Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale in NYC

On Sunday June 3rd at 7:00 pm, Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale will perform and exciting and eclectic concert. Featured works include a David Burger setting of Hatikvah, and Elliot Levine setting of an e.e. cummings poem, and a Yair Rosenblum setting of 'Unetane Tokef' in a contemporary style. The program also includes pieces by Franz Schubert, W. A. Mozart, Salamone Rossi, Max Janowski and Matthew Lazar.

Where: Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023
Box office: 212-501-3330
kaufman-center.org/mch/buy-tickets

When: Sunday, June 3, 7:00 pm

Tickets: $24 premium
$21 general admission
$17 seniors and students*
*Tickets available only at box office or by phone. Students must show ID.

A Cappella Choral Blast

The JPPC / Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus with
Conductor Binyumen Schaechter
perform in New York City!
Concert: 6th Street Sundays presents "A Cappella Choral Blast"
When: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 3:00 PM
Where: Sixth Street Community Synagogue,
325 E. Sixth St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Ave.), New York City, 10003
Who: The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC
with Conductor Binyumen Schaechter, and two other choruses: Cantigas Women's Choir, and the NYU Madrigal Singers.

Each chorus has a 30-minute a cappella set. The JPPC is the 2nd chorus to perform, ending the first half. Soloist: Temma Schaechter of Di Shekhter-tekhter
Tickets: $15, which includes a free beverage; $10 kids aged 5-12.
Cash only, at the door. There will be an intermission.
https://www.facebook.com/events/298373666842236/

Golem and Conspiracy of Beards @ Glasslands

Golem and Conspiracy of Beards @ Glasslands
One of the world's most beloved klezmer-rock band, Golem, teams up with San Francisco's Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-member bearded male choir singing the works of Leonard Cohen. It doesn't get more punk rock than that!
Tickets $10
Note: this is an early show and everyone will turn into a pumpkin at 11:30pm sharp, so get there on time!

Saturday, April 28 at 8:30pm
Location: Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211

Arcady Goldenstein & Benjy Fox-Rosen in Concert at Sixth Street Synagogue

Wednesday, Apr 4 at 08:00 PM
East Village Klezmer Series
Arcady Goldenstein & Benjy Fox-Rosen in concert!

Arcady will be accompanied by Deborah Strauss: violin, Jeff Warschauer: guitar, Benjy Fox-Rosen: bass, and Tyshawn Sorey: drums. Plus! The NYC premier of Benjy Fox-Rosen's new Gebirtig song cycle.

4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 - 9:15PM Benjy Fox-Rosen and Arcady Goldensteyn $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 - 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
For more information:
http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/eastvillageklezmer/

Arcady Goldenstein is the nephew of our dear friend and mentor, the late German Goldenshteyn, z"l. He grew up playing with his uncle, and this is a rare opportunity to hear Arcady play in NYC.

Arcady Goldenstein was born in Mogilev-Podolsk on the border of Ukraine and Moldova in 1963 and grew up in Moldova. He has lived in Israel since 1990. Goldenstein has played klezmer on the clarinet since childhood, and performed regularly in affairs of the Jewish community during the Communist era, which was in those days a somewhat risky venture. He has participated in many festivals in Israel and abroad, most recently the KlezKanada Festival and has toured in England and Germany. His ensembles have been awarded prizes at the Safed and Raanana Klezmer Festivals in Israel. He currently conducts the Haifa Klezmer Orchestra, and teaches clarinet in conservatories and in the public school system.

Benjy Fox-Rosen's Quintet presents an arresting synthesis of Yiddish folk songs, art songs, Klezmer music, and original compositions. Band leader Fox-Rosen - singer, composer, and bassist - is joined by some of the most compelling klezmer musicians in New York City. Together, they focus on the poetry of beloved Krakow songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig, presenting his poems as alluring and engaging art songs. Featuring: Benjy Fox-Rosen: voice, bass, Michael Winograd: clarinet, Patrick Farrell: accordion, Avi Fox-Rosen: guitar, and Tyshawn Sorey: drums

Evening of Yiddish Song: The Sidor Belarsky Songbook

The Congress for Jewish Culture and the New Yiddish Rep present
"An Evening of Yiddish Song-- The Sidor Belarsky Songbook"
Date: Sunday, April 1
Time: 5pm
Location: Temple Beth Emeth, 83 Marlborough Rd., Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. (B or Q train to Church Ave.)

Anthony (Mordechai Tzvi) Russell, an African-American classical singer of opera and lieder, has embarked on a project of personal anecdote, engagement and expression through Yiddish art song with his performance of selections from *The Sidor Belarsky Songbook*.

"Being an operatic bass (as Sidor Belarsky was) an African-American by birth and a Jew by choice, the recital repertoire of Sidor Belarsky provides a unique potential for me as an artist to actively embody the aspirations, desires and struggles of one diaspora culture enriched with the colors and experiences of another."

Learn more about this performer at his website: https://sites.google.com/site/anthonyrussellbass

Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in NYC
events from 6:00pm until 11:00pm
Wednesday, Mar 21 at 08:00 PM - The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble East Village Klezmer Series
.6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by special guest, Bassist Brian Glassman!! $25
8 – 9:15PM The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests

Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)

The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble
featuring Sy Kushner (accordion), Aaron Kushner (alto sax), Jeremy Brown (violin,) and Marty Confurius (bass) and special guest Ken Maltz on clarinet

On a mild July evening, seven years ago [1960], on a semi-lit stage in Camp Hi-Li, three musicians (who were to become known as The Mark 3) met and played their first note together. To all present, it was obvious that they were witnessing the birth of a sound-a sound that was to bring to Israeli and Chassidic music a depth which it had never before known. - Excerpt from the liner notes of the original 1966 Mark 3 recording which was re-released in 2009. That album was to become the seminal opus: an album that was to influence the course of Jewish music for years to come. And Sy Kushner was one of its founders and musical director. It was the beginning of a long and varied career for Sy, taking him through Chassidic, Israeli folk, klezmer, and most recently newly composed Jewish music. His CDs of original works have received rave reviews.

This disc[Arise!] embodies the idea that klezmer is a living and viable genre…. Kushner’s klezmer music integrates non-klezmer sounds, but so smoothly that the result is more like stirred paint, in which each new added element changes the color of the whole. – Paul Wieder, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation.

Sy Kushner is a klezmer lifer, a leading figure on accordion as well as a composer since his Mark 3 days in the ’60s…… highly refined musical gold. - George Robinson…..Jewish Week 2009

What a wonderful day you gave us. Your music brings me warm memories of a time long ago. Thanks. - Joan Levine and Jonah Berman commenting on a 2009 City Winery performance.

Kushner’s authority, clarity, and grace on the accordion makes this album very special.….The way Kushner plays, you feel as though you can tell what is really happening. - Ari Davidow’s review of KlezSqueeze(CD)

The CD (KlezSqueeze) impresses with its simplicity and virtuosity. In many respects, I wondered, how is it possible to play like that? ….For myself, it is one of the best records ever. - Andreas, from Virtual Klezmer(Germany)

The Kushners are the great biblical begots of klezmer music. - Jonathan Mark, Associate Editor, Jewish Week

Accordionist Kushner has been making excellent klezmer since his hits with the Mark 3 Orchestra back in the 1960s. He has only gotten better and deeper. - Ari Davidow-Klezmer Shack

Old World/New World Klezmer with Hot Pastromi

Sunday, March 18, 2012
3:00pm until 5:00pm

As part of our 125th Anniversary celebrations, Yale Strom and his band Hot Pstromi will put a new spin on traditional klezmer music, updating Lower East Side sounds that were all the rage when the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue first opened.

$20 adults; $15 students and seniors
Co-sponsored by The Workmen's Circle - In Memory of George Schein
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002

“TWO VOICES, ONE VISION” CONCERT AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER

“TWO VOICES, ONE VISION” CONCERT AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ON MARCH 15 BLENDS CULTURAL SENSIBILITIES
Thursday March 15 at 7:30pm
at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, NYC

Two of Israel’s most popular singers -- Noa (Achinoam Nini), and Mira Awad,– blend Jewish and Arab musical sensibilities as a gesture of tolerance and understanding in an interesting cross-cultural musical collaboration on Thursday March 15 at 7:30pm at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. “Two Voices, One Vision,” A Concert of Coexistence, mirrors on stage the work on the ground of The Abraham Fund Initiatives in Israel. The New York and Jerusalem-based domestic advocacy group develops programs, public policies and societal models that promote the cause of a shared society between Israel’s Jewish and Arab citizens.

“Two Voices, One Vision,” weaves together folk-flavored contemporary music that reflects both Arab and Jewish sensibilities. The evening’s songs will be in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Performing with Noa and Mira will be some of Israel's leading instrumentalists, including the guitarist Gil Dor, Noa's long-time collaborator and music director.

Noa, from a Yemenite Jewish background, is one of Israel’s most prominent singing stars. The actress and singer Mira -- a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel -- stars on one of Israel’s most popular television shows (incidentally a comedy that tackles the thornier aspects of Jewish and Arab co-existence). Noa and Mira have appeared together on several occasions and have represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow in 2009, performing their song “There Must Be Another Way” for a huge, international television audience. In the fall they toured together in India to great acclaim.

Their collaborative, cross-cultural work is deeply personal and, in ways that Americans may not readily understand, a matter of serious personal and professional risk. (Threats are all too common.)

About their friendship, Mira has said, “there have been attempts to injure it and break it apart.” Noa has said, “despite the difficulties and the omnipresent pain forever threatening to engulf us, our resonance is so deep it often takes my breath away.”

The Abraham Fund Initiatives was founded in 1989. It has offices in New York, London and Jerusalem. Its international president is Ami Nahshon. Orni Petruschka and Howard Sohn serve as the Israeli and American co-chairs of the international board of directors.

Tickets from $75 to $250 are on sale through the Jazz at Lincoln Center box office, Broadway and 60th Street, 212/721-6500; www.jalc.org. For preferred patron tickets and post-concert reception information, please contact The Abraham Fund, at 212/661-7770, ext. 200, or e-mail info@abrahamfund.org

East Meets East Concert -- Ethiopian singer Alula

Forest Hills Jewish Center, March 18, 6 PM
Beta Israel Cultural Foundation Inc. & Baker Dan LLC Present:
Forest Hill Jewish Center
106-06 Queens Boulevard Flushing, NY 11375-4248
(718) 263-7000
www.fhjc.org/

ALULA, Ethiopian-born singer/songwriter
accompanied by ALICIA SVIGALS, Klezmer Violinist and Band
in
EAST MEETS EAST CONCERT (East Africa Meets Middle East Meets East Europe)

Building upon his remarkable personal history, Alula weaves an unforgettable musical journey connecting East African, Middle Eastern, and Eastern Europe musical traditions, creating a unique, moving and memorable musical message of connectedness among faiths, races, and cultures.

THE MUSICIANS

ALULA - Vocals, Guitar, Kirar, Keyboard, www.alulamusic.com
ALICIA SVIGALS -- Violin, www.aliciasvigals.com
MAC GOLLEHON -- Trumpet, Trombone, www.newbrasscollective.com
ROBERT AARON -- Tenor Saxophone, Flute, www.parisdjs.com/index.php/post/Robert-Aaron-Trouble-Man
EVAN MAZUNIK -- Keyboard, Vocals, www.evanmazunik.com
SAMSON KEBEDE - Bass, www.soundcloud.com/arkigroove
JOHN METTAM -- Drums, Percussion, www.johnmettam.com
JEMEL ALSTON -- Vocals, http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MGfbIFEx6eafpQav/

SUNDAY, MARCH 18h, 2012 at 6PM
FOREST HILLS JEWISH CENTER
106-06 Queens Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11375-4248
Doors Open at 5PM.
At the Door: $22
Online: $20
Order Online at www.bakerdan.com
Please bring your email confirmation
Senior Citizens and Children under 13: $15
For Beta Israel Cultural Foundation, Inc.: www.binacf.org
For EAST MEETS EAST Concert: www.bakerdan.com
For Inquiries: baker@bakerdan.com 917-913-5719 Click here to check out Alicia's band on Youtube! http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MD6bIFEx6eafpQav/ Find Alicia on Facebook: Alicia's Facebook Page http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maapznVab7MD7bIFEx6eafpQav/

The Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater

Miryem-Khaye Seigel, Librarian, Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library, presents
Broder Singers: Forerunners of the Yiddish Theater

Broder singers were the first Yiddish performers to present music and drama in a secular setting beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. This lecture will explore the Broder singers’ history, repertoire, and style, and their relationship to Yiddish theater.

JOSEPH KREMEN MEMORIAL LECTURE • MAX WEINREICH CENTER ACADEMIC LECTURE SERIES
Admission: Free
RSVP: www.yivo.org/reservations
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street - NYC

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs

Lullabies and Legacy: The World of Yiddish Children's Songs
Songs of the cradle and home life, kheyder and nature.
Tuesday, February 7 at 12:00pm
Tuesdays, February 7th - 28th from 12:00-1:30pm
Location: The Workmen's Circle
247 West 37th Street, New York, New York
For reservations call: 212-889-6800 x234
Or email: events@circle.org
http://www.circle.org/comeintothecircle.html

Leo Zeitlin music at JMF in NYC

The Jewish Music Forum of the American Society of Jewish Music will present rare evening event, on Thursday, February 9th at 7 PM. Because these evenings have been so popular, you will need to make reservations to attend (see information below).

The topic is "The Music of Leo Zeitlin," one of the composers of the St. Petersburg School from the early 20th Century. On this occasion the wonderful performers from YIVO's Sidney Krum Young Artis Series will provide live music examples to accompany the talk, which will be given by Professor Paula Eisenstein Baker, with Dr. Michael Steinlauf at respondent.

Joining the Krum Young Artists will be Cantors Robert Abelson, Maria Dubinsky, and Martha Novick. The evening session will be held at the YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC), and will be taped for later broadcast on the web.

The talk is free and open to the public, so you need to make a reservation for seats. Please call YIVO at 212-294-6127.
The Center for Jewish History / 15 West 16th Street / NYC 10011
Phone: 212.874-3990 / Fax: 212.874-8605

Ya'alili by 8th Day

A chassidic duo blends pop with some instrumental elements of Sephardi music in this New York video taking place in a grocery store. Co-founded by brothers Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus, the duo has released 3 albums. 8th Day's sound is complimented by their catchy lyrics (mostly English with some Hebrew and Yiddish mixed in) and their spirited vocal harmonies. The group will appear at the
Hofstra Playhouse
Motzei Shabbat, January 7 at 8pm.
at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.
118 Hofstra University, Hemstead, NY.
for tix: www.jewishtickets.com

This YouTube video has over a million hits.

The Klezmatics Present: An Evening of World Music

Monday, January 9, 2012
Time 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Where Highline Ballroom, 431 West 16th Street, New York, New York
Join the Klezmatics and their guests, the legendary Irish band Lúnasa and New York’s French swing ensemble Les Chauds Lapin, for an unforgettable evening of world music at NYC’s Highline Ballroom.

Sephardic Music Festival Dec 26 in NY

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

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

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

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

Sixth Street Synagogue Concert of Radical Jewish Culture

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

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

Anat Cohen at JCC in Manhattan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alijia Jo Rabins in NYC

Alicia and friends will be playing two trio shows with David Freeman on drums this month: one at a Parisian-style bar, one at a museum downtown. This Wednesday at Zebulon, a lovely little bar in Williamsburg, with our Montreal friends Flotilla--fantastic musicians.

Then on December 21, a special Chanukah performance at the Museum of Jewish Heritage at Battery Park City—a great one for those of you who live in Manhattan, prefer an earlier showtime, or are looking for something off the beaten path for the holidays this year...

WEDNESDAY 11/30 (two days from now!), Zebulon ( http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com ), Williamsburg we play 9 pm sharp, free! followed by Flotilla (beautiful not-to-be-missed rockers from Montreal)

WEDNESDAY 12/21, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park City, Manhattan ( https://support.mjhnyc.org/page.aspx?pid=440 ) 7 pm,$15/$12/$10 tickets here ( https://support.mjhnyc.org/page.aspx?pid=440 ) A seated performance at an early hour in honor of the first night of Chanukah!

Iron Curtain Musical Off-Broadway

Iron Curtain features a book by Susan DiLallo, music by Stephen Weiner and lyrics by Peter Mills. Nov. 5-27, at The Baruch Performing Arts Center.
This comedy features the story of two hapless Jewish songwriters who get captured by the KGB and have madcap adventures creating success in Russia. now, will they get their freedom back??.
Baruch College
East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue.
Tickets are $50, with premium seating available for $65.
To purchase tickets visit www.ProspectTheater.org
or call (212) 352-3101.
To read about the story of this musical:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/156232-Jenn-Gambatese-Todd-Alan-Johnson-Aaron-Ramey-Open-an-Iron-Curtain-Off-Broadway-Beginning-Nov-5

Yael Naim at City Winery

Oct. 29 and 30, 2011
Yael Naim: She Was A Boy Out
http://citywinery.com/events/201875
Tickets:
Bar Stools $25.00
Reserved Tables $28.00
Reserved Best Tables $32.00
VIP Tables $32.00

Their differing roots and their multiple passion for music unites them: YAEL NAIM releases a second, four-handed album together with DAVID DONATIEN, as a new collection of graceful songs.

After the worldwide success of the feel-good album, released in 2007, YAEL NAIM unveils her second album today « She Was a Boy ». Closeted in a Parisian apartment for two years, YAEL NAIM and DAVID DONATIEN perfected Yael’s songs in Hebrew and English, which culminated in a commercial and artistic success (Victoire de la Musique 2008, for the Album of the Year World Music category).

Following the use of the song « New Soul » in a promotional advert for Apple, it entered the Top Ten on the US sales chart. Since then however, the Parisian flat has been turned into a studio; more space, but the same passion to make an album at their own pace. Having made great use of these past three years by playing anywhere where there was even a slight echo of their music, and to taste the pleasures of the fringe (a tribute to Joni Mitchel, on the Beatle’s album “Let it Be”, a collaboration with the National Jazz Orchestra and a representation at the Pleyel concert hall), YAEL NAIM has given her all to this process that she herself qualifies as a particularly intimate way to create songs. At the same time, DAVID DONATIEN involved musicians such as Thomas Bloch, Lionel, Stéphane Belmondo and the pianist Éric Legini.

Furthermore, the French artist Tété was invited to the banquet table of sessions, alongside the “eternally- young” tender singer, Spleen , Jacques Daoud and Yoed Nir (cellist), as well as the usual friendly crew of musicians that regularly join them on stage.* YAEL offers us a mix of gentle as well as heartbreaking songs, crossed with those that don’t resemble theirs like for example the light tempo of “Come Home”, or of their dreams in “My Dreams” and their certainties, using the richness of Balkan chords as in “She Was A Boy”, in which Yael, still just a child, encounters a young woman who is not like the others and not of their opinion. “I Try Hard” uses a mix of the artist’s words and that of the woman. At times, the album transports us to the world of cinema, “My Dreams”, and its underwater chorus’ are worthy of an Esther Williams aquatic ballet and she doesn’t hesitate to dive into her innermost soul: it’s in a bluesy, lamenting fashion that “Never Change” presents not the most flattering of self portraits.

We salute the jolting parade of New Orleans orchestras in “Mystical Love” that Lee Dorsey himself would have been proud of. The coming together of India and the West, the melismatic singing in “Man From Another Woman”, which ends by smiling at the young woman (lost in translation and lost in love) in “The Game is Over”. Finally, on “Today” and “If I Lost the Best Thing”, Yael and David haven’t hesitated in accompanying their singing with a simple violin or solo guitar in order to better preserve the intimacy of the songs. Strength and fragility, a trek around the world (jazz, variety pop, classical), and a soul-searching journey of self, here the voices and melodies vibrate within the compositions of Yael, and so does the listener.

Similar artists: Sarah Bareilles, Regina Spektor, Feist...

Famous songs: Too long, New Soul, Toxic...

Bessarabian Tantshoyz

Thursday September 15, 7:00PM-10:00PM
Special Bessarabian Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party & Artist Interview
Featuring master clarinetist Isaac Sadigursky with Michael Alpert
Admission $10
Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Ave. in Manhattan by St. Mark's Place

EAST VILLAGE KLEZMER & YIDDISH CULTURE SERIES

East Village Klezmer & Yiddish Culture Series
Tuesdays at The Center for Jewish Arts and Literacy
325 E. 6th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.) NYC (6th St. Community Synagogue)
curated by Aaron Alexander
New Expanded format!

6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
7 - 7:50PM Yiddish Class, led by Dmitri Stiepovitch $20
8 - 9:15PM Concert (see schedule below) $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 - 11PM Klezmer Jam Sessions, led by concert artists, or, Margot Leverett, Pete Rushevsky, Aaron Alexander and others, with Yiddish dance instruction by Lisa Mayer and guests. $5 (free with Concert or Workshop) Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink)

*generous discounts available* for students, seniors and members of 6th St. Community Shul, Workmen?s Circle, CTMD, Klez Kamp and Klez Kanada attendees, and volunteers.
Questions? Contact: info@sixthstreetsynagogue.org

*Opening Night: Sept. 13 Jake Shulman-Ment Band*
Violinist Jake Shulman-Ment is among the leaders of a new generation of Klezmer and Eastern European folk music performers. His versatility as a violinist, composer, improvisor, teacher, and folk music researcher has established him as one of the world's leading practitioners of the klezmer violin. As a child in New York, Jake's immersion in Yiddish culture and the klezmer revival movement, as well as rock, jazz, and classical music, formed him into an eclectic musician with multiple influences at work simultaneously. In an effort to explore more deeply the roots of the Jewish music he grew up with, Jake has done extensive research and study with Roma musicians in Romania and Hungary. He has synthesized his experiences and travels into an original sound, sometimes departing quite far into a realm of experimentation, but always remaining true to his deep roots in traditional Jewish music.
Band:
Jake Shulman-Ment: violin, vocals
Benjy Fox-Rosen: bass, vocals
Ben Holmes: trumpet
Art Bailey: accordion
Pete Rushefsky: tsimbl


*Upcoming Concert Schedule:* *Sept. 20 Alicia Svigals Trio
Sept. 27 Adrienne Cooper Ensemble
Oct. 4 Lisa Gutkin w/Pete Rushevsky and Remy Yulzari
Oct. 11 Joel Rubin & Pete Rushevsky
Oct. 18 Sukkos Party with Litvakus, feat.Dmitri Slepovitch
Oct. 25 Jim Guttman Bessarabian Breakdown
Nov. 1 Lisa & Sruli's Family Band
Nov. 8 Eve Sicular, Isle of Klezbos
Nov. 15 Klezmerfest
Nov. 22 Pete Sokolow
Nov. 29 Matt Darriau's Shabbes Elevator
Dec. 6 Michael Winograd Trio
Dec. 13 Joanne Borts
Dec. 20 - Khanike Party with Yale Strom's Hot Pastromi & Aaron Alexander?s Midrash Mish Mosh

Volunteers Needed! please email a@aaronalexander.com

Metropolitan Klezmer at City Winery

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER plays City Winery KLEZMER BRUNCH
Sunday, September 18
155 Varick Street, btw Vandam & Spring
West Soho, NYC 10013
212-608-0555
http://citywinery.com/events/186078
City Winery begins brunch seating at 10am.
Live music onstage 11am-2pm.
Full menu & winelist (no minimum order).
Tickets $10, kids under 13 enter free!

Hy Wolfe: An Evening of Songs and Stories

MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2011
6:30PM CONCERT at YIVO

YIVO presents Hy Wolfe in a concert performance, accompanied by Herbert Kaplan at the piano. New York stage actor and singer Hy Wolfe returns to our stage with a show featuring Yiddish theater and folk songs and stories.

Wolfe worked with, and learned from, many of the brightest stars of the Yiddish theater, and is a living link with a glorious tradition. The show includes a tribute to the late Shifra Lerer, the last of the greats from the classical period of the Yiddish theater.

This is an opportunity to spend a delightful evening with one of the most entertaining performers on the stage today. With English translations throughout the program, this evening will be a pleasure for Yiddish speakers and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Admission: $10 general, $7 YIVO members
Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com
Venue: YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street - NYC

Hy Wolfe is the artistic director of the Yiddish National Theatre and the director of CYCO (Central Yiddish Culture Organization). His first language is Yiddish; he acts with equal ease in English and Yiddish. Mr. Wolfe has performed on stage, screen, and television.

Herbert Kaplan toured for nearly 10 years with his brother as a two piano team, then attended Yale University School of Music and the Vienna Akademie. He has been the music director and/or arranger of countless musicals and the composer of four.

Breslov Bar Band "Have No Fear" Anniversary Concert

Breslov Bar Band "Have No Fear" anniversary concert @ Drom NYC
with Egypt 2000
Time: Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm
Location: Drom
85 Avenue A (bet 5th & 6th streets), New York, NY
The $10 cover includes a copy of "Have No Fear".

The Breslov Bar Band plays Traditional Eastern European Hasidic music reimagined, ranging from melancholy midnight meditations to full-throttle ecstatic dance.
Doors open at 7. Egypt 2000 at 8. Breslov Bar Band at 9.
What people are saying about "Have No Fear":

“This CD is the happy answer to the question, ‘Five Breslovers walked into a bar...’ This is a fun, fun CD.” -- Ari Davidow, Klezmer Shack

“Judging by this debut album, a formidable new band... The arrangements and interpretations lean towards funk and a very contemporary idiom, without ever losing the spiritual undertones and overtones of the Breslov material... The album is totally consistent and compelling, with not a weak track anywhere." -- Rainlore's World of Music

“There’s a remarkable range of music in this set, from meditative pieces like ‘Adir Ayom,’ to the full throttle rock ‘n’ roll religious devotion expressed in ‘Ani Ohev Et HKB’H,’ to the reggae of ‘Mi Yiten’...” -- Ottawa Jewish Bulletin

“The Breslov Bar Band is a perfect fusion of these two spheres — traditional Hasidic music on the one hand, and a thoroughly contemporary sensibility on the other... While the band moves between styles from song to song, the overall aesthetic is one of intelligent and energetic rock music, only with Jewish musical modalities rather than Blues as its foundation.” -- Ezra Glinter, The Arty Semite

“One issue we may face today, though is how to access the sounds of the Jewish people’s past... Without our musical heritage contributing to those of our generation who are currently producing musical output, we risk severing today’s Jews from works of the past. Fortunately, there’s groups like the Breslov Bar Band...giving new voices to old melodies.” -- Gideon Klionsky, Kfar Jewish Arts Center

Workmen's Circle Yiddishfest Today!

Sunday, July 31 · 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Madison Ave and 48th Street, Manhattan
Celebrate Yiddish this summer!
4 exciting free concerts in NYC & Westchester!

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Klezmer Brunch - Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys 8/7 at City Windery Brunch

10:00am Seating / 11:00am Show

Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on our brunch menu on Sunday mornings from 10am to 2pm. **Please note that the live music is played from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a short break in the middle.

Tickets are just $10 to cover for live music and does not include food or drink. Children 13 and under are free for the music. We have a full brunch menu available upon request.

On select weekends we welcome Rabbi Dan Ain from The New Shul to lead thoughtful discussion on theology, spirituality and the movements of the cosmos. The Rebbe's table to open to all to attend.

ABOUT MARGOT LEVERETT

Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered. The resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, soulful and footstomping.

http://www.klezmermountainboys.com/

Hazmat Modine at Summernights

Thursday, August 4, 7:30 pm Concert-- SUMMERNIGHTS: HAZMAT MODINE Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the early 60s, blending early blues, hokum, jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R&B, and Jamaican rocksteady.

Tickets: $15 general public; $12 students/over 65; $10 Jewish Museum members

The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue
at 92nd Street, New York, NY 10128
(212) 423-3200
Open Mon-Tue,Fri,Sun 11am-5:30pm; Thu 11am-8pm
Subway: 96 St
INFORMATION HOTLINE:
To reach the Museum's offices, call: 212.423.3200.
ONLINE INFORMATION:
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

Jewish Museum Media Center Exhibitions for Radio & TV, Music

THE BARBARA AND E. ROBERT GOODKIND MEDIA CENTER The Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Centerhttp://www.thejewishmuseum.org/mediacenter features an exhibition space dedicated to video art and new media, and houses a digital library of 100 radio and television programs from The Jewish Museum's National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB). Selections include such comedy favorites as "How to Be a Jewish Son," a panel discussion from a 1970 David Susskind Show featuring Mel Brooks; a 1947 radio drama entitled "Operation Nightmare" starring John Garfield and Al Jolson, produced by the United Jewish Appeal to call attention to displaced persons in postwar Europe; contemporary television documentaries on black-Jewish relations, Latino Jews, and klezmer music; interviews with artists such as Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Larry Rivers, George Segal and Ben Shahn; and Manischewitz wine commercials produced between 1963 and 1981 featuring Sammy Davis, Jr. and Peter Lawford.

Episodes of such classic and contemporary television series such as Bridget Loves Bernie, Northern Exposure, The O.C., Seventh Heaven and Sports Night, as well as clips from The Colbert Report, feature interpretations of Jewish life-cycle events and holidays.

A selection of musical performances includes a Hanukkah-themed video from the Latino-Jewish urban band Hip Hop Hoodios, an appearance by the Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu on The Late Show with David Letterman, a radio broadcast of liturgy composed by modern Zionist composer Marc Lavry, and a documentary on contemporary music featuring Frank London of The Klezmatics, Debbie Friedman, and Pharaoh's Daughter.

S o u n d i n g W o r d at Baruch College Performing Arts Center

S o u n d i n g W o r d at Baruch College Performing Arts Center Tickets are $20 online and $25 at the door. Tickets for seniors and students are $18 online and $20 at the theater door. For tickets reservation call (866) 811 4111 or buy on line at www.teatroiati.org/program​s/pam

P E R F O R M I N G A R T S M A R A T H O N 2 0 1 1
Featuring:
S o u n d i n g W o r d: A powerhouse 2-day double bill of multi-media music engagement with performances of Avant-Folk & Contemporary Jazz by Sabrina Lastman & Sasha Bogdanowitsch.

Baruch Performing Arts Center
July, Saturday 30 - 10 pm
July, Sunday 31 - 3 pm

S o u n d i n g W o r d, a beautiful temporal and timeless storytelling of original compositions with voice, original instruments, walkmans, electronics and video, highlights two original performances:

River of Painted Birds by Sabrina Lastman is a musical performance created for solo voice, walkmans, electronics and video, combining composed sections and free improvisation. This piece is inspired by the poetry and texts of former political prisoners that wrote as a response to the repression, both during and after the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985). River of Painted Birds was commissioned by NYSCA and premiered in 2010. This presentation at PAM will be a renewed version of the piece. Texts by Mauricio Resencof, Edda Fabbri, Henry Engler, and Adolfo Wasem. Visuals by Helen Dennis. Linux Audio Programming by Marcos Wasem. www.sabrina-lastman.com

Present, Past and Future Sees by Sasha Bogdanowitsch is an original solo multi-media work for voice, original instruments and electronics that explores the ancient vocal and instrument relationship of the bard through contemporary ears. This work utilizes various extended vocal techniques and text from a variety of poets alongside the composer’s unique language of sounds to dive deep into what the present, past and future holds. Present, Past and Future Sees was premiered in 2010. This presentation at PAM will be a renewed version of the work. www.sashabmusic.com

For more information: www.iatitheater.org
http://youtu.be/WmIxF-FwEK​4
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Klezmatics at HighLine Ballroom NYC

The Klezmatics

Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 8:00 PM EDT (6:00 PM Doors)
HighLine Ballroom,
431 W. 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
http://www.highlineballroom.com/

SUMMERNIGHTS Series at Jewish Museum

Thursday Nights are SUMMERNIGHTS at The Jewish Museum
The William Petschek Family Music Program
Tix: www.thejewishmuseum.org/SummerNights or call 212.423.3337

SummerNights 2011 is the 14th annual summer concert series featuring live music and great art. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm in the Museum's Scheuer Auditorium. Seating is general admission.

Tickets: Members $10; General $15; and Students/Seniors (65+) $12
Slavic Soul Party! - Thursday, July 21
Brash and strong as slivovitz, these musicians forge virtuoso brass band music melding Balkan and Gypsy sounds with American jazz and soul.

Michael Winograd Trio - Thursday, July 28
This ensemble offers a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions.

The Michael Winograd Trio will be performing on Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 pm as part of The Jewish Museum's popular SummerNights concert series. The ensemble - clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell, and trombonist Daniel Blacksberg - presents a fresh approach to klezmer music that blends traditional Yiddish songs with new compositions. Winograd has performed at such international festivals as KlezKamp, KlezKanada, the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, the Klezmer Workshop in Paris, the Winnipeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, and the Dawson City Music Festival, and has been called "one of the truly great new bandleader-composers on the New York City klezmer scene (The Forward)."

Hazmat Modine - Thursday, August 4
Hazmat Modine draws from American music of the 1920s and 30s through the 50s and early 60s, blending elements of early blues, hokum jugband, swing, klezmer, New Orleans R & B and Jamaican rocksteady.

The Jewish Museum is located on 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, in Manhattan.

Hampton Synagogue Hosts National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

6TH ANNUAL LABOR DAY WEEKEND CONCERT WITH THE NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE-FOLKSBIENE
Saturday, September 3, 9:00pm ~ Berman Sanctuary
Followed by dessert reception in the Edelstein Hall of the Kaylie Center
The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene presents “Rising Stars of the Yiddish Stage” Committed to finding new ways of bringing this rich cultural heritage to life for new generations, the Folksbiene presents an electrifying concert starring some of the hottest young talent performing new songs and new interpretations of the classics.

Dani Marcus | Nimmy Weisbrod | Rachel Yucht | Daniella Rabbani | Avram Mlotek | Dmitri “Zisl-Yeysef” Slepovitch | Shane Baker

Musical Direction: Zalmen Mlotek
An internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music, Zalmen Mlotek is the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene. Mlotek brought Yiddish-Klezmer music to Broadway and Off-Broadway stages as co-creator of Those Were the Days, the first bilingual musical

www.folksbiene.org | Subtitled in English | RSVP: 631.288.0534 ext.10 or online @ www.thehamptonsynagogue.org

The Hampton Synagogue
154 Sunset Avenue
Westhampton Beach, NY 11978

The Jewish Women of Rebetika

Monday, June 20, 2011
7pm
Legendary Greek Jewish Singers of the '20s. '30s, & '40s
Songs and Personal Histories of
Roza Eskenazi, Amalia Baka, Stella Haskil, and Victoria Hazan
featuring:
Carol Freeman - Vocals
Beth Bahia Cohen - Violin
Haig Manoukian - Oud

LOCATION: The JCC of Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St.
New York City
Information: 646-505-5708
www.jccmanhattan.org/multicultural
Admission $20, $15 members

Within the provocative world of the early twentieth century urban Greek Cafe Amans and Rebetika Houses, where flamboyant characters sang about desperate love, life, and death, and the seedy side of life, there were a surprising number of celebrated Greek Jewish female vocalists. Included among them were Roza Eskenazi, one of the most renowned Greek singers of all time, and Stella Haskil, who performed with the most famous musicians and composers of the time. On this side of the Atlantic, Jewish women, notably Amalia Baka and Victoria Hazan, found center stage in the immigrant Greek nightclubs and community centers of major urban centers, as well as within the American ethnic recording industry.

Although remarkably celebrated for their musical contributions to urban Greek cafe music and Rebetika, their life stories as Jewish women are not widely known. Using live performance and excepts from personal and family interviews, acclaimed vocalist Carol Freeman, together with virtuoso musicians Haig Manoukian and Beth Bahia Cohen, pay tribute to these Greek Jewish singers with a fascinating look into the songs and lives of these extraordinary women.

Information: 646-505-5708
www.jccmanhattan.org/multicultural
Admission $20, $15 members

Traveling the Yiddishland - A Musical Story

Traveling the Yiddishland - A Musical Story by Dmitri 'Zisl' Slepovitch

NEW YORK PREMIERE!
"Traveling the Yiddishland" by Dmitri Slepovitch presented by the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene – is a musical/ multimedia journey across the routes of the Yiddish song's history in the 20th century Eastern Europe– brought to the modern audiences through the original videos, live singing, playing, and DJ-ing.

The program is based on the Yiddish song, traditional and original Litvak klezmer tunes, documentary footage, and storytelling. But most importantly, it is a multi-vectored dialog that creates a link to the rich traditional heritage.

Monday, June 13 at 7:00pm
Location:
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Ave. at East 25th St.
New York, NY

General admission: $20
For tickets, call 646-312-5073 or 866-811-4111.
Or buy tickets online:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=684
“Traveling the Yiddishland” is a show that is culturally relevant for all audiences, regardless of their background and identities. This visual musical show brings you to hear the songs that are the heartbeat of the living, not the dead. It exposes you to the warmth of the Yiddish word in the land of our hearts, Yiddishland.

The show features an internationally acclaimed composer, oboist, and DJ Damian Marhulets (Hannover, Germany).
General admission: $20
For tickets, call 646-312-5073 or 866-811-4111.
Or buy tickets online:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac/calendar/event.php?id=684
Tickets will be also available at the door (if there are any left, so take this chance to get yours rather sooner than later).

Ditmas Acoustic Presents: Dina Maccabee & Myk Freedman

Ditmas Acoustic Presents: Dina Maccabee & Myk Freedman
Start Time: Sunday, June 5 at 7:00pm
End Time: Sunday, June 5 at 10:00pm
Dina Maccabee (San Fransisco)
http://www.myspace.com/dinamaccabee

Myk Freedman (Brooklyn)
http://www.myspace.com/mykfreedman

The Sanctuary at Temple Beth Emeth
83 Marlborough Road, Brooklyn, NY 11226 (@ Church Ave)
Subway: Q train to Church Ave.
$10

Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival

Remember Radical? Here's a Reminder
A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, curated by Rashanim's Jon Madof.
Monday, May 23 at 9:00pm - May 24 at 12:30am
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 East 6th St.
New York, NY

More Info
Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival @ 6th Street Synagogue

A celebration of avant-garde and experimental Jewish music, curated by Rashanim's Jon Madof.

Schedule:
Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band - 5/23
Rashanim Unplugged - 5/25
Hasidic New Wave - 6/1
Frank London - 6/15
Masada Guitars (Yoshie Fruchter, Eyal Maoz, Jon Madof) + Edom - 6/22
Basya Schechter's Songs of Wonder (poetry of Abraham Joshua Heschel) - 6/29

all concerts @ 9:30 PM except 5/23 @ 9:00 PM
admission $18, includes one drink

more at http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/

Links:
Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band - http://bit.ly/iIJ4Hh
Rashanim - http://rashanim.com/
Hasidic New Wave - http://gregwall.com/
Frank London - http://franklondon.com/
Edom - http://www.eyalmaozmusic.com/
Basya Schechter - http://www.pharaohsdaughter.com/
Tzadik Records - http://tzadik.com/

Meron Music Festival

Event: Meron Music Festival @ Sixth Street Synagogue
Start Time: Tuesday, May 24 at 8:30pm

Location: Sixth Street Synagogue/Max Raiskin Center for the Arts 325 E. Sixth Street, NYC (Between 1st Avenue & 2nd Avenue)

Meron Music Festival @ Sixth Street Synagogue w/ the Breslov Bar Band, Aaron Alexander's "Meron Mish Mosh" & Joey Weisenberg

Cover: $15 includes your choice of a beer or glass of wine.
"Its two days after Lag Ba'Omer, and the bands will each explore some of the traditional Meron Lag Ba'omer melodies. We'll also be playing some of our favorite Breslov tunes and we're bringing some new tunes for this show! (Actually, they are old tunes, but we haven't played 'em before in public.) It's also Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday! Can we play a Breslov Dylan tune? "

SAINTS AND TZADIKS in Brooklyn

SAINTS AND TZADIKS
Sunday, May 22 at 7pm
at BARBES
376 Ninth Street (at Sixth Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
347-422-0248
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg's acclaimed concert of rare songs drawn from the Irish and Yiddish traditions returns to Park Slope?s intimate performance space, hot off their recent tour of Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France. With guitarist Aidan Brennan.

Opera at the Synagogue Choir of Rome's Tempio Maggiore for the first time in New York

Centro Primo Levi and the Museum of Jewish Heritage host Divinamente NYC Festival on the 150th Anniversary of the unification of Italy.

Sunday, May 22 at 2:30 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
Admission: $15 and $10 for MJH, CPL, ICI members
Box Office: (646) 437- 4202 - www.mjhnyc.org


Welcome remarks by the Consul General of Italy Francesco M. Talò and the Representative for International Affairs of the Jewish Community of Rome Giacomo Moscati. Introduction by Francesco Spagnolo, Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

For the first time in the US, the Choir of the "Tempio Maggiore" conducted by the renowned tenor Claudio Disegni and featuring the hazan of Rome, Alberto Funaro, and organist Federico del Sordo, will expose the New York public to the unique flavors and variations of the liturgical tradition of the Jews of Rome.

The concert will open with Giuseppe Verdi's "Và Pensiero," the Hebrew Chorus from Nabucco. This magnificent choral work, which has become a symbol of the unification of Italy, recalls the story of the Babylonian exile after the destruction of the First Temple. The program will celebrate unique examples of late 19th century compositions from the Jewish communities in Florence, Livorno and Rome as well as a 1920 version of Hatikvà by Armando Sorani based on the 17th Century ballade La Mantovana.

http://www.primolevicenter.org/Programs/Entries/2011/5/22_May_22___Divinamente_NYC_Festival_at_the_Museum_of_Jewish_Heritage_The_Choir_of_Romes_Tempio_Maggiore.html

Gerard Cohen SEED at Symphony Space Opera in Eden

The premiere of Gerald Cohen's new one-act opera, SEED, written with the superb librettist David Simpatico, will be on Thursday June 2, at 7 p.m. at Symphony Space in NYC. It will be presented along with three other one-act operas by Cohen's colleagues in American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program, where he has been a resident artist for the past year.

Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
(212) 864-5400
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 Day of Performance
SEED will be sung by three outstanding performers: mezzo Sarah Heltzel, tenor Glenn Seven Allen, and baritone Christopher Burchett.

Information and tickets about the event at Symphony Space website under "Opera in Eden". http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6583-opera-in-eden Advance purchase is strongly recommended, as the hall is small and these events have sold out in previous years.

SEED is a (surprisingly hopeful!) post-apocalyptic take on the Adam and Eve story:

The time: 100 hundred years after the end of the great nuclear Holy War.
The place: the Doomsday Botanical Seed Vault, underground repository of the world's organic vegetation and crop seed samples.
The story: The Elixir of God is meant to be opened only by the Chosen One, to save mankind and restore man's potency, ensuring propagation and repopulation of the planet.
But the Chosen One has not come, and the race is condemned to die out with the last man and woman, Adam and Evangeline – until they hear a voice crackling out of the wilderness...

Klezmer Concert Features Music of Dave Tarras

Yale Strom, one of the leading artists of klezmer culture, will perform the music of the "Benny Goodman of Klezmer", Dave Tarras - many of these Tarras' melodies have never been published or recorded before now.
Thursday, May 5 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!!!
Dweck Center, Brooklyn Public Library
1 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY

Hot Pstromi clarinet virtuoso NORBERT STACHEL (Pink Floyd, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Ross, Roy Hargrove, Tower of Power, Boz Scaggs, Sheila E and many other world-class bands) will bring new exciting artistic interpretation to Tarras's tunes.

Strom will also discuss his new book, Dave Tarras:The King of Klezmer (Or-Tav), a Tarras-family authorized biography. Tarras is considered the most influential klezmer musician of the twentieth century. Even the great be-bop artists Charlie Parker and Miles Davis traveled to the Catskills to study the technique of this complex and compelling virtuoso. The book includes never-before published photos, music and biographical details.

Concert lineup: Norbert Stachel - reeds, Peter Stan - accordion, Sprocket - bass, David Licht percussion and Yale Strom - violin.

1 Grand Army Plz # 1
Brooklyn, NY 11238-5681
(718) 230-2100
Subway: Eastern Pkwy - Brooklyn Museum

Love, Loss, Laughter Yiddish Concert

The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus presents a Yiddish Song concert,
Sunday, June 5, 2011
4:30 PM
at Peter Norton Symphony Space
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY
Benyumin Schaechter, conductor
Tickets A$30/$20. Groups over 10 Discounts available. Contact: symphonyspace.org or
Call: 212-864-5400

Triangle Fire Remembered

the culminating centennial event — An evening of music, spoken word poetry, and solidarity in commemoration of the 146 victims will be held in New York City. The event is free but you must have a ticket for admission. Get your tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/164102

You’ll get to hear Metropolitan Klezmer performing klezmer music written about the tragedy, uncovered 100 years later. Spoken word poetry from youthful voices from the New York City area. Clara Lemlich’s historical speech from the very stage where the Uprising of the 20,000 began. Solidarity Forever by the NYC Labor Chorus. Irish folk rock from Larry Kirwan of Black 47. Worker testimonials from Bangladesh, Egypt, and West Virginia.

The event takes place in the evening following the annual memorial commemoration at the site of the fire. The list of performers and speakers include:
Brian Jones (MC)
Mary Anne Trasciatti (Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition)
Metropolitan Klezmer
Alessandra Belloni and Daughters of Cybele
Gioia Timpanelli (storyteller)
DreamYard (NYC youth poets)
LuLu LoLo (portraying Rose Schneiderman)
Caitlin Belforti (portraying Clara Lemlich)
Larry Kirwan of Black 47
New York Labor Chorus
Kalpona Akter (Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity)
Cecil Roberts (Mine Workers)
Chaumtoli Huq (Taxi Drivers)
Ai Jen Poo (Domestic Workers Union)
Jibari Hill (Catfish Farm Workers)
Annelise Orleck (Labor and Working Class History Association)

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The sponsors of the evening:
The Cooper Union
The Education and Labor Collaborative
The Labor and Working Class History Association
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition
The Sparkplug Foundation

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
(WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETED)

Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry and Spirituality

With ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck, and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila
part of The NEXT New York Conversation

Join Leonard Lopate, ethnomusicologist and bandleader Samuel R. Thomas and voices from within the Brooklyn Sephardic community for Performing Piyyutim: Sephardic Music, Poetry, and Spirituality, an exploration of Sephardic sacred poems through live musical performance and conversation. The event is presented as part of The NEXT New York Conversation series.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
at 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Tickets: $20
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Today in Brooklyn, where disparate Jewish groups from the Middle East are engaging one another in an unprecedented way, the piyyut – the Hebrew term for a sacred poem – serves as an expression of a specific type of Jewish identity. Spanning five centuries since the expulsion from Spain in 1492, these piyyutim express unique conceptions of the relationship between humanity and the Divine and serve as the backbone of the quasi-classical musical traditions of different Sephardic immigrant groups who now call New York home.

Following an introductory discussion, Thomas, accompanied by his ensemble Asefa and other traditional musicians, will present a lively musical performance of Sephardic piyyutim. Intertwining musical performance with discussion, Syrian Rabbi Joseph Dweck and Moroccan Rabbi Gad Bouskila will illuminate how the intersection of Kabbalistic and Sufist thought in Sephardic cultural history inspired piyyutim.

Panelists:
Samuel R. Thomas
Rabbi Gad Bouskila
Rabbi Joseph Dweck

Musicians:
Victor Esses, oud
Rachid Halihal, violin
Rabbi Avraham Amar, vocals
Shemtob Levi, vocals
Rabbi Mihael Kakon, vocals

JMF Presents "Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music Archive in Mandatory Palestine"

The next event of The Jewish Music Forum 2010-2011 Season will be
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011
at Center for Jewish History, New York, NY,
Dr. Ruth Davis will present a lecture
entitled "Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music Archive in Mandatory Palestine."
The Jewish Music Forum, now in its seventh season, is a project of The American Society for Jewish Music, with support from The American Jewish Historical Society.
Please visit our website at www.jewishmusicforum.org.

Event details are as follows:

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
4:00 P.M.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Chapel

All events are FREE and open to the public.
"Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music Archive in Mandatory Palestine" Dr. Ruth Davis, Institute of Sacred Music Fellow in Sacred Music, Worship, and the Arts, Yale University, 2010-11.

"Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music Archive in Mandatory Palestine" In 1935, the German Jewish ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann arrived in Jerusalem to establish an Archive of Oriental Music in the newly founded Hebrew University. Over the following three years he made nearly 1000 recordings on metal disc documenting sacred and secular musical traditions of the various 'oriental' communities (including Samaritans, Jews, Christians and Muslims) living in and around the city. In strife-ridden 1930s Palestine, the inclusiveness of Lachmann's vision appealed to the pacifistic stance of the University's Chancellor, the Californian-born Rabbi Judah L. Magnes who, like several other prominent members of the University, promoted the ideology of Cultural Zionism, which derived its core values from Jewish ethical teachings. Adopting a complementary rhetoric, Lachmann insisted that his work could help promote better understanding between Europeans and their 'Oriental neighbors' and between Jews and Arabs. In this respect, his work foreshadows present day attempts, in the Middle East and elsewhere, to foster intercultural understanding through music.

Among Lachmann's numerous outreach activities was a series of twelve radio programs entitled 'Oriental Music', broadcast by the Palestine Broadcasting Service between 1936 and 1937. The programs were illustrated by live performances by local musicians and singers simultaneously recorded onto metal disc. In this presentation I consider how the theoretical premises underlying Lachmann's research, rooted in the traditions of comparative musicology, complemented his ideological stance. I will illustrate my talk with examples of the digitally restored music recordings.

Ruth Davis publishes, teaches and broadcasts on the music of North Africa, the Middle East and the wider Mediterranean with principle research areas in mainland Tunisia, the island of Jerba, Israel and Mandatory Palestine. She studied piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music and took a BMus degree at King's College London, followed by graduate studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam and in Music and Middle Eastern Studies at Princeton University where she received her PhD in 1986. Her book Ma'luf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian music of Tunisia was published by the Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD) in 2004. Her recent publications include 'Ethnomusicology and Political Ideology in Mandatory Palestine: Robert Lachmann's "Oriental Music" Projects', Music and Politics 4, 2 (2010); 'Time, Place and Memory: Music for a North African Jewish Pilgrimage' in E. Levi and F. Scheding eds., Music and (Dis)placement, Scarecrow Press (2010); and 'Jews, Women, and the Power to be Heard: Charting the Early Tunisian Ughniyya to the Present Day', in L. Nooshin, ed., Music and the Play of Power in North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, Ashgate (2009). In 2010 she was a Rockefeller Foundation scholar in residence at the Bellagio Center, Italy, and she is spending the 2010-11 academic year as a Fellow of the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, where she is working on the project 'Music at the Mediterranean Crossroads of the Abrahamic Faiths'. She is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

The Jewish Music Forum is an organization devoted to the study of music in Jewish life in all of its historical and contemporary diversity. Founded in the fall of 2004 under the auspices of the American Society for Jewish Music, with the support of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History, the Jewish Music Forum seeks to provide a thriving habitat for interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarly exchange in the growing academic field of Jewish musical studies as well as a critical intellectual resource for specialists across a spectrum that includes cantors, composers, performers, students, educators, artistic directors, journalists, and others from the fields of musicology, anthropology, literature, Jewish studies, and American studies. By linking together members of these communities, the Forum serves as an academic professional network and intellectual resource for all who are interested in the role of music in Jewish life.

Yiddish Repertoire Featured in Two Unusual Recitals at Symphony Space:

“Di Sheyne Milnerin” (Feb. 14th) and “A Yiddish Winterreise” (Feb. 16th)

Acclaimed bass-baritone Mark Glanville and Pianist Alexander Knapp will give two unusual programs at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space in February featuring the Yiddish song repertoire.
Tickets $25; Members, Students, Seniors $20; Day of Show $30

On Monday, February 14th at 7:30 PM the duo will perform the United States premiere of ‘Di Sheyne Milnerin’ (‘Die Schöne Müllerin’) is a specially devised cycle of songs from the Yiddish repertoire, only the second time a collection of Yiddish song has been forged into a cycle with a coherent dramatic trajectory.

Monday, February 14th, 7.30 p.m.
“Di Sheyne Milnerin (A Yiddish “Die Schöne Müllerin”)
USA Première
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway New York, NY 10025 (212) 864-5400 http://maps.google.com/maps/place?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=Symphony+Space+NYC&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Symphony+Space&hnear=New+York,+NY&cid=14104568892703723774&z=14 New York City

Wednesday, February 16th, 7.30 p.m.
“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
New York Première
Symphony Space
New York City

Sunday, February 20th, 3.00 p.m.
“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
Chicago Première, under auspices of Sunday Salon Series
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago
Yiddish Repertoire Featured in Two Unusual Recitals at Symphony Space:

In some instances arrangements and compositions by important Jewish musicians and composers of the past such as Janot Roskin and Lazar Weiner, have been used, but their intention is always to extend and enhance that great tradition, so keeping it alive and vibrant. Eight of the songs in ‘Di Sheyne Milnerin’ are given in completely new, original arrangements by the eminent Jewish musicologist and pianist, Alexander Knapp and one of the songs, ‘ Himen’, a setting of the eponymous Abraham Sutzkever poem, is an entirely original composition by Alexander Knapp. It serves, among other things, as our tribute to the great Yiddish poet in the year of his death. On Wednesday, February 16th, also at 7:30 PM, a stark contrast to the first recital s a Holocaust-focused program, “A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World.”

This program allows the duo to explore and reveal different aspects of the Yiddish tradition. As in Schubert’s original, ‘Die Schöne Müllerin’ (the beautiful miller girl) from which it takes its name, it tells a story of unrequited love. Our Jewish hero, though also a miller, is an older man with more than a little of Don Quixote about him, prone to tip at his own windmills and women who fit his idealized notion of love. Does he ever actually make contact with Reyzele, the object of his affection, or does he commune with her only in his dreams? Whatever the case, his sense of pain at being rejected in favor of the thief (replacing the hunter of the original cycle) who has stolen her from him is the same.

For this English due, both recitals are part of an American tour that beginning at the at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC the previous week.

Mark Glanville bass baritone
Mark Glanville read Classics and Philosophy at Oxford University before winning a scholarship to study singing at the RNCM and the National Opera Studio, going on to make his debut with Opera North. Roles for that company include The King of Clubs (Love for Three Oranges), the King (Aida), Nourabad (Pearl Fishers) and Father (The Jewel Box). For Scottish Opera he has sung Commendatore (Don Giovanni), for Lisbon Opera, New Israeli Opera and Opera Zuid The King of Clubs, and for Opera Omaha Ferrando (Il Trovatore.) On the concert platform he has performed as bass soloist with Lord Menuhin, Daniele Gatti, Pascal Tortelier, Sir David Willcocks and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Recordings include A Yiddish Winterreise, Donizetti’s L’Assedio di Calais and Anna Bolena and Schubert Mass in G. His memoir The Goldberg Variations was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature and the National Sporting Club Award.

Alexander Knapp piano
Alex Knapp graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge, with MA, MusB, and PhD degrees in music, and he has also been awarded ARCM, LRAM and HonARAM diplomas. Over a period of more than 40 years, he has published and lectured on the subject of Jewish music in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Greece, Israel, USA, Russia, Eastern Siberia and China. As well as composing, arranging, conducting, broadcasting, and performing as pianist in the UK, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Russia and USA, Alex Knapp has been involved as consultant and accompanist to cantors and choirs on several commercial recordings of Jewish music. His set of Four Sephardi Songs (arranged for voice and piano) was published in New York in 1992, and his Elegy for String Orchestra in Jerusalem in 1997. In 1998, his anthology of essays on Jewish music was brought out in Chinese by the Music Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts in Beijing under the title Youtai Yinyue Lunwenji. Among numerous other articles, he has contributed entries on aspects of Jewish music to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition). He has been appointed to academic and administrative posts at Wolfson College, Cambridge; at London’s Goldsmiths' College, Royal College of Music, City University; and most recently (1999-2006) to the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music at SOAS

***** ‘Di Sheyne Milnerin’ – A Yiddish ‘Die Schöne Müllerin’

Devised and performed by Mark Glanville (Bass-Baritone) with
original arrangements and composition by Alexander Knapp (Piano)
1. Dem Milners Trern - (words and music by M Warschawsky, arr. J Roskin)
2. Reyzele – (words and music by M Gebirtig, arr. S Secunda)
3. Du shaynst vi di Zun – (words by I Lillian, music by I Trilling)
4. Der Nayer Sher - (traditional)
5. Dodi li – (words from the "Song of Songs", music by N Chen, arr. A Knapp)
6. Tumba – (traditional, arr. A Knapp)
7. Klip-klap (traditional, arr. Janot Roskin)
8. Bistu mit mir Broygez - (O Ben-Amots, arr. A Knapp)
9. Nokh der Arbet - (‘Am Feierabend’ from Die Schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert, words by Wilhelm Muller, translated into Yiddish by Heather Valencia)
10. Shma Yisroel – (words by B Thomashefsky, music by JM Rumshinsky, arr. P Henning)
11. Himen – (words by A Sutzkever, music composed by A Knapp)
12. A Sheyn Lid hob ikh Gezungen - (traditional arr. J Roskin)
13. Dem Gonefs Yikhes - (traditional, arr. A Knapp)
14. Tsvey Taybelekh - (Y L Cahan/L Levitsky, arr. A Knapp)
15 Vu iz dos Gesele - (Y L Cahan, arr. A Knapp)
16. A Gebet - (words by J Rolnik, music by L Weiner)
17. Ikh hob dikh tsu fil lib – (words by C Tauber, music by A Olshanestsky)
18. Ongenumen zikh mit Tsores – (words by A Reisen, music by I Schermann) 19. Es Drimlen di Lodns – (traditional, arr. A Knapp)
20. Di Zun vet Aruntergeyn – (words by M Halpern, music by B Yomen, arr. A Knapp)

A Yiddish Winterreise
This program is a musical journey created by bass-baritone Mark Glanville and pianist Alexander Knapp, which has been released in the UK and the USA on the Naxos label. A Yiddish Winterreise is a sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire which recreates the original Schubertian journey, but in a Holocaust context. The protagonist - a badkhn or “wedding singer” - reflects on the life and world he has just seen destroyed as he flees the Vilna ghetto. The year 2011 marks the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto, and the performances given will be intended to mark and commemorate that dreadful atrocity. But A Yiddish Winterreise also recognizes that for every Goering who would reach for his revolver when he hears the word culture, there is a Schubert who set a Hebrew psalm for his friend Salomon Sulzer, the celebrated Viennese cantor and composer who sang his songs. Jews had been great contributors to and beneficiaries from German culture.. This wonderful symbiosis is another victim of the Holocaust which the programme commemorates. In fact, the German Embassy in London has been a major backer of the CD project. A Yiddish Winterreise should also be seen as a means of recognizing and supporting modern day victims of persecution and genocide. A performance such as the one given a couple of years ago to raise money for Darfuri refugees is central to the ethos of this project.

Thursday, February 10th, 7.30 p.m.
“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
USA Première, under auspices of Pro Musica Hebraica
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
Washington DC

Monday, February 14th, 7.30 p.m.
“Di Sheyne Milnerin (A Yiddish “Die Schöne Müllerin”)
USA Première
Symphony Space
New York City

Wednesday, February 16th, 7.30 p.m.
“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
New York Première
Symphony Space
New York City

Sunday, February 20th, 3.00 p.m.
“A Yiddish Winterreise: Elegy for a Vanished World”
Chicago Première, under auspices of Sunday Salon Series
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago

A Jewish Star Singing Competition Finals

Time Sunday, February 20 · 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Location Brooklyn School of Music
883 Classon Avenue (Between President and Union Street)
Brooklyn, NY
The top 10 Finalists and top 3 Junior Finalists will be performing live in concert in front of 3 judges and a huge crowd to compete for the top spot in A Jewish Star Singing Competition.
Gershon Shapiro will be among the finalists.

Guest Star: Benny Friedman
Tickets prices are: $75, $ 50, $36, $25
All proceeds go to benefit the Jewish education for children with special needs.
You can buy your tickets here:
https://www347.safesecureweb.com/jewishtickets/soul_5771.cfm

HaZamir 18th Anniversary Concert in NYC

Time Sunday, March 27 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location Frederick P. Rose Hall: Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
865 Broadway # 400
New York, NY 10023-7503
(212) 875-5018

Are you a HaZamirnik who can't wait to grace the Lincoln Center stage? Are you a HaZamir Alum interested in reuniting with friends and singing a set with other Alumni? Are you someone who just can't get enough of HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir?

Join us on this momentous occasion as we celebrate HaZamir's 18th Anniversary in concert.

Anthem Winner Show

Time Thursday, February 24 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location Knitting Factory – Brooklyn

361 Metropolitan Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11211

Tel: (347) 529-6696

Fax: (347) 529-6295

Directions: http://bk.knittingfactory.com/directions



.357 Lover - Guns ‘N Roses meets Queen meets Tiny Tim

The Electric Simcha - Black Flag sings the Lubavitcher Songbook

Yiddish Princess - Kick Ass Yiddish Power Pop



PLUS -

Thrillist.com Anthem Contest winner will receive personal anthem. Patrons of show can pat winner on back and well wish.



Yiddish Princess of Brooklyn, Electric Simcha of Philadelphia and .357 Lover of Brooklyn will create the greatest send off of all time.

Ben Holmes and Patrick Farrell Duo at East Village Klezmer Series

Time: Tuesday, February 8 · 8:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: 325 E. 6th St., New York, NY
East Village Klezmer Series
8:30 PM
...325 E. 6th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.) NYC

Two of the most amazing musicians of their generation come together to present an evening of music at the East Village Klezmer Series.

The series are co-sponsored by Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY, Living Traditions/Klez Kamp, and Center for Traditional Music and Dance. The duo of Patrick Farrell (accordion) and Ben Holmes (trumpet) have collectively traveled to study music in Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, and Hungary. The duo combines the results of these journeys with a deep knowledge of the Klezmer repertoire, original writing, the odd 60s pop chestnut, and a general love of a good melody regardless of the source to present an exciting and varied program.

Farrell leads his own group, Stagger Back Brass Band, playing original brass circus music, and is a member of new-music chamber ensemble Ljova and the Kontraband, Russian and Romanian Roma-music band Romashka, Michael Winograd’s Klezmer Trio and Serbian-style brass band Veveritse, as well as appearing with numerous other groups and individuals around town. Holmes leads his own quartet playing original jazz music, as well as appearing regularly with Romashka, One Ring Zero, the Klez Dispeners, Justin Mullens’ Delphian Jazz Orchestra, and many others. Tarras Band, a project he co-leads with the clarinetist Michael Winograd, recently recorded its first record, to be released in Spring 2011.

$15, drink included
pattysounds.com
ben-holmes.com

EAST VILLAGE KLEZMER SERIES
Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, New Jersey and Boston. We are lucky to have such a great group of musicians contributing to this endeavor. Please come out and support the series!

All shows start at 8.30 and cover is $15 (drink included) unless otherwise noted.

2011 SCHEDULE, remaining shows

Feb. 8 – Ben Holmes/Patrick Farrell Duo
Feb. 15 – The Levitt Legacy featuring Dave Levitt
Feb. 22 – Double Bill: From Berlin! -- Christian Dawid w/ Zev Zions & Aaron Alexander and from Boston! – Klezwoods – with Flip Kessler.
Mar. 1 – Encore Concert: Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys
Mar. 8 – from Montreal! – SHTREIML, featuring Jason Rosenblatt
Mar. 15 – Matt Temkin’s Yiddishe Jam Band / The Kadya Project
Mar. 22 – Dmitri Stiepovitch’s Tamevate Kapelye (Band of Fools)
Mar. 29 – Stephen Schwab and Kol Dodi
Apr. 5 – Isle of Klezbos – featuring Eve Sicular
Apr. 12 – Avram Pengas Ensemble
May 24 – Meron Music Festival featuring Breslov Bar Band, Aaron Alexander’s Meron Mish Mosh & Joey Weisenberg
May 31 – Matt Darriau Trio

MODEL WEDDING WITH DANCING

Time Tuesday, February 8 · 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location Congregation Ansche Chesed
251 West 100th Street
New York, NY
Alicia Svigals, Klezmer Violinist

A special Yiddish Dance party at Congregation Ansche Chesed, featuring master dance leader Steve Weintraub with live klezmer by Alicia Svigals's Klezmer Fiddle Express! Presented by CTMD's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, Congregation Ansche Chesed and Klezmer By Alicia Svigals. Beginners are welcome! Suggested contribution $5 per adult, $3 per child. With Christina Crowder, accordion; Brian Glassman, bass; and Aaron Alexander, drums.

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim

Guitar Night with Edom and Rashanim
Featuring guitarist Eyal Maoz -- Two of the most interesting bands join forces in this special night of music. from Tzadik Records
Monday, December 13 between 8:30 to 10:30 PM.

Community Synagogue/Max D. Raiskin Center.
325 E. Sixth Street
(between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
East Village
New York, NY 10003
Telephone 212.473.3665
For Information, visit: http://sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/#sw
YouTube Previews Somewhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CYe8-6uMYU
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103764873028117&bcode=cVR0E&sfrm

Cover price: $10
Music genre jazz/world/rock
Edom: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz – guitar; Brian Marsella – keyboards; Shanir Blumenkranz – bass and Yuval Lion – drums.

www.eyalmaozmusic.com

Rashanim: Rashanim ('noisemakers' in Hebrew) combines the power of rock with the spontaneity of improvisation, deep Middle Eastern grooves, and mystical Jewish melodies. With Jon Madof – guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz- bass and Mathias Kunzli – drums.

www.jonmadof.com

About Eyal Maoz: "There's no doubt Eyal Maoz is in an exclusive club of post-Jimi Hendrix guitarists who include Nels Cline, Hilmar Jensson, Scott Fields, David Torn, and the legendary Terje Rypdal.”–Michael G. Nastos –All Music Guide September 2009

New Worlds: A Celebration of I.L. Peretz: Di Tsvey Brider (The Two Brothers)

November 11–21, 2010
I.L.Peretz poster New Worlds: A Celebration of I.L. Peretz: Di Tsvey Brider (The Two Brothers)
Directed by Matthew 'Motl' Didner
Choreography by by Rebecca Warner
Original score and Music Direction by Dmitri Slepovitch
You will also see Rafael Goldwasser's piece, "A Gilgl Fun A Nign" (The Metamorphosis of a Melody)

Peformance Schedule
Thursday, November 11th 2pm and 8pm
Saturday November 13th at 8pm
Sunday November 14th at 2pm and 6pm
Wednesday November 17th at 2pm and 8pm
Thursday November 18th at 2pm and 8pm
Saturday November 20th at 8pm
Sunday November 21st at 2pm and 6pm

Location: Baruch Performing Arts Center at CUNY's Baruch College
Address: 55 Lexington Ave. (at East 25th St.)
For tickets, please call 646-312-5073 (box office) or Order Online

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus in International Choral Festival

Yiddish Chorus in International Choral Festival!
The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus
with Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor,
are performing next week at
The 5th New York International Choral Festival 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 7:30 PM
at Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027
Tickets: $20
For tickets: Tickets@NYIntChoralFest.com
Tickets will be available at the door.
Seating is General Admission.
This concert includes 4 choruses, each performing for 15 minutes or so, plus an Orchestra, culminating in a number sung by all choruses together. The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus is the only Jewish - or Yiddish - chorus on the bill.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS PROVIDED

SAVE THE DATE!
Sunday, June 5, 2011, 4:30 PM
at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) in New York City,
the JPPC, with Conductor Binyumen Schaechter -
and with guest appearance by Di Shekhter-tekhter - will be giving their annual gala concert. The theme this year: Yiddish folk songs. Tentative title: Songs of the Yiddish Folk

4th International Jewish Music Festival

December 4-5, 2010
Ansche Chesed, 251 West 100th Street, NYC
Shalshelet: The Foundation for New Jewish Liturgical Music

Description: Experience the next generation of Jewish liturgical music with the debut of 57 original and contemporary pieces ranging from jazz, pop, and classical to klezmer and cantorial. Festival includes "No Rock Like You: Songs for the Jewish Soul," a concert at 8 p.m. on 12/4, and Meet the Composer workshops and brunch from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on 12/5.

Co-Sponsors: H.L. Miller Cantorial School, JTS; School of Sacred Music, HUC-HIR; Academy of Jewish Religion

Admission: $20 (concert only); $30 (workshops/brunch); $40 (concert/workshops/brunch). Half price for seniors, students, and children. Additional $5 per event after 11/30 and at the door.

Contact: shalsheletfestival@gmail.com or
212-865-0600 ext 242
Website: www.shalshelet.org

Harmony for Humanity in Memory of Daniel Pearl

Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 3pm
Sweet Plantain String Quartet
St. Marks in the Bowery
131 East 10th Street + 2nd Ave
Suggested donation $10-$12
If you're in NY.... this is a great way to honor the memory of Daniel Pearl and also hear some great music!

Beethoven Trio #5 in D op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost Trio"
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Samuel Barber "Adagio for Strings"

Sweet Plantain String Quartet
Eddie Venegas, Violin
Yuko Naito-Gotay, Violin
Orlando Wells, Viola
David Gotay, Cello

Mimi Stern-Wolfe, Piano

For Information: 212-477-1594
DownTown Music Productions
East Village Concert Series
Sundays @ 3
MimiStern-Wolfe, Artistic Director
downtownmusicproductions.org
dmpmimi@verizon.net

Jewish Song and Prayer of Aleppo

Thursday, OCTOBER 21 @ 6:30PM
At the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC.

$10 at the door/ $5 for ASF members Reservations requested: 212.294.8350 x0 or email info@americansephardifederation.org

The liturgy of the Syrian Jewish community synthesizes the Maqam music of their Arab neighbors with their own Hebrew poetry and prayers. Mark Kligman, PhD, Professor of Jewish Musicology, will trace the development of this music which he explores in his book Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn. Isaac J. Cabasso, Cantor of Congregation Beth Torah, a Syrian synagogue in Brooklyn, NY, will lend his 50 years of experience in Syrian Hazzanut to the conversation, and perform excerpts of the prayers in various maqams. Musical accompaniment on the oud will be performed by Victor Esses, Cantor of Sephardic Synagogue, Brooklyn, NY. Joseph Mosseri, Cantor and founder of the Hazzanut Forum, will discuss the resurgence of Maqam music among the community's younger generation.

This program is presented in association with the American Society for Jewish Music

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale

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

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

Chamber Music – New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York

On Thursday, April 22 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform “Chamber Music – New York Style” at Temple Israel of the City of New York, 112 East 75th Street, New York City The program includes Three American Piecesfor flute and piano by Lukas Foss, Gershwin’s Embraceable You and I've Got Rhythm arranged for solo piano by Earl Wilde, Dvořák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb Major, B 162, Op.87 and Luminaria for violin and harp by Kenji Bunch, who has been called “a composer to watch” by the New York Times and is quickly emerging as one of the most prominent American composers of his generation.

New York Concert Review hailed the Musicians of Lenox Hill as "exemplary throughout" and "extremely impressive, technically and musically”. The featured performers, Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo, violin, Sean Katsuyama , cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, Sivan Magen, Harp and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director, have each won international acclaimperforming with major orchestras and ensembles and winning many of the world's most prestigious music competitions. This concert brings these extraordinary musicians together to perform chamber music written by some of the world’s greatest composers as well as a new work by an emerging young star. Each of the composers on the program has been inspired by New York City and, at important points in their careers, called the City their home.

Says Artistic Director Soo-Kyung Park “I am so thankful to Temple Israel and our dear friend, the late Muriel Levy, for sponsoring The Musicians of Lenox Hill, and allowing these exceptional artists to have the opportunity to perform such beautiful, enjoyable chamber music together, at affordable prices, in the wonderful, intimate setting of Temple Israel.”

The audience is invited to attend a dessert reception with the artists following the concert. The concert, which is an annual event now in its 12th year, is made possible by gift to Temple Israel by the late Muriel Levy in memory of her husband, Dr.Hyman Levy and their son, Jerrold Levy, fulfilling her vision to continue the music she and her husband loved and support the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

TICKET INFORMATION
Single Ticket $20
Seniors (60+) and Full Time Students (with ID) $10
Temple Israel Members FREE
Children under 18 FREE
To order tickets or for more information, call (917) 834-5399, visit
www.LenoxHillMusic.com, or write to musiciansoflenoxhill@gmail.com.

Please make checks payable to “Temple Israel of the City of New York”. Cash or check accepted at the door. Temple Israel of the City of New York is located at 112 East 75th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues, and can be easily reached on the 6 train (77th Street station). Parking is available in nearby garages.

Sacred and Secular Music Texts in Modern Times

Friday March 5 2010
9:30 A.M. to noon.

We invite you to join us at our next Jewish Music Forum event, which will be held on March 5, 2010, at Center for Jewish History. Prof. Mark Slobin of Wesleyan University and Dr. Mark Kligman of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion will present a lecture entitled "Sacred and Secular Music Texts in Modern Times." We wish to extend a special thank you to our co-sponsors for this event, the Working Group on the Jewish Book at Center for Jewish History. The entire 2009-2010 Jewish Music Forum is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History.

"Sacred and Secular Music Texts in Modern Times"

With Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University and Dr. Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Jewish Book at Center for Jewish History.

March 5, 2010
9:30 A.M. – Noon

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Manuscripts containing music in Jewish contexts are significantly rare, prior to 1750 there are less than 25 notations. By 1750 and onwards notation of Jewish liturgical music, and later non-liturgical music, becomes a growing phenomenon. The Eduard Birnbaum Collection of Jewish Liturgical manuscripts, in the Klau Library of Hebrew UnionCollege--Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, is the largest collection of contains 65% of all known manuscripts of Jewish music prior to 1850. Mark Kligman will discuss the various music styles found with in these manuscripts and show a significant degree of secular influence in the 18th century. With the developments of Haskalah synagogue music changed significantly, through recorded example of the music in this collection Kligman will discuss the important changes of synagogue music in the 19th century.

In "Yiddish Theater and Popular Music: Manuscript and Print Sources" Professor Mark Slobin will summarize his work on early twentieth-century Yiddish popular music, from both Europe and the US, based on manuscript sources held at YIVO, and sheet music editions published in New York's Lower East Side during the immigrant era. The manuscripts serve as information about the interaction of music and theater as well as performance practice in a largely improvisatory music theater system. Slobin will examine how sheet music folio bundles integrate iconography, song text, and music style. Finally, issues of Americanization and commercialization of European genres, themes, and styles will be explored.

And our next event of the 2009–2010 season:

March 26, 2010 - 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Center for Jewish History
"In a Land Large as an Apple Tree': Wolpe's Avant-Garde Music, Pedagogy, and Pacifist Zionism in 1930's Palestine"

Dr. Brigid Cohen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Respondent: Dr. Michael Beckerman, New York University

Metropolitan Klezmer Dec 25 Klezmer Special

Jewish Museum: Dec 25 Klezmer Special on Friday, December 25 at 12:30pm.
Eve says, "Metropolitan Klezmer plays that special day next week in NYC:
Friday 12/25 at The Jewish Museum.
Very special guests too.
Kids FREE, 12:30pm & 2pm sets... Santa Klez is coming uptown!
Event: Jewish Museum: Dec 25 Klezmer Special
"Santa Klez is coming uptown!"
Start Time: Friday, December 25 at 12:30pm
Where: The Jewish Museum (on 92nd St) NYC

Zamir Chorale at Merkin Hall

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

Annual Winter Concert

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

at 7:30 p.m.



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



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

Avi Fox-Rosen's HANUKAH SPECTACULAR at Banjo Jims!

Avi Fox-Rosen's HANUKAH SPECTACULAR!
9pm - Benjy Fox-Rosen Band (yiddish art song, klez, pez)
10pm - Special Hanuka Lamp Screwing Ceremony led by Avi
10:15pm - Yiddish Princess (rock in yiddish)
11:15 - Breslov Bar Band
Celebrate the Miracle of Successfully Resisting Cultural Hegemony!
"But, how?" you ask.
Easy Peasy!!! By going to hear your three favorite bands playing perverse derivatives of Jewish music. And screwing the 5th bulb into Avi Fox-Rosen's Electric Hanuka Lamp.

Banjo Jim's
700 East 9th Street
New York, NY 10009-5309
(212) 777-0869
www.banjojims.com

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chanukah Concert

Chanukah Party at WSJC Featuring Pey Dalid

Come join the West Side Jewish Center for our annual Chanukah Concert!
Congregation Beth Israel West Side Jewish Center
Featuring: Pey Dalid!
Wednesday, December 16th @ 7 PM
West Side Jewish Center
347 West 34th St. (Between 8 & 9 Ave.)
New York, NY
Latkes!
Donuts!
And More!
$25/person
Please call the office for reservations: 212-502-5291

Yale Strom -- In Memory Of

Dec. 16th at 7pm the world premiere of
YALE STROM'S quartet "IN THE MEMORY OF..."

In the summer of 2008, musician Yale Strom traveled to Romania and discovered a musical treasure trove. In the upstairs women's balcony of the 1871 synagogue of Carei he found a box of old books including the cantor's music book with over 250 melodies notated by hand. THIS ROMANIAN JEWISH MUSICAL TREASURE HAD BEEN LOST UNTIL STROM'S DISCOVERY. In Memory of is a performance based upon the cantorial music he uncovered, and is dedicated to the Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Virtuoso cellist Mike Block and his string quartet will perform the new compositon.

After the quartet Cantor Ari Priven (Cong. Bnai Jeshurun) will sing some of the melodies from the "lost" cantor's book and then Yale Strom and Mike Block will perform melodies from the same work as klezmer pieces.

Location: Eldridge Street Synagogue
12 Eldridge Street (off Canal)
Tel: (212)219-0302
Seniors 12.00 Public 15.00

MIKE BLOCK
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006, also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz Trio. Since then, Mike has become an in-demand player in many musical genres, and has joined Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights, The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang Wei. As a composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band, and has also had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the MATA Festival

Lazarus Quartet at City Winery

The Lazarus Quartet is playing at the City Winery's Klezmer Brunch series in Manhattan on Sunday, December 27th. There are two sets, at 11 AM and 12:30 PM, a $10 cover and brunch is available.
The repertoire draws heavily on the recorded works of Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein. They also perform material from the Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish musical traditions. The mission of the Lazarus Quartet is to present this music in a way that's reflective of their experiences as a Jazz musicians living in New York, so there is a lot of improvisation and spontaneity on stage. The Lazarus Quartet is Ben Holmes (trumpet), Uri Sharlin (accordion), Dan Loomis (bass) and Jeff Davis (drums).

Sunday December 27th City Winery Klezmer Brunch
sets at 11 AM and 12:30 PM
$10 Cover, brunch available
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
citywinery.com

The Sephardic Music Festival Asefa and Yair Dalal

Sephardic Music Festival

Asefa, Yair Dalal and Michelle Webb
@ Union Hall
702 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Monday, December 14, 2009, 7pm | $10

For more info: www.asefamusic.com | www.sephardicmusicfestival.com | www.unionhallny.com

Asefa

Full ensemble performance with Yoshie Fruchter (oud/guitar), Noah Jarrett (bass/guimbri), Yaaki Levy (drums/percussion). If you haven't been to Union Hall, this is a great music spot in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

A special treat will be the bill sharing by the legendary Yair Dalal, in town from Israel for one night only...don't miss it!

Saturday Night Party klezmer concert and jam

"Saturday Night Party: klezmer concert and jam"

on Saturday, December 5 at 8:00pm.



Event: Saturday Night Party: klezmer concert and jam

"Cookie decorating competition, Hanukkah sing-along and Yiddish dancing. So
much Jewish fun in one night! Is it possible?"

What: Fundraiser

Start Time: Saturday, December 5 at 8:00pm

Where: Brooklyn, NY
details and RSVP, follow the link below: (facebook)
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=222793530336&mid=17559a1G267804d4G334b188G7

To see more

A Benefit for Living Traditions/KlezKamp



Come in out of the cold and party with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo. Bring an instrument, learn some Yiddish dance moves, sing Hanukkah favorites, decorate a cookie, see old friends, meet new ones and have a great time!



The internationally celebrated Strauss/Warschauer Klezmer Duo, Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, voice, dance) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, voice), perform original and traditional Yiddish instrumental and vocal pieces that span the spectrum from fiery to tender. Called “pied pipers of Yiddish music” and “pioneers in their generation,” Deborah and Jeff are renowned as performers and teachers at festivals and workshops throughout the world.



The event will take place in a private home in Brooklyn, walking distance from #2 and Q trains, B68 and B8 buses.



Admission: $15/$10 students and members of Living Traditions

Doors open 7:30 PM

Refreshments will be served

Space is limited, so please reserve as soon as possible.

RSVP for directions: (718) 859-5440 or helen.ruthhart@gmail.com


A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Living Traditions/KlezKamp, a non-profit organization dedicated to community-based Yiddish folk culture. http://www.livingtraditions.org

Marhulet "DYBBUK" String Quartet Premiere

The string quartet Dybbuk by Wlad Marhulet was written for the New York based "J.A.C.K." quartet. The piece is inspired by Jewish folklore, in which a Dybbuk is a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. The piece depicts two aspects of Dybbuk - its wild and aggressive nature, as well as its memories from the past life full of suffering and tears.

The premiere is going to take place November 30th at 8:00pm.
in Paul Hall, Julliard School, NYC
60 Lincoln Center Plaza, Broadway (at 65th St)
Upper West Side
212-769-7406
Subway: 1 to 66th St–Lincoln Ctr
Wlad Marhulets is a Polish composer of Jewish descent. Born in Minsk on May 1986, he began to be seriously interested in music at the age of 16. Wlad attended Academy of Music in Gdansk where he studied composition with Krzysztof Olczak, and later transfered to the Juilliard School in New York where he began studying with one of contemporary music's most distinguished composers, --John Corigliano.

Since identity has always been at the center of Wlad's music, he explores his heritage most ardently through his compositions. Acquaintance with Leopold Kozlowsky, known as the last klezmer of Galicia, as well as fascination of David Krakauer's recordings took on great importance for Wlad's development as a composer. Hence, the most important influences that his music is based upon include an amalgamation of klezmer and Jewish tradition.

Primarily interested in a synthesis of musical styles, Wlad is always at work on a variety of genre bending projects. His continuous crossing of borders between genres and styles has resulted in a large number of works. In spite of young age his compositional output numbers more that 50 items of orchestral, chamber, and solo pieces. The key works he composed include Concerto for piano and symphonic orchestra, Concerto Grosso for 3 violins and string orchestra, Symphonic Poem, Concerto for organ and symphonic orchestra, Sonata for violin and piano. Wlad is an exceptionally versatile person, having distinguished himself not only as a composer, but also as a painter, writer, graphic designer, and a clarinetist playing in ensembles spanning contemporary music to klezmer and experimental jazz.

Shem's Disciples with Candido Camero Team Up with David Amram and bobby Sanabria

New York Reggae/Hip-Hop Fusion Band Shem's Disciples is joined by Latin jazz Legend Candido Camero, renowned jazz instrumentalist and composer David Amram, and multi-Grammy nominated percussionist Bobby Sanabria, to perform a special concert for the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function (IMNF) Music Therapy program. The IMNF is a member of the Beth Abraham Family of Health Services.

The concert will take place on Wednesday, December 2
from 7-9p.m. at the
Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Rd.
Purchase, NY 10577

Tickets cost $50 and can be purchase by calling 718-519-5840 or e-mailing imnf@bethabe.org

Unsung Songs and Song Cycles

Works by Joel Mandelbaum will be performed
at 2 PM on Sunday, November 15th
at the Assembly Hall of the Community Church of New York, which shares
its facilities with the Metropolitan Synagogue, 40 East 35th Street, NYC

The performance will be repeated the following day
Monday, November 16 at 12:15
at Lefrak Concert Hall at Queens College.

With a range of settings written from 1958 to 2009, the concert is truly a major retrospective and will feature, among others, Emily Duncan-Brown and Roz Woll

Over a more than 50-year period of devotion to the art song in fourteen cycles, Mandelbaum has set poems by Millay, Leonie Adams, Karen Ethelsdattar, Bettina Blake, and Benjamin J.R. Stolper, among others.

Yosif Feigelson Cello Concert of Mieczyslaw Weinberg in NYC

On Sunday, November 22nd at 3 p.m. celebrated Russian cellist Yosif Feigelson
will perform at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (30 West 68th Street, NYC).

The concert will feature four Cello Sonatas of composer Mieczyslaw (Moishe) Weinberg (1919-1996). Tickets and more information are available at the website: www.swfs.org or by phone at: (212) 877-4050.

Called "one of the most prolific, yet largely overlooked composers", Mieczyslaw (Moishe) Weinberg is author to 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets, operas, concerti as well as music to many movies including famous "The Cranes Are Flying". For more facts about composer visit www.mweinberg.info

Praised around the world for his outstanding mastery, dubbed by one of the critics " a Caruso of the Cello", Yosif Feigelson enjoys over three decades of a distinguished solo career. Former student of two great Russian masters: Rostropovich and Gutman, he is as much dedicated to bringing forward new music as his former mentors. His unique recordings of works for solo cello by M. Weinberg will be re-issued by Naxos in 2010. Visit artist's website at: www.yfeigelson.com

Esther by Hugo Weisgall at City Opera in NYC

City Opera’s season gets under way this weekend — with a reconstituted production of Hugo Weisgall’s “Esther,” given its premiere by the company in 1993. Esther runs at the Koch Theater Nov. 7-19. Ticket, priced $12-$145, may be purchased at New York City Opera. Read about it at: http://www.playbillarts.com/features/article/8206.html

Featuring Laura Flanigan

Video and Information at the NYC Opera:
http://www.nycopera.com/calendar/view.aspx?id=11488
"America's Greatest Opera Composer"...
"One of the greatest operas"...
"True Epic Music Theater!"

GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS

MERKIN CONCERT HALL AT KAUFMAN CENTER AND NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG PRESENT
GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITING TEAMS
NOVEMBER 17 AND 19 AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL
featured will be:
JASON GRAAE, SYLVIA McNAIR, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER
NOVEMBER 13 AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
featuring:
JASON GRAAE, LIZA FORRESTER, MARY TESTA, STEVEN BLIER

MUSIC OF BOCK & HARNICK, BOLCOM & WEINSTEIN, DIETZ & SCHWARTZ, GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN, MALTBY & SHIRE, KANDER & EBB, LEIBER & STOLLER, LERNER & LOEWE, RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN, RODGERS & HART

NYFOS¹s Fats and Fields program caused Talkin¹ Broadway to say "What can make you smile for two hours? New York Festival of Song"

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org ) will present Great American Songwriting Teams, an evening of famous and rarely-heard songs honoring the genius of America¹s classic collaborators, on Tuesday and Thursday November 17 and 19 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. Merkin Concert Hall is at 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues), New York, NY 10023. Tickets, $40 - $55 are available by calling 212-501-3330, or visitingwww.kaufman-center.org . In addition, there are group discounts and special $15 student discounts available by calling New York Festival of Song at 646-230-8380. The artists for Great American Songwriting Teams will be: Jason Graae, deemed ³A master of humorous song² by The New York Times; two-time Grammy Award-winning theater/cabaret star Sylvia McNair, who the New York Observer called ³Thrillingly adept at exploring the subtext of song²; and Broadway¹s popular Mary Testa, the Tony Award-nominee recently called ³Absolutely fab² by Entertainment Weekly. NYFOS co-founder and Artistic Director Steven Blier, ³A national treasure when it comes to the art of song (The New York Times) will serve as pianist, host and arranger.

Great American Songwriting Teams will also be presented November 13 at 7:30pm at the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center, under the auspices of The Vocal Arts Society of Washington, D.C. For this performance, the exciting young mezzo-soprano Liza Forrester, soon to make her New York City Opera debut in L¹Etoile, will replace Ms. McNair. Please visit the Kennedy Center¹s website, www.kennedy-center.org/calendar for details about tickets.

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LEV ARONSON MEMORIAL CONCERT

SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER | 3PM
CONCERT/BOOK PARTY
sponsored by YIVO
at the Center for Jewish History
http://www.cjh.org/programs/calendar.php

The internationally renowned cellist Ralph Kirshbaum honors the memory of his late teacher Lev Aronson (1912-1988), a Holocaust survivor who played for many years with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with a rare New York recital. Mr. Kirshbaum will perform compositions by Aronson as well as works by some of the artists who influenced him.

The program will also feature a reading by author Frances Brent from her critically acclaimed new book, The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson (Atlas & Co.).

Admission: $25 General / $18 YIVO members
Box Office: 212.868.4444 | www.smarttix.com

A Taste of Russia

A Taste of Russia: Sholem Aleichem as you Least Expect Him -- this Wednesday! With wonderful Yiddish vocalist Adrienne Cooper. Join Sid Jacobson JCC, Suffolk Y JCC and The Workmen's Circle for an evening of hilarious, touching and unexpected readings and songs in honor of Sholem Aleichem's 150th birthday. Dessert and coffee served.
Wednesday, November 4, 7:00 pm
Location: Sid Jacobson JCC
Fee $20 / members, Suffolk Y-JCC and Workmen Circle members $15. www.sjjcc.org.
Call for availability -- 516-484-1545 ext. 173

Click here for Sid Jacobson JCC website http://klezmerbyalicia.c.topica.com/maanwNmabT6OxbIFEx6eafpQav/

Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music at JMF

Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer Steve Reich Talks about his Jewish Music (with music examples from the composer's collection) -- a unique interview by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang.

On Sunday, November 8th at 3 PM
at the Center for Jewish History
15th West 16th Street, NYC

The Jewish Music Forum presents a unique interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Steve Reich about his Jewish Music, with music examples from the composers own collection. Mr. Reich will be interview by fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang. The Jewish Music Forum is free to the public. Reservations for the Steve Reich Talk will be taken on a first-come first-served basis. Call 212-874-4513.
Steve Reich was recently called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE), “ ...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “… among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London). Steve Reich, a traditional Jew, has composed a considerable body of important Jewish works, both on Hebrew texts and music with Jewish themes.

After his formal training, at Cornell, Juilliard and with Luciano Berio at Mills College, Reich not only studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, and Balinese Gamelan, Semar Pegulingan and Gamelan Gambang, but also studied the traditional forms of cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew Scriptures in New York and Jerusalem. Steve Reich is a traditional Jew. Among his compositions are a number of Jewish-based works, including his compelling 1981 settings of Hebrew Psalm texts, Tehillim.

Mr. Reich's 1988 piece, Different Trains, marked a new compositional method, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments. The New York Times hailed Different Trains as "a work of such astonishing originality that break through seems the only possible description....possesses an absolutely harrowing emotional impact." The piece, recorded by the Kronos Quartet, received a 1990 Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Composition."

The Cave, Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's music theater video piece exploring the Biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, was hailed by Time Magazine as "a fascinating glimpse of what opera might be like in the 21st century." Of the Chicago premiere, John von Rhein of The Chicago Tribune wrote, "The techniques embraced by this work have the potential to enrich opera as living art a thousandfold....The Cave impresses, ultimately, as a powerful and imaginative work of high-tech music theater that brings the troubled present into resonant dialogue with the ancient past, and invites all of us to consider anew our shared cultural heritage."

In addition to receiving the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Mr. Reich was awarded The Polar Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of music in May 2007. The prize was presented by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The Swedish Academy said: "...Steve Reich has transferred questions of faith, society and philosophy into a hypnotic sounding music that has inspired musicians and composers of all genres." In 2006, the same year Mr. Reich’s 70th Birthday was celebrated by performing organizations around the world with festivals and special concerts. Steve. Reich won the Preamium Imperial Award in Music, an important international award given by Crown Prince Hitachi in Tokyo in areas of the arts not covered by the Nobel Prize.

The Jewish Music Forum, is a project of the American Society for Jewish Music, with additional support from the American Jewish Historical Society.

The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) serves as a broad canopy for all who are interested in Jewish music. Its members include cantors, composers, educators, musicologists, ethnologists, historians, performers and interested lay people – as well as libraries, universities, synagogues and other institutions. The Society sponsors a number of important programs and projects which provide greater access to Jewish music. In addition, the Society produces conferences, seminars, workshops and master classes at which scholars, students and others may benefit from the musical expertise of the Society's members.

With offices at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, as an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Jewish Historical Society has established and maintains links similar institutions in Jewish communities throughout the world, and has developed strong ties with students and faculty members at American universities and seminaries. The American Society for Jewish Music is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization funded through membership dues, grants and corporate and individual contributions.

The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM), which recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary can trace its roots back to several earlier Jewish Music Societies and associations, first in Europe and then in America. Among the European models were the Kinnor Zion Society (1902-08) in St. Petersburg and the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1902-18), also in St. Petersburg and elsewhere within the Russian Empire. After the Revolution, members of these groups published their compositions under the imprint of Juwal, Publication Society for Jewish Music (later called Jibneh) with offices in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Predecessors of the ASJM in the United States included Mailamm (Makhon Eretz Yisraeli L'-Mada'ey ha-Musika) (1932-39), founded by Miriam Zunser and some émigré members of the early European groups; and the Jewish Music Forum (1939-63), founded by Abraham Wolf Binder, which in turn became the Jewish Liturgical Society of America (1963-74). In 1974 the latter group was reorganized as the American Society for Jewish Music, Inc., under the direction of its first President, Albert Weisser.

The American Society for Jewish Music presents and produces a variety of programs that are presented each season for the general public at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Its core programs include live concerts; the Charlie Bernhaut Collection of Jewish and Cantorial Music; its academic collegiums, the Jewish Music Forum; its scholarly journal Musica Judaica, and a new online Review section; a digitized collection of scores from the Society’s St. Petersburg roots; ASJM Matters, a periodic newsletter distributed on the Internet; a composition competition to stimulate the composition of new music on Jewish themes; and three important searchable databases.

Dubrow Talk on Lazar Weiner

YIVO is holding a conference on New York and the American Jewish Experience on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.

The 4:15 to 5:30 pm afternoon session will include a paper by Marsha Dubrow, a musicologist at CUNY, on Lazar Weiner, and how Weiner's music was felt in different parts of the Jewish community. The paper will include illustrations and samples.

From 5:30 to 6:15 there will be an Evening Reception.

In the evening, from 6:15 to 7:30 there will be a Roundtable of Archivists on the Preserving the Treasures of Jewish Archives, with participation from 92nd Street Y Archives, American Jewish Committee Archives, Hadassah Archives, HIAS Archives, JDC Archives, Yeshiva University Archives and YIVO Archives.

For the full program and to register, please visit: http://yivo.org/events/index.php

The Jewish Romantics Chamber Concert

THE JEWISH ROMANTICS
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON NOVEMBER 5

The Jewish Museum will present The Jewish Romantics, a concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth, at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street on Thursday, November 5 at 7 pm. This performance features a roster of gifted young artists from Mannes College, which continues its yearlong music festival, "The Mendelssohn Salon." Felix Mendelssohn and his musically talented sister, Fanny, were hosts and guests at cultural gatherings known as salons, which included the great composers of their day. This concert explores the music of the Mendelssohns and of other important Jewish composers of the 19th century Romantic period.

The November 5 program is a co-production of Mannes College, The New School for Music, and The Jewish Museum.

Musical selections will include:
Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn - Drei Stücke zu vier Händen
Sophia Munoz and Hyun Jin Lee, piano
Selections from Hebrew Melodies for Viola & Piano, Op. 9
Josef Joachim Christian Atanasiu, viola; Daniel Laor, piano

Giacomo Meyerbeer - Songs
Katharine Dain, soprano; Dina Pruzhansky, piano

Fromental Halévy - Two arias from La Juive
Crissida Tyler, soprano; Laetitia Ruccolo, piano

Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio no. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin; Elad Kabilio, cello Javor Bracic, piano

Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337. Program tickets at The Jewish Museum can be purchased online at the Museum's Web site, www.thejewishmuseum.org.

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

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

About Mannes College

Since its founding in 1916, Mannes College has become one of the world's leading conservatories, internationally recognized for its musical and pedagogical excellence, and for its commitment to artistic and human ideals. Mannes's distinguished alumni include eminent pianists Richard Goode and Murray Perahia; acclaimed conductors Yves Abel, Semyon Bychkov, Myung Whun Chung, and JoAnn Falletta; the iconic diva Frederica von Stade; and Metropolitan Opera company members Olga Makarina, Patricia Risley, and Danielle de Niese. Its outstanding faculty includes opera legend Regina Resnik, pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Richard Goode, as well as renowned artists-in-residence such as Yefim Bronfman, the Orion String Quartet, and Deborah Voigt. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/mannes/concerts .

About The Jewish Museum

Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established on January 20, 1904 when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, The Jewish Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information (NOTE: NEW MUSEUM HOURS)

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

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Breslov Bar Band Show

Hoshana Rabah concert @ the Carlebach Shul.

From melancholy midnight meditations to funky/punky affirmations of the One, the Breslov Bar Band explores musical expressions of the Breslov Chassidim from the traditional to the contemporary... Rock, Middle-Eastern, Punk, Jazz... it's all there!

The group's repertoire includes old dveykus melodies and ecstatic nigunim, as well as contemporary Breslov folk and rock music. The band members combine their passion for Jewish music with their strong roots in rock, jazz, and world music.

The band:
Binyomin Ginzberg - keys/vox/vibrandoneon
Mike Cohen - reeds
Allen Watsky - electric guitar
Yoshie Fruchter- bass
Rich Huntley - drums

Website: www.BreslovBarBand.com

$15 cover
Doors open at 7:30 PM
Music at 8 PM
Location:
Carlebach Shul
305 West 79th Street
New York, NY
Phone:
2127217485
Email:
info@carlebachshul.org or info@BreslovBarBand.com

Multi-Ethnic Music Cultures of Moldova

The Center for Jewish History and Center for Traditional Music and Dance present:
Monday, September 21 at 7:00pm
"The Multi-Ethnic Music Cultures of Moldova"
The An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture Series
Curated by Walter Zev Feldman, Ph.D.
New York University / Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem

Lecture: Walter Zev Feldman discusses the cultural history of this area of ethnic transformation and his recent expedition which discovered musicians of mixed ancestry still performing traditional Jewish music in his father's hometown of Edinets. A reception will follow the event.

Admission:
$15 general, $10 CJH, CTMD members

Major support for the Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation. Support was also provided by the Atran Foundation and public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Center for Jewish History Programs
www.programs.cjh.org All coats and bags must be checked. Please plan accordingly. Center for Jewish History | www.cjh.org 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues New York, New York 10011

Eyal Maoz Upcoming Club Events

Lots of music in the City!
Great night of four concerts - NYC--
Best indie/new wave/avantgarde of NYC
Thursday, August 13 at 9 PM till 1 AM
9 PM Queening http://www.myspace.com/queeningisgreat
10 PM Martin Bisis's band http://www.myspace.com/theendcredits
11 PM Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik Records) at www.edommusic.com
12 AM Prayertown http://www.myspace.com/prayertownmusic
Only $5 for the whole night.
venue: Coco 66 . Address : 66 Greenpoint Av Brooklyn (between Franklin and West St.)
New York 11222 718-389-7392 917-807-6045.
Website: http://coco66.com/.
About Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik Records. Listen at www.edommusic.com)
Where Avant-Garde meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom.
Eyal Maoz - guitar
Brian Marsella - keyboards
Shanir Blumenkranz - bass
Yuval Lion - drums

Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik records) live at Pianos
Sunday, August 16th, at 11PM at Pianos
158 Ludlow St (at Stanton St.)
New York, NY 10002
(212) 505-3733
http://pianosnyc.com/
No cover.
Edom live at Pianos.

Eyal Maoz's Edom (Tzadik records) live at Zebulon
Monday, August 24 at 10 PM
Edom live at Zebulon
http://www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/
258 Wythe Ave at Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, NY.
No cover

Up On The Roof: Divahn at JCC in NYC

Thu, Jul 23, 2009
8:00 PM
An all female band led by Galeet Dardashti takes over the JCC's rooftop with their lyric, rhythmic and energetic grooves which redefine Middle Eastern and Sephardic music with a sophisticated 21st century sound, an international flair with music in Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ladino, and Turkish.

$8.00 Member
$10.00 Non-Member

Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.) : For tix click here or please call 646-505-5708.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER August Brunch & Beach

Manhattan's City Winery --Sunday klezmer brunch, 8/9/2009
East Hampton Guild Hall -- Thursday evening full octet, 8/20/2009

Nomination & grant support news too:
Just Plain Folks Music Awards final round for our "Traveling Show" CD & Sparkplug Foundation for "J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files"
Read on.... Sunday, August 9
11AM-2PM (brunch seating from 10AM)
City Winery Klezmer Brunch
155 Varick St - btw Vandam & Spring, NYC 10013
Tickets $10, no minimum, kids under 13 FREE!
Great food & drink, spacious venue, gracious stage Easy Sunday parking; #1, C/E subways; bus info too:
212-608-0555 or http://www.citywinery.com/events/26407

Metropolitan Klezmer returns to City Winery with special quartet lineup Debra Kreisberg: clarinet/alto sax; David Hofstra: bass/tuba; Eve Sicular: drums; & guest accordionist Patrick Farrell.

Thursday, August 20
8PM - FULL OCTET in concert!
Guild Hall of East Hampton
158 Main St, East Hampton NY 11937
Discounts for kids & GH members! $22/20/18.
Info: 631-324-0806 or http://www.guildhall.org/calendar.ihtml?id=1099

Metropolitan Klezmer octet returns to the historic, lovingly renovated stage of John Drew Theater at East Hampton's Guild Hall. Don't miss our magical show here... full band, hand-carved wooden ornaments, amazing acoustics!

AWARD NEWS!
"Traveling Show" CD nomination & "J. Edgar Klezmer" foundation grant:
Metropolitan Klezmer's TRAVELING SHOW is a nominee finalist for the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards! Our latest CD was named one of 10 albums nominated in the Klezmer category. Winners are to be announced August 29 at ceremonies in Nashville. Info: http://justplainfolks.org

The Sparkplug Foundation has awarded a grant for the development, production and promotion of "J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files." We are grateful for this support of our musical documentary project. Audio and video recordings are in the works!

Mamlok and Greenbaum at City Winery

Come July 12! Hear an old familiar song or two...
"A narrated program of famous klezmer clarinetists throughout history, with fascinating tales of woe and plenty of humor! This event features Klezical Tradition's own phenom clarinetist, Walter Mamlok, who will be joined by founder and leader, Adrianne Greenbaum on accordion and keyboard and a bisl flute."

City Winery

155 Varick Street (between Spring and Vandam Streets) New York, New York 10013

By Subway: 1 / 9 to Houston Street or Canal Street; C / E to Spring Street
By Bus: M20 downtown or uptown, M6 uptown, M21 crosstown

FINAL TWO CONCERTS OF SUMMERNIGHTS SERIES

Be at the JEWISH MUSEUM

The final two concerts of The Jewish Museum's popular SummerNights series are on Thursday evenings, July 16 and 23. On July 16, SLAVIC SOUL PARTY! performs virtuosic new brass band music incorporating diverse influences, and on July 23, Ljova and the Kontraband offer a mix of Eastern-European melodies, Latin rhythms and jazz-inspired improvisations. Concerts begin at 7:30 pm. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Tickets for each concert are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337 or visit www.thejewishmuseum.org .

SUMMERNIGHTS CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULE
July 16, 7:30 pm
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!

The musicians of Slavic Soul Party!- featuring Jacob Garchik, John Carlson, Brian Drye, Peter Stan, Ben Holmes, Ron Caswell, Matt Moran and Oscar Noriega - forge virtuosic new brass band music, melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul.

One of the hardest working bands in New York City, the Brooklyn-based Slavic Soul Party! plays nearly 100 times a year in the US, Europe, and beyond. They have performed at Babylon (Istanbul) with the Karandila Orkestar, at Irving Plaza (New York City) with Gogol Bordello, on the Warped Tour (U.S.), and in virtually every major New York club. The band's third CD, Teknochek Collision is on the Barbes Records label, released in 2007 through Ryko Distribution. The band's fourth CD, Remixed, will be released this year.

July 23, 7:30 pm
LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND

East European melodies, Latin rhythms, jazz-inspired improvisations, and classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions that forge new directions, with a nostalgic nod to the past.

Ljova and the Kontraband - Ljova (viola), Inna Barmash (vocal), -- Patrick Farrell (accordion), Mathias Kunzli (percussion), and Mike Savino (bass) - made its debut in June 2006, and has performed at venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Joe's Pub. Founded by film composer Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin, the ensemble also features his close collaborators on vocals, accordion, bass and percussion. The Kontraband's debut CD, Mnemosyne, featuring special guests Frank London, William Schimmel, Uli Geissendoerfer, Alon Yavnai and Marcus Rojas, was released in September 2008.

SummerNights offers live world music in a concert setting on five Thursday evenings from July 2 through July 23. A complete schedule is available from the press office at 212.423.3271, or the Museum's Web site, http://www.thejewishmuseum.org

The 2009 SummerNights concert series has been funded by a generous endowment from the William Petschek Family.

Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The audio-visual system has been funded by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

About The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum was established on January 20, 1904 when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, The Jewish Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media. Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture.

General Information

For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

SUMMERNIGHTS FOUR-CONCERT SERIES AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM

Margot Leverett kicks off the series, beginning Thursday July 2nd at 7:30pm

NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum's popular SummerNights program returns, presenting live world music in a concert setting on four Thursdays in July. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm. Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, performing their unique mix of bluegrass and klezmer, kick off SummerNights on July 2. This cosmopolitan concert series features critically acclaimed musicians offering innovative interpretations of music from all over the world. Other scheduled performers include Musette Explosion with accordionist Will Holshouser and guitarist Matt Munisteri echoing on French jazz of the 1930s and 40s with fiery improvisations; the virtuosic brass band music of SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!; and Ljova and the Kontraband performing a mix of Eastern-European melodies, Latin rhythms and jazz-inspired improvisations. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Tickets for each concert are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337 or visit http://www.thejewishmuseumorg/

SUMMERNIGHTS CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULE

July 2, 7:30 pm
MARGOT LEVERETT AND THE KLEZMER MOUNTAIN BOYS

This ensemble combines Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes with Eastern European klezmer melodies to create a soulful sound and a foot-stomping good time. Virtuoso clarinetist Margot Leverett adds depth and complexity to the raw and spirited energy of The Klezmer Mountain Boys.

The Klezmer Mountain Boys - bandleader and clarinetist Margot Leverett, bassist Marty Confurius, guitarist Joe Selly, fiddler Kenny Kosek, and mandolinist Barry Mitterhoff - create a danceable and beautiful blend that draws and delights audiences of all ages. Founded by Margot Leverett (an original member of the Klezmatics) and Barry Mitterhoff (Hot Tuna), and the band has been featured at the Chicago World Music Festival and the Louisville Performing Arts Center.

July 9, 7:30 pm
MUSETTE EXPLOSION

Accordionist Will Holshouser and guitarist Matt Munisteri play musette and swing, echoing French jazz with an emphasis on fiery improvisation, drawing on uptempo music from the 1920s-1940s.

Musette Explosion explores the music of the great French accordionists of the 1930s and 40s (including Gus Viseur, Tony Murena, Jo Privat and others) who along with guitarists such as Django Reinhardt borrowed from American jazz to create Gypsy swing and other delightful hybrids, injecting the dance music of their time with excitement and unparalleled musical creativity.

July 16, 7:30 pm
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!

The musicians of Slavic Soul Party!- featuring Jacob Garchik, John Carlson, Brian Drye, Peter Stan, Ben Holmes, Ron Caswell, Matt Moran and Oscar Noriega - forge virtuosic new brass band music, melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul.

One of the hardest working bands in New York City, the Brooklyn-based Slavic Soul Party! plays nearly 100 times a year in the US, Europe, and beyond. They have performed at Babylon (Istanbul) with the Karandila Orkestar, at Irving Plaza (New York City) with Gogol Bordello, on the Warped Tour (U.S.), and in virtually every major New York club. The band's third CD, Teknochek Collision is on the Barbes Records label, released in 2007 through Ryko Distribution. The band's fourth CD, Remixed, will be released this year.

July 23, 7:30 pm
LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND

East European melodies, Latin rhythms, jazz-inspired improvisations, and classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions that forge new directions, with a nostalgic nod to the past.

Ljova and the Kontraband - Ljova (viola), Inna Barmash (vocal), -- Patrick Farrell (accordion), Mathias Kunzli (percussion), and Mike Savino (bass) - made its debut in June 2006, and has performed at venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Joe's Pub. Founded by film composer Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin, the ensemble also features his close collaborators on vocals, accordion, bass and percussion. The Kontraband's debut CD, Mnemosyne, featuring special guests Frank London, William Schimmel, Uli Geissendoerfer, Alon Yavnai and Marcus Rojas, was released in September 2008.

The 2009 SummerNights concert series has been funded by a generous endowment from the William Petschek Family.

Public Programs at The Jewish Museum are supported, in part, by public funds from by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The audio-visual system has been funded by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.

About The Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum was established on January 20, 1904 when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, The Jewish Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects - paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media. Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture.

General Information For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum's Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Posted by jmwc at 02:43 PM

2009 FESTIVAL CONCERTS OPENING JUNE 29 @ USDAN CENTER

Metropolitan Klezmer plus.... much more.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER opens series on JUNE 29,
Cellist Edward Arron Also Featured.

Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), now entering its 42nd season and declared a 'Best O'f class or camp for 2009 by TimeOutNY/Kids, NY Metro Parents and Long Island Press, will open its series of Festival Concerts, private educational performances for its students, on Monday June 29 at the Center¹s 200-acre woodland campus. These will be in addition to many special workshops that will offer by the visiting artists for Usdan students. The Center¹s 2009 season runs from June 29 to August 14. Usdan is located at 185 Colonial Springs Road, in Huntington, Long Island.

The daily concerts are presented at Usdan¹s 1,000-seat McKinley Amphitheater at 12 Noon and again at 12:30 PM each of the festival. The concerts expose students to the best of music, dance and theatre while they are pursuing their studies in these fields. After several weeks of attending the artist performances, students take over and perform onstage themselves. In addition, there are on-site exhibits displaying the work of visual arts students.

This year¹s schedule of Festival Concerts opens Monday June 29 with Metropolitan Klezmer, whose performances of Yiddish genres have been called ³Impeccable yet electrifying (Village Voice).² On succeeding days, artists include the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet; Broadway¹s Cady Huffman, Tony Award-winner for The Producers, in a musical theater performance; jazz singer and Usdan alumna Jane Monheit; Justin Greer of Broadway¹s Shrek in a special dance performance with cast members of Broadway¹s Wicked and others; Empire Brass, called by critics ³America¹s foremost brass ensemble²; Ballet San Jose, which recently toured China to great acclaim, directed by Dennis Nahat, former Joffrey/ABT star, and a visiting Master Teacher in Usdan¹s Dance Department; Metropolitan Opera soprano Monica Yunus, creator of Sing For Hope, in which stars of music, dance and theatre perform fundraisers for a variety of social causes; Pat Hall, an award-winning dancer and choreographer with an ensemble of musicians and dancers who perform in Afro-Haitian styles; Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinetist of the MET Orchestra, and featured performer at the inauguration of President Barack Obama; cellist Edward Arron, called by the New Yorker ³One of New York¹s most exciting young cellists² with pianist Jeewon Park; and Polish jazz pianist Mateusz Kolakowski, a prizewinner of the International Chopin Competition. The full schedule of concerts appears below.

Many of the artists, including Monica Yunus, Pat Hall, Dennis Nahat, Empire Brass, Justin Greer and Mateusz Kolakowski will, following their performances, conduct workshops with advanced Usdan Center students.

Other special artist workshops include an all-Bach string seminar conducted by Vincent Lionti, violist with the MET Orchestra, culminating in a performance by Usdan¹s String Orchestra IV on July 10; a July 17 and 24 workshop with Carl Strommen, one of America¹s foremost composers of music for student ensembles; and a writing workshop with Broadway playwright Michele Lowe (The Smell Of the Kill, String Of Pearls), on July 20.

Usdan Center has introduced the arts to more than 50,000 Tri-State Area children since its founding in 1968. The Center is open to all young people from age 6 to 18. No audition is needed for most programs ­ rather, admission is based on an expression of interest in the arts. Each summer, 1,600 students are transported to the Center in air-conditioned buses each day. One-third of Usdan¹s students attend on scholarship. Although the mission of the Center is for every child to establish a relationship with the arts, the unique stimulation of the Center has caused many to go on to arts careers. Alumni include singers Jane Monheit and Mariah Carey, actresses Natalie Portman and Lisa Gay Hamilton, and members of major music, theater, and dance ensembles such as the Boston Pops and the New York City Ballet.

In addition to its regular programs, Usdan offers special opportunities for advanced high school-age performing and visual artists. These include Music Staff Internships, a Summer Ballet Intensive, and a year-round program of immersion in the visual arts for selected high school students, the Usdan Honors Art Collective. The Collective, open to talented art students in grades 9 to 11, begins at Usdan Center during the summer, and continues through the following May with bi-weekly meetings at Usdan, and at New York¹s great museums and galleries.

Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years!

WHAT: Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years!

WHO: Confirmed performers include: Theodore Bikel, Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton, The Klezmatics, Judy Kaye, Susan Werner, David Amram, Beyond the Pale, Artie Butler, Patricia Conolly, David Krakauer, Hankus Netsky, Sarah Horowitz, Serendipity 4 (Theodore Bikel, Tamara Brooks, Merima Ključo and Shura Lipovsky), and Michael Wex.

WHEN: 7:30pm Monday, June 15, 2009

WHERE: Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York City

TICKETS: Tickets range from $30 to $500.
Carnegie Hall Box Office - www.carnegiehall.org or 212.247.7800

THE KLEZMATICS JOIN STAR-STUDDED LINEUP FOR THEODORE BIKEL BIRTHDAY CONCERT
AT CARNEGIE HALL ON JUNE 15TH

Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton Among Special Guests at June 15th concert to benefit Juvenile Law Center
http://www.jlc.org/bikel> http://www.jlc.org/bikel New York (June 11, 2009) - The Klezmatics, the Grammy Award-winning world music superstars, have joined the star-studded lineup for Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years, a special concert celebrating the career of world-renowned actor, singer and activist Theodore Bikel.

"Theodore Bikel: The First 85 Years" will benefit the Juvenile Law Center ( www.jlc.org), the pioneering, non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting the rights and well-being of children in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

Bikel will be joined by Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton, Noel Paul Stookey, Peter Yarrow, David Amram, Beyond the Pale, Artie Butler, Patricia Conolly, Judy Kaye, David Krakauer, Sarah Horowitz, Hankus Netsky, Serendipity 4 (Theodore Bike, Tamara Brooks, Merima Ključo and Shura Lipovsky), Susan Werner, and Michael Wex.

The Klezmatics, the only klezmer band to win a Grammy Award, emerged out of the vibrant cultural scene of New York City's East Village in 1986 with klezmer steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and anti-fundamentalism and eclectic musical influences

The special concert will salute Bikel, who made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1956 and went on to forge an extraordinary career as a musician, actor and activist. His stage and screen credits include such classic films as The African Queen and The Defiant Ones and the 1959 Broadway premiere of The Sound of Music, in which he originated the role of Captain Von Trapp. He has performed the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof more than 2,000 times and is currently starring in a national tour of Sholom Aleichem: Laughter through Tears.

A leading light in the early folk music scene, Bikel co-founded the Newport Folk Festival in 1959 and has been a powerful advocate for peace, human rights, and social justice for more than five decades - from the civil rights movements in the United States to apartheid in South Africa to promoting peace and religious pluralism among Israel and its neighbors.

"Throughout my life I have been equally passionate about music and social justice, and have allied myself with others whose use guitars, banjos, fiddles and words to conquer fear and injustice," said Bikel. "I can think of no better way to celebrate that life than a night of music with some of my nearest and dearest friends, and no more deserving cause than protecting the rights of our nation's most vulnerable children."

All proceeds from the concert will go to Juvenile Law Center, which works to protect children's rights and interests in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Juvenile Law Center, which provides legal services at no cost to its clients, is currently heading litigation in the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania judges scandal, a court corruption case that has made international news as one of the most egregious violations of children's rights in U.S. legal history. The organization's work on the case was recently covered by 20/20, the <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/us/28judges.html?_r=1> New York Times, and People magazine.

Honorary committee co-chairs for the event include Barbara Cook, Frank Langella, Pete Seeger, John C. Whitehead, and Elie Wiesel.

"Theodore Bikel was at the forefront of the social justice movement that led to the creation of organizations like Juvenile Law Center, and we're awed and honored that he chose to turn his 85th birthday celebration into an incredible gift for us," said Robert Schwartz, Executive Director of Juvenile Law Center. "Theo is not only helping to promote the rights of people around the world, but also providing a true inspiration the vulnerable children who seek justice and protection."

Tickets range from $30 to $500. A pre concert VIP reception for performers to mingle with sponsors, major donors, and box seat ticket holders will be held in the Rohatyn Room at Carnegie Hall.

Posted by jmwc at 01:27 PM

Music in Our Time: 2009

Sunday, June 7th at the Center for Jewish History
Celebrating the Siegmeister Centenary
"Music in Our Time," the annual concert of Jewish music by contemporary composers, presented by the American Society for Jewish Music in association with the American Jewish Historical Society, will be given on Sunday, June 7th at 3 PM at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC).
For tickets $18 ($12 members); $6 for Students and Seniors, call 212-868-4444 or
www.smarttix.com or
contact the Box Office: (917) 606-8200 /
href="mailto:boxoffice@cjh.org">boxoffice@cjh.org.
Elie Siegmeister's String Quartet No.3 "On Hebrew Themes," will be the featured work on the program, highlighting the centenary celebration of Seigmeister's birth. The performance also includes Jewish-themed works by Leonard Bernstein ("Three Wedding Dances" from Bridal Suite, for piano three (!) hands and four songs written for various famous singing friends), Michael Alec Rose ("The Tree of Life"), David Leisner ("Acrobats" based on a short story of Polish Jews called "The Tumblers"), Louis Karchin ("A Way Separate" with poetry by Ruth Whitman and Hannah Senesh) and Israeli-American composer Max Stern ("Quartet from the East"). These composers have shown a continuing interest in writing music with Jewish themes and references, among their other works.

Music in Our Time: 2009 is a collaboration of the American Society for Jewish Music and the Mannes College of the New School of Music, under the leadership of Dean Joel Lester. Students from the College have frequently participated in performances of Jewish contemporary music, in an effort by the Society and the School to introduce Jewish-themed music into to the repertoire generally offered and performed in academic and conservatory settings.

For tickets $18 ($12 members); $6 for Students and Seniors, call 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com or contact the Box Office: (917) 606-8200 / boxoffice@cjh.org.

Posted by jmwc at 10:20 AM

Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos

Today: Thursday, May 21
Trinity Wall Street, NYC - FREE & outdoors!
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Isle of Klezbos (with special guests) plays the historic, beautiful downtown environs of Trinity Wall Street for outdoor festivities, FREE & open to the public: Lower Broadway at Wall Street, NYC.
One fun set of klezmer & more among the trees & gravestones: live music and free lemonade.
http://trinitywallstreet.org or 212-602-0800
"J. EDGAR KLEZMER" - JUNE 4th in NYC, one night only!
plus band shows: Wall Street (today - FREE & outdoors!), Riverdale 5/31 (klezmer brunch), Eldridge Street 6/7 (Egg Rolls & Egg Creams FREE kick-off), City Winery 6/21 (Father's Day brunch - Kids FREE), Usdan Center 6/29 (Opening Day). Full info below...

Thursday, June 4
J. Edgar Klezmer - original musical documentary theater
The JCC in Manhattan, 8PM
Tickets: $15 JCC members, $20 non-members
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St, NYC
Info & reservations: 646-505-5708 (Event #EAYJEK00S9)
http://jccinmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1022#19656
http://metropolitanklezmer.com/JEK.html

“J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files” premiered to a sold-out house at Dixon Place last year and became a Time Out New York Critics Pick. A musical documentary theater piece based on declassified documents, the show is set on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, examining the life and Cold War time capsule of Dr. Adele Sicular, grandmother of Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos drummer/bandleader Eve Sicular. Combining myriad archival finds, oral history and family gossip, this piece uses theater, multi-media projections, original music and lyrics to investigate the dealings of government agents and Eve’s pianist/psychiatrist/activist grandma. From klezmer to Kodaly to jazz, baroque to boogie woogie to gospel, from Hazel Scott's cancelled TV show to derelict theories of homosexuality, exploring surveillance files leads in even more directions than the Department of Justice could have foreseen.

"J. EDGAR KLEZMER" features...
Melissa Fogarty - vocals / investigator; Pam Fleming - trumpet & flugelhorn; Debra Kreisberg - clarinet & alto saxophone; Shoko Nagai - piano; Yelena Shmulenson-Rickman - investigator / Dr. Silverberg; Eve Sicular - drums, researcher, granddaughter

Director: Isabel Milenski
Projection designer & conductor: Jennifer Griesbach
Lighting designer: Caridad Rivera
Lyricist, composer, writer: Eve Sicular

“J. Edgar Klezmer” -- now with full staging and more new songs -- has received funding from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and development support from Third Street Music School Settlement and New York Theatre Workshop. We also gratefully acknowledge permission to perform “Hazel’s Boogie” by Hazel Scott, granted by her son, Adam Clayton Powell III.

Sunday, May 31**
Klezmer Brunch at The Whitehall Club in Riverdale:
**If you're interested in this show, please call ASAP to let them know...
3333 Henry Hudson Parkway (corner 232nd St), Riverdale NY 10463
Info / reservations: 718-884-2996
Metropolitan Klezmer quintet unit, rain or shine -- outdoors if weather permits!
1PM - Brunch begins...
2PM - Two klezmer sets! (til 4PM)
Tickets include Bagel Brunch Buffet! ($18 / Children 12 & under: $10)
Ballroom & pool deck, ground floor of The Whitehall Apartments
All tickets ordered by mail will be held at a will-call desk, either on the pool deck or outside Club ballroom. Ample street parking; express busses BxM1 & BxM2 from Manhattan; #1 subway to 232nd St stop, then Bx 10 or Bx 20 bus from 231st & B'way to 232nd & HHP stop.

Thursday, June 4
J. Edgar Klezmer - original musical documentary theater
The JCC in Manhattan, 8PM... full info above!
Tickets: $15 JCC members, $20 non-members
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St, NYC
Info & reservations: 646-505-5708 (Event #EAYJEK00S9)
http://jccinmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1022#19656
http://metropolitanklezmer.com/JEK.html

Sunday, June 7
Museum at Eldridge Street
12 noon til 12:30PM
"Egg Rolls & Egg Creams" kick-off parade & mini-concert ...
Metropolitan Klezmer marching unit opens the festivities at the beautiful, historic Museum at Eldridge Street: This festival celebrates both Jewish cultural roots and Chinatown community on the Lower East Side, drawing thousands of participants each year!
12 Eldridge St, NYC 10002
http://eldridgestreet.org or 212-219-0888


Sunday, June 21
City Winery: Father's Day klezmer brunch!
music from 11AM - 2PM, with brunch seating from 10AM
Isle of Klezbos returns to beautiful City Winery in West Soho, NYC
Klezmer brunch show tickets just $10, Kids under 13 - FREE
Special menu (no minimum order) includes bagels, lox and other tasty treats.
Sweeping, sunlit interior, large stage, easy Sunday parking, good subway & bus access.
155 Varick St between Spring & Vandam St, NYC 10013
http://citywinery.com or 212-608-0555

Monday, June 29
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts
Metropolitan Klezmer returns to play for opening day at this beloved and acclaimed performing and visual arts camp in Long Island NY, for ages 6-18.
www.usdan.com

'Twas the Night Before Pesakh in ole NY town...

Metropolitan Klezmer: full octet, 15th Anniversary Show
Tuesday, April 7: Night Before Pesakh!
@ Drom, 85 Avenue A (btw E 5th-6th St) NYC
http://dromnyc.com
music sets from 7:30pm til 9:30pm, doors open 7pm
$10 + two-drink or food minimum
Full tapas menu and bar
Tel: 212-777-1157
Tickets: boxoffice@dromnyc.com
Dinner & table reservations: reservations@dromnyc.com
Event page
METROPOLITAN KLEZMER - as in photo above:
Ismail Butera (accordion)
Pam Fleming (trumpet/flugelhorn)
Melissa Fogarty (vocals)
Michael Hess (violin/ney flutes)
Dave Hofstra (upright bass/tuba)
Debra Kreisberg (clarinet/alto sax)
Reut Regev (trombone)
Eve Sicular (drums/leader)

Photocredit Angela Jimenez
Metropolitan Klezmer plays the Night Before Pesakh at Drom, and also celebrates 15 years together as a band! The full eight-piece lineup still includes all the bandmates who came together for a quintet demo with the late legendary reed player Howie Leess in 1994. The band's current octet features originals Ismail, Michael, Dave, and ringleader Eve, all performing for these special sets at Drom (only blocks from the now-defunct site of their debut at a John Zorn-organized festival in the gallery club adjoining CBGB). Come enjoy Metropolitan Klezmer's annual Passover season show in the still-vibrant side of the East Village, with great food and stage setting. Surprise holiday treats, and previewing a few new tunes from bandleader Sicular's new theater piece "J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files."

Formed in 1994, the adventuresome neo-traditional octet Metropolitan Klezmer plays rollicking dances and ethereal trance tunes, plus exuberant Yiddish swing, klezmer cumbia, soundtrack tango, and genre-defying originals. With an astounding horn section, lithesome accordion, stirring acoustic strings, dynamic syncopating drums, mystical ney flutes, and gorgeous multi-lingual vocals, the bandmates bring experience in styles from Balkan, bebop, and funk to reggae, classical and zydeco.

Metropolitan Klezmer bandmates also perform with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Hazmat Modine, The Microscopic Septet, Sounds of Taraab, Los Mas Valientes, Burning Spear, Anthony Braxton, Indigo Girls, Andy Statman, and their sister sextet, Isle of Klezbos.

Metropolitan Klezmer's fourth album, "Traveling Show," is the band's first live concert release and made many Best of 2007 lists from coast to coast. Repertoire inspiration comes from sources as diverse as archival 78's, Soviet newsreels, family home audio, and well-tuned imaginations. All Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos CDs are distributed worldwide by Stern's Music Ltd.

"One of the finest American klezmer bands" - Songlines Magazine (UK)

Band site http://metropolitanklezmer.com
Myspace http://myspace.com/metroklez

GREG WALL'S 'LATER PROPHETS'

GREG WALL'S 'LATER PROPHETS'
CD Release Party of their new recording!
Ha'orot- The Lights of Rav Kook
http://www.myspace.com/laterprophets
10:15pm
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street
Brooklyn NY 11215

Saturday March 28th
Doors 9pm Cover $15

MOSHE WEIDENFELD
& New Moments
http://www.myspace.com/mosheweidenfeld
9:15 pm

The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street
Brooklyn NY 11215

Gastrophonic Stimulation III

Gastrophonic Stimulation III
April 2, 2008
Matza means Freedom + Bondage
The Organization For Unfunded Culture
Party - Night of Mayhem
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker)
New York, NY

Gastrophonic Stimulation.
Food Music. Nu, what else do you need ?
In our ongoing exploitations of Faith and the Calendar, we arrive to Passover. A holiday devoted to the themes of Freedom and Bondage. Too good to pass up, no ?

Imagine a Shangri La of Sense Stimulation. A raucous party where New York's most infamous chefs prepare you tongue-exploding morsels. Your ears are serenaded with virtuosic outlandish riffs from songs your elementary school choir used to sing. It is a holiday through the looking glass. It is a Celebration. It tastes amazing. It sounds like heaven.

That's the plan. It is… Gastrophonic Stimulation. Food. Music. Nu, what else do you need?

Our chefs explore the fat and the thin, leavening and unleavening.

Our musicians explore songs of freedom and bondage, singing some of the best and worst songs ever written on the subject, played by a monster circus band.

WHO COOKS ????
Leah Koenig - food writer extraordinaire
Dory Kornfeld - champion apron maker
Erin Patinkin - blog maven and NY food expert

WHO PLAYS ????
Rima Fand - violin
Lee Free - drums
Tina Richerson - sax
Benjy Fox-Rosen - bass
Yoshie Fruchter - guitar
Carmen Staaf - accordion
Noah Kaplan- sax
Greg Squared - instruments
Sarah Gordon - vox
Asher Siebert - tpt
Petr Cancurra - sax
Jake Shulman Ment - violin
Avi Fox-Rosen - Impresario, MC, spontaneous conduction, induction and transfusion, vox

WHO'S FAULT IS THIS THING ????
A product of The Organization For Unfunded Culture, with assistance from Leah Koenig and Avi Fox-Rosen.

A Mere $12 for Unparalleled Satisfaction !!!

Klezmer All-Star Bash at Carnegie Hall

Thursday, April 2, 8 pm, Klezmer at Carnegie Hall, with Alicia Svigal’s all-gal supergroup Mikveh. Also on bill: David Krakauer, So-Called, the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, Michael Wex, and more. Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Super cool. Check it out athttp://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_11251.html?selecteddate=04022009

Program Details
David Krakauer, Artistic Director
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness!
The Klezmatics
Brave Old World
Mikveh
Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg Nigunim Trio with Rob Schwimmer
Socalled, Sampler, Piano and Vocals
Katie Moore, Vocals
Michael Wex, Emcee
World renowned clarinetist David Krakauer has put together an evening of some of the most important and influential talents of the klezmer world today. Together they will present a retrospective of the creativity and artistry in klezmer music over the last twenty years.

Hazamir International Jewish High School Choir Gala Concert in NY

Join hundreds of HaZamir teens
from across North America and Israel
for the
16th Annual
HaZamir Gala Concert
March 22, 2009
6:00 PM
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd Street, New York City
Tickets: $30- in advance through HaZamir by March 5th
$36 -at the door on the day of the Gala Concert
Click Here to Download Ticket Order Form and information about becoming a Sponsor
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102435453773&e=001uhdXdN_57mQbLrWQMSwhMOmKs2Bb_ogCTUp_w8TGOlDG3nHUFpngaekH81OWb5up_CWpoFGPgUjD37tZnoRPccPgveBc9RO67bi4wZEo_G6j94R1RMkqwQDnq1IAp6FWo9XleVF9LX88clHGUHiICkYK6C4gdSjGHZ1dDTiRTOw63gvyEvqG4AMv8QVWZh_S2ar9zcdIzU13XTPoBlTxR5KEMEivh_Bg or call us at (212) 870-3339 HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Choir
is a project of the
Zamir Choral Foundation
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 825
New York, New York 10115
www.ZamirFdn.org
HaZamir Phone: 212-870-3339

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

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

Saturday, March 28th at 8:00pm

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

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

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

Photo by Andrea B. Stern

WHO:
Ars Choralis is a nonprofit organization composed of 48 highly disciplined amateur singers dedicated to celebrating the human spirit through the performance of choral music of all periods and styles. They will be accompanied at this event by a small orchestra made up of professional and non-professional instrumentalists representing the Birkenau orchestra.
PHOTOS:
http://shorefire.com/clients/musicindesperatetimes

Isle of Klezbos

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Mardi Gras Special at Drom
female-fueled bands, Eastern European sounds, East Village energy!
ISLE OF KLEZBOS and SANDA WEIGL's Gypsy in a Tree
Mistress of Ceremonies: "Lavinia Co-op" of Bloolips!
7:30pm - 10:30pm (doors open at 7PM)
DROM NYC
85 Avenue A near E. 6th St
New York, NY 10009
212-757-1157
$15. + minimum, full tapas menu and bar
http://dromnyc.com
PHOTO CREDIT Isle of Klezbos pic: Anita Briggs

7:30pm Isle of Klezbos with guest singer Mira Stroika!
ISLE OF KLEZBOS:
Soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-gal klezmer sextet finding the sublime and subversive in Yiddish roots music since 1998. Outmusic Awardwinning Isle of Klezbos has toured from Vienna to Vancouver. "Great ears & great hearts" - Pakn Treger
"Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre" - The New Yorker
"Talent as strong as their name is provocative" - Courier News
Pam Fleming: trumpet/flugelhorn, Debra Kreisberg: clarinet/sax, Saskia Lane: bass, Eve Sicular: drums PLUS guest artistes extraordinaires - Shoko Nagai: piano/accordion AND Mira Stroika: vocals, accordion + piano http://metropolitanklezmer.com/islebios.html

9:00pm Sanda Weigl's "Gypsy in a Tree" (Shoko Nagai, piano & accordion Satoshi Takeishi, percussion; Ben Stapp. tuba; & the amazing Sanda, vocals)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95571973

Mardi Gras guest hostess Lavinia Co-op!
A charter member of London's drag vaudeville troupe Bloolips, Lavinia will grace our Drom Phat Tuesday festivities as Mistress of Ceremonies; no telling what she'll do!

Full coverage AND tickets for this extravaganza: http://dromnyc.com/home/index.php?option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigcal_gigs_id=545&Itemid=37
Table reservations available: reservations@dromnyc.com

SANDA WEIGL page at NPR's website & ISLE OF KLEZBOS website -- scroll for links below. and for a taste of Shoko's and Mira's music, as well as
Isle of Klezbos on MySpace... http://myspace.com/klezbos
Shoko Nagai:
http://myspace.com/shokonagai
Mira Stroika:
http://myspace.com/mirastroika

PercaDu with Mehta, Morag and Yarivm in NY Philharmonic

Feel the beat of today's young Israel in PercaDu's performance of Avner Dorman's percussion concerto Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! Don’t miss Adi Morag, Tomer Yarivm, Zubin Mehta, and the Philharmonic on this night of exhilarating music-making. A Hear and Now Performance. Url: nyphil.org/mehta

Shirei Teva: Jewish Choirs Celebrate Nature through Music

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

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

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

Maqam and Tefilah: The Liturgical Music of Syrian Jews

Prof. Mark Kligman will present
A Lecture sponsored by Magen Savid of Union Square and the Center for Sephardic Heritage
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Magen David of Union Square
3 West 16th Street, btw 5th and 6th Aves
New York, NY
Contact Info Email/RSVP: magendavidny@gmail.com
Admission: $5 (Free for students with ID)

Copies of Professor Kligman’s recently published book Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual, Music and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn will be available for sale at the event.

Hungry for Music? Metropolitan Klezmer TODAY

Sunday, February 1, 2009
11:00am - 2:00pm
City Winery
155 Varick Street at Vandam
New York, NY
Contact Info Phone: 212-608-0555
Email: info@citywinery.com

City Winery is a great new all-ages space for music, sweeping sight-lines with a raised stage and excellent acoustics. The klezmer brunch tradition is reborn in West Soho, with tasty treats including bagels, lox and much more... kosher too! And yes of course they do have the wine list. Wooden floors if you feel like dancing even.
Tickets just $10; kids under 13 are free! No minimum food or drink order, come on down.
Online tickets here:
http://www.citywinery.com/klezmer-brunch-020109
featuring Metropolitan Klezmer ::: special brunch quintet formation ::: PAM FLEMING: trumpet, DAVE HOFSTRA: bass, DEBRA KREISBERG: clarinet/sax, EVE SICULAR: drums, & special guest SHOKO NAGAI: piano/accordion
http://metropolitanklezmer.com

Liyana and David Broza at Rodeph Sholom

David Broza, the famous Israeli rock star, joins with a Zimbabwe sextet in a free concert at the Rodeph Sholom,
Monday, January 26, 2009
7pm
FREE
and Cantor Rebecca Garfein
with friends Diane Solomon-Glover from the Riverside Church of New York and Marvin Hadley, Minister of Music at the Baptist Church For More Information, Please Call the Cantors’ Study at (646)454-3039
Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 W 83rd Street off of Central Park West For more information click here

TWO INNOVATIVE AND CUTTING EDGE BANDS GRACE THE CAFE

A NIGHT OF KLEZMER, MIDDLE EASTERN , JAZZ , AND ROCK FLAVORS

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Doors 8:30PM

Cover $12



Yoshie Fruchter's PITOM



"Yoshie combines influences from Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth and Masada into a rocking
band performing catchy, hooky compositions that both pay tribute to and challenge
the Jewish tradition...Pitom is a hard-edged new addition to the legacy of Radical
Jewish Culture" ---John Zorn

Benjy Fox Rosen's MINUTN FUN BITOKHN



Benjy has toured internationally performing throughout the United States and Europe.
Benjy was a recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Student Artists
in 2007, for “Minutn fun Bitokhn” his suite melding Yiddish songs with improvised
and composed music. And he even sings too. Benjy has studied voice and Yiddish song
with Lorin Sklamberg, of the Klezmatics, and is immersing himself in Yiddish, mostly
by leaving incomprehensible messages on his Grandmother's voicemail.

THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE

401 9TH STREET

BETWEEN 6TH & 7TH AVE.

PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN

MORE INFO & DIRECTIONS HTTP://WWW.JEWISHMUSICCAFE.COM

VOICES OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA

Songs Celebrating Jewish Communities Worldwide: Gershwin, Ravel, Sephardic Melodies, many more
Featuring Dina Kuznetsova, Rinat Shaham, Steven Goldstein, Steven Blier and Michael Barrett
FEBRUARY 18 AND 20 2009
AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL, Kaufman Center
at 8 PM



Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), will present Voices of the Jewish Diaspora on Tuesday and Thursday, February 18 and 20, 2009 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center. It is the third subscription concert of the New York Festival of Song, whose CD, Spanish Love Songs, (Bridge Records, 2008) featuring Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Joseph Kaiser, Steven Blier and Michael Barrett was named one of the “Best of the year” by Opera News.

The program features songs in many languages celebrating the culturally diverse Jewish communities that flourished as the tribes of Israel spread out across the globe: Sephardic melodies arranged by Roberto Sierra; Second Avenue specialties by Irving Berlin and Abraham Ellstein; art songs by Ravel and Mahler; plus music by Gershwin, Bernstein, and Harold Rome.

The cast of Voices of the Jewish Diaspora features soprano Dina Kuznetsova, of the San Francisco Opera, Glyndebourne Festival and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and featured in NYFOS’s Obsession à la Russe last season; mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, an internationally acclaimed Carmen and guest star with the New York City Opera, the Berlin State Opera and such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim; tenor and Broadway actor Steven Goldstein, a frequent performer at the New York City Opera and other major companies, a Founding Member of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, and a regular guest artist on several television series; a string quartet, TBA; and NYFOS Co-Founders and Artistic Directors Steven Blier and Michael Barrett as pianist/hosts (bios below).

Tickets for Voices of the Jewish Diaspora are $40-55, and are available at (212) 501-3330 or www.kaufman-center.org

Merkin Concert Hall is at 129 West 67th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, New York, NY 10023. There are also half-priced student tickets, as available, one half-hour before curtain, and a limited number of $15 student tickets are available in advance from New York Festival of Song at (646) 230-8380.

Upcoming NYFOS concerts at Merkin Concert Hall include Songs of the Irish Poets on March 17 and The Welcome Shore (songs of rivers and oceans) on May 19 and 21. Carried Away (with the lyrics of Comden and Green), the NYFOS Annual Gala will be presented at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on April 14.

PROGRAM FOR VOICES OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA
Piccola
Serenata

Leonard Bernstein

Des Antonius von Padua
Fischpredigt

Gustav Mahler

Gelb rollt mir zu Füssen, from Twelve Persian Songs

Anton Rubenstein

From Songs from the Jewish Folk Poetry, Op. 79
Dmitri Shostakovich
1. Lament over the death of a small child
2. The Thoughtful Mother and Aunt
6. The Forsaken Father
7. Lullaby in Time of Need
11. I Linked Arms with my Husband
From Four Children’s Songs, Op. 35
Ha Geshem (The Rain)

Paul Ben-Chaim
Ruach (Wind)
Meyerke mayn Suhn, from Sept chants populaires

Maurice Ravel

Kaddisch, from Deux mélodies hébraïques

Papir Iz Doch Vays
Traditional

Volt Majn Tate Rajch Geven
Lazar Weiner
Zog Nit Keyn Mol

Hirsch Glick

Ulai laze yihie li ometz

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
From Songs from the Diaspora
Roberto Sierra
1. De las mares altas
2. Échate a la mar y alcançalo
4. Mi suegra la negra
5. Caminí por altas torres
7. La Serena

Sadie Salome (Go Home)
Irving Berlin and Edgar Leslie

Meydele
Abraham Ellstein
Mene, Mene,Tekel, from Pins and Needles
Harold Rome

(Program subject to change)

NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier, called by The New York Times “A national treasure when it comes to the art of song,” also enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. Among the many artists he has partnered in recital are Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Jessye Norman and Samuel Ramey. He has performed throughout North America and Europe, including recitals at Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Milan, and a Live From Lincoln Center telecast. Mr. Blier co-founded the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) in 1988 with Michael Barrett. Since the Festival’s inception he has programmed, performed, translated and annotated over one hundred vocal recitals with repertoire spanning the entire range of song. His discography includes the premiere recording of Leonard Bernsteins Arias and Barcarolles (Koch International), which won a Grammy Award; the NYFOS discs of Blitzstein, Gershwin, and German Lieder (Unquiet Peace); Gershwin’s Lady Be Good! (Nonesuch Records); four albums of songs by Charles Ives in partnership with baritone William Sharp (Albany Records); first recordings of music by Busoni and Borodin with cellist Dorothy Lawson (Koch International); and Spanish Love Songs with Joseph Kaiser and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Bridge Records). This season, Bridge will release the original cast recording of Bastianello / Lucrezia, the acclaimed John Musto and William Bolcom operas with libretti by Mark Campbell, commissioned and premiered by NYFOS.

Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett is also the CEO of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and General Director of the Caramoor International Music Festival. In 1992 Mr. Barrett and his wife Leslie Tomkins founded The Moab Music Festival in Utah, for which he serves as music director. He has conducted major orchestras here and abroad in the symphonic, operatic, and dance repertoire, and is the former director of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Barrett has conducted and played premieres by Bernstein, Blitzstein, Bolcom, Kernis, Sellars, Harrison, Takemitsu, Del Tredici and John Corigliano.

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) was founded in 1988 by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty, humor and originality, combining music, poetry, and history to entertain, educate and create community among audiences and performers. With a far-ranging repertoire of art songs, concert works and theater pieces, its thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from the nineteenth-century salons of Paris to Tin Pan Alley, from Russian art song to Argentine tangos, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music. NYFOS particularly celebrates American song literature and culture, and specializes in premiering and commissioning new American works

Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble

The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble will be holding a free open house
on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 7 PM.
Led by famed klezmer musician Jeff Warschauer
Play wonderful music while making new friends and having a great time!
Free Open house: Tuesday, January 6, from 7-9 PM
Six paid sessions, Tuesdays at 7 PM:
January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 10, 24 (no class Feb 17).
* Open to all instrumentalists who play and read music at at least an intermediate level
* Study with an internationally recognized master instructor
* Learn tunes from the diverse klezmer tradition
* Develop tools for improvisation
Single session class fee: $30. Discount for Workmen's Circle members and/or those attending all six sessions: $150.
Sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33 Street, Manhattan (between Park and Madison).
For more information, please contact Dana Schneider at 212 889-6800 x 271 or email:
dschneider@circle.org
www.circle.org
www.klezmerduo.com

Michael WInograd's Infection @ GSW Spaghetti Dinner!!

Event: Michael WInograd's Infection @ GSW Spaghetti Dinner
What: Dinner Party
Host: The Organization For Unfunded Culture
Start Time: Tuesday, December 30 at 7:30pm
End Time: Tuesday, December 30 at 11:05pm
Where: Judson Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC
GREAT SMALL WORKS
end-of-the-year
SPAGHETTI DINNER bash!
Tuesday, December 30th, 7:30pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, NYC
including...
MICHAEL WINOGRAD'S INFECTION - skeleton mambo with a twist!
Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden - reeds
Joe Moffet, Frank London - trumpets
Dan Blacksberg - trombone
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Avi Fox-Rosen - guitar
Jorge Roeder - bass
Jon Singer - xylophone, percussion
Jason Nazary, Kenny Wollesen - percussion
Kristin Slipp - vox

FLIGHT - a shadow theater piece depicting the journey of a person displaced - shadows created & performed by Erik Ruin, with assistance from Leslie Rogers & live violin score by Katt Hernandez

a GREAT SMALL WORKS Festival of Lights Shadow Show

special new year sonic massages performed by WOLLESONIC

and, excerpts from Bread & Puppet Theater's
DIRT CHEAP OPERA, after Bertolt Brecht

Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom Classical Jazz Concert

NY Premier of “Excursions and Impressions for flute, clarinet, cello and Jazz Trio” by Ted Rosenthal
Saturday, January 31st, at 1PM
The concerts are free.
Please rsvp to enjoy a light lunch before the concert.
Phone 646 -454-3039 or email chambermusic@crsnyc.org.
Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, NYC can be reached by bus or subway. Take the B or C train, or the M86 bus to 86th Street and Central Park West and walk three blocks south.
Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom reprises their classical/Jazz crossover ensemble with the New York Premiere of pianist/composer Ted Rosenthal’s new chamber jazz composition, Excursions and Impressions for flute, clarinet, cello and Jazz Trio, on Saturday, January 31st, at 1pm in Schnurmacher Chapel. The guest ensemble, Ted Rosenthal, piano, Susan Rotholz, flute, Alan Kay, clarinet, Eliot Bailen, cello and Artistic Director, Thomson Kneeland, bass, and Eric Halvorson, drums, will play nueva tango works by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1922) and Pablo Ziegler (1944-), a song selection by George Gershwin (1898-1937), and Ted Rosenthal (1959-) “jazzing up the classics.” Rosenthal, the recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and 1st-prize winner of the 2nd Thelonius Monk Piano Competition, regularly performs and records new treatments and “derangements” of great American standards, jazz tunes and classical themes, as well as his own original compositions. He is the pianist of choice for such top jazz vocalists as Anne Hampton Callaway, Helen Merrill, and Mark Murphey. Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom is presented to bring both the best of the chamber music repertory to the community and to explore the Jewish heritage in music.

Zamir Chorale of New York in Concert at Merkin Hall

Zamir Chorale in Concert
Matthew Lazar, Conductor

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

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

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

Free Synagogue of Flushing presents Judas Maccabaeus

As its Chanukkah gift to the community, the Free Synagogue of Flushing will present a special performance of Handel's Judas Maccabaeus on Friday, December 19, 8:15 PM.

The Bible-based musical masterwork, which tells the story of Chanukkah, is FREE and open to the public.

It will feature celebrated Cantor Steven Pearlston and the distinguished Free Synagogue choir. Robert Barrows will play the synagogue s historic pipe organ, which dates back to 1927, the only pipe organ at a synagogue in Queens. Jason Covey and Charles Grauman will be featured on trumpet. The program will be narrated by Rabbi Michael Weisser in the synagogue s magnificent sanctuary.

Handel s oratorio tells the story of Judas Maccabaeus, better known as Judah Maccabee, a fearless leader acclaimed as one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history. He led the Israelites in a string of victories during the Judean revolt against the Greco-Syrian empire. This is the fifth year Free Synagogue is presenting the concert.

Free Synagogue is located at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard (between Sanford and Main Street), Flushing, NY
Some free on-site parking available. Please call 718-961-0030 or visit www.freesynagogue.org for more information.
Pictured above (left to right) are the synagogue's choir and cantor: Robert Mobsy, Karen Grahn, Cantor Steven Pearlston, Jann Degnan, Carson Baker. (photo credit: Ellen Lengel)
While Handel's Messiah is a tradition around the Christmas holiday, it is not easy to find a performance of the composer's version of the story of Chanukkah. Until five years ago, there was little hope of catching a performance of Judas Maccabaeus during Chanukkah, Cantor Pearlston notes. Most synagogues do not have the resources to revive this great work. Five years ago, we changed that. We are hoping the practice of performing Handel s version of the story of Chanukkah catches on all over the country. In the meantime, the public is invited to hear the concert free of charge at Free Synagogue of Flushing. It is now part of our holiday tradition.

Free Synagogue is located at 41-60 Kissena Boulevard (between Sanford and Main Street), Flushing. Some free on-site parking available. Please call 718-961-0030 or visit www.freesynagogue.org for more information.

About Cantor Steven Pearlston
Steven Pearlston has been cantor of Free Synagogue of Flushing since 1973. In addition, he has spent eight summers affiliated with Opera Fort Collins as, variously, principal tenor, chorus master, or conductor. His other operatic venues include The Aspen Music Festival, Central City Opera, Opera Omaha, The Washington Civic Opera, and the Khan Theater in Jerusalem. He has been a solo performer at Alice Tully Hall in the works of J.S. Bach, and with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, where he also served for ten seasons as chorister. He has appeared as vocalist with the American Ballet Theater, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, and the Joffrey Ballet. To his credit are several world premiere performances of compositions on Jewish themes at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, and at the 92nd Street YMHA Jewish Opera series.

He has toured the United States and Canada with the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, and has appeared in operetta at the Coachlight Dinner Theater and the Darien Dinner Theater in Connecticut. For four seasons he was sent by the Lincoln Center Arts Program to high schools throughout New York City, in concerts designed to introduce classical music to teenagers. He has served on the music faculties of the State University of New York at New Paltz and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan, and has given master classes at Queensboro Community College.

He is the composer of a complete Shabbat Evening Service and arrangements of traditional liturgical melodies. His CD, The Synagogue Music of Frederick Piket, is distributed by the Union for Reform Judaism.

About Free Synagogue of Flushing
Founded in 1917, Free Synagogue stands proudly in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the United States. As the oldest Reform Synagogue in Queens, it was built through the efforts of the Hebrew Woman s Aid Society of Flushing. The Free Synagogue movement is based on four principals: freedom of the pulpit for the rabbi; freedom of the pew - no reserved seating in the sanctuary; direct, full participation of the community; and dedication to the ideals of liberal democracy and commitment to the Jewish faith. The founders belief in commitment, freedom and equality of the sexes remain guiding principals today.

The synagogue itself is an architectural marvel. The neo-classical building, designed by Maurice Courland, features a massive portico supported by four ionic pillars topped by a pediment inscribed with the words of Isaiah, For mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

In the magnificent sanctuary, dark green pilasters are graced with intricate gold-leaf filigree. Stained glass windows, crafted in Czechoslovakia, surround the sanctuary in rich radiant colors. A stained-glass dome designed around a Star of David is centered in the domed ceiling that covers the entire sanctuary.

Jootsy Szaba & Simply Tsfat in Brooklyn Cafe

THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9TH STREET
PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN
DIRECTIONS AT http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

SATURDAY NIGHT December 6, 2008
EDEN A great pop Rock band that has a knack for writing and performing great melodic tunes that you're sure to be humming all week!

JOOTSY SZABA Ephraim Schwab a.k.a. the '7ft bass player' has put together a band of NY's top Musicians, you're sure to recognize some of them from weddings you've attended all over town. They'll be performing wonderful songs composed by Ephraim.
DOORS 8:30PM $12

SUNDAY December 7, 2008

The amazing SIMPLY TSFAT are on tour in the U.S.and will be at the cafe on Sunday. It'll be a real treat. Not to be missed!
DOORS 7PM $15

The Jewish Music Cafe serves fresh Pizza, Burekas, Chees plates, Real Cappuccino, Beer, Wine and more. Visit us at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Yiddish Princess at Pete's Candy Store

Yiddish Princess at Pete's Candy Store!
"Because Yiddish was born to rock!"
Host: People for the Advancement of Yiddish Power Ballads
Start Time: Sunday, November 30 at 9:30pm
Where: Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY

Cyndi Lauper meets Aaron Lebedeff in 1983. Boy George shares a L'khayim with Sholem Sekunda in 1981. Molly Picon and Phil Collins have a wild affair in Kishenev around 1984 or 1985. Yiddish Chestnuts through a faux 80's filter.

Looking to reconcile your love of 80s power rock with your love of traditional Yiddish music? Your search is over. Behold, Yiddish Princess in all its Yiddish belting, guitar wailing, synthed out glory. Come on over and give thanks with us at Pete's Candy Store on the 30th. You won't be sorry.

Yiddish Princess is: Sarah Mina Gordon, vocals; Michael Winograd, synths; Avi Fox-Rosen, guitar; Jon Singer, drums.

Live at YIVO: Andy Statman Trio

"Live at YIVO: Andy Statman Trio" on Tuesday, November 25 at 7:00pm.

A Concert with the "Legendary Clarinet and Mandolin Virtuoso Andy Statman fuses Klezmer, Bluegrass & Jazz " at YIVO:
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY
Start Time: Tuesday, November 25 at 7:00pm

CHOIRS AND CANTORS BRING ON THE LIGHT THIS CHANUKAH

Over 200 adults and children will celebrate Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, in concert, 3 P.M., Sunday, December 14, 2008 as Congregation Rodeph Sholom of Manhattan hosts its unique, multigenerational Festival of Choirs. The ninth annual concert will feature cantors and their volunteer adult and children’s choirs from all over the New York metropolitan area. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Sunday, December 21, 2008.

“There is nothing as special as seeing the young and the young-at-heart join together in song to celebrate the festival of Chanukah,” according to Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein. “We are thrilled to present the ninth annual Festival of Choirs to the New York community.”

Highlights of the concert will include the multigenerational 200-voiced combined choir singing an arrangement of Peter Yarrow’s song (of Peter Paul and Mary fame),“Light One Candle,” and the concert’s finale, “Bring on the Light,” a piece by composer, singer and actor, Danny Maseng, that was commissioned by Congregation Rodeph Sholom for the Festival of Choirs in 2001. Additionally, the combined children’s choir will perform, “Raise up the Menorah” written by Rodeph Sholom musician and congregant, Eliot Bailen and students from the Rodeph Sholom Day School and Religious School.

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

Congregation Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street off of Central Park West in Manhattan. For more information about this concert, please call 646-454-3039.

Cantor Garfein will be joined in concert by Rodeph Sholom’s Assistant Cantor, Shayna Peavey and Student Cantors, Jennifer Strauss-Klein and Katie Oringel. Also participating in the concert will be Cantor Angela Warnick-Buchdahl and Cantor Elizabeth Sacks, Central Synagogue, Manhattan; Cantor Judith Rowland and Cantor Todd Kipnis, Temple Shaaray Tefila, Manhattan; Cantor Janet Leuchter and Music Director, Rose Moskowitz, Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, NY; Cantor Claire Franco, Community Synagogue, Port Washington, New York; Cantor Fredda Mendelson and Music Director, Jayson Rodovsky, Larchmont Temple, Larchmont, New York and Student Cantors Arik Luck and Aaron Kaplan, Manhattan.

Accompanying the cantors and choirs will be Rodeph Sholom Organist and arranger, J. David Williams. Joining Mr. Williams will be the “Festival of Choirs” combo: John Hadfield, percussion, Susan Rotholz, flute, Eliot Bailen, guitar and cello and Daniel Freeman upright bass.

PEY DALID with Special Guests Aryeh Kunstler & Friends

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 22nd
DOORS OPEN 8:30pm $12
PEY DALID returns to the cafe with their infectious melodies, heartfelt vocals and grooving rhythms. Ready to uplift your soul! http://www.myspace.com/peydalid
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street (between 6th & 7th Avenues) Park Slope Brooklyn

Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files

J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files
"musical documentary theater experiment" Performance
Eve Sicular & Isle of Klezbos
Start Time: Monday, November 24 at 8:00pm
End Time: Monday, November 24 at 9:30pm
Where: The NEW Dixon Place, main theater space!
161 Chrystie Street (next to, yes: Sammy's Roumanian...)
New York, NY

New Yiddish Rep

New Yiddish Rep presents:
Straight from the former Soviet Union
Psoy Oy Oy!!!
At home in the global diaspora, four fun filled evenings of stories, songs and mishigass, with poet-singer-songwriter- performance artist and fellow traveler Psoy Korolenko. To Psoy the Jewish experience is not only a personal story, but also a metaphor of transcultural identity and ultimate otherness. He sings and tumults in English, Russian, French, and Yiddish.
Saturday, November 15th at 10 PM
Saturday, December 13th at 8 PM
Saturday, January 3rd, at 8 PM
Saturday, January 10th at 8 PM

Community Synagogue
325 E. 6th Street
Between 1st and 2nd Avenues
NYC
Trains: F to 2nd Ave., 6 to Astor Place, L to 1st Ave., Q to 8th St.
Admission: Donate as you exit.
Reservations: 917 670-1631 on line: newyiddishrep.org Psoy Korolenko, charismatic Russian/Jewish multilingual poet- singer, performance artist, and fellow traveler in the global diaspora, brings his talents to the New Yiddish Rep s stage in a series of four appearances. His unique one-man show balances folk, klezmer, rap, sound poetry and intellectual cabaret/comedy. As a writer and scholar he is known for his interest in otherness, diaspora, territory, minorities, and borderlines. The Jewish experience is to him not only a personal story, but also a metaphor of transcultural identity and ultimate otherness. He sings in English, Russian, French, and Yiddish. Two of his eight CDs recontextualise klezmer - 'Un Vo Iz Der Onheyb Fun Foterland' ("Where is the beginning of the Fatherland"-Soviet Pop Classics in Yiddish translation and Klezmer arrangements, with the All Stars Klezmer Band, Russia - Urkaine - Germany, 2006) and 'The Unternationale' (with Daniel Kahn, US/Germany and Oy Division, Israel, 2008). Recently, he has been working with Alena Arenkova and Yana Ovrutskaya on a new CD of Yiddish songs set to Kadia Molodovsky's poems. A Phd. in Slavic literature, he has been a participant, and guest and lecturer at many Klezfests in Russia and took part in the program 'East Meets West' at Klezkanada-2006. He participated in the Festival of Jewish Culture in Krakov (2005) presenting a show together with Kharkov Klezmer Band. He often performs all over Russia, as well as in Israel and the USA.

Saturday, November 15, at 10 PM
TUMID ZOL ZAYN DER ZUN HOYKH:
An Evening of Soviet Pop Hits in Yiddish, translated by Ayzik Bargteyl and Arn Vergelis, original Soviet Yiddish songs, Jewish songs by Psoy, Ayzik Bargteyl and other contemporary authors in English, Yiddish and Russian. In memory of Ayzik Bargteyl, z''l, the Yiddish poet and translator from Perm, Russia.

Saturday, December 13, at 8 PM
SPELL-ART. Foreign Element in Songs.
The focus is the use of foreign languages in Yiddish songs, as well as the use of Yiddish references in a non-Yiddish performance. The influence of musically 'foreign' elements is represented as well.

Saturday, January 3, at 8 PM
TSU VOS YIDDISH, AZ MIR ZAYNEN SAY-VI YIDN?
Yiddish, Russian, English and Gibberish songs by Psoy Korolenko and his new remakes of Tumbalalaika, Hava Nagila, Abi Gezunt, Ba Mir Bistu Sheyn and other Yiddish 'Default' Hits... And more!

Saturday January 10th at 8 PM
DI VELT DURKH YIDISHE OYGN (The World through Jewish Eyes).
International Hits in Jewish/Yiddish Culture. Music & Video.

New Yiddish Rep gladly accepts donations after the show. There is no admission charge.

The 18th Interfaith Concert of Remembrance in NYC

The 18th Interfaith Concert of Remembrance will be held at
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
112th Street and Amsterdan Ave.

Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8 p.m.

Celebrating 60 years of Israel’s Birth &
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht
Admission is Free
Program... P R O G R A M

BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ARKADY LEYTUSH, Conductor
Canticum Novum Singers/University at Buffalo Choirs,
Members of the Westchester Chorale, Harold Rosenbaum, Director
MAURICE EDWARDS, Master of Ceremonies

PRELUDE & FUGUE IN C MINOR J.S. BACH/LEYTUSH

“GABRIEL” (US Premiere) BENJAMIN YUSUPOV

SERENADE & ALLEGRO GIOJOSO FELIX MENDELSSOHN
for Piano & Orchestra
George Li, Piano
Celebrating Israel’s 60th Anniversary, selections by KLEZSHOP
Gilad Harel, Clarinets - Jonathan Keren, Violin/Viola - Gilad Cohen, Bass/Vocals

“YIZKOR” (US Premiere) JOSEF MALKIN
Cantata for Soprano, Choir & Orchestra
Channa Malkin, Soprano

“VA PENSIERO” from NABUCCO GIUSEPPE VERDI

We are honored to feature poems by award winning Dutch Holocaust survivor Ida Vos in our U.S. premiere of “Yizkor.” As a child survivor, I feel that the Holocaust was the darkest event of the last century. The lives lost must not have been sacrificed in vain. That is why the Interfaith Committee of Remembrance (ICOR) continues through music and art to go beyond language to the soul of man to mark this horrific event, so that it will never be forgotten.

As always, the Concert is free – all the more reason why advance contributions are needed. Contact:
Tel: 212-629-6060
Fax: 212-967-2216
Email: icor@holocaust-concerts.org

Daniel Abrams at Mannes College in NYC

A concert by acclaimed pianist/composer Daniel Abrams will take place on
Wed. Oct 15 at 8 pm
at the MannesCollege of Music,
150 West 85 St, NYC
No charge: seating begins at 7:30 pm
The program includes the American premier of Abrams' "Musical Portraits from Wagner's 'ing' (from Abrams' "Opera For Piano" series)
More information: www.Daniel-Abrams.com/Opera-For-Piano The program also includes ABRAMS' Chaconne on "Dido's Lament" from Dido And Aeneas , Variations on "Voi Che Sapete" from The Marriage of Figaro, and Variations on "Ein Engel Leonora" from Fidelio. Opera For Piano retains each pieces original style, preserving its complex moods and subtle powers -- as if the composers themselves had written the operas as piano music. They are not transcriptions, but music that Abrams' deeply loves and wished to be able to play on the piano. Abrams considers this series his most important legacy to music and feels that Opera For Piano is adding some glorious music to the performing pianist's repertoire.

DANIEL ABRAMS has been internationally acclaimed as both a pianist and as a composer. He had a double Fulbright in piano & composition (which was renewed for a second year) to the Royal Academy of Music, and performed extensively throughout Europe as an American Cultural Ambassador. His highly heralded New York debut at Town Hall in 1957 brought him major management and years of concertizing. Also, appearances on many TV and radio shows (including The Today Show, the Mike Wallace show, Joe Franklin, Pegeen Fitzgerald, etc.) In 1962, shortly after surviving a plane crash while on a concert tour in S. America, Abrams accepted a teaching position at Goucher College and The Johns Hopkins University. While in Baltimore, he founded and, for sixteen years, conducted The Goucher/Hopkins Community Symphony. He has continued to perform as soloist with orchestras and in recitals, but has restricted his appearances to the area in which he lives. Recently, Martha Argerich heard some of Abrams' music and included it in her Lugano Piano Festival.

Following is an excerpt from The New York Herald Tribune review for the first concert (of his four concert cycle) of the Mozart piano sonatas at the Kaufman Y : Mr. Abrams, as has been noted before, is born to the piano; he cannot help but make beautiful sounds and he brings to whatever he tackles not only musicianship, technique and interpretative prowess, but a very special kind of intellectual radiance that quite sets him apart. In short, the five sonatas heard contained a veritable galaxy of refinements--indeed, the sort of refinements that seem slowly to be creeping out of contemporary piano playing. We urge you to attend."

More information: www.Daniel-Abrams.com/Opera-For-Piano

www.Daniel-Abrams.com

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG 2008-2009, 21st SEASON

Leonard Bernstein, Voices of the Jewish Diaspora and Fugitives (composers who left Germany during the 1930's), will all be themes of the acclaimed New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org)presentations for 2008-9. A guest artist will be the rising Israeli mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, already an acclaimed Carmen in Europe.

Opens September 23, 2008 in NYC with a Bernstein/Bolcom Celebration

Also: Fugitives on NOVEMBER 18 AND 20, 2008 and Voices of the Jewish Diaspora on February 10 and 12, 2009.

Below is a description of the season: NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG 2008-2009, 21st SEASON

OPENS SEPTEMBER 23 IN NYC WITH A BERNSTEIN / BOLCOM CELEBRATION

ALSO: VOICES OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA (FEBRUARY 10 AND 12) FUGITIVES (NOVEMBER 18 AND 20)

GUEST ARTISTS INCLUDE ISRAELI MEZZO-SOPRANO RINAT SHAHAM

NEW YORK CONCERTS AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL, WEILL RECITAL HALL, THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), co-founded and directed by pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, who “reinvented the song recital during the 1990’s with daring and dramatic programming” (The New Yorker), announces its 21st season (2008-2009).

The company’s New York City concerts begin on September 23 at the newly renovated Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, with A Bernstein / Bolcom Celebration. The concert pays tribute to two of NYFOS’s guiding lights, Leonard Bernstein and William Bolcom; Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris, will cap the evening with a selection of songs from their vast repertoire. The program also celebrates the ninetieth birthday of NYFOS’s Founding Advisor, Leonard Bernstein, who bestowed the American premiere of his last work, Arias and Barcarolles, to the newly-formed company. Their subsequent recording of the work in 1989, with Judy Kaye and William Sharp, earned the composer a posthumous Grammy Award for Best New Composition.

Other concert programs this year include Fugitives (Nov. 18 and 20), works by composers who fled Europe during Hitler’s rise to power; Voices of the Jewish Diaspora (Feb. 10 and 12), songs in many languages from the worldwide Jewish community; Songs of the Irish Poets, scheduled for St. Patrick’s Day, featuring the lyricism of the Emerald Isle’s greatest writers set to music by Beethoven, Britten and others; and The Welcome Shore (May 19 and 21), songs of rivers and oceans, by composers ranging from Brahms to Noël Coward. Special events include Latin Lovers (January 14), the fourth annual NYFOS@Juilliard concert. The collaboration between NYFOS and The Juilliard School’s Vocal Arts Department celebrates the students’ creative energy and superior vocal talent; alumni of the program have begun to participate in NYFOS’s regular season concerts. NYFOS will also have a Gala Concert on April 17 at Weill Recital Hall, program to be announced.

Guest artists at NYFOS for 2008-2009 include: mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, who will be featured in opera and concert at Paris’ Theatre de la Champs-Élysées and the Lucerne Festival; mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, the Lucrezia in Bastianello / Lucrezia last spring, and soon to sing Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera’s New York Premiere of Doctor Atomic; mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, who will be seen as Cherubino and in many other roles at the Metropolitan this season; tenor Joseph Kaiser, the Tamino of the Kenneth Branagh film version of The Magic Flute, and Narraboth in the Met’s Salome this year as well as at Covent Garden; and soprano Dina Kuznetsova, featured in NYFOS’s Obsession à la Russe, who will star as Alice Ford in a new production of Falstaff at Glyndebourne, and will appear with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

On its touring schedule, NYFOS brings Bastianello / Lucrezia, the acclaimed double-bill of one-act comic operas by William Bolcom and John Musto with librettos by Mark Campbell, to the Moab Music Festival in Utah on September 5; The Last Time I Saw Paris, French song from The Jazz Age to post-World War II, to the Robbie Colomore Concert Series in Chester, Connecticut (October 26) and the Andover Chamber Music Series in Massachusetts (November 9); Fugitives to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., presented by the Vocal Arts Society (November 14); Voices of the Jewish Diaspora to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland at College Park (February 15); and Songs of the Irish Poets to the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY (March 14), which culminates a week-long professional training residency, Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars, sponsored by and presented at Caramoor. Leading the week's events will be NYFOS artistic directors and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett who will be working with a select group of young singers from around the country invited to participate in this auspicious project. The program will be repeated as part of NYFOS’s New York City 2008-2009 concert season at Merkin Concert Hall on March 17, 2009.

The initial season of the Caramoor Vocal Rising Stars Program will be underwritten, in part, by The Terrance W. Schwab Fund for Young Vocal Artists.

NEW YORK SEASON SCHEDULE
Tuesday and Thursday, SEPTEMBER 23 & 25, 2008
Merkin Concert Hall
“A Bernstein / Bolcom Celebration”

A tribute to two of New York Festival of Song’s guiding lights, Leonard Bernstein and William Bolcom, quintessential American composers and great spirits who have long provided wisdom, guidance, and music to NYFOS. Songs from Bernstein's Peter Pan, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Songfest, Wonderful Town, On the Town, Arias and Barcarolles; Bolcom's Cabaret Songs, I Will Breathe a Mountain, Briefly It Enters, McTeague; and a special appearance by Joan Morris and William Bolcom, who will share signature songs from their repertoire.

Artists: Sari Gruber, soprano; Rebecca Jo Loeb, mezzo-soprano; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano; Renée Tatum, mezzo-soprano; Alex Mansoori, tenor; William Sharp, baritone; Marc Webster, bass; William Bolcom, Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, piano

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Tuesday and Thursday, NOVEMBER 18 & 20, 2008
Merkin Concert Hall
“Fugitives”

An evening of songs from the concert stage, the movies, Broadway, and Berlin's cabarets that trace the varied fortunes of the gifted composers who fled destruction during Hitler’s rise to power--some to begin new lives and brilliant careers abroad, others to meet with darker fates. Music by Kurt Weill, Franz Schreker, Arnold Zemlinsky, Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler, Friedrich Hollaender, Emmerich Kálmán, and many others.

Artists: Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Kaiser, tenor; Steven Blier, piano

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009
Peter Jay Sharp Auditorium at The Juilliard School

“Latin Lovers: An Evening of Cuban and South American Song,” the fourth annual NYFOS@Juilliard concert.

Songs by Guastavino, Astor Piazzolla, Carlos López-Buchardo, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Lecuona, and many others.

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Tuesday and Thursday, FEBRUARY 10 & 12, 2009
Merkin Concert Hall
“Voices of the Jewish Diaspora”

Songs in many languages celebrate the culturally diverse Jewish communities that flourished as the tribes of Israel spread out across the globe. Sephardic melodies arranged by Alberto Hemsi and Roberto Sierra; Second Avenue specialties by Irving Berlin and Joseph Rumshinsky; art songs by Ravel, Milhaud, and Rubinstein; plus music by Gershwin and Bernstein.

Artists: Dina Kuznetsova, soprano; Rinat Shaham, mezzo-soprano; Steven Goldstein, tenor; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, piano

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Tuesday, MARCH 17, 2009
Merkin Hall
“Songs of the Irish Poets”

The lyricism of the Emerald Isle’s greatest writers, including Thomas Moore, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Paul Muldoon, as set to music by Beethoven, Britten, Balfe, Barber and others; with a group of traditional Irish songs featuring the fiddle playing of Paul Woodiel.

Artists: Paul Appleby, tenor; other members of Caramoor’s Terrence W. Schwab Vocal Rising Stars Program; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, piano

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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Spring Gala

Program TBA

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Tuesday and Thursday, MAY 19 & 21, 2009
Merkin Concert Hall
“The Welcome Shore”

A hymn to rivers and oceans stirs the heart and the imagination as the summer season draws near. Music by Elgar (the magnificent Sea Pictures), Fauré, Guastavino, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Noël Coward, Pauline Viardot, and many others.

Artists: Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Philip Cutlip, baritone; Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, piano

New York Festival of Song was founded in 1988 by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty, humor and originality, combining music, poetry, and history to entertain, educate and create community among audiences and performers. With a far-ranging repertoire of art songs, concert works and theater pieces, its thematic recitals have included programs from Brahms to the Beatles, from the nineteenth-century salons of Paris to Tin Pan Alley, from Russian art song to Argentine tangos, from sixteenth-century lute songs to new music. NYFOS particularly celebrates American song literature and culture, and specializes in premiering and commissioning new American works. They have produced five recordings on the Koch label, including a Grammy Award-winning disc of Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles, as well as the Grammy-nominated recording of Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen on New World Records, and the Bridge Records release of the NYFOS program Spanish Love Songs. NYFOS’s concert series, touring programs, radio broadcasts, recordings, and educational activities have inspired a new interest in the creative possibilities of the song program, and have inspired the creation of thematic vocal series around the world.

Artistic Director Steven Blier has programmed, performed, translated and annotated over 100 song programs with repertoire spanning the entire range of American song, art song from Schubert to Szymanowski, and popular song from early vaudeville to Lennon-McCartney. In addition, Mr. Blier enjoys an eminent career as an accompanist and vocal coach. Among the many artists he has partnered in recital are Renée Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, Samuel Ramey, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham and Frederica von Stade. Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett is also the CEO of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and General Director of the Caramoor International Music Festival. In 1992 Mr. Barrett and his wife Leslie Tomkins founded The Moab Music Festival in Utah, for which he serves as music director. He has conducted major orchestras here and abroad in the symphonic, operatic, and dance repertoire, and is the former director of the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Barrett has conducted and played premieres by Bernstein, Blitzstein, Bolcom, Kernis, Sellars, Harrison, Takemitsu, Del Tredici and John Corigliano.

Funding for the Bastianello / Lucrezia CD release on Bridge Records was provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Commission and first performance of Bastianello by John Musto and Mark Cambell and Lucrezia by William Bolcom and Mark Campbell by New York Festival of Song, Inc. were supported by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

NYFOS’s New York City concert series is funded, in part, by the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.

PHARAOHS DAUGHTER at Summer On the Hudson

PHARAOHS DAUGHTER, JULY 27, HOWARD FISHMAN AUGUST 3

Summer On the Hudson, one of New York City s largest free summer festivals, continues its eighth season with a summer of unique contemporary music events at Riverside Park South. Summer On The Hudson is an Annual Arts and Cultural Festival in Riverside Park South Presented by The New York City Department Of Parks & Recreation

Contact Information for all events: Telephone 311, or (212) 408-0219, or visit www.nyc.gov/parks/soh, or www.riversideparkfund.org

Music Events:

Date: Sundays, July 13 to August 24
Event: Acoustic Sundays
Time: 7:00pm 9:00pm
Location: Pier I, Riverside Park South, Manhattan.
Description: Enjoy spectacular sunsets over the Hudson as you listen to some of New York s best jazz, R&B, and world music. Sponsored by Riverside South Properties.

July 27 Pharaohs Daughter
Aug 3 Howard Fishman

July 27: Pharaohs Daughter

Blending a psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean sensuality, Basya Schechter leads her band, Pharaohs Daughter, through swirling Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings and electronica. Their sound has been cultivated by Basyas Hasidic music background and a series of trips to the Middle East, Africa, Israel, Egypt, Central Africa, Turkey, Kurdistan and Greece. She began retuning her guitar to sound like a cross between an Arabic oud and a Turkish saz, with harmonic minor melodies, and odd time signatures.

Daphna Mor on recorders, zurna and melodic
Violinist Meg Okura
Bassist Shanir Blumenkranz
Rock and Middle Eastern drummer Yuval Lion
Jazz and world pianist Jason Lindner
Cellist Noah Hoffeld

Aug 3: Howard Fishman s Biting Fish Brass Band

The Biting Fish Brass Band plays a classic Nola repertoire of spirituals, blues, gospel and funk. Tunes like "Liza Jane," "Bye and Bye," "Just a Closer Look" and "Tipitina" are mixed in with a few select originals and tasty surprises, all played in the second-line style and all suitable for ridiculous dancing.

Howard Fishman, composer, guitarist and bandleader, has come to be recognized as one of today's most agile interpreters of the American songbook. Whether he is performing his own compositions or drawing on a seemingly endless repertoire of American popular music, it is all filtered through a sensibility and aesthetic entirely his own.

Pharoah's Daughter at JCC Manhatan in June

June 16, 2008
Pharaoh's Daughter
New York, NY 7:30pm at JCC 334 Amsterdam Avenue

$5 - Drisha Artist Fellows: dancers, filmmakers, poets, musicians, visual artist who have been the recipient of an Arts Fellowship in the last year are presenting their new works. For more info: info@jccmanhattan.org and www.drisha.org

KlezKamp Road Show

Sunday July 13
at the Center for Jewish History
15 W 16th Street, NYC
12:30pm--6:00pm classes, workshops.
7:00pm-8:30pm dance party

The workshops feature classes on Yiddish dance, culture, women's songs, radio, community, papercutting, visual arts and more.
For reservations, Call: phone: (212) 532-8202
or Email: info@livingtraditions.org

Living Traditions 207 W. 25th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 USA
phone: (212) 532-8202 fax: (212) 473-8096
www. livingtraditions.org
info@livingtraditions.org

USDAN CENTER ANNOUNCES 2008 FESTIVAL CONCERTS

SPECIAL JULY 17 CONCERT OF REMEMBRANCE AND CELEBRATION; 60th ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL, WITH EXCERPTS FROM CHILDREN S OPERA BRUNDIBAR Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), America's premier summer arts day camp, will present its annual Festival Concerts, private 30-minute educational performances, just for Usdan students, at its on-site 1,000-seat McKinley Ampitheater, beginning Monday June 30.

A unique event this season will be the July 17 Concert of Remembrance and Celebration; 60th Anniversary of Israel, hosted by the international concert presenter and programmer Caroline Stoessinger. The concert will include excerpts from Brundibar, the children s opera first performed in the Terezin concentration camp, and since World War II, sung continually in Israel and throughout the world. The Usdan Center Junior Chorus will perform.

Usdan Center is at 185 Colonial Springs Road, Wheatley Heights (Huntington), New York, (631) 643-7900. For more information, visit www.usdan.com. Opening the program of concerts on June 30 will be the rising tap dance team of DeWitt Fleming and Jared Grimes, guest artists with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, tap festivals and Off-Broadway shows; other artists include jazz star Jane Monheit (a former Usdan student), tenor Gerard Powers, who has sung leading roles with the New York City, San Francisco and Bolshoi Operas; Voices of Broadway, members of the casts of Broadway s Wicked, Curtains and Mamma Mia; Empire Brass, considered North America s finest brass quintet; Polish jazz pianist Mateusz Kolakowski, prizewinner of the Chopin and Paderewski piano competitions; the Brasil Guitar Duo, 2006 Concert Artists Guild winners; The Chameleons, the popular mime troupe; violinist Adela Pe a, founder of The Eroica Trio. She will perform with Music From Copland House, the resident ensemble of the late composer Aaron Copland s landmark home; the unique Faustwork Mask Theatre, whose synthesis of theater, physical comedy, music, dance and poetry have delighted audiences internationally for 25 years; violinist Rachel Lee, soloist with orchestras around the world; and jazz pianist/composer Ted Rosenthal, winner of the Thelonius Monk International Piano Competition and performer with Wynton Marsalis, Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer and Jon Faddis. He will present the New York instrumental premiere of his jazz quintet SwingFlight, first performed last March with the Nilas Martin Dancers at Manhattan s DiCapo Opera Theater.

After the first few weeks of the Usdan season, onstage performances begin by students of the many programs at the Center. A complete schedule of professional performances follows.

Usdan Center is at 185 Colonial Springs Road, Wheatley Heights (Huntington), New York, (631) 643-7900. For more information, visit www.usdan.com.

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, America's largest summer arts day camp, was formed to introduce young people, ages 6 to 18, to the arts through performance and study with a professional faculty of artist-teachers. The Center's mission is to provide children with the arts as a companion for life through great teaching, and the camaraderie of fellow students who share a love the arts. Usdan offers more than 40 programs in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, media arts, chess, creative writing, and nature and ecology. No audition is required for most Usdan programs, and one-third of the Center's 1,600 students receive tuition assistance to study at Usdan. Children commute to the Center every weekday for seven weeks each summer, traveling on on air-conditioned buses that leave from most New York metropolitan-area neighborhoods. A special feature of the students' daily program is the Center's series of Festival Concerts, daily educational performances by distinguished artists, such as the Tokyo String Quartet, James Galway, Canadian Brass, jazz legends Jimmy Heath and Billy Taylor, the Limon Dance Company, and cast members of current Broadway shows. Although the Center's goal is to encourage participation in the arts, Usdan's unique program has also inspired many former students to go on to professional careers. Alumni include actors Natalie Portman, Lisa Gay Hamilton (featured in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean on Broadway) and Jordan Leeds (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change), Tony Award-winning playwright Michele Lowe, singers Mariah Carey and Jane Monheit, and members of the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and numerous ballet companies including Pacific Northwest, Ballet San Jose, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Usdan Center is an agency of UJA-Federation of New York

FESTIVAL CONCERTS Schedule (dates not indicated feature student performances):

Monday, June 30: Dewitt Fleming, Jr. and Jared Grimes
Tuesday, July 1: Gerard Powers
Wednesday, July 2: Adela Pe a with Music From Copland House
Thursday, July 3: The Chameleons
Monday, July 7: Mateusz Kolakowski
Tuesday, July 8: Voices of Broadway
Wednesday, July 9: Rachel Lee
Thursday, July 10: Empire Brass
Monday, July 14: Brasil Guitar Duo
Tuesday, July 15: Faustwork Mask Theatre
Thursday, July 17: Concert of Remembrance and Celebration: 60th Anniversary of Israel
Friday, July 18: Jane Monheit
Monday, July 21: Ted Rosenthal Quintet

Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate

World premiere
June 25, 2008 at 7pm at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm
Written & conceived by Gerard Edery
Directed by Henning Rübsam

A soul-stirring musical journey, "Spirit of Sepharad: From Casbah to Caliphate" traces the unique migration of Sephardic music from medieval Spain, across North Africa, to the Middle East. Combining music, dance and illuminating projections, this dynamic mixed-media performance brings to life all the rich cultural strains that influenced Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews. Featuring an array of virtuoso musicians from multiple disciplines, the program includes songs of secular and liturgical origin, spanning many centuries to the present and many continents from Ancient Persia (present day Afghanistan and Iran), Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Syria, Turkey, The Balkans, Jerusalem and Kurdistan (then, as now, part of Iran, Turkey and Iraq). The musical story of a rich cultural heritage that synthesizes diverse influences, "Spirit of Sepharad" is a celebration of the Sephardic/Mizrahi experience that invites the possibility of coexistence, tolerance, respect and peace among all peoples.

Gerard Edery (vocals, guitar, saz) master of Sephardic song, winner of the Sephardic Musical Heritage Award

Amir Vahab (vocals, saz, percussion) Iranian master vocalist of Persian sacred and folk music

Glen Velez (percussion) Three-time Grammy Award winning master drummer and composer

Ara Dinkjan (oud) Aremenian virtuoso who is considered one of the top oud players in the world

Barbara Martinez (dancer, vocals, narrator) Flamenco star dancer, singer and actress

Meg Okura (violin, erhu) highly acclaimed world music, classical and world chamber jazz virtuoso

Directions Subway: 4/5 to Bowling Green, walk west along Battery Place. W/R to Whitehall Street, walk west along Battery Place. 1 to South Ferry, walk north along Battery Park/State Street, turn left and walk west on Battery Place. J/M/Z to Broad Street, walk one block west to Broadway, and then south to the corner of Battery Place and Bowling Green. Walk west on Battery Place. Bus: M1 to Battery Park. M6 to Battery Park. M9 to Battery Park City, stops in front of Museum. M15 to Battery Park City. M20 to Battery Park City, stops in front of Museum.

Nashir Celebrates Israel at 60

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

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

Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom Classical Jazz Concert

“Theme, Moods and Angles” for flute, cello and Jazz Trio”
Friday, May 30, at 8PM

Chamber Music at Rodeph Sholom reprises their classical/Jazz crossover ensemble in a new program which premiere’s pianist/composer Ted Rosenthal’s recent chamber jazz composition, Theme, Moods and Angles for flute, cello and Jazz Trio, on Friday evening, May 30th, at 8pm in Schnurmacher Chapel. The guest ensemble, Ted Rosenthal, piano, Cantor Rebecca Garfein, vocals, Susan Rotholz, flute, Eliot Bailen, cello and Artistic Director, Thomson Kneeland, bass, and Chris Parker, drums, will play works by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1922) and Pablo Ziegler (1944-), Hector Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Benny Carter (1907-2003) and Ted Rosenthal (1959-). Mezzo-soprano Cantor Rebecca Garfein will perform a selection of songs by Charles Dumont, Marvin Hamlisch, and Richard Rodgers. Rosenthal, the recipient of three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and 1st-prize winner of the 2nd Thelonius Monk Piano Competition, regularly performs and records new treatments and “derangements” of great American standards, jazz tunes and classical themes, as well as his own original compositions. He is the pianist of choice for such top jazz vocalists as Anne Hampton Callaway, Helen Merrill, and Mark Murphey.The free concert is open to the public and rsvp is requested. For more information and to reply, call the Cantor’s Study 646.454.3039, or email chambermusic@crsnyc.org. Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, NYC can be reached by bus or subway. Take the B or C train, or the M86 bus to 86th Street and Central Park West and walk three blocks south.

Music in Our Time 2008 at CJH

On Sunday, June 1 at 3 PM, at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC), the American Society for Jewish Music, in association with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Mannes College of Music of the New School, presents "Music in Our Time 2008," our annual concert of contemporary music.

As those of you who have attended the Society's previous concerts of contemporary music know, not only are these concerts an important part of the Society's mission, but they are filled with vital, committed performances of Jewish music by wonderful artists.

The program for "Music in Our Time 2008" consists of works by Paul Richards, Arkadie Kougell, Ofer Ben-Amots, Lionel Semiatin and Paul Schonfield.

For tickets, please contact the CJH Theater Box Office, phone: (917) 606-8200
email: boxoffice@cjh.org .

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Sextet at Jazz Standard

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb Sextet¹s Debut at the Jazz Standard

"A commanding vocalist" -- New York Times

"The elegance in this music is juxtaposed against the rawness of its sensuality" -- Billboard

A.R.G. Sextet explores the balance between improvisation and the written page. Though using traditional jazz group instrumentation, the band challenges the assumed role of each of the instruments, particularly the voice. They recently recorded a new CD anticipated to be released in 2008, and will be playing a ³preview concert² at the world renowned Jazz Standard this June. The Sextet's repertoire features compositions and arrangements by Ayelet Rose Gottlieb. She uses her own lyrics as well as poetry by Rumi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. among others. Arrangements include tunes by Ornette Coleman and Bob Dylan.

June 9th, 7:30 & 9:30pm
www.jazzstandard.net

More Upcoming Events For Ayelet Rose Gottlieb

Israel @60 Festival, Washington DC, June 1st Ayelet will perform with Anat Fort (piano) and Rafi Malkiel (Trombone) at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington DC as part of the Israel @60 Festival. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb¹s Mayim Rabim represented Brooklyn at the Best of the Boroughs Festival.

"The stunning Gottlieb possesses a powerful voice, using it with authority, soaring over the beautifully voiced chorus of four."-- JazzTimes

"Powerfully straddles jazz, cantorial and the avant-garde... Mayim Rabim succeeds both musically and conceptually, one of the years finest vocal releases"-- All About Jazz

Jerusalem-born Ayelet Rose Gottlieb¹s song cycle is composed to erotic poetry from the biblical Song of Songs. Directed by Franny Silverman with video projections by Renate Aller, Mayim Rabim is a multi-sensory performance that reveals the complexity of a young woman caught in the great waters of love. The performance was chosen to represent Brooklyn in this year¹s Best of the Boroughs Festival.

Korczak's Orphans Opera in Brooklyn

The opear, Korczak's Orphans will be presented by the Opera Company of Brooklyn Saturday, May 3, 7pm at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue.
,br /> http://www.operabrooklyn.com/performances.htm This Yom Hashoah, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue hosts the Opera Company of Brooklyn's premiere of Korczak's Orphans. This opera, by composer Adam Silverman and librettist Susan Gubernat, is a moving, impassioned story based on the life of Janusz Korczak (1878-1942). Directed by SWFS member Judy Weinstein and member Will Conard performs. Tickets are $25 and can be purchesed at the door, by calling 212-567-3283 or at http://www.operabrooklyn.com. Free to Stephen Wise Free Synagogue (SWFS) Members. Stephen Wise Free Synagogue(30 West 68th Street, Manhattan; subway: 1 to 66th Street or B/C to 72nd Street). A Polish Jew, Korczak was a medical doctor, radio celebrity, and author who protected 200 children in a Jewish orphanage he founded amidst the chaos of the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto. Korczak maintained the orphanage as a refuge until he and his orphans were expelled from it and led to death at Treblinka.

Korczak is a famous figure in Poland, one of the heroes of World War II. He spent his life tending to the needs of orphaned children, and he used his influence to gain necessary supplies for his orphanage: food, money, and medicine. Unwilling to let the Nazi occupiers define him, he refused to wear the yellow Star of David required for all Jews, an offense for which he was jailed by the Gestapo. As the war progressed and his grim fate became increasingly evident, his response was to prepare himself and the children for a dignified processional out of the gates of the orphanage, past a stunned citizenry and muted cadre of SS officers.

The New York City Opera’s orchestra and soloists under the baton of Music Director George Manahan performed act II of Korczak’s Orphans in 2004. The New York Times raved that “the music of Act II, performed complete, was pulsing, glitteringly orchestrated and harmonically pungent.” Jay Meetze, founder and artistic director of the Opera Company of Brooklyn, will conduct, Judith Weinstein will direct the cast, Christopher Bruckman will assist on the piano, with the OCB Children’s Chorus prepared by Sarah Jane Hintz-Rau. Tracy Wise, reprising his role as Korczak, leads a cast of singers that features Mary Rauh, Maija Lisa Currie, Candice Hoyes, Kathryn Krasovec, Danielle Musick, Laurie Rubin, Giuseppe Spoletini, Mark Kaczmarczyk and Jonathan Hare. For more information about Korczak’s Orphans, the history behind the opera’s story and the artistic partners, please visit http://adambsilverman.com/korczak.

--STARRING: Tracy Wise as Janusz Korczak and Korczak's Father, Mary Rauh as Stefa Wilczynska, Maija Lisa Currie as Esterka Winogran, Candice Hoyes as Miss G. and Nun 1, Kathryn Krasovec as Female Passerby and Nun 2, Danielle Musick as Nun 3, Laurie Rubin as Nun 4, Giuseppe Spoletini as Bula Szulc, Male Passerby and SS Soldier 1, Mark Kaczmarczyk as Mr. S., Adam Czerniakow, Father Christmas/Herod, SS Soldier 2, Jonathan Hare as Mr. M., Neighbor and Rickshaw Driver

CHILDREN's CHORUS-Sarah J. Hintz-Rau, Conductor, Ben Albert as Marek, Alexander Bird as Abrasha, Will Conard as Stasiek and Jozef, Sabrina Edelman as Ghetto Child, Caroline Lenz as Hanna, Marleina Hanau Cohen as Ghetto Child, Natasjah Holtz as Ghetto Child, Kristina Lakshin as Helenka, Caroline Lenz as Orphan, Trishena Ronqiue Lewin as Orphan, Devon Lewis Gubrud as Ghetto Child, Taylor Lockwood as Aleksandra, Tyler Mitnik as Henryk (Young Korczak), Kapria Reletta Joseph as Orphan, Yonatan Rozin as Jerzyk, Lydia Mariko Stetson as Ghetto Child

Holocaust Remembrance Day at Museum of Jewish Heritage

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

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

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

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

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

Jazz artist Matt Savage

Jazz composer and Bösendorfer piano artist Matt Savage and his Trio will celebrate his 16th birthday at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th Street, NYC, on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at 8 pm with an electrifying performance of award winning original compositions and jazz standards. The concert is free of charge and open to the community. Suggested donations ($20 / $10 students) will benefit Kulanu, or “All of Us,” the innovative weekly course offered by Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, open to all Jewish children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Diagnosed with autism at age three, Matt’s journey from the depths of the disorder to international Jazz artist at 16 is an extraordinary one. His young career has already led to appearances on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brian,” NPR’s “Piano Jazz” with Marian McPartland, and performances at famed New York Jazz venues including the Blue Note, Birdland, and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. Matt Savage brings new life to the music of jazz greats, past and present. His enormous respect for their legendary bodies of work inspires and fuels his own unique jazz compositions and interpretations. As People Magazine astutely wrote in 2002, “…jazz phenom Matt Savage unlocks a door to genius using 88 keys.” In 2008, Matt Savage and his trio won nation-wide recognition for their sixth album, Hot Ticket:Live in Boston, which reached #2 in live jazz album sales on Amazon.com and #11 on the Jazzweek charts.

Kulanu, a weekly Religious School class offered by Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, is open to all children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The curriculum is designed to engage children in home and synagogue celebrations, and to gain knowledge of and comfort with Jewish traditions, rituals, and culture. The class incorporates behavioral principles including visual supports and positive reinforcement. Through hands-on, lively activities, students explore the themes of Jewish holidays, life-cycle events, and Jewish identity.

This concert will showcase the extraordinary artistry and accomplishments of Matt Savage and will highlight the latest innovations that address the social and educational needs of children with ASD and their families. For more information, contact: Symi Rom-Rymer at 212-877-4050 x 266, communications@swfs.org

Alicia at Riverdale Y

Thursday April 24, 2008

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

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

Musicians of Lenox Hill to Perform Chamber Music of Jewish Composers

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

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

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

Seventh Night of Pesakh at DROM

Thursday, April 24 - Passover at DROM, 7:30PM Metropolitan Klezmer Seventh Night of Pesakh show! The annual Passover tradition continues at a new club: Metropolitan Klezmer debuts at the East Village's swank Drom Pesakh guest artists:Shoko Nagai on accordion & piano, plus vocalists Judith Berkson and, fresh from New York City Opera as stand-in lead soprano in Mark Morris' King Arthur, Melissa Fogarty. Details below or see... http://dromnyc.com/home/index.php?option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigcal_gigs_id=128&Itemid=37

Thursday 4/24, 7:30PM
DROM World Music Club & Restaurant
85 Avenue A (btw E. 5th & 6th St's), NYC
Tickets: $12 + club food or drink minimum
info: 212-777-1157
http://dromnyc.com

Formed in 1994, the adventuresome neo-traditional octet Metropolitan Klezmer plays rollicking dances and ethereal trance tunes, plus exuberant Yiddish swing, klezmer cumbia, soundtrack tango, and genre-defying originals. With an astounding horn section, lithesome accordion, stirring acoustic strings, dynamic syncopating drums, mystical ney flutes, and gorgeous multi-lingual vocals, the bandmates bring experience in styles from Balkan, bebop, and funk to reggae, classical and zydeco.

Their fourth album, "Traveling Show," is a live concert album on Best of 2007 lists from coast to coast, with more review praise from All About Jazz and the UK's fROOTS (Folk Roots Magazine). Repertoire inspiration comes from sources as diverse as archival 78's, Soviet newsreels, family home audio, and well-tuned imaginations.

Metropolitan Klezmer:
Ismail Butera (accordion - April 9th Eldridge Street show)
Pam Fleming (trumpet/flugelhorn)
Michael Hess (violin/ney flutes)
Dave Hofstra (upright bass/tuba)
Debra Kreisberg (clarinet/alto sax)
Reut Regev (trombone)
Eve Sicular (drums/leader)...
& special guests:
Shoko Nagai (accordion/piano - April 24th Drom show),
Michael Farkas (vocals - April 9th Eldridge Street show),
Judith Berkson & Melissa Fogarty (vocals - April 24th Drom show)

http://metropolitanklezmer.com
http://myspace.com/metroklez

websites, guest artists:
Michael Farkas - vocals, April 9/Eldridge Street
http://thewiyos.com
http://myspace.com/thewiyos
Shoko Nagai - accordion/piano, April 24/Drom
http://myspace.com/shokonagai
Judith Berkson - vocals, April 24/Drom
http://judithberkson.com
myspace.com/judithberkson
Melissa Fogarty - vocals, April 24/Drom
http://melissafogarty.com

Seminaries Join in Choral Concert in NY

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

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

WOMEN AT WORK

Downtown Music Productions
mimi stern-wolfe, artistic director

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

WOMEN AT WORK

SUNDAY MARCH 16 @ 3PM

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

JEWISH PEOPLE'S PHILHARMONIC CHORUS

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

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

ADMISSION: $25, $15

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Himmelman

Peter Himmelman
8:30
$15
THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9TH STREET
PARK SLOPE
BROOKLYN NEW YORK
F TRAIN TO 7TH AVENUE.
MORE INFO AT WWW.JEWISHMUSICCAFE.COM

Fifth Annual Klezmer Concert at Town and Village Synagogue

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

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

the groove keeps movin at jm cafe in park slope

THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9TH STREET (between 6th & 7th Ave)
PARK SLOPE
BROOKLYN NEW YORK
F TRAIN TO 7TH AVENUE.
MORE INFO AT
WWW.JEWISHMUSICCAFE.COM If image does not appear click here http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Merkin Hall features Feinsmith NY Premieres

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

Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble Open House

The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Ensemble will be holding a free open house on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 7 PM.
Led by famed klezmer musician Jeff Warschauer
Free Open house: Tuesday, January 15, from 7-9 PM
Six paid sessions, Tuesdays at 7 PM: January 22 and 29, February 5, 12, 19 and 26
*Play wonderful music while making new friends and having a great time!
* Open to all instrumentalists who play and read music at at least an intermediate level
* Study with an internationally recognized master instructor
* Learn tunes from the diverse klezmer tradition
* Develop tools for improvisation
Single session class fee: $30. Discount for Workmen's Circle members and/or those attending all six sessions: $150
Sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33 Street, Manhattan (between Park and Madison).
For more information, please contact Dana Schneider at 212 889-6800 x 271 or email: dschneider@circle.org

Statman Chanukicks- It -Off

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHIRA BETZIBUR in New Rochelle for Israel's 60th

SHIRA BETZIBUR in Concert

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

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

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

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

Eyal Maoz's Edom upcoming in NY

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

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

Sunday October 7 Alicia Svigals at 92nd St Y

With accordionist Patrick Farrell and vocalist Inna Barmash
Lost and Found: Musical Treasures of the Jewish Ukraine
On Sunday, October 7, Alicia Svigals, the world's leading klezmer fiddler and founder of the Grammy-winning ensemble The Klezmatics, presents lost musical treasures of the Jewish Ukraine. Drawing on the fieldwork of Moshe Beregovsky, a Soviet-Jewish ethnomusicologist, Svigals brings to life, through music and conversation, tunes recorded on wax cylinders before World War II. This incredible collection disappeared when Beregovsky was exiled to Siberia but was recently rediscovered in a dusty archive. Come help resurrect this beautiful old culture -- singing and dancing welcome!

Sun, Oct 7, 2007, 4:00pm
3:30 Russian Tea Reception

Tickets $30
92nd Street Y,
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, NYC
Buttenwieser Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jewish Artists Line Up This Fall atThe Museum of Jewish Heritage

The Museum of Jewish Heritage is pleased to announce its concert line up for October and November of this year. All events will take place at the Museum of Jewish Hertiage, 36 Battery Place in Lower Manhattan.
www.mjhnyc.org

Monday, October 8, 7 P.M
Tuesday, October 9, 7 P.M.
Wednesday, October 10, 7 P.M.

Idan Raichel
Songs for Peace: The Acoustic Series
Featuring Idan Raichel; with Marta Gomez, Somi, Cabra Casay, and Itamar Doari
Join dynamic Isaraeli artist Idan Raichel for his very first series of intimate acoustic concerts in New York. Idan blends the unique sounds of Israel's cultural tradition with styles frm around the world for a sound that Billboard Magazine calls a "multi-ethnic tour de force." Showcasing new and old musical partnerships, Idan and artists will celebrate the universal language of music.

Tickets $30-$45 and are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum Box Office at 646.437.4202. A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $75 and include admission to a wine-reception with Idan and guests after the October 10th show.

*** Wednesday, October 17, 7 P.M.
Vladimir Feltsman
Virtuoso Pianist: Music from Poland and Russia
This fall, dynamic artist Vladimir Feltsman will perform music from Poland's keyboard master, Chopin, and one of Russia's most dramatic piano pieces: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Feltman's celebrated version of the epic work has been called "electrifying" and the "best live performance" by top critics from The New York Times to the Seattle Times. Mr Feltsman will be interviewed in a post-concert conversation.

Tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum Box Office at 646.347.4202 and are $35 for adults, $25 for students and $15 for members.
***
Wednesday, November 7, 7 P.M.
Misha and Cipa Dichter: Two- and Four-Hand Piano Masterworks

World-famous pianists Misha and cipa Dichter are back for another evening of superlative piano performances. The New York Times called their last sold-out appearance at the Museum-Babi Yar Remembered: Yuvtushenko and Shostakovich in Word and Song-"illuminating."

Equally at ease in the solo piano repetoire or playing together, the program will feature the Dichters performing music by two beloved Jewish-American icons, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, in Copland's El Salon Mexico, arranged by Bernstein. Misha Dichter will also be performing solo favorites by Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt. The Dichters will be interviewed in a post-concert conversation.

Tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum Box Office at 646.347.4202 and are $35 for adults, $25 for students and $15 for members.

Svigals-Rushefsky in "Mahler's World: Jewish Music in the Hapsburg Empire"

Klezmer violin superstar Alicia Svigals returns to the Maverick on July 14 at 8:00 p.m. with tsimblist Pete Rushefsky.

Ms. Svigals and Mr. Rushefsky brought down the house last summer at Maverick, and this year¹s concert is called "Mahler¹s World: Jewish Music in the Hapsburg Empire." The concert is part of Maverick¹s season-long celebration of the centenary of Gustav Mahler¹s arrival in America to lead the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.

Classical concerts are Saturday evenings at 6:00 and Sunday afternoons at 3:00, with jazz, world music, and klezmer on selected Saturday nights at 8:00. Young people¹s concerts are Saturday mornings at 11:00.

The box office opens an hour before each concert; the hall opens half an hour before curtain time. Except for the last weekend of the season, ticket prices are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Books of ten tickets, to be used in any combination at any regular concert throughout the season, may be purchased at the box office for $150 or by writing to Maverick Concerts, P.O. Box 9, Woodstock, NY 12498. Children under 12 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Donors of $50 or more to the sustaining fund of the series may attend the season-closer Friends of Maverick Concert.

Tickets are general admission with no reserved seating, and a special ³rock bottom² area provides pay-what-you-can seating. The Maverick Concert Hall is accessible to persons with disabilities.

The Maverick Concert Hall is located on Maverick Road, near Woodstock, approximately one mile from the road¹s junctions with either Route 375 or Route 28. For additional information, visit www.maverickconcerts.org , call the Maverick¹s recorded message line at 845-679-8217, or send e-mail to maverickmuse@aol.com. Klezmer is the traditional, celebratory music of eastern European Jewry, played in the old world and the new at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other simkhes, or happy occasions. Euphoric, ecstatic, and heart-wrenching, its beauty and high emotion have made it a worldwide phenomenon, as electrifying on the concert stage as it is joyful to dance to with family and friends. Klezmer music in this country has typically been jazzy brass bands led by clarinets, but earlier Eastern European klezmer ensembles were string bands led by violins accompanied by the tsimbl. A stringed instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl is played with mallets padded with cotton or leather. The multiple strings at each pitch give the tsimbl its rich and haunting sonority. It was a popular instrument in klezmer bands across Eastern Europe from the 1600's through the first decades of the twentieth century. The instrument is still quite popular in parts of Eastern Europe and Balkans and is often associated with Rom (gypsy) musicians. Gustav Mahler was a towering figure in the artistic and intellectual hotbed that was Vienna at the end of the 19th Century. Mahler used, in his symphonies and vocal works, music from both ³high² and ³low² culture to a degree unknown before this. He was born to Jewish parents in what is now the Czech Republic and, to a great extent, the klezmer music of eastern Europe was a root source of melodic and harmonic material for him. Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Klezmatics and of the all-women band Mikveh, is considered by many to be the world's foremost klezmer fiddler. During the past decade, she almost singlehandedly revived klezmer fiddle playing, which came close to extinction in the last century; traditional klezmer violin style is now being played again by hundreds of her students, including most of today's best professional players. She taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, who recorded her compositions as duets with Ms. Svigals accompanied by the Klezmatics. Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl. He is also executive director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, a New York not-for-profit dedicated to preserving and nurturing the performing arts traditions of immigrant and ethnic communities. He is a well-known performer and lecturer on klezmer and other traditional musics and has a number of published articles to his credit. Maverick Concerts, near Woodstock, New York, is the oldest continuous summer chamber music series in America. The Maverick Concert Hall was built by hand in 1916 in the pristine Catskill woodland, and now it is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. Presenting concerts by nationally and internationally known performers at affordable prices, Maverick continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative 101-year-old Maverick Art Colony.

Yamaha is The Official Piano of Maverick Concerts; the C7 grand piano on the Maverick stage appears through the generosity of Yamaha Music Corporation of America.

Maverick Concerts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is supported by The Maverick Endowment Fund, Friends of Maverick, public and private foundations, local businesses, the Towns of Woodstock and Hurley, and by public funds from The New York State Council on The Arts, a state agency. The commissioning and performance of the chamber orchestra version of ³Final Alice² is supported by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star

Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star
From June 26, 2007 through September 22, 2007
Vincent Astor Gallery
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Hours: Tues, Wed, Fri & Sat: 12 to 6; Thurs: 12 to 8
Learn more:
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=446
Look at the NYPL brochure on Molly Picon (pdf) http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/imagesexhib/mollybro.pdf Molly Picon Exhibit Info:
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/lpa/lpaexhibdesc.cfm?id=446

Please see below for full details on the exhibition and related public programs.
For years she was the "sweetheart" of New York’s Lower East Side Yiddish-speaking community. Her shows, her sheet music, her records, her films, her radio programs, won her a special place in their hearts. Then, as she increasingly began appearing in more English language shows, television programs, and films, an even larger audience fell in love with her: the American public. Picon's changing career reflects the contributions immigrant cultures have made to our entertainment industry, our city, and our nation.

This exhibition, in cooperation with the Museum of the City of New York, includes more than two hundred photos, programs, posters, sheet music, records, radio scripts, set renderings, costumes and more. Just a sampling of some of the items on view: photos from Molly Picon’s 1923 New York Yiddish Theatre debut in the Jacob Kalich/Joseph Rumshinsky production Yankele; Picon’s costume from Yankele; photos and selected sheet music by Abraham Ellstein for the Joseph Green 1936 Yiddish film Yidl mitn fidl (Yidl with a Fiddle)and the 1938 Yiddish film Mamele; radio scripts from her 1941 series Nancy from Delancey; memorabilia from the Jerry Herman/Don Appell 1961 production of Milk and Honey, her 1960s appearances on the television show Car 54, Where are You? and the Norman Jewison film Fiddler on the Roof.

The exhibition is curated by Dr. Diane Cypkin, Professor of Media and Communication Arts at Pace University, and herself a performer who has appeared in many Yiddish and English language productions. The institutions' look at Yiddish culture in New York continues at the Museum of the City of New York with The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community, April 22, 2007 - September 17, 2007

NEW YORK'S BEST EMERGING JEWISH ARTISTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 AT 7 P.M.

SECOND ANNUAL NEW YORK'S BEST EMERGING JEWISH ARTISTS TO BE HOSTED BY COMEDIAN SETH HERZOG
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

.WHAT: Second Annual New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists

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

WHEN: Wednesday, July 25 at 7p.m.

COST: $25 members, $30 non-members

NEW YORK, NY - After last year's sold-out show which the Downtown Express called "authentic, funny - and yes, subversive...," the Museum welcomes a new line-up of the best local Jewish talent. Established performers will introduce emerging Jewish artists for a dynamic evening of cutting-edge comedy, music, and film at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on July 25 at 7 p.m. Following the program the festivities will continue with an after party and open bar on the Museum's third floor terrace overlooking New York Harbor.

New York City has always been a hot bed for up-and-coming talent, and it is no coincidence that this city is also home to one of the largest Jewish populations. From the Yiddish theaters of the Lower East Side and rock clubs on the Bowery, to Greenwich Village's beat poets and abstract expressionists, the contributions of Jews have left an indelible mark on downtown culture. Come hear the next generation of Jewish voices and be able to say "I saw them when."

Comedian Seth Herzog will host. Presenters include: producer Alyssa Abrahamson; pianist Misha Dichter; filmmaker Pearl Gluck; and producer DJ Handler. Participating artists include: comedian Brett Gellman; filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum; "human beatbox" Yuri Lane; musician Rachel Sage; quizmaster Noah Tarnow; pianist Simon Tedeschi; and poet Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Visit www.mjhnyc.org for the most up-to-date list of performers.

Tickets to this event are $25 members, $30 non-members. Tickets may be purchased online at www.mjhnyc.org http://www.mjhnyc.org or by calling 646-437-4202.

New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund. Additional sponsors include the Young Friends of the Museum, Zyr Russian Vodka, and Abarbanel Kosher Wine. The Village Voice is the media sponsor.

The Museum's three-floor Core Exhibition educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the rich tapestry of Jewish life over the past century--before, during, and after the Holocaust. Current special exhibitions include From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust, and The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream. The Museum offers visitors a vibrant public program schedule in its Edmond J. Safra Hall. It is also home to Andy Goldsworthy's memorial Garden of Stones, as well as James Carpenter's Reflection Passage, Gift of The Gruss Lipper Foundation. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan.

Posted by jmwc at 12:00 AM

NEW YORK'S BEST EMERGING JEWISH ARTISTS

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 AT 7 P.M.

SECOND ANNUAL NEW YORK'S BEST EMERGING JEWISH ARTISTS TO BE HOSTED BY COMEDIAN SETH HERZOG
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

.WHAT: Second Annual New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists

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

WHEN: Wednesday, July 25 at 7p.m.

COST: $25 members, $30 non-members

NEW YORK, NY - After last year's sold-out show which the Downtown Express called "authentic, funny - and yes, subversive...," the Museum welcomes a new line-up of the best local Jewish talent. Established performers will introduce emerging Jewish artists for a dynamic evening of cutting-edge comedy, music, and film at the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust on July 25 at 7 p.m. Following the program the festivities will continue with an after party and open bar on the Museum's third floor terrace overlooking New York Harbor.

New York City has always been a hot bed for up-and-coming talent, and it is no coincidence that this city is also home to one of the largest Jewish populations. From the Yiddish theaters of the Lower East Side and rock clubs on the Bowery, to Greenwich Village's beat poets and abstract expressionists, the contributions of Jews have left an indelible mark on downtown culture. Come hear the next generation of Jewish voices and be able to say "I saw them when."

Comedian Seth Herzog will host. Presenters include: producer Alyssa Abrahamson; pianist Misha Dichter; filmmaker Pearl Gluck; and producer DJ Handler. Participating artists include: comedian Brett Gellman; filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum; "human beatbox" Yuri Lane; musician Rachel Sage; quizmaster Noah Tarnow; pianist Simon Tedeschi; and poet Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Visit www.mjhnyc.org for the most up-to-date list of performers.

Tickets to this event are $25 members, $30 non-members. Tickets may be purchased online at www.mjhnyc.org http://www.mjhnyc.org or by calling 646-437-4202.

New York's Best Emerging Jewish Artists has been made possible, in part, by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the generous support of The September 11th Fund. Additional sponsors include the Young Friends of the Museum, Zyr Russian Vodka, and Abarbanel Kosher Wine. The Village Voice is the media sponsor.

The Museum's three-floor Core Exhibition educates people of all ages and backgrounds about the rich tapestry of Jewish life over the past century--before, during, and after the Holocaust. Current special exhibitions include From the Heart: The Photojournalism of Ruth Gruber, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust, and The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream. The Museum offers visitors a vibrant public program schedule in its Edmond J. Safra Hall. It is also home to Andy Goldsworthy's memorial Garden of Stones, as well as James Carpenter's Reflection Passage, Gift of The Gruss Lipper Foundation. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan.

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Music in Our Time: A Concert of Music by Contemporary Jewish Composers

The American Society for Jewish Music presents:
June 10, 2007, 5:30 pm
Music in Our Time: A Concert of Music by Contemporary Jewish Composers

Composers include Leo Kraft, Joel Mandelbaum, and Yehudi Wyner.
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Admission: $12/$6 ASJM/AJHS/CJH members, seniors
Please contact the CJH Theater Box Office
phone: (917) 606-8200
email: boxoffice@cjh.org

Ramon Tasat in Concert in NY

Hazzan Dr. Ramon Tasat in Concert
Sunday, May 20th 2007
7:00 pm
Congregation Ansche Chesed
251 West 100 street (corner West End Avenue)
New York, NY 10025
212-865-0600
Tickets $20. in advance $25. At the door Children under 13 Free
Tickets on line www.ramontasat.eventbrite.com

Hear the echoes of faraway lands that hosted Sephardic Jews for centuries and enjoy a kaleidoscopic array of musical styles in a thoughtful exploration of the age-old liturgical texts as well as joyous and moving Ladino folk songs exploring eternal themes of love and life.

The Washington Post calls "Argentine guitarist-cantor Ramon Tasat and Russian pianist-cantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn international leaders in the field of Jewish religious music". Don't miss their rare joined New York appearance accompanied by the harmonious sounds of Community Chorus Shirei Chesed and virtuoso instrumental ensemble Fiesta Sefarad.

Born in Buenos Aires, Cantor Dr. Ram?n Tasat learned Ladino, the language of the Sephardic people, at his grandmother's knee; his style reflects the rich history and drama of this extraordinary culture. Trained in five different countries, he received a doctorate in voice performance from the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral dissertation is entitled The Cantillations and Religious Poems of the Jews of Tangier, Morocco.

Cantor Tasat has toured Europe with world-renowned Dr. Robert Shaw and has participated in international festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. He has appeared in numerous opera productions including "Le Nozze di Figaro", "AIl Impressario", and "La Traviata" and has drawn worldwide critical as well as audience acclaim.

His most notable appearances include the Kennedy Center Concert Hall; the Israeli Embassy; the Jewish Music Festival of Berkeley, California; Saint Cre, France; Siena, Italy; Helsinki, Finland; Barcelona, Spain; and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival.

Dr. Tasat has been the recipient of numerous awards including First Place at the Montpelier Cultural Arts Centers Recital Competition and a National Endowment of the Arts Grant. Dr. Tasat's lectures, workshops, and programs range from "The Music of Modern Israel" to "Echoes of Sepharad."

Ramon's numerous recordings include Fiesta Sefarad, Trees cry for rain, Teshuva, Kantikas di amor i vida. He has published several music books on Jewish subjects.

Tonight May 17 Anat Fort Trio

Thursday, May 17th at 9 and 10:30PM at Cornelia St. Café
29 Cornelia St. NYC
Reservations and Information:
212.989.9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com


Another performance:
Saturday, 5/19 at 8 and 9:30pm at An Die Musik Live!
409 North Charles Street
Second Floor
Baltimore, Maryland
Reservations and Information: 888.221.6170 or 410.385.2638
www.andiemusiklive.com

Both gigs feature trio with Gary Wang-bass and Roland Schneider-drums. Music old and new, some from A Long Story and some from from other stories.
www.anatfort.com "...It's music with a transparency and a familiarity that seduces the listener and fools her into thinking that these melodies and motives have always been in the air, just waiting for Fort to capture them. Much has been made of Fort's Mid-East background, which has been transplanted to New York, and almost every tune is touched in some way by scales from her original homeland. Yet, “Lullaby” is so totally American, especially as played by Robinson, as to almost make one laugh out loud. It sounds so quintessentially American, and yet nothing is obvious, provoking the question as to what makes it so”. ---Budd Kopman, AllAboutJazz “Israeli pianist Anat Fort has a considerable maverick streak—as evidenced on her new ECM disc, A Long Story. She knows that the way to make the most of her adventurousness is to find a good band and stick with it. Her partners tonight are regulars Gary Wang (bass) and Roland Schneider (drums)”. ---K. Leander Williams, Time Out, NY

Songs of Mark Warshawsky and Mordecai Gebirtig for Choir

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

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

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

Nashir! The Rottenberg Chorale in Merkin Hall

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

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

Theodore Bikel to Receive Award

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

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

Alicia Svigals in concert: April 11 at the Stone

Alicia's Saturday 4/7 show has been rescheduled to Wednesday 4/11. With Uli Geissendorfer and guest Iliya Magalnyk. Violinist Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics and the world's best-known klezmer fiddler, and maverick jazz pianist Uli Geissendorfer join forces at the Stone in NYC on Wednesday night, April 11 at 10 p.m. Sitting in: Russian accordion virtuoso Iliya Magalnyk.

The Stone: 2nd St and Ave. C in Manhattan.

Tickets: $10

Visit the Stone's website, www.thestonenyc.com http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maagaJOabxD49bIFEx6eafpQav/

Asefa at Makor

March 28, 7:30p, $10 -- at Makor http://www.asefamusic.com/ Asefa is playing the first set on a bill with Eastern Blok at Makor. This will be a great night of music at a great club Makor, 35 W. 67th Street, Manhattan. More information is on Asefa website.
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Rodeph Sholom Chamber Music Features Music of Schulhoff, Mendelssohn and Ginastera

New York City’s Congregation Rodeph Sholom
Presents Free Chamber Music Concerts for the Community
in Schnurmacher Chapel

On March 24th at 1 pm, Congregation Rodeph Sholom Chamber Music Series will present its second concert featuring world class musicians in the congenial and intimate setting of the Schnurmacher Chapel. Guest artists Susan Rotholz, flute, Mayuki Fukuhara and Andrea Schultz, violins, Sarah Adams, viola, and Eliot Bailen, cello and Artistic Director, will perform works by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Ervin Schulhoff (1894-1942), and Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983). The free concert is open to the public at Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd Street, New York. For more information, call 212 362-8800, x1337 or email eleder@rodephsholom.org. The March 24th program features flute and string quartets in works ranging from the 19th century Classic-Romantic tradition of Mendelssohn to the Schoenberg influenced 20th century Expressionistic music. Czech composer and pianist Ervin Schulhoff, who perished in the Holocaust at the Wurzberg camp, wrote music influenced by the art and politics of 1930’s Europe, embracing Dada and Jazz while continuing to express his heritage in the Czech folk music tradition. Internationally acclaimed composer pianist, Alberto Ginastera, became renown for modern Neo-Expressionist masterworks and commissions while, similarly, tapping the rich resources in the rhythms, melodies, and spirit of the musica criolla of his native Argentina. Impresiones de la Puna (1934), Ginastera’s popular early composition, follows the plaintive opening quena, named for the Incan flute, and poignant second movement, with a vibrant dance in the closing movement. Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923) by Schulhoff renders a lively jazz interpretation of a classic Baroque dance suite. Felix Mendelssohn’s intellectual and artistic passion for chamber music reached its maturity and personal clarity in String Quartet no. 3 in D Major, Op. 44, no. 1 (1838) composed in Liepzig at the height of his career. His talents as composer, pianist, and violinist, prodigious output for the chamber musician, and international influence as orchestra conductor and festival organizer propelled chamber music to the forefront of mid-19th century music and and helped secure the future of the genre in the repertory. The RODEPH SHOLOM CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES is presented to bring both the best of the chamber music repertory to the community and to explore the Jewish heritage in music. The concerts are free. Please rsvp to enjoy a light lunch before the concert. The third and final concert of the season will be May 19th and will feature Jazz pianist Ted Rosenthal, bass player Thomson Kneeland, and vocal selections by mezzo-soprano Cantor Rebecca Garfein. For more information, call 212 362-8800, x1337 or email eleder@rodephsholom.org.

“A Night In The Old Marketplace”

FRANK LONDON'S " A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE"
Featuring
Ron Caswell, tuba, bass
Brandon Seabrook guitar, banjo, mandolin
Art Bailey keyboards, accordion
Aaron Alexander, drums
And vocalists... La Tanya Hall, Manu Narayan (star of Broadway's Bombay Dreams), Craig Wedren (from Shudder to Think), The Klezmatic's Lorin Sklamberg and many others featured on the recording,

“A Night In The Old Marketplace”
http://www.soundbrush.com
CD Release Party:

Monday, March 26th 8pm
Barrow Street Theater
27 Barrow Street
New York

Tickets via Telecharge 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250
For more information read this POSTER with INFO
Running Time:
75 minutes, with no intermission

Audience:
May be inappropriate for 10 and under.
Children under the age of 4 are not permitted in the theatre.
Important Notice
Performance begin promptly. Latecomers will not be seated!

Soundbrush Records presents A Night in the Old Marketplace by Jewish music giant Frank London with lyrics by acclaimed playwright Glen Berger. Created for Alexandra Aron's theatrical adaptation of the legendary 1907 Yiddish play by I.L. Peretz, this extraordinary score mixes Jewish, jazz, classical, rock and world beats with a dose of Kurt Weill and Tom Waits. This collection of 21songs is performed by an array of stars including Manu Narayan (lead of Broadway's Bombay Dreams), the Klezmatics' Lorin Sklamberg, pop legends They Might be Giants, Celtic singer Susan McKeown, and Craig Wedren, leader of the cult rock group Shudder to Think.

Alicia Svigal: It Would have Been Enough, But it Wasn't. Now there's More in April at John Zorn's Stone place

At the Stone in NYC, 2nd St. and Ave C, www.thestonenyc.com Violinist Alicia Svigals, a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics and the world's best-known klezmer fiddler, is the curator for the month of April at the Stone, John Zorn's performance space on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

John Zorn, the composer who was recently awarded a MacArthur genius grant, opened the Stone to provide a venue for the most creative new music in New York. Each month he selects a different musician to curate the series, and for April he asked Svigals to put together a lineup that would tap into her eclectic and offbeat musical worlds.

The fifty acts Svigals booked revolve around three themes: Jewish music, virtuoso female instrumentalist/improvisers/composers, and all kinds of string music, traditional and contemporary. From an electronic violist turning Bartok on his head to the lightning speed of traditional Bulgarian fiddling; from a master of the traditional klezmer clarinet to spontaneous 21st century keyboard explorations of those ancient melodies, the month is a feast of the most interesting music coming out of New York and beyond.

Svigals' own shows are Saturday night April 7 and Friday night April 27; she'll also be sitting in with a number of the artists throughout the month. The week of the 9th spotlights klezmer and a dozen great women artists take the stage from the 21st on.

For more information, see www.thestonenyc.com or contact Svigals at 1 212 222 2746 or www.aliciasvigals.com

P.S. For more about Alicia, visit her website www.aliciasvigals.com http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2OBbIFEx6eafpQav/ April 2007 at the Stone -- curated by Alicia Svigals

4/1 Sunday
8 pm
The Carmen Staaf Quintet
Carmen Staaf (piano) Dana Sandler (voice) Dan Blake (tenor sax, soprano sax) Kendall Eddy (bass) Austin McMahon (drums)
The NYC debut of the Carmen Staaf Quintet will feature Latin-jazz-influenced originals, new takes on swing and bebop tunes, free conversations and other explorations.

10 pm
Ben Goldberg: New Music for Quintet
Carla Kihlstedt (violin) Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone) Devin Hoff (bass) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Ben Goldberg (clarinet, composition) angle and particle.

4/3
Tuesday 8 pm
Olivier Manchon's Orchestre de Chambre Miniature Olivier Manchon (violin) John Ellis (clarinet, sax) Alan Hampton (bass) Beth Meyers (viola) Christopher Hoffman (cello)

10 pm
Teletextile
Pamela Martinez (violin, vocals, piano) Brian Hamilton (piano, keyboards) John Somers (guitar, electronics) Textural Instrumentals and Visceral songs, www.teletextile.com

4/4 Wednesday
8 pm
Mawwal
Jim Matus (vocals, laouto, saz) Jill O’Brien (vocals) Joe O’Brien (bass, vocals) Mike Keys (drums) Bill Buchen (tabla, percussion) Record release party for MAWWAL’S new CD “Black Flies” on Ancient Record. MAWWAL (formerly PARANOISE) performs original World Fusion and arrangements of traditional Middle Eastern music in what has been called “a new genre” by Progression Magazine.

10 pm
Violin-Clarinet Multi-Night
Mari Kimura (violin) Kinan Azmeh (clarinet) multi-cultural, multi-media duos and solos

4/5 Thursday
8 pm
KJ Denhert—Lucky 7, The New CD Concert
KJ Denhert (guitar, vocals, songwriter) Mamdou Ba (bass) Ray Levier (drums) ATN (keys) plus special guests from the CD! Urban folk and jazz artist KJ Denhert makes her first NY appearance in 2007 with a brand new CD called Lucky 7. All CDs one night only to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of KJ’s label and her seventh release

10 pm
Steve Sandberg and friends
Steve Sandberg (voice)
Spoken word, raga-influenced vocals, breath-controlled keyboard, loops plus friends tba - "music from a country I've never been to but always wanted to visit."
http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LgbIFEx6eafpQav/

4/6 Friday
8 pm
Noriko Ueda Jazz Orchestra
Noriko Ueda (composition, bass) 16 piece band


10 pm
Ivan Milev Band
Ivan Milev (accordion) Entcho Todorov (violin) Maria Koleva (vocals) Panagiotis Andreou (bass) Vasko Angelov (guitar) Seido Salifovski (drums) Monster accordionist Ivan Milev and his band perform
Bulgarian-Balkan folk music. Check out:
http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LhbIFEx6eafpQav/

4/7 Saturday
8 pm
John Zorn Improv Night—a Stone Benefit
John Zorn (sax) and many surprise guests Come out and support The Stone! Twenty Dollars

10 pm
Alicia Svigals and Uli Geissendorfer, with special guest Iliya Magalnyk—a Stone Benefit
Alicia Svigals (violin) Uli Geissendorfer (piano) Iliya Magannyk (accordion) Musicians from three points on the globe take a sidelong look at klezmer. A Benefit for the Stone!

4/8 Sunday
8 pm
Songs Your Grandmother Might Know, If Your Grandmother is Hip: The Matt Glaser Quintet.
Matt Glaser (violin) Matt Munisteri (guitar) Sonny Barbato (accordion) Heather Masse (vocal) Jim Whitney (bass)

10 pm
Pablo Aslan's "Anda Cantale
Pablo Aslan (bass)and his ensemble
The Argentine bassist explores the repertoire of the great tango singer Carlos Gardel.

4/10 Tuesday
8 pm
Alex Kontorovich's Deep Minor
Aaron Alexander (drums) Brandon Seabrook (guitar/banjo) Reuben Radding (bass) Alex Kontorovich (clarinet, sax, compositions) All original music from Kontorovich (sideman to Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars and Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh) mixes downtown klezmer, jazz, and other influences.

10 pm
Michael Winograd's Infection
Michael Winograd, Jessica Lurie, Petr Cancura, Jeremy Udden (reeds) Daniel Blacksberg (trombone) Jon Singer (xylophone) Brandon Seabrook (guitar) Jorge Roeder (bass) Jason Nazary (drums) Patrick Farrell (accordion) Frank London (trumpet)

4/11 Wednesday
8 pm
Michael Winograd's Klezmer Ensemble
Michael Winograd (clarinet, alto clarinet) Daniel Blacksberg (trombone) Carmen Staaf (piano, accordion) Joey Weisenberg (mandolin) Nick Cudahy (bass) Richie Barshay (percussion)

10 pm Susan Watts (of Hoffman Klezmer Dynasty) and Rob Schwimmer (of Polygraph Lounge) Rob Schwimmer (piano) Susan Hoffman Watts (voice, trumpet) Erotic Jewish Night Dreams:Inspirational Explorations.

4/12 Thursday
8 pm
Ghetto Tango
Adrienne Cooper (voice) Zalmen Mlotek (piano) Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek bring electrifying theatricality to the unknown satiric, down and dirty, and heartbroken repertoire of World War II European Jewish cabarets—from Yiddish to Weill & Eisler.

10 pm
Socalled and guests
Socalled (accordion, mpc, melodica, piano, vocals) Susan Hoffman-Watts (trumpet) Allen Watsky (guitar, bass) Micheael Winograd (clarinet) and Special Guests. Josh Dolgin aka Socalled and his rag tag group of friends, will raise the Stone's roof with a klez-funk party unlike anything else. www.socalledmusic.com ww.myspace.com/socalled

4/13 Friday
8 pm
Lily White and Follicle
Lily White (saxes) Rob Garcia (drums) Greg Jones (bass) Crazy music from the mind of saxophonist Lily White in her most compact group yet. www.lilywhitemusic.com

10 pm
Cynthia Hilts & Lyric Fury
Cynthia Hilts (composer, piano, voice) Jack Walrath (trumpet) Lily White (tenor and alto sax) Lisa Parrott (baritone and soprano sax) Debra Weisz (trombone) Martha Colby (cello) Ratzo Harris (bass) Gene Jackson (drums) New jazz that nods at the traditions,swings like hell and searches the deepest harmonic zones. Howls and lullabies, ice and predators are all in there, the perfect answer to a listener's natural raving desire for organic and furious lyricism.

4/14 Saturday
8 pm
Beth Bahia Cohen: Traditional Arabic Music
Beth Bahia Cohen (violin and other bowed string instruments) and friends

10 pm
Midnight Prayer
Joel Rubin (clarinet) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) World renowned klezmer clarinetist Joel Rubin gives a rare NY performance of duets with leading tsimbl revivalist Pete Rushefsky from their new CD Midnight Prayer (Traditional Crossroads).

4/15 Sunday
8 pm
Mimi Rabson and Bruno Raberg
Mimi Rabson (violin) Bruno Raberg (bass) Compositional Improvisation and Improvised Compositons

10 pm
The Ingrid Jensen Quartet
Ingrid Jensen (trumpet and electronics) and band

4/17 Tuesday
8 pm
Greg Wall's Later Prophets
Greg Wall (saxophones) Shai Bachar (keyboards) David Richards (bass) Aaron Alexander (drums) Simultaneously Straddling the Gates of the Ancient and the Avant-garde.....

10 pm
Quartetto Cui Bono
Art Bailey (accordion, piano) Peter Van Huffel (sax) Ernesto Cervini (drums) Michael Bates (bass) special guest Alicia Svigals (violin) An evening of new music.

4/18 Wednesday
8 pm
Mark Sganga and Friends
Mark Sganga (guitar) and friends Acoustic improvisations with a Brazilian accent. www.marksganga.com

10 pm
Stephane Wrembel Acoustic
Stephane Wrembel (guitar) Jared Engel (bass) David Langlois (washboard) Monster Guitarist Stephane Wrembel and his band perform the music of Django Reinhardt in their own special way, blended with compositions and colors from India and Africa; each show is a different trip! http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LibIFEx6eafpQav/

4/19 Thursday
8 pm
Michael Winograd Quintet
Michael Winograd (clarinet, alto clarinet) Kristin Slipp (voice) David Bryant (casio keyboards) Michael Bates (bass) Michael Evans (drums)

10 pm
Bangalore Breakdown
Uli Geissendoerfer (piano, keys, percussion) Premik Russel Tubbs (sax, flute, windsynth) Gino Sitson (vocals) Beat Kaestli (vocals) Steve Sandberg (leadsynth, vocals) Naren Budhakar (tabla) Gilad Dobrecky (percussion) Nathan Peck (bass) Lev Zhurbin (viola)

4/20 Friday
8 pm
Juanito Pascual and Friends
Jonathan "Juanito" Pascual (flamenco guitar) Rohan Gregory (violin) Stan Strickland (flute, soprano sax, vocals) Jerry Leake (world percussion). Flamenco guitar virtuoso Jonathan "Juanito" Pascual presents an evening of original flamenco music and beyond, with his quartet featuring 3 of the East Coast's finest improvisational and world-music players. "One of the hottest flamenco guitarists to emerge in recent years" -National Public Radio http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LjbIFEx6eafpQav/

10 pm
Stephane Wrembel Electric
Stephane Wrembel (guitar) Jared Engel (bass) Mathias Bublath (organ) Julien Augier (drums) Monster Guitarist Stephane Wrembel and his new electric band presents the music of Django Reinhardt and his compositions in a totally new way, blending their unique Gypsy jazz touch with a psychedelic world rock sound. http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LibIFEx6eafpQav/

4/21 Saturday
8 pm
Jessica Lurie Ensemble
Jessica Lurie (sax, accordion, vocals) Erik Deutsch (piano, electric keyboard) Brandon Seabrook (banjo, guitar) Todd Sickafoose (bass) Marc Dalio (drums)

10 pm
AARON ALEXANDER'S MIDRASH MISH MOSH
Aaron Alexander (drums) David Licht (drums) Fima Ephron (bass) Jay Vilnai (guitar) Alex Kontorovich (clarinet) Greg Wall (tenor sax, clarinet) Rob Henke (trumpet) Curtis Hasselbring (trombone)

4/22 Sunday
8 pm
Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil
Susan Pereira (vocals, piano, percussion), Vanderlei Pereira (drums), Rodrigo Ursaia (sax, flute), Cliff Korman (piano), Itaiguara (bass)

10 pm
Edison Woods
“Truly beautiful, slowly meandering soundscapes... A beautiful voice and a talent for melodies.” -- Rolling Stone Strange, haunting, and romantic, Edison Woods revels in luscious, sad songs. Singer Julia Frodahl’s heavenly vocals layered on the bands’ moody chamber pop create “a beautiful cross between the sounds of Elysian Fields and the sentiments of David Lynch” (Flavorpill NYC). Live, their musical passages, spoken word, and discreet gestures sweep the audience into their dreamlike world.
http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LkbIFEx6eafpQav/
http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LlbIFEx6eafpQav/

4/24 Tuesday
8 pm
Martha Mooke's VIOLA X-TREME
Martha Mooke (electric violas/violins) Randolph A. Hudson, III (electric guitars) Jim Mussen (electronic drums) Music for Strings, Percussion and .... Rollover Bartok! Support the future of music at The Stone!

10 pm
The Lisa Parrott Trio
Lisa Parrott (saxophones) Chris Lightcap (double bass) Gerald Cleaver (drums)
Lisa & Chris have been performing in NY together for over 10 years, playing harmolodic inspired original improvised music. Their Stone debut! www.parrottmusic.com

4/25 Wednesday
8 pm
The Sheryl Bailey 3
Sheryl Bailey (guitar/pen) Brian Charette (organ) Shingo Okudairu (drums)
The Sheryl Bailey 3 carries on the tradition of the Hammond B3/Guitar trio into modernity with a contemporary harmonic approach and a captivating pulse.

10 pm
Adrienne Cooper, Friends and Relations
Adrienne Cooper (voice) Michael Winograd (clarinet, piano) Dan Blacksberg (trombone)
Vocalist Adrienne Cooper is joined by clarinetist Michael Winograd, trombonist Dan Blacksberg, Yiddish Princess Sarah Gordon and others for an intergenerational Yiddish intervention.

4/26 Thursday
8 pm
Lerner/Alexander Quartet
Marilyn Lerner (piano) Aaron Alexander (drums) Greg Wall (sax) Jim Guttman (bass)
Premiere performance of this all-star jazz/jewish ensemble…

10 pm
Percussia
Ingrid Gordon (xylophone, marimba, percussion) Ljova (viola) Demetrius Spaneas (reeds) and others
This unlikely instrument combination cooks up a set of xylo-powered, wind-driven world fusion featuring tunes by überviolist Ljova, along with assorted balkan and klez faves.

4/27 Friday
8 pm
Alicia Svigals and Marilyn Lerner: Klezmer Unfettered
Alicia Svigals (violin) Marilyn Lerner (piano) Alicia Svigals is klezmer's most celebrated violinist; Marilyn Lerner is a jazz keyboard virtuoso who resides in Canada. They join forces at the Stone to take on the klezmer tradition and twist it into shapes hitherto unimagined, spinning symphonies on the fly out of sounds from the Eastern European Jewish past.

10 pm
Shake My Heart Like a Copper Bell-the poetry of Anna Margolin Adrienne Cooper (voice) Marilyn Lerner (piano) with special guests Lerner’s song cycle to amazing Yiddish poet Margolin, translations and vocals by the legendary Adrienne Cooper with everything from lieder to freeform...

4/28 Saturday
8 pm
Andy Biskin and friends
Andy Biskin (clarinet, compositions) with special guests

10 pm
Terry Dame's Electric Junkyard Gamelan
Terry Dame, Lee Frisari, Mary Feaster, Kim Garey, Julian Hintz (invented instruments)
Original rhythm driven music on invented instruments. Funky basslines, searing modal melodies and layers of interlocking rhythms played on musical contraptions such as the Rubarp, Sitello, Kacapitar and the Big Barp. It's far out and in the pocket! www.terrydame.com

4/29 Sunday
8 pm
Romanian Bent—Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi featuring Elizabeth Schwartz Yale Strom (violin) Sprocket (bass) Peter Stan (accordion) David Licht (drums) Elizabeth Schwartz (vocals)
Schwartz is fresh from her concert tour of Romania and Hungary (singing with Muzsikas), which was filmed for an upcoming documentary by Radu Gabrea.

10 pm
Grassi/Filiano/Lerner
Lou Grassi (drums) Ken Filiano (bass) Marilyn Lerner (piano)
Visit the Stone's website, www.thestonenyc.com
http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2LmbIFEx6eafpQav/


P.S. For more about Alicia, visit her website www.aliciasvigals.com http://klezmerbyaliciasvigalsllc.c.topica.com/maafZmLabw2OBbIFEx6eafpQav/

YIDDISH PIRATES ARE COMING

Gilbert and Sullivan's Di Yam Gazlonim ("The Pirates of Penzance" in Yiddish)
Book and Lyrics by Al Grand
Directed by Allen Lewis Rickman
Musical Direction by Zalmen Mlotek
Starring Jacob Feldman, Stephen Mo Hanan, Genette Lane, Dani Marcus and Steve Sterner
With Ashley Adler, Itzy Firestone, Susanne Kobb, Stuart Marshall, Eyal Sherf, Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson-Rickman, Yankl Salant, D. Zhonzinsky

TWO WEEKS ONLY
March 18 - April 1

Shows:
March 18: 2pm & 6pm
March 21: 2pm & 8pm
March 22: 2pm & 8pm
March 24: 8pm
March 25: 2pm & 6pm
March 28: 2pm & 8pm
March 29: 2pm & 8pm
March 31: 8pm
April 1: 2pm

In Yiddish
with English and Russian Translation Supertitles
The Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium
at The JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St

For Tickets and Info call 212-279-4200
or visit www.ticketcentral.com (listed under ³Pirates of Penzance in Yiddish)
For information about
The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene, visit us on the web at www.folksbiene.org

Zamir Choral Foundation New Address

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

BAM BAM BAM Krakauer Clarinet on Golijov

On Saturday, March 10, 8p.m., David Krakauer will be performing Osvaldo Golijov's "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. It's the world premiere of the newly orchestrated version of this music, so there will be quite a bit of excitement. The program is called "Bridge to the Beyond" as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). at the Howard Gilman Opera House. Peter J Sharp Building. Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 For all the details, go to the Brooklyn Philharmonic website:http://www.brooklynphilharmonic.org/events_calendar.php?page=calendar#bb This concert features works by two of the greatest Jewish orchestral composers, Gustav Mahler and Osvaldo Golijov. Golijov was raised in Argentina by Eastern European parents and combines klezmer and tango with orchestral music, making him a completely unique voice in the world of music. The program includes the New York premiere of Golijov’s newly-orchestrated Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind about 12th century Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi Nehor, featuring popular klezmer clarinet player David Krakauer.

Asefa at the Southpaw for Purim

Asefa
Southpaw - Shushan Purim Party
March 4, 2007
8:00pm @ Southpaw
125 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
It's the post-purim WreckRoom!
Table tennis, pool, darts, pinball, poker and other fine amusements... mikey palms will be behind the bar with incredible drink specials! the WreckRoom is a free event and is from 8 to 2am.
Sharing the bill with us will be Rashanim, dj handler & Y-Love and Juez.

Jewish Music Cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn

LIVE AT
THE JEWISH MUSIC CAFE
401 9TH STREET
PARK SLOPE
BROOKLYN, NY

YEHUDA GLANTZ
SATURDAY MARCH 10TH
DOORS OPEN 8:45PM
COVER $20


BLUE FRINGE AND HEEDOOSH
SATURDAY MARCH 24TH
DOORS OPEN 8:45
COVER $15

WWW.JEWISHMUSICCAFE.COM

"Purim in Khelm"

You are cordially invited to four free New York-area performances of a new Yiddish musical comedy, "Purim in Khelm", presented by the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene and sponsored by the City University of New York.
"Purim in Khelm" features a professional cast, klezmorim, and original Yiddish songs, and is presented in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles.
PURIM IN KHELM
by Motl Didner and Miryem-Khaye Seigel

An original Yiddish musical comedy
Presented with English and Russian supertitles

Featuring: Ashley Adler, Leizer Burko, Itzy Firestone, Richard Kass, Susanne Nancy Kobb, David Mandelbaum, Stuart Marshall, Freydale Zynstein-Oz, Harry Peerce and Miryem-Khaye Seigel
With Art Bailey, Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer
FOUR FREE PERFORMANCES sponsored by the City University of New York
1) Tuesday, February 27 - Hunter College, Kaye Playhouse - 7 PM. Free tickets: 212-772-4448

2) Tuesday, March 6- Lehman College, Lovinger Theater - 2 PM. Free tickets: 718-960-8025

3) Wednesday, March 7 - Queens College, Colden Auditorim - 2 PM. Free tickets: 718-793-8080

4) Thursday, March 8 - Brooklyn College, Whitman Theater - 2 PM. 718-951-4600

Info: Folksbiene 212-213-2120
Folksbiene.org

PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER & ASEFA

This Week!
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER AND ASEFA
IN CONCERT
THIS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17th
DOORS AT 8:30pm $12

Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street (between 6th & 7th ave.)
Park Slope Brooklyn
more info at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Strauss/Warschauer Duo play fat Jewish War Veterans

Jewish War Veterans Stuyvesant-Cooper Post 235 invites you, your family and your friends to our fourth-annual free and open-to-the- public klezmer concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, February 4, 2007. The concert will be held at Town & Village Synagogue, 334 East 14th Street near First Avenue. Doors open at 2:45 p.m.

Headlining the concert again will be the internationally acclaimed Strauss/Warschauer Duo of Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer. Also performing are three local ensembles: The Columbia University Klezmer Band, Generation K and the Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Workshop.

EAST VILLAGE VISITS SCHULHOFF, GREEN, RAVEL, SCHOENFIELD, & EHRLICH

DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
Mimi Stern-Wolfe Artistic Director
EAST VILLAGE CONCERT SERIES
presents
FEEDBACK: Jazz & Pop Influences on Contemporary Music
SUNDAY: FEBRUARY 11, 2007 @ 3PM
works by:
ERWIN SCHULHOFF: Hot Sonata for saxophone and piano
RAY GREEN: Holiday for Four for viola, clarinet , bassoon and piano
MAURICE RAVEL: Blues Movement from Violin & Piano Sonata
PAUL SCHOENFIELD: Cafe Musique for Piano Trio
MARTY EHRLICH & Friends: Jazz compositions

PERFORMERS: Lori Berkowitz, vliola; Gili Sharett, bassoon; David Hopkins, clarinet ; Marilyn Dubow, violin Downtown Chamber Trio : Rieko Kawabata, violin; Daniel Barrett, cello Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano;
Special Guests: MARTY EHRLICH, saxophone & friends
St. Marks in the Bowery (Tenth Street & Second Avenue)
Suggested Donation: $10; sen/stu/$8; 212 4771594
www.downtownmusicproductions.org

Joel Rubin Ensemble in NYC

New York City:
Joel Rubin Ensemble with Kálmán Balogh
Special guest: Pete Rushefsky
Wednesday, February 7, 7pm
Makor
Location: Steinhardt Building, 35 West 67th Street
The Steinhardt Building (35 West 67th Street) is located on the north side of 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.
$15.00
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5PF13 On the New York and DC concerts, the ensemble will be performing "Midnight Prayer," a suite of Joel Rubin's arrangements of Russian Jewish instrumental klezmer and hasidic music. Clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Rubin is the new Director of Music Performance in the McIntire Department of Music at UVA and an internationally acclaimed interpreter of the klezmer tradition. He studied with Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman, attended the California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA in performance from the State University of New York at Purchase. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University (London). He has been the founder and clarinetist of some of the most internationally respected klezmer ensembles, including the pioneering revival group Brave Old World. Rubin has concertized throughout Europe, North America and Asia, appearing at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Tonhalle in Zürich, and Lincoln Center.

SHULAMIT RHYTHMS in Brooklyn

"SHULAMIT RHYTHMS" -- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE USA
February 4th, 6th and 8th 2007!
Israel Edelson (piano): winner of the BBC Lupert International Young Conductors' competition Devora Tyroler (accordion): Conductress of the "AccordiRon Orchestra" in Jerusalem Batsheva Segal (violin): 4 time winner of the Keren Varon music competition
Description:
"Shulamit Rhythms" hails from Jerusalem, Israel. With a soul stirring repertoire of traditional Jewish songs, klezmer and hassidic inspired tunes, as well as classical pieces, the group aims to transport its listeners to a higher emotional plane.
Performance info:
Sunday, February 4th at 6pm @ the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, 60 West End Ave, Brooklyn 718-891-8700
Benefit concert to raise funds for the Ron Shulamit Music Conservatory in Israel:
Tuesday, February 6th at 7:45pm @ 489 Marlborough Rd Brooklyn 718 469-5990

One of the performing groups is "Shulamit Rythms". Proceeds from this performance will go to the school, its orchestra, and its programs.

Thursday, February 8th at 8pm @ the Jewish Music Café, 401 9th St, Brooklyn www.jewishmusiccafe.com Celebrationg its 100th anniversary next year, the Ron Shulamit Conservatory was established by Shulamit Ruppin and noted violinist Yariv Ezrachi. Alumni include Itzhak Perelman, Daniel Binyamini, Pnina Zalzman, and Shlomo Mintz. It continues to offer music and dance training of a very high caliber, as well as music therapy for children with special needs. Visit us at www.ronshulamit.org.il

One of the performing groups is "Shulamit Rythms". Proceeds from this performance will go to the school, its orchestra, and its programs.

Thursday, February 8th at 8pm @ the Jewish Music Café, 401 9th St, Brooklyn www.jewishmusiccafe.com

Eleanor Cory Piece to be performed at Mannes

Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 8:00 PM
MANNES FACULTY COMPOSERS CONCERT
Mannes College the New School for Music
150 W. 85th St.(between Amsterdam and Columbus)
New York, NY
212-580-0210
Admission: FREE
Eleanor Cory: Play Within a Play for Solo Piano (1996)
Julia Dusman, piano
Also pieces by Thomas Addison,
Keith Fitch
David Loeb, and
David Tcimpidis

Free Synagogue of Flushing features Joel Chernet Quartet

The Free Synagogue of Flushing invites you to share an afternoon of music with:
**The Joel Chernet Klezmer Quartet**
-featuring-
**Pete Sokolow**
Sunday January 21, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.
The Free Synagogue of Flushing
41-60 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing (Queens), New York 11355
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door
Children 12 and under: $10
Discounts available for groups of 10 or more
Call 718-961-0030 for more information and ticket purchase
Free onsite parking
3 blocks away from the #7 Flushing Line subway
Handicapped accessible
www.freesynagogue.org

'A Living Legacy' Exhibition at HUC

A LIVING LEGACY: AMERICAN JEWISH LITURGICAL COMPOSERS OF THE 20th & 21st CENTURIES A multi-media exhibition celebrating the creativity and contributions of Samuel Adler, Charles Davidson, Jack Gottlieb, Michael Isaacson, Gershon Kingsley, Stephen Richards, Bonia Shur, Simon Sargon, Ben Steinberg, and Yehudi Wyner and reflecting the enduring inspiration of their mentors
On View: November 12, 2006 - January 31, 2007
Museum Hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9 am - 5 pm; Fridays, 9 am - 3 pm;
Also Sunday, December 10, 10 am - 2 pm
Information/Tours: 212-824-2205
Admission: Free, Photo ID required

'Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish' at National Arts Club

Monday, December 18, 2006 at 8 PM
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South (at 20th St. between Park Avenue & Irving Place), New York City
Free event.

Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish Slide Lecture, Musical Performance & Booksigning
In his latest book, Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish, composer and author, Jack Gottlieb chronicles how Jewish songwriters and composers transformed American popular music of the mid-twentieth-century. Dr. Gottlieb will play piano and show vintage images as he illustrates the connection, citing instances where Yiddish songs and cantorial music were adapted by Jewish songwriters as they penned tunes for Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood. The book (which includes a CD) will be available at NAC member discount. A reception will follow.

Reva LeSheva and Special Guest Josh Lauffer

Thursday November 30th
8:30pm $18
More info and Advance tickets at http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com
The Jewish Music Cafe
401 9th street (between 6th & 7th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
F train to 7th Avenue. Parking available.

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos in East Village

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos perform together at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, an East Village cultural landmark for 30 years!
Tuesday, November 21st
8pm double bill, $8 cover charge
as part of the club's monthly Women Take the Bandstand series
236 East 3rd Street (between Avenues B & C), NYC
hotline: 212-505-8183

www.nuyorican.org
www.metropolitanklezmer.com
www.myspace.com/metroklez
www.myspace.com/klezbos

Metropolitan Klezmer octet and the Isle of Klezbos sextet are internationally-acclaimed NYC-based bands treating tradition with irreverence and respect. Savoring a panorama of Yiddish-based music while subverting stereotypes, both groups specialize in fabulous arrangements of lesser-known gems found in hidden archival niches such as obscure vintage feature soundtracks and Soviet Yiddish theater newsreels, as well as composing genre-defying originals. Both groups include vibrant versions of rollicking folk dance, melodic trance, hard-swinging Yiddish classics and tango in their repertoire, while each creates exuberant, eclectic covers such as a Balkan-driven "Pick a Pocket or Two," a Yiddish/boogaloo-styled "Comes Love," and even the cantorial/klezmer versions of hits from Guys & Dolls.

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos have released four award-winning CDs on Rhythm Media Records to date, with several more releases currently in post-production. The bands have appeared in broadcasts on CNN Worldbeat, PBS In The Life, the German network ARD's Rhythms of New York, as well as on radio stations worldwide, in soundtracks and soundscapes from Showtime's The L Word to the SITI Theatre Company's Score Off-Broadway to Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, as well as at concert halls, nightclubs, college campuses and music festivals internationally since 1994.

Isle of Klezbos has toured from Vancouver BC to Vienna Austria. Metropolitan Klezmer plays Yiddish music from all over the map on an astonishing array of instrumentation; bandmate backgrounds range from Albanian to Zydeco. Both groups are led by drummer Eve Sicular, bringing together the best of New York's downtown and World Music scenes for a collaborative adventure in sounds from delightfully rambunctious to ethereally exquisite. Versatile and virtuosic, their CDs thus far: 'Yiddish For Travelers,' 'Mosaic Persuasion,' 'Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos,' and 'Surprising Finds.' The two latest releases include studio cuts as well as live tracks from shows at Joe's Pub, The Knitting Factory, and Tonic. Other bonus tracks include home-audio excerpts of tenor Phillip Karpel, grandfather of MetroKlezmer/Klezbos vocalist Deborah Karpel. Latest projects also include live band performance in the multi-media program, The Celluloid Closet of Yiddish Film.

ABOUT METROPOLITAN KLEZMER: "Anything but stereotypical, and nothing but terrific... one of the best klezmer bands in the world today" - Shaun Dale, Cosmik Debris

"Influences that range from old school Arabic music to Latin Jazz to Motown... not only exuberantly eclectic but also very danceable. Expect an eccentric cultural lesson from these modern-day purveyors of time-honored traditions." - J. Bachman, flavorpill

"One of the best traditional klezmer bands around" - George Robinson, Jewish Week

ABOUT ISLE OF KLEZBOS:
These women will make you shake your tushies.” - Richard Gehr, Village Voice “Talent as strong as its name is provocative” - Bob Makin, Courier News “Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre” - The New Yorker “Great ears and great hearts” - Catherine Madsen, Der Pakn Treger, National Yiddish Book Center

Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos bandmate bios include performance, touring and/or recording with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, The Microscopic Septet, Indigo Girls, Amy Sedaris, Jimmy Scott, Toshi Reagon, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Cole, Burning Spear, David Krakauer, Sarah MacLachlan, Bill Frisell, Robert Palmer, Charming Hostess, Arrow, Andy Statman, Maxi Priest, Hot Keys, and Bruce Springsteen, among many others. Various members are graduates of The Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the American Institute of Musical Studies, and other individual studies include teachings from masters from Mohammed El Akkad to Licia Albanese.

CHOIRS AND CANTORS BRING ON THE LIGHT THIS CHANUKAH

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

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

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

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

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

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

Come Celebrate Joel Mandelbaum & Friends at PeaceSmiths

On Sun., Nov. 12, 2006 at 3PM PeaceSmiths, The Elie Siegmeister Society, and The Professor Edgar H. Lehrman Memorial Foundation for Ethics, Religion, Science and the Arts, Inc. proudly present A Concert of Music by Joel Mandelbaum & Friends, launching the celebration of his 75th year, with Helene Williams, soprano; Antoinette Blaikie, oboist; and composers Jay Anthony Gach, Leonard Lehrman, & Joel Mandelbaum, the latter two at the piano, at First United Methodist Church, at 25 Broadway (Route 110 - "the last church on the left," going south), in Amityville, NY. Info: 631-798-0778. A donation of $8 is suggested.

Two pieces will receive their world premieres at this concert: Elie Siegmeister's "Outside My Window," on a text by poet Kim Rich, who will also be present; and Mandelbaum's setting of his own (June 10, 2005) "Letter to Jewish Week," composed for the occasion. On Mon., Nov. 6 at 1pm, Lehrman will be interviewed on WUSB, 90.1 FM, discussing his own letter which appeared in the Oct. 29, 2006 NY Times Book Review, and reading Mandelbaum's letter, which takes issue with a columnist's assertion that "God Is A Republican."

The program also includes 4 songs by Jay Anthony Gach and 5 by Leonard Lehrman, among them settings of texts by Langston Hughes, Kim Rich and William Jay Smith, along with "Let's Change the Woild!" "Threescore Years Ago," and "Where Do I Belong?" from E.G.: A Musical Portrait of Emma Goldman - coming to PeaceSmiths Mar. 16, 2007. As a special encore, Susan Blake will premiere a new, updated version of Mandelbaum's "The Causes Are Waiting For You" from his 1983 musical, "As You Dislike It."

Other Mandelbaum works to be performed include his settings of Millay and Shakespeare, Prelude for Piano, Song for Oboe & Piano, and 2 Songs with Oboe & Piano on texts by Susan Fox, including "The Great Bell of Cuzco" in which the composer will play the chimes. He will also improvise on themes from the audience. Following will be a reception - with birthday cake!

The concert will be recorded and aired on public television as part of PeaceSmiths' regular weekly cable access programs. This program represents an expansion of the usual PeaceSmiths offering, to include the works of composers of serious concert music, much of it on social themes, but written in an idiom designed to expand the rhythmic and harmonic palate of the repertoire most often heard at PeaceSmiths coffeehouse and forum programs. PeaceSmiths is a nonprofit community organization doing educational, activist, cultural, and mutual help projects for peace and justice.

BRAVE OLD WORLD: SONG OF THE LODZ GHETTO in NY

Song of the Lodz Ghetto in Yiddish, with English Supertitles
SUNDAY, DEC 3, 2:30 PM
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE
36 Battery Place, New York, NY
Tickets: (646) 437 4202
www.mjhnyc.org
www.mjhnyc.org World-renowned New Jewish Music quartet Brave Old World, the super group of the Klezmer revival, brings forth a breathtakingly original program combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music and the vitality of jazz. Virtuoso musicians Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Kurt Bjorling and Stuart Brotman join together to bring us a uniquely constructed theatrical evening exploring the beautiful and haunting Jewish melodies composed in the Nazi Ghetto of Lodz, Poland from 1941-1944. Featuring original Lodz Ghetto street songs and Jewish music of prewar Poland, interwoven with Brave Old World's own arrangements and compositions, this is music of hope, redemption and the power of the human spirit. A rare opportunity for soul-soaring, spirit lifting Yiddishkayt that is simultaneously a universal testament to the human determination to survive and sing.

In Yiddish, now with English supertitles so all can understand the moving and biting lyrics of Yankele Herszkowicz, Mirjam Harel, Michael Alpert, and other poets. Not to be missed! ...new CD of this program on the Winter & Winter label received a FIVE STAR REVIEW and a Critic's Pick by Billboard Magazine, and was named "Best CD of 2005" by New York's Newsday.

This concert grabbed its listeners and wouldn't let go for a long time. The American quartet provoked storms of applause and blew away their audience in the sold-out hall. -- Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung

Come one and all! Kumt masnvayz! Przydzcie masowo!

Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar at Stain

ABOP performs at Stain Bar on Wed, Nov 1, 2006. 7-9pm.
Admission is by donation at the event.
766 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY (By Subway: take L to Grand, 1 block west)
718-387-7840 | http://www.stainbar.com for more directions and information.

Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar new CD is now available! Branch from the Tree features fresh interpretations of rarely heard material first recorded by Romanian-born cymbalom master and Lower East Side restaurateur, Joseph Moskowitz. On this debut cd, the band also explores early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, improvisation, newly composed music, and pieces from the klezmer and Eastern European repertoire. Learn about the CD, listen to clips, or purchase it online at http://www.artbailey.org About Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar: Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a newly formed Jewish music ensemble led by accordionist and pianist Art Bailey and includes bassist Jim Guttmann, violinists Jeremy Brown and Jake Shulman-Ment, and mandolinist Brandon Seabrook.

Helfgot Sings at the Met

Sunday, December 3, 2006 at 7:30pm. Acclaimed Cantor Yizchak Meir Helfgot will sing cantorial classics at the Metropolitcan Opera House in New York as part of a Cantors World presentation. Cantor Helfgot is cantor at the Park East Synagogue. He will be accompanied by members of the New York Philharmonic with Dr. M. Sobol conducting a choir. General seating is $50, VIP $100, Friend $180, Family $250 and Supporter $500. There are other seatings as well. For more information see www.cantorsworld.com or call 718-851-3226.

Concerts at the Museum of Jewish Heritage NYC

Sunday, November 12, 1:30 P.M.
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Jewish Composers: Jerusalem to Broadway
With featured artists Guy Mannheim, tenor, and Shirit-Lee Weiss, soprano

Join Israeli soprano Shirit-Lee Weiss and Israeli tenor Guy Mannheim, a soloist with the New Israeli Opera, for an exciting musical journey from the streets of Jerusalem, through the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the cities of Western Europe after WWII, to the sparkling lights of Broadway. In a true celebration of the Jewish spirit, the program will include the music and lyrics of world-renowned artists such as Bernstein, Sondheim, and Weill, along with Israeli music by Naomi Shemer, Zohar Argov, and others.

Tenor Guy Mannheim has performed with the New Israeli Opera, the New York Chamber Opera, and in concerts and recitals in Israel, Germany, and New York.

Soprano Shirit-Lee Weiss appears regularly in the contemporary music group Musica Nova in addition to performing in works by young composers, and in musical and children's theater productions.

$15 adults, $12 seniors, $10 students/members
Tickets are available online through www.mjhnyc.org or by calling 646 437-4202. Sunday, December 3, 2:30 P.M.
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Brave Old World - Song of the Lodz Ghetto
With Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, and Stuart Brotman

"..nothing less than brilliant, a recreation that is not merely respectful but stunningly inventive." Jewish Week

The world-renowned music ensemble Brave Old World will perform Song of the Lodz Ghetto, a unique musical theatrical work featuring rare Jewish street and folk music created between 1940 and 1944 in the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland. Combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse of classical music, and the vitality of jazz, the music of Brave Old World is unique and unforgettable.

Brave Old World has been creating, performing, and teaching klezmer and New Jewish Music throughout the world since 1989. They have performed and recorded with such notable performers as Itzhak Perlman and at venues as prestigious as Lincoln Center and Radio City Music Hall.

$20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 students/members
Tickets are available online through www.mjhnyc.org or by calling 646 437-4202.
Co-sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center

Wednesday, December 20, 7 P.M.
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Women of Tzadik Celebrate Hanukkah
Basya Schechter, Jewlia Eisenberg, and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb

An eclectic line-up of innovative, female performers will highlight the diversity of the Sephardic community and its musical traditions. In addition to sharing a home at the Tzadik record label, these artists share a vision for presenting rich Jewish music in a way that embraces and revives traditional styles while creating a new, modern sound.

Basya Schechter leads the popular ensemble Pharaoh's Daughter which combines Hasidic chants, Mizrachi and Sephardi folk-rock, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings, and electronica. Pharaoh's Daughter has toured extensively throughout America, Europe, Greece, and the U.K.

Jewlia Eisenberg is the founder, bandleader, and performer behind Charming Hostess a "klezmer-funk/girly-punk" ensemble. Their music incorporates doo-wop, Balkan harmony, and Andalusian melody.

Jerusalem native Ayelet Rose Gottlieb performs music that combines free improvisation with elaborate composition, spicy Middle Eastern scales, and adventurous texts. Gottlieb's newest album, Mayim Rabim, is a reinterpretation of biblical love poetry from the Song of Songs.

Presented with Sephardic Music Festival, Modular Moods, and Barzilai
$20 adults, $18 seniors, $15 student/members

Monday, December 25
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
Challah-lujah
Starring Joshua Nelson & His Kosher Gospel Choir
Performances at 1 P.M. & 3:30 P.M.

"I have never heard a voice like (Joshua Nelson's). He literally brings the house down." Oprah Winfrey

If you missed last year's sold-out performance, Joshua Nelson is back again this year with two shows. Melding Hebrew tunes with Joshua Nelson's unique spirit, the Kosher Gospel Choir has sparked a revolution in Jewish Music.

Joshua Nelson, an African-American Jew known as the Prince of Gospel Music, has been hailed by critics across the world for his unique voice, which bears a strong resemblance to the legendary singer Mahalia Jackson's passionate vocal stylings. He has performed at major venues across the United States and internationally, and was the subject of the documentary Keep on Walking.
$35 adults, $25 seniors, $20 students/members
Tickets are available online through www.mjhnyc.org or by calling 646 437-4202.

SOUNDS OF BAGHDAD: A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH YAIR DALAL

Yair Dalal:
WHEN: Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 7:30 PM
WHERE: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York City
SUGGESTED DONATION: $20
INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS: 917-606-8200
A unique performance in the four-day program
Back to Babylon: 2600 Years of Jewish Life in Iraq, November 2-5, 2006,
Exploring the venerable and multifaceted culture of Iraqi Jewry
www.americansephardifederation.org<

During the first half of the 20th century, Jews were virtually the only instrumentalists in the Iraqi musical scene. All the musicians from Iraq who attended the first Arabic music congress in Cairo in 1932 were Jewish (but one). With the exile of the Jewish community in the 1950's, many famous Iraqi Jewish musicians immigrated to Israel.

Their legacy is still strong today, both in the preservation of the traditional Iraqi Maqam, and in its influence on contemporary Israeli music.

Yair Dalal's musical program retraces the steps of the great Babylonian musical heritage thorough the sacred songs rooted in the Iraqi Jewish tradition. It will include traditional Sabbath Zemirot, pieces from the Shevahot repertoire (songs of praise performed at communal gatherings), and instrumental classics by Iraqi-Jewish composers like Salah and Daud al-Kuwaiti.

Born in 1955, composer, violinist and oud player Yair Dalal is one of the most prolific Israeli ethnic musicians today. Over the last decade he released nine albums, covering wide and varied cultural territories. His work reflects the strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. Dalal's family came to Israel from Baghdad and he has included a host of Iraqi traditional musical sources in his work.
Whether performing on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans and India. Dalal is one of a handful of artists who preserve and sustain the Babylonian musical heritage of the wonderful Jewish Iraqi musicians who emigrated from Iraq to Israel in the 1950s, from whom he learned much of his craft. During the past years, Dalal has collaborated with top musicians from all over the globe, from different disciplines, including celebrated western classical conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta, Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI, L.Shankar, Hamza el Din, Michel Bismuth, Ken Zuckerman, Armand Aamar, Shlomo Mintz, Maurice el Medioni and Mustafa Raza, Cihar Askin, Ensemble Kaboul, Adel Salameh, The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Kamerata Jerusalem Orchestra, and more. He participates and lectures in the Keshet Elyon Violin workshops, ISME - Music Education, European Network for Traditional Music and Dance, Mendocino Middle East Music Camp, and the Mediterranean Musical Dialogue in Israel. www.yairdalal.com

Kristallnacht Commemorated with the Glorious Music of Salomon Sulzer and Louis Lewandowski

New York. Congregation Rodeph Sholom's Senior Cantor, Rebecca Garfein, and Cantorial Intern, Jennifer Strauss-Klein will commemorate Kristallnacht-the Night of Broken Glass, with the music of renowned Viennese Cantor, Salomon Sulzer and Berlin composer, Louis Lewandowski at 6p.m., Friday, November 3, 2006 during Shabbat services. Guest Cantor, Dr. Bruce Ruben, newly appointed Director of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music will also participate in this special service. Rodeph Sholom's Organist, Dr. John Schuder and augmented professional choir, will accompany the cantors. This event is free of charge and the entire community is invited to attend. Rodeph Sholom is located at 7 West 83rd Street (off Central Park West.) For more information, please call (212) 362-8800, extension 1337.

Born in 1804, Sulzer is credited with being the first to modernize the cantorate and one of the earliest composers to westernize synagogue music. With Sulzer, the title of "Cantor" was born out of a desire to be accepted and understood by 19th century society. In fact, Sulzer was very much a part of modern musical circles. His closest friend and occasional collaborator was composer Franz Schubert. The influence of 19th century music is clearly heard in Sulzer's synagogue compositions. As a Cantor, Sulzer was very successful at creating a musical bridge between the "old world" and the newly enlightened world.

Throughout Europe, Louis Lewandowski assisted numerous Cantors in his day, the most famous being the celebrated Solomon Sulzer, who also composed for the Austrian and German synagogues. Lewandowski was the first composer to write for synagogues using organ and large choirs.

Cantor Rebecca Garfein, mezzo-soprano, is the Senior Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City and is the first female Cantor to hold this position in the history of the congregation.

Cantor Garfein has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, Israel and Europe and at Carnegie Hall with Mandy Patinkin and Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Recently she debuted her new album at Carnegie Hall entitled, "Golden Chants in America...Commemorating 350 years of Jewish Music, 1654-2004." "Golden Chants in America" is the first U.S. recording to feature Jewish music spanning 350 years of life in America. Cantor Garfein's other solo CD is a live recording from the 1997 Jewish Festival in Berlin entitled, "Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue."

A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Cantor Garfein graduated cum laude from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music with a degree in vocal performance and opera. In 1993, she received her Master's Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR).

Cantor Bruce L. Ruben, Ph.D., baritone, is the Director of the School of Sacred Music (SSM) at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). He has taught Jewish history courses at HUC-JIR and the history of Jewish music at The Julliard School. For the past fifteen years, he has served as an adjunct professor of history at Hunter College, where he has taught courses on World History, Modern Jewish History, and the Holocaust. Since 1982, he has served as the Cantor of Temple Shaaray Tefila in New York City, where he has organized special music programs with professional and volunteer choirs, written as well as commissioned and premiered new works by leading composers, taught adult education courses on the history of Jewish music, history, and liturgy, and developed innovative services for increased congregational participation. He has fostered interfaith relations as a leader in the Yorkville Christian-Jewish Council, and has been active for many years in community activities at a neighborhood senior citizen center.

Originally from La Crosse, Wisconsin, Jennifer Strauss-Klein, soprano, is a third-year cantorial student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD in 2001. Jennifer continued to study at Peabody in the Graduate Performance Diploma program and also attended Baltimore Hebrew University in the Master of Arts in Jewish Studies program, where she won the Sidney Breitbart Prize in Jewish Philosophy. She currently serves as the Cantorial Intern of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Manhattan. She and her husband Nick Strauss-Klein welcomed a son, Henry, in March 2006.

Alhambra at Temple Shearith Israel in NYC

Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006
7:30pm
Temple Shearith Israel
8 West 70th Street
Suggested contribution is $15 at the door.

ALHAMBRA plays the rhythmic and hauntingly beautiful Sephardic music of the Middle East, which melds the words and melodies of 15th century Spain, filtered through Turkey, Greece, the Balkans and Arabic lands.

ALHAMBRA was founded in 1981 by its director and lead singer Dr Isabelle Ganz, who is a professor of music, a cantorial soloist, a conductor, and an international performer and recording artist. She is joined by five other equally skilled professionals for whom Judeo-Spanish music is a special love. Haig Manoukian is considered one of the world's finest players of the oud - the fretless ancestor of our modern lute. Michael Hess, heard throughout New York playing klezmer music, performs on violin, riq (tambourine), kanun (trapezoidal zither) and nay (bamboo flute). Cantor Daniel Pincus is a lyric tenor whose repertoire extends to Bach, Schubert, and Salamone Rossi. Peter Basil Bogdanos is an exceptional percussionist who performs and records, playing a broad repertoire ranging from pop, jazz, R&B, to Middle-Eastern and Flamenco. Joseph Deninzon, who has been called the Jimmy Hendrix of the Violin, elicits extraordinary sounds from both electric and acoustic violins.

ALHAMBRA has recorded many CDs and cassettes, which will be available for sale at the performance.

Sharon Bernstein at Kavehoyz

Sharon Bernstein will perform a concert of Yiddish songs of angels and streets, accompanying herself on the piano,
Thursday, October 19, 7pm
Congress for Jewish Culture
25 E. 21st St., Manhattan (between Park and Broadway, take the "6" train to 23rd street)
$7 admission includes coffee, tea and pastries.
For more information, call 212-505-8040

THE YIDDISH VOICE OF LOVE: SONGS OF BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN

The 92nd STREET Y PRESENTS MUSIC & DANCE OF THE JEWISH TRADITION
SONGS OF LOVE & LONGING AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006
8:00pm
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street
TICKETS $30

THE YIDDISH VOICE OF LOVE: SONGS OF BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN Michael Alpert, artistic consultant.
Yiddish musicperformed by a blockbuster crew, with Michael Alpert: vocals, drums, violin, Sharon Bernstein: vocals, Adrienne Cooper: vocals, Rebecca Kaplan: vocals, Janet Leuchter: vocals, Miryem-Khaye Seigal: vocals, Paula Teitelbaum: vocals, Deborah Strauss: violin, Marilyn Lerner: piano, Peter Rushefsky: cimbalom
To purchase tickets 212-415-5500
JMWC Recommendation: "Not to be Missed"! BEYLE SCHAECHTER GOTTESMAN
TEACHER, POET, SONGWRITER

The first concert, on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 8 PM, is The Yiddish Voice of Love: Songs of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Featuring the work of teacher, songwriter, and one of America's premier Yiddish Poets, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, the evening celebrates this inspirational woman's incredible legacy. A recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts), Schaechter-Gottesman has been a driving force for generations of Yiddish singers, including those who have performed her songs as part of the Klezmer revival of the last two decades. The performance features an ensemble of Yiddish musicians and vocalists: Michael Alpert (vocals, drums, violin), Sharon Bernstein, Adrienne Cooper, Rebecca Kaplan, Janet Leuchter, Miryem-Khaye Seigal, and Paula Teitelbaum (vocals), Deborah Strauss (violin), Marilyn Lerner (piano), and Peter Rushefsky (cimbalom). Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, Austria, but was raised in pre-war Romania, one of the centers of Yiddish intellectual culture. She survived the Holocaust in the ghetto in Czernowitz and came to the United States in 1951. Active as a teacher and songwriter, she began to write poetry and gained a reputation as one of America's premier Yiddish poets. Many of her songs cover a wide range of subjects from subway musicians, to personal reminiscences, to descriptions of street life in her hometown, the Bronx. The renaissance of klezmer music in the United States allowed her large repertoire of traditional and original material to be performed by many artists.
Schaechter-Gottesman has been acclaimed as one of the great living unaccompanied ballad singers. She takes great pride in her work with children, writing songs especially for them and performing frequently for young audiences. In 1998, she was inducted into the People's Hall of Fame by the organization City Lore based in New York City. In 2005 she received a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship, one of the highest cultural honors given by a United States government agency.

GOLDENSHTEYN TRIBUTE CONCERT/DANCE PARTY AT Southpaw

Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
7 PM Doors Open, 8 PM Concert/Dance Party

Goldenshteyn Tribute Ensemble
Featuring: Frank London, Jeff Warschauer, Margot Leverett, Susan Watts, Aaron Alexander, Alicia Svigals, and many more
The Goldenshteyn Tribute Ensemble will begin at 8 PM on Sunday September 17th at Southpaw. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Call 212.946.6334 or visit www.metpo.com for more information and online ticket purchase.

German Goldenshteyn, a Holocaust survivor and Red Army veteran, notated over 800 melodies in the 40 years that he played Jewish weddings along the Ukrainian border with Moldavia, before moving to Brooklyn in 1994. He recorded his first CD “German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition” (available at www.germangoldenshteyn.com at KlezKamp 2005 before his tragic untimely death in June at age 71, and had a second CD on the way, along with plans for concerts and workshops in Poland, Germany and Canada.

Now some of New York and the world’s finest klezmer musicians are teaming up to play a tribute concert and dance party featuring the amazing melodies German taught them all. All proceeds go to his widow, Mina, their daughter, Klava Rozentul, son-in-law Borya, and grandson Alex.

Directed by clarinetist Alex Kontorovich, the evening will feature such renowned artists as Frank London, Jeff Warschauer, Margot Leverett, Susan Watts, Aaron Alexander, and Alicia Svigals, with many surprise guests throughout the night.

Just try sitting still while listening to German’s collection of melodies!

SOUTHPAW (125 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) is a large capacity, 5,000 square foot venue located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, bringing local, national, international artists, and dj’s spanning all musical genres. In 2004, Southpaw was chosen as one of the top 5 venues in all of New York City by TIME OUT NY.

Catch Metropolitan Klezmer Before the Holidays

Metropolitan Klezmer octet on the cusp of the holidays (awe-appropriate...) Recharged traditionals, soulful originals, retro surprises! Full details follow:

Thursday, September 14
7:00pm @ JCC Metrowest, West Orange NJ - free!

Tuesday, September 19
7:30pm @ Mo Pitkin's - Judeo/Latino cuisine!
34 Avenue A (East Village) NYC

www.mopitkins.com
www.jccmetrowest.org
www.metropolitanklezmer.com
www.cdbaby.com/metklez3

Two early evening Metropolitan Klezmer shows this month:
• Thursday, September 14
Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC, Ross Family Campus, West Orange NJ
7:00 pm FREE concert, open to the public!
760 Northfield Avenue - West Orange
Sponsored by the Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled / WAE Center (Wellness, Arts and Enrichment Center), the second concert in their World Music Series.
For more information or to request a listening device call Elaine Schenkel, WAE Center Program Coordinator, at 973-325-1494 x 16.
Full eight-piece band!
www.jccmetrowest.org

• Tuesday, September 19
Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
7:30pm ~ one 75+ minute set, Upstairs at Mo's
34 Avenue A (btw East 2nd & 3rd Streets), NYC
Info: 212-777-5660
Decor: East Village shrine of mid-century eclectica Satisfaction: Full bar & menu, comidas a la Ratner's: Jewish/Latino cuisine $10 +one drink minimum. All ages welcome, zip code neighbor early bird deals. Full eight-piece band!
www.mopitkins.com

"With influences that range from old school Arabic music to Latin jazz to Motown, Metropolitan Klezmer interprets aged Yiddish favorites with a mixture of tradition and irreverence.... not only exuberantly eclectic but also very danceable. Expect an eccentric cultural lesson from these modern-day purveyors of time-honored traditions." - Jen Bachman, flavorpill.net

Sephardic concert at Merkin Hall

September 12, 2006. Sephardic concert "La Mar Enfortuna" performed by Elsyian Fields, Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles. Merkin Concert Hall, NYC, NY, USA, 8 p.m. Tickets - $25. For more info or to order tickets http://www.kaufman-center.org/tc/0607/lamar_091206.php

JEWISH CABARET IN EXILE, SONGS OF MODERNITY

YIVO Presents: JEWISH CABARET IN EXILE, SONGS OF MODERNITY
by the New Budapest Orpheum Society
Thursday, September 14, 7 pm
VENUE: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
TICKETS: $20/$10 students - Box Office: 917-606-8200/www.ticketweb.com

Experience the musical tradition of the European Jewish cabaret. The NBOS, an eight-member ensemble, revives hauntingly beautiful songs from these troupes and from composers and lyricists in exile. The performance will mix skits, comedy, and songs in German, Hebrew, Yiddish and English with scholarly commentary.

Pre-concert talk (free to ticket holders): 6:15-6:45 p.m., "Jewish Cabaret: The Stories Behind the Stereotypes" Philip Bohlman, Artistic Director, New Budapest Orpheum Society; Mary Werkman, Professor of the Humanities and of Music, University of Chicago For more information http://www.yivo.org/events/index.php?tid=139&aid=355

Tantshoyz (Dance House) - Dance Party at the Manhattan JCC

Thursday, September 14
8:00PM - 10:30PM
At the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam @ 76th St.
Cost is $10.
For tickets call 646-505-5708 or jccarts.org

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan present a Tantshoyz (Dance House). Lace up your dancing shoes for an evening of traditional Ashkenazic dancing led by master dance leader Walter Zev Feldman. Live klezmer music will be provided by some of New York's hottest young musicians-Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Michael Winograd (clarinet), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) and Nick Cudahy (bass). Part of the New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival and Sidney Krum Conference.

ANAT FORT TRIO and more

Sat Jun 24
ANAT FORT TRIO
(Anat Fort, piano, composer; Michel Gentile, flute; Roland Schneider, drums) Piano, Flute, Percussion/Drums?! Yes. This is the world premiere for a new project with Michel Gentile and Roland Schneider. Tunes by all three. Lots of free playing in different configurations. Sounds from Israel, Canada, Germany. Anat is very excited about collaborating with Michel, one of the most unique flute players around. And, of course, Roland has been the drummer of choice in her trio for many years. And when the three get together...you have to hear it.
9:00PM & 10:30PM
Cover $10 www.anatfort.com

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.

Sun Jun 25
NEW YORK WOMAN!
(EVE PACKER, (words); WARREN SMITH, (percussion); MICAH GAUGH, (alto sax)) NEW YORK WOMAN!
poetry & jazz

EVE PACKER; Bronx-born, poet/performer, author of 2 books, skulls head samba & the recently published playland poems 1994-2004 (Fly By Night Press), & 3 CD's w/jazz. From Donald Hall: "I salute her as the Weegee poet", & from Dennis Duggan, Newsday:"...smokey & sexy in a way that makes you think of love."
WARREN SMITH: Chicago-born, dynamic leader of a vibrant musical ensemble, noted composer & master percussionist. A consummate musician, Smith knows when to put the heat to a rhythm section & where to be a sensitive accompanist. Warren has many jazz CD's in his discography, performs internationally, and is an essential element in the development of African-American music.
6:00PM Angelo Verga, host. Cover $6


THE NEW JEWISH AVANT-GARDE: FRANTIC TURTLE & THE SWAY MACHINERY (Jake Marmer, vocals; David Keesey, vocals, guitar; Ely G, drums; Jeremiah Lockwood, vocals, guitar; Tomer Tzur, drums; Antibalas Horn Section) Join the new jewish avant-garde collective for two sets of rock-blues, jazz-poetry, and dostoyevsky on speed. Featuring the Sway Machinery (with Antibalas horn section) and Frantic Turtle.

The Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies of the Jews of New York City Longtime collaborators Jeremiah Lockwood (Balkan Beat Box, Carolina Slim) and Tomer Tzur (Beat the Donkey, Pharaoh's Daughter) team up with friends from Antibalas to present an audacious descent into the depths of Jewish soul music. Calling upon the sounds of Malian guitars, Saharan beats, Afro-pop horns and the B-L-U-E-S, The Sway Machinery goes knocking at the gates of prayer with muscles swollen and eyes clenched.
"Brechtian-punk swagger." The Village Voice
Frantic Turtle: a spoken-word / punk project a-la Velvet Underground. The midrashic poetics, instantenous interpretations from verbal semantics to music and back, and the raspy russinalising funk.
www.myspace.com/franticturtle 8:30PM Cover $8 www.myspace.com/swaymachinery

4th New York International Choral Festival

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

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

Live Music at Museum Mile Festival at the Jewish Museum

Metropolitan Klezmer Octet
Tuesday, June 13th
Museum Mile Festival at the Jewish Museum
6pm-9pm FREE!! & outdoors (if weather permits, or in museum auditorium).
The Jewish Museum
Fifth Ave @ 92nd St, NYC
Info: 212-423-3200 or museummilefestival.org
Rain or shine... full eight-piece band
Latest photos at EPK: http://metropolitanklezmer.com
Contact Eve Sicular at sicular@gmail.com
This is Metropolitan Klezmer's eleventh consecutive year playing for The Jewish Museum at this annual event which transforms Fifth Avenue into a car-free cultural promenade for the evening, each second Tuesday in June -- with admission to all museums FREE! We will perform various very new pieces and original arrangements of traditional and farflung music, from Yiddish sources and beyond.
Featuring:
~Ismail Butera, accordion
~Brian Drye, trombone
~Pamela Fleming, trumpet & fluegelhorn
~Michael Hess, violin & ney flutes
~David Hofstra, bass & tuba
~Deborah Karpel, vocals
~Debra Kreisberg, clarinet & alto saxophone
~Eve Sicular, drums & bandleader

ASEFA in Park Slope

Asefa is playing in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Thursday, June 8, 9pm
The Tea Lounge, NYC
837 Union St. (btw 6/7 aves)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Subway: Q/B to 7ave or 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza.
http://www.jatm.org/ASEFA
Asefa includes Samuel Thomas on woodwinds and percussion, Noah Jarrett on upright bass, Eric Platz on drums and David Buchbut on percussion.
**New Asefa CD available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/samuelthomas and now on iTunes at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/ wa/viewAlbum?playListId=128906488

Here's a recent review by Gili Houpt on NYC Jewish Music: Jewish Music Album of the Week: "Asefa," the eponymous debut by Samuel Thomas' band, gathers the sounds of klezmer and jazz together with African and Middle-Eastern music for a great mix of traditional tunes and original compositions. In addition to clarinet and sax, Samuel plays instruments unfamiliar to most listeners of Western music: bendir (Moroccan percussion) and ghaita, (a type of African flute) for a mesmerizing effect. There are 2 vocal tracks, including Ki Eshmera Shabbat, a popular Sephardic song for the Shabbat meal. The rest of the album is instrumental, but even without words the universal language of music conveys the Spirit. Asefa is the outcome of JATM, Jewish Awareness through Music, a project Thomas founded to teach Jewish culture all over the world.

Nashir Features Yehezkel Braun works at Merkin Hall in NYC

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

ELEONORE BIEZUNSKI & THE KLEZMOGRAPHERS

Eleonore Biezunski and The Klezmographers will be performing at the Barbes this Sunday May 21st at 7:00pm
Featuring Pete Rushefsky - tsimbl; Samuel Maquin - clarinet; Eleonore Biezunski - fiddle and special guest Laurent d'Aumale - voice
BARBES is located 376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn 718.965.9177

Kavehoyz with Yuri Vedenyapan

The young Yiddish singer from Moscow, Yuri Vedenyapan, will perform at the monthly Kavehoyz of the Congress for Jewish Culture on May 25, 2006. Yuri is a graduate student in the Yiddish department at Columbia. The concert takes place at the Congress, 25 E. 21st Manhattan, Admission: $8 includes coffee and cake. Information: 212-505-8040.

Max Stern's Messer Marco Polo at New York City Opera VOX Showcase

VOX: Showcasing American Composers 2006
Produced by New York City Opera
Presented by the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University
566 LaGuardia Place (Washington Square Park South)
May 6 – 7, 2006
FREE
Sunday, MAY 7, 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Stephen Andrew Taylor, Paradises Lost, libretto by Kate Gale
Max Stern, Messer Marco Polo

Directions to Skirball Center:
The Skirball Center is located at 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square Park South, within a few blocks of most subway lines, including West 4th St. (A, C, E, F, V, and S), 8th Street (N, R, W), Astor Place (6) and Christopher Street (1).

Many opera composers only get to hear their works through their computer speakers. But since 1999, New York City Opera has offered American composers the opportunity to hear their compositions with a full orchestra and superb young singers. VOX is the only program of its kind in the country, and it has offered audiences the first chance to hear works by composers such as Mark Adamo, Charles Wuorinen, Richard Danielpour, and Michael John LaChiusa that have gone on to define an American musical voice.

This May, City Opera brings the VOX Showcase downtown to New York University's Skirball Center, an intimate new theater devoted to developing young audiences for live performances. The City Opera Orchestra will play excerpts from twelve innovative new works by both established and emerging composers.

Discussions with the composers and other exciting events will make up a festival that is free and open to the public.

The full schedule:
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MAY 6

12:00 – 1:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Transforming Literature into Opera
Moderator: Mark Adamo
Participants: Russell Banks, Frank Corsaro, Kate Gale, Herschel Garfein, Christopher Hawes, Philip Littell

2 – 3 pm
Herschel Garfein, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Robert Carl, Harmony, libretto by Russell Banks

3:15 – 4:15
Martin Hennessy, Letter to E. 11th St., libretto by Mark Campbell
H. Leslie Adams, Blake, libretto by Daniel Mayers

4:30 – 5:30
William Kraft, Red Azalea, libretto by Christopher Hawes
Thomas Pasatieri, Frau Margot, libretto by Frank Corsaro

8:00 – 10:00 pm
VOX On The Edge
Readings of new works by Center for Contemporary Opera, Music Theater Group, Encompass New Opera Theatre, and American Opera Projects

MAY 7

12:00 – 1:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Opera Electronica
Moderator: Tod Machover
Participants: Mason Bates, Justine F. Chen, Anne LeBaron, Stephen Andrew Taylor

2 – 3 pm
Jenny O. Johnson, Leaving Santa Monica
Mason Bates, California Fictions

3:15 – 4:15
Justine F. Chen, The Maiden Tower
Anne LeBaron, Crescent City, libretto by Philip Littell

4:30 – 5:30 pm
Stephen Andrew Taylor, Paradises Lost, libretto by Kate Gale
Max Stern, Messer Marco Polo

Regina Resnik Presents: Covert or Convert?

Sunday, April 2, 2:30 PM

Regina Resnik Presents: Covert or Convert?
A Powerful Expression of the Jewish Spirit

Regina Resnik, narrator; Darynn Zimmer, soprano; Michael Philip Davis, tenor; Charles Robert Stephens, baritone; Vlad Iftinca, piano

This unique program features the work of Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein, converts to Christianity, and Otto Klemperer, a convert back to Judaism, along with unheralded Jewish composers who wrote covertly during the Inquisition, under Communism, and in the Holocaust. Works by Aldo Finzi, Pavel Haas, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and others will have their premieres in the Museum's Edmond J. Safra Hall. All of them are powerful expressions of the Jewish spirit. Presented and narrated by opera legend Regina Resnik.
$20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 members/students
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280
t. 646.437.4337 f. 646.437.4341
Visit our website at: www.mjhnyc.org

Regina Resnik has had an opera career spanning more than 60 years and more than 80 roles in the great international opera houses. She became famous for roles such as Carmen and Mistress Quickly. In 1987, Regina Resnik made her musical theater debut as Fraülein Schneider in Cabaret with Joel Grey, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Since 1997, she has been the host and narrator of the concert series "Regina Resnik Presents" - which she co-founded and co-produces with her son, tenor and stage director, Michael Philip Davis. The series has become an important presence in New York musical life, having offered such diverse programs as "Beethoven in Song," "The Gypsy in Classical Song," and "The Classic Kurt Weill"

International Celebration of Jewish Music at Alice Tully Hall

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

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

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

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

Shapira and Shapira Perform Brahms at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall

Renowned cellist Benjamin Shapira will joined by pianist Shulamith Shapira performing the two Brahms cello sonatas at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall on March 16th, 8:00 pm. B. Shapira's talent was recognized at a very early age. He was quickly embraced by America Israel Cultural Foundation, and was selected by Isaac Stern to join a small group of outstanding young protégé artists at the Jerusalem Music Center. Shapira's international career was launched after his celebrated Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall performance of the Complete Bach Suites for Cello Solo. Since, Shapira is in constant demand as a soloist, performing all over the United States and abroad. His recent years' US performances include concerts in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. Shapira frequently performs internationally as well, touring Europe, South America and Israel.

Tickets can be purchase at CarnegieCharge at: 212-247-7800 or by calling Taltal productions at: 1-888-432-3556. Tickets are $25 and $12 for students and senior citizens. The Brahms Cello Sonatas Celebrated in Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall

The concert provides a rare opportunity for NY music lovers to explore both cello sonatas side by side. Considered by most as corner stones of the cello repertoire, the two Brahms cello sonatas reflect, each in its own way, that distinct style, which made Brahms' music so eternally powerful in the eyes of music lovers: always romantic, potent and rich, yet classicist and intellectually intricate in form and detail. "The E Minor sonata is one of my favorite works in the entire cello repertoire" says Shapira. "It is a tragic work, which makes an extraordinary use of the entire wide emotional range the cello can offer, making special use of the deep, bass qualities of the instrument. It is a magnificent, monumental work" he exclaims. The F major sonata opus 99 belongs to a much later period of Brahms's life. "The F Major sonata provides such a contrast to the dark E Minor" says Shapira "it is a passionate work, almost violent at times, but always seems to maintain a very optimistic approach, full of youthful energy" he concludes.

Highly praised by critics, Shapira was compared with the great Catalonian cellist Pablo Casals. "Shapira's admirable accounts [of the Bach Suites] might be aptly described as 'Modified Casals'," says critic Harris Goldsmith in a review published by the New York Concert Review "Shapira is, like his great Catalonian forebear, a romantic with brains". The Agence France Presse dubs Shapira as "A Soloist of International Stature"; the New Jersey Herald calls him as "a passionate performer".

Cantorial school concert at Jewish Theological Seminary

Date: Sunday night March 12, 2006
Time: 7:00pm
Where: JTS Feinberg Auditorium
Jewish Theological Seminary
Broadway at 122nd Street, NYC
Tickets are $7 for students; and $15 for anyone else.
There will be a wide variety of music performed by over half of the students of the HL Miller Cantorial School.
For ticket info, contact either Sara Horowitz or Rebecca Carl at sahorowitz@jtsa.edu, or recarl@jtsa.edu
This is a tsedakah concert.

A Rare Evening of Klezmer Tsimbl

Zev Feldman, Pete Rushefsky and Alicia Jo Rabins Performing: "A Rare Evening of Klezmer Tsimbl (Cimbalom/hammered dulcimer)": Live at The Stone (www.thestonenyc.com/)
John Zorn, Artistic Director
Basya Schechter, Curator for February series
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Location: Corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC
Time: Two sets: 8PM and 10PM
Admission: $10

A special night of music featuring the tsimbl-- also known as the cimbalom or Jewish/Eastern European hammered dulcimer. A string instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl employs over 100 strings to create a mystical harp-like sonority. It was a popular instrument in Jewish klezmer ensembles across Eastern Europe from the 1500's through the first decades of the twentieth century.

Walter Zev Feldman (tsimbl) was a true musical pioneer when he revived the tsimbl's use in klezmer in the 1970's. He continues to be a leading performer and researcher of Jewish music and dance as well as a leading authority on Ottoman and other Central Asian/Near Eastern musics. His Khevrisa ensemble's recording European Klezmer Music was released in 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways. When not performing, Feldman also serves as Artistic Director for the 92 St.Y's Jewish music concert series and holds faculty/fellowship appointments at Bar-Ilan University and Hebrew University. Feldman recently co-directed the successful application for Turkey resulting in UNESCO naming the Mevlevi Dervish tradition as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) was first turned on to the tsimbl when he heard Feldman's seminal 1979 album Jewish Klezmer Music with mandolinist/clarinetist Andy Statman. He performs regularly with some of the leading performers of the klezmer scene, such as Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. A veteran faculty member of KlezKamp and KlezKanada, Pete also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, a NY-based non-profit dedicated to preserving the performing arts traditions of ethnic and new immigrant communities.

Alicia Jo Rabins (violin) is a rising star on the New York music scene. She has performed across Europe and North America as a member of the klezmer ensemble Golem. Additionally, Rabins is well-known as a virtuoso of Old-Time music, having performed or recorded with the Mammals, Underbelly, Jay Ungar, Pete Seeger, Cliff Eberhart. Her acclaimed solo album Sugar Shack was released in 2003.

ASEFA in East Village

ASEFA will be performing at Mo Pitkin's in the East Village on:
Thursday, March 2, 9:30pm
Mo Pitkin's, 34 Ave. A (BTW 2/3 st.)
http://www.mopitkins.com/
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
http://www.jatm.org/ASEFA

Lincoln Center Presents “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov”

January 22-February 22, 2006

A festival dedicated to the evocative, exuberant work of this contemporary Argentine-American composer. Osvaldo Golijov was born in 1960 and grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. With a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical music, Jewish liturgical and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla. After studying piano and composition at the local conservatory he moved in 1983 to Israel, where he studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy and immersed himself in the colliding musical traditions of that city. Upon moving to the US in 1986, Golijov earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with George Crumb. Upon naming him its composer of the year for 2006, Musical America declared “The 45-year old Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov has emerged as one of the leading figures of contemporary music, with a multicultural style of exuberant dance rhythms and raw emotion that connects instantly to a wide range of audiences.”

In addition to performances of Golijov’s major works, Lincoln Center’s “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov” features three late-night concerts in the Allen Room, including a performance by David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!

For tickets and details about the “The Passion of Osvaldo Golijov” festival at Lincoln Center, call 212.721.6500, click here, or visit osvaldogolijov.com.

A Hanukkah Concert at the Center for Jewish History

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

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

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

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

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

MIDRASH MISH MOSH AT MAKOR ON NEW YEAR’S EVE!

DON’T MISS A STAR-STUDDED PERFORMANCE OF THE CRITICALY ACCLAIMED MIDRASH MISH MOSH AT MAKOR ON NEW YEAR’S EVE!

"A project with newly composed music of expansive scope, Alexander has produced a screaming celebration of the multicultural American Jewish identity."
Elliott Simon, AllAboutJazz - NY

New York, NY: Makor (25 West 67th street) Celebrate the 365th day of the year and the 7th night of Hanukkah – all in one; enjoy three floors of entertainment and mingling! Beginning at 9pm the party will include Aaron Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh, Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-stars, a Klezmer Jam Session and The Boys of Balagan Boogaloo. Also offered as part of the evening is a two-hour open beer and wine bar (from 10 to 12) followed by a champagne toast at midnight. Midrash Mish Mosh, on John Zorn's Tzadik label, came about as a result of Alexander’s desire to do a different kind of record; to incorporate free jazz with traditional klezmer and thrash punk. It is both a serious reflection on and a synthesis of the disparate influences in Alexander’s life through the free jazz spectrum. Exhilarating, lyrical and intense, this CD simultaneously breaks down previously established boundaries and builds up new and daring ethnic jazz identities. The result - A kickin’ ethnojazz party!

Midrash Mish Mosh will begin at 9pm on Sat. Dec 31 at the Steinhardt Building. Tickets are $65 for individuals and $100 for couples. Call Y-Charge at 212.415.5500 or visit www.makor.org for more information and online ticket purchase.

"This is plugged-in "Original, energetic and different from "Party atmosphere!” amped-up Jewish music." pretty much anything you’ll hear out there” All Music Guide Jerry D’Souza, AllAboutJazz Astarita, Downbeat Aaron Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh MAKOR’S NEW YEAR’S EVE: SET THE NEW YEAR ON FIRE

PERSONNEL
AARON ALEXANDER (Leader, Drums) A native of Seattle, Alexander moved to New York in 1993. He has since provided a rhythmic backbone to many seminal groups of the new Jewish Renaissance, including the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars. His first CD on Tzadik, Midrash Mish Mosh is also his inaugural release as an ethnojazz bandleader. Alexander’s powerful compositions explore the outer regions of jazz fusion with klezmer, thrash punk, and world music rhythms.

MERLIN SHEPHERD (Clarinet)
ALEX KONTOROVICH (Clarinet, Alto Sax, Baritone Sax)
GREG WALL (Tenor Sax, Clarinet)
FRANK LONDON (Trumpet)
DAN BLACKSBURG (Trombone)
JAY VILNAI (Guitar)
MARK RUBIN (Bass)
TBA (2nd Drums)
VENUE
MAKOR (25 West 67th Street) offers evening and weekend events to New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s. Makor's programming is a mix of sophisticated contemporary music performances, film screenings, art exhibits, theater presentations, literary readings, recreational activities and classes and lectures, many of which are devoted to Jewish topics.

CHOIRS AND CANTORS SPARK THIS CHANUKAH SEASON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kurt Weill in America

92nd Street "Y" Lyrics and Lyricists, opens the 2005-2006 season with "Kurt Weill in America". Andrea Marcovicci, Artistic Director. Shelly markham, Music Director and Piano. Anna Bergamn, Klea Blackhurst, Barbara Brussell, Mark Coffin, Chuck Cooper, Jeff Harnar and Maude Maggart. Saturday Nov. 12, at 8pm. Seats $55 and $45. Sunday Nov. 13 at 3pm and at 8pm. Seats $55 and $45 and Monday, Nov. 14 at 3pm and 8pm, with seats $55 and $45. The tribute to Kurt Weill (1990-1950) and the American lyricists who collaborated with him. Suscription to the entire series are available. For tickets: www.92Y.org/Lyrics or 212-415-5500.

Before Kurt Weill fled Nazi Germany for Paris in March, 1993, he had compsed a dozen works for the musical theater. Early in his career, Weill said "I need poetry to set my imagination in motion," and he established a lifelong habit of collaborating with only the most talented lyricists. In Germany his tow most famous partners were the playwrights Georg Kaiser and Bertolt Brecht. In America, he teamed up with great American lyricists and poets like Alan Jay Lerner, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash, Langston Hughes, and Maxwell Anderson. In the L&L show, Andrea Marcovicci follows the musical life of Kurt Weill in America to explore the work of several influential American lyricists in context of their work with this singular composer. The songs--sweeping romatic melodies, jaunty comic tunes and stately anthems,--reveal how Weill's music influenced his lyricist-collaborators. But they also show Weill himself adapting to his new country, absorbing influences from his American colleagues and enjoying the newfound artistic freedom that America offered.

Weill collaborated with giants of American song like Ira Gershwin, as in the Broadway operetta The Firebrand of Florence (1944) and The Lady in the Dark (1940). He worked with Alan Jay Lerner on the relatively obscrue 1948 Broadway vaudeville show Love Life which features the same characteristic wit and whimsy as Lerner's best-known work, My Fair Lady.

But Weill also worked with lyricists who were primarily playwrights and poets--writers who worked as lyricists only in their collaborations with Kurt Weill. Pulitzer prize winning North Carolina playwright Paul Green (1894-1981), who was known for his portrayal of Southern American folk life, was Weill's first American collaboratr; the project was Johnny Johnson (1936), the offbeat story of a peace-loving soldier in World War I. With playwright and sometime lyricist Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959), Weill wrote Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), which starred Walter Huston in the Broadway production and featured the hit songs "It Never Was You" and "September Song". (Anderson wrote both narrative plays and verse dramas, including Winterset, which won the 1935 New York Drama Critics Circle Award.) Anderson and Weill also started work on a musical version of Huckleberry Finn, but weill completed only five songs before his death in 1950. These songs were performed in public for the first time at the 92nd Street Y under the direction of L&L founder Maurice Levine, in a Kurt Weill tribute concert on March 2, 1952. The great American poety Langston Hughes (1902-1967) wrote the lyrics--with Elmer Rice-- for Weill's 1947 opera Street Scene, which was based on Rice's Pulitzer-Prize winning play. Another great American poety and journalist, Ogden Nash (1902-1971), collaborated with Weill to write lyrics to the 1943 Broadway hit, One Touch of Venus.

Music director and pianist Shelly Markham is an arranger, music director, pianist and longtime colleague of Andrea Marcovicci. He produced four recordings for Marcovicci, including her latest featuring the songs of Fred Astaire. He arranged and conducted her Cole Porter evening, which toured nationally and was produced at the Liceu Opera House in Barcelona. The current off-Broadway show Naked Boys Singing features Markham's songs, and his latest show, Too Old for the Chorus is currently playing at San Diego's Theater in Old Town. He has worked with leading Broadway and cabaret performers and has enjoyed a long and successful collaboration as a composer with poet and author Judith Viorst (Love and Shrimp; Alexander & The Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day; and Alexander Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move).

Cantor Rebecca Garfein at Carnegie Hall Nov. 10

"Golden Chants In America"
Cantor Rebecca Garfein, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Manhattan, will present the concert and historic CD debut of "Golden Chants in America...Commemorating 350 years of Jewish Music, 1654-2004," 7 p.m., Nov. 10, 2005 at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York. Accompanying Cantor Garfein, at the concert and on the CD is "Golden Chants" musical director and pianist Jonathan Faiman and the "Golden Chants" combo and choir. Including music from the Spanish-Portuguese Jews, the synagogue and the Yiddish and Broadway theater, the CD is the first U.S. recording to feature Jewish music spanning 350 years of life in America. A portion of the concert proceeds will be donated to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and designated for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Tickets for the "Golden Chants" concert are available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, Carnegie Charge 212-247-7800 or online at www.carnegiehall.org; the Cantor�s new CD will be available at metropolitan area music outlets and www.amazon.com.

Cantor Garfein, a mezzo-soprano who made history in 1997 as the first female cantor to sing in Berlin, Germany, explains, "Golden Chants" represents a compilation of three and a half centuries of significant Jewish music brought to the U.S. by Jewish immigrants or written by Jewish composers on American soil." She adds the concert and CD release are timely since this fall marks the end of a year-long celebration of 350 years of Jewish life in America.



Cantor Garfein says her concert and album will "pay tribute to all immigrants arriving in America looking for that golden chance of opportunity and freedom." She points out the album�s cover photo, taken from the southern edge of Ellis Island, represents the "new immigrant" looking south toward the Statue of Liberty "in anticipation of a new life." Symbolically, Cantor Garfein says, the album begins with "The Colossus," by Max Helfman, which sets to music the words of poet Emma Lazarus, a Sephardic Jew: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free�." The text of the full poem, written by Lazarus in 1883, is enshrined in bronze at the pedestal of the Statue Liberty.

The concert and album will feature compositions sung in a virtual rainbow of languages, including Spanish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), German, Yiddish, Hebrew and English�much of which was brought to America by the Spanish-Portuguese, Russian and German Jews over the last 350 years. Album selections include "Bendigamos," a Spanish-Portuguese Jewish grace after meals sung in 16th century Castilian Spanish; and "Halleluyah," and the "Deutsche Kedusha," the great music of Vienna and Berlin written for the synagogue by Solomon Sulzer and Louis Lewandowski, respectively. To this day, most American Reform and many Conservative and Orthodox congregations continue to utilize Sulzer�s "Shema" and Lewandowski�s "Kiddush" in their services.

Other album and concert highlights feature Yiddish and Broadway music, including "Vos is gevorn fun mayn Shtetele?" (What has become of my Shtetl?), "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," and Jerome Kern�s "Can�t Help Lovin� that Man," from the 1927 musical, "Show Boat."

The concert and CD will also pay tribute to several of the modern Jewish composers, including Cantor Robbie Solomon, who has written extensively for the American synagogue. His gospel-style "Peace by Piece," embodies a universal anthem that expresses commitment to social action and the ultimate goal of peace.

Also, Cantor Garfein will demonstrate how modern interpretations of ancient prayer melodies have been influenced by contemporary American harmonies with selections of "Yih�yu L�ratson" and "Oseh Shalom" (prayers for meditation and peace), by composer Cantor Marshall Portnoy.

First Female Cantor to Sing in Germany In 1997, Cantor Garfein became the first female cantor to give a solo concert at the Jewish Cultural Festival in Berlin Germany, from where her grandfather fled during the Holocaust. At the 1998 Berlin Jewish Cultural Festival, Cantor Garfein became the first female cantor to preside in a German synagogue and released a CD, "Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue," a live recording of her historic 1997 Berlin concert.

Cantor Garfein made her Carnegie Hall debut in June, 2005 in a benefit concert for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater featuring Mandy Patinkin. A native of Tallahassee, Florida, Cantor Garfein graduated cum laude from Rice University�s Shepherd School of Music with a degree in vocal performance and opera. In 1993, she received her Master�s Degree in Sacred Music and Cantorial Investiture from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). She has been a featured soloist with the Ra�a�na�na Orchestra and the Zamir Chorale at the Jerusalem Theater in Israel and in 2001 was a soloist at the 350th anniversary concert of the Curacao Jewish Community.

While completing her studies at HUC-JIR, Cantor Garfein was the Director of Children�s Music at Riverdale Temple, Riverdale, the Bronx, New York. Upon graduation from HUC-JIR, she subsequently became the first Cantor of Riverdale Temple and served in that capacity until 1999, when she was the first woman appointed as Senior Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York City.

Accompanying Cantor Garfein, at the concert and on the CD is "Golden Chants" musical director and pianist Jonathan Faiman and the "Golden Chants" combo and choir. Mr. Faiman, a multiple ASCAP award winner, has received critical acclaim for his solo CD, "Hie Up The Mountain." He is a member of the Locrian Chamber Players and The Actors Company Theatre, with whom Mr. Faiman has composed and performed for numerous concerts and productions. In New York City, Mr. Faiman has performed extensively in most major halls, including Avery Fisher, Merkin, Symphony Space and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He has taught at Concordia College and is on the faculty of Bloomingdale School of Music and the Preparatory Divison of Manhattan School of Music, from where he holds a Doctorate.

SLAVIC SOUL PARTY CD RELEASE PARTY

Ron Caswell's TUBAPALOOZA part TROIS!
Saturday, Spetember 24th 2005 9pm - very late!@ Zebulon
258 Wythe Avenue (betwixed Metropolitan Ave. and N. 3rd)
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
L train to the Bedford Stop
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands!
http://roncaswell.com
See the schedule:

9pm
Judith Berkson and the East River Orchestra
http://www.EastRiverOrchestra.com
Klezmer shots at Zebulon
"Best music to get laid to" - Rabbi Archibald Ladinsky

11pm
Slavic Soul Party CD RELEASE PARTY!
Brash and strong as slivovitz, Slavic Soul Party! is downtown's answer to Balkan
brass band music! Buy the CD here:
http://slavicsoulparty.com

TUBAPALOOZER's for the night:
Ben Holmes - trumpet
Shane Endsley - trumpet
Alex Kontorovich - clarinet
Oscar Noriega - clarinet, sax
Jacob Garchik - trombone, baritone
Brian Drye - trombone, baritone
Ron Caswell - tuba
Brandon Seabrook - banjo, mandolin
Judith Berkson - accordion and vocals
Matt Moran - tapan, (big drum)
Take Toriyama - snare, doumbek
Rich Huntely - drums
Peter Stan - accordian

http://roncaswell.com
ron@roncaswell.com

Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar at Astoria Center

Klezmer Concert with Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar
Tuesday, September 27th, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Cost: $5. Delicious desserts and coffee will also be available.
Astoria Center of Israel Synagogue, 27-35 Crescent Street, Astoria, Queens.
Directions: less than 20 minutes from 59th and Lex in Manhattan! Take the N or W subway towards Queens to the 30th Avenue stop. Walk west on 30th Avenue (towards Athens Square Park) for about 4 blocks; turn right on Crescent Street and we?re a half block down on the right. For more information: Call the shul at 718-278-2680 or visit http://www.astoriacenter.org/op

Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar is a quintet consisting of accordion, two violins, mandolin and bass that highlights both well-known and more obscure klezmer tunes, as well as Bailey's own original compositions. The repertoire is a mix of early 20th century Jewish fiddle pieces, original compositions, improvisation, and features material originally recorded by Romanian-born cymbalom master and Lower East Side restauranteur, Joseph Moskowitz. Reminiscent of an earlier time in the history of recorded Jewish music, the result is fresh, unique, and thoroughly engaging. The synagogue's foyer is transformed into a cafe-style setting, complete with intimate tables and delicious desserts.

Pre- High Holiday Concert: by Cantors World

September 21 at 7:30pm in Merkin Hall at 129 West 67th Street, New York City, a pre-high holiday special concert featuring Cantor Sol Zim, Cantor Jeffrey Nadel and Cantor Ari Klein. Also featuring Cantor Eliyahu Greenblatt, Azi Schwartz and his choir, Cantor Yechezkel Klang, and Cantor Daniel Gildar. The price is $40 general admission. For reservations call: 718-851-3226 or go to www.CantorsWorld.com for more information.

Jewish Music Forum features Dr. Hankus Netsky in September

The Jewish Music Forum is very pleased to introduce the 2005-2006 schedule of our academic seminar series, "New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life." The first speaker will be Dr. Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory of Music. On Friday, September 23 at 10 A.M. at the Center for Jewish History, Dr. Netsky will deliver a lecture, "The Philadelphia Russian Sher Medley: Viewing the Immigrant Experience through a Musical Text." Dr. Mark Slobin of Wesleyan University will serve as respondent to this talk. All sessions of the Jewish Music Forum take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. For additional information, please contact James Loeffler at 212-294-8328 or jloeffler@jewishmusicforum.org.

The second year of this series continues the Forum's initial goal of providing new contexts for scholars across Jewish studies to explore ways of incorporating music into their research. We have assembled a broad range of researchers who approach Jewish music from a rich variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

Hankus Netsky, Ph.D., is an instructor in jazz and contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he has taughtfor twenty years. He received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and has published articles on the history of klezmer music in the United States and Eastern Europe. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and composer and the founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish music ensemble. He currently serves as research director of the Klezmer Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to research on Yiddish musical traditions.

VESSELS OF SONG FESTIVAL

July 5-6 and July 8-10
at the
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
Greenwich Village, NY 10014
Tel: 212-989-9319
Fax: 212-243-4207
Web: corneliastreetcafe.com

between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.
"a culinary as well as a cultural landmark"
Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987
...more...

The last few years there's been a surge of interest in the traditional music of Eastern Europe. Cornelia St. Cafe is celebrating all the different ways in which Klezmer and Gypsy traditions have worked themselves into the contemporary NYC music scene. The week-long festival includes Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, showing that the blend of Shtetl Klezmer and Down Home Bluegrass is smoother than you would imagine; Jeff Perelman with members of Romashka, Village Klezmer and Max & Minka, drawing upon their own travels throughout the former Soviet bloc to bring you infectious Eastern European Klezmer music, Gypsy (Rom) music, Balkan music and more; Jay Vilnai's Vampire Suit, exploring the interconnections of Balkan music, Middle-Eastern grooves and improvisation; and Susan Watts, the youngest generation of an exciting klezmer dynasty that reaches back to the Jewish Ukraine of the 19th century, bringing a rich repertoire of many original songs written for weddings, family members and joyous occasions.
All shows are $10, get a 3 shows discount card: $25
Tuesday July 5, 8:30PM
Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys

(Margot Leverett, clarinet; Marty Confurius, bass; Joe Selly, guitar; Kenny Kosek, fiddle) Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today�s stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian and southern fiddle tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered, and the resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, melancholic and footstomping. Their CD "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys" was released to glowing reviews on Traditional Crossroads in September 2003 and has been used by the Paul Taylor Dance Company in their new piece "Klezmerbluegrass". Margot Leverett, clarinet, is one of the foremost clarinetists in the klezmer revival. A founding member of the Klezmatics in 1986, Margot went on to start a solo career with her pioneering CD �The Art of Klezmer Clarinet� on Traditional Crossroads. Critically acclaimed for her work on both clarinet and alto saxophone, Margot has performed and taught klezmer music at festivals and workshops around the world. Marty Confurius, bass, has appeared with virtually all the top people in both bluegrass and klezmer music. His credits include work with Vassar Clements, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Andy Statman, and klezmer legend Dave Tarras. Joe Selly, guitar has appeared with Phoebe Snow, Vassar Clements, Barbara Eden, Melissa Manchester,Tex Logan and the Lombardo Orchestra. He is featured on countless recordings and is in demand as both performer and instructor in bluegrass, jazz and swing. Kenny Kosek, fiddle has appeared with Jerry Garcia, John Denver, James Taylor, David Byrne, and his own Angelwood bluegrass band. He appears on numerous recordings, and has published dozens of instructional books. He is the bluegrass instructor for Homespun videos and is well known in Bluegrass, Irish, country western, rock and roll violin. "Gorgeous, inspired playing" - Sing Out "Klezmer and Bluegrass sound as if they were meant to be combined. Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys have given us a wonderful gift." - Dirty Linen www.KlezmerMountainBoys.com

Wednesday July 6, 8:30pm
Gypsy (Roma) & Jewish Music Jamboree
featuring members of Romashka Village Klezmer Max & Minka

(Jeff Perlman, clarinet & saxophone; Jake Shulman-Ment, violin; Jeanette Lewicki, accordion; Ron Caswell, tuba; Timothy Quigley, drums & percussion; plus special guests) These musicians have been bringing their infectious Eastern European grooves to weddings, cafes and dance clubs around NYC. Drawing upon their own travels throughout the former Soviet bloc, their performance will feature Klezmer music, Gypsy (Rom) music, Balkan music and an exploration of the common ground in between. www.romanska.net

Friday July 8, 8:30pm
RIBS & BRISKET Revue
(Paul Shapiro, saxophone, vocals; Babi Floyd, vocals; Cilla Owens, vocals; Tony Lewis, drums; Booker King, bass; Brian Mitchelll, piano) Back in the 30�s and 40�s bluesy, comedic, swing musicians like Louie Jordan and Cab Calloway made some great music that still sounds fresh today. Yiddish was a pretty active street language in New York City at that time, and it was woven into the music. You had Slim Gaillard singing "Matzo Balls", Mildred Bailey recording "A Bee Gezindt", and Calloway�s hysterical yiddish/gibberish cantillation intro to "Ot Azoy" (That's the Way). Paul Shapiro celebrates this interplay of 40�s hipster swing with some Yiddish thrown in at the Cornelia Street Caf�. Calling it the Ribs and Brisket Revue*, the saxophonist/composer features Babi Floyd, (of Keith Richard's Expensive Winos et al) and Cilla Owens (one of New York�s best kept secrets). They will be backed by musicians from Paul�s CD �Midnight Minyan�, on Tzadik Records, which was released last year. *Paul was visited in a dream state by the ghost of Fats Waller who convinced him that R&B originally stood for Ribs & Brisket

Friday july 8, 10:30pm
VAMPIRE SUIT:
(Jay Vilnai, guitar; Jeremy Powell, reeds; Skye Steel, violin; Mike Savino, bass; Kevin Garcia, percussion) Vampire Suit draws on Jay Vilnai's unique musical heritage as a Russian-Romanian-Polish descendant raised in Jerusalem around a mix of contemporary and traditional Jewish and Arab music, with a soul for rock n'roll and a BFA in jazz. Couple that with a passion for Bartok and Stravinsky and you end up with all original music that draws on all those influences to create something akin to traditional music for a generation that has so many traditions it calls his. Balkan and Middle-Eastern rhythms are prominent, backed by 20th century composing concepts and jazz improvising. �The music has enduring beauty that touches on the heart of the Middle East's musical culture while exhibiting western flair. Open improvisations and the spirit of the belly dance coexist, encouraging the traditional undulated hip movements as a supplement to the solid instrumentation....� -Frank Rubolino Cadence Magazine The result is a highly personal musical texture that takes you from the tribal dances of North Africa to the marshes of the Balkans. A musical journey that is at once personal and global, music that is at the same time unmistakably modern, yet feels old and familiar, a new tradition for a generation that hails from so many traditions. 'Vilnai and his vampires get high marks for their utter unpredictability from track to track, their sheer joy they get from and give to the music and the various textures and sounds that emerge.' - Budd Kopman, All About Jazz To help create that sound Vampire Suit draws on the talents of young New York musicians that have had experience in different musical settings and cultures. The musical vision is realized with the help of players that have played jazz, rock, Arab music, Balkan music, African music and more. With a deep understanding and respect to all this music they are able to tap into something new that arises from all of these influences. 'If Bram Stoker's imaginary Transylvania had a jazz scene, the music might sound something like this.' -Jazz Review www.vilnaismusic.com

Saturday July 9, 9:00pm & 10:30pm
LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII
-music to make you dance, kiss and scream
(Sarah Alden, violin; Rima Fand, violin; Kaia Wong, violin; Sxip Shirey, resophonic guitar, melodica, bullhorn harmonica; Aaron Goldsmith, Guitarron) An explosive mash of Romanian Gypsy melodies, punk frenzy, salty tangos, hard rocking klezmer, haunting Balkan harmony, hip-hop beats and Appalachian fiddle played on three violins, resophonic gitar, bullhorn harmonica and mariachi bass. The members of the Orchestii come from different backgrounds and scenes in New York City but share a love of the music that people all over the world listen to while drinking, dancing and weeping. Sxip Shirey is an international circus composer, Sarah Alden is an old time Appalachian fiddle player, Rima Fand is an experimental theater composer, Kaia Wong plays MOOG in an electronic band and Aaron Goldsmith has played in goth, funk and old-world music ensembles. �A punky five-piece string band, The Luminescent Orchestrii plays renditions of Appalachian and Gypsy tunes that run from lively and infectious to deeply melancholy. Its original compositions and varied interpretations of traditional melodies are like tiny, richly arranged musical adventures.� �Time Out NY (NYC, NY) www.lumi.org

Sunday July 10, 8:30pm
SUSAN WATTS GROUP
(lineup to follow)
Trumpeter and vocalist Susan Watts represents the youngest generation of an exciting klezmer dynasty that reaches back to the Jewish Ukraine of the 19th century, beginning with her great grandfather, bandleader and composer, Joseph Hoffman. A fourth generation musician, Susan is the sole living purveyor of a klezmer style trumpet and sound which electrified Jewish American audiences for decades. Her engaging voice and one of a kind vocal style will carry you through a full gamut of emotions, will inspire you and �send chills up your spine�. Audiences around the world are dazzled and delighted by Susan�s unique virtuosity. Daughter of the great Klezmer drummer, Elaine Hoffman Watts and granddaughter of the renowned xylophonist and percussionist Jacob Hoffman, Susan is continuing her family�s legacy. Her repertoire is comprised of tunes that were handed down to her by her great grandfather, grandfather and mother. This rich repertoire includes many original songs written for weddings, family members and joyous occasions. In addition to performing with a variety of noted Klezmer musicians from around the world, Susan has shared the stage with Dudu Fischer, Theodore Bikel, Claire Barry, Boban Markovic, DJ So-Called, Alicia Svigals, Margot Leverett, Henkus Netsky, among others. Susan is a member of Frank London�s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Mikveh, and The Klez Dispensers. Recently, she scored and recorded the soundtrack for the award winning film, Breath and recorded the soundtrack for a documentary on Philadelphia klezmer, A Joyful Noise. Susan teaches at klezmer festivals, is an ambassador for women�s rights around the world and loves good coffee, fine vodka, singing and playing her trumpet.
www.susanwattsonline.com

In the Spirit of Yossele: A Cantorial Concert at Riverdale Jewish Center

Cantorial Council of America is having a concert commemorating the 72nd Yahrtzeit of the legendary Chazzan Yossele Rosenblatt, June 22, 2005 at 7:30pm at the Riverdale Jewish Center. 3700 Independence Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10463. Phone 718-548-1850 Tickets are $36. It will feature singing by Cantor Joseph Malovany, Cantor Shimon Craimer, Cantor Netanel Herstik, Cantor Benjamin Muller, Cantor Joseph Muller with Yitzchak Muller. Cantor Daniel Gildar, Accompanist. Call for more information.

Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus at Alice Tully Hall

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

THREE's A CROWD!! (TRIOS GALORE !!!)

DOWNTOWN CHAMBER TRIO
Reiko Kawabata, violin; William Blount, clarinet
Daniel Barrett, cello;
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano
Bruce Lazarus: Divertimento (commissioned by Downtown Chamber Trio)
Yuri Bortz: Trio for Now and Then for violin, clarinet, piano
Darius Milhaud: Suite for clarinette, violin, piano Michael Cohen: Monday Morning Piano Trio (premiere)
Peter Schickele: Serenade for Three

SUNDAY MAY 22 @ 3:00 PM
ST. MARKS in the BOWERY (10th St. & Second Av), New York City
Suggested Donation: $10-15; (Seniors, Students $8)
Information: (212) 477 1594; dmpmimi@msn.com
DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
MIMI STERN-WOLFE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

EAST MIDWOOD JEWISH CENTER PRESENTS A SONG OF ASCENT

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

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

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

Cantorial World Concert in New York

"Mincha Maariv and Sefira" presented by Cantorial World with Yitchok Helfgott, Moshe Stern, Moshe Haschel and Matthew Lazar & Choir.. $36 general admission. $100 Patron (preferred seating and CD). May 15th 7:30pm, Bialystoker Synagogue, 7-11 Willet Street, New York, NY. *Lower East Side. For more information: http://www.cantorialworld.com

Screening at Museum of Television and Radio

The Museum of Television and Radio
cordially invites you to a private screening of
Regina Resnik Presents
The American Jewish Composers in Classical Song

Regina Resnik, Narrator
Roslyn Jhunever Barak, Soprano
Michael Philip Davis, Tenor
Charles Robert Stephens, Baritone
Vlad Iftinca, Piano
Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 6 p.m.
25 West 52nd Street
New York City
This concert was videotaped before an invited audience on January 19, 2005 at the Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center. The program includes four world premieres, including a work by composer John Corigliano and librettist William M. Hoffman, written especially for the program, two American premieres and a New York premiere.
RSVP Michael Philip Davis at
mickeypd@earthlink.net
or (212) 769-4083

American Society for Jewish Music Concert

American Society for Jewish Music
American Jewish Historical Society

Present
Contemporary American Composers

Works by
Bruce Adolphe
Victoria Bond
Tzipora Jochsberger
Steven L. Rosenhaus
Faye Ellen Silverman
Judith Lang Zaimont

In cooperation with the Mannes College of Music

April 10, 2005
12:30 PM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York City
Concert to be preceded by a continental breakfast at 11:45 AM
For tickets call (917) 606-8200

The Jewish Music Forum and The Center for Jewish History Lecture

The Jewish Music Forum and The Center for Jewish History
are pleased to present

Professor Mark Kligman
(Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)

Friday, April 8, 10 AM
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street

"Beyond Yiddishland: New Studies from the Jewish Musical Mediterranean"

The music of Sephardi Jewish communities is a diverse and complex cultural phenomenon. Spanning the Mediterranean from the Western Sephardic communities of Spain and Portugal to North Africa, the Ottoman Empire and the Levant, the Sephardi world encompasses a vast geographic, cultural and linguistic space. This presentation will offer a broad overview of the development of academic scholarship on Western and Middle Eastern Sephardi musical traditions. Using extensive audio examples, Professor Kligman will demonstrate the stylistic and cultural diversity across Mediterranean Jewish communities, past and present. Guest Chair and Respondent for the event will be Professor Uri Sharvit of Bar-Ilan University.

This lecture is the fourth session in the New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life seminar series of the Jewish Music Forum at the Center for Jewish History. Please RSVP to the American Society for Jewish Music at asjm@cjh.org or 212-294-8328. Interested individuals may also request a copy of Professor Kligman's paper in advance by contacting James Loeffler at JBL37@columbia.edu. The Jewish Music Forum is a new project of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History. For more information, please see the website: www.jewishmusic-asjm.org

Israeli Cellist At Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall

Israeli cellist Benjamin Shapira returns to NY to celebrate his new CD "Romantic Music for Cello". He will be performing an all-romantic program at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall on April 30th, 8:30 pm.
Shapira's international career was launched after his celebrated Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall performance of the Complete Bach Suites for Cello Solo. This CD features selections from Mendelssohn, Schumann, Saint-Saens and and Dvorak. He performs with his mother, pianist Shulamith Shapira, a graduate of the State Conservatory of Music in Bucharest under the supervision of legendary teacher Florica Musicescu. More information about the concert at:
http://www.taltalproductions.com/about_the_concert.htm For ticket information call (888)43-CELLO or CarnegieCharge at (212)247-7800.
CD's available at selected Tower Records and on the web at:
amazon.com,
towerrecords.com,
cdbaby.com and
taltalproductions.com

From Jerusalem to Carnegie Hall
Shapira is in constant demand as a soloist, performing all over the United States and abroad. His recent years' US performances include concerts in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. Shapira frequently performs internationally as well, touring Europe, South America, as well as his home country, Israel. "It always seemed to me that the cello, with its human-sounding voice, is most suitable for Romantic expression", says Shapira, "almost as though the cello contains, within its four strings and curved body, the breath of Romantic life itself. No wonder the 19th century became the cello golden era".

ON SECOND AVENUE at Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre

The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in NYC, with Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director, presents an excellent show in Yiddish and English definitely worth seeing whether you know Yiddish or not:

ON SECOND AVENUE
The cast of 7 includes Broadway star
MIKE BURSTYN
and, off her recent starring role in the wonderful new film, Pripetshik Sings Yiddish!, REYNA SCHAECHTER
Performances run only till April 10th
and tickets are going fast, so order yours ASAP

For tickets: Folksbiene, 45 East 33 St, NYC, 212-213-2120
www.folksbiene.org
Performances @ the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave @ W 76 St

Continuum Presents American Composers�Jewish Music

American Composers�Jewish Music
World-renowned contemporary music ensemble Continuum performs works by American composers whose inspired use of Jewish themes has produced some of this country�s most powerful music. Program will include works by Aaron Copland, Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijov, Paul Schoenfield, Francis Schwartz, Roberto Sierra, and others. (Miriam Gideon's "Three Biblical Masks") �Continuum consistently offers some of the most intriguing concerts in New York.� �The New York Times
Mon, Mar 28
8 pm

$10 members/$15 nonmembers of JCC in Manhattan
MUSIC/EAYW5
Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.)

Regina Resnik Presents The Classic Kurt Weill

Program to air on CUNY TV Channel 75 on March 21, 9 p.m.

City University Television will offer Regina Resnik Presents The Classic Kurt Weill as its first live classical concert production, to air on CUNY TV Channel 75, Monday, March 21 at 9 p.m. (also 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.), and again on Sunday, March 27 at 1 p.m. This acclaimed concert was originally performed at the Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, and was made possible by a generous grant from the Baisley Powell Elebash Fund.

The Classic Kurt Weill features opera legend Regina Resnik, who presents and narrates the program, and soprano Jennifer Aylmer, tenor Michael Philip Davis, and pianist Kenneth Merrill. Highlighting the classically trained voices for which Kurt Weill originally wrote, the program traces his opera, song and musical theater works from Berlin in the 1920s to Paris in the 1930s and New York in the 1940s. The artists draw on the composer's endless array of musical styles and his profound sense of social conscience in songs from The Threepenny Opera, Lady in the Dark, Knickerbocker Holiday, Street Scene, and many others. Special attention is paid to Weill's presence as a Jewish composer in Germany during Hitler's rise to power, and the composer's ardent embrace of America, his adoptive homeland.

The next collaboration between CUNY TV and Regina Resnik Presents will be The American Jewish Composers in Classical Song, which will air the end of May. This concert will feature four world premi�res and two U.S. premi�res, including a work by composer John Corigliano and librettist William M. Hoffman written especially for the occasion. The program was made possible by a generous grant from the Ledler Foundation.

Both programs are part of CUNY TV's ongoing "Celebrate 350" series, commemorating the 350th anniversary of Jewish life in America.

CUNY TV is seen in the five boroughs of Manhattan on Channel 75 on Time Warner Cable and Cablevision systems, and on Channel 109 on RCN.

workshop with German Goldenshteyn

Thursday, Feb 3, 2005, the Congress for Jewish Culture will sponsor its monthly Kavhoyz - a Klezmer Dance Workshop with the band: Matt Temkin on drums, German Goldenshteyn on clarinet, Joey Weissenberg on guitar.

In Temple Beth Elohim, (Garfield Temple)
274 Garfield Pl. Corner 8th ave. in BROOKLYN.
7:45 PM.
$7.00 includes coffee and cake
take the 2 or 3 trains to Grand Army Plaza.
info: 212-505-8040

Midrash Mish Mosh

Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh
Performance at Satalla, Feb. 9, 2005
Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh will perform at the popular world music club Satalla on Wednesday, Feb. 9., at 10:00 PM.
Satalla is located at 37 West 26th St. in New York City.
Tickets will be $12 at the door.
Phone 212 576 1155.

Midrash Mish Mosh recently released their debut CD on John Zorn�s Tzadik label to rave reviews. The all-original music, written by Alexander, is rooted in the klezmer tradition, yet reaches out to embrace and include Jazz, thrash punk, middle-eastern and israeli music, and balkan and african rhythms. The band features an mix of downtown jazz/jewish music all-stars and great young players in the klezmer scene. The band at Satalla will be:
Frank London �trumpet,
Susan Watts � trumpet,
Alex Kontorovich � clarinet,
Greg Wall- saxophone & clarinet
Curtis Hasselbring � trombone,
Brad Shepik � guitar,
Fima Ephron - bass,
Mike Sarin � drums,
Aaron Alexander � drums

Drummer and Composer Aaron Alexander is considered by many to be a fantastic klezmer and jazz drummer and composer. His new CD "Midrash Mish Mosh" has been acclaimed by critics, musicians and listeners alike. Over the past decade and a half his performances and recordings with Hasidic New Wave, Babkas, The Klezmatics, Greg Wall's Later Prophets, Alicia Svigals, Satoko Fujii Orchestra, Tronzo Trio, Jay Clayton, Margot Leverett, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Boban Markovich Orchestra and Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars have brought his music to the attention of listeners all over the world. Alexander conceived and co-produced Hasidic New Wave�s 2002 collaboration with Senegalese Sabar drum ensemble Yakar Rhythms, which was widely acclaimed by critics and public alike: It was an "inspired collaboration� and a "brilliant Afro-Semitic fusion" wrote Jazz Times writer Bill Milkowski.

New Jewish Music Forum

The Jewish Music Forum, a new initiative of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, is pleased to announce its inaugural academic seminar series. This ongoing seminar will feature leading scholars presenting new research findings and theoretical contributions to the academic study of Jewish music. All events are free and open to the public.

Jewish Music Forum
Spring 2005 Academic Seminar
"The Study of Music in Jewish Life"

January 28
Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University, Inaugural Lecture, "Memory and History in Jewish Music"

February 11
Professor Edwin Seroussi, Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, "Studying Jewish Music in Israel: Achievements, Failures and Challenges for the Future" Guest chair and respondent: Professor Stephen Blum, City University of New York

March 11
Professor Judah M. Cohen, New York University, "Who Will Reclaim the Golden Sounds?: Judaism, Tradition, and Music Scholarship in an American Context" Guest chair and respondent: Professor Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University

April 8
Professor Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, "Beyond Yiddishland: New Studies from the Jewish Musical Mediterranean" Guest chair and respondent: Professor Uri Sharvit, Bar-Ilan University

May 13
James Loeffler, Columbia University, "Between Wissenschaft and Etnografiia: The Search for a Jewish Musical Science in Eurasia, Past and Present" Guest chair and respondent: Dr. Ludmila Sholokhova, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

All session will take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. Please RSVP to the American Society for Jewish Music at asjm@cjh.orgor
212-294-8328.
Introducing the Jewish Music Forum The American Society for Jewish Music (ASJM) is pleased to announce the formation of a major new project, the Jewish Music Forum (JMF). Taking its name and inspiration from an earlier chapter of ASJM's history, the new Jewish Music Forum will serve both as a regular meeting place and an international network for scholars and researchers who are actively studying Jewish music, as well as a key cultural resource for artists and educators creating new Jewish music today. The Jewish Music Forum (JMF) will concentrate on three main areas of activity. First, JMF will host an annual series of regular academic seminars at the Center for Jewish History, where AJHS is a partner and ASJM an affiliate organization. There, participants will come together to present new research findings, theories and works-in-progress for an audience of scholars, graduate students and other interested Jewish music specialists. The aim will be to build up a core group of New York-based participants representing interdisciplinary interests who will be joined by visiting researchers. New media technology will allow these sessions to be recorded and archived on DVDs for interested individuals and academic institutions well beyond New York. Beyond this series of academic seminars, JMF will work together with performers, educators and composers to complement the fruits of academic labor and create artistic programs for the general public. The academic seminars will be coordinated with concerts and workshops held at the Center for Jewish History and elsewhere, providing the public an opportunity to experience both the rich diversity of Jewish music and the important, revealing efforts of Jewish music scholarship. The JMF will aim to support and amplify the efforts of the journal Musica Judaica to bring original academic research to a wide audience. Finally, in the interest of promoting the study of Jewish music in larger American and international academic circles, JMF will also join in sponsoring events and forums at academic conferences, such as annual meetings of the Association for Jewish Studies, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology. JMF will also serve as the American affiliate of the Jewish Music Research Centre of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. These efforts will serve to promote awareness of the important research going on in the field of Jewish music today. By linking up scholars of Jewish music from disciplines ranging from musicology to anthropology to history and beyond, JMF intends to develop a professional network of specialists in Jewish music, who can serve as resources to each other and the different communities where they live, work and teach. To lead the project, the American Society for Jewish Music has named James Loeffler of Columbia University as Executive Director of the Jewish Music Forum, ASJM Board Member Mark Kligman of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion as Academic Chair, and Judah M. Cohen of New York University as Vice-Academic Chair. They are joined as well by a steering committee comprised of leading scholars from the United States and Israel. Together this team has assembled the schedule for the first semester of academic programs centered on the series of academic seminars to be held at the Center for Jewish History beginning in January 2005. For further information about the activities of the Jewish Music Forum, please contact the American Society for Jewish Music by email at asjm@cjh.org or telephone at 212-294-8328. "The Study of Music in Jewish Life" Seminar Jan. - May 2005 The study of Jewish music has its roots in the nineteenth century European Wissenschaft tradition. The first studies of Jewish music initially centered on the European Jewish liturgical music, with the prime focus on the Ashkenazic tradition and only occasional forays into Western Sephardic traditions. At the turn of the twentieth century the field grew significantly through major individual and collective efforts in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Palestine. Studies of artistic and folk traditions came to form part of the burgeoning academic fields of European musicology and ethnomusicology. The first attempts at global views of Jewish music also began to appear in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Idelsohn's Jewish Music in Its Historical Development (1929) is one early prime example. During the course of the twentieth century studies of Jewish music have become more specifically delineated with attempts to uncover specific aspects of a regional or single tradition rather than a comprehensive global view. Contemporary studies of Jewish music cover a wide geographic area documenting various traditions around the world and are situated within one or more disciplines, including musicology, ethnomusicology, Judaic studies, linguistics, anthropology and history. In addition, the emphasis in recent decades on interdisciplinary studies has opened new opportunities and new challenges for scholars. This first seminar series will thus focus on questions of the historical development of methodology and discipline in the study of Jewish music.

Bukharan Wedding Music and Dance

Tofakhon Pinkhasova and Members of the Ensemble Shashmaqam.
Wednesday December 8, 2004. 8:00pm Admission $25.
at the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts
New York City

As part of a continuing series of music and dance of the Jewish wedding, this concert is devoted to re-creating the music and dance of traditional Bukharan wedding celebrations. The performance is led by Tofakhon Pinkhasova, the "undisputed master among the current generation of sozandas (female Bukharan musicians who are revered for their artistic mastery and spiritual power.) She is joined by three other leading sozandas, Tamara Kattayeva, Firuza Yahudaeva and Travis Jarrell, and member of Shashmaqam, a Bukharan instrumental group based in Queens.

The Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

The Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song Presents Three Monday Evening Events: November 22, November 29 and December 13, 2004, 8:00 PM Curated by Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, this series is dedicated to presenting performances and lectures that reflect the finest current research and creativity in the fields of klezmer music and Yiddish song. The 2004 series begins on November 22 with THE FROG AND THE WOODCUTTER: Yiddish Story, Song and Klezmer Narrations presented by renowned Yiddish teacher and storyteller Peysakh Fiszman in a special collaboration with the Strauss/Warschauer Duo. On November 29 acclaimed Jewish music scholar Dr. Mark Kligman will join the duo in THE SOUL YOU PLACED WITHIN ME: The Essence of Eastern European Khazones , Yiddish Song and Klezmer Music. The series closes on December 13 with THE COLUMBIA KLEZMER BAND AND THE STRAUSS/WARSCHAUER DUO: Concert and Dance Party, featuring traditional and original klezmer music and Yiddish songs, followed by dance instruction and a dance party. All three events are free and open to the public, and will take place at Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive) in New York City. For more information, please contact Jeff Warschauer at 718 399-1147 or warschauer@aol.com

Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky Tribute

Lincoln Center. Sunday, December 12, 2004. 8:15pm For tickets and more info contact Cantor's World. www.cantorsworld.com
718-851-3226

Mimi Stern-Wolfe�s 2004-2005 series

DOWNTOWN MUSIC PRODUCTIONS, INC
THE SOUND OF NEW MUSIC
With Downtown Chamber & Opera Players
@ ST MARKS IN THE BOWERY (10th Street & 2nd Avenue)
ARMISTICE DAY REVISITED
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14 @ 3:00 pm
Kurt Weill, (Four Walt Whitman Songs);
Katherine Hoover (Central American Songs): NY premiere
Timothy Brown (In Flanders Field) NY premiere
Peter Kelsh/Ilsa Gilbert: After Life
Joseph Kosma/Jacques Prevert: Barbara
Gary Geld/Udell: I�ve Heard It All Before (Shenendoah)
Vocalists: Gayla Morgan, Coloratura; Emily Johnson, mezzo soprano; Kurt Alakulppi, tenor; Sean Barker, Baritone; Instrumentalists: Andrew Bolotowsky, flute;Chris Nappi, percussion; James Wilson, oboe Marshall Coid, violin; Daniel Barrett, cello; Mimi Stern-Wolfe piano
Suggested donation: $10
Information Dmpmimi@msn.com; (212 477 1594)
Website: www.downtownmusicproductions.org

Melodia Women's Choir Features Yehezkel Braun

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

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

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

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

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