Fargenign, a Russian Yiddish Choir in Revere MA

A Yiddish event is happening this Sunday (Aug. 8th). Fargenign, a Russian Yiddish choir from Lynn, will be performing over brunch at Temple B'Nai Israel in Revere. The event is this coming Sunday, August 8th, at 10 AM.

If you would like to come please RSVP as soon as possible by e-mail (reservation@tbirevere.org) or by phone (781-284-8388). $10 adults/$4 children. The congregation is located at 1 Wave Avenue, Revere, MA 02151 (Corner of Atlantic & Wave), in walking distance of the Beachmont stop on the Blue line and a few minutes away from Revere Beach.

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale

The Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center presents:
Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale
Benjamin Gruder, Conductor
Sunday, June 13, at 8:00 pm
Merkin Concert Hall
http://kaufman-center.org/
129 West 67th Street, New York
212-501-3330

With a repertoire spanning continents and centuries, featured composers include: Giuseppe Verdi, Salomone Rossi, Yehezkel Braun, Zavel Zilberts and David Broza
Tickets: $24 preferred seating, $21 general admission, $17 students/seniors
Merkin Hall www.merkinconcerthall.org

The Golden Door: Jewish Music with American Accent in Boston

Koleinu, the Jewish Community Chorus of Boston is having a concert on Thursday, June 10 at 8pm at Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA. Cantor Gaston Bogomolni and Cantor Lousie Treitman will be the soloists. Carol Marton will direct. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. go to www.koleinu.org or call 617-559-8649 to get more information or order tickets.

A Jewish Music Medley

A Jewish Music Medley
Hebrew College School of Jewish Music
Sunday, March 21
Wellesley College
Houghton Memorial Chapel
106 Central Street
Wellesley, Mass.

Cosponsored by the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life at Wellesley College
2:30& 4:45 p.m.
Your Turn to Learn-- Hands-on Workshops

Join faculty from the School of Jewish Music for an afternoon of free workshops, including Unlocking the Cantillation Code with Joshua Jacobson, a Sing-along with Cantor Jeff Klepper, A Cappella from Alef to Tav with Honorable Menschen, and Pedagogy of B’nai Mitzvah for Special Needs Students with Dr. Scott Sokol and Cantor Louise Treitman.

Free admission. Registration required.
Register now
For a taste of the Cantillation workshop, read Joshua Jacobson's blog post, What's Music Got to Do With It?: Why We Chant Torah ;
7:30 p.m.
Hebrew College Jewish Choral Festival

In the evening, enjoy the Hebrew College Jewish Choral Festival, with performances by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, Shir Tzion, Koleinu, Kol Rina and Honorable Menschen.
Tickets: $10 in advance; $15 at the door, $5 for children 17 and under Register now

More Information
Barbara Cassidy bcassidy@hebrewcollege.edu
617-559-8643

Twenty Years of Hannukah Happens

The Brotherhood and Music Committee of Temple Emanuel proudly present
Hanukkah Happens - Twenty Years
Thursday, December 24, 2009, 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton
with the
Zamir Chorale of Boston
Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director
Cantor Elias Rosemberg, Hazzan
Concert admission (open seating): Adults - $25; Children under 13 - $15
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For more information and tickets, please visit templeemanuel.com
email HHConcert@gmail.com or call 617-558-8100.

Zamir Chorale at Merkin Hall

If you'll be in the New York City area on December 24, you will enjoy this evening of Jewish music. Matthew Lazar will conduct the Zamir Chorale in its

Annual Winter Concert

at Merkin Concert Hall (129 W. 67th Street) NYC,

at 7:30 p.m.



Featuring Cantor Jacob Ben-Zion Mendelson as guest soloist, the program will include a wide range of gems from the Jewish choral repertoire, from (post-) Hanukkah favorites to Paul Ben-Haim's impressive "Roni Akara" to Maurice Goldman's "Strange Happenings" (aka Avremele Melamed) and Moishe Oysher's "Chad Gadya."



Tickets at $36 and $25 are on sale at the box office, 212-501-3330,
or online at www.kaufman-center.org

Kol Rinah Chanukah Concert

Kol Rinah, Westchester's Jewish Community Chorus
Chanukah Concert conducted by Ben Gruder
Saturday, December 12th at 7:00 p.m.
At the Rosenthal JCC of Northern Westchester, 600 Bear Ridge Road, Pleasantville, New York.

G.A. $17; Seniors/Students/Groups of 5 or more/JCC Members, $12 a person; $2 Discount for Advance Sales for all tickets.
Ticket information:
Anne Lowy (914) 232-7281 or kolrinahchorus@optonline.net. See also, www.kolrinahchorus.org

Moscow Male Jewish Choir at Town Hall

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Moscow Male Jewish Choir
Wednesday December 9 2009
at Town Hall TOWN HALL

They've played the world's stages from Russian synagogues to Carnegie Hall, winning critical raves and fans among Jews and non-Jewish audiences alike.

A Broadway debut of the 20-voice Moscow Male Jewish Choir Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8 p.m., in Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10036. Tenor Joseph Malovany, celebrated cantor of New York s Fifth Avenue Synagogue, joins the choir and its distinguished founder, conductor Alexander Tsaliuk, in a concert that features a mix of liturgical works, Yiddish, Hebrew and Russian folksongs, classics and international favorites.

Tickets, $40 - $80, are available at Ticketmaster, 212-307-4100 www.ticketmaster.com. The Town Hall box office (212) 840-2824 (starting November,10) For more information and group rates call (718)-213-0076

MOSCOW MALE JEWISH CHOIR (www.hasidic-cappella.com)

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Moscow Male Jewish Choir also known as the Hassidic Cappella is a professional choir founded by their distinguished conductor, Alexander Tsaliuk.

One of the choir's earliest supporters was former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. At his direction, many music manuscripts confiscated from synagogues and Jewish ensembles by the KGB, were turned over to the choir. This music has become a cornerstone of its repertoire.

With the help of American cantors Moshe Schulhof (Miami) and Joseph Malovany, the singers, who span three generations, have learned Hebrew, Yiddish, and Jewish liturgy in order to perform this music. Many of their selections from the 19th and 20th centuries are performed in the more traditional Ashkenazic Eastern European Hebrew.

Besides numerous performances in Russia and C.I.S. countries, the choir s tours have taken it on several occasions to eastern and western Europe and the U.S. Many of these concerts have been with Cantor Malovany. It performed at the 60th anniversary commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, at a concert honoring the King of Denmark for the salvation of his country s Jews during the Holocaust, and other celebratory events. It was the laureate at the 1992 Zimriya (choral festival) in Israel.

CANTOR JOSEPH MALOVANY Israeli-born, American tenor Joseph Malovany has been cantor of New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue since 1973. He is also Distinguished Professor of Liturgical Music at the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, Yeshiva University. In 2004, he became the first Jewish cantor to be named a commander of Poland's Legion of Honor (equivalent of knighthood) for his musical contribution to the international and Polish communities.

More information on Cantor Malovany can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Malovany . His many recordings are available at www.nachumsegal.com/music/listArtist.cfm?viewArtist=3242

Song is the Pen of the Soul—An Interfaith Interchange

Song is the Pen of the Soul—An Interfaith Interchange
Sunday, November 15
Wilson Chapel
Andover Newton Theological School
3:30–5:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Seating is limited - please register now.

Dr. Joshua Jacobson and the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Reverend Burns Stanfield and the Andover Newton Community Choir
Commentary by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann and Priscilla Deck

Please join the Zamir Chorlae and the Andover Newton Community Choir for a rousing performance, discussion and sing-along of inspiring music from Jewish and Christian faith traditions. Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will discuss the Jewish spiritual music tradition, illustrated by the Zamir Chorale of Boston under the direction of Dr. Joshua Jacobson; the program will feature selections of Hassidic music and works by Louis Lewandowski, Shlomo Carlebach and Ernest Bloch. Priscilla Deck will lead a discussion of Christian spiritual music, complemented by a performance by the Andover Newton Community Choir, directed by Reverend Burns Stanfield.

You’ll have a chance to join in the singing, led by Cantor Louise Treitman. The afternoon also includes an opportunity to learn more about the many programs of Hebrew College’s School of Jewish Music (SJM), ranging from pluralistic cantorial ordination to certificate programs in Jewish sacred music and Jewish music education.

For more information, please contact Renee Tepper, 617-559-8622, rtepper AT hebrewcollege.edu

Dr. Joshua R. Jacobson, DMA, Acting Dean of the School of Jewish Music and one of the foremost authorities on Jewish choral music, is Visiting Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College and Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University. He is also founder and director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston. His many musical arrangements, editions and compositions are frequently performed by choirs around the world. His book, Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation, was published by the Jewish Publication Society in 2002.

A Jewish innovator who has devoted his career to pluralistic Jewish education, Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann became the eighth President of Hebrew College on July 1, 2008. Previously the founding Headmaster of Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, he was also Founding Director of BIMA-The Berkshire Institute for Music and Arts. A frequent lecturer on Jewish education, he has published numerous journal articles on Jewish education and has contributed several chapters in books on religious education. Rabbi Lehmann is a former member of the Zamir Chorale of Boston.

After a period of recording and performing as a professional musician, Burns Stanfield was ordained in 1991 as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) to pastor Fourth Presbyterian Church, a congregation in a low-income neighborhood of South Boston. Once near closing, Fourth Presbyterian has since grown substantially and is now a vital community presence. Reverend Stanfield conducts the Andover Newton Community Choir as part of his class, Christian Worship, Christian Music, and also teaches at Harvard Divinity School. He continues to write music, perform and record.

Priscilla Deck, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Andover Newton Theological School, has always maintained a parallel career as a free-lance violinist. Although she sees herself primarily as a church musician, she frequently serves as an art and music critic to area newspapers and journals. Convinced of the unique spiritual power of the aesthetic experience, she teaches in the Worship, Theology and the Arts program at Andover Newton.

Koleinu, Boston's Jewish Community Chorus invites you to join

Do you love to sing? Do you want to share in the joy and meaning that comes from singing Jewish music in a chorus? Koleinu, Boston's Jewish Community Chorus, invites you to join us as we begin our 8th season on Thursday, September 10, 2009.

Koleinu ("ko-lay-noo")/Our Voice, a non-audition group of 60+ members who love learning and singing Jewish music together, is directed by our dynamic and skilled conductor, Carol Marton. Koleinu meets Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:45 PM at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Rd. in Newton Centre.

Our first three rehearsals are open, so why not give us a try? No pressure to join; no prior musical or Jewish experience necessary. Openrehearsals will be held on 9/10, 9/17, and 9/24 in Hebrew College(kosher snacks and camaraderie provided). Koleinusings a wide range of Jewish choral repertoire, including liturgical,secular, traditional and contemporary works. We generally perform ashorter program in the winter and end the year with a full program inthe spring featuring our repertoire for the season. Come learn and sing with us - experience the thrill of making music with one of Boston's most popular Jewish musical groups!

Feel free to visit our website: http://www.koleinu.org E-mail us: sing@koleinu.org By T: Take the Green line to Newton Centre and walk up Herrick Rd. By car: If you choose to drive, there is plenty of free parking!

Comeup Herrick Rd. to the top of the hill. Bear left at the signs forHebrew College. Please enter through the main door. We meet in Berenson Hall, which is one floor down from the entrance.

To see flyer click here

ZAMIR CHORALE OF BOSTON TO HOLD AUDITIONS

The Zamir Chorale of Boston, "America's foremost Jewish choral ensemble," will hold auditions for all voice parts on Thursday, September 24 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre. Auditions are by appointment only and must be scheduled in advance by emailing manager@zamir.org

Candidates must have excellent vocal quality, the ability to sight-read music, and previous choral experience. In addition to the audition, candidates are required to attend open rehearsals at Hebrew College on Tuesday, September 8, 15, and 22 from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at Hebrew College, from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m., from September through early June.

For more information about Zamir and audition requirements, visit www.zamir.org

Auditions for Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus

AUDITIONS for 2009 -2010 season
Auditions for the JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (New York, NY)
AUDITIONS INFO
will be held on September 1, 2, 8, and 9, 2009
from 6:30 to 8:00 PM
at The Marseilles, 230 West 103 St, New York, NY.
Knowledge of Yiddish is not required to sing in the Chorus.
Auditions are by appointment only and must be scheduled in advance by emailing Cindy at cindsen@gmail.com
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 September 14th.

Zamir Chorale of Boston at NAJCF

Zamir will help kick off the festivities on opening night of the 20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, NY. Congratulations to Mati Lazar and the Zamir Choral Foundation on two decades of bringing Jewish choral music to musicians from all over the United States. For more information, go to www.zamirfdn.org

Koleinu in Boston

Koleinu, Boston s Jewish Community Chorus, was founded in 2002 by Hazzan Scott Sokol, of the Jewish Music Institue of Hebrew College, and by Larry Kozinn to provide a place open to all to learn, sing and perform Jewish choral music. Carol Marton, known for her work in Jewish choral music, is the founding Artistic Director.

Since that time, Koleinu has given concerts for enthusiastic audiences at synagogues all around Greater Boston, at Hebrew College and annually at Hebrew Senior Life. In the fall of 2009, Koleinu represented Boston at an historic concert in Providence, RI, marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht a sold-out, multimedia production that featured 200 adult and youth voices, full orchestra, and narration by Leonard Nimoy. In the spring of 2008, Koleinu spearheaded Voices Raised Against Violence, a collaborative concert of Jewish and Gospel music, to benefit an anti-violence and leadership development program for Boston s youth.

Koleinu is a non-audition group, open to adults of all backgrounds and experience levels, with members from all around the Boston area. Rehearsals start in the Fall. Check the website for details.

http://www.koleinu.org/

North American Jewish Choral Festival

20th Annual

North American
Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley
Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

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Jewish Choral Festival Boston

Jewish Choral Festival
Sunday, May 17,
7:30 pm at Northeastern University's Fenway Center,
77 St. Stephen Street at the corner of Gainsborough Street.
Hebrew College and Northeastern University jointly present a festive concert,
featuring the four choirs resident at Hebrew College:
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, Koleinu, Kol Rinah and Shir Tsiyon. The combined forces of more than one hundred singers will present a program of classical and contemporary Jewish choral music.
COST: $20 ($10 students and seniors)
Click here to buy tickets.

20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival

20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

* Celebrate the joys of Jewish music with hundreds of singers, and the finest conductors and clinicians from across North America (and beyond)
* Enjoy daily "community singing" and participate in an "instant choir"
* Hear outstanding ensembles in nightly evening concerts featuring the best in Jewish choral music
* Attend daily workshops focusing on a wide array of musical topics with outstanding clinicians
* Jewish Hallelujah Chorus Festival Tradition - Singing the "Jewish Hallelujah Chorus" (Lewandowski's Psalm 150)
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Hundreds of Teens ZING in Gala Concert

Hundreds of Jewish teens from across the United States and Israel will gather in New York for the 16th Annual HaZamir Gala Concert
March 22, 2009
6:00 PM
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd Street, New York City

Participating HaZamir Chapters
HaZamir Baltimore, MD; HaZamir Bergen County, NJ; HaZamir Boston, MA; HaZamir Cleveland, OH ; HaZamir Greater Washington, DC; HaZamir Houston, TX ; HaZamir Israel ; HaZamir Long Island, NY; HaZamir Los Angeles, CA; HaZamir Manhattan, NY; HaZamir Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN ; HaZamir New Brunswick, NJ; HaZamir North Jersey; HaZamir Philadelphia, PA; HaZamir Pittsburgh, PA; HaZamir Portland, OR; HaZamir Providence, RI;

$36 Tickets at the door
For more information, please call
(212) 870-3339

20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival

The Zamir Choral Foundation is proud to present its
20th Annual North American Jewish Choral Festival
July 12-16, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort & Spa
Kerhonkson, NY

Celebrate the joys of Jewish music with hundreds of singers, and the finest conductors and clinicians from across North America (and beyond)
Enjoy daily "community singing" and participate in an "instant choir"
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Debbie Friedman joins the Zamir Chorale in performance. Nick Page in a ruach session
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Founder and Director Matthew Lazar and recent Hallel V'Zimrah Award winners Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Theodore Bikel

Festival Tradition - Singing the "Jewish Hallelujah Chorus"
(Lewandowski's Psalm 150)

Give Ear to Thy People: Choral Music from the Jewish Tradition

Musica Sacra Presents World Premiere by Israeli Composer
This Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Musica Sacra will explore Jewish choral repertoire that juxtaposes the sacred and secular, the ancient and contemporary, the traditional and innovative. The concert, entitled Give Ear to Thy People: Choral Music from the Jewish Tradition, will feature Paths of Stone and Water, a world premiere written for Musica Sacra by Osnat Netzer, Israeli composer and pianist. The concert also includes Aaron Copland's In the Beginning, which sets the Genesis creation story, music by Noam Elkies, Yiddish choral music from the early 20th century, and other selections from the Jewish diaspora.

Give Ear to Thy People: Choral Music from the Jewish Tradition
Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM

LOCATION:
First Church Congregational
11 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA
(Near Harvard Square)
TICKETS:
Reserved: $40
General: $25
Student/Senior: $15
Osnat Netzer is a composer, pianist, arranger and currently a theory teacher at the New England Conservatory in Boston. She is the impresario and coordinator of an annual holocaust memorial concert at New England Conservatory. Her works have been performed in Israel, Germany and the United States at venues such as the Jerusalem Music Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, events such as Israel’s “Sounds in the Desert” festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and broadcast on Israeli National Radio. Netzer attended the Israel Arts and Science Academy in Jerusalem, obtained a BM in piano and composition from the Jerusalem Music Academy and a MM in composition and theory from Mannes College of Music in New York. She is currently studying composition with John Heiss and Lee Hyla in the New England Conservatory DMA program.

From a choral repertoire spanning five centuries, Musica Sacra performs works both familiar and rare, with a crisp passion that awakes the listener to yearnings and joys, sorrows and delights—all that defines and inspires the best in human lives. Since 1959, Musica Sacra has been performing choral music with the highest standards of musical excellence. Director Mary Beekman, now in her 29th season, continues to thrill singers and audiences with a varied and engaging repertoire. Musica Sacra is a non-profit organization funded by the generous donations of its supporters and in part by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and by the Inavale Foundation. Musica Sacra will celebrate its 50th anniversary, and Mary Beekman’s 30th anniversary as conductor, in its landmark 2009-2010 season.

Zemel Choir in Celebration with Song

The 'Celebration with Song' event will be held on the 31 May and concluding in a concert on the evening of 14 June 2009 at St John's Smith Square London SW1. This is the third year Zemel is participating, and the chorus is planning something a little bit different. Their concert will be celebrating the output of Jewish music from a single country, the United States of America. On the first date Zemel will be running a guest workshop focusing on voice technique and other aspects of choral singing. This year Zemel's guest workshop leader will be the BBC's Suzi Digby an experienced voice coach and conductor and well known to television audiences from her appearances on 'Last Choir Standing' and the BBC's 'Choir of the Year'. For further details contact: celebratewithsong@hotmail.com

Hazamir International Jewish High School Choir Gala Concert in NY

Join hundreds of HaZamir teens
from across North America and Israel
for the
16th Annual
HaZamir Gala Concert
March 22, 2009
6:00 PM
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd Street, New York City
Tickets: $30- in advance through HaZamir by March 5th
$36 -at the door on the day of the Gala Concert
Click Here to Download Ticket Order Form and information about becoming a Sponsor
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is a project of the
Zamir Choral Foundation
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 825
New York, New York 10115
www.ZamirFdn.org
HaZamir Phone: 212-870-3339

Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau

Ars Choralis, a non-profit organization of 48 amateur singers, will perform "Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau"

Saturday, March 28th at 8:00pm

WHERE:
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10025
212.316.7490

COST:
$150 (dress circle), $45 (front reserved), $35 (front unreserved), $25 (house) http://tinyurl.com/Tickets-for-Performance or 866.811.4111.

WHAT:
"Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women's Orchestra of Birkenau" is a concert - presented by the Woodstock, N.Y.-based choral ensemble Ars Choralis - that interweaves orchestral music with spoken memoirs to bring back the voices and music of the only World War II women's orchestra. Though over one million people were murdered in the Birkenau gas chambers, the lives of this small group of female prisoners were spared because they played beautiful music.
Based on personal memoirs and historical records, "Music in Desperate Times" will tell the story of this extraordinary group of women through readings, choral music and representative orchestral music played in the camps (Schumann, Chopin, Puccini and traditional music).
The musicians will don lavender scarves and white blouses similar to those worn by the Birkenau musicians and recreate the unusual instrumentation of the original ensemble: violins, mandolins, accordion, recorder, flute, cello, piano and percussion.

Photo by Andrea B. Stern

WHO:
Ars Choralis is a nonprofit organization composed of 48 highly disciplined amateur singers dedicated to celebrating the human spirit through the performance of choral music of all periods and styles. They will be accompanied at this event by a small orchestra made up of professional and non-professional instrumentalists representing the Birkenau orchestra.
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Zamir Chorale with Newton Choral Society March 8

Come to Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA
Sunday, March 8 at 3:00 p.m.
to be inspired by great music performed by two acclaimed choral ensembles.
March will be abloom this year with beautiful music, as Zamir performs its spring concert two months earlier than usual. This year we have partnered with the Newton Choral Society to produce a program of musical masterworks, featuring a combined force of 120 voices.

There are four wonderful works on this concertincluding Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein; choral cycle Mo’adim (Festivals) by Mordecai Seter, and more. Tickets can be ordered through the Zamir websitewww.zamir.org
or by calling 617-244-6333.

There are four wonderful works on this concert. Leonard Bernstein composed his Chichester Psalms in 1965. Dean Hussey, who commissioned the work, wrote “I think many of us would be very delighted if there was a hint of ‘West Side Story’ about the music.” He was not disappointed. In fact Bernstein included in the Psalms a chorus that was originally intended for West Side Story. Today Chichester Psalms is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century choral works.

Mordecai Seter served for many years as professor of composition at the Rubin Academy of Tel Aviv University. His choral cycle Mo’adim (Festivals) was composed in 1946 and dedicated to the Tel Aviv Chamber Choir. Each of the movements is based on a melody traditionally sung by Babylonian Jews. Seter’s style as revealed in this work will remind our listeners of other neo-primitive works, such Orff’s Carmina Burana

Randall Thompson composed his Peaceable Kingdom in 1936, inspired by the words of the prophet Isaiah and a painting by the American artist Edwards Hicks. In a series of magnificent double choruses, Thompson interprets the words of the Hebrew prophet from warnings to destruction to promises of ultimate redemption.

An accomplished young composer, conductor and lecturer, Eric Whitacre has quickly become one of the most popular and most widely performed composers of his generation. In the spring of 1996 the Israeli soprano Hila Plitmann (now Whitacre’s wife) gave her boyfriend five short poems in Hebrew to be set to music. The result was Five Hebrew Love Songs, a luscious romantic musical ode.

Shirei Teva: Jewish Choirs Celebrate Nature through Music

Sunday, February 22, 2009 2:30 PM
Choral Festival
Shirei Teva: Jewish Choirs Celebrate Nature through Music

With Shir Chadash and Shirei Chesed Choirs conducted by Cantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn; Congregation Beth Simchat Torah Choir with Joyce Rosenzweig and Cantor David Berger; Kolot Halev Choir from Chevy Chase, Maryland conducted by Hazzan Dr. Ramon Tasat; and guest artists

Stirring images of nature infuse Jewish choral music with singular magic. Richly fanciful depictions of the natural world – expressed in psalms, folk songs, and contemporary poetry – inspire this program, which will be presented in Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, and English.
$10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $5 members
Edmund J. Safra Hall
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
General Information
1-646-437-4200

Shabbat Live and Annual North Shore Choral Festival

Come See Craig in Chicago!
Two Shows:
Shabbat Live on Feb 6 @ 6:30pm
and
Annual North Shore Choral Festival on Feb 8 @ 10:30am

For more Info:
Phone: 847- 835-4800
www.amshalom.com
www.craignco.com

Zamir Chorale of New York in Concert at Merkin Hall

Zamir Chorale in Concert
Matthew Lazar, Conductor

A joyous program of music celebrating the holiday, including the premiere of a new work by David Burger

Wednesday December 24, 7:30 pm
(the 4th night of Hanukkah)
Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th St
New York City
Tickets: $36 & $25
Call Box Office at 212-501-3330
or
Order Tickets Online

Open Sing
Join the chorus for an OPEN SING
with Matthew Lazar conductor
Special Guest Conductors
Natasha Hirschhorn
and Zalmen Mlotek
with Cantor Faith Steinsnyder
and Beth Robin at the piano
Thursday December 25
1 - 3 pm
The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave
(at 76th St)
Music Rental:
$18 / Members $12
For Tickets
Call the JCC
at 646-505-5708

Zamir Sale of Recordings

Zamir Chorale is having a recordings sale.
Compact Discs: regularly $15, now $10
Cassettes: regularly $10, now $5
Ten-CD gift set: regularly $118, now $80
Now available as a DVD
Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Poland only $15


Choose from the outstanding collection of performances by "America's foremost Jewish choral ensemble" -- (American Record Guide) including:
Lights: Music for Chanukah
Psalmsensation
Zamir: Greatest Hits
Seasons of Our Joy
Soul of the Sabbath
The Monster and the Nightingale
Jewish Composers in America
Click HERE to go directly to our website, which now features audio samples and video clips!

Amsterdams Synaogaal Koor at Podium Twente in December

Amsterdams Synagogaal Koor
will appear as part of the 11th Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, co-sponsored by the WIZO in December Singer Lucette van den Berg will appear on Dec. 20 singing Yiddish songs, a klezmer workshop will be held on Dec. 21 in the morning at Synagoge Enschede led byAnton Molenaar, and the concert by the choir at noon featuring western chazzanut with choir.

For more information:

zangeres Lucette van den Berg. Van den Berg heeft een uitzonderlijk warme, expressieve stem en een grote passie voor Jiddische muziek. Lucette is met het Jiddische repertoire veelvuldig te zien op grote festivals en in zalen als het Amsterdamse Concertgebouw, Muziekcentrum en Kavehoyz in New York. Zij oogst veel succes met haar openhartige, hartverwarmende en poëtische vertolking van Joodse liederen, een genre dat Lucette beschouwt als haar ‘roots’. In maart 2005 kwam haar debuut-cd ‘Zing shtil/ yiddish songs’ uit die door de pers met veel lof is ontvangen. In 1996 won Lucette dankzij haar poëtische kracht en bijzondere stemgeluid de tweede prijs bij het Euregio Vocalisten Concours.

Geheel in de traditie zal op zondagochtend het koorconcert plaatsvinden. Dit jaar zal het Amsterdams Synagogaal Koor acte de présence geven. Het koor, in 1985 geformeerd ter gelegenheid van het 350-jarig bestaan van de Nederlands Israëlitische Hoofdsynagoge, heeft inmiddels een staat van dienst in haar bijdrage aan de verdere verrijking van de Nederlandse synagoge-cultuur. De West-Europese chazzanut (cantoriale muziek) is de basis voor het repertoire van het Amsterdams Synagogaal Koor; een muziekcultuur waarvoor specifieke kennis van de Joodse liturgie zeker niet noodzakelijk is om de melodieën vol van geloof, liefde en verlangen te waarderen.

locatie Synagoge Enschede
aanvang zondag 21 december 2008 12:00 uur
genre Wereldmuziek
serie - normale prijs € 15,00
jeugd/jongeren € 11,00
65 plus € 12,50

Zamir to Perform with Jerusalem Choir in Boston

DATE & TIME:Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. LOCATION:The Fenway Center at Northeastern University (corner St. Stephen and Gainsborough Streets), Boston, MA COST:NU Students with ID free; Adults: $20. To buy tickets: www.gonu.com/tickets/

Northeastern University will present the only Boston appearance by the renowned Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir, under the direction of Prof. Stanley Sperber. The Academy Choir, now in its 40th season, iis considered one of Israel's finest vocal ensembles, performing frequently with the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This will be the first concert on the choir's American tour. Also on the program will be the Northeastern University Chamber Chorus and the Zamir Chorale of Boston, conducted by Prof. Joshua Jacobson. The program includes Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata, Yehezkel Braun's Song of Songs, and other works by American and Israeli composers.

In a grand finale the three choirs will join forces, over one hundred voices strong.

For more information, call (617) 373-2671.

3 Choirs Come together for 40th Anniversary

Zamir Chorale of Boston announces that there will be a performance with the Jerusalem Academy Choir at Northeastern's New Fenway Center in a special three-choir concert at on October 26 at 7:30 p.m.

Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson, who is also Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern, will conduct sets by NU's choir and Zamir, followed by a performance by the Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir (JACC), considered one of the finest musical groups in Israel. For the finale, all three choirs will share the stage. The JACC, comprised of 30 music students and led by Stanley Sperber, is also celebrating its 40th anniversary. Sperber, founded the Zamir Chorale in 1960 in New York and inspired Jacobson to form the Zamir Chorale of Boston in 1969. The JACC has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
For ticket information, click here.

Open Sing Back by Popular Demand
On Sunday, December 7 at 3:00 p.m., don't miss the third annual Open Sing at Temple Reyim in Newton. This year, in addition to favorite choruses from Handel's glorious Judas Maccabaeus, we will sing great synagogue motets by Renaissance master Salamone Rossi. Maestro Jacobson will offer fascinating historical background on this prolific composer. Singers of all abilities and listeners welcome! Vocal scores will be provided.
Tickets available at the door only: Adults, $10; Students and Seniors, $8.

Zamir Choral of Boston announces 2 women as conductors

Zamir Chorale of Boston announced that two women will be involved with their organization as conductors. Lidiya Yankovskaya will be this season's Assistant Conductor and Hinda Tzivia Eisen will be the 2008-09 Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellow.
Read more... The Zamir Chorale newsletter announced that: "Lidiya graduated from Vassar College in May with a bachelor's in music and is working toward her master's degree in conducting at Boston University. She recently attended the Conductors' Institute at Bard College, studying with Maestro Harold Farberman; and Yale University's Norfolk Music Festival Choral Conducting Workshop, with Simon Carrington. An accomplished musician and recipient of numerous awards and honors both in her native Russia and here in the U.S., Lidiya is a mezzo-soprano who, in addition to conducting, also plays percussion, violin, and piano."

"Hinda is a senior at Boston University, majoring in religion, and is beginning her third season singing alto with Zamir. An alumna of HaZamir in New York, Hinda is the alumni coordinator for international HaZamir and conducted the a cappella choir at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and Wisconsin.

Of the internship opportunity, Hinda says, "Much of my spirituality within Judaism is very much oriented in the music I produce with others, and as such I have often felt like I wanted to craft my own 'midrash' with the music I sing." When she's not musically engaged, Hinda volunteers as a clown for many appreciative children! The Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellowship was established in September 2000 by Scott Offen to train conductors in the area of Jewish choral music.

Shir Chadash: The Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus Auditions

Shir Chadash: The Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus, under the direction of Natasha J. Hirschhorn, announces auditions in September 2008 for our 9th season. If you have a passion for Jewish music and are committed to the highest quality of performance, we encourage you to visit us and audition this fall. All voice parts welcomed.

Please RSVP to bjcc@acedsl.com to arrange an audition appointment.

A 40+-member adult choir, Shir Chadash is a true community chorus -- welcoming, diverse and independent of denominational affiliation. We rehearse September through June on Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30 pm, at The Park Slope Jewish Center, 14th Street and Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. We perform several concerts each season and our repertoire includes everything from liturgical offerings in both classic and modern settings to updated arrangements of world folk music and the performance of new sacred and secular works.

For more information, visit our website at
http://www.shir-chadash.cfsites.org/ or
call 212-686-5952.

Zamir Chorale Auditions

The Zamir Chorale of Boston, "America's foremost Jewish choral ensemble," will hold auditions for all voice parts on Sunday, September 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre. Auditions are by appointment only and must be scheduled in advance by emailing manager@zamir.org.

Candidates must have excellent vocal quality, the ability to sight-read music, and previous choral experience. In addition to the audition, candidates are required to attend open rehearsals at Hebrew College on Tuesday, September 9 and 16 from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at Hebrew College, from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m., from September through early June.

For more information about Zamir and audition requirements, visit www.zamir.org

Nashir Celebrates Israel at 60

On Sunday, June 15, at 8:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will present its annual concert at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York. The eclectic program features a major work by Israel Prize-winning composer Yehezkel Braun as well as works of other composers from around the world.

Tickets are $24 (preferred seating), $21 (general admission) and $17 (seniors/students). For further information, contact Merkin Concert Hall (212-501-3330).

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir Celebrates Yiddish and Israel's 60th

TORONTO JEWISH FOLK CHOIR CELEBRATES YIDDISH MUSIC & ISRAEL’S 60TH ANNIVERSARY IN ITS 82nd SPRING CONCERT JUNE 1

A Yiddish work celebrating the joy of playing the fiddle, and a salute in song to the State of Israel on its 60th anniversary highlight the 82nd annual spring concert of the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir. Canada’s oldest continuing choral body performs Sunday, June 1, 2008, 2 p.m. at the Leah Posluns Theatre, 4588 Bathurst St., Toronto.Alexander Veprinsky conducts the 30-voice Choir.

Tickets are $23; seniors and students, $19; children 12 and under, free. For information and ticket reservations, e-mail tjfolkchoir@sympatico.ca or call 416-636-0936 (evenings, weekends) or (416) 593-0750. Information is also available at www.winchevskycentre.org/institutions/choir.html.

Pianist is Lina Zemelman, with soloists Miriam Eskin, soprano; Artour Razgoev, tenor; David Weiss, baritone; and Herman Rombouts, bass. An instrumental ensemble is also featured.

The choir marks the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in a mélange of evocative tunes, mostly in Hebrew, along with the beloved Sephardic song Adio Querida, sung in Judeo-Spanish. Included is the heartfelt appeal Hand in Hand – A Song For Peace (Shir L’Shalom), a copy of which was found on Yitzchak Rabin the day he was assassinated.

Centrepiece is Oifn Fidl (On the Fiddle), by Russian-born, American-Jewish composer Vladimir Heifetz (1893-1970). The lively work is based on an autobiographical short story by the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), about a boy’s passion for the violin, despite his father’s misgivings. In addition to David Weiss as baritone soloist, the performance features four teenaged musicians – violinists Lyrit Milgram and Eitan Postavsky, cellist Hannah Belvedere, and flutist Chris James – along with clarinetist Alexander Fedorovsky.

The orchestration is by Maestro Veprinsky, who has also arranged a Yiddish tango and some Yiddish favourites for the choir. An operatic chorus and French folksong complete the program.

The June 1 concert is presented with the assistance of the Toronto Arts Council and the Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable Foundation.

More information on the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir may be found at www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0003439

Wild Peace: A Gala Concert for Israel's 60th

Wild Peace: A Gala Concert for Israel's 60th
Honoring Joyce Bohnen, Zamir alumna and former board chair
Sunday, June 1, 2008
8:00 pm
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge
Join Maestro Joshua Jacobson and the Zamir Chorale of Boston for a celebration of well-known works and hidden gems by Israel's greatest composers, including Yehezkel Braun's dramatic "Magash Ha-kesef," Naomi Shemer's mystical "Shirat Ha-asavim," Gil Aldema's joyous "Ashira Liydiyday," Moshe Wilensky's exuberant "Uri Tsiyon," and a rollicking arrangement of Marc Lavry's "Shir Ha-Emek." The evening culminates with the world premiere of Cantor Charles D. Osborne's stunning oratorio for chorus and orchestra, Like Wildflowers, Suddenly, based on the poem "Wild Peace," by Israeli poet Yehudah Amichai.
Tickets from $18; students, $10
Visit www.zamir.org
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Colorado Hebrew Chorale

Colorado Hebrew Chorale
"The Colorado Hebrew Chorale was organized in September 1993 by its Music Director, Carol Kozak Ward, to preserve, promote, perform and celebrate the richness of Hebrew choral music throughout the Rocky mountain region. Since its inception, this highly dedicated volunteer chorus, whose membership draws from all areas within greater Denver, has literally given voice to the legacy and culture of the Jewish experience through song. Now entering its fourteenth season, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale retains its commitment to communal service as its raison d’être." Their website has very nice pictures, lists of concerts, program offerings, a calendar and contact information.
http://www.coloradohebrewchorale.org/index.html

Seminaries Join in Choral Concert in NY

The student cantorial choirs of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Sacred music and the Jewish Theological Seminary's H.L. MIller Cantorial School will perform lush, rich Jewish choral music, cantorial solos, ensemble pieces, and much more. Under the baton of Joyce Rosensweig and Hazzan JoAnn Rice.

8pm
Tuesday April 1, 2008.
Suggested donation $18.
The program will be held at the
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St. New York City

CHASANUT CONCERT in Basel, Switzerland

CHASANUT CONCERT and presentation of the new CD EJTZ CHAIJM, Sunday April 6, Basel, Switzerland. Performing: the Choir of The Great Synagoge Basel with chasanim Issachar Helman, Basel, Jaakov Motzen,Toronto and Gedalya Alexander, London. Concert on April 6, 2008 at 5pm in the concert hall Stadt-Casino, Basel, Switzerland (where Herzl had his meetings). Admission Swiss Francs 40 and Swiss Francs 30 (2 categories). Promotion sale of the new CD at Swiss Francs 20 See also www.synagogenchorbasel.ch

Choral Music Publishing

Looking for choral music for your group? ECS Publishing npw has a division that publishes Jewish choral music. It is edited by Dr. Stanley Hoffman, a composer and Chief music editor. The catalog is growing. Currently it includes works by Robert Applebaum, Judith Zaimont, Stanley Hoffman, Bella Gottesman, Vladimir Heyfetz, Mark Zukerman (Sutzkever, Olshansky, Bugatch and more). http://www.ecspublishing.com/jewishMusic.html Dr. Stanley Hoffman, an editor at ECS publishing, has enlarged the Jewish choral composition catalogue at ECS. The catalogue is growing and is available online. ECS Publishing is the parent company of E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Galaxy Music Corporation, Highgate Press, Ione Press, and the record label, ARSIS Audio. ECS incorporated in 1993 in Boston, Massachusetts. ECS Publishing is the exclusive American distributer for Édition Delrieu, Gaudia Music and Arts, Vireo Press, Dunstan House, and Randol Bass Music. ECS is also a non-exclusive distributor of many Stainer and Bell Ltd. products. E. C. Schirmer Music Company remains one of a few American independent classical music publishers in business today.

Nashirah in Philly

Nashirah, the Jewish Chorale of Philadelphia is having a concert March 30 at 3:00 P.M. at Congregation Rodeph Shalom, 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. The name of the concert is "Im Tir'zu: If You Will It". Further information, a contact telephone number and directions are available at Nashira website: www.nashirah.org.

JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS

The JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS conducted by BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER presents a concert of great Yiddish choral music
Sunday, June 1, 2008 @ 4 PM
at
SYMPHONY SPACE
performing works by
Sholom Aleichem, Avrom Goldfaden, Maurice Rauch, Avrom Reisin, Jacob Schaefer, Wolf Younin, Mark Zuckerman
Sung in Yiddish. English translations provided.

WHERE: Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, near 95 St., New York, NY 10025, USA

ADMISSION: $25, $15

TICKETS: http://www.symphonyspace.org/tickets click "Buy Tickets", then "June"; listed first or call 212-864-5400

DIRECTIONS: http://www.symphonyspace.org/aboutus/directions

Songs of Life Festival in Bulgaria and Israel

The Songs of Life Festival will be held in Israel and Bulgaria from Nov 21 - Dec 1, 2008. The festival will feature the Sacred Service by Ernest Bloch.

The festival marks the 65th anniversary of the heroic rescue of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during World War II and serves as a celebration of the preservation of life.

Individual performers as well as choirs are invited to perform in the festival. Performers will sing Bloch s Sacred Service in Bulgaria and Israel. The 12-day itinerary also allows for individual presentations by guest choirs and opportunities for sightseeing and guided tours. Auditors are also invited to attend the festival and participate in the tours.

Please join in this celebration of thanksgiving that will impact generations to come. www.SongsOfLife.org

The website has information on how to join the tour, and information about the conductor, the organizers and the itinerary and costs, and planned concert performances. http://www.songsoflife.org/index.htm

la Chorale Juive de France fait un concert

la Chorale Juive de France, dirigée par
Hector SABO, A paris,
lundi 18 février à 20h00,
à la synagogue de Nazareth (Paris 3ème),
ils font un concert, accompagné par deux hazzanim.

Vienna Jewish Choir on YouTube

Click on the YouTube arrow to view clips from a concert of the Vienna Jewish Choir. Their website states they are due for a concert Feb. 13 in Boca Raton Florida http://www.wiener-juedischer-chor.com/wjc.htm

Southern California Choral Symposium and Concert

Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Symposium: 3:00 p.m.
Concert: 7:00 p.m.

Presentations and discussion by leading Los Angeles scholars and clergy exploring the significance of Angels in contemporary civilization – followed by a concert featuring music inspired by Angels through the ages.

The evening Concert (7:00 p.m.) conducted by Dr. Nick Strimple, Director of Music at BHPC and member of the faculty of The Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, will feature the Choral Society of Southern California, the LA Zimriyah Chorale and the BHPC Chancel Choir. Noted vocal soloists include baritone Cale Olson, mezzo-soprano Catherine Cooper, and Cantor Ira Bigeleisen. Music for the extraordinary evening are works inspired by Angels in classical and contemporary compositions by Handel, Tchaikovsky, Rothblum, Isaacson and Strimple.

Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church
505 N. Rodeo Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Cost of the Symposium is $25.00 which includes a Kosher Dairy dinner

Registration for the Symposium/Dinner must be made in advance by Friday, February 29, 2008.
Cost for the Concert at 7:00 p.m. is $10.00 with payment at the door
For reservations and more information call 818.623.1000

CELEBRATE WITH SONG 2008

Do you enjoy singing? Come and Celebrate...
Come and Sing 10 Centuries of Jewish Music
Join us for workshops and a concert at St John’s, Smith Square
Open to Intermediate and Experienced Choristers
Sponsored by the Zemel Choir and The Spiro Ark
Sunday 1st June 2008: Workshops and voice-training
Sunday 15th June 2008: Workshops and Concert
Price £30 (to include entry to concert)
Price £25 if booked before April 30th
To register, or for further information, call 020 8236 0317
(evenings), or email celebratewithsong@hotmail.com
Sponsored by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation And with the support of The Jewish Music Institute


Come and share with us in the joy of Jewish choral music. www.the-zemel-choir.org e-mail: celebratewithsong@hotmail.com www.spiroark.org The workshop leaders: ...read more.... Benjamin Wolf is Musical Director of the Zemel Choir. He has performed with the choir at major London venues, on tour in Europe and for the BBC. He regularly conducts a number of other choirs in and around London, as well as composing music for theatre and the concert hall. As a pianist he performs in both the UK and abroad. As an orchestral conductor he has performed for the BBC Proms, as well as conducting the Wallace En-semble - a young, professional chamber orchestra.

Malcolm Singer is Director of music at the Menuhin School, Professor of Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a former Musical Director of the Zemell Choir. He has worked with the BBC Singers and other professional ensembles.

Gareth Roberts is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and former member of the BBC singers. He is a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of music, and former tutor at the City Lit. He has given masterclasses In the UK and abroad, and worked for the Royal Opera House and other institutions.

Background information on Celebrate With Song 2008

In the past ten centuries Jewish texts have been set to plainsong and polyphony, and used in motets, cantatas and oratorios, Jewish composers have written in styles ranging from the late-Renaissance to the contemporary. This music provides the focus for the Zemel Choir’s second ‘Celebrate with Song’ event in collaboration with The Spiro Ark. It will culminate in a concert at St John’s, Smith Square on June 15th 2008. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate our rich choral heritage. We welcome singers and audience members, Jews and non-Jews – anyone, in fact, with a love of music and a desire to experience music both old and new.

‘Celebrate with Song’ was launched in 2007 to enhance the profile of mixed-voice Jewish choral music. It is aimed at two groups of people: singers and audiences. We ex-tend an invitation to anyone with experience of choral singing (however limited) to come and sing with us. We will be holding workshops for groups of Intermediate and Advanced choral singers on the 1st of June and the morning of the 15th of June, and all these singers will participate in the grand concert on the 15th. Our workshops are led by experienced choral directors, and also feature an opportunity to brush up on vocal technique with a trained, professional vocal coach.

Audiences are invited to come to our concert on June 15th. For those who usually experience Jewish music in synagogue, this is an opportunity to hear something different. For those who love listening to choral music in the concert hall, but are a little tired of Bruckner, this is an opportunity to hear music by composers such as Rossi and Sulzer, Grossi and Bernstein. The concert will feature performances by the Zemel Choir and the choir of JFS, as well as special performances by our workshop participants. The 2007 ‘Celebrate with Song’ was met with great acclaim, from both audiences and partici-pants. Spurred on by this, we have arranged a second event for 2008.


The Spiro Ark
25-26 Enford Street
London W1H 1DW
Telephone 020 7723 9991
Email: education@spiroark.org

Hanukkah Happens XVIII

The Brotherhood of Temple Emanuel, Newton, is proud to present
Cantorial and Choral Masterpieces
Cantor Elias Rosemberg
with the Zamir Chorale of Boston and the Zamir Festival Orchestra
Dr. Joshua Jacobson, Conductor
Monday, December 24, 2007, 7:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, 385 Ward St., Newton, MA.
Concert admission (open seating): Adults $25; Children under 13 $15
Proceeds to benefit American Friends of Magen David Adom.
For information and tickets visit templeemanuel.com
HHConcert2007@aol.com; or call: 617-965-2468

HaZamir Regional Intervisitation and Chamber Choir Retreat

January 20-21, 2008 - HaZamir Regional Intervisitation and Chamber Choir Retreat in Northern New Jersey http://www.zamirfdn.org/ to read more details.

Zamir Boston special continues through Dec 31

Zamir Chorale of Boston sends this message about their recordings:
All Zamir Chorale of Boston
recordings on sale
Through December 31, 2007
Compact Discs: regularly $15, now $10
Cassettes: regularly $10, now $5
Ten-CD gift set: regularly $118, now $80
Choose from the outstanding collection of performances by "America's foremost Jewish choral ensemble" (American Record Guide) including: Lights: Music for Chanukah
Psalmsensation
Zamir: Greatest Hits
Seasons of Our Joy
Soul of the Sabbath
The Monster and the Nightingale
Jewish Composers in America
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Zamir 'Kibbitzes' with Gevatron

Israel Prize winners, The Gevatron: The Israeli Kibbutz Singers, will perform with America's foremost Jewish choral ensemble, the Zamir Chorale of Boston, on Thursday evening, October 18, 7:30 pm at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline. The Israel Prize is the most prestigious award handed out by the State of Israel and is presented annually for distinguished achievement in scholarship, the arts, or public service. The Gevatron, which received the award in May, was founded in the same year as Israel and is the best-known and most popular traditional folk-singing group in the country. The exclusive Boston concert will include Hebrew music in two very different forms - the exquisite artistry of the Zamir along with the rousing folk music of the Gevatron. Those Were the Days - These Are the Songs is sponsored by the Zamir Chorale of Boston and the Jewish Agency, and cosponsored by the Consulate of Israel to New England and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Tickets are $18 for unreserved seats, $36 for reserved seats; $12 for students and seniors and are available on line, www.zamir.org or by calling Zamir, 617/244-6333.

Melodia Women's Choir in Manhattan with Becca Schack World Premier

The Melodia Women's Choir will present an all female performance of Vivaldi's Gloria in D Major and contemporary works, including the world premiere of Becca Schack's new commissioned piece "In My end is My Beginning" based on a text by T. S. Eliot. The concert is being held
Saturday November 17 at 8 PM, and
Sunday, November 18 at 3 PM at
St. Peter's Church,
346 West 20th Street, New York City, New York.
Melodia will be joined by an all-women instrumental chamber ensemble.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.
For information, call (212) 252-4134, or visit
www.melodiawomenschoir.org.

Melodia Women s Choir, the 32-voice ensemble praised by Margaret Juntwait for their ringing tones, will perform baroque and contemporary works, plus the world premiere of Becca Shack s new commissioned work In My End Is My Beginning. The centerpiece of the program, conducted by Cynthia Powell, will be Antonio Vivaldi s Gloria in D Major, RV589. Many scholars believe that Vivaldi originally composed his Gloria for the women and girls of the 18th century Ospedale della Pietà (hospital/orphanage), where he was working at the time as composer and music teacher. Melodia will be giving a rare performance of the Gloria as it would have been performed in Vivaldi s time.

Becca Schack s In My End Is My Beginning is a piece in four movements based on excerpts from T.S. Eliot s Four Quartets, and contemplates the fragility of life. The composer has written numerous classically-driven pieces for full orchestra and chamber groups. She was a finalist in the 2004 John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Electronic Category) and she received honorable mention in two ASCAP Young Composers competitions, the first one at age eleven. Her compositions have been played by members of the New York Philharmonic and she has performed at the Apollo Theater and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as in Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London.

The balance of the program will include:
Wir Eilen Mit Schwachen from Cantata 78, by J.S. Bach; Five Hebrew Love Songs, by Eric Whitacre (poem by Hila Plitmann) She Weeps Over Rahoon, by Eric Whitacre (poem by James Joyce) Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn

Melodia Women s Choir creates, discovers and performs works for women s voices, and the repertory of the ensemble includes an eclectic mix of rarely performed classical and contemporary works. It has rediscovered numerous neglected works, presenting U.S. and New York premiere performances of pieces by Peter Warlock, E.J. Moeran, and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel in celebration of her 200th birthday. Their Spring 2007 concert, Shout Sister Shout! celebrated female composers and ensembles from 12th to 21st centuries, and their November 2006 concert featured the World Premiere of Allison Sniffin s new commissioned work: Hear Me With Your Eyes, based on love poems of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The group was founded in 2003 by Jennifer Clarke, an arts consultant who has worked with London s Royal Festival Hall, Royal Court Theatre, and companies in New York including Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and Dancing in the Streets. The ensemble appeared last year in the Symphony Space Wall to Wall Stravinsky marathon.

Cynthia Powell, Melodia s Artistic Director and conductor since its inception, also serves as Artistic Director of Stonewall Chorale, has directed the choral program of Sarah Lawrence College and was a guest conductor at the Festival Internacional de Coros in Havana, Cuba. Equally at home as a pianist and organist, she has toured with Meredith Monk's opera, Atlas and Celebration Service in Europe, at the Spoleto USA Festival, the Walker Arts Center and Lincoln Center 2000 Festival and performed at the Spoleto, USA Festival in a revival of Monk's opera, Quarry.

An accomplished composer, conductor and lecturer, Eric Whitacre s works have entered the standard choral and symphonic repertories. Most recently, Whitacre has received acclaim for Paradise Lost, a cutting edge musical combining trance, ambient and techno electronica with choral, cinematic and operatic traditions. Winner of the ASCAP Harold Arlen award, this musical also won Whitacre the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award for most promising musical theater composer. He has received composition awards from the Barlow International Composition Competition, the American Choral Directors Association and the American Composers Forum. The first recording of his music was hailed by The American Record Guide as one of the top ten classical albums of 1997. In 2001, he became the youngest recipient ever awarded the coveted Raymond C. Brock commission by the American Choral Directors Association

Yiddish Chorus at Museum of the City of NY

The JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
conducted by Binyumen Schaechter
are performing on
Sunday, August 5, 2007, at 2:00 PM
at the
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
in New York City
The songs are all in Yiddish.
Translations provided.

The concert is presented in conjunction with the exhibit,
The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community.

The concert will be about 1 hour in length.
The concert is free
with admission to the Museum:
Adults, $9
Seniors, students, $5
Families, $20 (max. 2 adults)
Children 12 and under, free

For directions and other Museum info:
http://www.mcny.org/visit/

Eastern Tradition CD from The Jewish Music Heritage Project

The Jewish Music Heritage Project is the ambitious undertaking of Cantor Sholom Kalib and The Jewish Music Heritage Project Boys' and Men's Choir. The purpose of the Jewish Music Heritage Project is to "document, catalog, and disseminate one of the great sacred musical traditions of the world, namely that of the Eastern European Synagogue, which is now in real danger of being lost forever." So far, 2 vols of a 5 vol. set consisting of 20 books is being published by Syracuse University Press, and a 75 CD set of the music is envisioned. To find out more and order a CD:
http://www.jmhp.org/jmhp_CDs.html

Basel Synagogue Choir Opens Website

The Basel Synagogue Choir, one of the rare synagogue choirs in continuous, uninterrupted existence in Europe from before the Holocaust, has recorded several CDs, and now has a new website at www.synagogenchorbasel.ch. The Basel Jewish community founded in 1805 Einheitsgemeinde (‘United Community’) has also maintained a professional chazzan. Sound clips on the website feature the beautiful voice of Issachar Helman, a native of Israel. He and the all male Choir sing at The Great Synagogue in Basel located at Leimenstrasse 24, every week.

SHIRAH, Community Chorus on the Palisades

13---Celebrate our Bar Mitzvah Year with a Gala Concert

Conductor & Accompanist:
Matthew Lazar, Founding Director & Conductor
Beth Robin, Pianist/Accompanist

Music Performed:
Sacred and Secular (the full spectrum) in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino
Location:
Jewish Community Center on the Palisades
411 East Clinton Avenue
Tenafly, New Jersey 07670
www.jccotp.org for the JCC
201-569-7900
SHIRAH's own WebSite: www.shirah.citymax.com

Active Season:
After the High Hoilidays (September or October, depending on the year)
through June (second Sunday).
2 Semesters---Fall and Spring

Performing Schedule:
December (Chanukah), June (second Sunday), July (North American Jewish Choral Festival, Kerhonkson, NY)---second Tuesday

History:
Formed in January, 1995, with the generous support of its founding patrons, Bernard and Ruth Weinflash, as a regional chorus specializing in the performance of the full spectrum of Jewish music. Sponsored by the JCC on the Palisades/Thurnauer School of Music,its roster includes a multigenerational blend of amateur and professiional singers from the northern New Jersey/New York metropolitan area. SHIRAH performs regularly at the JCC on the Palisades and has been featured in many concerts in the United States and Israel, including Avery Fisher Hall, the New Jersey and Bergen Performing Arts Centers in Newark and Englewood and the Colden Center, featuring the World Premiere of "The Scroll" by Dov Selzer with the Queens Symphony. SHIRAH also performs annually at the North American Jewish Choral Festival and was featured in the Opening Ceremonies of the JCC Maccabi Games in East Rutherford at the Continental Airlines Arena. In addition, SHIRAH has given concerts for organizations and synagogues in the tri-state area and released its first CD in honor of their 10th anniversary .

Songs of Mark Warshawsky and Mordecai Gebirtig for Choir

The JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
conducted by BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER
will perform choral arrangements
of famous and lesser-known songs by the great Yiddish songwriters
MARK WARSHAWSKY
and
MORDECAI GEBIRTIG
Sung in Yiddish, with English translations.
Due to recent sold-out performances, the JPPC will hold two identical concerts:
When: Sunday, June 10th, at 2:00 and at 4:30
Where: Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th St. (betw. Broadway & Mercer St.), New York, NY
Admission: Adults: $15; Seniors (65 and up) and students, with ID: $10
PHOTO ID required, all adults age 18 & up

BY BUS:
M5, M6 buses downtown to West 4th St./Broadway stop.
BY SUBWAY: 1) N / R train to 8th St. Walk 3 blocks S. on B’way to W. 4th St. Turn right.
2) 6 train to Astor Pl. Walk 1 block W. to B’way, then 3 blocks S. to W. 4th St. Turn right.
3) A, C, D, E or F train to W. 4th Street. Walk east along W. 4th St. seven short blocks.

For more information: www.thejppc.org Jo Abrams (646) 602-2007; JPPC@nyc.rr.com

Sydenham Choir at Queens College in June

The Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College Is proud to announce their 6th Annual Benefit Concert

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Starring the world famous Sydenham Choir from Johannesburg South Africa
The return of Cantor Oshy Tugendhaft & the Sydenham Shul Choir marks their 6th North American tour performing their hit musical CELEBRATION! Both Oshy Tugendhaft, and the Choir are internationally acclaimed having sung with many leading Cantors, most recently with Yitzchak Meir Helfgot.

All seats are reserved. General admission: $50 $32 & $20
25 % discount for orders by May 28, 2007 $40 $24 & $15
Priority seating $100 $75. No discount, includes after show party with choir.

Order tickets on line at www.boxofficetickets.com/sydenhamchoir. or call 800-494-8497.

Their CELEBRATION musical depicts many aspects of traditional and contemporary Jewish life and liturgy and takes place to live music, provided by a jazzy orchestra. Their performance is staged in front of a constantly changing video screen that matches spectacular images to live music on stage. Read more...

Tugendhaft is a born performer! His amazing voice lends itself to many different styles. He sounds like both your classical heart wrenching cantor and a modern opera tenor. All the while crisscrossing the stage with amazing vibrancy, singing every song with heart- felt emotion. The Choristers not only pour their hearts into every number but are also perfectly choreographed. Tugendhaft, the choir, and the orchestra create an unbelievably unique atmosphere for traditional Jewish songs. Take a moment to view video clips from their past performances:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4479ytuIDzM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mATJS70-ldA The show is absolutely unique and is sure to be enjoyed by all ages and walks of life. Their audiences have been made up of American, South African, British, Israeli and Persian Jews. There have been teenagers, grandparents and everyone in between present......all of whom end up dancing in the aisles!! We expect this performance to be sold out.

For sponsorship, donations Journal ads or becoming a Friend of the Center, click on attachments for ad blank.

For further information call the Center office at 718-997-5730.

Nashirah looking for new singers

Nashirah is an auditioned, community-based chorale in the Greater Philadelphia area that performs exclusively Jewish and Jewish-themed music. Participating singers come from New Jersey, Delaware, and of course, Pennsylvania.

The group website is http://www.nashirah.org/

Nashirah will have a Spring concert
Sunday • May 20, 2007 • 3:00 PM at
Congregation RODEPH SHALOM,
615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia
Information is available from http://www.nashirah.org/
Nashirah is planning auditions for the 2007-2008 season in early summer. We are actively looking for new singers.

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale in Merkin Hall

On Sunday, May 20, at 8:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will present its annual concert at
Merkin Concert Hall,
129 West 67th Street,
New York.
The eclectic program features works by composers from the Renaissance to the present day, including Salomone Rossi, Aharon Harlap, Max Wohlberg, David Burger, Robert Applebaum, Robert Solomon, and Joshua Jacobson.

Tickets are $23 (preferred seating), $19 (general admission) and $16 (seniors/students). For further information, contact Benjamin Gruder, Choral Director, at beninabox@juno.com or Merkin Concert Hall (212-501-3330).

Zamir Chorale Honors Cantor Jeff Klepper in Cambridge, MA

The Spring concert of the Zamir Chorale is honoring Cantor Jeff Klepper.
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 8:00 p.m., Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA

On June 3 the Zamir Chorale of Boston will celebrate its 38th year of performing inspirational Jewish music by honoring Cantor Jeff Klepper at its annual spring concert at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge at 8:00 p.m. For information about tickets:
http://www.zamir.org/ShalomRav

Zamir will share the stage with Cantor Klepper and Rabbi Daniel Freelander of Kol B’Seder for both a rousing and reflective concert featuring the beloved “Shalom Rav” (Abundant Peace.)

Cantor Klepper has strong Boston roots and even sang with Zamir in 1973. He has very fond memories of that time:
"I sang with Zamir for one precious year; it brought great joy into my life. By the time I left Boston to begin my cantorial studies, Zamir's music had seeped into my heart and soul. I know that Zamir's music made me a better song-leader, a better Jewish composer, and ultimately, a better cantor. "

Zamir invites the public to participate in honoring Jeff. His enthusiasm for and commitment to Jewish music have inspired many young people and enthralled audiences world wide.

Theodore Bikel to Receive Award

Theodore Bikel will receive the Hallel V'Zimrah Award at a program at Central Synagogue in New York. The HaZamir Choir, The International Jewish High School Choir will also perform.
HaZamir Gala 14th Annual Concert
Sunday, April 22, 2007
7:15 PM

Central Synagogue
Manhattan
652 Lexington Ave. (at 55th St.)
Tickets: $25 thru April 12th only from the Zamir Choral Foundation
(212)870-3335
or
$30 at the door

Schola Cantorum on Hudson Explores Judeo-Christian Choral Music Sacred Bridge

Three mid-March Choral Concerts in Caldwell, Jersey City and Manhattan will light up a sacred bridge.
Schola Cantorum on Hudson, the critically acclaimed 30-voice choral ensemble based in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, will perform choral music highlighting the Judeo-Christian heritage with its 12th Ethnic Celebration Series Concert in three venues. Entitled Sacred Bridge, this second concert program of Schola's season will first be performed at Caldwell College on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, New Jersey, on Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 4 pm, reprised on Sunday, March 18, at 4 pm, at Historic Holy Rosary Church, 344 Sixth Street, between Monmouth and Brunswick Streets in Jersey City. The third concert will be performed at St. Malachy's Church, The Actors' Chapel, 239 West 49th Street (between Broadway and Eighth Avenue) in New York City, Monday, March 19 at 7:30 pm.

The ensemble, under the artistic direction of Dr. Deborah Simpkin King, will sing works that exemplify the Judeo-Christian “bridge” by composers such as Barber, Thompson, Rossi, Di Lasso, Mendelssohn, Lewandowski and Braun.

Tickets for all performances are $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors and students. Advance tickets and season subscriptions may be purchased at a reduced price online at www.scholaonhudson.org, by phone at (201) 918-3011, or by email at scholatix@gmail.com.

Organizations, educational institutions, and groups interested in purchasing a block of ten or more tickets receive a special group rate. Please email SCHGroupSales@gmail.com for more information.

Additional information regarding this concert or the ensemble and its activities can be obtained online at www.scholaonhudson.org or by calling 201-918-3009.

Zamir Choral Foundation New Address

Zamir Choral Foundation has a new address:
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 825
New York, NY
10115
Phone: (212) 870-3335
Fax: (212) 870-3336
Email: Zamirfdn@aol.com
Web: www.zamirfdn.org

Jews and Blues at JCC in Newton, MA

Jews and Blues at JCC
Saturday, January 27, 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm: "Jews and Blues," Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center, Newton:
You might feel the JCC shake, rattle, 'n' roll when Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson and Zamir, in collaboration with Nathaniel Stringfield and his band, HouseK'wake, team up this weekend. The program includes individual sets by each group and a not-to-be-missed joint set showcasing Jewish and African-American music— swing, jazz, folk, gospel, reggae, and blues. For more information, go to LSJCC (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=mfkt88bab.0.8qf568bab.p54cesbab.2674&ts=S0229&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ovationtix.com%2Ftrs%2Fcal%2F191) or call the JCC Box Office at 617-965-5226.

CHOIRS AND CANTORS BRING ON THE LIGHT THIS CHANUKAH

Over 250 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 10, 2006 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan. For more information about this concert, please call (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337. A Festival of Choirs is free of charge and open to the entire community.

The seventh annual concert will feature cantors and their volunteer adult and children's choirs from all over the New York metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Friday, December 15, 2006.

"There is no better way to usher in the festival of Chanukah than to see people from all ages, literally from age five to 85 singing together," according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. "We all look forward to continuing this wonderful tradition for many years to come."

Highlights of the concert will include a 100-voiced combined children's choir singing the song, "Raise up the Menorah" written by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. Opening the concert will be singer/songwriter, Julie Silver, along with all of the concert participants singing her new song, "It's Chanukah Time." Another highpoint will be the concert's finale, "Bring on the Light," a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for the Festival of Choirs in 2001.

Cantor Garfein will be joined in concert by Rodeph Sholom's Cantorial-Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein. Also participating in the concert will be Cantors Josee Wolff and Suzanne Bernstein and Cantorial-Interns, Todd Kipnis and Donna Mashadi, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Daniel Singer, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Manhattan; Cantor Irena Altshul, Temple Israel, Manhattan; Cantor Kathy Barr, Village Temple, Manhattan; Cantor Steven Pearlston, Free Synagogue of Flushing, Queens, New York; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY; Cantor Claire Franco, Community Synagogue, Port Washington, NY; and Cantor Micah Morgovsky, North Country Reform Temple-Ner Tamid, Glen Cove, New York.

Accompanying the cantors and choirs will be acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger, Jonathan Faiman. Joining Mr. Faiman will be the "Festival of Choirs" combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Dror Ben-Gur, winds, and Dan Freeman, bass guitar.

NESHAMA CARLEBACH CONCERT NOV. 19TH

Neshama Carlebach in NY. The charismatic Neshama Carlebach, whose voice and enthusiastic presentation energizes audiences of all ages whether she is singing popular Hebrew and Israeli songs or liturgical music, will appear in a concert on Sun., Nov. 19th, at 3 P.M., at the Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel, Henry Hudson Parkway East and West 250th Street, The Bronx, NYC. Modern, traditional and original songs will be featured.
The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale Choir, a community-based group that performed at the recent Jewish Heritage Night at Shea Stadium, also will appear.
Tickets are: adults-$20 in advance, $25 at door; seniors-$15 and $20; students-$10 and $15. Take Exit 19 on Henry Hudson Parkway. No. 1 Subway to 231st Street, then No. 7 or 10 buses. BxM 1 or BxM 2 express buses from Manhattan. Call CSAIR at 718-543-8400 for more information.

Arbel Looking for New Members in Philly

Looking to sing in Philadelphia? Arbel, a Jewish community choir in Philadelphia, is currently seeking new members. Check out http://www.arbel.org

Toronto Jewish Folk Choir at Ashkenaz

The Toronto Jewish Folk Choir is performing Sunday, September 3, 1 p.m. in the Brigantine Room at the Ashkenaz festival in Toronto. Free admission.
This will be the second performance of In Amerike, for choir and klezmer band by Sid Robinovitch - a terrific piece that was a big hit at its premiere in June. Beyond the Pale is joining the choir, and Sid is coming in from Winnipeg to play the piano part. Toronto Jewish Folk Choir also doing a few other numbers, including a choral version of the beautiful lullabye, Rozhinkes mit mandlen (Raisins and Almonds). Alexander Veprinsky will conduct the concert, including excerpts from a medley he created for our 80th anniversary concert.

4th New York International Choral Festival

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus <http://www.thejppc.org/>, a Yiddish Chorale, is included in the International Choral Festival
Monday, June 19th
8:00pm
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
W. 65th Street
New York City

PARTICIPANTS:
Abyssinian Baptist Church Combined Choirs
A-Jung Kayaguem Ensemble Chorus
'Han-Yu-Hoe' of Korea Highbridge Voices
Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus Overseas
Chinese Childrens Chorus Sound of Korea

HaZamir Celebrates Landmark Concert

The Hazamir JHSC sends this newstory about a landmark concert held May 21 in New York City:
HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir, broke new ground as it celebrated its bar mitzvah with a Weekend Festival and Concert May 19-21st. Founder and Director Matthew Lazar welcomed nearly 1,000 audience members in a concert that reached a new height for the HaZamir movement. More than 200 singers from choirs across the globe came together in a unique blend of Shabbat, singing, and synergy for an unparalleled weekend.

The Gala Concert at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall featured two world premieres especially commisioned for HaZamir by composers Nick Page and Meir Finkelstein.

The concert also saw HaZamir alumni from the past 13 years of the program conducted by Cantor Charles Osborne. They emerged from the hall's wings in false grey beards and wigs to emphasize age, providing a comical moment for the attendees. HaZamir choirs from Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Montreal, New Brunswick NJ, Northern NJ, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Providence and Israel came together for a Shabbaton, comraderie, rehearsal and final concert.

Nashir Features Yehezkel Braun works at Merkin Hall in NYC

On Sunday, June 18, at 8:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will present its 30th annual concert at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York. The eclectic program features works by Israel Prize-winning composer Yehezkel Braun as well as works of other composers from Renaissance to the present. Tickets are $23 (preferred seating), $19 (general admission) and $16 (seniors/students). For further information, contact Benjamin Gruder, Choral Director, at beninabox@juno.com or Merkin Concert Hall (212-501-3330).

Psalmsensation: a multi-ethnic concert experience

The Zamir Chorale of Boston presents:
Psalmsensation: a multi-ethnic concert experience
Sunday, June 4, 2006, 7:30 pm, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge.
For tickets and program information: www.zamir.org
or call 617/244-6333

Once again, Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson has worked his programming magic. From romantic to rhythmic, from ancient to contemporary, psalms -- like you've never heard them before! Join Zamir for a transcendent evening of psalm settings from Israel, France, the U.S., Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, and featuring a rousing medley from African-American gospel traditions.

Gates of Justice at the Washington National Cathedral

Saturday, July 1, 2006
Washington National Cathedral
Dave Brubeck's The Gates of Justice The Dave Brubeck Quartet;
Kevin Deas, baritone; Russell Gloyd, conductor
Presented by the Cathedral Choral Society
Tickets: (202) 537-5527
www.cathedralchoralsociety.org
Cathedral Choral Society
(202) 298-8023
ckempler@cathedral.org

21st Zimriya World Assembly of Choirs in Israel

It's a ways away... in July 30-August 9, 2007, but your group may be interested in preparing now for the World Assembly of Choirs in Israel. to be held on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. Well known conductors will lead the workshops. The Zimriya, which was found in 1952, takes place every 3 years. There are choirs expected to attend from all over the world. You can express an interest in attending by September 15, 2006, or find out more information by contacting harzimco@netvision.net.il or writing to ZIMRIYA, 4, Aharonowitz Street, Tel Aviv 63 566, Israel or visit the website at www.zimriya.org.il. Individual singers age 18-35 interested in attending the international choir workshop and concert conducted by Michael Gohl (Switzerland) can contact michael.gohl@bluewin.ch

Yiddish Operetta at HUC in May

THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (JPPC)
conducted by BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER
Sunday, May 21, New York, NY
Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4th Street, New York, NY
will perform musical adaptations of the works of
I.L. Peretz and Sholem Aleichem,
Among the highlights in the program:
1) a rarely heard operetta, adapted from MOTL PEYSI DEM KHAZNS ("Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son"), Sholem Aleichem's Eastern European equivalent to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

2) a stirring musical adaptation of Peretz's classic short story, OYB NIT NOKH HEKHER ("If Not Higher Still")

3) selections from the new compact disc recorded by the JPPC, ZINGT! - A CELEBRATION OF YIDDISH CHORAL MUSIC

Two performances on May 21L at 2:00 and 4:30pm

International Celebration of Jewish Music at Alice Tully Hall

Chabad's Children of Chernobyl
In association with the American Society for the Advancement of Cantorial Arts. Inc.
Proudly Presents
An International Celebration of Jewish Music

The Celebrated Voices of... A New Cantorial Generation ...

David Weinbach - Tel Aviv, Israel
Yaakov Stark - Cong. Orach Chayim, NY
Netanel Hershtik- The Hampton Synagogue
Tzadok Greenwald - Jerusalem, Israel
Maestro Matthew Lazar
Music Director

The inspirational 70 voices from
The Moscow Male Jewish Hasidic Capella Choir Conducted by: Sasha Tsaliuk
The New York Synagogue Choir Conducted by: Itzchak Haimov
The Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute Conducted by: Naftali Hershtik
Accompanied by: The ASACA Chamber Orchestra
An exclusive concert at the Alice Tully Hall,
Lincoln Center
Thursday Evening, March 30, 2006
7:30 PM
Tickets: $500, $360, $100, $50
Separate Seating available
Tickets may be purchased through CenterCharge: 212-721-6500
For sponsorships and VIP seating call the CCOC Office: 212-681-7800
For tickets go to www.ccoc.net
Venue: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center - NYC
About the work of Chabad's Children of Chernobyl: http://ccoc.net/sub_pages/about.shtml

Judi Lamble's compositions on new website

Judi Lamble, who composes for accompanied and a cappella choruses, soloists, and duets, has a new website that has contact information for obtaining her scores, and samples of her music. Lamble's music can be appropriate for groups with varying degrees of sophistication. For more information about difficulty of pieces, contact the composer. Some of the religious texts she uses follow the Reform liturgy. She also includes links to other composers sites. http://www.jewishvocalmusic.com/listen.html

Fifth Jewish Choral Festival in Indianapolis this February

Indianapolis will host the Fifth Jewish Choral Festival at various venues throughout the city this February. Cantor Don Gurney of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles.will explore the theme "Music of Israel." The complete schedule of events is posted on the festival website http://www.indychoralfest.org/index.html

Schedule for Indianapolis Jewish Choral Festival. See websites for further details.
Thursday, February 16, 2006

7:30 p.m. Optional rehearsal with Scholar in Residence Cantor Don Gurney
There is no cost to participate but participation is limited to those individuals or groups who are registered for the Festival.

The Rehearsal will be held at:
Bureau of Jewish Education
Smulyan-Stolkin Education Center
6711 Hoover Road
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317) 255-3124

Friday, February 17, 2006
6:00 p.m. Cantor Don Gurney Shabbat Lecture at Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation
"Where Word Meets Melody"
(optional/free to the public)

The Shabbat lecture will be held at:
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation,
6501 North Meridian Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317) 255-6647

Saturday, February 18, 2006
10:00 a.m. Cantor Don Gurney Shabbat Lecture at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Tradition vs. Modernity: The Challenge of Creating Meaningful Prayer

(optional/free to the public)


The Shabbat lecture will be held at:
Congregation Beth-El Zedeck,
600 West 70th Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(317) 253-3441


12:30 p.m. Cantor Don Gurney Shabbat Lecture at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla TBA
(optional/free to the public)


The Shabbat lecture will be held at:
Congregation Shaarey Tefilla,
5879 Central Avenue,
Indianapolis, IN 46220
(317) 253-4591


3:00 p.m. Roundtable discussion on issues affecting Israel today Laikin Auditorium, Jewish Community Center
Open to the public
6:00 p.m.
Dinner
7:15 p.m.
Rehearsal Festival Dinner and Adult Workshop/Rehearsal
Following dinner, all adult festival participants (individuals and featured choir members) will have an opportunity to work with Scholar in Residence Cantor Don Gurney as we prepare for our Sunday afternoon concert. Join us in song (and food!)

Cost: Included with registration fee

The Adult Dinner and Workshop/Rehearsal will be held at:
The Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center
Laikin Auditorium
6701 Hoover Road
Indianapolis, IN 46260


Sunday, February 19, 2006

** All Sunday events will be held at:
The Arthur M. Glick Jewish Community Center
Laikin Auditorium
6701 Hoover Road
Indianapolis, IN 46260

10:30 a.m. - Noon Children's Workshop/Rehearsal
This is a chance for our younger participants to work on the festival repertoire with Cantor Don Gurney. Open to children in grades 3rd-8th. High school students may choose to participate in either the adult or children's festival choir.
Cost: Included with registration fee
Noon - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. Final Concert Preparation
All festival participants (adults, children, and featured choirs) should arrive at the Jewish Community Center in preparation for the Festival Concert.

3:00 p.m. Israel: The Fifth Jewish Choral Music Festival
Final Concert with Scholar in Residence and Guest Conductor Cantor Don Gurney

The final Festival Concert is free and open to the public, however donations would be greatly appreciated.

The festival is sponsored by Bureau of Jewish Education and Arts in Indiana.

As a graduate of the Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music, Cantor Gurney served the Emmanuel Synagogue of West Hartford, Connecticut, from 1986 to 1994. He joined the faculty of the Hebrew Union College as an instructor of Liturgical Music and 19th Century Synagogue Music and was Director of the School of Sacred Music Chorus from 1985 until 1999. In 1995, he made his Lincoln Center conducting debut at the International Choral Festival. He is recorded on the CDs "One Voice" and "Meditations of the Heart."

Adash Women's Hebrew Choir of Czech

A wonderful sounding women's choir has contacted me at JMWC announcing their presence.... They sing exclusively Jewish music, and you can hear samples on their website-- Here you'll definitely find something to delight in. Two of their CDs are devoted to Hebrew songs, but they sing liturgical pieces and Yiddish and Russian lanugage songs on their other two CDs which include many solos for folk music as well as choral works : Visit Adash Women's choir at: http://www1.osu.cz/adash/index-eng.php.

Central in Song at Wix Hall, Central Synagogue in London

Wednesday 21 December
Central in Song at Wix Hall, Central Synagogue
Address: 36 Hallam Street, London, W1N 6NN,
7.30pm
Phone:020 7580 1355.

Music at Central presents music written for the synagogue performed by its cantor Steven Leas and the choirs of Central Synagogue and the Choir of London at Central Synagogue on Wednesday 21 December, at 7.30pm.

This exciting collaboration sees Steven Leas and the Choir of Central Synagogue, who performed before the Queen last year at Westminster Palace, joined by the men of the highly acclaimed Choir of London, an ensemble of some of the UK's finest choral singers who are particularly noted for their innovative cross-cultural projects, and who performed in Jerusalem and Ramallah last year.

The programme, accompanied and introduced by Stephen Glass, includes settings of prayers and psalms, from Renaissance polyphony to modern arrangements. Of particular interest are joint performances of Hebrew and Yiddish works by Meir Finkelstein and Stephen Glass, two of the most dynamic figures in the contemporary world of Jewish cantorial and choral music, born in Britain but living and working in North America.

CHOIRS AND CANTORS SPARK THIS CHANUKAH SEASON

Over 250 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 11, 2005, as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique Festival of Choirs. The sixth annual concert will feature Cantors and their choirs from the New York City metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Sunday, December 25, 2005.

A Festival of Choirs is free of charge and open to the entire community.

Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan. For more information about this concert, please call (212) 362-8800, ext. 1337.

"It is truly magical to hear this many adults and children celebrate the Chanukah season through song," according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. "We all look forward to continuing this tradition for many years to come."

Highlights of the concert will include "Raise up the Menorah" written in 2004 for the Midrash Hour V by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. The Midrash Hour is a full length musical written by Mr. Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom schools each year. The song, "Raise up the Menorah" will be sung at the Festival of Choirs by the combined children's choirs, 100 voices strong. Another highpoint will be the concert's finale, "Bring on the Light," a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for the Festival of Choirs in 2001.

Also featured at the concert will be area Adult Volunteer and Children's Choirs, along with Cantor Garfein and Cantor Jennifer Frost, Associate Cantor, and Cantorial Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein of Congregation Rodeph Sholom. Also participating in the concert will be Cantors Bruce Ruben and Daniel Singer, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Ida-Rae Cahana, Central Synagogue; Cantor Kathy Barr, Village Temple, Manhattan; Cantor Steven Pearlston, Free Synagogue of Flushing, Queens, New York; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY; Cantor Claire Franco, Community Synagogue, Port Washington, NY; and Cantor Fredda Mendelson, Larchmont Temple.

Accompanying the choirs will be acclaimed pianist, composer and arranger, Jonathan Faiman. Joining Mr. Faiman will be the "Festival of Choirs" combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Mike Cohen, winds, and Dan Freeman, upright and electric bass.

Melodia Women s Choir Salutes Fanny Mendelssohn's 200th Birthday

Melodia Women's Choir at NOV 19 CONCERT IN NYC
Melodia Women's Choir of New York City presents a mystical November concert of darkly transcendent music drawn from the classical and contemporary lexicon. Featured in the program is a special 200th anniversary tribute to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn and an extraordinarily talented, if often overlooked, composer.

Conducted by Cynthia Powell, the accomplished 32-member Melodia women's ensemble will present "Twilight in the Garden of Dreams" on Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. at St. Peter's Church, Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street in New York City.

Melodia has invited The Momenta String Quartet to perform Mendelssohn-Hensel s "String Quartet in Eb" as an instrumental interlude at the concert.

Tickets to "Twilight" are $15 advance and $20 at the door. Tickets may be ordered on the website, www.melodiawomenschoir.org. (The Jewish Music WebCenter is particularly partial to the music of Fanny Mendelssohn.--JP)

Melodia will perform two partsongs by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, described by Powell as "spirited, passionate and full of life." Fanny Mendelssohn was born in November, 1805, in Hamburg, Germany, the granddaughter of the prominent Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn. From an early age, she displayed musical brilliance matching that of her brother Felix, who rose to prominence. Constricted by social mores and limitations of women, performances of Fanny's compositions were heard only in Mendelssohn salons and went largely unacknowledged. Yet, family archives reveal that by her death at age 41, Fanny had composed 250 songs, 125 piano works, four cantatas, and much instrumental chamber music.

Other selections in the program include Meredith Monk's "Quarry Weave" and Elena Kats-Chernin's "Memorial Rag." "This is music you won t hear on the beaten path," said Powell, who is also the Organist/Choirmaster of Temple Sinai in Tenafly, N.J.

The emergence of Melodia Women's Choir, founded in 2003 by Jennifer Clarke, reflects a rekindling of interest in the exploration, creation, and performance of women's choral music. Melodia frequently presents the work of women composers. More information about the life of Fanny Mendelssohn and the concert is on the website, www.melodiawomenschoir.org.

The Sydney Jewish Choral Society to celebrate 20th anniversary

The Sydney Jewish Choral Society celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, 2006. Under the direction of Rose Grausman, this mixed choir performs a very wide range of music, including classical, opera, jazz and musicals, as well as popular and folk music from all over the world. The S.J.C.S. regularly performs Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew folk music, Hebrew liturgical settings, and stunning Hebrew musical settings by composers from Rossi in the 16th century through Kurt Weil and Leonard Bernstein in the 20th, and has given premieres of hitherto unpublished choral works by Jewish composers.

A non-profit organisation, the S.J.C.S. performs regularly in concerts which support Jewish and general charities and gives free performances at Jewish retirement homes and activity centres.

Throughout 2006, the Sydney Jewish Choral Society will be performing several major concerts in Sydney. In preparation for this substantial year of activity, new members are being actively sought. Musical training, while obviously an advantage, is not a prerequisite for membership.

Enquiries regarding membership or performances can be directed to Anne at anne_lives@hotmail.com

THE NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH CHORAL FESTIVAL

The Premiere Jewish Choral Event

* Daily Community Sings conducted by some of the greatest talents on the Jewish musical scene
* One-, two-, and three-day workshops with leading clinicians
* Outstanding evening concerts
* Special presentations for listeners
* Instant ensembles for all singing participants
* Fun, friendship and learning

The 2005 Hallel V'Zimrah Award will be given to GIL ALDEMA, noted Israeli arranger & composer and winner of the 2000 Israel Prize, on Wednesday night, July 13th.

DATE: July 10-14
LOCATION: Hudson Valley Resort & Spa Kerhonkson, NY

Register Now! http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=akkqjjbab.0.exvbcabab.thn9h4aab.619&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zamirfdn.org

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FINE TUNING: Adventures in Music
Monday July 11th: Choral Music of Gil Aldema

A special group sing featuring arrangements and original selections written--and conducted by Israel- prize winner Gil Aldema who receives the Zamir Choral Foundation's 2005 Hallel V'Zimrah award on Wednesday night.

Tuesday July 12th: Praise and Testimony Praise and Prayer
Eavesdrop on a probing conversation about the power and commonality of music in worship and prayer between Brother Dennis Slaughter, dynamic director of the Boston Community Choir, and Matthew Lazar, Founder and Director of the Zamir Choral Foundation and its North American Jewish Choral Festival.

Wednesday July 13th: Putting It Together: Master Class in Small Ensemble Singing

A special workshop with the internationally acclaimed virtuoso vocal sextet, The Western Wind, that will help you find the key to blending in small singing groups. Space limited.

Contact us today and get your registration in before the June 13 deadline!

THE NORTH AMERICAN JEWISH CHORAL FESTIVAL

The Premiere Jewish Choral Event

* Daily Community Sings conducted by some of the greatest talents on the Jewish musical scene
* One-, two-, and three-day workshops with leading clinicians
* Outstanding evening concerts
* Special presentations for listeners
* Instant ensembles for all singing participants
* Fun, friendship and learning

The 2005 Hallel V'Zimrah Award will be given to GIL ALDEMA, noted Israeli arranger & composer and winner of the 2000 Israel Prize, on Wednesday night, July 13th.

DATE: July 10-14
LOCATION: Hudson Valley Resort & Spa Kerhonkson, NY

Register Now! http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=akkqjjbab.0.exvbcabab.thn9h4aab.619&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zamirfdn.org

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FINE TUNING: Adventures in Music
Monday July 11th: Choral Music of Gil Aldema

A special group sing featuring arrangements and original selections written--and conducted by Israel- prize winner Gil Aldema who receives the Zamir Choral Foundation's 2005 Hallel V'Zimrah award on Wednesday night.

Tuesday July 12th: Praise and Testimony Praise and Prayer
Eavesdrop on a probing conversation about the power and commonality of music in worship and prayer between Brother Dennis Slaughter, dynamic director of the Boston Community Choir, and Matthew Lazar, Founder and Director of the Zamir Choral Foundation and its North American Jewish Choral Festival.

Wednesday July 13th: Putting It Together: Master Class in Small Ensemble Singing

A special workshop with the internationally acclaimed virtuoso vocal sextet, The Western Wind, that will help you find the key to blending in small singing groups. Space limited.

Contact us today and get your registration in before the June 13 deadline!

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus at Alice Tully Hall

THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
with BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER, CONDUCTOR
TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, 2005, 8:00 PM
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NY, NY
(featured chorus in 3rd New York International Choral Festival) tickets: $30, $60 and $100 ($20, $40, $75 for children under 10 and seniors)

Orthodox Choir to Sing in Wales

The Welsh Valleys will echo to the sound of traditional Jewish music in July 2005, when the first Orthodox choir from Israel participates in the 56th Llangollen International Eisteddfod. The Ramatayim Men�s Choir of Jerusalem has been invited to participate in thisprestigious international choral competition before, but the dates have usually prevented their attendance. For more information about Ramatayim, contact Sarah Manning: sarah@globalvisionsisrael.com MORE...

The reason they weren't able to attend before is that they cannot participate during the traditional Three Weeks of Mourning for the Destruction of the Temple. This being a Jewish leap year, however, they are coming to the UK to represent Israel, along with competitors from more than 50 other countries.
�The Eisteddfod is a world-renowned festival dedicated to the promotion of peace and friendship through music, as well as the pursuit of choral excellence�, explains Ramatyim�s Muscial Director Richard Shavei-Tzion. �We believe that we are the first orthodox Jewish men�s choir to participate, and we are delighted to be able to bring our repertoire of classical Chazanut, Chassidic and Israel songs to Wales, to compete alongside the world�s best choirs.� The Ramatayim Men�s Choir takes its name from the Ramot suburb of Jerusalem where it first started 10 years ago. Its 30 members originate from Israel, the UK, South Africa, Australia and the USA, and they have performed together in concert halls and synagogues around Israel with some of the world�s leading Chazanim. While in Britain they will be giving concerts in Wembley for Spiro Ark and at Birmingham�s Israel Cultural Centre in aid of Magen David Adom.
Ramatayim has just released its debut CD, entitled �400 Years of Synagogue Music�, comprising a seletion of music composed by famous composers from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

EAST MIDWOOD JEWISH CENTER PRESENTS A SONG OF ASCENT

On Sunday, May 22nd, at 4:00 PM, the East Midwood Jewish Center will present A Song of Ascent � the Synagogue Music of Salamone Rossi � an afternoon of Jewish sacred music from seventeenth century Italy. The concert will take place at the East Midwood Jewish Center, 1625 Ocean Avenue, in Brooklyn.

This extraordinary concert of Jewish Baroque music will be performed by Cantica Salamonica, a group of professional Early Music singers who have come together under the direction of Cantor Mark Opatow of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.

Tickets are $25 for general admission, $20 for seniors and students. Tickets are available in advance at the East Midwood Jewish Center and will also be available at the box office on the day of the performance. For ticket information, please call 718.338.3800. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Rossi�s music performed in Brooklyn.

Zamir Chorale of Boston

On June 5, 2005, the Zamir Chorale of Boston will celebrate its 36th anniversary with a gala concert at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA. The Zamir Chorale and Alumni Chorale will be joined by the Zamir Orchestra for a performance of Ernest Bloch's masterwork, The Sacred Service. Also featured will be four shorter works commissioned by the Chorale: �Shir Ahavah� by Jef Labes, �Rainbow� by Daniel Pinkham, �Harninu� by Benjie-Ellen Schiller, and the premiere of �Et Hazzamir Higgiya� by Yehezkel Braun. The four composers will join moderator Cathy Fuller for a meet-the-composer session, open to the public, before the concert. The concert begins at 7:30 PM and the meet-the-composer session at 6:15. For further information call 617-244-6333 or visit www.zamir.org.

The Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale

Tikkuun V'Tikvah
A Benefit Choral Concert
Sunday, March 6, 2005
2:30-4:30 P.M
Congregation Sinai
8223 N. Port Washington Rd
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53217
Donation: $10.00 General Admission
$8.00 Seniors and Students
$5.00 Children

Featuring: The Milwaukee Jewish Community Chorale Directed by Enid Bootzin
Cantors, Cantorial Solosits and Children's Choirs from area synagogues
Tickets available at The Door or
by contacting Donna Neubauer: 414-352-5961

"Judas Maccabeus" in St. Louis

The St. Louis Circle of Jewish Music and the University City Symphony Orchestra will collaborate for the second year in a row in a sing-along performance of George Friderick Handel's "Judas Maccabeus" December 11th, 2004. The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at Shaare Zedek Synagogue, 829 N. Hanley Road in University City, a suburb of St. Louis. Other music to be performed includes "Shirey Chanukah" by Abraham Cohen, and a newly-commissioned piece in honor of the centennial of Shaare Zedek, being written by film composer Sheldon Mirowitz. Audience members may purchase the piano-vocal score at the door, which serves as a ticket in all following years, and are encouraged to sing along with the choruses.

Hazzan Abraham Lopes Cardozo Celebrated 90th Birthday

(From Joods.nl, by Raya Lishansky, Translated by Irma Lopes Cardozo & Barry Mehler) http://www.joods.nl/archive/cultureel/muziek/JoodsNewsItem.2004-10-26.9494736971

With the Uilenburger Synagogue [in Amsterdam, Netherlands] bursting at the seams, Hazzan Abraham Lopes Cardozo celebrated his 90th Birthday in concert with Santo Servicio, the choir of the Esnoga. The 17 man strong Santo Servicio[1] opened the concert with Baruch Habba, under the driven leadership of their director-singer Barry Mehler resurrecting it like a Phoenix after 63 years of silence. ... Read about it....

Prior to the official opening of the concert, Hazzan Abraham Lopes Cardozo received congratulations and best wishes from many members of the audience. Under the melody of Baruch Habba, Hazzan Cardozo walked from the back of the Shul and joined the choir in full force. This was one of the many impressive moments of the evening. Lopes Cardozo sang in this choir from 1922 until 1939; first as a boy soprano and later on as a young adult until he received an appointment as cantor in Suriname in 1939.

Lopes Cardozo embodies the living memory of the musical culture of the pre-war Portuguese Jewish community. Throughout the evening he drew from his rich memory of fragments of synagogue music sometimes ushered with amusement from the audience, as he would say: �I know it by heart!� People in the hall softly hummed some of the well-known melodies.

In a conversation with Barry Mehler, Lopes Cardozo tells about Santo Servicio from before the war, a choir of volunteers, consisting of about 25 men and about 20 boys. Even famous singers like tenor Giacomo Aletrino were members of the choir. It was a touching moment when Hazzan Lopes Cardozo produced a small black leather-bound book. �In this book you can find the complete Seder Hazzanut of the Esnoga.� I copied the 140 pages from the original Seder Hazzanut when I went to the synagogue everyday with my father. This is a guide for the Hazzan for all services during the Jewish year; a kind of users-manual. You can find everything in it and I have added all the melodies of our tradition, so that I would not forget them. I knew that there was only a small chance that I would be able to get a job as Hazzan in Amsterdam. This little book traveled with me over the whole world, and now I am returning it home. Hazzan Lopes Cardozo presented this little book to Bram Palache, Parnas-member of the P.I.G. and one of the singers in the new Santo Servicio.

The evening�s program was musically filled with Santo Servicio and a male quartet. The traditional settings of Hall�l for the 1st and 2nd day Passover were again and again sung with a clear and strong voice by the Hazzan. The vocal highpoint of the evening was when the four soloists sang, "Mizmor l'David" a composition by Victor Schlesinger. This music had not been heard in Amsterdam for more than 60 years and was now made possible thanks to the cooperation of composer�s granddaughter Anna Schlesinger, who personally attended the concert.

The concert came to a close with a composition of L.A. Benavente, Shir Hamagnalot l'David Samachti. Afterwards there was a reception where the large audience was given the opportunity to raise a (non-alcoholic) glass to the health of Abraham Lopes Cardozo.

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[1] It was assumed for a long period of time that the sheet music of the vocal cultural heritage of the Amsterdam Portuguese liturgy as it was sung by Santo Servicio before the war and was lost. A few years ago, boxes with scores from the unique music from the Esnoga were discovered. A part of the scores has been inventoried, catalogued and ready to be (re-) used for services in the Esnoga. Santo Servicio was re-established in 2002 and has already sung multiple times during services in the Esnoga under the direction of Barry J. Mehler. The choir took part in the great "Three Cantors" concert that took place in 2003 in the Esnoga.

Melodia Women's Choir Features Yehezkel Braun

Melodia Women's Choir of NYC,/b> will delight New York audiences with three exciting and rarely-performed works by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun in its upcoming concert, November Song. The three works by the highly-regarded composer from Tel Aviv are written to songs and ballads by H.N.Bialik, Israel�s first national poet and one of the country�s most revered and influential writers.
The concert will be presented on November 20, 2004 at 7:30PM, at St. Peter�s Church in Chelsea (346 W. 20th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues) in New York City.

Conducted by Cynthia Powell, the 24-member Melodia Women�s Choir will perform the three works in Hebrew. Yehezkel Braun wrote the works expressly for women�s voices. Rife with lyrical freshness, the Bialik ballads probe the passage of time in The Lovely Linden Tree, the wonders of natural mystery and the fears of aging in Neither Daylight Nor the Darkness, and the joy and burdens of love in With Window Opened Wide. Braun, a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, was born in Russia and emigrated to Israel in 1922. He has taught in England, France, the United States and Germany, and is considered one of Israel�s finest musical treasures.

In honor of Braun, Melodia has been specially invited to concertize November Song (which also includes classical repertoire by Sir Edward Elgar, Serge Rachmaninoff and Rebecca Clarke) at Temple Sinai in Tenafly at the Sabbath service on Friday, November 19. Melodia's conductor, Cynthia Powell, serves as Organist and Choirmaster of Temple Sinai in Tenafly

New York audiences can hear November Song in a public performance on Saturday November 20, 2004 at 7:30 p.m., at the newly restored St. Peter�s Church, a landmark site on 346 West 20th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan�s Chelsea neighborhood.

Tickets are $15 in advance; $20 at the door.
For ticket reservations, call 212-561-0167;
e-mail womenschoir@mindspring.com; or
visit http://womenschoir.home.mindspring.com.
Information about the Temple Sinai concert is also available on the website.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Cindy Cooper, 212-265-8997.