News: Zamir Choral Performed At White House

Zamir Choral Performed At White House On Monday evening, December 10, 2007, the Zamir Chorale, under the direction of Matthew Lazar, entertained President and Mrs. Bush, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff and a select group of additional guests at the annual White House Hanukkah celebration .Cantor Alberto Mizrahi was featured soloist.
,br /> The Chorale appeared at the candle lighting ceremony which was led by Ruth and Judea Pearl, parents of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Later, at a lavish East Room reception, Zamir sang four more selections. Judea Perl joined the choir in performing the final number for all in attendance. The President was most gracious, shaking the hand of every member of the choir and even taking a moment to share some words with Matthew Lazar. To view the ceremony in its entirety, follow this link and click on "videos." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071210-3.html The Zamir Chorale, directed by Matthew Lazar, and soloist Cantor Alberto Mizrahi entertain during the lighting of the Menorah on Monday, Dec. 10, 2007 in the Grand Foyer of the White House. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian

Come Light the Lights for Free

Some readers may be interested in a new original song for Hannukah that's available for free online. The link was sent to me by an anonymous person who claims not to be a professional musician. She wrote the song for her kids in American pop style. It's at purevolume.com. You have to "search" for "artist" name "Hannukah". The song is called "Come Light The Light" and can be played or downloaded without charge. You be the judge.

Shir Chadash

Shir Chadash: The Brooklyn Jewish Community Chorus
directed by Natasha Hirschhorn

PRESENTS
Not by Might, but by Spirit
A musical celebration of Chanukah

Enjoy classical selections by Mussorgsky and Handel, Chanukah liturgy in exquisite settings, and holiday favorites, old and new with surprise guest artists

Tickets: $10 in advance, $15 at the door Children under 13 admitted free

Saturday, December 1st at 7:45PM
East Midwood Jewish Center
with Chazzan Sam Levine and the EMJC choir
1625 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11230
This concert made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
In Kings County, the Decentralization Program is administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)

For more information, or to reserve tickets, please call 718-338-3800 or email bjcc@acedsl.com

Sunday, December 9th at 5PM
Kings Bay YM-YWHA
3495 Nostrand Avenue (between Avenues U and V), Brooklyn, NY 11229 This concert is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC)

For more information, or to reserve tickets, please call 718-648-7703, ext 226, or email bjcc@acedsl.com

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

Festival of Lights will ignite 200 voices in Manhattan

Over 200 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 9, 2007 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. The eighth 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 4, 2007.

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.

"Chanukah is a wonderful time to bring together in song the young and young-at-heart," according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. "We are proud to present the eighth annual Festival of Choirs to the New York community."

Highlights of the concert will include a 100-voiced combined children's choir singing Peter Yarrow's song (of Peter Paul and Mary fame),"Light One Candle," and "Raise up the Menorah" written by Rodeph Sholom congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School. For the first time in the festival's history, HaZamir, the International High School Choir, will participate. 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 Assistant Cantor, Shayna Peavey and Cantorial-Intern Jennifer Strauss-Klein. Also participating in the concert will be Cantor Todd Kipnis and Cantorial-Intern, Donna Mashadi, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Daniel Singer, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Manhattan; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY;

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 Daniel Freeman, bass guitar.

"La ISTORIA de PURIM" Jewish Music and Poetry in Renaissance Italy

C.A.I.F. - Cultural Association of Italians at Fermilab
I.I.C. - Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago
Present
Ensemble Lucidarium
"La ISTORIA de PURIM"
Jewish Music and Poetry in Renaissance Italy

The Ensemble Lucidarium, a famous international group of scholar musicians specialized in the works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, will perform: "La Istoria de Purim," Jewish music and poetry from the Italian Renaissance, which was awarded first prize in 2004 by the European Association for Jewish Culture. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, northern Italy was a meeting place for three separate Jewish communities: Ashkenazi, Jews coming from northeastern Europe, Sephardic Jews from the Iberian peninsula, and Italikim who had been in Italy since the days of the Roman Empire. The music from this period is characterized by a fertile exchange of ideas and culture between Jews and gentiles. The texts transcribed into the Hebrew alphabet in four-verse stanzas are written in the colorful Jewish vernacular spoken in the Po valley during the sixteenth century. The rhymes were typical of the songs performed to celebrate the festival of Purim by recounting the story of Queen Esther. Ensemble Lucidarium has reconstructed the music through painstaking research into sixteenth-century music and oral traditions still alive in certain areas of the Tuscan and Emilian Apennines.

This concert has been organized with the support of Congregation Beth Shalom of Naperville and E.A.J.C. (European Association for Jewish Culture).

Saturday, March 17, 8 pm
FERMILAB (Batavia, IL)
Ramsey Auditorium
Tickets: $ 10.00 ($ 5.00 under 18)
(630) 840 2787 (ARTS)

Dan Blacksberg Ensemble featured in Philly Series

Diaspora Series - "celebrates Purim with a special show featuring some of the most innovative musicians in Klezmer and Jewish-inspired music."
Sunday March 4
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
8 p.m. FREE All Ages
West Philadelphia Orchestra
Dan Blacksberg Ensemble
Dan Blacksberg, Trombone
Michael Winograd, Clarinet
Jon Barrios, Bass
Jason Nazary, Drums

http://www.myspace.com/diasporaseries

Rabbi Joe Black & Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Rabbi Joe Black with The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band in Two Hanukkah Concerts!
Wednesday, December 20 (sixth night of Hanukkah)
6:00 pm Family Concert
7:30 pm Community Concert
Temple Sholom of Chicago
3480 N. Lake Shore Drive
Doors and concessions open 1/2 hour before each concert
Tickets
$12 advance/$15 at the door
Children age 3 and under free
Family maximum $50 advance/$55 at the door
Come early - stay late! One ticket price for one concert or both!
Be a Maccabee!
For $250, receive a reserved parking space in the Temple Sholom lot the night of the concert, reserved concert seats for up to 6 people, a Rabbi Joe Black CD, & a Maxwell Street Klezmer Band CD. Maccabee spaces are limited! Reserve your tickets today!
Order on-line at www.chicagojewishdayschool.org
Or mail your check to Chicago Jewish Day School
5959 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60660
Questions? Call 312.738.8340 or e-mail
hanukkahconcert@aol.com
Tickets will not be mailed. Your reservation will be Will Call
All proceeds benefit the Chicago Jewish Day School
Limited paid parking available at Mid City Garage at 3440 N. Broadway, 3440
Lake Shore Drive,
3600 Lake Shore Drive and The New York at 3660 N. Lake Shore Drive.

Hanukah Hopkele - Yiddish klezmer keilidh

Live klezmer music and dance with attitude!
The Hanukah Hopkele - Yiddish klezmer keilidh.
Sunday 17 December 2006
Doors open 7.15pm, first dance 7.45pm

Merlin Shepherd's Chanukah Dance Band will provide the musical entertainment (Merlin Shepherd on clarinet, Ilana Cravitz on violin, Polina Shepherd on accordion and Julia Doyle on bass) and your dance caller for the evening will be Sue Foy, all the way from Budapest. Your last chance to bop the klezmer way in 2006!
Venue: 40 Hallam Street, London W1. Nearest tubes: Great Portland Street; Oxford Circus.
http://www.ilanacravitz.com/hopkele.html Tickets £15, £12 concs. Call 020 8985 3724 or email hopkele@hotmail.co.uk to book. This special party is being hosted and supported by Central Synagogue, and forms part of the Jewish Music Institute's Autumn/Spring programme.

Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour

The Klezmatics will be in conert for a Woody Guthrie music performance to bring Happy Hanukkah music to Washington state.
When: December 12, 7:30pm
Where: Kirkland Performance Center
350 Kirkland Avenue
Kirkland, WA 98033
Info: Adult $36 Senior $32.50 Youth $15 Group $32
All tickets subject to a $1.00 service fee
(Youth is 25 and younger; Senior is 62 and older)
For information call Kirkland Performance Center at (425) 893-9900 or visit www.kpcenter.org
Taking advantage of a rare opportunity, Kirkland Performance Center welcomes The Klezmatics to their 2006-2007 line-up midseason. The Klezmatics will perform Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah Tour at KPC December 12. The Klezmatics will be presenting a contagious celebration of Hanukkah, marrying their soulful and ebullient Jewish roots to Woody Guthrie's poignantly mesmerizing and newly discovered lyrics. This program highlights their two most recent CD releases: the multi-cultural folk sounds of "Wonder Wheel" and the ecstatically danceable, hoe-down worthy "Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah."

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.

A Rockin Hanukkah

Stephen Feldman/Poppa's kitchen has put together a fun Hanukkah album in a pop rock format...! You can check out the cd at www.arockinhanukkah.com .

Chag Pesach Sameach

Have a Joyous Celebration of Freedom
with Family, Friends, Community

Happy Passover!
---from The Jewish Music WebCenter----

Passover Melodies Online

Judaism.com has put up a number of melodies to help people learn the Passover Seder online. You can hear the melody through your computer, and look at the text in a variety of Haggadahs. They give corresponding page numbers for several popular Haggadahs. http://www.judaism.com/digital_haggadah/ Just find your Haggadah and learn the music to go along. Have a Festive and Happy Passover.

A Hanukkah Concert at the Center for Jewish History

The American Society for Jewish Music and the American Jewish Historical Society Present

A Hanukkah Concert
Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 3pm
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY

This concert, featuring world renowned pianist, composer and arranger Dick Hyman, will include works by George Gershwin, Richard Rogers, Leonard Bernstein, and Harold Arlen, among others. Mr. Hyman will be joined by vocalist Annette Sanders, who began her career as a featured soloist with Benny Goodman. Singer/actress Ellen Gould, known so well for her Bubba Meises, will perform Yiddish songs and Isaiah Sheffer, host of Selected Shorts, returns for a reading of a special story.

*The concert will be followed by a candle lighting, singing, and reception in the Paul S. & Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall.

Tickets are $12 for the general public and $6 for ASJM or AJHS members, students, or senior citizens. For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the box office at (917) 606-8200 or boxoffice@cjh.org.

Golem at Brooklyn Purim Carnival

Brooklyn Jews Presents A Purim Carnival
@ the Brooklyn Lyceum
Sunday, March 27th
3pm-7pm
227 4th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Phone: 1-866-gowanus
R to Union Street
Corner of President Street
Golem scheduled to hit at 4:30pm...

Hard Rockin' Hamentashen, KFAR Jewish Arts Center's Purim

Purim is the Jewish Mardi Gras, where people get decked out in costumes, throw parties and get absolutely smashed. And while you won't find people flashing for beads on this holiday (Orthodox Girls Gone Wild! Show us your ELBOWS!), traditional celebrations take literally the instruction to celebrate until one can't tell the difference between Mordechai, the hero of the Purim story, and evil Haman.

Two Jewish rock bands, the Ari Ben Moses Band and The Moshe Skier Band and will be presented at Subterranean, a well-known, three story Wicker Park lounge and music venue.
9pm - 1am Saturday March 26th
Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave.
$12 in advance (ticketweb.com) $15 at the door
more info at http://www.kfarcenter.com
call 773.550.1543 or email jewishfringe@kfarcenter.com

The Purim story, found in the Scroll (Megila) of Esther, is read aloud at synagogues, where costumed revelers cheer Mordechai and drown out the name of Haman and between the cheers and jeers, a lot of drinking is done. Rarely, however, do Purim celebrations get held at music clubs featuring rock bands.

Hard Rockin' Hamentashen, KFAR Jewish Arts Center's Purim celebration, is a change from the norm, then. The alternative Purim party will feature two Jewish rock bands, the Ari Ben Moses Band and The Moshe Skier Band and will be presented at Subterranean, a well-known, three story Wicker Park lounge and music venue.

"Everyone loves Purim and hamentashen- its a fun holiday when everyone celebrates," says KFAR's Director, Adam Davis. "Last year our Purim concert featured the Rabbinical School Dropouts, and this year, we're taking it to another level. The music will be loud, the liquor will be flowing, and there WILL be costumes and hamentashen."

Hard Rockin' Hamentashen, named for the traditional pastry shaped like Haman's three-cornered hat, is the fourth event KFAR has held in Wicker Park. Ironically, Wicker Park has no organized Jewish presence, despite a growing Jewish population, and in some ways, KFAR's events in the neighborhood fill that void.

"There's no real Jewish presence in the neighborhood," comments neighborhood resident Jon Silver, "and KFAR events in Wicker Park always have a bit of an indie-rock edge that fits the spirit of the neighborhood, more so than Starbucks and The Real World, anyways." Vital Event Information:
KFAR Jewish Arts Center presents
Hard Rockin' Hamentashen
featuring The Moshe Skier Band and The Ari Ben Moses Band
9pm - 1am Saturday March 26th
Subterranean, 2011 W. North Ave.
$12 in advance (ticketweb.com) $15 at the door
more info at http://www.kfarcenter.com
call 773.550.1543 or email jewishfringe@kfarcenter.com
About the featured acts:
The Moshe Skier Band
A power rock trio performing original Jewish music in a classic rock style. In addition to their searing original songs, the trio covers well known traditional melodies with spare, bluesy arrangements. The rock trio's razor- sharp edge emanates from guitarist Mendy Appel's blistering technique, hailed by Yossi Piamenta as "Amazing!" The band is led by bassist Moshe Skier, formerly of Shlock Rock and Kabbalah and rounding out the outfit is Dan Lawitt's precise percussion. The Moshe Skier Band will rip through your notions of Jewish music and rock you until you can't tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman.

The Ari Ben Moses Band
Reggae bass lines, Latin beats, Middle Eastern and traditional Jewish scales are punctuated by gritty funk grooves influenced by Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel and Ishmael Isaacs.

"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.

RecKlez for Lag Ba'Omer in Cambridge

RecKlez, the Harvard Klezmer Band, will be performing THIS Sunday, May 9 (Lag b'Omer) at Harvard Hillel (52 Mt. Auburn St in Cambridge, Massachusetts.)
The afternoon of Jewish music featuring Harvard's Jewish a cappella group, Mizmor Shir, and RecKlez: Harvard Klezmer Band, begins at 4:00 PM. Come listen to a rich variety of modern and traditional melodies and stay for dancing. The Klezmer part of the concert will probably begin at 4:45. Free Admission.

Lag Ba'Omer Music Online

The Jewish National and University Library (JNUL) is pleased to offer access to a new sample of digitized music from its National Sound Archives. The Lag Ba'omer selection includes versions of Bar Yohai piyyutim and other songs from various Jewish communities as well as Klezmer melodies for the pilgrimage to Miron.
The recordings can be accessed at:
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/music/lagbaomer

Matisyahu Lag Ba'Omer Boat Cruise

Matisyahu Lag Ba'Omer Boat Cruise
Sat, May 8, 2004
presented by JDUB & RocksOff
Boat opens at 10PM/sails at 11PM
from the dock at 23rd Street and FDR Drive (East Side). 2 full bars, surprise guests, new tunes, spectacular views of NYC, Brooklyn, the Statue of Liberty, the bridges, and the moon.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the boat, and the show is 21+ w/ID
THIS WILL SELL OUT! / GO TO www.rocksoff.com TODAY!
Tickets are going quick for Matisyahu on a BOAT! and we are very much expecting it to sell out, so please get your tickets soon at www.rocksoff.com. ...and please spread the word to your friends up north Matisyahu in CANADIA! Sun, May 9th, 2004: Lagstock Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Park Montreal, Canada 5PM, FREE ...mark your calendars now for Thursday night July 1st - the biggest NY event JDUB has ever put together, with the help of some good friends of course: The Unity Sessions at Celebrate Brooklyn - Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn featuring internationally renown Israeli, Jewish, Arab, and Muslim hip hop and middle eastern musicians for a night of cross cultural musical dialogue you don't want to miss. FREE. Presented with Aliza Rabinoff, Brooklyn Jews, & Storahtelling, with a shout out to Awake Zion and Chosen Couture. For sponsorship opportunities, please email jacob@jdubrecords.org Peace out. JDUB Records * 7 East 10th Street, 4th Floor * New York, NY 10003 * www.jdubrecords.org *info@jdubrecords.org

Come celebrate Lag B'Omer with Sruli and Lisa!

Lag B'Omer" Concert and Dance Party with Sruli and Lisa's Klezssidic Jam Band! Sunday, May 9. 7pm. NY. at
Satalla
37 West 26th St.
(6th/Broadway)
212.576.1155
Admission $12

Join Sruli and Lisa and friends for a Lag B'Omer Hulya-- with some of the most exciting Klezmer and Hassidic melodies ever heard! Multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Sruli and Lisa play the clarinet, violin, accordion, bass recorder, cello and drum, and perform and teach Klezmer and Hasidic music and dance all over the world.
"Superb musicians!" --The Los Angeles Times

Lag B'Omer in Ithaca, NY

Ithaca: On Saturday, May 8th, promptly at 10 pm (after Shabbat), the Carriage House Café will present an evening of Jewish instrumental Klezmer music and Hasidic song as a part of the 'Crossing Borders' multi-cultural radio concert series, soon to be aired regularly on WVBR. Featured artists include Joel Rubin (clarinet, musical direction), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl -- Eastern European Jewish hammered dulcimer), Rabbi Eli Silberstein (song and story) and The Cornell Klezmer Ensemble. The concert will be in honor of the Jewish festival of Lag Ba'Omer, which begins at sundown on that day. Lag Ba'Omer marks the 33rd day of the seven-week partial mourning period between the holidays of Pesach (Passover) and Shavuot, and is only day during this period where weddings, dancing and public performances of music are allowed to take place according to traditional Judaism.

Joel Rubin is currently a Mellon Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Music Department at Cornell University. For over two decades he has been one of the leading figures in the klezmer movement as performer, scholar, author and educator. Rubin directs the internationally acclaimed Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble, and was a founder of Brave Old World. He has documented the music of traditional musicians such as the Epstein Brothers, recipients of the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship from the NEA in 1998, and Moshe Berlin, Israel's most prominent klezmer clarinetist, performing together with them. Rubin studied with Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman and holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University (London).
Rubin is joined by Pete Rushefsky of Syracuse and Rabbi Eli Silberstein of Ithaca in a performance of Eastern European klezmer music and hasidic nigunim. Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl. Rabbi Silberstein has played an integral role in Ithaca's spiritual life for over two decades, and is an acknowledged expert on hasidic nigunim. Also featured on the program will be the newly formed Cornell Klezmer Ensemble under Rubin's direction. The ensemble, made up of Cornell students, staff and faculty, Ithaca College students, and other members of the Ithaca community, will be performing music representing the New York and Philadelphia klezmer traditions, drawing on repertoire as it was performed there during the 1910s and 1920s.
The performance begins promptly at 10 PM (after sunset) and will be recorded for a future broadcast of "Crossing Borders", a multi-cultural concert series that will begin airing weekly in June on 93.5FM, WVBR. The series will take place at the newly renovated Carriage House Café and will eventually be broadcast live. Denice Karamardian is the host of the series. Radio personality Aron Gutman will co-host for the Klezmer presentation.
The Carriage House Café will officially open for business in September of 2004. The mission of the Café is to promote multi-cultural exchange and awareness by providing hospitality and entertainment to the local and international community through cultural presentation of arts, music, cuisine and educational programming (often in collaboration with various community, corporate and university partners). The Carriage House Café is located at 304 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca.
Contact: Denice Karamardian, (607) 275-0021

JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS

FREE. Symphony Space, NYC, on January 19, 2004, 6:30pm A COMMUNITY CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Reconnect to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work for justice and equality as the entire community comes together for an evening of choir songs and inspirational readings.
PETER NORTON SYMPHONY SPACE
2537 BROADWAY AT 95 ST. NYC
Featuring: Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus, Binyumen Schaechter, conductor
Kol Echad Multiracial Jewish Children's Choir
St. John's Baptist Church Choir
St. Joseph's of the Holy Family Catholic Church Choir
St. Mary's Episcopal Church Choir
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism Choir

Masters of Ceremonies Canon Frederick B. Williams, Rector, Church of the Intercession Ruth Messinger, Executive Director, American Jewish World Service
FREE and open to the public. No pre-registration.
Seating is first come, first serve, doors open at 6:00 PM.
For more information, call 646.505.5708.