus Kelzmer Band"

"Daniella Rabbani in Concert with Litvakus Klezmer Band" Sunday, January 8 at 3:00pm
Location: Axelrod Performing Arts Center
00 Grant Avenue, Deal Park, NJ
(732) 531-9106 ‎ · axelrodartscenter.com
Tickets: $18
$15 Groups
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Rising-Star-Daniella-Rabbani-in-Concert-with-Klezmer-Revival-Band-Litvakus-January-8---Axelrod-Annual-Appeal-For-Support-.html?soid=1101575715437&aid=vY4yBeEfZ_4

Featuring Songs in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian Daniella Rabbani is "brilliant " (THEATERONLINE), "fascinating" (CABARET SCENE), "dynamic, sexy" (JEWISH THEATRE), "shines" (BURLINGTON FREE PRESS), "wonderful", "a hoot!" (FORWARD), "deftly comic" (THEATRE MANIA), "irresistible" (PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE), "the living embodiment of fun, often sensuous music" (PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE), "effervescent" (CURTAIN UP), "sweet voiced" (FORWARD), "outstanding" (JEWISH THEATER), "moving" (CULTURE CATCH) and "a gifted artist" (FORWARD). Litvakus www. goldenland.com/litvakus brings to life the Russian and Yiddish musical heritage and takes Klezmer Music to the modern audiences worldwide, making the old sound new and fresh, hip and meaningful

Sunday Jewish Hour with Rabbi Winston Weilheimer

Rabbiwinston Weilheimer invited you to "SUNDAY JEWISH HOUR"
SUNDAY JEWISH HOUR every week.
Tomorrow, December 25 at 9:00am
Location: http://ustre.am/FJwo
Rabbi Weilheimer will be streaming Hallel music all Shabbat on ustream.tv
Click the link to listen....btw sometimes the site takes a few minutes to buffer..please be patient.
ONLY ONE LIVE SHOW SUNDAY AT 9AM.
The evening show will be on Monday night at 8pm.

Streaming Jewish Music from DC

A very nice, easy-to-access "radio" station streaming Jewish music comes from Washington, DC. JWASH.net is A Jewish Voice for the National Capital Area.
www.jwash.net
Serving Metro DC's Jewish Community with an eclectic mix of music, culture and tefilla.
Take a listen.

Sephardic Music Festival Dec 26 in NY

Sephardic Music Festival
Sixth St. Synagogue
325 East 6th St., NY, NY
Monday, Dec 26, 2011 | 7pm | $15
For tix: http://sephardic.eventbrite.com

ASEFA is part of a lineup for the evening with Gerard Edery and OudBlues. Special guests Daniel Ori on bass and Keita Ogawa on drums will join Elie Massias, Yoshie Fruchter, and Samuel Thomas, playing new music from their recent CD and additional Sephardic favorites.

The new album, "Resonance," is now available! It features Samuel Thomas, Elie Massias, Yoshie Fruchter, Noah Jarrett, Eric Platz, Rich Stein, Rabbi Michael Kakon, and Rachid Halihal. Here's a sample cut from the record -- http://www.asefamusic.com/FREE/1AllahHuEhad.mp3 You can buy the CD with its beautiful packaging and liner notes directly below or download the digital album for your iPod or computer from [http://www.cdbaby.com/asefa]CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, and Napster. When you buy directly from ASEFA, you get a special promotional offer to add a $10 donation to the Save the Music Foundation.

Since 2001, Asefa has been honing the sound presented on "Resonance." Through original compositions and arrangements, novel orchestrations that combine instruments from disparate lands, and with a heavy dose of the communal spirit needed to make our music, we present a collection of songs that comes from the heart. Asefa foray into the piyyutim (poems) of the Sephardim (Iberia’s Jewish diasporic community) is guided by a love for tradition, innovation, and reinvention. We incessantly journey through the present and its past, from mountains in the east to oceans in the west, touching down for several moments throughout this album to look around with our ears and to see what Asefa can create.
Personnel:
Samuel R. Thomas - tenor and soprano saxophone, na’i, vocals, bendir; Elie Massias - vocals; Yehoshua Fruchter - oud, guitar; Noah Jarrett - bass, guimbri; Eric Platz - drumset, dumbek; Richard Stein - percussion Special guests: Rabbi Michael Kakon - vocals; Rachid Halihal - violin

Sixth Street Synagogue Concert of Radical Jewish Culture

Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Time 9:00pm until 12:00am

Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival with Rafi Malkiel
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music
Sixth Street Synagogue
6th St @1st Ave

Except Saturday --Maoz Tzur

Maoz Tzur by Pharoah's Daughter

The SHIRAH Chorus performs Ma'oz Tzur, led by Matthew Lazar

B'yemai Matisyahu by David Flug -- Deemyon Orchestra

Eight Days of Chanukah --Cindy Paley

Everyone Dance to the Hanukkah Song

Miracle -- Matisyahu Hanukkah

Light Up the Night-- Fountainheads Hanukkah

the Dreidel Song

Age Old Classic -- Chanukah O Chanukah

Bare Naked Ladies

Adam Sandler, Update, Version 3

Some things get a sequel. This is version 3.

Adam Sandler's Hanukah Song

Ask anyone under 35 in America to sing a Hannukah Song, and they're likely to give you the full rendition of the Adam Sandler Hanukah Song... which you can see by this video is widely popular.

Klezmer Brass & Orkestar Bez Sali

Klezmer Brass & Orkestar Bez Sali
Thursday December 22, 2011 9 PM
Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft, downtown Berkeley
$15-$30 suggested donation
no one turned away for lack of funds
co-sponsored by KlezCalifornia

Light Chanukah candles (bring your own Chanukiah), nosh, and dance to klezmer brass and then Turkish-Romani/Bulgarian music by Orkestar Bez Sali. Celebratory ferments by Max Cadji & other delectables by Shayna Marmar (of Honeypie Cooking).

Klezmer Brass
Mike Perlmutter - alto saxophone/clarinet
Noah Levitt - trumpet
Peter Bonos - euphonium
Andrew Cohen - helicon
Sean Tergis - percussion
Aharon Boltsa - percussion

FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS BAND ALLSTARS at THEJEWISH MUSEUM

FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER BRASS BAND ALLSTARS
IN CONCERT DECEMBER 27, 2011
CELEBRATING HANUKKAH AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM
1109 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Band Allstars will perform a Hanukkah concert at The Jewish Museum on Tuesday, December 27 at 7:30 pm. This band has toured the world, bringing over the top exuberant energy to traditional Jewish roots music. Their 2005 CD Carnival Conspiracy was Rolling Stone magazine's #1 non-English recording. This concert will feature joyous Jewish-Gypsy-Balkan-jazz party sounds as well as favorite Hanukkah songs in new arrangements. Members of the band are trumpeter/composer Frank London, drummer Aaron Alexander, tuba player Ron Caswell, clarinetist Matt Darriau, trombonist Brian Drye, and accordionist Patty Farrell. Special guests for this concert include multi-instrumentalist and singer Michael Alpert and the Purchase Klezmer Mob.

This concert is part of See the Light(s): Hanukkah 2011 at The Jewish Museum. This annual celebration features eclectic music, family festivities, and more. Visit TheJewishMuseum.org/Hanukkah2011 for a complete guide to Hanukkah at The Jewish Museum.

Tickets for this program are $45 for the general public, and $40 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Tickets for lectures, film screenings and concerts at The Jewish Museum can also be purchased online at the Museum's web site. Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics and Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, and Ben Folds 5, and is featured on over 100 CDs.

Michael Alpert (voice, accordion, violin, guitar, percussion) has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of klezmer music for over 30 years. He in internationally known for his award-winning performances and recordings with Brave Old World, Kapelye, David Krakauer, and Itzhak Perlman, and is noted for his original Yiddish songs.

Aaron Alexander is a New York based klezmer and jazz drummer, composer, bandleader and educator. His original klezmer/jazz/world music band, Midrash Mish Mosh, has appeared at Makor and The Knitting Factory in New York, and at venues in Krakow, Vienna, and Toronto.

Ron Caswell is a member of The Stumblebums and Beat Circus. He has recorded and performed with They Might Be Giants, Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Orchestra, the Royal Brass, the American Composers Orchestra, and Max Roach.

Matt Darriau has been playing Irish, Balkan, klezmer and jazz music with the Klezmatics the band for the past 23 years. He leads his own Balkan rhythm quartet, Paradox Trio, and has composed music for dance, theater, and film including a recent commission from Chamber Music America for his avant-swing band, Ballin' The Jack. Brian Drye is the leader of Bizingas, and performs regularly with the improvising chamber ensemble The Four Bags. He co-leads the group Drye & Drye with his father, baritone saxophonist Howard Drye.

Patty Farrell leads the circus/new-music/comedy group Stagger Back Brass Band, inspired by a love of brass bands he first discovered on the streets of New Orleans. He is also a member of the chamber/folk group Ljova and the Kontraband and Panorama Brass Band, the Mardi Gras season parade outgrowth of Panorama Jazz Band of New Orleans.

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

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

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

General Information
Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's website at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Maccabeats-- Do You Believe in Miracles?

Clip of Klezmatics on "Conan O'Brien"

Watch out for the Falling Car.
Followed by the Klezmatics.

Maccabeats

Chanukah Concert with Binyamin Steinberg & Special Guest

Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Time 7:00pm until 10:30pm
Where NachlaOr Center, Rechov Yosef Chaim 18, Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel
Suggested donation 20NIS

The Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut sings Carlebach at Yeshurun!

Friday Dec. 23, 2011 4:30pm until 6:00pm Where 44 King George St. Yeshurun Central Synagogue, Jerusalem Description Kabbalat Shabbat!

SwingSet Mamas Hanukah Song

Klezmatics on Conan O'Brien on TBS

The Klezmatics will appear on Conan O'Brien's show on Monday, December 19 at 11pm/10pm central on TBS. More info:
http://teamcoco.com/schedule/2011-51#guest-4163

Anat Cohen at JCC in Manhattan

A virtuoso jazz saxophone and clarinet player, Anat Cohen is an established bandleader and prolific composer, conversant in modern and traditional jazz, classical music, Brazilian choro, Argentine tango, and an expansive timeline of Afro-Cuban styles. Recently voted 75th Annual Clarinetist of the Year by Downbeat Readers and by the Jazz Journalist Association, her live show promises to be thrilling, adventurous, and energetic.

Thusday, Dec 15, 8 pm, $15/$20
Anat Cohen Quartet:
Anat Cohen on Clarinet & Saxophone
Bruce Barth on Piano
Joe Martin on Bass
Daniel Freedman on Drums

For tix and info:
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/performances?page=cat-content&progid=24529

She'Koyokh in London

10th December, 7.30pm (doors 6.45)
St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
Tickets: £12.00

St. Ethelburga's are delighted to welcome back She’Koyokh once again. This fabulously gifted Klezmer band, at ease performing in any environment. Inspired by the confluence of Eastern Europe’s musical cultures and traditions, this international ensemble have forged a sound straight from London’s melting pot - an exceptionally diverse repertoire of exhilarating, soulful Eastern European Jewish, Balkan, Turkish and Gypsy music.

Tel: 07776136609
email: music@stethelburgas.org

She'Koyokh final Cafe Mostra appearance of 2011 next Thursday:
15 December, 8pm
Cafe Mostra, 86 Stoke Newington High Street
She'Koyokh http://www.shekoyokh.co.uk/

Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir

Maury Epstein invited you to "Kabbalat Shabbat with the Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir"
Kabbalat Shabbat with the Jerusalem Institute for Chazzanut Choir
Friday, December 9 at 4:30pm
Location: Beit Knesset "Emet V'Emunah"
1 Narkis (in Nahlaot), Jerusalem, Israel

Two Voices ... One Vision: Noa and Mira in Concert for Coexistence

NOA and MIRA
Thursday, March 15, 2012
7:30pm until 9:30pm
At New York's magnificent Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center

GALA CONCERT FOR COEXISTENCE BENEFITING THE ABRAHAM FUND INITIATIVES starring Achinoam Nini (Noa) and Mira Awad, Israel’s Jewish and Arab superstars performing in Hebrew, Arabic and English

For information about ADVANCE VIP PATRON TICKETS & POST-CONCERT CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS, contact info@abrahamfund.org; 212-661-7770, ext. 200

TICKETS TO THE PUBLIC GO ON SALE JANUARY 15th at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office; call 212-721-6500 or purchase tickets online at www.jalc.org (starting January 15th)

Ramzailech- Live at the Ozen Bar

Sunday, January 1, 2012
Time 8:30pm until 10:00pm

אנחנו מגיעים לאוזן בר כחלק מסיבוב הופעות בארץ ובעולם. הארדקור כלייזמר וגוד וייבס מובטחים יחד עם אורחים והמון המון שמחה. בואו לחגוג איתנו את השנה החדשה!

ההופעה תתחיל בזמן - 20:30!

כרטיסים: 40 ש"ח בקופות, 30 ש"ח דרך אתר האוזן בר - www.third-ear.com

מוזמנים להפיץ את הבשורה ולהצטרף למשפחה לשאר עדכונים: www.facebook.com/ramzailech

70 Years Ago December 7, 1941

Never Forget!

"Jewish Identities and the Quest for Purity in Twentieth-Century Art Music" by Dr. Klara Moricz

the Jewish Music Forum invites you to join us this Friday at the Center for Jewish History, 9 December 2011, for the next event of the 2011-2012 Jewish Music Forum season. JMF presents a talk entitled, "Jewish Identities and the Quest for Purity in Twentieth-Century Art Music" by Dr. Klara Moricz.
Friday December 9, 2011, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, New York 10011

In this lecture Prof. Klára Móricz gives an overview of the anti-essentialist argument of her book Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Art Music. She discusses the concept of Jewish music, the dangers of its various definitions and introduces the protagonists of her book: the Russian Jewish composers who founded the Society of Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg in 1908; Ernest Bloch, whose name is frequently associated with a racial perception of Jewish music; and Arnold Schoenberg, whose Jewish identity evolved around utopian ideals of art and Jewishness. She concludes her lecture by exploring the mythical, religious, secular, ethical, racial, and artistic connotations of purity‹a concept that provides a common thread between the various case studies of her book.

Klara Moricz is Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College. With Christopher Hailey she is editor of Journal of Musicology. In 2010 she founded the Jewish Studies and Music Group of the American Musicological Society with Ronit Seter. She contributed a chapter on Ernest Bloch to the collection of essays Western Music and Race (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Her book Jewish Identities: Nationalism, Racism and Utopianism in Twentieth-Century Art Music was published by University of California Press in 2008. Her articles appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, twentieth-century music, Cambridge Opera Journal, and American Music. She is presently editing a volume of essays entitled The End of Russia: Essays on Arthur Vincent Lourié (Oxford University Press) with Simon Morrison.

The entire 2011-2012 Jewish Music Forum series is sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society.

Rediscovering Joseph Achron

Monday, December 12, 2011 7:30pm until 9:30pm Location: Conservative Yeshiva (in the Old Beit Midrash), 8 Agron Street, Jerusalem, Israel Join us for pizza, music, and an exciting discussion on the important but forgotten musical legacy of Joseph Achron (1886-1943), one of the greatest composers of "Jewish Classical Music", and the efforts of a young organization to bring his works back to the stage.
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Joseph Achron Society.

100 years ago, in December 1911, the brilliant young composer Joseph Achron wrote his first "Jewish" composition: "Hebrew Melody", Op. 33 for violin and piano. From that moment on, Achron became one of the most significant leaders of a movement to compose "Jewish Classical Music", a novel concept which had never before been developed. His work in this field – as a composer, philosopher, and cultural activist – shows a deep struggle with many of the same cultural and identity issues still faced by many Jews today. This, together with the strong artistic and historical significance of his musical work, offers a particularly important and meaningful, if unknown, counterpart to the well-known Jewish national literary and visual art traditions of Sholem Aleichem, Marc Chagall, and others.

Small- and large-group discussions will explore the question of "What makes music Jewish?", a question at the heart of Achron's legacy. We'll read excerpts from Achron's own writings on this subject and listen to samples of his music to spark ideas and further questions. In addition, Joseph Achron Society Founder and President Samuel Zerin will give a brief biographical overview of Achron's life, describe some of Achron's important ideas and achievements, and introduce the current work of the Joseph Achron Society in reviving Achron's forgotten legacy.