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

Yiddish Break at UPenn

Friday, March 23, 2012 at 5:00pm until Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 1:00pm
קומט און פֿאַרברענגט אױף אונדזער הײַיאָריקער ייִדיש־ברײק אין אין דער אוניװערסיטעט פֿון פּענסילװאַניע!
Come recharge your Yiddish battery with our sixth annual Yiddish Break at UPenn March 23-25th.
Register at http://yugntruf.org/programs/yiddish-break/?lang=en
University of Pennsylvania
3600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

פֿאַרשרײַבט זיך!
צום זעקסטן יאָר שטעלט יוגנטרופֿס ייִדיש־ברײק צו יונגע ייִדיש־רעדערס און אָנהענגערס אַ געלעגנהײט אױפֿן קאַמפּוס צו פֿאַרברענגען אױף אַ סוף־װאָך פֿון ייִדישער שפּראַך און קולטור װאָס איר װעט נישט פֿאַרגעסן! אױף ייִדיש־ברײק, קומען היגע קאַלעדזש־סטודענטן און יונגעלײַט צו הערן סעמינאַרן, עסן, שמועסן, שפּילן זיך, זיך באַטײליקן אין װאַרשטאַטן, זינגען לידער, טאַנצן, און קוקן אױף פֿילמען—אַלץ אױף ייִדיש און אױף ענגליש. כּשרע מאָלצײַטן שטעלן מיר צו, נאָר דאָס אײַנשטײַן איז אײַער אַחריות.

Now in its sixth year, Yiddish Break is an annual event at which young Yiddish speakers and enthusiasts meet for a weekend to experience Yiddish language and culture. Yiddish Breaks have previously been held at Brandeis University, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the University of Chicago, Harvard and the University of Maryland. At Yiddish Break, area college students and young people from a wide variety of backgrounds and denominations come together to eat, chat, play games, participate in workshops, attend seminars, and sing songs in Yiddish and English. Kosher meals are provided; local housing is arranged by visiting attendees.

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

Yiddish Song of the Week

The Yiddish Song of the Week is a blog presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project (AJFRP). This initiative is part of a larger effort by the AJFRP to revitalize traditional Yiddish folksinging performance and research on the subject. The website emphasizes field recordings of traditional Yiddish folksingers from around the world contributed by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, musicians, singers and collectors. Each Yiddish song is presented with Yiddish words and translation, along with commentary from the contributor. Itzik Gottesman is the Director of An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project.
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/

SONGS OF WONDER

Yiddish Poetry of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Set to Music
CD Release Concert
Basya Schechter
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 8 PM
(le) poisson rouge, 158 Bleeker St. NYC
212.505.FISH
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
pharaohsdaughter.com

The concert is presented by Moshe Rosenfeld and Golden Land Concerts & Connections, with support from the League for Yiddish/Afn Shvel, as well as the National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene, The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter-Ring, Congress for Jewish Culture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.


לידער פֿון וווּנדער
די ייִדישע פּאָעזיע פֿון
אַבֿרהם־יהושע העשעל
באַלייט פֿון מוזיק

קאָנצערט לכּבֿוד דעם אַרויסקום
פֿון דעם נײַעם קאָמפּאַקטל
לידער פֿון וווּנדער
פֿון בתיה שעכטער

Tatiana Fleischmann at Klezmer Brunch

Oct, 2, 2011
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 TATIANA PLUS

The lead singer of the trio – TATIANA FLEISCHMANN – sings in English, Yiddish, Russian, Ladino, Gypsy, French, Spanish, and mingles the Klezmer style, European chanson, Gypsy traditions and modern Russian art singing with added elements of jazz, rock, flamenco, exploring every dramatic opportunity of these genres.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Tatiana has had a distinguished career as a theater performer and singer. She was a member of the award-winning theater companies "Na Krasnoj Presne", “O.Tabakov Studio” and “The Nikitsky Gate”. As a prominent Eastern European song performer she is perhaps best known for her role as lead singer in Loyko, the renowned Gypsy/Klezmer group who achieved international fame in the 90’s.

Later she sang with the virtuoso violinist/guitarist Oleg Ponomarev, was part of a celebrated trio "BIS", enchanting audiences around the world with the innovative heady cocktail of soulful and heart-wrenching Klezmer music spiced with gypsy tunes.

Her guitar dates back to the 19th. Century and is an authentic piece by a celebrity craftsman who produced the best-sounding Gypsy guitars for the Royal band.

With her original style, Tatiana offers a unique interpretation of the songs and lets the audience hear the pieces performed as they have never heard them before. Her soft and colorful vocals, as well as mastery of both the piano and guitar have won her fans and critical acclaim all over the world.

Andrew Yegorov – Guitar Solo
Victor Smirnov – Accordion, Piano, Wind Instruments
Tatiana Fleischmann – Vocals, Guitar, Piano

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.

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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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

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).

Celebrate Freedoom with Music For Passover from URJ

Soundswrite newsletter: Volume 10, Number 7 • April, 2011 • Adar II/Nisan, 5771

Purim is over, which means Passover is just around the corner! Arguably the most widely observed of all Jewish holidays, Passover (Pesach) is a celebration of freedom--a remembrance of our people's Exodus from slavery in Egypt over 3,000 years ago. Today, there's an amazing array of terrific music for Pesach, both traditional and contemporary, to enliven your holiday and brighten your home, your car, your classroom, or anywhere else you listen to music. Check out these amazing recordings by clicking on any cover image below. Chag Pesach Sameach!

CELEBRATE PASSOVER
Various artists, produced by Craig Taubman
A modern take on the story of Passover, as composed by some of contemporary Jewish music's most beloved artists. Hear the new song of Passover!
No. 950100
$15.95

THE FREEDOM MUSIC PROJECT
Peri Smilow
Young Jewish and African-American singers celebrate the freedom music of both the Passover tradition and the Civil Rights Movement.
No. 951021
$15.95

HALAILAH HAZEH
The Music of Pesah at BJ
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun
Twelve soothing, sacred Passover songs that will enhance your journey through the powerful beauty of Passover.
No. 951315
$16.95
LET MY PEOPLE GO
A Jewish & African American Celebration of Freedom
Jonathan Kligler & Kim and Reggie Harris
Eighteen uplifting and enlightening tracks weave Hebrew songs from the Passover Haggadah with traditional Black Spirituals, carrying the ideals of equality and freedom.
No. 951053
$15.95

THE PASSOVER LOUNGE
Various Artists, produced by Craig Taubman
Chill instrumentals and eclectic laid-back grooves mix with smooth vocals and electronic sounds, all applied to traditional Passover melodies.
No. 951129
$15.95

THE PASSOVER STORY
The Western Wind
The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble and Theodore Bikel tell and sing the Passover story through these 20 Hebrew folk melodies, classical European liturgical music, ancient Sephardic chants, Klezmer style improvisations, and traditional songs from the Seder.
No. 951146
$15.95

PHARAOH, PHARAOH (CD single)
Mah Tovu
This CD SINGLE features the rockin', hand clappin', foot stompin', can't-sit-still-hit "Pharaoh, Pharaoh" (to the tune of "Louie, Louie"), from the classic Jewish rock band Mah Tovu.
No. 951247
$5.00
REGGAE PASSOVER
Alan Eder and Friends
West African and Caribbean rhythms blend with traditional Hebrew melodies and texts to create this unique sound for Passover. Hypnotic drum beats, exotic instruments, and vocal harmonies bring a reggae beat to holiday favorites.
No. 951054
$16.95

SHIRLALA PESACH!
Shira Kline
Outrageously Hip Jewish Kiddie Rock! Crunch, munch, jump, and dance your way to freedom with these spirited,
interactive, and engaging songs from the one-of-a-kind Shira Kline.
No. 951203
$15.95

A SINGING SEDER
Cindy Paley
In this delightful collection of over 20 Passover songs, Cindy Paley brings traditional and modern melodies to life with upbeat arrangements and infectious rhythms.
No. 951057
$15.95

SONGS FROM A PASSOVER HAGGADAH
Sung by cantors
This 35-track collection features all the 'standards' of every Passover Seder, including liturgical and folk selections, beautifully sung by a number of talented cantors. Accompanies the CCAR's 1974 A Passover Haggadah.
No. 950037
$12.95
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NEW AND JUST ADDED!

36
The Levins
With soulful melodies
and sweet harmonies, reminiscent of the best of classic pop vocals (The Beatles, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), Ira and Julia Levin create a unique form of music somewhere between "World Folk" and "Harmonious Folk Pop." Their debut release 36 is based on the Talmudic legend of the thirty-six lamed-vavniks, the silent righteous individuals who keep the world in balance with their selfless benevolence. The Levins speak the universal language of hope and compassion, and their sweet harmonies and wonderful energy are an extension of their dedication to the upliftment of all. Their tune "Daniel's Round" was selected to appear on the new Ruach 5771 CD, a collection of the best new Jewish music. This joyful recording will lift your heart and bring a smile to your face!
No. 951377
$15.95
Ruach 5775
Various artists

Transcontinental Music Publications and The North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY) bring you the best of new Jewish rock, by the brightest stars in Jewish music! Ruach 5771 celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Ruach series and the 50th anniversary of the URJ's Religious Action Center in Washington D.C. The 19 tracks include favorite established artists, as well as many new voices on the Jewish music scene:

Elana Jagoda
Dan Nichols and
E18hteen
Michelle Citrin
Soul Aviv
Steve Meltzer (z"l)
The Levins
Jay Rapoport
Peri Smilow
Mikey Pauker
Jeremy Gimbel and Shira Tirdof
Cantor Natalie Young
Ross M. Levy
Josh Nelson
Alan Goodis
Jon Nelson and Yom Hadash
Craig Taubman
Rick Recht
Max Chaiken and Camp Harlam

These tunes reflect the spirit, energy, and vibrancy of the Judaism that lives and breathes in the camps, youth groups, and synagogues of the Union for Reform Judaism. Catch the ruach!
No. 950146 -=
$12.95

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League for Yiddish has music book available

The League for Yiddish is pleased to let you know about two books that are now available.
From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs,(2010) "Oh, what a joy, what a pleasure! This book, an anthology of the music and songs of David Botwinik, is a singular demonstration of a life devoted to Jewish continuity. Between the covers of this songbook... the sounds and melodies of the Jewish soul sing out. At a time when few people read Yiddish poetry, Botwinik's music breathes fresh life into these poems."-- Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz, Director of Judaic Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia

The book From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs is a collection of musical compositions by the Vilna-born Montreal composer David Botwinik. These are new Yiddish songs: solo and choral works, complete with English translations, piano accompaniments, and chords. Underneath the musical notation one can read the words in Yiddish as well as in transliteration in Latin characters. There are 56 songs in this 392-page hardcover book, among them, 10 original songs with both lyrics and music by David Botwinik. In addition, the book contains David Botwinik's music to the poetry of 25 Yiddish poets: Moshe Bernstein, Wolf Younin, Ida Massey, Leib Naidus, Abraham Sutzkever, J. I. Segal, Shmerke Kaczerginski, M. M. Shaffir, Zalman Shazar, and others. The children's section contains Botwinik's musical setting to poems of Elchanan Indelman, Mates Olitsky, Perl Halter, Simon Frug, Shmuel Tsesler, and others.

Publication information:
David Botwinik, Fun khurbn tsum lebn: naye yidishe lider/From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs with English Translations (New York: League for Yiddish, 2010), 392 pp. [ISBN-13: 978-1-878775-18-4], $40.

ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! The book is now available.
Cost: $40 plus postage (U.S. - $5; Canada - $18; Foreign/overseas $31). Add 8.65% sales tax for NY State residents.
Checks are payable to: League for Yiddish. Checks or credit card information may be mailed to:
League for Yiddish, Inc., 64 Fulton St., Suite 1101, New York, NY 10038.

You may also order at www.leagueforyiddish.org
or
HERE .

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

A Face of Velvet Publishedj

"Anthology of Jewish Art Song, Vol. 3: A Sametenem Ponim (A Face of Velvet)" was released on September 3, 2010 by Richard Hereld. It's a Yiddish song cycle and published by Transcontinental Music.

WWGD: What Would Glatshteyn Do?

If you can't make it to our program WWGD? [What Would Glatshteyn Do?] An Evening of Yiddish Poetry you can watch it online at the exact time of the event, Sunday, August 1 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM (EST). Go to bowerypoetrylive.com WWGD
. In zikh (Introspectivist) Yiddish poets, 1923
. THE PROGRAM POETS AND SONGWRITERS:
. Zackary Sholem Berger, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Josh Waletzky David Botwinik, Leyzer Burko, David Fallick, Samuel Marder, Charles Nydorf, Mindy Rinkewich, Elinor Robinson, Yefim Vinnitsky, Gershon Weiss, Jennifer Goodman Wolloch
.
. TRANSLATIONS:
. Albert Rosenblatt, Yaira Singer, Wojtek Tworek, Sheva Zucker
.
. Don't miss the Yiddish poetry event of the millenium!
. Mir hofn az di yidishe oysyes veln zikh gut onzen af ayer kompyuter ober es ken zayn az af gevise kompyuters veln zey nit aroys perfekt. Tomer nit, leyent dem transliterirtn briv unter dem yidishn.
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Yiddish Song of the Week

The An-sky Institute for Jewish Cutlure through The Center for Traditional Music and Dance present a new blog about Yiddish song, written by Itzik Gottesman. The blog contains information on the creators and presenters of the music, some historical data, the texts and the sound files.
http://yiddishsong.wordpress.com/

A Heymishe Yiddishe Chanuke TODAY!

The American Society for Jewish Music
The American Jewish Historical Society
Present
A Heymishe Yiddishe Chanuke
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 3 PM
With
Zalmen Mlotek and Guests from
The National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene
(All songs will be accompanied by English supertitles, as is the custom at the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene.)

Master Storyteller Isaiah Sheffer
of NPR's Selected Shorts
Program followed by Menorah lighting, singing and reception.
$18 General; $12 Members;$9 Students & Seniors
For tickets call (212) 868-4444, or _www.smarttix.com_
(http://www.smarttix.com/)
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Audition for the Harvard Yiddish Players' Fall Production of Shulamis

Audition for the Harvard Yiddish Players' Fall Production of Shulamis
Love. Deception. Revenge. Yiddish.
AUDITION FOR THE HARVARD YIDDISH PLAYERS' FALL PRODUCTION OF SHULAMIS! Audition for Harvard's landmark production of the most popular Yiddish play of all time - Shulamis: a timeless Biblical operetta of love and deception, of the price of ...revenge and the power of forgiveness. Our production will feature a new translation, a new musical score, a live orchestra, masks, avant-garde design elements, and innovative choreography. Songs will be performed in Yiddish (with supertitles), while the dialogue will be in English. NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF YIDDISH REQUIRED. Actors and singers, please come prepared with a song (ideally a musical theater or opera selection). Dancers are encouraged to audition for our dance-only corps. We are looking for actors, dancers, and singers of all ages and backgrounds for a large ensemble cast. Come audition to be a part of this historic, professionally guided project that will breathe new life into a Yiddish theatre classic! Performance dates are December 2-6 at Harvard's historic Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. Rehearsals will run mid-September through early December. No rehearsals will be held on Saturdays or on Jewish or secular holidays. Auditions will be held through Harvard Common
Casting: Tuesday, Sept. 8: 9 - 12 PM Wednesday, Sept. 9: 9 -12 PM Thursday, Sept. 10: 6-9 PM
at the New College Theater (10-12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge) in Harvard Square
See http://www.hrdctheater.com/season.php?show=shulamis and
http://www.hrdctheater.com/index.php?query=archives&entry=3 for more information.
Host:HRDC Common Casting
Time:9:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:New College Theater

KlezKanada presents NOZEN at the Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival

KlezKanada at the Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival
June 18 - June 25, 2009 @ 10PM

June 18, 2009
Time: 10:00 PM
Organization: KlezKanada/The Segal Centre
Categories: Concerts
Location: 5170, Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine H3W 1M7
Open to public
JUNE 18, 2009: NOZEN
Steeped in the chassidic and klezmer musical traditions and percolating with the avant-garde, Nozen’s influences range from John Coltrane to John Zorn’s Massada and from old style klezmer players like David Tarras and Naftuleh Brandwein to Frank London and David Krakauer. Anxious, curious, eclectic. Damian Nisenson (saxophones and composition), Jean-Felix Mailloux (doublebass), Ziya Tabassian (percussion), Luzio Altobelli (accordion).

Description:
KlezKanada in conjunction with The Montreal Yiddish Theater Festival presents a week-long program of Jewish music. From June 18th to June 25th KlezKanada brings its long-standing tradition of late-night KlezKabarets to the Segal Centre. The program will explore the diversity that exists in the ever-growing Jewish music world. And of course each night's featured act will be followed by an open mic jam session, so bring your instruments and voice. See below for the schedule and description of acts.

Wild Illusions: New Yiddish Sounds

Wild Illusions: New Yiddish Sounds
Adrienne Cooper, Michael Winograd and Friends
Thursday, May 21st , 8 pm @
The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue at 76th Street
$15.00 JCC Member, $20.00 Non-Member
For more information, or to register, please call 646-505-5708.
http://www.jccmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1022&pID=1000

Singer Adrienne Cooper and Michael Winograd, NY music scene audacious talent, team up in a debut project (preview to a new recording) with spectacular players Dan Rosengard (piano), Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar), Benjy Fox-Rosen (bass), Greg Mervine (drums), Jon Singer (marimba), and Sarah Gordon and Niki Jacobs (vocals).

New arrangements to songs by Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Fima Chorny, Josh Waletzky, Polina Shepherd-Ashkenazi, Beyle Shaechter-Gottesman, Hirsh Blohstein, Meir Kharatz, Dovid Edelstadt. Original songs by Adrienne Co oper and Frank London are from Jenny Romaine’s celebrated La Mama theater production of The Memoir o f Gluckl of Hameln.

Adrienne is thrilled to bring together this intergenerational Yiddish music encounter with new band arrangements by Michael Winograd. The project showcases a remarkable phenomenon - the contemporary resurgence of a Yiddish song movement, featuring work by living Yiddish composers and lyricists from the ages of 23-85, living in Brooklyn and the Bronx, in Kishinev, Moldova, Brighton, England, and Hoboken, New Jersey. This artistic convergence connects over a century of Yiddish culture=2 0makers in a “conversation” that spans continents, genres, generations, and the abyss of 20th century Jewish history.

Little Trees are Weeping CD

Carl Nelkin, an amateur singer and lover of Jewish music in Ireland, has released a new CD of songs of ghettos and camps in World War II. Nelkin combines Irish and Jewish sentimentalities to these songs of the Partisans and Ghetto, all sung in the original Yiddish. The booklet contains the translations into English along with the texts in Yiddish, along with some nice accompaniments. It is hoped that this type of recording should encourage other small communities of Jews to share their creative works. Carl had released his first album "Irish Heart Jewish Soul: Favourite Irish and Jewish Songs" in 2003. For more information about the CD, go to www.irishjewishmusic.com Carl has also appeared on Irish Radio in a High Holiday special.

The SHEKHTER-TEKHTER in CA

The only West-Coast Appearance
Tuesday evening, February 17, 2009
of
The SHEKHTER-TEKHTER
("The Schaechter Daughters")
and
BINYUMEN
in
OUR ZEYDES AND BUBBES AS CHILDREN

A musical revue about kids, young and older, and their relationships with each other, with their parents, and with the world around them.
The songs are in Yiddish. **Translations are provided.**
For young, old, and everyone in between! For the Yiddish-fluent, Yiddish-challenged and Yiddish-ignorant! Bring your kids and grandkids for a truly inspirational evening!
The performers:
BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER
REYNA SCHAECHTER (age 14)
TEMMA-LEEBA SCHAECHTER (age 9)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:30 P.M.
Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Admission: $18 Students: $8 Children under 6: Free
contact: Miriam Koral @ California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture
(310) 745-1190; miriam@yiddishinstitute.org
Made possible by support from the Ruth/Allen Ziegler Foundation, Luis and Lee Lainer, Chic Wolk

KlezKanada 2008 will be AWESOME!!

KlezKanada 2008 will take place from August 18 through 24,2008.

Everything looks fantastic. Klezkanada has a world-class faculty and a fantastic program of concerts, lectures, films and hands-on workshops scheduled.

You can download all of the information at www.klezkanada.com or click here for brochure in pdf.

Songs from Bukovina

Sunday, June 22, 1:30 PM Emily Socolov and Itzig Gottesman will speak in Yiddish, on their recent trip to the Ukraine, and in particular the Bukovina. They will show many slides. After the talk Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, and Itzig will sing 6 or 7 songs from Bukovina, including older folksongs, and Beyle's interwar Chernovitz-based repertory and original songs. Also possibly, a song that was sung at Gimpel's Yiddish Theater in Lviv/Lemberg in the early 1900s. The talk is entitled "On the Trail of Our Yesteryears" and takes place at the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center
3301 Bainbridge Avenue
Bronx NY, corner 208th st.
one block from Montefiore Hospital.

information 917-930-0295 admission: $3.50

Beyle Schaechter Gottesman: Song of Autumn

Yiddish Film Project
Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers
Beyle Schaechter Gottesman: Song of Autumn
A VELT MIT VELTELEKH: SHMUESN MIT YIDISHE SHRAYBERS
BEYLE SHEKHTER-GOTESMAN: HARBSTLID

The League for Yiddish, publishers of the magazine Afn Shvel is pleased to announce that the film Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman: Song of Autumn (BEYLE SHEKHTER-GOTESMAN: Harbstlid), the second film in our series Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers (A velt mit veltelekh: shmuesn mit yidishe shraybers) is ready and available for viewing and purchase.

The film is available in VHS or DVD format.
TO ORDER, send $30 plus $5 postage (in the US) or your credit card information to:
LEAGUE FOR YIDDISH
64 FULTON ST.
SUITE 1101
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038.
Postage for Canada : $6.00 for either VHS or DVD.
International postage other than Canada : $5 for the DVD and $12 for the VHS. You may also order at the League for Yiddish website : www.leagueforyiddish.org with a credit card or paypal. For inquires, please contact the League for Yiddish at info@leagueforyiddish.org or call 212 889-0380.

THE FILM
Beyle Schaechter Gottesman: Song of Autumn is an edited interview conducted with this remarkable Yiddish poet, songwriter, and singer by her son folklorist/journalist Itsik Gottesman and enhanced by photo stills and Schaechter-Gottesman's music. The film is 72 minutes long. The interview is entirely in Yiddish with very accurate and complete English subtitles. In it, BEYLE, whose name has become synonymous with modern Yiddish song and who has played a central role in revivng and inspiring interest in Yiddish song and poetry among a whole new generation of artists, discusses her life and creative path: her upbringing in the Yiddish cultural milieu of Tshernevits (then Rumania) as the daughter of a remarkable traditional folk singer and a passionate Yiddishist, the war years in Rumania, her development as a modern Yiddish poet and songwriter in New York, and her views on Yiddish literature and creativity. What emerges is a rich picture of the world of a woman who recited poetry to the great Yiddish fabulist Eliezer Shteynbarg as a child, was part of a vibrant Yiddish enclave in the Bronx, and is the only Yiddish poet ever to be awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's top honor for folk arts.

HIGHLIGHTS include Beyle's reciting several of her poems as well as singing several of her own songs, among them the favorites, "Mayn khaverte Mintsye" (My Friend Mintsye) and "Borekh-habo dir, khaver" (Welcome, My Friend).

DIRECTOR
The film is directed and edited by Josh Waletzky, director and editor of Image before My Eyes and Partisans of Vilna, and editor of Emmy Award-winning "Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House." Among other awards, Josh is the recipient of the Silver Ducat at the Mannheim International Film Festival for Image and First Prize at the Anthropos International Film Festival for Partisans.

THE PROJECT
Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers aims to provide a visual and oral document of prominent contemporary Yiddish writers so that present and future generations can "spend time" with these fascinating figures and gain some insight into their work and milieu. Thus far, in addition to Schaechter-Gottesman, we have filmed Itche Goldbergand painter/writer Yonia Fain.
Our first film Itche Goldberg: A Century of Yiddish Letters (ITSHE GOLDBERG: OYB NIT NOKH HEKHER) on Yiddish educator, essayist, literary critic, poet and editor Itche Goldberg is also available.

PURCHASE
Both films make the perfect program for a Yiddish circle, class, or even your local Jewish or documentary film festival. The film is available in VHS or DVD format.
TO ORDER, send $30 plus $5 postage (in the US) or your credit card information to:
LEAGUE FOR YIDDISH
64 FULTON ST.
SUITE 1101
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038.
Postage for Canada : $6.00 for either VHS or DVD.
International postage other than Canada : $5 for the DVD and $12 for the VHS. You may also order at the League for Yiddish website : www.leagueforyiddish.org with a credit card or paypal. For inquires, please contact the League for Yiddish at info@leagueforyiddish.org or call 212 889-0380.

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

Three Hip Performers and One Timeless Culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.yiddishinstitute.org in association with Sinai Temple

Shlomo Artzi sings in Yiddish in Israel

An older video of Shlomo Artzi singing in a studio in Yiddish was found by YK and linked on the blog. We offer it here for fans of Yiddish and fans of Hebrew music. Yiddish in Israel on YouTube. Who knew?

New Yiddish Songs by MIryem Khaye Seigel

Miryem-Khaye Seigel's new website has some delightful songs she composed. Gib a kuk. http://www.amks.wordpress.com

New York Yiddish Singalong

The Second Annual All-Star New York Yiddish Singalong

Starring:

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

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

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

Come sing your heart out - in Mame-loshn!

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

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

KlezKanada 2007 Starts Tonight

KlezKanada, in Lanier, Quebec Canada is starting tonight, Monday August 20th. This is the 12th year of the annual camp program. This year, the all star faculty is amazing, the students are superb, and the excitement is palpable. If you're not here this year, make sure to mark this week on your calendar for next. Looks like the first newsletter, by Ari Davidow, greeted the attendees as they arrived. Each day of camp, there's a camp newsletter published in 3 languages which might be any combination of Yiddish, English, French, Spanish, German or Russian. You never know who will get around to writing an article and each are published in the native language. KlezKanada is a music camp for families or individuals. There's a tremendous amount of talent present and we're hearing it already. If the internet connectivity holds up, perhaps the JMWC will do more reports from here. You can view materials about the camp at their website. http://www.klezkanada.com

KlezKanada 2007 in Quebec

KlezKanada 2007 will take place from Monday, August 20 through Sunday, August 26, 2007.
Go to www.klezkanada.com for updated information, and to download the KlezKanada brochure and Hands-On Workshop listings and registration.

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 Film Premiere in NY about Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

The League for Yiddish and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research are pleased to Invite you to
An Evening In Honor of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
Poet, songwriter, singer
Featuring the NEW YORK PREMIERE of the second film in the series
Worlds within a World: Conversations with Yiddish Writers
BEYLE SCHAECHTER-GOTTESMAN
SONG OF AUTUMN
Yiddish (with English subtitles)

A film by Josh Waletzky produced by the League for Yiddish
Musical Program: Janet Leuchter, Esther Gottesman and Binyumen Schaechter,
Refreshments
Admission $10.00, Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 6:30 P.M.
at the Center for JewishHistory, 15 West 16 St, NYC.
Please reserve your tickets 917-606-8200
Di Yidish-Lige un der Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut-YIVO
Hobn dem fargenign aykh tsu farbetn af
An ovnt lekoved Beyle Shaechter-Gottesman
Poetese, kompozitorn un zingerin
In Program: Di Nyu-Yorker Premyere fun dem tsveytn
film in der serye
A Velt mit Veltelekh: Shmuesn mit yidishe Shraybers
Beyle Shaechter-Gottesman
Harbstlid
A film fun Dzhash Valetski, Produtsirt fun der Yidish-Lige

Muzikalishe Program - Frimet-Mirl Loykhter, Ester Gotesman, Binyumen Shekhter
Kibed vet servirt vern, arayntret $10.00
Mitvokh, dem 11tn Yuli 2007, 6:30 in Tsenter far yidisher geshikhte
15 Vest 16ste Gas, Nyu-York
Tsu bashteln biletn klingt 917 606-8200

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

“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.

"The Eternal Question (Di Alte Kashe)" New CD Released

Kame'a Media announces the release of "The Eternal Question (Di Alte Kashe)," a compact disc by Yiddish singer Fraidy Katz. The CD comes with a 24-page booklet of Yiddish text, transliterations, English translations, songwriter bios -- and more.

Produced by Wolf Krakowski and Jim Armenti, TEQ features the musical and vocal talents of 18 musicians from across the spectrum of Jewish, Americana and World Music.

Seth Rogovoy, author, The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, writes:

"The long-awaited recording featuring the vocals of one of our finest contemporary Yiddish singers, Fraidy Katz has finally arrived, and it was worth every minute of the wait. "The Eternal Question (Di Alte Kashe) features a baker's dozen Yiddish folk and popular tunes recontextualized for modern times; Old World ballads are draped in accordion, pipes, tsimbl, and violin, in a peaceful coexistence along with electric guitars, trumpets and saxophones. As co-producer Wolf Krakowski has explored on his own albums that feature a similar approach and use the same core band, the fabulous Lonesome Brothers, there is a natural affinity between Yiddish popular songs and such quintessentially American styles as blues, reggae, jazz and even country swing, and Katz explores this affinity in a manner that showcases her intuitive grasp of the songs' roots while at the same time effortlessly making them speak to contemporary audiences. Had there been no Shoah, this is undoubtedly the direction in which Yiddish song would have evolved and the music that a vast majority of what would have been a large Yiddish-speaking world would have been listening to today. It's our good fortune to have it re-created and represented by such a sterling talent as Fraidy Katz.

Four and a Half Stars
-- George Robinson, The New York Jewish Week

"One of the most important new Yiddish CDs in recent years. Wonderful material, lots of surprises . . ."
-- Yankl Falk, Di Naye Kapelye Host, "The Yiddish Hour," KBOO-FM, Portland, OR

"After I heard it, I immediately started to use it on the air. Judging from the listener phone calls, it is an instant hit! The timeless melodies flawlessly performed make the CD a wonderful new addition to my playlist, and I'll be playing it frequently on my daily klezmer/Jewish music program."
--Barry Reisman, WNWR-AM, Philadelphia, PA

Top Ten World Music Charts -- U of Toronto & UConn@Storrs

For more information, soundclips and ordering options:
Kame'a Media: www.kamea.com
Hatikvah Music International: www.hatikvahmusic.com
CDBaby: www.cdbaby.com

Remembering Yiddishist Mordkhe Schaechter

WNYC in New York, the New York Public Radio, has a feature on Mordkhe Schaechter, z"l, beloved Yiddishist. It aired on Weekend Edition Sunday, March 11, 2007. The link takes you to several articles, so scroll to the one labeled "Remembering Yiddishist Mordkhe Schaechter" to hear the segment. March 11, 2007 http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles

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

"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

Lorin Sklamberg in California in Feburary

Monday February 12 at 8pm
Coffee Gallery Backstage
2029 North Lake
Altadena, CA 91001
www.coffeegallery.com
Solo show!

Thursday February 15 at 8pm
Red Yiddish Salon
LACE
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
www.yiddishkaytla.org
Informal talk about the YIVO Sound Archives and the Klezmatics with recorded and live music.

Saturday February 17 7:30pm
Acoustic Music San Diego
4650 Mansfield Street
San Diego, CA 92116
www.acousticmusicsandiego.com
Solo show!

Sunday February 18 at 10am
Congregation Shaarei Torah
550 South Second Avenue
Arcadia, CA 91006
www.shaareitorah.org
Solo show!

For updates, go to www.myspace.com/lorinsklamberg

Just Put it on Your Calendar Now: KlezCalifornia in January, 2007

Coming soon in San Francisco:
KlezCalifornia at the JCCSF
Saturday, January 6th, 2007 · 7:30 - 10:00 pm
Concert with the award-winning
European band BUDOWITZ
Dancing taught by MICHAEL ALPERT
Sunday, January 7th, 2007 · 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
A full day of participatory workshops
Learn the klezmer style (all instruments, levels) with BUDOWITZ musicicans
Dancing taught by MICHAEL ALPERT
Yiddish theater, language, literature, songs, history, and crafts
Special programs for teens and youth

Tickets will be available at JCCSF Box Office
415-292.1233 or jccsf.org/arts

KlezKamp 22 - Hasidish Yiddish

KlezKamp 22 - Hasidish Yiddish KlezKamp is almost here again! It's being held December 24-29, 2006, at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, New York for a week of Yiddish music and culture.

The entire catalogue and registration materials are available online at http://www.livingtraditions.org/docs/index_kk.htm If you would like Living Traditions to mail you a catalogue or would like them to do so in the future, please email your current contact information, email: info@livingtraditions.org

Helene Engel Sings Yiddish in Lausanne, Switzerland

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

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

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

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

From Kinehora to Kuni-Ayland

The Fulton Public Library http://fultonpubliclibrary.info, winner of 2005 & 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities / American Library Association "We the People" Bookshelves on Freedom and Becoming American, and in cooperation with the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center <http://www.oswegohaven.org> will present the last pair in a series of musical presentations entitled: "FREEDOM SONG!"

The pair of events are scheduled for Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 1:30 pm in Fulton, NY at the David E. Vayner Branch Library of the Fulton Public Library, 365 West First Street (in the CYO Building) and at 7:00 pm in Oswego, NY at Safe Haven, 2 East Seventh Street (on the grounds of Fort Ontario).

The concerts, performed by 11 year-old Reyna and her father, Binyumen Schaechter are entitled “From Kinehora to Kuni-Ayland: Snapshots of the History of Jewish Life in North America (1654-2005).” A musical revue in Yiddish and English with translations provided.

Both presentations will be followed by a time for discussion with the performers when light refreshments will be served. These events are intended for multigenerational audiences and home-schoolers are especially invited to attend with their educators. Admission is free.

These programs are presented in collaboration with the Safe Haven Museum and Education Center in honor of the 982 mostly Jewish refugees from Europe who were given haven at the decommissioned Fort Ontario from August 1944 through February, 1946, and the Oswego community which welcomed them. Currently on display at the David E. Vayner Branch Library is a small traveling exhibit about Safe Haven which will remain on view through October 20, 2006. At the Carnegie Main Library, 160 South First Street in Fulton, there is a display of circulating materials covering various topics related to Judaism, Yiddish and the Holocaust.

REYNA SCHAECHTER has performed in Carnegie Hall with Neil Sedaka, Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall. Her solo work has been praised by Betty Comden, Sandy Duncan and Kitty Carlisle Hart. One of the Pripetshik Singers , Reyna stars in the exciting new film, Pripetshik Sings Yiddish! and was recently featured with Broadway star Mike Burstyn in the off-Broadway hit On Second Avenue. Last October, at age 10, Reyna was performed in a staged Yiddish reading with English super-titles of Bronx Express: A Local Comedy by Osip Dimov, Directed by Motl Didne at the famed Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre.

BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER’S credits include 5 off-Broadway shows, 5 cast albums, 2 DVDs and 3 CDs including the recently released Zingt! A Celebration of Yiddish Choral Music sung by the Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus and conducted by Schaechter. In its review of Ben’s musical Double Identity, The New York Times wrote "Among [the shows’] assets... is the ear-catching score by Ben Schaechter, whose wide-ranging gifts have buoyed recent hit revues like That’s Life! and Too Jewish?

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.

A Musical Tour of the East European Jewish World

Zalman Mlotek, director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater, and his actors will present a sampler of Yiddish music and theater, during a lecture and performance entitled, A Musical Tour of the East European Jewish World , on Wednesday, June 28, from 7pm to 8:30pm as part of a 3 day program on Eastern European Jewish history and Yiddish culture.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will sponsor a unique three-day educational training program in Eastern European Jewish history and Yiddish culture (EPYC), beginning Tuesday, June 27 through Thursday June 29, 2006, at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th St., New York City). The EPYC Educators Seminar will introduce lead educators to YIVO's wealth of cultural treasures and educational resources. Thanks to major funding by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc., a broad group of educators from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Lithuania and Israel will participate in a series of lectures and workshops presented by renowned scholars. Lecturers include, among others, Professor Michael Stanislawski of Columbia University, Dr. Samuel Kassow of Trinity College, Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett of New York University.

For more information on EPYC, visit http://epyc.yivo.org. For more information on YIVO programs and events, visit www.yivo.org.

Lazar Weiner's Yiddish Art Songs Come to Life on New CD Release

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music has released another CD. This one is "The Art of Yiddish Song" with 32 songs by Lazare Weiner. [8.559443]. You can read a complete discription released by the Milken Archive about the recording. http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?function=detail&id=112
Often referred to as "America's Jewish Schubert", Weiner's exquisite songs are a pinnacle of Yiddish art song (lider). This recording shows his mastery of craftsmanship, connection to the language, and complete immersion in the depths of meaning in Jewish culture. The performers are top drawer, and so the recording is a "must" for anyone interested in Yiddish art music, or generally in good lieder.

Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson Concert on Israel Radio and in Jerusalem

A concert of the Yiddish and Hebrew art songs of Arie Ben Erez Abrahamson will be performed as part of the Etnachta series of classic music organized by Hayuta Dvir. It will be broadcast live on Kol HaMusica by the Israel Broadcasting Authority from the Henry Crown Symphony Hall in Jerusalem, 20 David Marcus St.(Located near the corner of Chopin, in the Rehavia District near the president's house) The concert and broadcast are scheduled for April 16, 2007 at 5:00 pm. The Etnacha Concert Series performances are free; call tel. 02/561-7167 for schedule information.

An additional concert of works Arie Abrahamson is scheduled for Motzeh Yom HaShoah, 25 April, 2006 at 8:00 pm at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem . 13 King David Street, Jerusalem, Israel 94101, (02) 620-3333, fax (02) 625-1478
Directions: http://www.huc.edu/libraries/jerusalem/map.html

Ruth Levin's new Yiddish music anthology

Ruth Levin has produced Word and Melody, an anthology of music to Yiddish poetry by her father, published by I.L. Peretz Publications. The anthology - with texts in Yiddish, English and Hebrew -- was launched in Tel Aviv this past weekend. Reminiscences and performances were provided by Alexei Blausov, Regina Drukker, Benny Hendel, Melech Ziv, Prof. Zvi Yavetz, Vera Levinski, Ella Levin, Lev Levin, Ruth Levin, Nechama Lifshitz, Arye Lish, Avishai Fish and Moti Shmit. The anthology contains 49 melodies to songs by 21 Yiddish poets as well photographs and drawings, piano arrangements by Hanan Winternitz, and a preface and epilogue written by Ruth Levin.

Houston Yiddish Vinkl Concert

HOUSTON, March 20
The Yiddish Vinkel will present a Yiddish concert and sing-along led by Israel Ghelman on March 20th at 8 P.M. at the Jewish Community Center. Mr. Ghelman, born in Argentina, is a professional singer and guitar player who has presented music programs throughout the United States as well as in Latin America. His style, as singer and teacher, confers a special atmosphere to his performance that captivates all the audiences. We invite all interested members of the community to join Vinkel members for this program which is free of charge. For more information call Susan at 713-772-3036.

Yiddish Operetta at HUC in May

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

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

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

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

Yiddish Summer Program at Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel
July 3 – 28, 2006
A vibrant new Summer Program in Yiddish language and culture is now available at Tel Aviv University. Under the auspices of Beth Shalom Aleichem, The Goldreich Family Institute for Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Tel Aviv University and the Abraham Lerner Fund, this four-week program during the month of July 2006, offers intensive Yiddish instruction on campus at the beginners, intermediate, and advanced levels, and a rich afternoon program of lectures, tours, theatre, concerts, museums, films, and cultural events organized by YUNG YiDiSH in conjunction with Beth Shalom Aleichem. As students of the Lowy School for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv University whose credentials are recognized by universities world-wide, participants will receive 80 hours of language instruction (four credits) with highly qualified and experienced teachers in small classes and will be housed in dormitories adjacent to the campus. Language instruction will be supplemented by lectures given by leading scholars in the fields of Yiddish language, literature, and culture.

Located in the largest and most vibrant city in Israel, Tel Aviv University is within walking distance of the beaches and the promenade that stretches from Ramat Aviv to Jaffa, the Land of Israel Museum and the Museum of the Diaspora (Beit Hatefusoth, with its resources for genealogy research) , as well as cafes, restaurants, and shops. The Summer Session's cultural program will include meetings with Yiddish writers and personalities, workshops, theatre, poetry and literature evenings, klezmer music, field trips, films and more. During leisure hours, Tel Aviv offers Bauhaus architecture, cafes and clubs at the old harbor, the open air markets, summer street festivals, and the charm of old Jaffa with its artist colony. The cost of the program is $1200 for tuition, $600 for housing, and a $60 registration fee. www.telavivuniv.org/programs/summer.htm A significant number of scholarships are available for deserving students. See the website for more information or write to Tamar Gerstenhaber, the summer program Coordinator, at tlvsummer@yiddish.co.il

Art of Yiddish song and dance in LA

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo will be teaching Yiddish song and Yiddish dance classes and performing in LA all next week (starting this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005), as part of "The Art of Yiddish."

Heroes of the Yiddish World:
Knights, Mystics, Partisans & Scribes
December 18 – 24, 2005

A joyful and enriching opportunity to connect with a global legacy. No previous knowledge of Yiddish needed.

Presented by the California Institute for Yiddish Culture & Language (CIYCL) in association with Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

For details visit www.yiddishinstitute.org, call 310-745-1190,
or email miriam@yiddishinstitute.org
Visit the Strauss/Warschauer Duo's website: www.klezmerduo.com

"Dus gezang fin geto Lodzh/Song of the Lodz Ghetto"

The new Brave Old World CD has been released: "Dus gezang fin geto Lodzh/Song of the Lodz Ghetto," on the Winter & Winter label. The CD is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and should be in the stores across North America. The program has been evolving since 1990, and it reflects BOW's own experiences over 15 years of performing Jewish music. This album represents a step over into new form of Jewish music--a 'yiddish song suite' and is not only of high musical performance quality, but may set precedents for future art forms in Jewish music. I'm calling this new Jewish art form, a 'bernian suite' in honor of Alan Bern. For more information read on: Alan Bern writes: "The core material consists of songs collected from Lodz survivors by Dr. Gila Flam back in 1985 and presented in her book "Singing for Survival" (U. of Illinois Press). These songs are already amazing in themselves, incredible evidence of people's ability to resist spiritually when every other form of resistance was impossible. Especially the songs of Yankele Herszkowicz are filled with learned and biting double-entendre, black humor, and stubborn resistance. But our CD is not a "historical" CD, instead we weave our own music in and out of the Lodz repertoire to create a kind of collage/montage like an audio film. The music as a whole makes a kind of suite which moves back and forth between pre-War Poland, the present, the Lodz Ghetto, and so on, like a dream-filled night when you're obsessed with something and keep coming back to it over and over again. It's why the CD is called "Song" and not "Songs" of the Lodz ghetto - ultimately it is Brave Old World's song of and to the Lodz ghetto. The recording itself is typical of Winter & Winter's famous high sound quality and the cover design is beautiful and chilling. I believe that this CD captures Michael Alpert's singing better than any other I know of, and the rest of us play pretty well on it, too, if I may say so myself (even though I had just come down with whooping cough the day of the recording!) All in all, this is our most ambitious CD yet, and, as I already said, I'm extremely proud of it. I hope that many of you will check it out and help spread the word. We've updated the BOW website and you can download 30-45 seconds of all the titles, although that will give you only a glimpse of what happens on the CD. Thanks to all of you for reading my long message about this! Best wishes to all, Alan Bern

Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman awarded National Heritage Fellowships

Recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowships were announced, and one went to Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman of the Bronx, New York. Beyle is a Yiddish singer, poet and songwriter. The award includes $20,000. "These fellowships recognize lifetime achievement, artistic excellence and contributions to our nation's traditional arts heritage." Recipients are deemed to be "worthy of national recognition and have a record of continuing artistic accomplishment. They must be actively participating in their art form, either as practitioners or as teachers. Fellows are selected according to criteria of authenticity, excellence, and significance within the particular artistic tradition." Schaechter-Gottesman is just the fifth Jewish artist to receive this high honor - Dave Tarras, 1984; the Fatima Kuinova, 1992; Epstein Brothers, 1998; Flory Jagoda in 2002. This is first time a Yiddish singer/sonwriter/poet has received it. Other 2005 recipients are: Eldrid Skjold Arntzen of Watertown, Conn., a Norwegian-American rosemaler, or flower-motif painter; Earl Barth� of New Orleans, a decorative building craftsman; Chuck Brown of Brandywine, Md., an African-American musical innovator; Michael Doucet of Lafayette, La., a Cajun fiddler, composer and bandleader; Jerry Grcevich of North Huntingdon, Pa., a Tamburitza musician and prim player; Grace Henderson Nez of Ganado, Ariz., a Navajo weaver; Wanda Jackson of Oklahoma City, an early country, rockabilly and gospel singer; Hermina Albarr�n Romero of San Francisco, a paper-cutting artist; Albertina Walker of Chicago, a gospel singer; and James Ka'upenaWong of Waianae, Hawaii, a Hawaiian chanter. http://www.nea.gov/honors/heritage/Heritage05/NHFIntro.html

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

Di bostoner klezmer Plus Kaplan and Rushefsky

--Boston--
Shed those winter blues at a lively concert on the first day of spring, Sunday, March 20, 2:30 P.M. at the intimate concert space at the Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St. in Inman Square, Cambridge, MA (617-876-6060)

In a double bill of dynamic klezmer music and Yiddish song, two up-and-coming groups will present material from their new CDs. Di bostoner klezmer is the dynamic trio which plays rarely-heard and newly composed music, including a suite for melodica written by Brian Bender. Their accordionist, Christina Crowder is a former member of the world-famous di naye kapelye. Hankus (Klezmer Conservatory Band) Netsky says the group "breathes new life into traditional, old-country klezmer!"

The acclaimed duo Kaplan and Rushefsky bring to life rarely heard gems of traditional and original Yiddish song accompanied by the tsimbl and balaban. Rushefsky has played and recorded with some of the leading lights of the klezmer revival including Alicia Svigls, Joel Rubin, and Steve Greenman.

Suggested admission is $8/$5 for seniors and kids. For more information, see www.zeitgeist-gallery.org. For sound samples of dbk go to www.yiddishmusic.com; for K & R go to http://cdbaby.com/cd/rushefsky. The gallery can be reached by busses #69, 91, & 83 from Harvard Sq/Lechmere, Sullivan Station/Central Square, and Central Square/N. Cambridge respectively.

Artists bios are:
Christina Crowder, started playing accordion in college at the behest of her Finnish grandmother, throwing many years of classical piano lessons out the window. After being swept off her feet by an exuberant Hungarian Czardas in 1990, she lived in eastern Europe for almost10 years performing with the world-renowned Budapest-based klezmer ensemble Di Naye Kapelye, and spent two years doing field work on contemporary and archival Jewish music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar from 1999-2001.

Brian Bender, trombone, keyboard, melodica, composer, has performed klezmer music at Carnegie Hall, the Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton, and in Israel, Alaska and Egypt. A graduate of New England Conservatory of Music, former instructor at KlezKamp, and a much-sought-after performer, Brian heads his own jazz band and plays regularly with world music, Celtic, contradance and Dixieland bands.

Rebecca Kaplan (voacals, piano, buben/drum) has created a vibrant performance style for Yiddish folk song. She holds degrees in music from the University of Rochester and Indian University and has performed with many klezmer bands.

Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or Jewish hammered dulcimer. He performs and records with some of the finest practitioners of traditional klezmer music. A popular instructor at KlezKamp and KlezKanada including Joel Rubin, Alicia Svigls, and Steven Greenman

Dena Ressler, clarinet & bandleader is an instructor at KlezKamp, and has taught at the summer Klezmer Institute at the New England Conservatory of Music, and a seminar about klezmer history.

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

The Columbia University Series on Klezmer Music and Yiddish Song

Three Monday Evening Events on 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 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, and visit www.klezmerduo.com

Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo are two of the most astonishing and popular performers and teachers in the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. They were both long-time members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and have performed with violinist Itzhak Perlman on film and in concert. As the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City. They lead workshops and classes throughout North America and Europe, are on the faculty of the KlezKamp and KlezKanada Yiddish culture programs, and are frequent instructors for the Jewish Music Institute/SOAS at the University of London.

Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals, dance) is one of the finest of the contemporary klezmer instrumentalists and a true musical descendent of the most eloquent traditional Jewish violinists. She has appeared on numerous recordings and was a long-time member of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble. Deborah is also a much-loved teacher of Yiddish music and dance to students of all ages. She studied violin at Rutgers University and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.

Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) is internationally renowned as a mandolinist, guitarist, Yiddish singer and teacher. He is a member of the faculty at Columbia University, and is a program director for KlezKanada. Jeff is also a composer whose music has been heard in films and theater productions, on Public Radio International and on HBO. Jeff's solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin, has received widespread critical acclaim.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2004, 8 PM
THE FROG AND THE WOODCUTTER: Yiddish Story, Song and Klezmer Narrations
Yiddish culture has a rich storytelling tradition. Whether told in words, sung, or expressed instrumentally, these stories provide a unique window into Jewish thought, culture and spirit. Master storyteller and Yiddish teacher Peysakh Fiszman, Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals), present an evening, in Yiddish and English, of stories, songs and klezmer music. Through gesture, translation and music, the stories come to life for listeners of all backgrounds, Yiddish and non-Yiddish speakers alike.

Pesakh Fiszman is one of the most important and beloved Yiddish teachers of our time. A native of Argentina, he received his Yiddish education from the Jewish Teachers? Seminary in Buenos Aires, Chaim Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem, and the YIVO Institute. In addition, Peysakh received his MA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Peysakh has taught Yiddish in Argentina, Canada, the Oxford Yiddish Summer Program in England, the Moscow State University and the Kiev Pedagogical Institute. In the U.S., he has taught at Hunter College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, the YIVO Institute, 92nd Street Y, Columbia University and the Workmen?s Circle. Most recently, Peysakh has returned from a widely acclaimed story telling concert tour of Germany with the outstanding German klezmer band, Tickle In the Heart. A gifted speaker and master teacher, Peysakh uses techniques in story telling and folklore to make the spirit and beauty of Yiddish come alive.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004, 8 PM
THE SOUL YOU PLACED WITHIN ME: The Essence of Eastern European Khazones, Yiddish Song and Klezmer Music
In an evening of lecture, discussion and performance, Dr. Mark Kligman, Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) will explore the deep connections between khazones (Eastern European Jewish cantorial music), klezmer music and Yiddish song. Dr. Kligman will describe the period known as ?The Golden Age of the Cantorate? (1880-1930). Using audio and video excerpts, he will focus on several of the pre-eminent exemplars of liturgical artistry and spiritual expression, including Yossele Rosenblatt and Pierre Pinchik. Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer will perform and discuss examples of cantorial recitatives, as well as stylistically related klezmer instrumental pieces and Yiddish songs.

Mark Kligman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York where he teaches in the School of Sacred Music. He was educated at the University of Michigan and New York University; he earned his doctorate at NYU in 1997. He specializes in the liturgical traditions of Middle Eastern Jewish communities. Dr. Kligman is a frequently requested speaker and teacher at universities and congregations throughout the United States. His research extends to historical trends in the liturgical music of Ashkenazic and Sephardic traditions. His work has been published in The Encyclopedia of Judaism (2000), Worship Music:A Concise Dictionary (2000), the American Jewish Yearbook 2001, Jews of Brooklyn (Brandeis University and University Press of New England, 2001), and The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, which also includes a CD he compiled for the publication (Columbia University Press, 2003). In the spring of 2001, Dr. Kligman was Research Fellow & Visiting Professor at the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his family in Highland Park, NJ.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2004, 8 PM
THE COLUMBIA KLEZMER BAND AND THE STRAUSS/WARSCHAUER DUO: Concert and Dance Party
Join us for an evening of traditional and original klezmer music and Yiddish songs, followed by dance instruction and a dance party.

The Columbia Klezmer Band is a group of talented musicians from Columbia University who have come together to study and perform traditional klezmer music. Founded in 2000, the Columbia Klezmer Band has performed in many cities throughout the Northeast, in venues ranging from Columbia?s Rennert Hall to Rockefeller Center?s Rainbow Room. The CKB has performed for concerts, festivals, dance parties, fundraisers, and other celebrations.

NEW YIDDISH/ENGLISH OPERETTA: Ballad of Monish

Marty Green productions introduces:
The Ballad of Monish
a one-man musical play
written and performed by Marty Green
Sunday Nov. 21 Berney Theater 123 Doncaster St. Winnipeg 2:00 pm/8:30 pm
Tickets: 2 for $25.00

Multi-talented Winnipeg-based interpreter of Yiddish culture Marty Green introduces his latest offering in the form of a two-hour musical play, "The Ballad of Monish", based on a classic poem by I. L. Peretz. What starts out as a Jewish retelling of the classic Faust legend quickly turns into a rollicking, satirical look at traditional Jewish attitudes towards religion, sex, and the non-Jewish world. Marty Green has taken this epic ballad and adapted it to a lively jazz-klezmer setting, interleaving his own razor-sharp English translations with the original Yiddish lyrics. There is more info on the show at http://www.onforeignsoil.com/monish.htm including an audio clip of the opening number.

Marty Green first appeared on the Yiddish scene in the year 2000 with the publication of On Foreign Soil, his masterful translation of the memoirs of Falk Zolf, with a twist: the translation starts in English and gradually turns back to Yiddish as you read it. In 2003 he followed this up with his first CD, A Boy Named Sureh, which includes Yiddish translations of such popular songs as A Boy Named Sue, Little Jimmy Brown (The Three Bells), and My Way. With The Ballad of Monish, Green hopes to introduce the humor, charm and poetry of Yiddish to a wider audience with no previous knowledge of the language. For more information on Marty Green and his creative works, call 204-774-4932

or visit his website at www.onforeignsoil.com

MUSIC AND DANCE OF THE JEWISH WEDDING

at 92ND STREET Y TISCH CENTER FOR THE ARTS

MUSIC AND DANCE OF THE JEWISH WEDDING
Walter Zev Feldman, Artistic Director

Ashkenazi Wedding
(re-enactments of a traditional Ashkenazi wedding)

Featuring KHEVRISA
Wednesday, November 10, 8:00 pm, $25

Bukharan Wedding
Wednesday, December 8, 8:00 pm, $25

Moroccan Henna & Wedding
Tuesday, February 3, 8:00 pm, $2

FMI: 92y.org

Here's the full press release with lots of info:
NEW YORK, NY: October 19, 2004 � The 92nd Street Y presents three concerts featuring re-creations of the music and dance of three radically different Jewish wedding traditions: European Ashkenazic, Bukharan (originating in the area now known as Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) and Moroccan.

On Wednesday, November 10 at 8:00 p.m., the series kicks off with a re-enactment of a traditional Ashkenazi wedding, featuring music and dance that was a part of Jewish weddings in Eastern Europe throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The program bears only a passing relationship to the modern-day Ashkenazi wedding seen in Hasidic communities, which have preserved primarily the religious aspects of the wedding, but not the secular � and sometimes vaguely pagan � customs that were once common. The concert at the Y follows the course of the traditional Ashkenazi wedding ceremonies, which generally took place over several days leading up to the actual wedding. Observances began with meditative tunes for the morning of the wedding and concluded with joyful dancing for the ensuing celebration. The music is announced and punctuated throughout by the badkhn, the traditional master of ceremonies, who sets the requisite tone, ranging from dramatic to pious to humorous.

The program is performed by world-renowned traditional klezmer band Khevrisa: Zev Feldman, cimbalom (Eastern-European hammered dulcimer) and dancer; Michael Alpert, vocals, sekund violin and dancer; Steven Greenman, violin; and Stuart Brotman, double bass. Joining Khevrisa are guests Kurt Bjorling, clarinet; Deborah Strauss, violin; and dancers Joanne Borts, H�l�ne Domergue-Zilberberg and Steven Weintraub. Many of the members of Khevrisa and the gathered ensemble, notably Michael Alpert and Zev Feldman, learned the musical and dance traditions directly from those who carried it to America from the �old world.� They grew up and studied in post-Holocaust immigrant communities in the United States, where traditional Ashkenazic music and dance was practiced, preserved and handed down to the next generation.

The concert at the 92nd Street Y expands on material recorded on Khevrisa�s CD �European Klezmer Music� (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2000).

THE ASHKENAZI WEDDING:
FROM SOMBER PREPARATION TO JOYFUL DANCING


The concert begins with the music of the kale vechere (KAHL-uh VETCH-er-ay), the party for the bride and her friends held at the end of the Sabbath prior to the wedding. The mood of this gathering is somber, with sad songs of parting as the bride prepares to leave her family and friends for a new life with her husband. The same mood continues on the morning of the wedding, which is heralded with the dobriden, a dignified melody in 3/4 played by the violin and cimbalom. As the day progresses, the wedding band marches through the street, gathering guests to the wedding with khasene gehat (�they are married�), and close relatives are greeted upon arrival by tunes such as the mazeltov or by serious modal improvisations known as shteyger. The cathartic moment of the wedding ceremony is the bride�s lament, known as kale basetsn or kale baveynen (seating or bemoaning of the bride), where the badkhn paints a somber picture of the life of a married woman, singing prayer-like tunes in a minor key, while the violin and cimbalom �answer� with improvisations in different but complementary styles. The khupe marsh (canopy march) follows, a tune that leads guests to the wedding canopy, where the actual betrothal ceremony takes place. The concert features two versions of the khupe marsh � one composed by violinist Steven Greenman, and the second a tune played by the Lepianski family of cimbalists in Belarus. After the rabbi sings the wedding blessings and marries the couple, the groom traditionally breaks a glass to signify the end of the ceremony, and the somber mood is broken, switching instantaneously into festive shouts of mazeltov! (good luck!). This moment closes the first half of the concert.

The second half opens with the ritual music and dancing of the wedding feast, in which the fathers-in law, elder relatives, rabbi, and other honored guests dance to slow elaborate tunes. Among the most famous of these dances is the broygez tants (�dance of anger�) between the two mothers-in-law; in this mime-dance, one woman generally acts offended while the other attempts to mollify her, and the scene ends with a sholem tants (�dance of peace�), in which they become reconciled. Following these communal dances, music is performed for guests seated at tables. This music consists mostly of solos or duets by the violin and cimbalom or clarinet and bass, and served as a way to honor special guests at the wedding as well as an opportunity for the best klezmorim to showcase new tunes. The concert � and the wedding � then proceeds to dancing among the guests, the centerpiece of which is the sher, an elaborate mixed (male-and-female) contra-dance based on European court dancing of the 17th and 18th centuries, but identified strongly as a Jewish dance. The shers performed in the concert include the oldest example of the form that is known today, composed by the Moldavian fiddler Selig Lemisch in the mid-19th century, as well as a sher composed by Zev Feldman in 2000.

The sher reflects the longstanding tension in the Jewish wedding tradition between secular and religious elements. Artistic director Zev Feldman says, �this dance has been part of our folklore for 500 years, and the rabbis were condemning it for 500 years.� In the last 50 years � especially in the post-World-War-II Hasidic and orthodox communities � the tension between secular and even pagan customs once found in Jewish weddings have given way to more of a split between secular and religious traditions. In secular Jewish communities, the balance has shifted in the opposite direction, with many of the traditional wedding customs being largely eclipsed by primarily secular practices drawn from the surrounding culture.

This series was developed by Hanna Arie-Gaifman, director of the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts, and ethnomusicologist Walter Zev Feldman, who serves as artistic director of the series.

JEWISH WEDDINGS: EXPLORING SEPHARDIC TRADITIONS
On Wednesday, December 8, at 8:00 p.m., the Jewish Weddings series continues with a Jewish wedding ceremony from the former BUHKARAN EMIRATE (today�s Uzbekistan and Tajikistan). The ceremonies combine Iranian and Turkish traditions and include singing, dancing, drumming and improvised verses in Tajik and Uzbek. The performance is led by Tofakhon Pinkhasova, the undisputed master among the current generation of sozandas. Sozandas are women considered to have almost shamanic powers; their lineage often goes back several generations Featured musicians include members of the ensemble Shashmaqam, a Bukharan instrumental group based in Queens.

On Thursday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m., the MOROCCAN HENNA & WEDDING takes center stage. The Charles Edry Ensemble, a leading Moroccan Jewish wedding ensemble based in Montreal, performs a program featuring music of the Judeo-Arabic tradition of Casablanca and other Moroccan cities. Songs of the Henna ceremony held for the bride prior to the wedding will be performed in addition to the instrumental, vocal and dance music of the wedding itself.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Khevrisa was founded in 1998 by Walter Zev Feldman and Steven Greenman, Khevrisa features two of the central figures of the Klezmer Revival�the vocalist, fiddler and dancer Michael Alpert and the bassist Stuart Brotman. Khevrisa performs klezmer music of 19th and early 20th century European klezmorim on the original klezmer instrumentation of violins, cimbalom and bass. Khevrisa�s repertoire also includes new compositions by Greenman and Feldman in traditional style. Khevrisa has performed at the Festival of Jewish Culture in Cracow, at the Pfingskonzerte in Ittingen, at the Concert Gebow in Amsterdam, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, and at Symphony Space in New York. Its CD European Klezmer Music was issued by Smithsonian Folkways in 2000.

Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, and a performer on the klezmer dulcimer, cimbal (tsimbl). During the mid-1970s he and Andy Statman studied with Dave Tarras and were two of the creators of the klezmer revival; at that time Feldman reintroduced the dulcimer cimbal into klezmer music with his classic LP Jewish Klezmer Music (1979). Today he performs on the cimbal with the group Khevrisa and elsewhere. Having grown up with traditional Ashkenazic, Greek and Armenian dance, during the 1970s he researched and taught Turkish folkdance. Today Feldman is a teacher and performer of Ashkenazic dance, leading workshops in the U.S., Canada, England,Germany and Israel. He regularly teaches at the Klezmer Wochen in Weimar and at KlezKanada.

Feldman is a fellow of the Center for Jewish Music Research at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and is a co-editor of the Medimuses Project for Modal Musics of the Mediterranean for the EnChordais School in Thessaloniki, Greece. He recently co-produced the CD Tanburi Isak with the Bezmara Ensemble of Istanbul for EnChordais. In 2003 he curated the concert series �The Revival of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York� at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the artistic director of the current series �Music and Dance of the Jewish Wedding� at the 92nd Street Y. Next in the series is �Bukharan Wedding,� Wednesday, December 8, 2004 and the final program is the �Moroccan Henna & Wedding,� Thursday, February 3, 2005.

For complete biographies of the artists performing in this program, please contact Beverly Greenfield at bgreenfield@92y.org or 212-415-5452.

ABOUT THE 92ND STREET Y
Since its concert series began in 1934, what is now the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts, endowed through the generous support of Joan and Preston Robert Tisch, has presented the world's most acclaimed classical musicians like Janos Starker, Emmanuel Pahud and the Tokyo String Quartet. The Center is also well known for its jazz series, curated by jazz great Dick Hyman, and its Lyrics & Lyricists series, the grandfather of the now popular American songbook series. The Center's legendary Unterberg Poetry Center (estab. 1939) presents the country�s oldest and most illustrious reading series and an extensive writing program that gives working adults the opportunity to learn from well-known, published authors. Outreach activities include a literacy program for new immigrants and workshops for high school students taught by some of the country�s leading writers.

The 92nd Street Y unites culture and community service in one multifaceted institution. Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the Y is dedicated to enriching the lives of the 300,000 people of every race and faith who annually visit its three facilities � the well-known headquarters on Manhattan�s Upper East Side, Makor, on the Upper West Side, and the Rockland County campgrounds. Visitors come to the 92nd Street Y to hear music of all kinds; to listen to writers read from their work; to explore Jewish culture; and to gain insight into the events and ideas of the day from public figures and experts in every field. Programs for children and adults help both groups navigate each stage of life, an extensive adult-education curriculum includes instruction by renowned authors and artists, and an unusual wellness initiative offers both a wide range of fitness activities and the opportunity to learn from the nation�s leading healthcare professionals. Committed to sharing its programs with all New Yorkers regardless of economic circumstance, the 92nd Street Y provides $1 million in scholarships every year and reaches out to 6,000 public school children with fully-subsidized arts programs. For more information, visit www.92Y.org/press.

Richard Lenatsky sings yiddish at Havorford College, PA

An Evening of Yiddish Song (Live!)
Tenor Richard Lenatsky returns to sing Yiddish songs, accompanied by Alexander (Sender) Botwinik and Marvin Weinberger.
Chase Auditorium
October 27, 2004 7:30PM
For more information, contact Public Relations at 610-896-1333 or jzoshak@haverford.edu

Neil Sedaka Yiddish Concert

In Los Angeles Dec 4 & 5. Neil Sedaka will appear at the Wilshire Theater Saturday, December 4th at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 5th at 2:00 p.m. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at (213) 480-3232 or (714) 740-2000, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

Shoyn Tsayt! (It's about time) -- In his first Los Angeles concert performance in more than two years, Neil Sedaka will leave the audience "kveling" with a unique mix of favorites in two very different languages. The legendary singer/songwriter will appear at the prestigious Wilshire Theatre for two shows on Saturday December 4th and Sunday December 5th featuring songs from his latest CD "Brighton Beach Memories," a sentimental foray into traditional Yiddish music along with classic hits from his distinguished career spanning more than five decades. Inspired by the recent revival of the Yiddish language and culture, Sedaka has returned to the songs of his childhood in Brooklyn, recording and now performing his favorite Yiddish tunes with a traditional Klezmer band. The Los Angeles performance is the fourth in a series of sold out concerts including Carnegie Hall in New York, The Mann Center For Performing Arts in Philadelphia and Ravina Festival in Chicago

THE PRIPETSHIK SINGERS

THE FOLKSBIENE YIDDISH THEATRE
presents
THE PRIPETSHIK SINGERS
the one-of-a-kind young people's ensemble, led by Musical Director
BINYUMEN (BEN) SCHAECHTER
in two performances in
NEW YORK CITY, SUNDAY, OCT. 24, 2004

THE PRIPETSHIK SINGERS,
the exciting ensemble of native-Yiddish-speaking teens and children, perform all kinds of Yiddish songs in fresh ways, with choreography, staging and props. They sing classic Yiddish songs and traditional English songs in Yiddish. ALL SONGS WILL BE TRANSLATED. The group has performed at Lincoln Center and throughout the Northeast United States. Since they sing adult songs and children�s songs, their performances are for those of all ages who love Yiddish. No knowledge of Yiddish required.

Starring:
Daneel Schaechter
Reyna Schaechter
Temma-Leeba Schaechter
Arun (Arele) Viswanath
Malke-Leye Viswanath
Meena-Lifshe Viswanath
Leah Whiteman
Shifra Whiteman

The excellent new film PRIPETSHIK SINGS YIDDISH!, directed by Academy Award�-nominee JOSHUA WALETZKY, will be available for purchase for the first time on that day, both in video and DVD format! You won't want to miss this special event!

Sunday, Oct. 24th at 11:00 am & 2:00 pm
at the JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St.

FOR TICKETS AND INFO ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES:
Call 1-800-9-YIDDISH
or visit www.folksbiene.org
All Seats: $18-Adults; $15-Children under 12
(Reserve your tickets early)

KlezKamp 20

At: The Hudson Valley Resort and Spa, Kerhonkson, New York 2004 marks the 20th edition of KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program. And while this is our birthday celebration, KlezKampers are the ones who receive the gifts. Our theme, Doyres/Generations, explores how Yiddish culture and KlezKamp is passed through generations featuring KlezKamp doyres: Chana Mlotek and son Zalmen, mother/daughter Elaine Hoffman-Watts and Susan Watts, Anita Norich and father Isaac, Pearl Sapoznik and son plus others. Our anniversary gives us a chance to dip into our archives to show rare classroom videos of beloved KlezKamp teachers no longer with us, and to also issue a special commemorative 2-CD anthology highlighting 20 years of our incomparable staff concerts. more....

We are pleased to offer this year, expanded vocal music and Yiddish language programs and welcome new staff including choral director Eleanor Epstein, Parisian Yiddish language instructor Yitskhok Niborski, Canadian-Yiddish author Chava Rosenfarb and actor Hy (Khayim) Wolfe who will be interviewing and performing with Yiddish theater greats Mina Bern, Shifra Lerer and David Rogow. And as always, we honor the great klezmer masters of our generation German Goldenshteyn, Paul Pincus and Pete Sokolow. < /br>< /br> A change is our new home: the fully restored classic Catskill resort, the Granite Hotel in Kerhonkson, New York. Now called the Hudson Valley Spa and Resort(http://www.hudsonvalleyresort.com), a $30 million renovation has created the seemingly impossible: Hilton quality in a heymish Catskill location, a hotel, as my mother would say, mit ale pistshefkes (with all the extras), including wireless internet access, full health club, spa, indoor pool and luxuriously appointed guest and classrooms. The kitchen, headed by Executive Chef /Culinary Institute of America graduate Edward Kelly, produces abundant traditional regional favorites with attention given to vegetarian and children' menus, all under the strict supervision of Rabbi Gershon Kreuser of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. < /br>< /br> While much has changed, what has not is our commitment to creating an inspiring cornucopia of all things Yiddish: our full instrumental, vocal and dance program, klezmer jams, multi-tiered language sessions, history, literature, translation workshops, plus our unbeatable children and teen program. Evening events many of which are open to the public and broadcast on local public radio outlet WJFF (90.5 FM/ http://www.wjffradio.org) include after dinner family activities, concerts, cabarets, and dancing to live music until all hours. < /br>< /br> Since 1985, thousands of participants from around the world have made the pilgrimage to KlezKamp. This year, why not you? Come to the Capitol of Yiddishland.

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Smadar
Sephardic Music
8pm

Admission $12
With lyrics in Greek, Spanish, Hebrew and Moroccan, SMADAR performs Moroccan Gypsy music with a unique Middle-Eastern sound. They will perform material from their brand-new release, "Smadar." Members of the band are: Smadar Levi (vocals); Uri Sharlin (piano, accordion); Harel Shachal (saxophone); Pedro Da Silva (sitar, Portuguese guitar); Emanuel Mann (bass); Tomer Tzur (drums), and Ramzi El-Idlibi (darbuka).

The Matt Temkin's Yiddish Jam Band Featuring Ashira
Jewish/Yiddish/Klezmer
10pm
Admission $12
Hip version of songs in English written by Jews, rocking versions of Yiddish songs written about Jews, and soulful versions of Hebrew songs written for Jews - all sung by the stunning voices of the female vocal trio ASHIRA (Arianne Slack, Laura Lenes, and Leah Moss), and backed by the swinging MATT TEMKIN'S YIDDISHE JAM BAND (Dan Cousin, musical director). Bringing together musical influences from all the 350 years that Jews have been residing in America, this is an experience that can be had only one way: in person and live!
Ashira

Wednesday, September 08, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

DIVAHN
Middle Eastern and Sephardic Music
8pm

Admission $12
DIVAHN's Middle Eastern/Sephardic grooves were home-grown in Austin, Texas! This bold all-lady ensemble infuses traditional Jewish songs with sophisticated harmonies and funky arrangements. The group has engendered a national following with their riveting live shows including instruments such as tabla, cello, violin, didgeridoo, doumbek, and banjo and glowing vocals spanning Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Persian, Arabic, and Aramaic. Through their music, the group underscores common ground shared between diverse Middle Eastern cultures and religions. Join Divahn for a special performance at Satalla celebrating the 350th anniversary of Sephardic immigration to the U.S.
The Klez Dispensers
Klezmer: The Next Generation
10pm
Admission $12
Formed in 1998 and considered one of the best of the new generation of klezmer bands, the KLEZ DISPENSERS perform a diverse repertoire spanning traditional klezmer, a wide variety of jazz styles, and original compositions. They are currently a 7-piece band, comprised of Alex Kontorovich (clarinet); Ben Holmes (trumpet); Amy Zakar (violin); Audrey Betsy Wright (alto & tenor saxophone); Adrian Banner (piano); Julian Rosse (bass), and Gregg Mervine (drums).

Thursday, September 09, 2004
The Village Klezmer Quintet
Old World Klezmer
8pm
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12
The youthful, vibrant sound of the VILLAGE KLEZMER QUINTET brings the Old World melodies and rhythms of the Eastern European Jews to today�s cafes, clubs, and celebrations all around NYC and beyond. Among the most seasoned musicians on the local scene, the band's members are: Jake Shulman-Ment (violin); Jeff Perlman (clarinet, bass clarinet); Ben Holmes (trumpet); Joey Weisenberg (mandolin, guitar), and Travis DiRuzza (bass).

Saturday, September 11, 2004
Sally Fingerett of The Four Bitchin' Babes
Musical Comedy - Jewish Festival Contemporary Musical Review
10pm

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $15
"One of the best lyricists on the singer/songwriter circuit. Her song 'Home Is Where The Heart Is' ought to be required listening." THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE "A thoughtful, tuneful collection of keenly observed narratives, poignant ballads, giddy lovestruck odes." THE WASHINGTON POST
SALLY FINGERETT, a self-proclaimed "Mental Yentl," and founding member of the Funny Female Folkestra, The FOUR BITCHIN' BABES, performs selections from her one-woman show "Faces on the Wall." Take Joan Rivers & Nora Ephron, Bette Midler & Carol King, Victor Borge & Jackie Mason, put them all in a microwave, blow them up, realign their molecular structure, re-do the nose and - voila! - SALLY FINGERETT, one quirky Jewish Diva.

Sunday, September 12, 2004
Klezska
Klezmer/Ska Music
2pm
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12, Children Under 12 years of age $7
Maximum of $40 per family

Each member of KLEZSKA! a virtuoso in his or her own right, as a group they have created a totally original, powerful and perfect union of Klezmer with traditional Jamaican Ska and Reggae music. Just returning from their first Israeli tour, the band will perform their rocking repertoire, along with some new tunes that they have prepared for this special all-ages show.

Mikveh
featuring Alicia Svigals,Susan Watts, Nicki Parrott & Lauren Brody
The Women of Klezmer
5 pm

NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week
Admission $12
Supergroup MIKVEH features the top women in Klezmer, including renowned Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper, Klezmatics founder Alicia Svigals on fiddle, charismatic trumpeter Susan Watts of the Hoffman klezmer dynasty, ethnic accordion wizard Lauren Brody, and soulful bass player Catherine Popper. Together, they rock out with sizzling dance music and riveting Yiddish/English songs, both ancestral and brand new.

Monday, September 13, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

An Evening of YIDDISH SOUL starring Joanne Borts w/
Howard Leshaw and the Golden Land Orchestra
Jewish Festival
7:30pm

Admission $12
One of this generation's Yiddish superstars, JOANNE BORTS has starred in "The Golden Land," "On Second Avenue" and "Those Were the Days"; has appeared on Broadway and in national tours of "Fiddler On the Roof" and "Hello Dolly," and has directed the hit revue "Kids & Yiddish." HOWARD LESHAW is a world-renowned band leader and woodwind vituoso. Yiddish Soul is a talent- and charisma-filled feast of favorites from theater, vaudeville, and cabaret.

Reuben Hoch & the Chassidic Jazz Project
Judeo-Cuban Jazz Fusion
9:30pm

Admission $12
Based out of Miami, THE CHASSIDIC JAZZ PROJECT is dedicated to bringing the music of the Jewish people to a larger audience by utilizing jazz as a vehicle for musical expression. Led by drummer and composer Reuben Hoch, the group includes jazz guitarist Tom Lippincott, violist Marie Randel, cellist Barbara Corcillo, Cuban saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia (Arturo Sandoval), bassist Ed Schuller (Joe Lovano), and percussionist Bobby Thomas Jr. This will be the group's debut N.Y. performance!

Tuesday, September 14, 2004
NY Jewish Music & Heritage Festival Week

Naftule's Dream
Avant-Jewish Jazz
8pm

Admission $12
After emerging in the 1990's as a major force in the Radical Jewish Music movement out of New York, NAFTULE'S DREAM continues to break new ground, to attract new fans and to amaze large and diverse audience worldwide with their unique blend of modern composition, freely improvised rock fusion and Jewish roots music. Weaving fiery improvisation into complex arrangements in a style reminiscent of Mingus, informed by Threadgil, the Boston-based band has created an instrumental music which has been called "startlingly original and audacious." (Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times)
Kleztraphobix
Contemporary Klezmer Music
10pm

Admission $12
While firmly entrenched in tradition, the KLEZTRAPHOBIX draw on the diverse musical experiences of the band's members to create a fresh, vibrant expression of the art of Klezmer. Their somewhat unusual instrumental lineup makes this group one of the most exciting bands on the contemporary Klezmer scene. Individually and collectively, they have played every type of music imaginable, from the NYC Opera to Funk to Big Band Swing to Bluegrass to Modern Jazz to Rock and Roll to Zydeco to Cantorial, and of course, Klezmer. They are committed to creating new Klezmer music, and often feature the original compositions of the members of the band. The Kleztraphobix are: Psachya Septimus (accordion); Rich Melnikoff (percussion); Ron Caswell (tuba); Michael Cohen (clarinet), and Jordan Hirsch (trumpet).

Sunday, September 19, 2004
Kapelye
Klezmer Music
5pm

Admission $12
The New York Times says: �Of the many klezmer bands, the one that comes closest to the ideal is Kapelye.� Kapelye, now in its 25th year of recording and touring worldwide, is one of the original bands responsible for the renewed interest in klezmer music. Kapelye�s popular appeal over the years has won it a brand new audience as teens and college age fans of alternative rock and folk music have found a kindred spirit in the band�s passionate, often highly spirited performances.
The Washington Post says: �Anyone would be hard pressed to keep his toes restrained while listening to the sounds of this talented ensemble.�
Kapelye�s fusion of Old World traditions with New World influences creates a unique brand of entertainment that reaches out to each member of the audience. An evening with Kapelye will be one that you will remember for a long time.
Netherlands Jewish Week says: ��.a great success. A wildly enthusiastic audience called Kapelye back for three encores.�
Kapelye is made up of� Eric Berman, tuba/bass
Ken Maltz, clarinet
Peter Sokolow, keyboard/vocal

Sunday, September 26, 2004
Klezmerfest
Klezmer Music
5pm

Admission $12 Klezmerfest! celebrates the great tradition of Yiddish instrumental music-from the shtetls of the old country to the contemporary sounds of today's Lower East Side revival. Freylachs, bulgars, doynas and chassidls, along with old favorites from the days of Yiddish theater make for an enjoyable, heart warming and foot stomping evening of music for the whole family. Klezmerfest! has been delighting audiences for years at such venues as the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the Eldridge Street Project, the Knitting Factory, and synagogues and schools throughout the Northeast. Their latest CD is entitled "Party Music".
Klezmerfest! is well know for their award winning "Klez for Kidz program". The group is made up of leading players from the New York City scene: Greg Wall, clarinet (from Hasidic New Wave, Later Prophets, Neshama Carlebach, and other downtown projects); Jordan Hirsch, trumpet (of the famous Neshoma Orchestra); accordionist Zev Zions (you've seen him on Andy Statman's instructional video); bassist Brian Glassman (of Neshama Carlebach's band and Statman) and the masterful drummer Aaron Alexander (Hasidic New Wave, Klezmatics, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Band, Mazeltones). Let Klezmerfest bring you back to the days when klezmer was Jewish wedding music, and Jewish wedding music was............. PARTY MUSIC!

Ashkenaz Canadian Cabaret

Ashkenaz, A Festival of New Yiddish Culture 2004 a festival of music in Toronto Canada this weekend. The Canadian Cabaret, taking place late Saturday night (10pm), Sept. 4th, is again hosted by Theresa Tova (she was very funny and effective last time), who is otherwise involved in a number of key programs and not to be missed.

The Canadian Cabaret brings together a considerable number of Toronto performers, and is usually very well received. A few brand new projects: firstly, new yiddish music by the Toronto Yiddish (and English, and Hebrew) poet Simcha Simchovitch set to music by Lenka Lichtenberg with arrangements by the multi-talented Brian Katz who will be playing with Lenka. Mr. Simchovitch will be there as well. Secondly, another female singer, Isabel Fryszberg, and Lenka are launching a "Barry Sisters" act in another part of the program.

"On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl"

On Thursday August 5, 2004 the "Kavehoyz" of the Congress for Jewish Culture will host a CD release concert for Rebecca Kaplan and Pete Rushefsky's new recording, "On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl".

Rebecca Kaplan sings rare Yiddish folksongs in an authentic folk style and Pete Rushefsky is one of the best tsimblers on the Jewish music scene today.
7:00 PM at 25 E. 21st. St. in Manhattan, between Park and B'way.
Information: 212-505-8040. Coffee and kosher pastries will be served.
Admission:$5.

To purchase this wonderful CD go to:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rushefsky

Yiddish songs and dances in Regents Park London

When JMI KlezFest London opens on Sunday 8 August, all London hears about it - as the biggest UK klezmer band will assemble round the bandstand at Regents Park (its too big to be ON the bandstand) last year there were 69 players, this year we expect to break that record. If you are in or near London please bring your instruments and join us in the 'Inner Circle' (this is a Road Direction as well as an emotional state) from 3.00-6.00pm ...more!...

This picnic in the park comes after we have completed an intensive week's Yiddish course Ot Azoy! directed by Khayele Beer and with Pesakh Fiszman and Sonia Pinkusowitz which takes place at SOAS University of London, and at the very beginning of KlezFest London a week of intensive Music making, singing and dancing with the usual suspects. Over 100 musicians are registered, including 20 singers in our dedicated Jewish Song Summer School who will be studying with both Adrienne Cooper and Shura Lipovsky as well as other experts in the field of sephardi, Baghdadi, Hebrew and Art songs.

We follow this up in the autumn with weekly classes at SOAS in Jewish song, Klezmer music and also liturgical music, and Yiddish language. (you can also do under-grad and post-grad studies in Jewish music here at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) as SOAS has I believe (please correct me if I am wrong) the only fulltime lecturer in Jewish music anywhere in the world in a mainstream University Department of Music.

For more details of all these see on the Jewish Music Institute Website www.jmi.org.uk OR e-mail jewishmusic@jmi.org.uk .

On the Paths CD Released

On The Paths: Yiddish Songs With Tsimbl by Rebecca Kaplan & Pete Rushefsky is a unique album of vocal music accompanied by tsimbl, or Jewish hammered dulcimer. The enclosed booklet contains lyrics in Yiddish, Phonetic Yiddish and English. Becky Kaplan is an emotive interpreter of Jewish song and Pete Rushefsky has emerged as one of the nation's premiere tsimblists. The CD is available through Yiddish Land Records:
http://yiddishlandrecords.com/
and is on sale at Hatikvah Music
http://www.hatikvahmusic.com ...More...

At CD Baby Yet another way to get the album)... they say: "Rebecca Kaplan & Pete Rushefsky have brought to life rarely-heard gems of Yiddish music from collections by Moshe Beregovski, the Mloteks, Mariam Nirenberg, Joseph Moskowitz and Ruth Rubin, as well as materials learned from Soviet-born folk singer Larisa Novicheva and her mother Anna. Both artists additionally contribute original works, including "Shoyn fir yor," a new Yiddish song by Rebecca Kaplan.

Rebecca Kaplan (vocals, piano, buben [drum]) has created a vibrant performance style for Yiddish folk song which is grounded in Jewish sensibility. An elementary school music teacher in the Boston area, she holds degrees in music from the University of Rochester and Indiana University. She has performed as a vocalist and instrumentalist with klezmer bands in Massachusetts, Indiana, and New York State.

Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or Jewish hammered dulcimer. He performs with some of the finest practitioners of traditional klezmer music including Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. He won much critical acclaim for his CD with violinist Elie Rosenblatt entitled "Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin" and he appears with Michael Alpert and Deborah Strauss on Yiddish poet/songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's CD "Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City" (Yiddishland Records). A popular instructor at KlezKamp and KlezKanada, Pete is also the author of a pioneering instructional book on adapting the American 5-string banjo for klezmer." http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rushefsky

CONCERTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (JPPC)

DATE: Wednesday, May 19, 2004, 8:00 PM
PLACE: Highland Park Conservative Temple And Center,
South 3rd and Benner Streets, Highland Park, New Jersey 08904
final event in EXPO '04 - The Jewish Immigrant, Hope and Fulfillment, 1880 -1929
PERFORMANCE LENGTH: 1 hour
INFO: 732-545-6482 (Temple office); www.hpctc.net
more concerts....

DATE: Sunday, May 23, 2004, 1:30 PM Jewish time
PLACE: Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center 3301 Bainbridge Avenue (corner 208 St), Bronx, New York 10467
EVENT: WORLD PREMIERE, FROM KINEHORA TO KUNI-AYLAND in honor of 350 years of Jewish life in North America (1654-2004) - A musical revue of songs about the Jewish experience in America, including hilarious songs from Second Avenue and the Yiddish vaudeville, written by Leo Fuchs, Aaron Lebedeff, Menashe Skulnik and others, as well as some relevant songs I composed for off-Broadway. PERFORMANCE LENGTH: 1 hour
ADMISSION: $3.50; Students and Members: Free
INFO: 718-881-6555; BSchaechter@nyc.rr.com

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DATE: Sunday, June 6, 2004, 2:00 PM
PLACE: Hebrew Union College, 1 West 4 St. (West of Broadway), New York, New York 10012
EVENT: 81ST ANNUAL SPRING CONCERT OF THE JEWISH PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC CHORUS
The concert includes the musical adaptation of the classic Chasidic tale by I.L. Peretz OYB NIT NOKH HEKHER With libretto by Itche Goldberg and music by Maurice Rauch in honor of Goldberg's 100th birthday (born 1904) and commemorating 10 years since Rauch's passing (1994). The concert also includes selections celebrating 350 years of a Jewish presence in North America (1654-2004), including hits from the Second Avenue Yiddish theatre The bill also features THE PRIPETSHIK SINGERS performing a few numbers.
PERFORMANCE LENGTH: Full concert with intermission
ADMISSION: $12 for adults, $7 for seniors, students and children
INFO: 646-602-2007 Jo Abrams; JPPC@nyc.rr.com

Neil Sedaka interview in Hadassah Magazine

Hadassah Magazine has an article about Neil Sedaka and his new Yiddish album and his upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall with the Klezmatics. http://www.hadassah.org/pageframe.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50 If you can't read this online, it's in available in the May, 2004 issue of Hadassah Magazine.

FROM KINEHORA TO KUNI-AYLAND

SUNDAY, MAY 23rd, 2004, 1:30 PM
SHOLEM ALEICHEM CULTURAL CENTER
3301 Bainbridge Avenue, corner 208th Street, Bronx, NY, 10467

WORLD PREMIERE of
FROM KINEHORA TO KUNI-AYLAND
in honor of 350 years of Jewish life in North America (1654-2004)
conceived and performed by
BINYUMEN SCHAECHTER
A musical revue of songs about the Jewish experience in America, including hilarious songs from Second Avenue and the Yiddish vaudeville, written by Leo Fuchs, Aaron Lebedeff, Menashe Skulnik and others, as well as some Schaechter songs composed for and performed off-Broadway SONGS ARE IN YIDDISH, ENGLISH and YINGLISH
GENERAL ADMISSION: $3.50 for adults; free for children, students and members
Refreshments will be served.

By train: 1) "D" to 205 St, Bronx; escalator to 206 St. exit; walk up Bainbridge Ave. 3 blocks. 2) "4" to Mosholu Pkwy; walk north on Jerome Avenue 1 block to 210 St, east to Bainbridge Ave, right 1 block. By car: Bronx River Parkway to Gun Hill Road exit. Go west 1/2 mile up Gun Hill Rd. to Bainbridge Ave. (Montefiore Hospital will be on the left). Make a left onto Bainbridge for two blocks. The Sholem Aleichem Center will be on the right. INFORMATION: call (718) 881-6555; e-mail BSchaechter@nyc.rr.com

MORE KLEZ CALIFORNIA

The faculty is now announced for the KLEZ CALIFORNIA program in June, including: Stu Brotman | Adrienne Cooper | Corey Fisher | Josh Horowitz | Peter Jacques | Eli Katz | Kevin Mummey | Steve Saxon | Naomi Seidman | Cookie Segelstein | Claire Sherman | Deborah Strauss | Gerry Tenney | Harvey Varga | Jeff Warschauer | Steve Weintraub.
June 20th to the 25th, 2004
Info: 415-789-7679
www.KlezCalifornia.org

Classes, Schedules, Teacher bios, Logistical info .... it's all there, including the registration form. (If you've still got questions, call 415-789-7679). Plus, if you have DSL or Cable internet access, be sure to look at the VIDEO from 2003. If you have dial-up, there are lots of photos. You'll see why people said: "KlezCalifornia ... s'iz geven a fargenign!" (It was a real pleasure ... a delight!)

Shifre Lerer at Kavehoyz

Kavehoyz, sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture, will feature the actress Shifre Lerer, star of the Yiddish stage since the 1940s. (She was the lead in the Yiddish film "God, Man, and Devil"). The program "Al dos guts" - From all the best - will feature songs, skits and memoirs. At the piano - Herb Kaplan.
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 PM
at the Congress for Jewish Culture
25 E. 21st. NYC
information: 212-505-8040
admission: $10 includes kosher pastry and coffee.

THE JEWISH PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (JPPC)

Der yidisher filharmonisher folkskhor with CONDUCTOR BINYUMEN ("BEN") SCHAECHTER have upcoming performances in PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY, USA.
THE JPPC is the LONGEST CONTINUALLY PERFORMING YIDDISH - and JEWISH - CHORUS IN THE WORLD.
Upcoming performances:
1) Sun., March 28, 7:30 PM, Gratz Coll., Melrose Park, nr. Philadelphia, PA
2) Sunday, April 18, 7:15 PM, Riverdale Jewish Center, Bronx, NY
3) Sunday, April 25, 6:30 PM, Temple Beth Elohim, Old Bethpage, NY
4) Wednesday, May 19, 8:00 PM, Highland Park Conservative Temple, NJ
5) Sunday, June 6, 2:00 PM, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY
more details....

1) DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2004, 7:30 PM
PLACE: Gratz College, 7605 Old York Rd,
Melrose Park, Pennsylvania 19027 (just outside Philadelphia)
EVENT: Delaware Valley Jewish Choral Festival
TIME: Festival begins @ 2:00; CONCERT BEGINS @ 7:30
Concert features special guest performance by JPPC
INFO, REGISTRATION, TIX: 215-635-7300 x138; ZamirFdn@aol.com
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2) DATE: Sunday evening, April 18, 2004, 7:15 PM
PLACE: Riverdale Jewish Center, 3700 Independence Avenue,
corner 237th Street (West side of H.H. Pkwy), Bronx, New York 10463
EVENT: Holocaust commemorative service and JPPC performance
TIME: Holocaust service/performance begins immediately following Mincha
INFO: 718-548-1850; www.rjconline.org
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3) DATE: Sunday evening, April 25, 2004, 6:30 PM
PLACE: Temple Beth Elohim, 926 Round Swamp Rd,
Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York 11804
EVENT: JPPC concert
TIME: 5:00 - 6:00 PM Cocktail Party; CONCERT @ 6:30 PM
INFO, TIX: 516-694-4544; www.mytemple.org
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4) DATE: Wednesday evening, May 19, 2004, 8:00 PM PLACE: Highland Park Conservative Temple And Center, South 3rd and Benner Streets, Highland Park, New Jersey 08904 EVENT: JPPC concert is final event in EXPO '04 - The Jewish Immigrant, Hope and Fulfillment, 1880 -1929 TIME: 8:00 PM INFO: 732-545-6482 (Temple office); www.hpctc.net
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5) DATE: Sunday afternoon, June 6, 2004, 2:00 PM
PLACE: Hebrew Union College, 1 East 4 St. (West of Broadway),
New York, New York 10012
EVENT: JPPC 81st annual final concert, featuring performance of the Itche-Goldberg / Maurich Rauch OYB NIT NOKH HEKHER (adapted from the Chasidic tale by I.L. Peretz), in honor of Goldberg's 100th birthday (born 1904) and commemorating 10 years since Rauch's passing (1994-2004); as well as selections celebrating 350 years of a Jewish presence in North America (1654-2004), including hits from the Second Avenue Yiddish theatre
TIME: 2:00 PM
INFO: 646-602-2007 Jo Abrams; JPPC@nyc.rr.com

The Youngers of Zion

Traditional acoustic Yiddish dance music and song played by three master musicians. Sunday, April 4 at 7:00-9:00 PM @ :::: S A T A L L A :::::: 37 West 26th St. (bet: 6th/Bway) NYC
212.576.1155 http://www.satalla.com/ $12 cover/$10 minimum. More info...

Henry "Hank" Sapoznik, tenor guitar/vocals
Marlene "Cookie" Segelstein, fiddle
Marty Confurius, 'cello.

The "Youngers of Zion" create an intimate, exciting salon of old time Yiddish music -- hot fiddle tunes, forgotten ballads, introspective instrumentals and snappy Second Avenue vaudeville songs -- all performed with an irresistible immediacy evoking the coziness of the parlor and the raucousness of the dance floor. Deeply rooted in traditional Yiddish music, the "Youngers of Zion"make it their own, playing with an easy sense of ownership and understated virtuosity.

Posted by jmwc at 11:44 AM

Yiddish 'Pirates of Penzance'

GET READY NYC! because on May 2, 2004 Zalmen Mlotek will conduct the New Yiddish Chorale in a Folksbiene Theatre presentation of Al Grand's Yiddish version of "The Pirates of Penzance" (a.k.a., DI YAM GAZLONIM) at Temple Shaaray Tefila, 250 East 79th Street (at Second Avenue), New York on Sunday, May 2, 2004 at 3:00PM. For ticket information and group sales please call the Folksbiene at (212) 213-2120... more info... This performance is being presented in honor of the legendary actor, folk-singer, and Yiddish music icon Theodore Bikel in celebration of his 80th birthday. Mr. Bikel will be in attendance. For additional information please visit this website: www.folksbiene.org/readspecial.htm#pirates

YIDDISH SING ALONG with JILLIAN TALLMER

--San Francisco--
Sunday, March 14 2-4 PM Songs of Work, Protest, and Celebration
Sing Along at the Jewish Community Library
1835 Ellis St, San Francisco, between Scott and Pierce
Tel. (415) 567-3327
(Free parking is available in a structure marked JCHS on Pierce between Ellis and Eddy) FREE AND EVERYONE WELCOME!
SECOND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
(EXCEPT MAY, FOURTH SUNDAY)
2-4 PM MUSIC ROOM, FIRST FLOOR

To enter the world of Yiddish songs--ironic, poignant, down-to-earth--is to feel their irresistible spirit. Whether you're new to them or already hooked, you are sure to leave inspired. Jillian will introduce a dozen new songs each afternoon, using transliterated songsheets. No previous familiarity is required. Participants may bring in favorite songs to share.
For her solo performances and Yiddish sing-alongs all over the Bay Area, Jillian "Yidl" Tallmer received the Yiddish Music Award of the Workmen's Circle in 2001. She directs her own women's chorus, the Loose Canons, in performances of intriguing songs from around the world. Jillian teaches English as a Second Language at the JCCSF.

KLEZKANADA GROYSER KONCERT

AN EVENING OF KLEZMER MUSIC, SONG, AND COMEDY
TO BE HELD IN MONTREAL FOR FIRST TIME
February 29, 2004
The GROYSER KONCERT is coming to Montreal.
A popular feature of the KlezKanada Festival of Yiddish/Jewish Music and Culture held annually in the Laurentians, the GROYSER KONCERT is relocating to Montr�al and the first concert will take place Sunday, February 29 at the Monument National Theatre, 1182 Boulevard Saint-Laurent. ...

Three internationally acclaimed groups will headline the program: New York-based Brave Old World , which has stood at the forefront of the Klezmer revival around-the-world for over two decades; Beyond the Pale, a Toronto group that has been winning raves across North America for its contemporary approach to traditional Klezmer music; and Montreal�s Shtreiml , just back from a successful European tour that won raves for its Klezmer, gypsy and jazz music.

Broadway singing star Joanne Borts and Yaela Hertz, violinist and concertmaster emerita of the McGill Chamber Orchestra, will also be featured. Michael Wex, the celebrated author, raconteur and itinerant teacher of Yiddish, will be the MC.

Jointly sponsored by KlezKanada, the YM-YWHA Montreal Jewish Community Centres and the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, the GROYSER KONCERT signals the beginning of a collaborative relationship between the organizations, with the intent of creating a permanent base for Klezmer music in Montr�al. Proceeds help support KlezKanada�s unique youth scholarship fund and the cultural programming of Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts.

Patron tickets at $250 and Supporter tickets at $100 are available with partial tax receipts. General admission (Balcony seats) is $36 and tickets are on sale at the Saidye Bronfman Centre Box Office, 5170 C�te Ste-Catherine Road, or by telephone at (514) 739-7944.

Kavehoyz concert-series

As part of the monthly Kavehoyz concert-series, Temple Beth Elohim (the Garfield Temple), The Congress for Jewish Culture, with Yugntruf and the League for Yiddish invite you to an evening of Yiddish song with Janet Leuchter, Jeanette Lewicki, Shura Lipovsky (from Holland), Josh Waletsky, and Jeff Warschauer Special guest artists: Deborah Strauss and Jake Shulman-Ment. Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:00 PM Congregation Beth Elohim (Garfield Temple) 271 Garfield Place (8th Avenue and Garfield Place) Park Slope, Brooklyn .... more....

Directions: Take the 2-3 trains to Grand Army Plaza or the Q (? - I think it's now the B) to 7th Avenue. Admission: $5.00 - Refreshments served. For More Information: (212) 505-8040 Partial program support provided by the New York State Council of the Arts.

Inna Barmash & Friends

"Inna Barmash & Friends: A New Generation in Old Song" Performance: Thursday, January 22, at 8:00 PM. Park Slope, NY For details:

At the monthly Yiddish Kavehoyz at Congregation Beth Elohim (the Garfield Temple) in Park Slope: 274 Garfield Place (corner 8th avenue), Brooklyn. . Admission $5.00 includes kosher pastry and coffee. The Kavehoyz is cosponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture and Congregation Beth Elohim. Take the #2,3 trains to Grand Army Plaza, the Q to 7th ave or F to 7th avenue. For information: 718-768-3814 ext. 218.

Tanz mit mir - Yiddish Ballroom Dance

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

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