International Jewish Music Festival -- Amsterdam

The 15th edition of the International Jewish Music Festival will be held in the brand new concert halls of the Amsterdam Conservatory. We welcome back the winners from last year's international competition for a weekend filled with music.

The ensembles will give concerts and workshops in the most diverse Jewish music sub-genres: hip-hop and reggae for kids, Yiddish song, Sephardic music, klezmer and Balkan music, close harmony and classical.

The free Open Podium gives starting ensembles and soloists a chance to take the stage and show what they've got. The bustling Jewish Cultural Market will feature booksellers, CD's, sheet music and various Jewish cultural organisations. And our grand prize winner from last year, She'Koyokh, will host a swinging Jam Session, also free and open to everyone.

Our generous sponsors make possible an array of free events, low-cost concerts & workshops, and senior and student discounts, ensuring the most diverse, accessible, and successful festival ever!

Tickets, schedule & complete program information: http://www.ijmf.org/ October 23-25, 2009!!

Festival de musiques juives anciennes "Kol Haneshama"

L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive (www.amj.ch)
a le grand plaisir de vous annoncer le
Festival de musiques juives anciennes

"Kol Haneshama"

Dimanche 15 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Khagiga Yehudit"
Le Tendre Amour (Barcelone): Musique des fêtes des communautés juives d'Italie et des Pays-Bas aux 17ème et 18ème siècles.
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091115.htm

Dimanche 22 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Ayn naye lid"
Lucidarium (Genève, Milan): Prières et chansons profanes ashkénazes inédites de l'aube de la culture yiddish - en première suisse!
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091122.htm

Dimanche 29 novembre 2009 à 17h: "Me la amargates tú"
Me la amargates tú (Hollande, Israël): chants judéo-espagnols, joués sur des instruments du Baroque et de la Renaissance, comme cela aurait pu se faire du 15ème au 17ème siècles, si...
http://www.amj.ch/WPR091129.htm

Ces 3 concerts auront lieu à la Cité Bleue, 46 avenue de Miremont, 1206 Genève.

Billets : 30.-
tarif réduit : 20.- pour chômeurs, AVS, AI, chômeurs, étudiants, carte 20ans-20Frs.
réduction supplémentaire de 10.- pour membres AMJ

Abonnement 3 concerts: 80.-
tarif réduit : 50.-
réduction supplémentaire de 30.- pour membres AMJ

Informations et réservations: www.amj.ch
amj@amj.ch

Serban Nichifor Music Commemorates Holocaust

Serban Nichifor, a Romanian composer, has a website with his music that commemorates the Holocaust. This can be found at http://www.shoahmusic.lx.ro . There are videos attached to listening to the music.

" Le MANIFESTE " - Mouvement pour une Paix juste et durable

" Le MANIFESTE " - Mouvement pour une Paix juste et durable -
vous informe :

Concert exceptionnel de Daniel Barenboïm et l'orchestre
West-Eastern Divan (120 musiciens venus de tout le Proche-Orient)/>
Plus d'info : http://www.barenboim-said.org

Vendredi 7 août 2009 à 20h30
Victoria Hall de Genève
Ouverture des portes à 19h30
Programme :
Franz Liszt Les Préludes, Poème symphonique
Richard Wagner Prélude et Mort d'Isolde
--- Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Dans le cadre des concerts de la Ville de Genève
en collaboration avec " le Manifeste "
L'orchestre West-Eastern Divan, fondé par Daniel Barenboïm et Edward Saïd
fête ses 10 ans d'existence cet été.
Vente de billets :
Location au guichet
Alhambra, rue de la Rôtisserie 10, lu-ve 10h-18h, sa 10h-17h Tél : 0800 418 418
Arcade d'information de la Ville de Genève, Pont de la Machine 1 lu-ve 12h-17h30, ma-ve 9h-17h30, sa 10h-16h30
Genève-Tourisme, rue du Mont-Blanc 18 lu 10h-18h, ma-sa 9h-18h, di 10h-16h
Location sur place une heure avant chaque concert

Prix des places : Frs 35.- 45.-
Billets de soutien (nombre de places limitées) à frs. 100.- et 200.- auprès de la Librairie L'Olivier - 5, rue de Fribourg - Genève - Tél. 022 731.84.40
CCP de soutien : 10-150776-1 / mention Barenboïm-Said Renseignements : Tél. 022 731 84 40 - 078 602 13 19

TOHU veBOHU Musique klezmer et arabo-andalouse

Dimanche 19 juillet 2009 à 20h15
Ancien Palace de Caux sur Montreux (VD)
Entrée libre, collecte.
Informations: Initiatives & Changement
estallybrass@bluewin.ch
Tél: 021 961 91 11

"Au début, la terre n'était que tohu-bohu; les ténèbres étaient sur la face de l'abîme..." C'est dans ce tohu-bohu que jaillit la lumière et que débuta la création du monde, dans lequel l'homme reçut pour commandement de mettre de l'ordre. De nos jours, les guerres, les génocides, les injustices, les épurations ethniques, les violations de la dignité et des droits humains sont autant de preuves que la mission de l'homme sur la Terre n'est pas achevée !

Pour aller -modestement- dans ce sens, le projet Tohu veBohu rassemble des musiciens d'origine culturelle et religieuse juive et arabe. Il montre qu'une coexistence musicale et amicale est possible et que, à défaut de changer le monde, la connaissance de "l'autre" peut nous aider à nous changer nous-mêmes, à progresser vers la compréhension, la tolérance et la paix.

Chaque musicien apporte sa propre matière : musique klezmer, chants yiddish, thèmes arabo-andalous, etc. et l'offre aux autres comme support à leur créativité et à l'improvisation.

Notre "tohu-bohu" musical espère vous emmener dans une ambiance joyeuse, propice au recueillement et au partage.

Michel BORZYKOWSKI : saxophones
Bianca FAVEZ : violon
Christine NIGGELER : accordéon
David MORHAIN : percussions
Amar TOUMI : percussions,
Adel DEGAÏCHIA : chant, percussions, violon
Claude JORDAN : flûtes

PALAVRIKAS DE AMOR

Samedi 4 juillet 2009 à 20h30
"PALAVRIKAS DE AMOR"
chants et musiques judéo-espagnols

Fondation Crêt-Bérard, CH-1070 Puidoux (VD)


Tarif: 20 CHF /10 CHF
Informations: Atelier Romand de Langues Bibliques
tél +4121 946 03 60 fax: +4121 946 03 78 info@cret-berard.ch


Les sefaradim, Juifs expulsés d'Espagne en 1492 se sont réfugiés dans l'Empire ottoman, en Afrique du Nord et dans plusieurs pays d'Europe. Ils y ont emmené leur langue, le judéo-espagnol (ou ladino), leur culture et leurs chants, qui furent ainsi transmis de génération en génération.

Ce répertoire, constamment enrichi et renouvelé, a permis aux Juifs de la diaspora séfarade d'affirmer leur culture particulière: juive et espagnole. Et même si la Shoah a interrompu la transmission orale traditionnelle des chants judéo-espagnols, ce patrimoine suscite désormais un regain d'intérêt dans le monde entier.

Délaissant pour un soir le klezmer, HOTEGEZUGT offre un concert de musiques instrumentales et de chants judéo-espagnols dans une interprétation qui perpétue la tradition sans la figer.

Anne-Claire MONNIER: chants
Michel BORZYKOWSKI : saxophones
Bianca FAVEZ : violon
Pier-Yves "Yoyvl" TETU: accordéon
David MORHAIN : percussions

Chansons yiddish de Bessarabie, Podolie, Moldavie, Ukraine

Efim Chorny et Susan Ghergus
MARDI 10 MARS
Chansons yiddish de Bessarabie, Podolie, Moldavie, Ukraine…
Mairie du XXème arrondissement
Place Gambetta
75020 Paris
PAF adhérents 18 € non adhérents 23€
19 h 30 petite restauration spécialités yiddish (en supplément)
20 h 30 Spectacle
réservation 01 47 00 14 00

Amsterdams Synaogaal Koor at Podium Twente in December

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

For more information:

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

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

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

'MUSIJEUNES' in Switzerland

'MUSIJEUNES' organise prochainement un grand week-end KLEZMER:

Vendredi 21 novembre à 20h:
Concert avec: HOTEGEZUGT et la chanteuse Hélène ENGEL
Salle Paroissiale St-François, 16 av. Petit-Senn à Chêne-Bourg
Entrée libre, chapeau la sortie

et

Samedi 22 et dimanche 23 novembre:
ATELIER KLEZMER
ouvert aux musiciens de tous niveaux, animé par Michel Borzykowski (instr. à vent et danse), Pier-Yves Têtu (accordéon), Bianca Favez (violon) et Hélène Engel (chant, danse).

Enseignement par petits groupes samedi de 13h30 à 18h et dimanche de 9h à 15h. Audition des élèves (publique, entrée libre) dimanche à 16h.
Coût: 130.- Frs (110.- pour élèves de l'Accademis d'Archi), 2 repas inclus.
Renseignements:
Michel Borzykowski
Tél. 022 755 41 23
borzy@freesurf.ch
site klezmer: http://borzykowski.users.ch

Mark Ben in Paris Concert

LE CENTRE D'ART ET DE CULTURE
HBGPROD- DAVID COHEN & HAIM BERDAH
(Lubavitch Rabbis) Présente avant sa tournée en France
L'évenement Musical de la rentrée

MARK BEN en Concert SHOW CASE

CENTRE RACHI LE 4 NOV 2008
39 RUE BROCA 75005 PARIS
Réservation infoline Pré-Vente Tel:01 42 17 10 38
TARIF 20 € TARIF REDUIT 15 €
en partenariat avec le FSJU jeunesse et les Radio de la Fréquence juive 94.8 FM
RESERVATION PLAN http://www.centre-rachi-art-et-culture.com/page/reservation
MARK BEN ON RADIO&CLIP SiteWeb:WWW.MARKBEN.FR

Me La Amargates Tú Presents 3 concerts of "Sephardic Music"

Me La Amargates Tú
Presents “Sephardic Music” in the following concerts:

October 5, 2008. “Oud Woelwijck”, Essenlaan 5,Voorschoten 15:30 hs. (Fully booked)

October 9, 2008. “Instituto Cervantes”, Domplein 3, Utrecht 19:00 hs.

October 12, 2008. “Delft's Synagogue”, Koornmarkt 12, Delft 15:00 hs

Esteban Manzano-tenor
Doret Florentin- recorders
Tulio Rondón- viola da gamba
Sarah Ridy- baroque harp
Cristian Gutiérrez- baroque guitar
Juan Martinez- percussion

Concert Program

First Half

Nani nani- Lullaby, Lullaby
Quando el rey Nimrod- When the king Nimrod

Νo vo comer ni vo bever- I am not going to eat or drink
Avre tu puerta cerrada- Open your closed door
La rosa enflorece- The rose blooms
Povereta muchachica- Poor young girl

D. Ortiz- Recercada Ottava (from the second book) for viola da gamba and basso continuo
Two Villancicos (Spanish dances) from “Cancionero Musical de Palacio” (Spain 15ος-16ος c.)
Alonso- La tricotea San Μartín la vea (St. Martin was looking at her) for three voices
Francisco de la Torre- Dime triste coraçón (Tell me sad heart)

Yo m’enamorí d’un aire- I fell in love with s breeze
La vida do por el raquí- My life I give for a raki

Second half

La Serena- The Mermaid
Mi Suegra la Negra- My mother-in-law, the black
El Rey de Francia- The king of France
Morena me llaman – They call me Brunette

Luys de Narváez
- La Canción del Emperador (The song of the emperor), based on the Madrigal "Mille Regretz" (A thousand sorry) by Josquin des Prez
- Passeávase el Rey Moro (As the Moorish king was walking) - Spanish romance for voice and vihuela Anonymous- Tarambote for three voices

Durme durme hermozo hijico- Sleep, sleep, my beautiful son
Una matica de ruda- A spring of rue
Adío Querida- Goodbye my beloved
A la una nací yo- At one (o'clock) I was born

www.melaamargatestu.com
Contact person: Doret Florentin, melaamargatestu@gmail.com
Tel: 00972-544-744901, 0031-64-1176656

Concert klezmer pour les 10 ans de l'Atelier Romand de Langues Bibliques

HOTEGEZUGT

Concert klezmer pour les 10 ans de l'Atelier Romand de Langues Bibliques

Samedi 5 juillet 2008 - 20h30 Cret-Berard (Puidoux, VD, CH)
Un large repertoire de musique klezmer, yiddish et sefarades, avec des chants dont certains peuvent etre repris en chour.

Le groupe HOTEGEZUGT (''cause toujours'' en yiddish) se forme et se deforme depuis 1996 grace -- des musiciens qui se passionnent pour les diverses musiques juives. Il perpetue la tradition sans la figer et metisse le klezmer avec les musiques d'aujourd'hui.

Entre : 20.- (etudiants, chomeurs, AVS : 10.-) Informations et reservations: tl. 0041 21 946 03 60 ou info@cret-berard.ch Acces en voiture: par Puidoux-Village (sortie d'autoroute no 13: Chexbres) En train: Gare de Puidoux-Chexbres. Cret-Berard vient vous chercher sur demande !

Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Prague and Amsterdam

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo will be performing Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Prague June 18 at 7 PM as part of the Nine Gates Festival. Information: www.9bran.cz http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001zQW-I11CelMEEPYiPcHk1Fu6UrMY-HAXGaxRkZ8f634Lzakk1L7fGB8NdYQn2WPa-G9mcFlV7FrBD3CwRrP4AJcXDOCG4YNmxfnnw5YrK4c= (Czech only). Jeff and Deborah will be in Amsterdam next Sunday afternoon, June 22 at 2 PM, at de Burcht. Information: www.mokumalef.nl http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001zQW-I11CelO4IN_s9CRH_tz-YsZlyxmGcZ7VWycHpUvbxPjOfA7UMDAjRX57ZraqXs4S-onsrIk1flB43qTXU9JURxkGMlSX9E4OLu7_AYYroeRf2-bLjg== or www.deburcht.org http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001zQW-I11CelPeFsgWxfUqWR9r22wQcvKPKV2bUpiW0ktQ4TtwwQT1RZu4ruapEaDkaxb1phKc7hkI3nZ0U_c8EytNV_nLGpXFG9-Q3XkhzVnnOODzBn1IYg== or telephone 020-6241166.

Festival of Jewish Music in Geneva

Complete details for the June 21-22, 2008 Festival of Jewish music in Geneva are available at:
http://www.amj.ch/WPR080621.htm

KLEZMER PARIS -- 2008

KLEZMER PARIS - 2008
Musique juive d'Europe centrale / Jewish music from Central Europe

Stage de musique instrumentale / Music workshop
Stage de chant yiddish et de danse / Yiddish song and dance workshop
Stage pour enfants et juniors / Kids and juniors classes

Du 7 au 11 juillet 2008 - July 7th - 11th, 2008

Simultanés et avec de nombreuses passerelles, ces trois stages de musique juive d'Europe de l'Est seront animés par des artistes de renommée internationale :
The three parallel courses (with common activities) - klezmer music, Yiddish songs and nigunim, and Jewish dances of Eastern Europe - are all led by internationally known musicians :

Marthe DESROSIERES (France - France) - coordination musicale, flûte, activités pour enfants / musical coordination, flute / juniors activities
Shura LIPOVSKY (Pays-Bas / Netherlands) - direction du stage de chant, chant, danse / director of the song workshop, vocals - dance
Lauren BRODY (Etats-Unis / United States) - accordéon, chant / accordion, vocals
Arkady GENDLER (Ukraine - Ukraina) - chant / vocals
Henri GRUVMAN (France - France) - théâtre, cinéma / theater, cinema
Merlin SHEPHERD (Grande Bretagne - Great Britain) - clarinettes / clarinets
Polina SHEPHERD (Grande Bretagne - Great Britain) - chant choral, piano / vocals, piano
Jake SHULMAN-MENT (Etats-Unis / United States) - violon / violin
Michal SVIRONI (France - France) - théâtre, marionnettes / theater, pupets

Et leurs assistants / and their assistants

Au programme : ateliers, conférences, master classes, jams, spectacles ... certaines animations seront ouvertes au grand public.
Program : daily workshop in singing, dancing and instrumental music, master classes, talks and lectures, jam sessions and performances. Les cours sont donnés en français et anglais / classes are given in both French and English.

INSCRIVEZ-VOUS VITE ! REGISTER NOW !

Informations détaillées et bulletin d'inscription / more information and application form:
http://www.yiddishweb.com
Tél : + 33 (0)1 47 00 14 00 - Fax : + 33 (0)1 47 00 14 47

Amsterdamse Muziekgebouw International Jewish Music Festival 2008

Van 9 tot en met 11 mei 2008 zal in het Amsterdamse Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ een driedaags concours van Joodse muziek worden gehouden. Kaartverkoop is net van start gegaan.

Uit 16 landen zijn inmiddels 25 ensembles uit uiteenlopende genres gekozen om deel te nemen. Zij zullen volks- en popmuziek, klezmer, klassiek en balkanmuziek ten gehore brengen. De vertegenwoordigde landen zijn Wit-Rusland, Servië, Duitsland, Frankrijk, België, Italië, Engeland, Israël, Argentinië, Griekenland, Venezuela, Chili, Mexico, de Verenigde Staten en natuurlijk ook Nederland. De deelnemers aan het concours strijden niet alleen om prijzengeld, maar ook om een concerttournee en een professioneel cd-opnamecontract met Universal Records. Met deze prijzen heeft het festival niet alleen amateurs aangetrokken, maar ook de doorgewinterde bands en ensembles.

Het concours is onderdeel van een groots festival, met o.a. workshops Jiddisj zang en Joodse gospel, een masterclass klezmermuziek, een uitgebreid kinderprogramma in de klezmerklankspeeltuin, een informatiemarkt voor Joodse cultuurorganisaties, en een prachtige kunstinstallatie. En 'last but not least' sluit het festival groots af op maandagavond 12 mei (tweede Pinksterdag) in de Grote Zaal waar Grammy Award-winnaar The Klezmatics hun eerste concert in Nederland sinds 5 jaar geven.

Actuele informatie over het festival vindt u op www.ijmf.org en kaarten zijn te bestellen op www.muziekgebouw.nl of telefonisch via 020 788 2000.

Met vriendelijke groet,

International Jewish Music Festival 2008
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
9 t/m 12 mei 2008


Greetings,

Ticket sales have begun for the International Jewish Music Festival! 25 ensembles from 16 countries have been invited to participate in a 3-day competition of Jewish Music: diverse groups will present everything from folk and pop to klezmer and classical music. They'll be competing for a chance at a recording contract and a concert tour - prizes which have drawn not just amateurs but experienced professionals as well.

To close the festival, the Grammy Award winning The Klezmatics will give their first concert in Amsterdam in five years. And there are many other exciting things planned. See the most up-to-date information about the festival online at www.ijmf.org. Tickets can be ordered via www.muziekgebouw.nl or by telephone: +31 20 788 2000.

All the best,

International Jewish Music Festival 2008
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
9-12 May 2008

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.

la Chorale Juive de France fait un concert

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

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

Vienna Jewish Choir on YouTube

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

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.

Jewish Music Festival to be at Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam

From May 9-12, 2008, Amsterdam’s new concert hall, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, will host the premiere of the International Jewish Music Festival in its new format. The main event of the festival will be a 3-day Competition for Jewish music ensembles.

For the first time ever, a jury of international Jewish music experts will judge a competition for musicians and ensembles with a goal of an international career focusing on Jewish music. This includes folk, pop, klezmer, classical, and liturgical music, and music by Jewish composers with clearly discernible Jewish elements.

Contestants are welcome from all countries and do not need to be Jewish, but must be 16 years or older. Registration forms & more information are now available online: www.ijmf.org

The jury will include leading figures from the music and recording industry including Peter van der Heyden (Universal Music) and Frank London (The Klezmatics). Besides prize money, the musicians will be competing for the possibility of a professional recording contract. That prize alone is already drawing a high level of contestants, including professional bands and ensembles.

The Muziekgebouw's 100-seat BAM Hall will house the competition’s first rounds, and the 725-seat Main Hall will be the scene of the Finale.

March 1, 2008 - Registration closes Please take a minute to look at the IJMF website, www.ijmf.org.

Czechs Turn Out for Jews and included Music

This item caught our attention. Good People supporting each other against hate and rage. And music as well as marching played a part.

PRAGUE (JTA) – With several hundred neo-Nazis preparing to descend upon Prague's Jewish quarter for a brazen march on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Prague's small Jewish community found some unusual allies: anarchists, a Muslim leader and thousands of non-Jewish Czechs.

On a freezing Sabbath afternoon that marked the 69th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass, the neo-Nazis got the boot in the Czech capital — literally, in some cases.

Thousands of Czechs filled the streets Saturday to protest the neo-Nazis in an unusually large and emotional show of solidarity with the country's Jews that in some cases turned violent. . .

Only about 1,500 Jews live in Prague, but some 3,000 to 4,000 demonstrators turned out for the day's events. They included a prayer service in front of the Old-New Synagogue, a march through the Old Town where the Jewish quarter is located, musical performances and presentations by Holocaust survivors that were projected on a large outdoor screen.

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

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

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.

Amsterdam Jewish Music School Opening Day Schedule Available

LESSON PROGRAM 5768 2007/2008 & OPEN DAY Sunday 16.09.07 Jewish Music School

For complete information, email the school.

Do you and/or your child(ren) want to follow our Jewish music lessons, than please send your name, address, phone/mobile, e-mail address & title(s) of the lesson programs to: mail@jewishmusicschool.nl or Jewish Music School, Postbus 15894, 1001 NJ Amsterdam. You also can phone us: 020 624 11 32 / 06 166 463 75.
The administration of the Music School Amsterdam sends you the "Aanmeldingsformulier" by post. Please subscribe before the 8th of September 2007.

Please forward this message !

drs Anton Molenaar
organisatie & management cultuureducatie

J E W I S H M U S I C S C H O O L
Joodse muzieklessen i.s.m. Muziekschool Amsterdam
Ema Mail@JewishMusicSchool.nl
Tel +31 (20) 624 11 32
Mob 06 166 463 75
Locatie Muziekschool Amsterdam
Bachstraat 5, 1077 GD Amsterdam
Postadres Postbus 15894, 1001 NJ Amsterdam

Basel Synagogue Choir Opens Website

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

Jewish Music School in Amsterdam Newsletter

Jewish Music School, Amsterdam
The Jewish Music School exclusively teaches Jewish music under professional coaching and guidance. The school offers students, irrespective of your background, a wide range of educational programs. The Jewish Music School wants to provide a hospitable environment for everyone. The educational program is aimed at all age groups, from musical forming for the youngest until education for yougsters and adults. The levels vary from amateurs to (semi)professionals. The lessons - mainly in groups - are in Dutch, English or Hebrew. The teachers have a vast experience in teaching Jewish music in all its varieties from Ashkenazim (Eastern European Jews) as well as the Sephardim (Spanish-Portuguese Jews).

Educational Program
At the moment JMS is organizing and scheduling the educational program for 2007-2008. If you would like to receive our programm, please contact:
Jewish Music School, Postbox 15894, 1001 NJ Amsterdam
Email Mail@JewishMusicSchool.nl
Mobile phone 06 166 463 75
Phone 020 624 11 32.

Time & Location
As of September 16, 2007 every sunday from 1 - 5 p.m. Closed on Jewish holidays. Muziekschool Amsterdam, department South, Bachstraat 5, Amsterdam.
JEWISH MUSIC SCHOOL Nieuwsbrief

De Jewish Music School heeft door omstandigheden lange tijd geen lessen kunnen aanbieden MAAR in samenwerking met de Muziekschool Amsterdam gaan in september 2007 de deuren weer wagenwijd open. Altijd van groot belang 'Le Dor Va Dor' van generatie op generatie.

Jewish Music School
De Jewish Music School geeft uitsluitend Joodse muzieklessen onder deskundige coaching en begeleiding. Wij bieden u en uw kinderen, ongeacht zijn of haar achtergrond, een scala aan lesprogramma's. De Jewish Music School wil iedereen een gastvrije omgeving bieden. De muzieklessen zijn voor alle leeftijdsgroepen, van muzikale vorming voor peuters en kleuters tot en met jongeren en volwassenen. De lesniveaus variëren van amateur tot en met (semi)professional. De lessen - in groepsverband - worden gegeven in het Nederlands, Engels of Hebreeuws. Onze muziekdocenten hebben ruime ervaring met Joodse muziekeducatie, met zowel die van de Ashkenazim (Oost-Europese Joden) als van de Sefardim (Spaans-Portugese Joden).

Lesprogramma
Op dit moment zijn wij bezig het lesprogramma voor het leerjaar 2007-2008 samen te stellen. Wilt u dit ontvangen dan kunt u contact opnemen met: Jewish Music School, Postbus 15894, 1001 NJ Amsterdam Email Mail@JewishMusicSchool.nl Mobiel 06 166 463 75 Tel 020 624 11 32. Wilt u meer informatie, aarzel dan niet contact met ons op te nemen!

Tijd & Locatie
Vanaf 16 september 2007 op zondag van 13.00 tot 17.00 uur, behalve op Joodse feestdagen. Muziekschool Amsterdam, afdeling Zuid, Bachstraat 5, Amsterdam.

KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2007

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2007," an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held July 8-12, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," now in its 11th year, is the oldest klezmer seminar in Russia. The 2007 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish folk songs and klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and "Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." Our staff will include world-famous musicians -- from New York, the violinist, accordion player, vocalist, ethnomusicologist and the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, Michael Alpert; also from New York, the vocalist from the famous Klezmatics group, Lorin Sklamberg; from Zaporozhie, Ukraine, the Yiddish folk poet and singer Arkady Gendler, and others.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," dedicated to bringing klezmer music and Yiddish culture back to the land of their birth, includes Jewish musicians from the vibrant centers of the Jewish renaissance throughout the former Soviet Union.

This year again we are pleased to announce a special program for lovers of Yiddish music and culture from other parts of the globe. We are asking for a contribution of $550. This sum will include food and lodging in St. Petersburg for 5 days and the entire seminar program, including interpreters when needed, concerts and two excursions. Participants will pay for their own transportation to St. Petersburg.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via e-mail or visit our site <www.klezfest.ru>.

For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor, the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212) 792-2916, or e-mail: <jcdf@ajws.org>.

Join us at "KlezFest St. Petersburg" this summer! If you haven't been on the Neva River during White Nights with Russian klezmorim, you haven't lived!

TEREZÍN MEMORIAL Concerts

TEREZÍN MEMORIAL

presents

7 CANDLES

Gideon Klein (1919 - 1945)
Partita for string orchestra (Arr. Vojtech Saudek)

Pavel Haas (1899 - 1944)
Studie for string orchestra

Irena Kosikova
7 Candles for cello and string orchestra (2006) - Premiere

Talich chamber orchestra
Frantisek Brikcius - cello
Jan Talich - conductor

Thursday 10th May 2007, 2pm,
Terezin - Magdeburska kasarna (Tyrsova ulice, Terezín, 411 55, Czech republic).

http://www.Pamatnik-Terezin.cz
http://www.Talich.com
http://www.iKosik.com
http://www.Brikcius.com

YAACOV ELKOBI in Concert at Le Centre d'art et de Culture Paris

LE CENTRE D’ART ET DE CULTURE
ESPACE RACHI Présente,
L’événement judéo Oriental
YAACOV ELKOBI en Concert...
Pour notre plus grand plaisir, LE CENTRE D’ART ET DE CULTURE accueille le mardi 20 mars 2007 à 20h30,
et pour la première fois en France en concert exclusif, l’Artiste ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI’’

Dés l’âge de 9 ans, il commence à chanter avec son père lors de concerts de musique séfarade, Andalouse et Judéo-Oriental sur les plus grandes scènes en Israël, aux USA, en Europe et aujourd’hui en France . Le Ténor Gabriel ELFASSI qui parraine le jeune prodige et Artiste ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI ’’, souhaite faire découvrir au public français son talent et sa performance exceptionnelle. Il s’est produit récemment en Israël avec des artistes et musiciens de renom,‘’ LIOR ELMALIAH, RABBI HAIM LOUK , JO AMAR, BENJAMIN BUZAGLO, EMILE ZRIHAN ’’ au concert événement ‘’ANDALUSIT ORCHESTRA SAISON 2006 ’’. Invité comme PAYTAN JUNIOR ‘’ L’UNESCO ’’ en octobre 2006 au 7eme CONCERT INTERNATIONAL DE HAZANOUT, il séduit le public parisien par sa prestation qui lui fait mériter une ‘’ STANDING OVATION ’’. Avec déjà trois albums à son actif ‘’ YAACOV ELKOBI ‘’ est considéré par les spécialistes de la musique Andalouse et Orientale, comme l’artiste plus prometteur de sa génération. Accompagné par ‘’Michel SUISSA’’ et sa formation musicale, '’ YAACOV ELKOBI ’’en Concert est pour tous les amateurs de musique orientale et Judéo Andalouse, un événement à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte ...

YAACOV ELKOBI EN CONCERT, UN EVENEMENT EN PARTENARIAT AVEC ACTUALITE JUIVE - RADIOS 94.8 FM -TOPJ - DAFINA.NET- HARISSA.COM - ZLABIA.COM - ISRAHELP HEKHAL DAVID - ACIP.NOGENT- PERRREUX - BRY SUR MARNE - ISRAELINFOS.NET- LE MASSAPAN
PREVENTE : CARRE D’OR, 50€, ADULTES, 20€, ETUDIANTS, 15€.
ESPACE RACHI : 39, RUE BROCA 75005 PARIS, Tel : 01.42.17.10.38

Yiddish Dance in Geneva

3ème stage de DANSES YIDDISH
Organisé par les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch
Samedi 24 mars 2007 de 13h à 18h00
et
Dimanche 25 mars 2007 de 11h à 17h00

au Centre Musical du Grand Lancy -- Geneva
63, Av. des Communes Réunies
(trams 13, 15 et 17, arrêt "Palettes")

Venez découvrir et pratiquer quelques unes des danses traditionnelles juives d'Europe de l'Est: Hora lente, freylekh, bulgar, sher, patsh tants, terkish, khosidl, etc.

Animation: Steven WEINTRAUB (USA)
Musique 'live' avec l'ensemble klezmer MENTSH (Paris)
Le samedi est dévolu aux 'débutants'. Le dimanche est prévu pour les 'avancés' et ceux qui souhaiteront approfondir ce qu'ils auront appris la veille !
Le dimanche se conclura à 17h30 par une démonstration publique (entrée libre).

Coût par journée (samedi ou dimanche): 50 Frs /personne & 70 Frs /couple, membres AMJ, AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc.: 40 & 60 Frs). Pour les deux jours: 80 Frs /personne ou 100 Frs /couple membres AMJ, AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc.: 70 & 90 Frs).

Chaussures légères à semelle claire / robe ou jupe recommandée pour les dames. Nombre de participants limité ! inscrivez-vous rapidement !

Fiche d'inscription à renvoyer à Michel Borzykowski, 12 ch. Franconis, CH-1290 Versoix, fax: +4122 776 14 94

borzykowski@infomaniak.ch tel: +41 22 755 41 23
Organisation: les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Berlin

Dienstag, 21. November 2006, 21 Uhr

Ort: Maschinenhaus in der Kulturbauerei, Knaackstr. 97
Eintritt: VVK: 12,- Euro (zzgl. VVG) // AK: 15,- Euro
Karten unter: 030 – 44 31 51 51
Beginn: 21 Uhr

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo

Eben klagt und weint sie noch - und im nächsten Moment hüpft sie fröhlich davon und rennt, getrieben von purer Lebensfreude, immer schneller, die Violine von Deborah Strauss, gefolgt von der federleichtfüßigen Gitarre Jeff Warschauers. Die Musiker aus Brooklyn sind - konzertant und pädagogisch - Koryphäen in Sachen Klezmer und Yiddish Music. Sie waren Mitglieder der Klezmer Conservatory Band und haben mit Itzhak Perlman musiziert. Manche Lieder dieser wunderbaren, leisen CD singt Jeff Warschauer, der auch begnadeter Mandolinist ist, alleine - mit hellem traurig-frohen Tenor. Wenn Deborah Strauss singt, dann ist es filigran, behutsam, hört bei Duettpassagen genau auf ihren Partner hörend. Aber kaum sind Tränen und Schwermut von den Saiten gewischt, tanzen die Instrumente - wie beiläufig aus dem Handgelenk geschüttelt, hochvirtuos.

MUSICA ANTIGUA DE EDUARDO PANIAGUA playing around Canada this Fall

MUSICA ANTIGUA DE EDUARDO PANIAGUA, a group dealing with Spanish medieval music, will perform soon in Canada. On October 26th at the Outaouais Festival de Musiques Sacrées with the program "Three Cultures (Jewish', Muslim' and Christiian' Spanish medieval music and song)". and on Oct. 28th at the Quebec Festival de Musiques Sacrées with the program "Sefarad in Al-Andalus (music and poetry from Hispano-Jewish Golden Age)".

On November 4th the group will play the "Three Cultures" program at Givatayim Theater (Tel-Aviv, Israel), and on Nov 6th at the Jerusalem International Oud Festival, with the program "The Andalusian Oud".

On Nov 22th the group travels to Germany where they will present "Sefarad in Al-Andalus" at the Cervantes Institute of Munich, as part of thehttp://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=99752 "Jüdische Kulturtage".
Contact Klezmer Sefardi. Jorge Rozemblum for details. rozemblum@yahoo.es

Helene Engel Sings Yiddish in Lausanne, Switzerland

Les oiseaux reviennent avec le printemps au Quebec et Hélène Engel revient chanter avec l'automne en Suisse... et en yiddish (mais pas seulement!) avec le groupe HOTEGEZUGT http://borzykowski.users.ch

Le 4 Novembre à 20h30
CPO à Lausanne (Centre Pluriculturel et social d'Ouchy)
Beau-Rivage 2 Lausanne
Prix d'entrée: entre 14 et 22 Fs
Réservations: 004121 616 26 72
info@cpo-ouchy.ch ou www.cpo-ouchy.ch

Le 5 Novembre à 10h30
Maison du Prieur à Romainmôtier Brunch-Concert
tel: 004122 366 01 53 info@eventsetsaveurs.ch
prix 55 Fs (brunch gastronomique inclus)

De belles musiques en perspective... nous nous réjouissons de vous y rencontrer!
For More Info:
Michel Borzykowski
borzy@freesurf.ch
site klezmer: http://borzykowski.users.ch
site AMJ: http://www.amj.ch

"ZUN MIT A REGN" (Sun and Rain) in St. Petersburg

The Amsterdam Jewish Music Projects Foundation will be taking part in the Russian Centennial Celebration for Dmitri Shostakovich with the programme "Zun mit a regn" (Sun and Rain) that is to be performed at the Shostakovich Conferences in St. Petersburg on 12 and 13 October. The programme, which premiered in the Netherlands, includes chamber music and songs composed by Shostakovich himself and by his friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Veniamin Basner. The central source of inspiration for the works on the programme is the music of the Jewish people, oppressed in Russia during the Stalin regime. The works will be performed by singer Sovali (soprano), violinist Grigory Sedukh, cellist Alexander Oratovski and pianist Paul Prenen. The performances are supported by the Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fund.

Concerts:
. 12 October 2006, 7 PM at the Composers Hall, St. Petersburg
. 13 October 2006, 4 PM at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Museum Apartment (with lecture by Julia Broido)

The complete program includes:
M. Weinberg, Jewish Songs, Op.13 (Y.L. Perets) (1943)
M. Weinberg, Sonata for Cello Solo, No.1, Op.72 (1960)
D. Shostakovich, Prelude and Fugue, Op.87, No.8 in F sharp minor for piano (1950-51)
D. Shostakovich, "From Jewish Folk Poetry", Op.79, Nos.1, 3, 5, 7 (1948)
D. Shostakovich, Piano Trio No.2, Op. 67 (1944)
V. Basner, Poem for Violin and Piano, Op. 7, No.1
V. Basner, Songs from the musical "Jewish Luck", Op. 45 (1994)

From the reviews of previous performances in the Netherlands:

Eindhovens Dagblad: "Brilliant Yiddish lyricism!"

Enschede Synagogue: "The impressive programme went over very well with the audience. Everyone found it fascinating to witness how original Jewish music that was barely known, if at all, was brought back to life.."

Jan Roelofs' review of the concert at Museum 'De Buitenplaats' in Eelde: "How does one describe atmosphere? Not with words like professional or virtuoso, although they were certainly applicable. In any case, the atmosphere of the concert was created by the Jewish sounds, the melancholy and sometimes heartbreaking grief that could be heard, by the sounds and rhythms that said, "I shall persevere and won't let them grind me down," by the Yiddish lyrics translated so professionally they could almost be followed word for word. Yet the atmosphere was of course predominantly determined by (the musicians). In a beautifully structured programme of songs and instrumental works (partly performed as solos), they exhibited their professionalism, virtuosity and above all their pleasure in singing and playing. The warm cello and violin sounds, the beautiful, supple and agile voice and the pianist who conjured up a rich palette of sounds from the grand piano, were important ingredients in the special atmosphere of this concert.."

The DSCH Journal: "This was an unforgettable event in which the musicians gave their all. Bravo!"

Information:
Jewish Music Projects, c/o Sofie van Lier, phone: 020-6623675
Grigory Sedukh, phone: +7 (812) 2334808
info@joodsemuziekprojecten.n OR / jmp@tiscalimail.nl.
See also: www.joodsemuziekprojecten.nl.

KLEZMER-PARIS 2006 in July

The Parizer yidish-tsenter - Medem Bibliotek is pleased to inform all lovers of Klezmer music, Yiddish song, dance... and also junior musicians that, this year, our 4th annual klezfest "KLEZMER-PARIS 2006" is going to be held in Paris, July, 6 to 10.
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem 18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
Tél. : 00 33 1 47 00 14 00 / Fax : 00 33 1 47 00 14 47
www.yiddishweb.com

This intensive training course is for those who wish to develop their playing style and share this pleasure with others musicians so that Klezmer is not only concert music, but stays a living and popular music.

PROGRAM
Music, songs and dance workshops, conferences, master classes, jam, performances... Some of those will be open to all (musicians and non-musicians).

COURSE TEAM DAVID KRAKAUER : clarinet founder of David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness , he guests numerous groups including the prestigious Kronos Quartet.

JOSH DOLGIN (alias DJ SoCalled): accordion, piano, machines (beats, loops, samples) manipulator of digital and analogical rhythms, he has made himself the champion of an improbable yiddish hip-hop from Montreal to New York!

YANKL FALK: clarinet, voice member of the hungarian group Di Naye Kapelye he is also the director of a number of bands and a consultant in the theatre and movie industry.

BOB COHEN: fiddle, mandolin went to Hungary to do research on the musical history of the carpathian region. He created the Di Naye Kapelye & Budapest Klezmer Band groups and has played with Budowitz .

SHURA LIPOVSKY: voice, dance is recognized by her peers as one of the major artists of yiddish songs which she contextualises historically to illustrate their place in yiddish culture. Shell will also conduct a dance course in hasidic wisdom through movement, as she has already done in Europe, Russia, United States and Canada.

JOSHUA HOROWITZ : accordion, cymbalom now with Veretski Pass and formerly with Budowitz , he is the ethno-musicologist and theoretician of his generation.

SUZAN WATTS : trumpet from the 4th. generation of a klezmer family, she has played alongside the stars of klezmer and leads the Fabulous Shpilkes group.

MARTHE DESROSIERES:flute, picolo, clarinet music workshop coordinator, she will help initiate the younger players to this music.

WORKSHOP OPEN TO ALL
Courses in French and English

Musicians: for those with sufficient mastery of their instruments to be able to be at ease learning of music. Sheet music will be provided but the work will be done by ear.

Singers: who will be able to further their knowledge of yiddish folklore, of the Hazanut , and of the interaction between yiddish songs and klezmer music. Special workshop.

Dancers: all levels, beginners to professional.

Juniors: specific classes of music, song and dance reserved to the young (9/13 years old) with a minimum of 3 years instrumental experience. Participants need to bring their own instruments and parents are also invited to participate in their classes.

SCHEDULE
Days: 10am- 6pm.
Evenings: meetings, film projections, jam sessions, end of course party...

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem 18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot - 75011 PARIS - FRANCE
Tél. : 00 33 1 47 00 14 00 / Fax : 00 33 1 47 00 14 47
www.yiddishweb.com

Ensemble Meitar Summer Concerts

Amit Dolberg, pianist and the founder of the international ensemble for Israeli Contemporary Music and Jewish Clasical Music, Ensemble Meitar, announces some of their upcoming concerts.
22.6.2006 - 'White Night' Festival, Einav Center, Tel Aviv
1.7.2006 - Michelstadt, Germany
8.7.2006 - 'New Sounds', Israeli Composers League, Einav Center, Tel Aviv
For details, locations and times, see their websitehttp://www.meitar.net/eng_index.php

KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2006

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2006," an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held June 17-22, 2006 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," now in its 10th year, is the oldest klezmer seminar in Russia. The 2006 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish folk songs and klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and "Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." Our staff will include world-famous musicians -- from New York, the violinist, accordion player, vocalist, ethnomusicologist and the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, Michael Alpert; also from New York, the vocalist from the famous Klezmatics group, Lorin Sklamberg; from Berlin, the outstanding klezmer clarinetist, Christian Dawid, from Montreal, the master of hip-hop klezmer, composer, vocalist and DJ Josh "Socalled" Dolgin, and others.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," dedicated to bringing klezmer music and Yiddish culture back to the land of their birth, includes Jewish musicians from the vibrant centers of the Jewish renaissance throughout the former Soviet Union.

This year again we are pleased to announce a special program for lovers of Yiddish music and culture from other parts of the globe. We are asking for a contribution of $700. This sum will include food and lodging in St. Petersburg for 6 days and the entire seminar program, including interpreters when needed, concerts and two excursions. Participants will pay for their own transportation to St. Petersburg.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via e-mail <frenk@lea.spb.su> or visit our site <www.klezfest.ru>.

For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor, the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212) 273-1642, or e-mail: .

Join us at "KlezFest St. Petersburg" this summer! If you haven't been on the Neva River during White Nights with Russian klezmorim, you haven't lived!

Jewish Cinema in Geneva

Ciné - Concert exceptionnel !
Le "Sound & Light Cinematic Duo":
Merlin SHEPHERD: clarinettes & Polina SHEPHERD: piano
accompagne la projection de
films juifs d'Ukraine de 1910 à 1945
dimanche 21 mai 2006 à 18h15
à l'Aula du Collège des Colombières, route de St-Loup à Versoix.
Train depuis Genève (billet Unireso à 3 FS)
facilité de parking et d'accès aux personnes handicapées.

Les archives "Yuri Morozov" de Kiev recèlent les premières représentations cinématographiques de la vie des Juifs d'Europe de l'Est. Films muets en noir et blanc, documentaires, films de propagande ou à scénario, ils montrent la vie quotidienne des Juifs d'Ukraine et décrivent leurs préoccupations morales, religieuses et politiques au début du vingtième siècle sous un angle critique, tragique ou comique. Beaucoup de ces films n'ont jamais été projetés en dehors d'Ukraine et certains étaient censurés depuis plus de 80 ans.

Comme aux débuts du septième art, Merlin et Polina Shepherd, accompagnent magnifiquement cette série de documents historiques étonnants. Grâce à leur talent et à leur expérience musicale, ils font revivre ces films comme par magie, en utilisant des morceaux de musique juive traditionnelle et des compositions originales.

Ce voyage exceptionnel dans l'art et l'histoire nous fera toucher, par le son et l'image, l'essence de l'âme juive - la "yiddishkeyt" - au passé et au présent.

Billets: 25 Frs
Membres AMJ et Ecole & Quartier: 20 Frs
AVS; chômeurs, AI, étudiants: 15 Frs
Enfants en dessous de 12 ans: gratuit
Organisation: Les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch & tél: 022 755 41 23
CinéVersoix: www.cineversoix.ch & tél: 022 755 27 18
Ecole et Quartier www.aeqv.ch & tél: 022 388 24 44

TOHU veBOHU in Geneva

... à la rencontre des 3 cultures...

TOHU veBOHU

musiques klezmer, arabo-andalouse et Renaissance
concert en l'Eglise Saint-Etienne de Moudon (VD)
Dimanche 26 mars 2006 à 17h
billets: 25.- / 20.- / 15.- Frs infos: +41 21 905 88 66

Hotegezugt - musique klezmer:
Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Christine Niggeler (accordéon), Bianca Mihaies-Favez (violon), Benoît Converset (contrebasse)

Nomades - musique arabo-andalouse:
Adel Degaichia (percussions, violon), Amar Toumi (percussion, oud, chant), Claude Jordan (flûtes)

Renaissance - musique de la Renaissance:
Cecilia Knudtsen (viole), Laura Mendy (virginal), Patricia Esteban (flûtes, percussions), Julie Mazille (flûtes, chant).
"Au début, la terre était informe et vide." C'est dans ce tohu-bohu que jaillit la lumière et que débuta la création du monde, dans lequel l'homme reçut pour mitzva (commandement) de mettre de l'ordre.

De nos jours, les guerres, les génocides, les condamnations iniques, les épurations ethniques, les violations de la dignité et des droits humains sont autant de preuves que la mission de l'homme sur la Terre n'est pas achevée.

Le projet Tohu veBohu rassemble des musiciens de diverses origines culturelles et religieuses: chrétiens, juifs et arabes, afin de montrer qu'une coexistence pacifique est possible et que, à défaut de changer le monde, la connaissance de "l'autre" peut nous aider à nous changer nous-mêmes, devenant ainsi fructueuse sur le plan de la création artistique. et plus si entente!

Chaque groupe apporte sa propre matière musicale (klezmer, chants yiddish, thèmes arabo-andalous, ricercars et passacailles, etc.) et l'offre aux autres comme support à leur créativité et comme prétexte à l'improvisation dans le style qui leur est propre.

De notre "tohu-bohu" musical devrait jaillir une atmosphère lumineuse et joyeuse, propice au recueillement et au partage.

"Lampa Ladino" Live from Russia Online

For those who use the computer on Saturdays, you'll be able to listen online to a live concert of unusual band from Russia "Lampa Ladino" . This "Russian ensemble Lampa Ladino performs traditional Sephardic romance music. The haunting and unforgettable music of Lampa Ladino is based on the traditional music written in the Judeo-Spanish language, Ladino, by Sephardic Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula until their expulsion in the 15th century". The show will begin at 10:00 AM GMT. Saturday, February 11, 2006, in Moscow studio Audgard and will be transmitted via the Internet to entire world from the site Live-radio.ru. Please search for details at: http://live-radio.ru/efir/player.html

Meira Warshauer Works To Be Performed by Slovak Radio Orchestra

Three major works by American Jewish composer Meira Warshauer, Ahavah (Love), Shacharit (Morning Service) and Like Streams in the Desert, will be performed in “Music of the Jewish Heart,” a concert by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, soprano Jennifer Hines, mezzo soprano Stephanie Gregory and tenor Michael Hendrick, all under the direction of Maestro Kirk Trevor on Thursday, February 2 – 7:00 PM at The Concert Hall of Slovak Radio in Bratislava, Slovakia. For more about these works, visit http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/#Compositions.

You can follow Ms. Warshauer’s trip to Bratislava online through her new blog at http://www.sequenza21.com/warshauer.html.
Ahavah and Shacharit both address a universal respect for life as human and spiritual values. “After the Holocaust, there is a great need for healing, reconciliation, and mutual understanding,” writes Ms. Warshauer. Ahavah communicates the message of love and justice essential for preserving life in the earth. Shacharit journeys through the prayers and chants of the synagogue morning service and ends with a prayer for universal peace. Like Streams in the Desert, was commissioned in honor of the 50th anniversary of the state of Israel, was inspired by Psalm 126, whose theme is the return of exiles to Zion.

For more about these works, visit http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/#Compositions. They are being performed in preparation for a CD recording by the same performers in the days immediately following the concert.
For more about Maestro Kirk Trevor, visit
http://www.musicinternational.us/conductor.htm.
For more about Jennifer Hines, please visit
http://www.jenniferhines.voxpage1.com/
and for more about Michael Hendrick, log on to
http://www.michaelhendrick.com/.
Stephanie Gregory has been soloist in a wide variety of works by Stravinsky, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Puccini, Verdi and many others She has been featured in concerts with symphonies including the Bridgeport Symphony and has presented recitals throughout the eastern and southern U.S. Ms. Gregory was the 2001 winner of the Jenny Lind competition, and was awarded an extensive recital tour of Sweden. More about the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra at
http://www.slovakradio.sk/sosr/index.php?page=orchestra_e&menu=menu_e&head=head_sosr_e&title=orchestra and more about the Slovak Philharmonic Choir at
http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Slovak-Philharmonic-Chorus.htm.

Meira Warshauer’s compositions have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, and Asia. A graduate of Harvard, New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina, Dr. Warshauer studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the America Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission, which named her Artist Fellow in music composition in 1994 and 2006. In 2000, she received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of S. Carolina.
,br /> Ms. Warshauer is an Associate Music Faculty member at Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina . Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary “Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina” and "Spirals of Light", chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label and "Revelation" for orchestra, included on the MMC CD “Robert Black Conducts”. Her music is published by Oxford University Press, MMB Music, World Music Press, and Kol Meira Publications. You can find much more about her at - http://home.sc.rr.com/meirawarshauer/
,br /> For more information about Meira Warshauer, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

A Sunday with Mieczyslaw Weinberg: program in Paris

Sunday, January 22nd 2006, 3pm
"A Sunday with Mieczyslaw Weinberg"
Concert programme: Sonate No 4 op.56, Sonatine op.46 for violin and piano, Chants juifs op.13, String Quartett No 8, Notturno
Round table: Weinberg, a musician to discover
With Olia Weinberg, Frans Lemaire (musicologist), Reinhard Flender (editor)
Further Information:
L'Assocation internationale Dimitri Chostakovitch www.devinci.fr/chostakovitch
Le Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme Paris www.mahj.org

Adash Women's Hebrew Choir of Czech

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

TOHU veBOHU in Geneva

TOHU veBOHU
le groupe composé de HOTEGEZUGT (musique klezmer)
& NOMADES (musique arabo-andalouse) se produira en concert jeudi 8 décembre à 21h 30
au
Theatre St-Gervais
5 rue du Temple, 1201 Genève

dans le cadre de la quinzaine "Double exode ? Israël - Palestine"
***

Dans le même festival:

"Longing or Exile at Home" par le Arab Hebrew Theater de Jaffa et
"Al-Jidariyya " de Mahmoud Darwich par le théatre National palestinien de Jerusalem-est ainsi que des films, conférences, dialogues et rencontres...
***

Détails du programme sur le site:
http://www.sgg.ch/theatre/saisons/05/doubleexode.html

KLEZMER EN BUENOS AIRES:

un concert AMJ tout à fait original à Genève:
Marcelo Moguilevsky: clarinettes, flûtes, harmonica, voix
Cesar Lerner: piano, accordéon, percussions
dimanche 4 décembre à 17h à l'Alhambra, 10 rue de la Rôtisserie, Genève
Organisation: les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch.
Informations: http://www.amj.ch/WPR051204.htm
Réservations: amj@amj.ch ou tel: 0(041)22 320 86 28
entrée: 25.- / AVS, chômeurs, étudiants, etc: 15.- Réduction supplémentaire de 5.- aux membres AMJ

Depuis une vingtaine d'années, Cesar Lerner et Marcelo Moguilevsky apportent une innovation et une ouverture à la musique populaire instrumentale juive. Petits-enfants d'immigrants russes et polonais arrivés en Argentine en 1900, ils contribuent avec virtuosité à la renaissance du style klezmer en développant un langage personnel, basé sur l'improvisation et des éléments issus du folklore argentin, du tango, du jazz et des musiques contemporaines.

Ne manquez sous aucun prétexte ces deux multi-instrumentistes virtuoses argentins! A tout bientôt!

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

Samy Elmaghribi records liturgy of Sepharad

Samy Elmaghribi sings music of Andalus, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria as well as Sephardi liturgy. He has a series of liturgical CDs out includuing Shabbat, Psalms and Yamim Noraim. The website is in French. http://www.samyelmaghribi.com/

'ORIENTALE' in Amsterdam

'ORIENTALE' is a unique recital that includes the Jewish violin music of Achron, Bloch, Bruch, Engel, Dobrowen, Feldman, Gnesin, A. Krein, Samson, Scher, Zeitlin, and Zimbalist. Performed by violinist Grigory Sedukh (from St.-Petersburg) and pianist Sara Crombach (from Amsterdam) on Saturday 10 December 2005, 8:15 PM at the de Liberal Synagogue Amsterdam, Jacob Soetendorpstraat 8 te Amsterdam. Entrance fee 10 Euro.

With their recital entitled Orientale, violinist Grigory Sedukh and pianist Sara Cormbach are paying homage to a group of Russian-Jewish composers whose music was banned in the Soviet Union. Some of them belonged to the Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, which was founded in 1908. The Society was a meeting place for Jewish composers interested in creating a new kind of classical Jewish music. They collected folk music, gave concerts and published informative material on Jewish folk music. The forerunners included music critic, composer and publisher Joel Engel (1862-1927) and composers Ephraim Skliar (1871-?) and Solomon Rosovsky (1878-1962). The leading composers included Joseph Achron (1886-1943), Mikhail Gnesin (1883-1957) and Alexander Krein (1883-1951). The Petersburg Society created a considerable oeuvre consisting of original works as well as new arrangements of the traditional repertoire. The Society was officially was active for 10 years and had to stop in 1918 after the Communist take-over. Jewish culture was taboo in the Soviet Union after 1930 and the music of the Society was no longer performed. The memory of it was virtually erased, but today some dedicated musicians are trying to revive it. Grigory Sedukh is one of them. The programme also features well-known Jewish works by Bruch and Bloch.

As an added attraction, a piece by Ren� Samson, a Jewish composer from Surinam, is included, Eine kleine Gamelan-Musik. Although originally written for flute and piano, it will be performed in a special version for piccolo violin and piano. Samson, born in 1948 in Paramaribo, is a chemist who started composing at the age of 40. Since 1998 a small enthusiast group of musicians has regularly performed Samson's music.

Grigory Sedukh, born in 1952 in Kharkov in the Ukraine, is the only piccolo violinist in the world. He was introduced ten years ago to this instrument constructed by the renowned American violin-maker Carleen Hutchins. It is tuned an octave higher than the regular violin and Sedukh is particularly fond of playing Jewish music on the piccolo violin. He also made many transcriptions for it of classical masterpieces. Grigory Sedukh is a member of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and teaches at the chamber music department of the Petersburg State Conservatory. He gives solo recitals all over the world.

In September 2000 he was in the opera Alice in Wonderland, performed by the Nederlandse Opera at the Music Theatre in Amsterdam. Composer Alexander Kneiffel wrote a special role for Grigory's piccolo violin. During the production he met the pianist Sara Crombach. In 2002/2003 Grigory participated in the Mikhail Gnesin Project, organised by the Jewish Music Projects Foundation and performed in Amsterdam, Geneva, London, St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities. Sara Crombach studied with Naum Grubert at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She followed master classes in Hungary with the Kod�ly Quartet and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Boris Berman and Sergei Dorenski. She also studied with Maria Jo�o Pires. She performs often as a soloist and in duos with pianist Bernd Brackman and cellist Wladislaw Warenberg, with whom she recorded a CD of Russian romantic masterpieces. She also recorded with the Armenian Chamber Orchestra Yerevan.

More information:

. Liberal Jewish Community Amsterdam, phone: 020-5400123; e-mail: ljgadam@ljg.nl Jacob Soetendorpstraat 8, 1079 RM Amsterdam . Jewish Music Projects Foundation, phone: 020-662 3675; e-mail: jmp@tiscalimail.nl P.O. Box 55524, 1007 NA Amsterdam . See http://www.lgj.nl; http://www.joodsemuziekprojecten.nl

H�l�ne Engel at AMJ upcoming Fall concert

Michel Borzykowski of AMJ writes: "J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer deux concerts de chants yiddish, jud�o-espagnols, h�breux et de musique klezmer avec: H�l�ne Engel & 'Hotegezugt'

dimanche 30 octobre � 10h30 � l'Auberge du Prieur de Romainm�tier (Vaud).
Info et r�servations: t�l 0(041)22 366 01 53.
brunch gastronomique et concert: 55.-

et

dimanche 6 novembre � 17h � la Cit� Bleue, 46 Av.Miremont, 1206 Gen�ve
Organisation: les Amis de la Musique Juive www.amj.ch.
Info et r�servations: amj@amj.ch tel: 0(041)22.734.71.93
entr�e: 28.- / AVS, ch�meurs, �tudiants... 18.-
R�duction suppl�mentaire de 5.- aux membres AMJ

Homepage AMJ: http://www.amj.ch Geneva klezmer page: http://borzykowski.users.ch

Festival Klezmopolitan

Festival Klezmopolitan has quite a hot lineup of events planned for this month-- check it out: les 20, 21, 22 et 23 octobre 2005 � la Cigale et � la Boule Noire, PARIS. Quatre jours de musiques juives actuelles! Une affiche exaltante, des projets originaux avec plus de 100 musiciens des 4 coins du monde! Programme et extraits sonores: www.klezmopolitan.com R�servations: 0(033)892-707-507 et FNAC www.fnac.com

DETAILS:
- le 20 octobre: Jennifer Charles et Oren Bloedow du groupe Elysian Fields, La Mar Enfortuna, r�interpr�tation des plus belles chansons du r�pertoire s�farade. En 1�re partie, la nouvelle cr�ation �lectro klezmer d'Olaf Hund

- le 21 octobre, le c�l�bre clarinettiste Don Byron rencontre le Cracow Klezmer Band de Cracovie, David Krakauer & Klezmer Madness aiguisera sa clarinette au contact de la violoniste tch�que Iva Bittova

- le 22 octobre: les Klezmatics, pionniers du revival Klezmer � New-York avec en 1�re partie le grand orchestre d'un hautbo�ste danois autour d'un projet de dialogue interculturel autour des r�pertoires juif et arabe

- le 23 octobre, la chanteuse yiddish Talila rencontre le grand percussionniste cubano-new-yorkais Roberto J. Rodriguez autour de m�lodies yiddish latino, apr�s le cin�-concert de Merlin et Polina Shepherd sur des archives cin�matographiques du d�but du si�cle

........................................................................................ LES AFTERS DE LA BOULE NOIRE:

VENDREDI 21 OCTOBRE: AFROSEMITIC PARTY !
ShrineSynchroSystem's Klezmaniax : Max Reinhardt, Rita Ray, Sophie Solomon de Oi Va Voi, Kobi Isra�lite, et surprises ! +Fenugrec beat et Lasco Super World8 + Dj Tagada! Fusion du klezmer avec l'afrobeat � faire tomber les murs de J�richo

SAMEDI 22 OCTOBRE: WELCOME TO BROOKLYN PARTY !
SoCalled, Hip Hop Hoodios, S-Tel & guests...
Aux commandes de cette soir�e d�di�e au hip hop, au rap, au dub et au groove klezmer, un jeune maestro au look de Mickey �gar� dot� d'une verve oratoire � la Lenny Bruce . SoCalled ! Un trio d�jant�, r�ponse latino/ladino aux Beastie Boys, les HHH ! Ou encore, une jeune violoniste et son groupe d�tonnant o� fusionnent �lectro et m�lodies slaves et orientales avec p�le-m�le accord�on, rappeur, chanteuses orientales, khazan etc., S-Tel !

Programme et extraits sonores: www.klezmopolitan.com R�servations: 0(033)892-707-507 et FNAC www.fnac.com

DONA-FEST in Moscow

DONA-FEST, March 12-17, 2006

The Moscow Centre of Culture and Education "Euro-Class" announces the 2nd International Jewish Music festival-seminar "Dona-Fest, 2006" which will take place in Moscow from March 12-17, 2006.
For more information:

Center �Euro-Class�, 115093, Moscow, Stremyanniy per., 33/35, Russia call (007 095) 764-42-21 (Anatoly Pinsky) E-mail Dona Fest dona-fest@mail.ru or
go to the website for more info:
www.dona-dona.ru

The seminar programme includes:

* vocal and instrumental master classes;
* lectures on Yiddish and Ashkenazi culture;
* Jewish theatre and drama classes;
* Jewish folk dance;
* regular jam sessions;
* round table discussions, exchanging experience and knowledge;
The teachers:

- Grammy Award nominee and world famous Yiddish singer Adrianne Cooper ( USA ),
- Former musical director of the Royal National Theatre and The Shakespeare �Globe� theatre, one of the leading performers of traditional Klezmer music Merlin Shepherd (Great Britain),
- Founder of �The flying Bulgar Klezmer Band�, composer and a famous jazz pianist Marylin Lerner ( Canada ),
- Leading European Jewish choir teacher and composer Polina Shepherd ( Great Britain ),
- European klezmer violin virtuosi Stas Rayko and Mark Kovnatsky ( Germany ),
- Drama art teacher and a popular Russian Jewish singer and actress Alina Ivakh ( Russia ).

L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive

L'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive vous propose une cr�ation musicale originale dans une interpr�tation magnifique: Dimanche 6 mars 2005 � 17h Centre Musical Robert Dunand, 9 rue du March�, Carouge (gen�ve) Le Trio ELEONORE A n a t K O L O D N Y: clarinette M i - K y u n g K I M : violoncelle I v a n i V E N T U R I E R I : piano Joachim STUTSCHEWSKI (1891-1982) : Kaddish pour violoncelle et piano (1938) Youth Trio (1955) Nimrod BEN-ZEEV (1978- ) : Trio en sol mineur (2003) (cr�ation en public, en pr�sence du compositeur) Le Trio El�onore est n� � Gen�ve en 1999. Unique, cet ensemble l'est par la vari�t� des origines culturelles de ses membres - Isra�l, Cor�e du sud et Br�sil - mais aussi et surtout par l'ampleur de son r�pertoire, qui va du romantique (Beethoven, Brahms, Zemlinsky) � la musique Suisse (Juon) en passant par la musique isra�lienne contemporaine (Engel, Stutschewsky, Ben-Zeev). Informations et r�servations: tel 022 734 71 93 amj@amj.ch Tarif: 25.- / 15.- (r�duction suppl�mentaire de 5.- aux membres AMJ)

Hazzan Abraham Lopes Cardozo Celebrated 90th Birthday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESNOGA, PAST AND PRESENT, THE REVIVAL OF SANTO SERVI�O

Date: 24 October 2004
Time: 8pm
Place: Uilenburgerstraat Synagogue, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Price: ?25.00
Language: Dutch
Reservations: Email: pig-amsterdam@euronet.nl
Fax: 020-625-4680 (international: +31-20-625-4680)

In October 2003, a historic event in Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue took place. The pre-war synagogue choir, "Santo Servi�o" was revived after 60 years of silence.

Hazzan Abraham Lopes Cardozo (former Chief-Cantor of New York's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue), is the only living person who sang as an adult with this choir (from 1925 to 1939). It is an honor to welcome Hazzan Cardozo to Amsterdam on Sunday, 24 October 2004 in honor of his 90th birhtday where he will conduct an intimate soir�e:

ESNOGA, PAST AND PRESENT, THE REVIVAL OF SANTO SERVI�O

Hazzan Cardozo will lead us through his memories of singing with Santo Servi�o for nearly fifteen years. Throughout the program examples of original works will be sung in the authentic pre-war settings. Directly following the program a light reception will be held in honor of Hazzan Cardozo's 90th Birthday.

OMRI HASON QUARTET: JAZZ meets EAST

Chers amis,
Avec l'automne, recommence la saison 2004-2005 des concerts organis�s par l'Association des Amis de la Musique Juive (www.amj.ch) Voici donc:

OMRI HASON QUARTET: JAZZ meets EAST

- Karim OTHMAN-HASSAN : oud
- Sascha SCH�NHAUS : saxophone, clarinette
- Omri HASON : percussions orientales
- Michael BORNHAK : contrebasse

Salle de la Cit� Bleue, 46 Av. Miremont, Gen�ve
dimanche 31.10.2004 � 17h
Tarif: 28.- / r�duit: 18.- (+ r�duction AMJ: 5.-)

Omri Hason et ses musiciens sont de merveilleux conteurs qui ma�trisent aussi bien les musiques de l'Orient que les improvisations du jazz. Dans une subtile fusion de formes musicales h�bra�ques, arabes et turques, les improvisations jazzistiques originales, sensibles et surprenantes, s'exhalent habilement de l'atmosph�re fraternelle et des joyeuses palabres qui fleurent bon le moka et le th� � la menthe!
Location & renseignements: T & F: 022 734.71.93
Informations d�taill�es sur le site AMJ: http://www.amj.ch/WPR41031.htm

Zun mit a regn (sun and rain) in Netherlands

"Zun mit a regn (sun and rain) - laughter through tears" is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.

Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands performed by Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano.
For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email jmp@tiscalimail.nl
See more info with dates and times....

World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:

Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano

Concerts:
24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531 387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072

The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.

For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email jmp@tiscalimail.nl

PARIS - KLEZMER 2004

The 'Maison de la Culture Yiddish' is proud to present a superb programme of klezmer studies: PARIS - KLEZMER 2004
27 - 31 August, 2004
Summer School - Jewish Music of Central Europe
Classes will be held in English and French
* Masterclasses
* Lectures
* Jams

PARIS - KLEZMER 2004an exceptional faculty team :
David KRAKUER- clarinet, the 'new klezmer', phrasing and ornamentation, improvisation,special klezmer effects types of dance,american klezmer repertoire etc.
Jack Yankl FALK-voice, clarinet, nigunim, Hazanut , relationship between other traditional jewish music and klezmer, chassidic melodies,european klezmer repertoire etc.
Josh DOLGIN (DJ SoCalled) - accordion, piano, sound machine, hip-hop klezmer, dance accompaniment, special klezmer effects for rhythm and harmony sections.
This course is OPEN TO ALL !
Musicians with a sufficient level of competence on their instrument to feel comfortable in learning how to interpret klezmer and the particular techniques involved.

Singers who would like to develop their knowledege of yiddish folklore, 'Hazanat' and the relationship between traditional jewish vocal music and klezmer music.

Listeners for whom the pleasure is in listening to klezmer and discovering more about it.

Course Fee - 320 euros (students under 30 with proof of status 250 euros)
To receive the complete programme and booking form please contact:
Estelle HULACK
Maison de la Culture Yiddish - Biblioth豵e Medem
Parizer yidish-tsenter - Medem Bibliotek
18, passage Saint-Pierre Amelot
75011 PARIS
T鬮 : + 33 1 47 00 14 00
Fax : +33 1 47 00 14 47
web site: www.yiddishweb.com

Klezmer Festival in Vienna, Austria

Coming July 2nd - July 11th, 2004
For Information about this klezmer festival, see: www.klezmore-vienna.at
Lots of American and European klezmer bands including the Strauss/Warshauer Duo, Klezmokum, Klezmatics, Streiml, Isle of Klezbos, Di Naye Kapele, Meshuge Klezmer Band, Gojim, Fleytmusik and more. Schedule at: http://www.klezmore-vienna.at/klezmore.pdf

Teresa Tova in France

Teresaa Tova and Fr餩ric Manoukian
27 mai 2004 : ?20h30 A concert in a boite de la chansons at Forum L鯠Ferr鬠11 rue Barb鳬 Ivry sur Seine, Paris 01 46 72 64 68 a concert in mostly English and French
5 juin 2004 : Cercle Amical Medem, the workman circle 52 rue Ren魂oulanger, Paris 01 42 02 17 08 a concert mostly in Yiddish

4th Open Workshop of MUSICNETWORK

Call for Proposal, Papers, Expositions
Integration of Music in Multimedia Applications
http://www.interactivemusi cnetwork.org/events/Fourth_OpenWorkshop_2004/MUSICNETWORK-4th-Open-Works hop-plan-v1-2.html http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/
Read on for more information:

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
15th-16th September 2004
http://dmag.u pf.es/wedelmusic2004/Documents/Location.html Co-located with WEDELMUSIC 2004 Conference: http://www.upf.edu/wedelmusic2004/
You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the sessions.
With the support of the European Commission, the MUSICNETWORK project has been created to explore the applications and integration of interactive multimedia technologies for Music, enabling inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborations and networking, bridging many important sectors, including cultural, commercial, industrial, research and academic. End users are discovering the multimedia experience, and thus, traditional music models are going to be overcome and replaced by their integration with multimedia, audiovisual and cross media. Thus the aim is to put together industry actors and innovative technology providers to help the music industry to overcome the present problems with the innovation.

The theme of the 4th Open Workshop is the Integration of Music in Multimedia applications. Currently many new music-related applications are strongly impacting and attracting the market. Most of them will become more and more widespread in a short time due to users� demand. Among most addressed sectors the one presenting more notable form of integration between music and multimedia there are: � music education (notation tools integrating multimedia, educational paradigms, tools, distance learning, mobile learning, etc.); � music management in libraries (modeling, navigation, metadata, content description, etc., MPEG-7), � entertainment (animation, synchronisation, etc., SMIL ); � music and multimedia music distribution and protection (watermarking, fingerprint, MPEG-21); � valorization of cultural heritage (modeling, restring, etc.); � electronic consumer applications: piano keyboards with symbolic music representation and audiovisual capabilities, electronic lecterns, i-TV; � mobile applications for education and entertainment (cellular phones, PDA, tablet PC, etc.).

In the current Internet and Multimedia age other applications are strongly attracting market attention and most of them will become soon widespread in short time. The integration of symbolic music representation in MPEG could completely satisfy users� requirements for properly handling such issue into tools, allowing to integrate into a single model the powerful one of MPEG for multimedia, representation, coding and playback. The integration of symbolic music representation with MPEG or other multimedia standards will open the way for a large number of new applications and markets related to the above applications. This initiative may increase the current market for symbolic music representation, which is mainly dedicated to sheet music production. It may also open the path to creating very interesting new applications, and to increase the power and flexibility of those applications that already use both multimedia and symbolic music representation. MPEG has relevant standards in this area such as MPEG-4 for the audio visual objects, MPEG-7 for the description of audio visual content for archives, and MPEG-21 for the Digital Rights Management and distribution of digital audiovisual.

At present, there is a lack of an integrated Music Notation/Representation standard with multimedia. The aim of this workshop is to make a further step towards a proper standardizing of a Music Notation/Representation Model. The MUSICNETWORK has worked very hard to create the conditions for a Call for Proposals/Technologies within MPEG with the aim of exploiting the MPEG framework for integrating Music Notation/Representation in several innovative applications. As a results an MPEG Ad Hoc Group on Symbolic Music Representation has been created, a large set of requirements and innovative applications have been identified and a call for technology can be launched. All this material can be recovered from: � http://www.interactive musicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/ � http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/W6457%20%28Draft%20CfP%2 0Symbolic%20Music%20Representation%29.doc

To this end, the next Open Workshop of the MUSICNETWORK will be mainly focused on the integration of MUSIC and MULTIMEDIA in an effective CROSS MEDIA. Several different formats and media may share the same information and grant navigation, synchronization and stable relationships establishment.

The 4th Open Workshop will be organized around the following sections. For each section we are open to receive proposals and contributions: � Applications and Technical papers, chairs: Jerome Barthelemy (IRCAM, Jerome.Barthelemy@ircam.fr), David Crombie (FNB, dcrombie@fnb.nl), David Fuschi (ILABS, d.fuschi@giuntilabs.it), Giuseppe Nicotra (ARCA, nicotra@dodiesis.com). The topic of interests for the Application session is wide ranging. For this section, we are going to accept papers and proposals from Experts and from Industries coming from different areas of music for finals user applications and/or innovative technologies. Proposals may be Industrial presentations of music applications or experts papers. The session will be focused on current applications, case-studies, applications scenarios, latest development, as well as future directions, innovative technologies. It includes, but not limited to the following areas: o Education, cooperative work, distance learning, mobile learning, etc. o Entertainment, consumer electronics, music and games, animation, synchronization, etc. o cultural heritage, exploitation of cultural assets, archives, museums, restoration, etc. o music distribution and protection, fingerprint, monitoring, business models, mobiles, etc. o music exploitation, economical impacts of content fruition on new media, etc. o accessibility and culture, technology for supporting accessibility, etc. o music modeling and representation, etc. These interdisciplinary domains share one common point the applications of science and technologies in Music or the applications of Music in interactive multimedia domains � MPEG SMR, Symbolic Music Representation, Call for Technology, Chairs: Paolo Nesi (DSI, nesi@dsi.unifi.it), Giorgio Zoia (EPFL, Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch). The idea of this section is to provide support to industries and groups that intent to respond at the Call for Technology of MPEG regarding the SMR http://www.interactive musicnetwork.org/mpeg-ahg/. The work activities in this section will be mainly devoted in making clear what MPEG forum expects in response to the CALL and what the MPEG could provide in terms of benefits and return of investment to these companies. The registration to this event is strongly suggested, and should be accompanied by a simple document including a list of possible questions or point that you are interested to see discussed during this section. The major points will be: o Presentation of the MPEG SMR Call for Technology, aims and goals o Presentations of the proponents o Open discussion to support proposers � Exposition Area, Demonstrations and papers, chairs: Kia Ng (UNIVLEEDS, k.c.ng@leeds.ac.uk), Martin Schmucker (FHGIGD, mschmuck@igd.fhg.de). For this section, we are going to accept exposition proposals on all the topics of the previous section. Proposals may be related to commercial products or Research Results ready to be exploitable from the industry. The proposals have to be provided by submitting a description of the application tool, or submitting a CD or by allowing a download from a WWW site. The proposal has to include a description of the needed space and tools to give a demonstration (tables, power, poster space, time, etc.), the names of the person/people that will present the application and their short biography (10 lines), and the material that will be made available for the attendees of the exposition. � Tutorials/Survey on Music/Multimedia Technologies, chairs: Pierfrancesco Bellini (DSI, pbellini@dsi.unifi.it), Frencesco Spadoni (RIGEL, spadoni@rigel.li.it): For this section, we are going to accept tutorial and review proposals. They have to be provided including a short description of the Tutorial/Survey describing the state of the art of a sector or of a specific technology: the context of the tutorial, the speaker with a short CV (short biography, 20 lines), if the tutorial has been already given in other places, the duration, the number of slides, the technical support needed, etc. The most requested arguments are reported in the following but not limited to them: o MPEG-4 Audio/SA o MPEG-4 System o Optical Imaging, Optical Music Recognition o Best practices in Music Education o Best Practices in saving analog audio end restoring o �.. You are invited to participate at the Workshop and to contribute to the above sessions. Free registration, please do via the WWW site of the MUSICNETWORK. The registration is not mandatory but is strongly suggested, we need to set up suitable logistic support for the right number of participants. http://www.interactivemusicnetw ork.org/

Submission of your proposal by 28th of May 2004
* To be sent at the corresponding chairs (see email addresses above), in MS-WORD or PDF formats * To be also sent at musicnetwork@dsi.unifi.it * To be submitted according to the above description with the number of pages suggested below. * To be submitted with the dates reported below Please note that all the submissions will be published on the WWW site of the MUSICNETWORK. If you don�t agree on this kind of publication please inform the MUSICNETWORK in the accompanying letter to the submission. Different types of contributions are welcome: * Tutorials/Surveys (4 to 8 page of proposal) * Application and Technical Papers (2 to 10 pages) * Exposition and Demonstrations (1 page summary) * MPEG SMR Symbolic Music Representation: (a list of topics to be discussed) Important deadlines * Deadline for submission: 28 May 2004 * Paper selection results: 15 June 2004 * Full paper submission: 28 July 2004 * Workshop: 15 September 2004 As usual, the MUSICNETWORK will economically support a number of speakers according to the quality of their proposal, to the relevance of the topic proposed, etc. The selection will be operated on the basis of the proposal. In addition, the MUSICNETWORK is going to invite a given number of experts, asking them to attend the meeting to give their contribution in the above mentioned topics. The latter are a sort of keynote speakers on the Conference topics and are not in competition with the former.

J�r�me Barth�lemy
jerome.barthelemy@ircam.fr
01 44 78 15 53
Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique
http://www.ircam.fr

Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra

A 6-member klezmer group in Budapest led by Laszlo Szirtes. Laszlo arranges the klezmer and Yiddish music. The website is in Hungarian. It is kept current with dates and places of gigs and performances, and with photos of the group, and contact information. E-mail: szibill@hotmail.com
http://www.szirtes-jeko.hu/

Jascha Nemtsov Presents Jewish Composers

'ACROSS BOUNDARIES'
"AU-DELA DES FRONTIERES"

R�cital-conf�rence de JASCHA NEMTSOV
Salle des Abeilles, 2 rue de l'Ath�n�e, Gen�ve
Dimanche 14 mars � 17h


R�servations: amj@club-association.ch ou tel 022 734 71 93

Sur invitation de l'AMJ, le pianiste et musicologue russe de renomm�e internationale Jascha Nemtsov pr�sentera un r�pertoire original de compositeurs juifs russes du d�but du vingti�me si�cle. Chaque oeuvre fera l'objet d'une pr�sentation sp�cifique. Jascha Nemtsov est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de r�f�rence sur ce th�me: http://www.musica-judaica.com/composers.htm Ce concert sera d�di� au professeur Shimon Markish.

Au programme: Arthur Louri� (1892-1966): Valse
Juliusz Wolfsohn (1880-1944): Deux paraphrases d'apr�s d'anciennes m�lodies juives
Alexander Krejn (1883-1951): 3 pi�ces tir�es de la Suite "J�dische T�nze"
Joseph Achron (1886-1943): Variations symphoniques sur th�me juif 'El Yivneh Hagalil'
Alexander Weprik (1899-1958): Sonate n�2
Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-1982): Vier j�dische Tanzst�cke
Arthur Louri� (1892-1966): Nocturne, Gigue

Entr�e: 28 Frs / AVS, AI, �tudiants, chomeurs: 18 Frs
R�duction compl�mentaie de 5 Frs pour membres AMJ
R�servations: amj@club-association.ch ou tel 022 734 71 93

Moshikop at YaD Arts

A mesmerizing blend of acoustic and electronic sounds, along the lines of Morcheeba or the Gotan project, with a Middle Eastern slant!

--LONDON-- Monday 8 March: Costa Urbana at the Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ Free before 8pm, �5 after, �3 concessions First 3 people to email maria@yadarts.com get in for free, next 10 on concession list Tuesday 16 March, 8:30pm Private showcase at Momo, Heddon St - Guests only. First 5 people who email maria@yadarts.com will be put on the exclusive guest list. Saturday 27March, 8.00pm Supporting Celloman at the Spitz, 109 Commercial St. Old Spitalfields Market. London. E1 6BG Tickets �12/�10 adv 2 free tickets to be given out to first two to email maria@yadarts.com YaD has entered 2004 with a whole host of things up our sleeves� Further to our successful Movement of the People series at the end of last year, we are planning to continue these events in 2004, bringing exciting acts from around the globe to a London stage. Watch for dates and line-up including Israel�s Idan Reichel, Gogol Bordello, Oi Va Voi, Frank London�s Klezmer Allstars and Victoria Hanna, plus theatre and art shows.

KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2004

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2004," an international seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held June 12-16, 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," now in its eighth year, is the oldest Klezmer seminar in Russia. The 2004 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish folk songs and Klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and "Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." The staff will include world-famous musicians -- the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist, accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New York, the outstanding Klezmer clarinetist from Berlin, Christian Dawid, and others. "KlezFest St. Petersburg," dedicated to bringing Klezmer music and Yiddish culture back to the land of their birth, includes Jewish musicians from the vibrant centers of the Jewish renaissance throughout the former Soviet Union. This year again there is a special program for lovers of Yiddish music and culture from other parts of the globe. The festival is asking for a contribution of $550. This sum will include food and lodging in St. Petersburg for 5 days and the entire seminar program, including interpreters when needed, concerts and the two excursions. Participants will pay their own transportation to St. Petersburg. For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail . For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor, the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212) 273-1642, or e-mail: . Join us at "KlezFest St. Petersburg" this summer! If you haven't been on the Neva River during White Nights with Russian klezmorim, you haven't lived!

Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra

It's a "Budapester, professional klezmer band, playing traditional jiddish and Jewish songs arranged by Laszlo Szirtes..." Jerusalem Express Klezmer Orchestra would love to place outside Hungary. You can see the website www.szirtes-jeko.hu and get an idea about the band.

Sound and Music Computing '04

October 20-22, 2004 IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, France http://smc04.ircam.fr/ The first SMC edition is organized by IRCAM. It will take place during the IRCAM Resonances 2004 Festival, a ten-day long music technology forum combining conferences, workshops, open house and concerts from Wednesday October 13th until Friday October 22nd, 2004. Sound and Music Computing (SMC) is supervised jointly by AIMI (Associazione Italiana di Informatica Musicale) and AFIM (Association Fran�aise d'Informatique Musicale). The preliminary web page is at: http://smc04.ircam.fr/ Papers submissions are solicited in all the sound/music computing fields. A special session on "Improvisation with the computer" is organised during the first day (Oct. 20th), for which papers are solicited as well. SMC'04 co-chairs: G�rard Assayag, IRCAM Carlos Agon, IRCAM Marc Chemillier, U. Caen

Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung Foundation

Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung (Foundation) in Mainz Germany at: http://www.anni-eisler-lehmann-stiftung.de Scholarships for Jewish musicians...

The Anni Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung site is in German, English and French. The Stiftung Foundation was founded by Anni-Eisler-Lehmann who was born in Mainz, studied to be a singer but had her career taken away by the Nazis. She returned to Germany after the war a rebuilt her family's fortune but was never able to rebuild her own career. At the end of her life, with the help of friends, she founded the Anni-Eisler-Lehmann Stiftung. The foundation's primary goal is that of awarding scholarships to young Jewish students of vocal and instrumental music who wish to study in Mainz, Germany. Contact at the address below or address requests for application information to info-ael@a-e-l-stiftung.de

Tanz mit mir - Yiddish Ballroom Dance

A double cd, packed with yiddish hits, all in ballroom dance rhythms...

Re-release of hits such as: shein vi di levone, belz, yiddishe mamme, zing feigale zing, oyfen preypechik and many others, 40 in total, all in tango, waltz, cha cha cha, rumba , passodoble and twist arrangments. The double c.d. is divided to a vocal c.d. including talents such as the Barry Sisters , Max Perlman , Israel Itzhaki , The Bursteins, and many others, while the second c.d. is instrumental Release date : January 11th 2004, Israel. CD price as single at �13.50 (that is $20) + �1.50 postage to anywhere in the world, from Noa Lachman Jewish Music Distribution PO Box 67 Hailsham BN27 4UW UK Free phone: 0800 7811 686 Tel/Fax: (44) 01323 832 863 Website: www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk email: email

JMI Summer Academy 2004 at London University

Ot Azoy! Yiddish Language Crash Course & KlezFest � a structured course in Klezmer music song and dance....

Ot Azoy! Yiddish Language Crash Course 1 � 6 August
KlezFest: Klezmer music song and dance, 8 �12 August
Sunday 1 � Friday 6 August 2004 Ot Azoy! � this is the way - to speak, read and write Yiddish in a week! An inspiring and captivation course devised by Dr Helen Beer, of University College London with Pesakh Fiszman of Columbia New York and Sonia Pinkusovitch from the Martin Buber Institute Brussels. For complete beginners of all backgrounds and also caters for those at intermediate level. It�s the perfect course for those that always wanted to learn or brush up on Yiddish or refresh what they might have heard as a child, but were not confident enough (or could not spare the time) to devote a whole summer to it. It�s the one for dipping in your toes and immersing yourself in Yiddish language, song and culture and for getting to a good level. Many Ot Azoy! Graduates are now continuing studies at University.
Sunday 8 � Thursday 12 August KlezFest � a structured course in Klezmer music song and dance. Course Director, Alan Bern of Brave Old World with a faculty of some of the greatest and most highly regarded Klezmer luminaries from around the world such as Michael Alpert, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer, Josh Dolgin, Sophie Solomon, Zalmen Mlotek and others hands-on masterclasses and workshops, in both instrumental and ensemble playing. Ideal for those proficient on their instruments, regardless of whether you have played klezmer before. Also caters for those with experience in Klezmer. Learn from the real masters. Masterclasses for existing ensembles. Private lessons may be available on the days before or afterwards. Make new friends in the Klezmer family and jam on into the night. Contact JMI about fee structures and accomodation information. More details e-mail jewishmusic@jmi.org.uk or Tel 020 8909 2445 Fax 020 8909 1030 Registration form on Website www.jmi.org.uk

Lloica Czackis

Yiddish and Argentinian tango....yes, Yiddish tango. Repeat Jewish, Yiddish tango. Concert of Yiddish and Argentinian tango in Birmingham, ENGLAND Sunday 25 January Yiddish and Argentinian tango Lloica Czackis voice Oscar Acebr�s guitar National Holocaust Memorial Day The Dream Factory, Birmingham. http://www.lloicaczackis.com/tangele.htm