CELEBRATING THE EARTH, MAY 3 - 4 AT ST. LUKE IN THE FIELDS

Force of Nature: Celebrating the Earth performed by Melodia Women's Choir

Melodia Women s Choir/Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director, now celebrating their fifth season and acclaimed by WNYC for their elegance and ringing tones, has scheduled several spring performances: on Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4, 2008, they will present Force of Nature: Celebrating the Earth, music about the natural world, at St. Luke in the Fields Church in New York City.
487 Hudson Street
New York, NY
212-924-0562
Saturday May 3 at 8 PM
Sunday May 4 at 4 PM.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, discounts for students and seniors: $20 in advance, $15 at the door.
Call 212-252-4135, or visit www.melodiawomenschoir.org.

The program will feature Samuel Barber's Sure On This Shining Night; Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály s Mountain Nights Songs Without Words For Women s Voices; Ronald Perera's Earthsongs; Zhou Long's Four Seasons, a setting of ancient Chinese poetry; A Goodly Heritage by British composer Gordon Jacob; Spring Song by Israeli composer Yehezkel Braun; Hotaru Koi (Firefly) by Japanese composer Ro Ogura; and Wellsprings (New York Premiere) and Contemplations (U.S. Premiere) by Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann.

For these concerts, Melodia is partnering with Water is Life Kenya, a project that brings water to drought-affected regions of Southern Kenya. Water is Life Kenya was founded by Joyce Tannian, a former member of Melodia, who moved to Southern Kenya to dedicate her life and energy to drilling wells so people have easier access to clean and safe water. The project is funded by money raised by Joyce Tannian and her family and friends in the U.S. $1 of each ticket sold will be donated to Water is Life - Kenya. Tax deductible donations may also be made by visiting www.kenyawaterislife.com.

Working with the Maasai community, the project has just completed its first well in Imisigyio, already visited by more than 800 women daily and sustaining the lives of their families and livestock. The drilling of the new well means that the 10-12 hours a woman used to spend fetching water every day are now reduced to 2 or 3. Water is Life Kenya helps people improve their lives, and preserve their culture and customs by giving them a chance to survive in an environment catastrophically affected by global warming.

Following the May 3-4 concerts, Melodia Women s Choir will be featured at the Symphony Space Wall to Wall Bach May 17, performing excerpts from Bach Cantatas 4 and 78. They then return to Symphony Space June 5 as guest artists with the New Amsterdam Symphony in Gustav Holst s The Planets, and in selections from the Melodia repertoire. Melodia is also currently sponsoring its first Women Composers Commissioning Competition, and the deadline for submissions is April 1, 2008. Details on all these events are available at www.melodiawomenschoir.org.

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. Their recent concert, Sweet Interlude, presented the World Premiere of Becca Schack s In My End Is My Beginning, and Vivaldi s Gloria in D in the all-female setting for which it was probably intended. Previous concerts have celebrated female composers and ensembles from 12th to 21 centuries, and premiered Allison Sniffin s Hear Me With Your Eyes, based on love poems of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Melodia has rediscovered numerous neglected works. 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 the American Music Center, 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.

Philadelphia Folklore Project Presents Elaine Hoffman Watts & Susan Watts

The Philadelphia Folklore Project Presents: Elaine Hoffman Watts & Susan Watts PLAY KLEZMER!

Sunday May 11, 2008, doors open at 6 pm
World Cafe Live (www.worldcafelive), 3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Tickets $20, or special price of $16 for PFP members through PFP
www.folkloreproject.org; 215-726-1106.

This special concert promises an unforgettable Mother’s Day celebration, featuring the outstanding Elaine Hoffman Watts & Susan Watts mother-daughter team, and their band of klezmer stars from the east coast and Canada. The concert will feature never before heard songs from a book compiled in 1927 by Susan’s great-grandfather, Joseph Hoffman, including his compositions, songs by his son Jake Hoffman, and other rarely performed Philly tunes in brand-new arrangements by Susan Watts. The concert will be followed by a Q&A discussion with the artists.

PFP will be filming for its documentary on Elaine Watts at this event; come be a part of the project. Elaine was the first woman percussionist to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music, and is a recent winner of a prestigious National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (one of just a handful of Pennsylvania artists to be so honored).

This project occurs with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Philadelphia Music Project (funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts), the PA Humanities Council, the PA Historical & Museum Commission, and Philadelphia Folklore Project Members.

For more info: Philadelphia Folklore Project, 735 S. 50th St., Phila., PA 19143. 215-726-1106. info@folkloreproject.org, www.folkloreproject.org. PFP is a 21-year-old independent public interest folklife agency committed to cultural equity: we work to sustain diverse Philadelphia vernacular traditions as real resources for vital local communities. Give a listen!

Holocaust Remembrance Day at Museum of Jewish Heritage

WHAT: "Different Trains" Featuring the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet
WHERE: Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place, Lower Manhattan
WHEN: Sunday, May 4, 2008, 7 p.m.
COST: $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, $10 for members

Join the internationally acclaimed Israeli Contemporary String Quartet (ICSQ) for a moving performance of "Different Trains," distinguished American composer Steve Reich's commemorative Holocaust work, in honor of Yom HaShoah, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. "Different Trains," which The New York Times calls a "work of such astonishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible description," will take place in Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum on Sunday, May 4 at 7 p.m. This Grammy Award-winning work consists of a live string quartet and collage of pre-recorded sounds. Josef Bardanashvili's String Quartet No. 1 and Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 3 in F (Op. 73) will complete the program.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and $10 for members and are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum box office at (646) 437-4202. This concert is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel.

The Israeli Contemporary String Quartet, one of Israel's most influential ensembles, is made up of Hadas Fabrikant, violin; Tali Goldberg, violin; Katya Polin, viola; and Hilla Epstein, cello. The ICSQ has performed in concerts and festivals across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Israel, including the Israeli premiere of "Different Trains" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2002. The Quartet counts many artists among its collaborators, including choreographers, dancers, video artists, theater directors, composers, and performers. The ICSQ has received such honors as Grand Prix at the Eighth International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition, the Israel's Minister of Culture and Education's award, and the Alfred Ensor award.

The Museum's three-floor Core Exhibition educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the rich tapestry of Jewish life over the past century-before, during, and after the Holocaust. Current special exhibitions include Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust; Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic; and "To Return to the Land..." Paul Goldman's Photographs of the Birth of Israel. The Museum offers visitors a vibrant public program schedule in its Edmond J. Safra Hall. It is also home to Andy Goldsworthy's memorial Garden of Stones, as well as James Carpenter's Reflection Passage, Gift of The Gruss Lipper Foundation. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan.

Alicia at Riverdale Y

Thursday April 24, 2008

Klezmer Reimagined: Alicia Svigals with bassist Nicki Parrott and pianist Uli Geissendorfer
A forward-looking collaboration between the world’s greatest klezmer violinist and two top jazz players. Nicki and Uli’s imaginative responses to Alicia’s klezmer fiddling will offer a fresh perspective on this ancient and beautiful tradition.

Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Riverdale Y, 5625 Arlington Avenue, Bronx, NY 10471,
(718) 548-8200
www.riverdaley.org
Tickets: $18 ($9 for children)
Pre-show kosher-for-Passover dinner available at the Unleavened Cafe.

Musicians of Lenox Hill to Perform Chamber Music of Jewish Composers

On Monday, April 28 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform Chamber Music of Jewish Composers at Temple Israel of the City of New York, 112 East 75th Street, New York City. The concert will feature six extraordinary musicians presenting familiar as well as new or rarely heard music by composers of Jewish faith or heritage. The program includes Three Nocturnes for Violin, Cello and Piano by Ernest Bloch, Duo for Flute and Piano by Aaron Copland, Gershwin s Preludes for Piano, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, No. 1, Op. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn, Window for Viola and Piano by David Ludwig, Sonata for Cello and Harp, Op. 208 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Arrowhead for Flute, Viola and Harp by Eric Zeizl. The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert.

TICKET INFORMATION Tickets are $15 or $10 for seniors and students and will be available at the door. Members of Temple Israel and their accompanying guests are admitted free. To reserve tickets or for more information, call 917-834-5399, or send an email to musiciansoflenoxhill@gmail.com. Temple Israel of the City of New York is located at 112 East 75th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues, and can be easily reached on the 6 train (77th Street station). Parking is available in nearby garages. Featured performers include Jae-Kyuck Cho, piano, Judy Kang, violin, Andy Lin, viola, Alberto Parrini, cello, Soo-Kyung Park, flute and Jessica Zhou, harp. Each of these musicians, who met as students at The Juilliard School, are young rising stars who perform with major orchestras and ensembles around the world and have won many of the most prestigious music competitions. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 10th year, is a living tribute to the memory of Dr.Hyman Levy and his son, Jerrold Levy, made possible by a gift to Temple Israel by Mrs. Muriel Levy.

In endowing the annual concert, Mrs. Levy sought to promote the outstanding talents of the Musicians of Lenox Hill and to feature the work of a living Jewish composer. This year s featured composer is David Ludwig, whose arrangement of his work Window for Viola and Piano will be premiered at this event. Mr. Ludwig serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute. His Concertino was one of the top ten most frequently performed orchestral works by a living composer in 2007. The Philadelphia Inquirer has called his music "entrancing...promising to speak for the sorrows of this generation , and The New York Times praised his work for its expressive directness . Says Artistic Director Soo-Kyung Park I fell in love with every piece on this program. The number of great musicians and composers of Jewish faith or heritage is amazing, and I hope that adults as well as children of all faiths will attend to enjoy the wonderful artistic gifts these composers have given us. *****

60 at 60

60 locations are participating in special celebrations for Israel's 60th anniversary. Most of the concerts are in May, and some in June. For full details, see the website. There's a lot of great activity and big celebrations throughout the country. If you haven't seen some of these top performers, this may be your chance. There are performers appealing to different generations, so the whole family can enjoy the music and celebrate Israel's founding 60 years ago.

http://www.60at60.org/

60th Anniversary of Israel in New York at Radio City

The official observation of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel's 60th Anniversary in New York will take place at 8PM on Wednesday May 7th with a major musical gala at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The event will feature Reggae superstar Matisyahu, Paul Shaffer of the David Letterman Show, composer/performer and MacArthur Genius award winner John Zorn and top Israeli music artists Idan Raichel, Rami Kleinstein, David Broza and Habanot Nechama, with additional performers to be announced.

The historic cultural gathering will be the largest such celebration of its kind, and is supported by over 100 Jewish organizations including the UJA Federation of New York, Consulate General of Israel, Jewish Community Relations Council, Dor Chadash and other key groups representing a majority of the organized American Jewish community. The evening will begin with a brief memorial program with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Israeli Ambassadors Dan Gillerman and Asaf Sharif and other dignitaries.

General admission tickets are $36, $60, $120 and $180. VIP tickets are $360 for center orchestra or $1000 for front orchestra seats with program listing. VIP tickets include a private pre-concert dinner reception with the artists and post-concert party at Tavern on the Green. All net proceeds of the event will benefit three leading Israeli organizations helping children in need Ahava orphanage in the North, Gvanim in Sderot, and Beit Issie Shapiro in the center of Israel.

For tickets: http://www.60at60.org ; info@60at60.org or call 212-608-0555.

Music as a Bridge to Oneness

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3pm
Seeds of Compassion Presents
MUSIC AS A BRIDGE TO ONENESS
A Talk and Demonstration by Yuval Ron

How music connects us to the divine to Oneness and to the spiritual and mystical side of life. A discussion of ways to teach unity and tolerance using music as a platform for meeting your opponent, your neighbor and the other. With live demonstration on the Oud.

Location: Center House Stage, Seattle Center,
305 Harrison Street,
Seattle, WA 98109
Admission: FREE and open to the public
For More Information: http://seedsofcompassion.net/event/concert/concert2.asp

Yavneh Ensemble Concert 'America, Amerike'

America, Amerike: Jewish Music throughout America's History

Monday, May 12, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Tiferet Bet Israel
1920 Skippack Pike
Blue Bell, PA 19422

Monday, May 19, 2008
7:30 p.m.
The Ethical Society Building
19 South Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA

The Yavneh Ensemble , conducted by Robert A.M. Ross, and with a special guest appearance by Hazzan Howard K. Glantz, will present music of the Jewish experience in America, including:
• Sephardic chants from colonial synagogues
• The 1897 Union Hymnal and its role in the formation of Jewish Americans
• The great wave of Eastern European immigration in its varied musical manifestations: Yiddish theater, Yiddish radio and the clash of the old country with the new in a special choral presentation of Sholom Secunda's Chazonim Oyf Probe.
• The American synagogue finds its distinctive voice in the 20th century and beyond.

Tickets are $36, 18, and $9 for students, and may be ordered online at http://www.yavnehensemble.org, or reserved at 215-849-4129.

"Metropolitan Klezmer @The Museum at Eldridge Street"

Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00pm.
Eve says, "It's a wonderful venue, this is their re-opening season. Some rare movie excerpts plus our eight-piece musical adaptations...".

Event: Metropolitan Klezmer @The Museum at Eldridge Street
"Music of Yiddish Celluloid: Live band & film clips!"
What: Concert
Host: Eve Sicular
When: Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00pm
Where: Museum at Eldridge Street (landmark restored synagogue!)
12 Eldridge Street, New York City

Judith Shatin Premiere in Minnesota

Judith Shatin's upcoming premiere of the orchestrated version of Songs of War and Peace, will take place on Sunday, May 4 at 3 p.m.
at St. Mary's Cathedral
25 8th Ave. So,
St. Cloud, MN.
Songs of War and Peace is a setting of four powerful Israeli poems on the topic, in outstanding translations by American and Israeli poets. The new version was commissioned by the Minnesota Center Chorale. The premiere performance will be conducted by J. Michele Edwards.

Another performance of the composer's work, the Chai Variations on Eliahu HaNavi
with pianist Jose Lopez, will take place
on May 4, at 3:00 p.m.
Bass Museum
2121 Park Ave.
Miami Beach, FL.

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

HOMMAGE A MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919-1996)

HOMMAGE A MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919-1996)
5e concert du 'Cycle russe' de l'AMJ
par
Elisaveta BLUMINA (piano) & Emil ROVNER (chant & violoncelle)

dimanche 16 mars à 17h
Centre musical Robert Dunand, 9 rue du Marché, Carouge (Genève, Suisse)

Deux virtuoses d'origine russe rendent hommage à ce compositeur méconnu, compagnon de route et ami de Dimitri Shostakovitch.

PROGRAMME:

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: De la poésie de Vasili Zhukovski op. 116 (1976) pour basse et piano
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sonate pour violoncelle solo N° 1 op. 72 (1960, première suisse)
Maurice Ravel: Chanson juive : "Meyerke mayn sun" (1910) pour voix et piano
Ernest Bloch: Prière "De la vie juive" n° 2 (1925) pour violoncelle et piano
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Children's notebook , book 1, op. 16 (1944) pour piano
Ernest Bloch: Méditation hébraïque (1925) pour violoncelle et piano
Chants hébraïques et chants séfarades arr. pour voix et violoncelle par Emil Rovner


Elisaveta BLUMINA (piano)

Née à St-Petersbourg, Elisaveta Blumina est reconnue comme l'une des plus remarquables pianistes de sa génération. Après le Conservatoire de St.-Petersbourg, elle poursuit ses études à la Musikhochschule de Hambourg et au Conservatoire de Berne. Parmi ses maîtres, on compte András Schiff et Bruno Canino.
Très appréciée dans un grand nombre de pays, elle a remporté plusieurs compétitions internationales, notamment en Russie, en Allemagne, en Belgique, en Italie et en Espagne, ainsi que le prix de la meilleure pianiste accompagnatrice au Concours International Pfitzner de chant et au Concours International Sarasate de violon.
Hôte de prestigieux festivals, tels que le Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, le Festival de Colmar, le Verbier Festival & Academy, etc., ses récitals à Anvers, Hambourg, Milan, Berlin, New York ont remporté un grand succès auprès du public et de la critique. Elle a été invitée en tant que soliste par plusieurs orchestres, dont l'Orchestre symphonique de St.-Petersbourg, le Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hambourg, la Dresdner Philharmonie, la Sinfonia Varsovia, les Virtuoses de Moscou, sous la direction -entre autres- de Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Spivakov et Gerd Albrecht. De nombreux récitals ou concerts transmis par la télévision et la radio ont élargi sa réputation. En outre, Elisaveta Blumina a fondé le trio «Eremitage» et parmi ses partenaires réguliers, on compte Pierre Amoyal, le quatuor Artemis, Martin Ostertag, Eduard Brunner et des solistes du théâtre Bolchoï de Moscou. Elisaveta Blumina a enregistré huit disques compacts.

Emil ROVNER (violoncelle et chant)
Né en 1975 à Nizhny Novgorod (Russie), Emil Rovner est probablement le seul artiste du moment qui poursuit parallèlement deux carrières internationales: Il donne des concerts comme soliste, chambriste et également en tant que chanteur de concert et d'opéra.
Il débute son activité de concertiste à l'âge de dix ans avec le Glinka Philharmonic Orchestra et se perfectionne jusqu'en 2001 auprès de Boris Pergamenschikov à la Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler à Berlin. Afin de compléter sa formation musicale, il suit des cours de chant à la Schola Cantorum Basiliensis avec Ulrich Meissthaler. Invité en tant que soliste par l'Orchestre Philharmonique de St.-Petersbourg, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de la République Tchèque, le Berliner Symphoniker, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Moscou, il a ainsi eu l'occasion de jouer dans les plus grandes salles. Emil Rovner a obtenu de nombreux prix à divers concours internationaux pour violoncelle, entre autres un 1er prix au Concours J. Brahms, en Autriche (1996), un 1er prix au Concours Jost, à Lausanne (1997), ainsi que le 1er prix et deux prix spéciaux au Concours J. S. Bach, à Leipzig (1998).
Emil Rovner est co-fondateur et directeur artistique du Resonanzen-Festival de Saint-Moritz.

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer & Hassidic Trio

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer & Hassidic Trio will be performing concert # 3, (out of 4) in the multi-site JCC Jewish Music Festival at Temple Shalom 223 Valley Rd, Middletown Sunday, March 23rd, 4 PM $8 ($5 for members of the JCC or Temple Shalom

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.

ISLE OF KLEZBOS at Drom NYC

www.metropolitanklezmer.com

Isle of Klezbos & The Lascivious Biddies together at Drom NYC
Wednesday, March 12th
Dynamic double bill of women's bands, back by popular demand!

8:00pm - ISLE OF KLEZBOS klezmer sextet
http://myspace.com/klezbos

9:30pm - The LASCIVIOUS BIDDIES cocktail pop quartet
http://biddiesmusic.com http://myspace.com/biddies

$12 for both sets + club minimum
Drom: World Music/jazz nightclub & restaurant
85 Avenue A (near 6th St), East Village
212-777-1157
http://dromnyc.com
Isle of Klezbos & The Lascivious Biddies join forces once again, premiering at Drom after their exciting musical pairing at Comix last fall. Tag-team girl-band rematch, guest Klezbian vocals by Mira Stroika!

::: Newsflash ::: Isle of Klezbos are 2008 NYSCA/LMCC Grant Award recipients from the Fund for Creative Communities! Supporting our June 9th KlezBiGay Pride show in El Sol Brilliante community garden, East Village NYC. (Please scroll down for full schedule and more info.)

Formed in 1998, Isle of Klezbos has toured North America & Europe, playing concerts from Vienna to Vancouver with many festival reprises. Their music has enjoyed world-wide airplay, OutMusic awards, critical acclaim, and appearances on Showtime's "The L Word," PBS' "In The Life," CNN "Worldbeat," and live radio from WFMU to NPR.

Among Klezbos bandmates are graduates of Juilliard, Eastman, and Manhattan Schools of Music as well as Harvard and Yale. Their individual performance resumes include onstage appearances and/or recording sessions with artists such as Rufus Wainwright, David Krakauer, Indigo Girls, Arrow, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Cole, and Bonnie Raitt, as well as experience in styles from samba to Balkan to funk, and reggae to classical to Latin jazz.

In the thrilling November 2007 double bill debut by Isle of Klezbos with The Lascivious Biddies at Comix, creative collaborations included Klezbos players sitting in on prog-rock original "Celestial Delight" by Biddies pianist/vocalist Diedre Rodman; and Biddies onstage to join in on Klezbos' grooving Latinesque Yinglish version of "Comes Love."

"Comes Love" is also the Klezbonus track on Metropolitan Klezmer's new live concert album TRAVELING SHOW, named Best of 2007 by Jewish Week and papers from coast to coast, and praised for "originality, expert musicianship and a keen world music sensibility" by All About Jazz. Isle of Klezbos' own hit CD, the OutMusic Award-nominated GREETINGS FROM THE ISLE OF KLEZBOS, prompted the UK's Phat Planet to call the sextet "one of the finest young klezmer bands ever to appear on the block." All Isle of Klezbos and Metropolitan Klezmer CDs are distributed internationally by Stern's Music (New York & London), released by Rhythm Media Records.

Isle of Klezbos "tests the elasticity of the genre" (The New Yorker), and offers "talent is as strong as its name is provocative" (Courier News). The group recently played their triumpant return engagement for Vienna's KlezMORE Festival (2007 & 2004), as well as Seattle's Bumbershoot, St Louis' Edison Theatre with Cowboy Envy, NYC's Merkin Hall with the Stonewall Chorale, Joe's Pub, BAM Cafe, Brooklyn Museum's First Saturdays, Jewsapalooza with Pharaoh's Daughter, Southpaw with Golem and Metropolitan Klezmer, The Knitting Factory with Marga Gomez' Groundhog Spectacular, and with guest star Bitch (aka Capital B) for downtown Purim shows. They are perennial favorites at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the National Yiddish Book Center.

ISLE OF KLEZBOS at Drom NYC, Wednesday March 12th

Pam Fleming (Hazmat Modine, Burning Spear, RadioDread) - trumpet & flugelhorn Debra Kreisberg (Los Mas Valientes, D'Tripp) - clarinet & alto saxophone Saskia Lane (The Lascivious Biddies, Dan Zanes) - upright bass Eve Sicular (Voodoobillies, Mazeltones) - drummer & bandleader with special guest Klezbians... Patrick Farrell (Panorama Jazz Band, Staggerback Brass, Veveritse) - accordion & Klezbos guest debut by singer Mira Stroika! http://myspace.com/mirastroika

Wednesday, March 12: dynamic double bill of womens bands... Isle of Klezbos & The Lascivious Biddies, rematch by popular demand! Drom NYC - Klezbos (vocalist Mira Stroika), 8pm; Biddies cocktail pop quartet, 9:30pm http://dromnyc.com

Looking ahead, METROPOLITAN KLEZMER & ISLE OF KLEZBOS Spring '08:
• Wednesday, April 9: live octet & original arrangements, plus archival sound film clips! Metropolitan Klezmer's "Music of Yiddish Celluloid" Michael Farkas (Wiyos) vocals The Museum at Eldridge Street, NYC 7pm http://eldridgestreet.org

• Sunday, April 13: Parents Weekend show Isle of Klezbos with vocalist Judith Berkson Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, 3pm til 5pm

• Thursday, April 24: Special Pesakh show, followed by NY Gypsy All-Stars Seventh night of Passover! Drom NYC, 7:30pm Metropolitan Klezmer with vocalists Melissa Fogarty & Judith Berkson http://dromnyc.com

• Tuesday, June 3: Rain or shine, outdoors if weather permits - our 13th year here... Metropolitan Klezmer at Museum Mile Festival Free at The Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue 6pm - 9pm http://thejewishmuseum.org

• Monday, June 9: Tenth Annual show, and NYC Pride Month tradition! Isle of Klezbos - KlezBiGay Pride, supported by The Fund for Creative Communities: funding from New York State Council on the Arts & Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Free & open to the public, El Sol Brilliante garden: E. 12th St, Ave's A/B, East Village

• Thursday, June 19: Lunchtime set Metropolitan Klezmer at Abe Lebewohl Park NYC rain or shine! Free & outdoors, front of St Mark's Church, East Village 12:30pm - 1:30pm http://thirdstreetmusicschool.org

Also coming up... • Sunday, March 23: Eve Sicular, Yiddish Celluloid Closet film clips/lecture National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst MA 2pm http://bikher.org

• Eve Sicular is an award recipient of NYC's Department of Cultural Affairs & LMCC for "J. Edgar Klezmer & Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files" at Dixon Place, late '08

International CD reviews. Metropolitan Klezmer's TRAVELING SHOW... • "A fun-filled live recording with lots of great klezmer tunes and wonderful Yiddish songs. Guys & Dolls and Bagels is an interesting attempt to make klezmer accessible to a non-klezmer literate audience." - fROOTS Magazine, UK ('thumbs up' rating)

• Traveling Show CD: "Best of 2007!" LISTS: Jewish Week NYC, Jewish Journal LA, Detroit Jewis News, Boston Jewish Chronicle

WOMEN AT WORK

Downtown Music Productions
mimi stern-wolfe, artistic director

EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
St Marks in the Bowery 10th street 2nd avenue
Presents

WOMEN AT WORK

SUNDAY MARCH 16 @ 3PM

Downtown Chamber & Opera Players:
PAULA KIMPER, Restless Yearning (premiere) (Perry Brass, poet); (String Quartet and Counter Tenor); Marshall Coid, counter-tenor and Quartet;
MADELEINE DRING (Trio for oboe, flute & piano); Andrew Bolotowsky, flute; Jeffrey Hale, oboe;
MARY CAROL WARWICK (premiere) (Viola Sonata); (Song: (Imagination) (Ilsa Gilbert ) Dan Strba (vla); & Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano
MEIRA WARSHAUER (Aecha) with Downtown Chamber Trio (Rieko Kawabata, vl; Daniel Barrett, cel;)
LAURA WOLFE , vocals and guitar with DAVE EGGAR:, cello; (Original songs);
MIRA SPEKTOR, (Turn Around);Songs: Maeve Hoglund, soprano;
suggested donation: $10, 15;
information: dmpmimi@msn.com;
www.downtownmusicproductions.org
212 477 1594

"Common Chords II": A Celebration of Muslim and Jewish Music

"Common Chords II": A Celebration of Muslim and Jewish Music is a concert occuring at Temple Beth Sholom (401 Roslyn Rd, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577) on Saturday night, 3/1/2008 at 7:30 pm (5:30 pm for Mincha/Ma'ariv, followed by a 6:30 pm Lite Bite Middle Eastern Cafe). If you haven't heard the music of Salman Ahmad of the musical group Junoon & world leading klezmer artist Yale Strom, then you're missing something... You can get an idea about their styles by going to their respective web sites: http://www.junoon.com/ and http://www.yalestrom.com/

If your kids and teens were not planning on attending this concert, have them listen to the music on-line, I bet they'll want to go!!! These performers are more often at college campuses, central park, the UN General Assembly, and together they combine sufi-rock with klezmer, jazz, and Sephardic motifs.
$10 adults, $5 students Salman Ahmad worked with Madonna and Bono from U2 in 2007 and has been touring actively, and has primarily focused on performing and addressing at Universities the U.S. such as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Purdue, Stanford, MIT, UT-Austin etc. Salman has been teaching a class on music titled "Islamic Music and Culture of South Asia", as a guest faculty at the Queens College of NY. Salman recently worked with Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan and Dave Stewart in a song for 'Green Peace'. In short, he rocks!

Yale Strom is a violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer, playwright that is a pioneer among revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities. Strom has become the world's leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music and history. He has been composing his own New Jewish music, which combines klezmer with Hasidic nigunim , Rom, jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs and has performed with many world renown musicians. Strom has lectured extensively throughout the Untied States and Europe and taught at NYU for the 4 years, where he created the course Artist-Ethnographer Expeditions . He is on the advisory board of the Center for Jewish Creativity, based in Los Angeles and an Artist-in-Residence in the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University. This is not your zadye's klezmer music!

HOT, HIP AND HEYMISH with the Queen of Yiddish Soul

Congregation Sinai presents
ELEANOR REISSA SINGS YIDDISH SOUL
Piano Accompaniment byGRANT STURIALE
DIRECT FROM A SOLD OUT RUN AT THE HOUSEMAN THEATRE IN NY!
Sunday, February 24th
at 2:00 PM
at Congregation Sinai, 1532 Willowbrae Avenue in San Jose, California

Join Tony Award Nominee Eleanor Reissa for a celebration of the vitality of Yiddish music and humor. You don't need to understand Yiddish to appreciate the joy and warmth of this unique soulful language. The show seamlessly blends passionate folk songs, classics of the Second Avenue Theater, and stirring expressions of love, piousness, and protest.

Tickets are only $36.00 $25.00 for Seniors 65 and over $18.00 for Kids 18.00 and under $75.00 for Supporters (includes a CD and preferred seating) $500.00 for Patrons (includes a CD, preferred seating, and a party at the home of Maureen Ellenberg with a performance by Miss Reissa in a warm, intimate setting)
For reservations please call
(408) 264-8542

"A JOYOUS EXPERIENCE!"
- Sheldon Harnick, lyricist of Fiddler on The Roof

"ELEANOR REISSA LIGHTS UP THE STAGE"
- 1010 WINS Radio

"A SMILE THAT RADIATES, AN EXPERT COMEDIENNE"
-The New York Daily News
"Eleanor Reissa To Perform at Congregation Sinai
San Jose, Calif., January 10, 2008?Congregation Sinai, a Jewish synagogue located in the Willow Glen neighborhood, announced that Eleanor Reissa will bring her highly-praised Off-Broadway show, Hot, Hip, and Heymish directly from a sold-out run at the Houseman Theater in New York to Congregation Sinai on Sunday, February 24th at 2:00PM. Eleanor Reissa is one of the world s most renowned interpreters of Yiddish music, as well as a Tony-nominated director, and award winning theatre artist. Born and bred in Brooklyn, Eleanor is a proud product of the New York City public school system. Eleanor s parents were Holocaust survivors, which accounts for Eleanor s fluency in Yiddish and love of Yiddishkeit.

Join Eleanor and her piano accompanist, Grant Sturiale, for a delightful afternoon celebrating gems of Yiddish music and humor. You don't need to understand Yiddish to appreciate the joys and warmth of this unique, soulful language. The program seamlessly blends passionate folk songs, classics of the Second Avenue Theatre, and touching expressions of love, piousness and protest. You'll laugh, cry and realize you understand more than you thought. Those who attended her previous concert here raved about her singing and comedy.

Steven Dick, current president of Congregation Sinai, who does not speak or understand Yiddish, said, "I had a wonderful time. The concert was filled with great music and a lot of funny moments. I highly recommend this concert to anyone regardless of their Yiddish background."

For concert admission fees, reservations and more information, please contact the Sinai office (1532 Willowbrae Avenue, San Jose or 408-264-8542). CDs will be available for purchase at the concert as well. Reservations required by February 22nd.

Leib Levin features Bloch in New York Concert

Violinist Leib (Leonid) Levin
New York Recital
"Violin Favorites," featuring "Nigun" by E. Bloch
from Baal Shem Tov-Suite for Violin & and Piano.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
5:30pm, Bechstein Piano Centre
207 West 58th Street (betw.Broadway&7 Ave)
Free Admission

Pete Rushfesky Traditional Klezmer in Flushing, NY

Traditional Jewish Klezmer Music
Mr. Pete Rushefsky
Queens Library - International Resource Center
Concert
Sunday, March 16, 2008
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:Flushing Library - Auditorium (Lower Level)
41-17 Main St.
Flushing, NY

Klezmer Kaos en concert á Olympic café

21 fevrier
Klezmer Kaos Concert
Thursday, February 21, 2008
8:30am - 11:30am
Location:Olympic Café
Street: 20 rue Léon, Métro Château Rouge/Marcadet poissonniers
City/Town: Paris, France
des concerts de Klezmer Kaos
www.myspace.com/klezmerkaos
on jouera à Olympic café, le 21 février
20 rue Léon, 18éme, Métro Château Rouge/Marcadet poissonniers
C'est une entrée gratuite
20h30

TANGELE : La pulsation du tango yiddish

Lloïca Czakis: chant, Juan Lucas Aisemberg: violon, Ivo De Greef: piano.
Dimanche 24 février 2008 à la Cité Bleue, Genève
à 11h : Conférence - entrée libre
à 17h : Concert
tarifs: 30.- ; Tarif réduit (AVS; étudiants, etc): 20.-
Réduction supplémentaire de 10.- aux membres AMJ
Réservation: 022/344.64.09 ou amj@amj.ch
informations: www.amj.ch et http://www.tangele.com

'Tangele' est un néologisme qui signifie 'cher petit tango' et fait état de la rencontre de deux cultures: la chanson yiddish et le tango. Ce spectacle présente un répertoire original, crée dans les théâtres yiddish de Buenos Aires et de New York vers 1930, et relate son voyage jusque dans les ghettos et les camps de concentration.

Tangele est un hommage à l'art de survivre et de se réinventer. Conçu par Lloïca Czackis après son coup de foudre pour la culture yiddish, le projet a été récompensé par le JMI Millennium Award (Londres 2002), et a été suivi de publications, de conférences et de nombreux concerts à Londres, Brighton, Nottingham, Paris, Bruxelles, Vienne, Berlin, Francfort, Boston, New York et Los Angeles.

New Live Music -- Silent Film

http://www.yadarts.com/

Sunday 17th February 2008 at 4pm
SCORE: East and West with live music from Lemez Lovas, Rohan Kriwaczek and Moshikop
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
£8.50/£6 conc/£4.50 under 15s from the Barbican ticket office: 0845 120 7527 or
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film

Part of the Barbican’s silent film / live music series, Lemez Lovas, formerly of Oi Va Voi, directs guest musicians Moshikop and Rohan Kriwaczek in an irreverent live performance of a score for East and West – especially prepared for the JCC – that played to sell-out audiences in 2005 and 2006.

In Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson’s silent movie (1923), streetwise New Yorker Mollie (Molly Picon) travels to her demure cousin’s wedding in a traditional Polish shtetl. Lovas, Moshikop and Kriwaczek’s cheeky new score takes us from traditional klezmer to contemporary electronica, from liturgical melancholy to party pop kitsch and from vaudeville to breakbeat. As love blossoms between East and West, and the musical narrative unfolds, traditional and modern worlds are brought into collision.

http://www.jewishcommunitycentre.org.uk/Arts_Score.html Produced by Yad Arts for the JCC http://www.jcclondon.org.uk/ for London and the Barbican Sunday 16th March 2008 Radio Gagarin: Experiments in Sunday Socialism Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12 6pm – 1a.m. £5 on the door.

London’s only Balkan/Russian/Baltic/Gypsy/Klez/Mash/Thrash/Trash/KULTURKlash!!!

‘The Arts Club's most adventurous and anarchic night (and that's saying something)’ Time Out

The Commissar continues to pledge:

Live: ROHAN KRIWACZEK and Angelina and her Gypsy Soul Punk and more to be confirmed….

PLUS performance from Friends of Gagarin, poetry from Tim Cumming, Marxist-Leninist alienation from art/animation/video installations for the Proletariat from state artists Adrian Philpott & Cathy Gale; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Max Reinhardt & Misha Maltsev sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with wintery home-cookin in the Kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism for a few moments in the Kinodrom with new and classic shorts from Eastern Europe.

Radio Gagarins’ bi-monthly Experiments in Sunday Socialism sessions fill Notting Hill Arts Club to overflowing with a tundra melting mix of live music, digital DJ prowess, performance art, east European cinema, poetry, puppetry, poverty, latkes, blinis and vodka. Live acts have included Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, Oi Va Voi, DJ Shantel, Sophie Solomon, Nayekovichi, Mukka, London Sevdah, Martin Green & Joe Townsend, London Bulgarian Choir, Graham Lewis (Wire) with Scifi Kane, Luminescent Orchestrii, Geoff Berner, The Destroyers, Mammatrix, Emunah & Ghetto Plotz. Co-Produced by YaD Arts / Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / The Shrine

Sunday 30th March 2008 at 8.30pm
SPIEL: Holocaust on film with John Hurt, Tracy Ann Oberman, Joanna Newman and Jason Solomons.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1
£12 http://www.jcclondon.org.uk/Arts_Spiel.html online or 0207 431 9866

Actress and co-writer of Three Sisters on Hope Street, Tracy Ann Oberman, BAFTA award-winning John Hurt, star of countless films including Alien and Shooting Dogs, and Dr Joanna Newman, co-author of Holocaust and the Moving Image, join host and Observer film critic Jason Solomons to look at the shifting portrayal of the Holocaust in film.

Over the evening, we’ll be considering the change in representation from 80s award-winning films Europa Europa and Au Revoir Les Enfants, through Schindler’s List to 2007’s European films Black Book and The Counterfeiters and recent portrayals of other genocides, including Shooting Dogs and Hotel Rwanda.

Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC London

Sunday 6th April 2008 from 2pm
The Great East End Treasure Hunt: A quest for a long lost past Meet at the Cable Street Mural, painted on the side of St. George’s Hall, Cable Street, E1
Group charge £40/ Individuals £9. "http://www.jcclondon.org.uk/Arts_The_Great_East_End.html Book in a group of up to five people. If your group needs to be a different size, call 0207 431 9866.

Stumble around the East End and watch the Jewish history of this area unfurl with musicians, treasure clues, actors and bagels. Sign up in groups to discover some stories, fall upon soup kitchens, bump into klezmer players and search for disappearing synagogues.

We’ll scatter signposts, clues, artists including comedian Judy Battalion, live musicians and hidden items along the roads of the East End, taking you on a two hour tour around a Jewish world that has all but vanished. The afternoon will finish at Corbett Place for tea, drinks and live music from She’koyach.

Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC London

Thursday 10th April 2008, from 7:30pm The Other Seder with Hofesh Shechter, Joshua Sofaer and The Destroyers Wiltons Music Hall, Graces Alley, Off Ensign Street, London E1 £12 in advance online or
0207 431 9866. £15 on the door.

A night of contemporary dance, performance and live music with Hofesh Shechter, Joshua Sofaer and The Destroyers

Contemporary Dance choreographer Hofesh Shechter, who wowed audiences with Uprising and In Your Rooms in 2007 at the Place, South Bank and Sadlers Wells and whose work on C4’s Skins credits can currently be seen all over your televisions, will create a specially commissioned new piece of work around the theme of the Plagues.

Performance artist Joshua Sofaer will also present a new commission, turning the obligation to ask Questions at Passover into a Seder Chatshow.

And to finish off the evening, the 15-piece anarchic gypsy punk orchestra The Destroyers and djs will set a party vibe to bring down Wiltons’ crumbling roof. Produced by YaD Arts for the JCC London

Im Tirtzu: Israel Celebrates 60 in Philly

Nashirah: The Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia will present

Im Tirtzu: Israel Celebrates 60
Sunday, March 30, at 3 PM
Congregation Rodeph Shalom

615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia General Admission $25
For tickets or information, call
888-901-6274
or visit www.nashirah.org

Israeli Extravaganza in San Francisco

Saturday, February 9th 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Congregation Beth Israel-Judea
625 Brotherhood Way,
near Highway 280 and Lake Merced,
San Francisco 94132-2992
***FREE ADMISSION***FREE PARKING***ALL AGES WELCOME***

Enjoy live Israeli folk music with Achi Ben Shalom, leader of the band Adama, who is also musical director of the Nigunim choral ensemble and the East Bay Jewish Folk Chorus. Guided Israeli folk dance instruction will be provided by Bruce Bierman, artistic director of the Jewish Dance Theatre. Lyrics to the songs in the first set will be projected onto a screen so non-dancers can sing along if they like.

In the second music set, experience the new sound of young Israeli music as performed by the popular Israeli Band Kol Creation, with Lior Ben-Hur and Yaniv Assouline. You can have a natural henna tattoo applied by Darcy, of the Henna Lounge, and there will be refreshments, informational tables, Israeli-made items for sale, and a big raffle drawing at the end of the evening.

This event in honor of Israel @ 60 is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel, San Francisco Hillel, the Israel Center of the Jewish Community Federation, TZAVTA, the Jewish Community Relations Council, JIMENA, B nai B rith and BBYO. Everyone - young and old, dancers or not -- is encouraged to attend. Schmooze, tap your feet to the music, eat, dance, drink and have a great time at the biggest community bash we ve had in a long time!

For more information, contact Sonya Hicks, Chair of Adult Education at Congregation Beth Israel-Judea (415)678-0327 or go to www.bij.org

Fifth Annual Klezmer Concert at Town and Village Synagogue

There'll be dancing in the aisles at the Fifth Annual Klezmer Concert at Town and Village Synagogue with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, Columbia Klezmer Band, the Temple Beth Israel Intergenerational Klezmer Band, and the Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble!
Sunday February 3, 2008 at 3 PM

Manhattan-Cooper Post 1 Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. presents its Fifth-Annual Klezmer Concert featuring the internationally acclaimed Strauss/Warschauer Duo, the Columbia University Klezmer Band, the Temple Beth Israel Intergenerational Klezmer Band and the Workmen's Circle Klezmer Workshop!
3 p.m. Sunday, February 3
Doors open at 2:45 p.m.
One dollar per person donation requested
Town & Village Synagogue 334 East 14th Street (near First Avenue)
For more information please contact: (212) 477-3131

A Time for Peace in LA

What: A Time for Peace - An Inspirational evening of sacred Sufi music from the Turkish and Pakistani traditions and devotional music from the Moroccan-Jewish and Yemenite-Jewish music heritages.

Who: The Yuval Ron Ensemble, featuring Najwa Gibran, vocal soloist, with appearance by Whirling Dervish of the Melevi Order- Aziz.

Where: Islamic Center of Southern California 434 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90021. The Location of the Concert is a sacred space! The public is asked to attend dressed in a manner, which is respectful and appropriate for a place of worship.

When: Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 7:30pm

Money: tickets are $20 at the door, no advanced sales.

Info: Tel: 310-415-6747 info@yuvalronmusic.com or Calendar page at www.yuvalronmusic.com

The Yuval Ron Ensemble unites the sacred musical traditions of Judaism, Sufism (Islamic mystical tradition) and the Christian Armenian Church into an unusual musical celebration. Bringing together artists from Arabic, Jewish and Christian ancestry the Yuval Ron Ensemble is dedicated to fostering an understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and religions

In 2002 and 2005, the ensemble was featured at the World Festival of Sacred Music in Los Angeles and was honored to be the first American-based Middle Eastern Ensemble to perform at an International Peace Festival 05 in South Korea. In addition, the Ensemble was chosen by the Mid-Atlantic Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts to represent the United States and its cultural diversity at the International Folk Music Festival in Lublin, Poland in 2005. In 2006 the Ensemble was the first to introduce the music of the Middle East to Chihuahua, Mexico at the International Chihuahua Festival.

Composer and Oud master Yuval Ron works across different media and styles, actively seeking new forms of interchange and collaboration between musicians and other artists. His compositions have served as soundtracks for television programs and films such as Oliver Twist (UPN Network) and To Life (a CBS special), to dance works with the innovative dancer/choreographer Oguri (with music from these collaborations recorded on two CDs, In Between the Heartbeat and In The Shadows), to concert works for chorus, orchestra, and cello. He has also served as an impresario, helping to organize concerts at the UCLA Hammer Museum highlighting the diversity of musical styles to be found in the Los Angeles area.

But for many, Yuval is known for his deeply moving pan-Middle Eastern music. This group at once unites the music and peoples of the Middle East, incorporating elements of Armenian, Levantine, Arabic, Bedouin, Sephardic, and other stylings to create a fusion that is at once deeply traditional and still boldly innovative. His recordings include One and One Truth (with renowned Turkish Sufi musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek), Under the Olive Tree: Sacred Music of the Middle East, featuring the spectacular young Arabic singer, Najwa Gibran and Tree of Life also featuring Najwa Gibran.

Aziz is a authentic Sufi Dervish. and a member of the Mevlana Sufi Order both in Turkey and the US. He was born in the Us for parents who were Sufis and he followed the Sufi path since his childhood. He has studied with the leaders of the Mevlavi order in Kunia and Istanbul in Turkey and with the head of the US Sufi Mevlana order in Northern California. He is a master whirler who performed with The Yuval Ron Ensemble in the World Festival of Sacred Music in LA in 2002 and in many other concerts in the US, most recently in the concert Sacred Soul in LA For Aziz, Sufi Whirling and Whirling as a way of life, are a way of worship and a way of Prayer.

KLEZKANADA BRINGS KLEZMER TO MONTREAL'S 'ULTRA-HIP' NEIGHBOURHOOD

Montreal, QC - KlezKanada presents a World-Class Klezmer Concert and Dance Party. The event takes place Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 9pm at Kola Note (5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal).
KlezKanada, Canada's largest organization dedicated to Yiddish/Jewish culture and the arts, brings an evening of music and dance to Montreal's historic Jewish neighbourhood. KlezKanada is known for exciting events that appeal to all ages and interests. The event is part of KlezKanada's Winter-Session, a weekend of workshops, cabarets, jam sessions and performances. This exciting evening features a line-up of internationally acclaimed klezmer musicians.

Doors will open at 8:30 pm, the show will commence at 9 pm. General admission tickets $20, student tickets $10. Available at the door. For sponsorship tickets, please call 514.993.2842. A partial tax receipt will be issued. For more information, contact Avia Moore by email at avia.moore@gmail.com or by phone 514.993.2842.

From Montreal to New York, from concert halls to nightclubs, these performers create a buzz wherever they appear. Grammy award-winning trumpeter Frank London is famous for his work with klezmer supergroups The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Brass Allstars. Renowned Yiddish singer Michael Alpert has been a pioneering figure in the renaissance of Klezmer and Yiddish music for the past 30 years. Cookie Segelstein and Josh Horowitz are founding members of Veretski Pass and loved for their virtuosic traditional style. The dynamic Strauss/Warschauer Duo features two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. Special guests for the evening include cello visionary Matt Haimovitz, the first classical musician to play at NY's notorious CBGB club. Also Montreal's Shtreiml, New York's fastest rising young clarinet star Michael Winograd and more! Dancing will be led by Avia Moore and Michael Alpert. One show only, Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Kola Note, 5240 Avenue du Parc, Montreal.

Klezmer & Hassidic Music in Providence

Fishel Bresler & Shelley Katsh
Klezmer & Hassidic Music at the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House in Providence
Three more shows, the last Saturdays of the Months
Jan. 26, 2008, & Feb. 23, 2008 -- 8:00pm - 10 PM
Mar. 29, 2008 show starts at 8:30-10:30
Admission $9

Very easy to get to, the Brooklyn Coffee & Tea House is at 209 Douglas Ave, 5 minutes from the Providence Marriot: Right on Orms, across the bridge over 95 , first right onto Douglas Ave. We're one half mile down on the right, just past the 95S entrance. For more specific directions go to www.BrooklynCoffeeTeaHouse.com
or call 575-2284 weekday mornings.

Three Hip Performers and One Timeless Culture

On Saturday, January 19, 2008, 8 PM, at Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, three
internationally
acclaimed klezmer musicians in a rare West Coast appearance, Michael Alpert (Brave
Old World) and the Strauss/Warschauer Duo will entertain with great music and
share their experiences of rekindling Yiddish creativity in the Old Country and
beyond.

Sharing the spotlight will be Sinai's own Cantor Arianne Brown and a special guest
from Warsaw, Daniel Strehlau, award-winning filmmaker and founding director of the
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival (which recently had its 5th Edition).
Enjoy this unique evening of beautiful music and stimulating
conversation.

General Admission: $18; CIYCL Members: $15; Students: $8

Seating Limited. Reservations recommended at 310-745-1190 or

Miriam@yiddishinstitute.org
Venue Address: Sinai Temple, Kohn Chapel, 10400 Wilshire Blvd. (at Beverly Glen),
Los Angeles. Free Parking in the Sinai Temple garage.

Brought to you by The California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL)

www.yiddishinstitute.org in association with Sinai Temple

Koleinu Winter Concert in Brookline, MA

Koleinu, Boston's Jewish Community Chorus, will present a concert at Temple Beth Zion on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 27, at 4 pm. The concert is free, but donations will be gladly accepted.
Featuring repertoire from the Turkish, Spanish and Yemenite selections. Also performances of works by Aaron Copeland and Yehezkel Braun.

Temple Beth Zion
1566 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA

Temple Beth Zion is accessible by "T", the MBTA Green Line C Train. Use the Fairbanks stop Walk up the stairs to the outbound (west) side of Beacon Street. TBZ is on the right.

Concert Exceptionnel de Musique Juive

Le Président Gérard UZAN
& les membres de la Communauté Administrative
De Nogent, le Perreux, Bry,
Ont l'Immense Plaisir de Vous Convier
Le 19 janvier 2008 a 20h15 (Samedi soir - Motsé Chabbat Paracha BECHALA'H)
Au Concert Exceptionnel de Musique Juive
Au profit du projet de la Maison de la Culture Juive de Nogent

Récital Présenté par M Daniel SANDLER
En partenariat avec l'A.P.A.C
En présence de Son Excellence, David KORNBLUTH
Ambassadeur d'Israël auprès de l'Unesco

David MESSAS
Grand Rabbin de Paris,

Joël MERGUY
Président du Consistoire de Paris,

Des Autorités Civiles De Nogent, le Perreux, Bry,

Avec les Artistes,
PAITAN - HAZAN - CANTOR - TENOR

Raphaël COHEN
Cantor de la SYNAGOGUE Education Sinaï


Le célèbre Hazan Raphaël Cohen s'est passionné de musique juive dès son enfance. Il développa sa technique vocale et son style artiste avec Maestro Schuyler Hamilton à l'institut vocal de Paris. Il a donné de nombreux concerts en Europe, en Israël et aux Etats Unis. Doté d'une belle voix de ténor, il officie en la Grande Synagogue de la Cité de l'Education Sinaï à Paris.

Samuel SHAPIRO
Cantor de la Synagogue Montévideo

Samuel Shapiro Cantor de la belle synagogue de Montevideo a Paris. Hazan du style des grands cantors du 19eme et 20eme siècle. Israélien il a travaille avec Elie Yaffe de la grande synagogue de Jérusalem. Il fit ses débuts avec le fameux Itzhak Meir Helfgot

David LABOUZ
Paitan Grande Synagogue de Nice

David Labouz est un artiste complet chanteur et pianiste. Né en France originaire du MAROC se sont toutes ces profondeur nostalgique d'airs Judéo-Arabo Andalou qu'il refait vivre. Il excelle dans la musique et le chant andalou avec sa voix de Ténor léger qui lui permet de chanter tous les grands airs de nos grands ¨Paytanims tels que Rabbi David BOUZAGLO, SALIM ALALI. Spécialiste du Moual, cette facilité de colorer la voix en la faisant vibrer Sur des prières sacrées puisées du fameux Chir yédidout.

Gabriel ELFASSI
Ténor Synagogue Hekhal David,

Le Ténor Gabriel Elfassi a suivi une formation musicale auprès de grands maîtres tels qu'albert Lance1er ténor à l'Opéra de Paris, Enrico Kraus, Stuwart Paterson, du Conservatoire National Supérieur et avec le célèbre ténor Guy Flecher de Radio France. Cantor surdoué, le Rabbin Gabriel Elfassi, dont la voix peut aussi bien se déployer dans une prière profonde que dans l'interprétation d'un air d'opéra,

La CJF (Chorale Juive de France) dirigée par M Hector SABO

Accompagnés par le Formation Musicale d'Alex JOURAVSKKI

Paf : 18 €, Accueil du public : 19h30 Récital : 20h15
Cocktail en présence des Artistes et des Personnalités
Merci de réserver vos places....
Infoline, réservation :
Lisou 06.04.56.1. 90 - Marjorie 06.62.47.25.86
Sylvia 06.13.08.15.95 -Yaël 06.09.09.10.28 - Annie 06.12.12.06.95

Un Mélavé Malka exceptionnel
Au Centre communautaire HEKHAL DAVID
173 Avenue du Général de Gaulle 94170 le Perreux-sur-Marne

Cordial Chalom
Comité d'organisation HEKHAL DAVID

The Dybbuk Project Opens in Montreal

January 24 and 26. workshops. Montreal
JANUARY 24TH AND 26TH 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.
SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS
5170 CeTE-STE-CATHERINE
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, H3W 1M7
TEL. 514-739-2301 FAX 514-739-9340
The Dybbuk Project, opera by Ofer Ben Amots. Sheri Wills, scenery.

Based on the classic Jewish play by S. Ansky, this new 3-Act opera features renowned international artists, and combines music, drama, dance, realtime video projections, and more. The world premiere of this production will be held in Montreal at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts. The Dybbuk has been often described as Romeo & Juliet meets The Exorcist. Indeed, the play?s subtitle, Between Two Worlds, indicates the duality, which is both the center and source of the haunting drama of life vs. death, demonic vs. angelic, the natural vs. the unnatural, the ancient customs vs. modernity. Channan and Leah are betrothed to each other by their fathers even before their birth. But the two are denied their fate when Leah?s father breaks the marriage contract and offers his daughter to a richer man. Chanan attempts through mysticism and magic to regain Leah, but weakened from prolonged prayer and fasting, he dies and enters the spirit world. In this chamber opera, Ofer Ben-Amots characterizes the separate realms of the two central characters by having Leah carry the vocal role - singing, reciting, and acting - while the role of the other main character, Channan, is performed wordlessly entirely on the carinet. In Hebrew and English.

THE DYBBUK PROJECT - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
A CHAMBER OPERA BY OFER BEN-AMOTS
DIRECTOR - THOMAS LINDBLADE
VIDEO ART & DESIGN - SHERI WILLS
COSTUME DESIGNER - GYPSY AMES

LEAH - YAHLI TOREN, SOPRANO
CHANNAN - XAVIER BROSSARD-MeNARD, CLARINET
RABBI - JEREMY WILHELM, BARITONE
MUSIC - ENSEMBLE QAT
XAVIER BROSSARD-M?NARD, CLARINET
CHANTAL BERGERON, VIOLIN
SHEILA HANNIGAN, CELLO
SONIA WHEATON DUDLEY, PIANO

JANUARY 24TH AND 26TH 2008 AT 7:30 P.M.
SEGAL CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS
5170 CeTE-STE-CATHERINE
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, H3W 1M7
TEL. 514-739-2301 FAX 514-739-9340

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MAISON DE LA CULTURE C?TE-DES-NEIGES
15$

Women's Music at the Jerusalem Folk Club

Following the huge success of the last performances, professional female performers requested to present their new CDs in front of the Ladies only Jerusalem Folk Club. It will take place on Motsaei Shabbat Yitro, Saturday 26.1, 8PM, at the Noam school, 32 Rabbi Chaim Vital, Kiryat Moshe.

8.00- 8.30 MC Rachael Orbach (clarinet, sax, flute ) duo with Sarah Cordish (bassoon ) with Klezmer and the CD Batsheva. You can hear some of it on www.cdbaby.com/davidorbach

8.30- 9.00 Devora Gila from Bat Ayin with her CD, Hodu Lashem: A rich tapestry of melodies, meditative and danceable rhythms, and inspiring themes. http://cdbaby.com/cd/devoragila

9:00- 9:30 Tsiporah Dagan, from Tekoa, Soul Blues, Shirei Kodesh .

9:30-10.00 Melave Malka, refreshments, food and Divrei Torah Rabbanit Aliza Levanon

10:00 Talia Applebaum, from Beitar, with her CD, Flashes in the Darkness, folk, jazz, blues, ragtime and ethnic funk ! You can listen to her beautiful music on http://cdbaby.com/cd/talia

Entrance fee: 20NIS. Only for ladies and girls!

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Symphony No. 4 Homage in memory of the Holocaust

The 24th. of January 2008, at 9, PM , there will be a premiere performance of Alfono Rega,'s Symphony n°4 in 6 movements written as a homage in memory of the Holocaust. This event will take place at the Conservatory of Milan contemporaneously with the inauguration of the Holocaust Museum situated in the railway station. of Milan, Italy.

The concert is free. It will be on behalf of the Associazione Luciano Elmo Onlus in memory of Luciano Elmo, who was a Lawyer, sent in concentration camp and the only survivor of his group. He is recalled for having save a great number of Jews, and received military decorations several times.

The Symphony The Holocaust brings back to present days tonal and romantic music, has been recorded some weeks ago in Milan and will be performed by the Cantelli Orchestra, one of the most famous Orchestra of Milan, together with the Costanzo Porta Choir of Cremona. HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY
On behalf of Associazione Avv. Luciano Elmo. Onlus
THURSDAY 24TH OFJANUARY 2008 at 9, PM
SALA VERDI OF THE CONSERVATORY OF MILANO
(Via del Consevatorio-MM:1-San Babila)
CANTELLI ORCHESTRA
COSTANZO PORTA CHOIRE
CONDUCTOR: HEINRICH UNTERHOFER

PROGRAMME
FRANZ SCHUBERT:SYMPHONY N°5 IN SI BEMOLLE D.485
ALFONSO REGA: SYMPHONY n° 4 The HOLOCAUST IN DO MINOR
Still Awarded at New York A great return of romantic music

Free entrance
For yourself as well as for all your friends and relatives Donations welcome

For informations: www:orchestracantelli.it E-mail: info@orchestracantelli.it E-mail: semafoccor@katamail.com Tel. 3491369462---328850319- SYMPHONY N° 4 in DO minor : The HOLOCAUST

This concert is the first performance of the symphony n° 4 in do minor The Holocaust composed by ALFONSO REGA .
The composer, Alfonso Rega, has been awarded the IBLA Prize several times at New York for his music; for the Symphony The Holocaust as well as for other Symphonies he composed.

The composer also wants his music to congtribute to an intense waring for future generations so that these types of atrocities will never happen again.

The Symphony is divided in 6 movements which explain this tragedy:
1° The forced gatheringb 2° The travel 3° O! What a pain (The prison in camps)-
4° The Holocaust 5° Dream of spring 6° Liberation.


Alfonso Rega is a 66 year old Italian living in Milano. He studied the piano during 8 years and composition from 1995. He composed 8 Symphonic Poems: 1° Birth of Davide 2° Birth of Myriam. 3° The Millennium- 4° The Holocaust 5° The Birth of the Universe - 6° The Divine Comedy-7° The 11 September. 8° Romeo and Juliet. Plus about 400 short pieces. He also entered music competitions and won at Bologna with the 4th.Movement of the Symphonic 11 September The Pietas for violin and in 2006 in New York with the Symphony The Holocaust

Merkin Hall features Feinsmith NY Premieres

On January 19, 2008 at 8pm, the Francisco based Feinsmith Quartet (www.feinsmithquartet.com), founded by New Yorker Daniel David Feinsmith makes it New York Debut at the Kaufman Center’s Merkin Concert Hall (129 West 67th Street). Known for its powerful new sound with an ecstatic spiritual bent, the Feinsmith Quartet will appear in this one-night-only concert with special guest Scott Amendola. A super-group in the most complete sense of the term, the Feinsmith Quartet features Jennifer Culp on cello, Michael Manring on bass, Gyan Riley on guitar, and Christopher Taylor on piano. The group will perform original compositions by founder and artistic director Feinsmith, guitarist Riley and bassist Manring. Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the door. Student and senior advance tickets are $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Ticket may be obtained by calling the Merkin Center Box Office at (212) 501-3330 or online at www.kaufman-center.org. The January 19 concert program presents Feinsmith Quartet performing Elokim (2006) and the East Coast premiere of Feinsmith’s Havaya (2007). Both Elokim and Havaya, composed for the Feinsmith Quartet, are spiritual works, their titles reflecting names of God in Hebrew in the Jewish tradition. Elokim is a work that exalts in the creative power of the Divine, and Havaya is a work of longing for a closeness to God. Joined by special guest, drummer Amendola, the Quartet performs the East Coast premieres of new arrangements for Melismantra (2006) and The Changes Stay The Same (2006) by guitarist Riley, both improvisatory works with links to Hindustani Raga music. Rounding out the program is Greetings, Earthlings! by Manring

Israel at 60

Save the Date...Zamir Choral Foundation presents performances by The Zamir Chorale and HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir on March 30, 2008 at 2pm at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Contact ZamirFdn@aol.com or see the website at http://www.zamirfdn.org/ for more information.

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

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble

Fishel Bresler's Klezmer Hassidic Ensemble will perform again this year on
December 24th - Monday, 7:30 PM
at Congregation Ohawe Shalom Coffee
House, Pawtucket RI.
671 East Ave in Pawtucket (corner of Glenwood, nr where Blackstone meets Hope St)
Doors open 7:00PM $10 adults, $7 children (under B-Mitzvah).
You can be a Sponsor & get Tickets for Front Rows Seating - available only in advance- email Breslersmusic@gmail.com or call 273-9814 for information Kosher hot dogs, snacks & beverages will be on sale. questions? 401 273-9814

Gustav Mahler Recital in Washington Jan 7

Gustav Mahler Recital, Hermine Haselböck, mezzosoprano Washington January 7 and New York City January 9 and 13, 2008

The young Austrian Mezzosopran, whose International recital and concert performances have led her to Carnegie Hall - New York, Musikverein Vienna, Konzerthaus Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Frauenkirche Dresden and the Teatro San Carlo Naples as well as to festivals such as the Styriarte, KlangBogen Vienna, Wiener Festwochen, Kunstfest Weimar, MDR Musiksommer Leipzig, Easterfestival of sacred Music in Brno and the Haydnfestival Eisenstadt, will perform Recitals with G. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Kindertotenlieder und Rückertlieder (Russell Ryan, piano) on 7. January 2008 in the Austrian Cultural Forum - Washington DC and on 9th and 13th January 2008 in the Austrian Cultural Forum - New York City. Tickets available:
Austrian Cultural Forum,
11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022
phone: 212 319 5300, fax: 212 644 8660,
mkarning@acfny.org and

Austrian Cultural Forum,
Embassy of Austria,
3524 International Court,
N.W.Washington, D.C. 20008-3027,
e mail culture@austria.orgf,
Tel: 202-895- 6714, Fax: 202-895-6750.

Mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck, born in Melk Austria, studied at the University of performing Arts in Vienna under Rita Streich as well as the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany under Ingeborg Ruß, qualifying both with performers and vocal education diploma. Master classes with Sena Jurinac, Marjana Lipovek and Christa Ludwig provided her with the vital impetus to pursue an artistic career. Hermine Haselböck has collaborated with conductors such as Gustav Kuhn, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Fabio Luisi, Bertrand de Billy, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Manfred Honeck and orchestras such as the MDR Sinfonieorchester, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Wiener Symphoniker, RSO Wien, Camerata Salzburg and Dresdner Philharmonie. Her comprehensive repertoire includes Bach (Magnificat, Matthew Passion, Christmas-, Easter-Oratorio), Beethoven (Missa Solemnis, Mass in C major, Symphony No. 9), Mozart (Requiem) and Mendelssohn (Elijah), as well as Mahler (Kindertoten-, Rückert-, Songs of a Wayfayrer), Wolf (Italian Songbook, Goethe-Songs), Berg, Schönberg, Zemlinsky and Schreker. Her opera roles include Fiorilla (Il Turco in Italia / Rossini), Mrs. P. (The man who mistook his wife for a hat / M. Nyman), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Amore (Dafne in Lauro / Fux), 2. Dame (Magic flute), Mercedes (Carmen), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) and Frauenschatten (Die Flammen / Erwin Schulhoff). She has performed at opera houses such as the Wiener Volksoper, Theater an der Wien and the Grand Theatre de la Ville Luxemburg.

Hermine Haselböck, acclaimed by music critics as " ... a mezzo of rare, amber glow in her lower register" (Matthew Gurewitsch in OPERA NOW ), was awarded the Radio Österreich1 Pasticcio Prize for the CD "Songs by Zemlinsky" in 2004 and the International Alexander Zemlinsky Prize in 2005, presented to her at a concert in the Musikverein, Vienna. Additional CD recordings: G. Donizetti: Adelia (Sony-BMG / 2007), F. Schreker: Lieder (Bridge Records / 2008), F. Schubert: As Dur Messe (ORF / 2008), L. v. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Sony-BMG / 2008). Next projects are: J.S.Bach: Passion St Matthew/Konzerthaus Vienna,Auditorium Bolzano with conductor Gustav Kuhn ; Zemlinsky Maeterlinck Songs with conductor Martin Sieghart and the Arnheim Philharmonic orchestre/Netherland, G. Verdi Requiem/ Haydn festival Eisenstadt; LvBeethoven: Missa Solemnis, cond Gustav Kuhn, Tyrolian Festival; G. Mahler/Lied von der Erde, Toblach, M.Vorzellner piano, H. Pecoraro, tenor/CD Recording; W.A. Mozart: Magic flute, 2. Lady/Thater ander wien, cond J.C.Spinosi with, D. Damrau, J.Lemalu, Shawn Mathey; H, Wolf. Italienisches Liederbuch with A. Kaimbacher; J. HAydn Nelson Mass, MDR Leipzig.

Chicken Soup for the Ears in London

Chicken Soup for the Ears –
Sunday 9 December, Sunday 13 January, Sunday 10 February, 1- 4pm
Come and join the London Klezmer Collective’s second-Sunday jam at the Cross Kings, between 1 and 4pm.
The capital’s regular klezmer session has found a home at the Cross Kings pub. While you’re playing or listening, eat lunch, have a coffee, booze, shmooze or just relax in the deep sofas and convivial atmosphere of this great central London pub. There might even be a bit of dancing and singing… Out-of-towners particularly welcome!

Klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of the Jews of eastern Europe, is the flavour of the month. Anyone interested in playing or listening to klezmer is welcome to come along; no experience is necessary. Join skilled professionals, keen amateurs, home-grown talent and perhaps even some international visitors. For more klezmer information and sheet music for some of the tunes we might play visit http://www.ilanacravitz.com/jams.html

The Cross Kings is at 126 York Way, London N1 0AX, a 10-minute walk from Kings Cross station with local parking. Visit HYPERLINK http://www.thecrosskings.co.uk/ for details.

Statman Chanukicks- It -Off

This December, celebrate this season with festive holiday music for the whole family. On Wednesday, December 5 at 7 p.m. Celebrate Hanukkah with the Andy Statman Trio. Playing a unique blend of klezmer, rock, folk, and jazz. Statman has worked with musical legends Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan, and was a lead musician on Itzhak Perlman's klezmer sensation, In the Fiddler's House. Unable to categorize his music, Statman offers this description to listeners: "It's deeply Jewish because I am, and it's honest because I am." Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students/members.

On December 25th join Joshua Nelson and his Kosher Gospel Choir for Challah-lujah with performances at 1 PM & 3:30 PM. Performing to sold-out crowds at the Museum for two years in a row, Joshua Nelson is back for another spectacular set of shows. Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua's Nelson's unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution in Jewish music. Tickets are $35 adults, $25 seniors, $20 members/students. All tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum box office at 646.437.4202

Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Place New York, NY 10280

THE KLEZMATICS: UP CLOSE

YIVO Institute presents:
THE KLEZMATICS: UP CLOSE
Tuesday, November 27th at 7pm
Venue: YIVO (at the Center for Jewish History), 15 West 16th Street, NYC
TKTS: $20/$10 students with I.D./
Box Office:
917-606-8200/ www.ticketweb.com
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelection Data&eventId=214519

In their only New York concert this winter, The Klezmatics will perform music drawn from their 2007 Grammy award-winning CD Wonder Wheel - Lyrics by Woody Guthrie, YIVO's Max and Frieda Weinstein Sound Archives and their vast repertoire. Whether in English or Yiddish, their music is irresistible, eclectic, provocative and danceable, embracing klezmer and blending multi-cultural sounds.

Free Pre-Concert Program
A conversation with members of The Klezmatics about their creative process
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm (For Ticket Holders Only)

MUSIQUE KLEZMER et CHANTS JUIFS

VENDREDI 23 novembre à 20 h 00 Centre paroissial de Chêne - 77, rte de Genève MUSIQUE KLEZMER et CHANTS JUIFS Concert avec HOTEGEZUGT Bianca Favez, violon Pier-Yves Têtu, accordéon Michel Borzykowski, saxophones David Morhain, percussions et la chanteuse Hélène ENGEL Entrée libre - collecte Organisation : Accademia d'Archi - école de musique 022 751 26 76

Di Fidl-Kapelye at ZONDAGMIDDAG CONCERT

UITNODIGING VOOR HET 70e ZONDAGMIDDAG CONCERT
in
Kasteel Tongelaar, Mill

zondag 28 oktober 2007

Di Fidl-Kapelye

Voor het programma en meer informatie zie ommezijde.
Vanaf 14.00 uur kunt u de reservering afhalen in Boerderij “De Benedenhof”. Hier staat de koffie, thee en Tongelaarkoek voor u klaar.
Om 15.00 uur begint het concert en zal, met een pauze, tot circa 16.30 uur duren.
In de pauze kunt u tegen inlevering van een Tongelaarpenning een drankje verkrijgen in de Herenkamer van Kasteel Tongelaar. Tevens kunt u dan de expositie bezoeken van
Tineke Winters-Teijen-schilderijen
Tanya Simons-schilderijen
Bob de Winter-schilderijen
Raymund Bervoets-beelden
Evenals de andere zondagmiddagconcerten wordt ook dit concert met een verrassingsdiner afgesloten.

De prijs per persoon voor dit concert is € 20,00 inclusief koffie/thee en Tongelaarkoek bij de ontvangst. Wilt u na afloop aan het 3-gangen verrassings-dinerbuffet deelnemen kunt u zich bij de reservering voor het concert vooraf aanmelden à € 25,00 per persoon.
Voor reservering kunt u bellen, faxen of e-mailen met Marijke & Paul Speller.
Telefoon 0486-477140
Fax 0486-477141
e-mail info@kasteeltongelaar.nl
internet www.kasteeltongelaar.nl

Light to Light: Music for Shabbat

On November 17 and 18, 2007
The Yavneh Ensemble will present
From Light to Light: Music for Shabbat,
conducted by Robert A.M. Ross.
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2007
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: The Ethical Society Building, 1906 South Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA

Date: Sunday, November 18, 2007
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El, Lancaster Avenue and Remington Road, Wynnewood, PA

Tickets: Preferred seating $36.00
General Admission $18.00
Student with ID $9.00

Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.yavnehensemble.org Or call 215-849-4129

Through a wide variety of choral music, with narration, Shabbat will be experienced from the light of Friday night candles until the light of the Havdalah candle.

The original choral versions of well-known synagogue tunes by 19th century composers Solomon Sulzer, (Torah service music) Louis Lewandowski (Tov L'Hodot/Tzadik Katamar) and Eliezer Gerovitsch (Adon Olam). Some surprises will be in store.

Contemporary settings of the liturgy and z'mirot by Robert Applebaum, Yehezkel Braun, Meir Finkelstein, Ben Steinberg, Tzipora Jochsberger, and others.

Imaginative settings of Yiddish songs for Mincha and Havdalah by Artistic Director Robert A.M. Ross.

The spectacular Zavel Zilberts Havdalah.

The Yavneh Ensemble, founded in 2006, is a choral ensemble of professional and experienced amateur singers. Through repertoire selected for both music and text, and accompanying narration, we endeavor to present a high quality musical and educational experience. Our previous concerts of this type have been:

June 2006: Bareikh et Medinat Yisrael: Voices of Israel Today (Congregation Adath Jeshurun) June 2007: The 49 Days: Music of the Omer Period (Congregation Adath Jeshurun)

In November 2006, Yavneh appeared with Hazzan Stephen Freedman and Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro at Temple Sinai in Dresher, Pa, in a program commemorating Hazzan Freedman's 25th year in the cantorate.

Artistic Director Robert A.M. Ross (b. 1955) is a graduate of Temple University, with degrees in music education, conducting and composition. He is Artistic and Music Director of Voces Novae et Antiquae (a professional choral ensemble in Philadelphia), and choirmaster, professional chorister and assistant to the cantor at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, PA. For ten years was Music Director of the Mak’helat Beth Sholom (Singers of Beth Sholom) at Temple Beth Sholom in Cherry Hill, NJ. Two years ago, he was appointed to the full-time music faculty of Community College of Philadelphia where he teaches Music Theory and History and directs the CCP Vocal Ensemble.

New York Yiddish Singalong

The Second Annual All-Star New York Yiddish Singalong

Starring:

Robert Abelson, Michael Alpert, Phyllis Berk, Joanne Borts, Caroline Chanin, Adrienne Cooper, Ron Eliran, Michael Fox, Rebecca Garfein, Sarah Gordon, The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus, The New Yiddish Chorale, Binyumen Schaechter, Reyna & Temma Schaechter ("Di Shekhter-tekhter"), Basya Schechter, Elizabeth Schwartz, Lorin Sklamberg, Jeff Warschauer

Accompanied by an all-star Klezmer ensemble, including Margot Leverett, Joey Weisenberg and Jake Shulman
Musical Director - Zalmen Mlotek
Emcee - Corey Breier
Producer - Moishe Rosenfeld

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 7:30 PM
at Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd Street, New York City

Come sing your heart out - in Mame-loshn!

General admission:
$18 Advance Purchase; $20 Day of the Event.
VIP seating (with a post-concert reception):
$50 Advance Purchase; $60 Day of the Event.
Group discounts - (10 or more purchased in advance) - 15%

For tickets and information:
www.oyhoo.com
212-608-0555 or 212-683-7816

Of Daniel Pearl on Armistice Day-- DOWNTOWN CHAMBER & OPERA PLAYERS

EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS MIMI STERN-WOLFE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
St. Marks in the Bowery (10th St & Second Av)
ARMISITICE DAY
PREMIERES & COMMISSIONS-- WAR & PIECES
SUNDAY* NOVEMBER 11 @ 3PM

DOWNTOWN CHAMBER & OPERA PLAYERS
MIMI STERN-WOLFE, CONDUCTOR, PIANIST
:
CAROLYN STEINBERG: Secular Requiem: 1. "Chorale," 2. "Of Daniel Pearl." 3. "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep." 4. "Chorale", String Quartet & Vocal Quartet; SIMA WOLF (commission): Ashbah (Ghosts) (Brian Turner) for Violin, Cello, Piano, Narrator; DAVID THOMAS: War Song for Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano & Piano; EDDIE VENEGAS: Encounters for String Quartet; DAVID HOLLISTER: Listen Here, Joe; Performers: Eileen Clarke, Soprano; Megan Friar, Mezzo-Soprano; Kurt Alakulppi, Tenor; Ivan Thomas, Narrator, Bass; Matt Fieldes, double bass; Sweet Plantain String Quartet; Downtown Piano Trio
Information : dmpmimi@msn.com; Suggested donation: $10-$15;
Reservations: 212 477-1594; www.downtownmusicproductions.org

Sisters of Sheynville CD launch

In association with the Ashkenaz Foundation,
Sisters of Sheynville, 6-piece all-female Toronto swing-klez group, will
launch their debut CD at a concert on
Thursday, November 1, 8pm,
at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West.
Toronto, CA
Cover $10, for tickets call 416-531-4635.
For more information, please contact info@sistersofsheynville.ca or lenka at 416-562-2947

Milton Barnes Tribute in Toronto

Hosted by his sons Micah and Daniel Barnes, a concert tribute to the important Canadian Jewish composer Milton Barnes will take place tomorrow, Monday, October 22, at the Al Green Theatre - MNJcc - 750 Spadina Avenue, Toronto. Featuring: trio Lyra - Erica Goodman, Mark Childs, Suzanne Schulman; David Wall, Marilyn Lerner, Artie Roth, Martin van de Ven, Renee Bouthot, Lenka Lichtenberg, Brian Katz. 8pm. Tickets $20, 416-924-6211, ext 0.

SHIDDUCHIM AND SURVIVAL TONIGHT October 21st in Monsey

SHIDDUCHIM AND SURVIVAL-A BA'ALAS TESHUVA'S TALE-REPEAT PERFORMANCE!

Partners in Torah will present once again SHIDDUCHIM AND SURVIVAL (A BA'ALAS TESHUVA'S TALE) a One-Person Musical Play featuring Chana Rochel Eller (nee Sommerstein) on
Sunday Evening, October 21st, 8:30 P.M.,
at the Rockland County Community College Theatre,
145 College Rd.,
Suffern (Monsey), New York.
Exclusive performance for ladies and mature girls. Tickets $18.00. Proceeds for Partners In Torah, a division of Torah Umesorah. Purchase tickets at the door, or for reservations call 973-473-3575
More Upcoming Events:
Sunday, November 4
Ten Yad Fundraiser in Crown Heights! See Caroline Cohen, Marion Hermes and others - the London performers who are blowing away audiences worldwide! $36, plus a Chinese Auction beginning at 3 pm to raise money for Ten Yad, helping KALLAHS!

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CDs to look out for.... *Aliza Dubin on her SECOND ALBUM!!
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ATARA's Torah & Arts FIRST CONFERENCE!
November 10-12, 2007
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Main Features of the Conference

*Motzi Shabbat, November 10 8:30 pm FILM SNEAK PREVIEW Hollywood's first orthodox Jewish woman film director ROBIN GARBOSE brings to NY her sneak preview of A LIGHT FOR GREYTOWERS, a musical feature-length MOVIE for women and girls only! Q & A with Garbose and starring actress Judy Winegard after the debut. http://ataraconference.eventbrite.com See more of Robin's work at Kolneshama.org

*Sunday, November 11, 9-5 pm CONFERENCE DAY
Workshops and Master Classes in drama, music, writing, dance, and the technical side of being a performing artist! Presenters from mutiple cities and have professional training in their fields. http://ataraconference.eventbrite.com

*Sunday, November 11, 5:15 pm NETWORKING DINNER
Meet other creative women, music, drama and film directors from cities throughout North America, as well as music managers, recording artists and distributors. Buy, sell and promote women's only CDs.

*Sunday, November 11, 6:15 pm FREE - JEWISH INDIE HOUR!!!!
See the up and coming original Jewish women singer-songwriters!!! From NY, Boston, Toronto and elsewhere! Cheer for all of their amazing and different works....

*Sunday, November 11, 8 pm
TOP PERFORMERS IN THE JEWISH WOMEN'S PERFORMING WORLD - ALL ON STAGE TOGETHER!!!!
Chanale Fellig! Miriam Sandler! Judy Winegard! Aliza Dubin! Chana Rochel Eller! The Scwadron Sisters! Yachad Dance! And others. http://ataraperformance.eventbrite.com

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SHIRA BETZIBUR in New Rochelle for Israel's 60th

SHIRA BETZIBUR in Concert

Celebrating Israel's 60th birthday! Israeli Music Sing-A-Long
featuring the greatest Israeli hits from all times!
Led by a 5 piece band of top Israeli musicians (Shira NYC)!

Beth El Synagogue Center
New Rochelle, NY
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Doors open at 8:15 PM, Singing starts at 9 PM

Tickets ($18 in advance, $25 at the door): RSVP to 914-235-2700 ext. 223 or 226
Tkt. price includes drinks, desserts & entertainment.
You must be at least 21 years old to attend this event.
Song lyrics are displayed on a large screen!

Presented by the Israeli Culture Club at the Beth El Synagogue Center Sponsored by the Beth El Synagogue Center Brotherhood & Sisterhood, Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, Westchester Jewish Conference: The Jewish Community Relations Council of Westchester, est. 1975, Israel Vacation Homes and the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York

Save a Seat at Museum of Jewish Heritage Dec 5 and 25 in NYC

This December, celebrate this season with festive holiday music for the whole family. On Wednesday, December 5 at 7 p.m. Celebrate Hanukkah with the Andy Statman Trio. Playing a unique blend of klezmer, rock, folk, and jazz. Statman has worked with musical legends Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan, and was a lead musician on Itzhak Perlman's klezmer sensation, In the Fiddler's House. Unable to categorize his music, Statman offers this description to listeners: "It's deeply Jewish because I am, and it's honest because I am." Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, $15 students/members. On December 25th join Joshua Nelson and his Kosher Gospel Choir for Challah-lujah with performances at 1 PM & 3:30 PM. Performing to sold-out crowds at the Museum for two years in a row, Joshua Nelson is back for another spectacular set of shows. Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua's Nelson's unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution in Jewish music. Tickets are $35 adults, $25 seniors, $20 members/students. All tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum box office at 646.437.4202.
See the website for directions.

Jerusalem Musical Trio in Geneva

AMJ avait le plaisir de vous annoncer un nouveau concert original à Genève:
' KLEZMER '
JERUSALEM MUSICAL TRIO
dimanche 4 novembre à 17h
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (Place Neuve)

Roman Kekhman (clarinettes et saxophones)
Yakov Entin (violon et guitare)
Bella Kresin ( piano)
...................................................... "La musique folklorique est celle où la force vitale de l'âme juive est la plus aisément perceptible."

Le "Jerusalem Musical Trio" présente des interprétations brillantes, originales et créatives du folklore juif en mélangeant le klezmer à la musique classique, au jazz et au folklore d'Europe de l'Est. Chacun de ses concerts est acclamé avec enthousiasme partout dans le monde juif et non juif et le public en ressort toujours rempli de joie et d'amour! Mais au delà de la musique et inspirés par l'esprit universel de "la ville d'or et de lumière", les musiciens du "Jerusalem Musical Trio" se veulent messagers de la paix.

Organisation: les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch Informations: http://www.amj.ch/WPR071104.htm
Réservations: amj@amj.ch ou tel: 0(041)22 320 86 28
entrée: 28.- / AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc: 18.-
Réduction supplémentaire de 5.- aux membres AMJ A bientôt!

Michel Borzykowski
borzy@freesurf.ch
Homepage AMJ: http://www.amj.ch
Geneva klezmer page: http://borzykowski.users.ch

Yuval Ron Music Coming up in California

Yuval Ron Ensemble writes about some upcoming shows:

Saturday, October 27 2007 two shows: 1:45 – 2:30PM 4:00 – 4:45 PM
The Getty Villa
presents
Yuval Ron
Oud Prayers - Sacred and Folk Music of the Middle East
with percussionist Jamie Papish
Location: Inner Peristyle at the Getty Villa in Malibu 17985 Pacific
Coast Highway Pacific Palisades, California 90272
Reservations and information: Call (310) 440-7300
E-mail: visitorservices@getty.edu

Saturday, November 3, 2007
The Wechsberg Educational Foundation of Congregation Ner Tamid
presents
A Los Angeles Jewish Symphony Concert " A Musical Odyssey"
featuring
The Yuval Ron Ensemble
Admission: For tickets contact Ticket Alternatives at
www.ticketalternative.com or call (877) 725-8849

Eyal Maoz's Edom upcoming in NY

Eyal Maoz's Edom
Jewish - Rock- Jazz music from Tzadik Records.
Check it out at www.eyalmaozmusic.com Eyal Maoz- guitar
Brian Marsella - organ
Shanir Blumenkranz - bass
Yuval Lion - drum

IN NY:
oct 9 - 8 pm
At Spike Hill
http://spikehill.com/
Phone: (718) 218-9737
$5
184 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
MORE Edom:
Oct 21 Sunday at 11 pm at Zebulon.
258 Wythe Ave. Between N3 and Metropolitan.
Williamsburg, NY 11211.
$5 suggested.

Musique et poésie des Juifs d'Italie à la Renaissance

LA ISTORIA DE PURIM

Musique et poésie des Juifs d'Italie à la Renaissance

Salle de la Paroisse de St-Gervais, 11 rue Dassier, Genève
7 octobre 2007 à 17h

ENSEMBLE LUCIDARIUM :
Gloria Moretti : chant
Viva Biancaluna Biffi : chant, viola d'arco
Enrico Fink : chant, récitation
Avery Gosfield : flûte à bec, flûte et tambour
Marco Ferrari : flûte à bec, douçaine, chalemie, flûte double
Francis Biggi : viola da mano, viola da penna, cetra, colascione
Elisabetta Benfenati : guitare renaissance
Massimiliano Dragoni : dulcimelo, percussion
Federico Marincola : luth basse, chitarra battente
Chaque communauté juive d'Italie, grande ou petite, a gardé jusqu'à nos jours sa propre tradition musicale. Ces mélodies, la plupart transmises oralement, portent les traces du mélange continu des trois courants les plus répandus en Italie : séfarade, ashkénaze et italien.

Prix: 28.- ; Tarif réduit: 18.-
Réseration et renseignements: +41.22.734.71.93
En plus, le XVIIIème siècle a marqué un tournant dans l'histoire des Juifs d'Italie : la suppression des ghettos, la participation au mouvement d'indépendance nationale (le Risorgimento) et l'"émancipation" fut une période d'euphorie : on bâtissait de très grandes synagogues et on se consacrait avec ardeur à "moderniser" la musique liturgique, demandant à des compositeurs plus ou moins célèbres d'écrire de nouvelles mélodies avec des arrangements pour orgue et chour, cherchant souvent l'inspiration dans l'opéra lyrique, très à la mode et qui faisait très "italien".

La musique sacrée des Juifs d'Italie est avant tout une histoire de mélanges, d'interactions. Même les compositeurs du XIXème siècle qui ont encore rénové ce répertoire ne l'ont pas oublié. Il est facile de s'en convaincre en écoutant les chants "modernes" qui, aujourd'hui encore, résonnent malgré la Shoah dans les synagogues italiennes et ont gardé l'écho des musiques des siècles passés, depuis la Renaissance.

C'est cet échange, cet enchevêtrement que LUCIDARIUM essaie de raconter.

Sunday October 7 Alicia Svigals at 92nd St Y

With accordionist