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June 4, 2000
Information: Conference Schedules
3rd London International
Jewish Music Conference 2000
Sunday 25 June (2.30pm) - Friday 30 June (2.30pm)
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Conference Director: Alexander Knapp
Direct Line +44 20 7898 4688 Direct Fax +44 20 7898 4699
e-mail ak42@soas.ac.uk
Dear Colleagues
Music in Jewish Communities, Dispersal, Displacement and Identity
Jewish diasporas are normally seen as emanating outward from ancient and Modern Israel. But Jewish culture has taken root and developed within other environments from which new diasporas have spread elsewhere, including a return to Israel. Keynote Speakers: Professor Israel Adler, Jerusalem and Professor Alexander Ringer, Urbana-Champaign Illinois
I have been delighted with the variety and calibre of the papers being offered and the number of applications to attend the conference. I have pleasure in sending further information and a registration form. In case you did not receive the first announcement we are inviting papers that address issues of change under the following broad categories:
- Classical music traditions: is there a definable Jewish Identity?
- Folk music and dance traditions: The absorption of local influences into Jewish Music and the promotion of regional styles to a wider or international audience.
- Liturgical music traditions: Contacts with other religions: the extent to which a separate Jewish identity has been maintained, and to which some contacts have led to musical inter-influence.
- Issues of gender: the place of men's and women's music in Jewish life; roles and modes of expression.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Papers, Poster displays and Publication.
The time allocated for the presentation of each paper is 25 minutes followed by 10 minutes of questions and comments - a total of 35 minutes. This timing will be very strictly adhered to in fairness to all. Please time your paper accurately. (c.110 words = 1 minute). Abstracts are being assessed at the moment, and if you have not heard by mid-February, please contact me again to be sure that it has been received. If you wish to update your abstract for the conference programme book, please do so now (c. 200 words). We shall require your paper in hard copy and on disk (saved as a Word for Windows and/or Word for Macintosh 5.1 file, if possible) at the time of the conference. Your adherence to the guidelines that will be sent on receipt of your registration will facilitate the publication of selected papers. (Papers may also be published on the Internet). If you would like to display a poster relating to your area of study, whether you are a scheduled speaker or not, please apply for a space on the poster display screens.
Registration Form and Fees.
As this conference has no outside sponsorship, all delegates are required to register and pay the full conference fees in advance, and also the costs of the meals, accommodation and concerts. The registration fee covers free entry to the opening ceremony and reception, all academic sessions, and tea, coffee and biscuits throughout the conference. Please fill in the enclosed registration form and return it as soon as possible with your remittance in pounds sterling or by Visa or MasterCard for the full amount or a deposit of £25 If you require accommodation, please register immediately with your deposit. We should receive the full fees no later than Monday 15 May 2000. If you are able to make a donation to our Bursary Fund this will help those delegates who have no other means of sponsorship. Please contact us in writing if you need to be considered for such support.
Accommodation.
We can offer comfortable university accommodation, bed and continental breakfast at Ramsay Hall, Maple Street, W1, in single rooms, each with washbasin @ £23 per night. This is a 10 minutes walk to SOAS. A few single rooms @ £46 and double rooms @ £70 with en-suite bathrooms are available at International House, Drummond Street, NW1,also a ten minute walk to SOAS. If you require accommodation please reply immediately with your £25 deposit as these rooms need to be secured and will be allocated on a 'first come first served' basis. If you would like to come earlier or stay later, please indicate which days on your registration form.
Concerts and workshop.
The concert pass includes lunch-time events and evening concerts. Sunday:'The Quality of Mercy', Bloomsbury Theatre, an anthology of Jewish prose and poetry from the Bible to today; Monday: Songs of the Yiddish Theatre, Barbican; Tuesday: 'Peaceful Promenade' Arab and Israeli musicians make music together; Wednesday: Conference Banquet with entertainment; Thursday: 'Let us Rejoice', Psalm and Prayer at Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London, the oldest Sephardi Synagogue in the UK (1701). On Sunday 25 June, 10.00am - 4.00pm there will be a workshop at SOAS on Middle Eastern music for oud, clarinet, percussion and voice. This is open to delegates at an extra cost of £15. (This will finish in time for the Opening of Conference at 4.00pm)
Wednesday - open afternoon.
Wednesday afternoon will be available for informal meetings, workshops, videos or films. Rooms can be reserved during the conference. There are plans to set up an International Association of Jewish Music Institutes. There will be a meeting of the Provisional Council and those interested in attending and joining are welcome.
Session hosted at British Library, National Sound Archive.
The session on Thursday morning will take place at the new British Library. We will be the guests of the International Section of the National Sound Archive and the Curator Janet Topp-Fargion will give an Introduction to the collection. We will also be given a preview of the new, definitive and affordable Jewish Music Cataloguing System being developed by the Jewish Music Institute with support from the British Library. This will be available for purchase. There will be a paper reviewing Jewish Music sites and usage on the Internet.
Additional Conference: 'Thwarted Voices', Sun 2 - Mon 3 July, 2000.
An additional and separate conference at SOAS, organised by the International Forum for Suppressed Music, a platform of the Jewish Music Institute, will examine music by composers banned by the Third Reich. Chaired by Michael Haas, Executive Producer of the Decca series on 'Entartete Musik', and co-hosted by the Music Department of SOAS, this conference will focus on the composition students of Franz Schreker in Berlin (1920-1933). Invited speakers and other delegates will examine the direction of 20th century Western European music, before so many of its greatest talents were dislocated and destroyed. A concert of music by Berthold Goldschmidt, Ernst Krenek, Karol Rathaus and Franz Schreker will take place at St John's, Smith Square on 2 July at 8.00pm. Delegates wishing to stay on for this, or to offer a paper please get in touch with the Director, Erik Levi directly by email at uhwm018@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk or via our registration form.
Tenth London International Jewish Music Festival.
These conferences are taking place within the Tenth London International Jewish Music Festival - a travelling celebration, (11 June - 13 July 2000). Visiting artists from Switzerland, Greece, Argentina and elsewhere join outstanding British musicians in a feast of ancient and contemporary liturgical and folk music, Yiddish and Ladino song, Klezmer, performances of music by Hungarian and Russian Jewish composers and Salamoni Rossi. The South Bank, St John's, Wigmore Hall, Bloomsbury Theatre, Union Chapel, St Giles, Bevis Marks and West London Synagogues and venues across the country, will host concerts, recitals, workshops and services. The Festival culminates in 'One Amazing Jewish Culture Day' at the Millennium Dome on July 9th.
If anyone would like to perform in the Dome on that day, and for further Festival information tick Registration Form or contact
Festival Director Geraldine Auerbach
JMI
P O Box 232, Harrow, Middlesex, HA1 2NN
Tel +44 20 8909 2445 Fax +44 20 8909 1030
e-mail: festival@jmi.org.uk
Website: http://www.jmi.org.uk
I very much look forward to welcoming you to London this summer.
Alexander Knapp, Conference Director
Registration
3rd London International
Jewish Music Conference 2000
Sun 25 June (2.30pm) - Fri 30 June (2.30pm)
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Conference Director: Alexander Knapp
Please fill in this Conference Registration Form, marking your requirements, and return with full payment or deposit of £25 as soon as possible. Full fees are due no later than Monday 15 May 2000. (Fees apply to all delegates and observers.)
Send to: Alexander Knapp, Music Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG email ak42@soas.ac.uk
Direct Line +44 20 7898 4688 Direct Fax +44 20 7898 4699
Full Conference Registration Fee (Sun-Fri) £79
Full Student Conference Registration Fee (Sun - Fri) £42
Daily attendance (£21 per full day £11 per *half day) Days: Sun *25[ ] 26[ ] 27[ ] 28[ ] 29[ ] *30 [ ] £21
Student daily attendance (£13 per full day £7 per *half day) Days: Sun *25[ ] 26[ ] 27[ ] 28[ ] 29[ ] *30 [ ] £13
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Meals: Kosher sandwich lunches @ £4.50 each Days: Mon 26[ ] 27[ ] 28[ ] 29[ ] *30 [ ] £4.50
Conference Banquet (Wednesday 28 June) £25
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Concert Pass includes evening and lunchtime concerts £35
I would like to attend workshop on Middle Eastern Music 25/6 £15
I would like to attend 'Thwarted Voices' Conference, 2-3 July £59
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Accommodation 24-30 June (B&B per night)
Ramsay Hall University Residence: single @ £23
International House: single @ £46 double @ £70
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Conference Schedules
Tenth London International JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL
sponsored by London Jewish News and SoJewish.comA travelling celebration
London, 11 June-13 July 2000
and across the country throughout the year
The largest and most ambitious festival of Jewish music ever held in Britain with theworld's finest performers and interpreters of klezmer, folk, jazz, liturgical andclassical Jewish music at prime venues in London and throughout the country. This year's festival will be officially opened by Lord Brittan of Spennithorne at Sadler's Wells.
Central London concerts
Sunday 11 June, 7.30pm, Sadler's Wells
Kol Simcha: klezmer concert
Opening event
One of the world's best bands in contemporary klezmer, Kol Simcha appeals far beyond itsEastern European folk roots. With a super-tight rhythm section of acoustic bass, drumsand piano added to the traditional klezmer clarinet and flute, the five man Swiss ensemble give a popular form of Jewish celebration music the refinement and sophistication of jazz, without losing any of the music's passion and good fun. From the wildly joyous to the exotically dark, deep and sad, Kol Simcha celebrates life in all its glorious extremes.
Part of Creative Switzerland 2000: A Dialogue between Cultures. Sponsored by the
Coordinating Commission for the Presence of Switzerland Abroad and the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain.
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN. www.sadlers-wells.com Tickets:
£30.00-£7.50 Booking: 020 7863 8000
Monday 12 June, 7.30pm, St Giles, Cripplegate
Gila Goldstein piano recital
Internationally acclaimed New York-based, Israeli pianist in her UK début with two world premières. Paul Ben Haim's Suite no. 1 (1933), the last work written in Germany by Israel's most revered composer. Sonata no. 1 by Nimrod Borenstein (b. 1969), Israeli-French composer now based in London. Also: Bach, Schumann, Ben-Haim, (Sonatina) and Ginastera, (Danzas Argentinas, 1937).
St Giles Cripplegate, 4 The Postern, Wood Street, London EC2Y 7NA. Kantor Concert Management. Tickets: £10.00 (discounts: A-C see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Wednesday 14 June, 7.30pm, Hungarian Cultural Centre
Hungary in Focus: recital
Kornélia Pérchey, soprano, Emil Tóth, chief Cantor, accompanied by György Kármán, piano, Miriam Brickman, piano Songs by Goldmark, Hebrew liturgical songs for the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, piano works by Hungarian-Jewish composers Kadosa, Kurtág, Ligeti and Weiner. Presented by Hungarian Cultural Centre (HCC). HCC, 10 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA. Tickets £5.00 (£7.50 for two HCC events or £10 for all three: 13 June (talk), 14 June (recital)
and 5 July (talk). See also exhibition: Stones) Booking: 020 7240 6162
Wednesday 14 June, 8.00pm, Union Chapel
Jazz at Union Chapel: Triple Bill
K-Groove, Yiddish'n Jazz, Just East of Jazz
Stewart Curtis's K-Groove (formerly known as Klezmer Groove), infuses world jazz with klezmer, Israeli, Hassidic and Ladino melodies. Rich textures, sweeping sounds and humorous arrangements from their new album Smoked Salmon Salsa. '... like Greek taverna entertainers on hallucinogenic hummus.' (Evening Standard)
Yiddish'n Jazz: Swedish Jazz singer, Rebecka Gordon, draws her audience, with the warm modulation of her voice, into the world of stylish Yiddish theatre and song, complemented by her trio.
Just East of Jazz: A dominant presence on the UK Jazz scene, these five musicians led by saxophonist Jeremy Shoham, present a superb fusion of jazz with East European and Balkan melodies and rhythms. 'a new and fascinating crossover.' (Dave Gelly, The Observer) Co-hosted by YaD. Union Chapel Compton Terrace, Upper Street, Islington, London N1 2XD.
Tickets: £12.50 (discounts: A-E see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 15 June, 8.00pm, Union Chapel
Jazz at Union Chapel: Gilad Atzmon<
and the Orient House Ensemble
Gilad Atzmon, soprano sax, clarinet, Turkish clarinet, Arabic flutes, with special guest Adel Salameh, Oud. One of the UK jazz scene's most remarkable artists, virtuosity, fire and sensitivity characterise Atzmon's approach to Middle Eastern, Jewish and Balkan melody and rhythm. First major London concert, showcasing his new ensemble and their new album, Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble, a personal journey on universal themes, exploring
the Arab-Israeli dialogue through music. Co-hosted by YaD. Union Chapel Compton Terrace, Upper Street, Islington, London N1 2XD.
Tickets: £12.50 (discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 15 June, 7.30pm, Leighton House
Judita: Shining Star from Lithuania
Judita Leitaite., mezzo soprano, Polina Kogan, Piano
Prize-winning Lithuanian singer, who trained with Elizabeth Schwartzkopf and CarloBergonzi, received standing ovations at her European and North American débuts. Programme includes songs by Lithuanian Jewish composer Anatolijus Senderovas, Debussy, Bizet, Rubinstein, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov and Ravel's Kaddish. Presented by the Embassy of Lithuania. Sponsored by Lithuanian Airlines. Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 8LZ. Tickets: £10.00 (discounts: A-C see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Sunday 18 June, 3.30pm,
Westminster Synagogue Ruach: Breath, Spirit, Wind
Mark Glanville, baritone and clarinet, Harold Lester, piano
Pearls of Yiddish song, soul-searing synagogue music, best loved klezmer clarinet solos, the most moving poetry and the greatest humour. A journey to the very core of Judaism existing in a dimension beyond race and religion: in Ruach: breath, spirit, wind. Westminster Synagogue, Kent House, Rutland Gardens, London SW7 1BX. Tickets: £12.00 (concessions £8.00) Booking: 020 7584 3953
Sunday 18 June, 7.30pm, St John's, Smith Square
The Zemel Choir: Music of our Time
Jewish works by living composers Composers' Question Time: pre-concert forum at 6.15pm Lianne-Marie Skriniar, soprano, Ruti Halvani, mezzo soprano,
Jeremy Cohen, tenor, The Bochman Quartet, The Zemel Choir,
conducted by Vivienne Bellos. Celebrating Jewish Choral music specially written for The Zemel Choir. First performanceof Keith Burstein's specially commissioned cantata, The Year's Midnight, for choir, solovoices and instrumental ensemble. Arrangements of Yiddish songs by Roderick Skeaping, Israeli songs by Raphael Gonley, works by Malcolm Singer, Chonon Lewis, Dudley Cohen, Alexander Knapp, Alan Freedman, Daniel Tunkel, Emanuel Fisher and Gary Tucker and a
little known masterpiece, the String Quartet by the Yiddish theatre composer, Shalom Secunda. Presented by The Zemel Choir. St John's, Smith Square, London,
SW1P 3HA www.sjss.org.uk. Tickets: £16.00, £14.00, £11.00, £8.00 Booking: 020 7222 1061 also (discounts: A-E see box) at Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Monday 19 June, 7.45pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Savina's Mediterranean Songs
Savina Yannatou and the Primavera en Salonico Ensemble
World Music Concert: Internationally acclaimed Greek singer Savina Yannatou, accompanied by a six-piece ensemble of double bass, qanoun, oud, violin, nay and Levantine percussion, sings the glorious songs of the Mediterranean basin, focusing on the music of Spanish Jews in exile, many of whom fled to Greece in the fifteenth century. Drawing on medieval, modern, classical, and traditional Judeo-Spanish sources and adding free improvisation, their programme celebrates the life of the 50,000 Jews who lived in Thessaloniki until 1941.
Presented by Carmel Arts and the Hellenic Foundation for Culture. Sponsored by Easyjet. Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets: £15.00, £12.50, £10.00, £8.00 (concessions, £2.00 off) Booking: 020 7960 4242
Monday 19-Thursday 22 June, 7.30pm, Steiner Theatre
The Yiddishe Mamas and Papas
Yiddish Musical Comedy: Tumba!
A French ensemble in a heart-warming sophisticated cabaret where shtetl meets jazz and American razzmatazz. With great acting and singing, the six musicians bring to life the excitement of the early Jewish settlers in New York as they embraced showbiz and the delights of swing. Taking liberties, light years away from traditional Yiddish performances, the Yiddishe Mamas and Papas lace their show with good old fashioned romance and sweep you off to another world. 'Even if you don't know Yiddish, you will not be able to resist succumbing to their charms.' (Le Point) Steiner Theatre, Park Road, London NW1. Tickets: £14.00, £10.50 (discounts: A-E see box)Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Tuesday 20 June, 7.30pm Purcell Room
Salamone Rossi: Italian Baroque
Jewish Musician of Mantua Michelene Wandor, Philip Thorby, Jennie Cassidy with
Siena Ensemble, voices, recorders, viols, harpsichord and chitarrone
Vocal and instrumental music from Britain's bespoke early music ensemble that
specialises in the sacred and secular music of Rossi, a Jewish musician living in Catholic early 17th century Mantua. He crossed social and musical boundaries, writing and performing music for the Gonzaga court. He composed madrigals of exquisite beauty to contemporary Italian poetry and earned his place in musical history with the firs polyphonic settings of Hebrew Prayers and Psalms.
Sponsored by Stewart and Pearl Cohen. Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets: £12.50, £8.50 (discounts: A-E see box) Booking: 020 7960 4242
Thursday 22 June, 7.30pm,
Sternberg CentreKlezmer en Buenos Aires
Cesar Lerner, piano/accordion, Marcelo Moguilevsky, reeds/percussion
Outstanding musicianship and humorous personality make this one of the world's top ensembles, reviving the music of their Jewish grandparents and bringing Klezmer to life from the country of the Tango. Well known composers and performers in Argentina with numerous film, theatre and TV scores to their credit, the Klezmer duo has appeared to tremendous acclaim at world music festivals. Presented by the Jewish Museum, London. Supported by the Argentine Embassy and the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Free glass of wine courtesy of Vinos de Argentina, stockists 020 7915 4799. Sternberg Centre for Judaism, 80 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 2SY. Tickets £12.50 (discounts: A-D see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 22 June, 9.00pm, Rhythm Factory
Naming the Golem:club night
A night of radical Jewish club culture at the Rhythm Factory, with explosive live music/DJ interaction, visuals and performance artists.
Presented by YaD (e-mail: info@yadarts.com). Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1EW. Tickets: £8.00 in advance (more at the door) Booking: 020 7486 5627
Sunday 25 June, 7.30pm, Bloomsbury Theatre
The Quality of Mercy
An Anthology of Jewish Poetry and Music
from Biblical Times to the Present. Devised by Cordula Kempe
Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Henry Goodman, Simon Russell Beale, Bergonzi String Quintet, Julia
Ford, clarinet, Alexander Schmalcz, piano, Michael Tubbs, harp and percussion
Highlights of Jewish culture in ancient Palestine, the countries of the diaspora and
modern Israel emerge from a canvas of medieval, classical and folk music that
interweaves poetry and prose by Jewish and non-Jewish writers, addressing questions that
are inherent in the title-the origins of monotheism and its consequences from Biblical
times to Third Millennium theodicy. No answers, just questions-and ongoing dialogue with
God as though a fellow human being. Very personal, very critical and full of humour. A
celebration of life, of 'chai' as it manifests itself in Jewish faith and culture down
the ages and beyond the Holocaust.
Presented by courtesy of the Rudolf Kempe Society, supported by the Kohn Foundation.
Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH. Tickets: £22.50, £18.50, £12.50
Booking: (discounts: A, B, D see box) 020 7388 8822 and (discounts: A-E see box)
Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Monday 26 June, 7.30pm, Barbican Centre
Lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush
Music of the Old Jewish World.After sell-out London performances, Britain's most widely travelled and acclaimed Jewish
music ensemble comes to the Barbican to play and sing mystical dances of the Hassidim,
Klezmer melodies, songs of the Yiddish theatre, Judeo Spanish romances, devotional songs
of the old Ottoman world and Yemenite and Israeli songs with energy and panache on a
dazzling array of exotic instruments. Programme includes songs of a traditional Sephardi
wedding and an ancient ballad is brought to life with the magical imagery of shadow
puppets.
Free foyer performance by Klezmer en Buenos Aires at 6.00pm.
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS. Tickets: £22.50, £18.50, £15.00, £11.00. Groups
and Friends 10% off Booking: 020 7638 8891, also (discounts: A-E see box) at Royal
Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Adel Salameh: Peaceful Promenade
Middle Eastern music on oud, voice, percussion (see workshop Sunday 25 June under Conferences) Defying all cultural barriers, this Jewish-Arab-Algerian ensemble is a revelation, performing ancient Arabic songs and traditional Jewish wedding dances, producing 'a swooning confluence of ancient and modern Middle Eastern and North African music which streams seamlessly through a stark framework of oud and pattering drums with Azzouzi's vocals floating like a sad curl of memory.' (The Guardian). Presented by the Forum for Arab-Israeli Dialogue Through Music of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS. Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.
Tickets: £10.00 (discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 29 June, 8.00pm, Bevis Marks Synagogue
Hebrew Song & Prayer, Bevis Marks
Cantor Moshe Haschel with the Neimah Singers (the St John's Wood Synagogue Choir),
conductor, Marc Temerlies; The Choir of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogues,
conductor, Maurice Martin; London Jewish Male Choir, conductor, Clive Hyman
Three of the UK's most prestigious Jewish choirs assemble to perform the inspirational
sacred songs and prayers of the Sabbath, the High Holydays and family celebrations. Each
choir's musical tradition is heard in the historic setting of the beautiful candle-lit
Bevis Marks Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, consecrated in 1701.
Bevis Marks Synagogue, Bevis Marks, London EC3A 5DQ.
Tickets: £22.50, £18.50 (discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Sunday 2 July, 2.30pm, SOAS
'Entartete Musik' recital,
Part of International Conference: Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich
(see Conferences)
Barbara Heimann, soprano, Anne Buter, soprano
with Reinild Mees, piano and Kolja Lessing, solo piano
Music by Schreker and his students Krenek, Grosz, Goldschmidt and others, introduced by
the world's leading authorities. Songs specially chosen and introduced by Dr Christopher
Hailey (Los Angeles), biographer of Franz Schreker. Piano music performed and introduced
by Professor Kolja Lessing (Berlin).
Supported by Bnai Brith Leo Baeck Women's Lodge. Brunei Theatre, SOAS, University of
London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Tickets: £10.00 (discounts:
A-E see box) booking:Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Sunday 2 July, 7.30pm, St John's, Smith Square,
'Entartete Musik' concert
Part of International Conference: Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich
(see Conferences)
Andrusier Ensemble, string trio, clarinet, horn and piano, Artistic Director: Tamar
Andrusier, special guest: Kolja Lessing, piano solo
This concert, featuring three premières, highlights the music of Schreker, the most
influential composition teacher in pre-war Germany, and his students. These rising
talents, were part of an adventurous avant garde whilst following tonality. Their works
were feted in concert halls and opera houses all over Europe until, almost without
exception, they were forced into exile. Goldschmidt, Retrospectrum; Rathaus, Piano
Sonata No. 1; Krenek, Serenade op 4, UK Premiere; Goldschmidt, Marche Militaire, world
premiere; Schreker, Four Sketches for Film, world premiere; Schreker, Der Wind.
Concert presented by the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS International Forum for Suppressed
Music. St John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA. Tickets £16.00, £14.00, £12.00, £8.00
Booking: (discounts: A-E see box) 020 7222 1061 and Royal Festival Hall Box Office
020 7960 4242
Monday 3 July, 7.30pm, Wigmore Hall
Rachmaninov Trio: Chamber Concert
Return visit to the Wigmore of one of Britain's leading piano trios. Their debut two
years ago was greeted with great acclaim. Outstanding Russian string players, Lev Atlas,
violin and Alexander Volpov, cello with their American pianist Phillip Silver produce a
ravishing sound. They perform Ben Haim Variations on a Hebrew Theme for piano trio
(1939), Sviridov's lyrical Piano Trio and the majestic, passionate, Rachmaninov Trio
Elegiaque in D Minor.
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1. Tickets. £14.00, £12.00, £10.00, £7.00
Booking: 020 7935 2141
Tuesday 4 July, 7.30pm, North Western Reform Synagogue
Heritage, a Cantata of Jewish Life
Alyth Choral Society and the Jewish Heritage Youth Choir, Choral Director, Vivienne
Bellos, with the Alyth Chamber Ensemble
Heritage is a cantata that celebrates the ancient festivals of the Jewish year and the
modern miracle of the State of Israel. This is a passionate call to the next generation
to guard their Jewish heritage and its potential for good in the world. Cyril Ornadel's
music combines with the powerful libretto of columnist, author and poet, Pamela
Melnikoff to bring its spiritual message to life for today.
North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, London,
NW11 7EN. Tickets: £10 (Concessions £8.00, Children £5)
Booking: Frank 020 8959 7540
Wednesday 5 July, 7.30pm, St John's Smith Square
Shostakovich Ensemble
Alla Ablaberdyeva, soprano and the Shostakovich Ensemble
The rarely performed song cycle 'From Jewish Folk Poetry' is widely acclaimed to be the
apogee of Shostakovich's creative genius, combining the conflicting forces of music and
poetry. Shostakovich drew a strong personal parallel with the suffering soul of Jewish
people. The Shostakovich Ensemble comprises outstanding British and Russian
instrumentalists and singers. 'Alla's voice is transformed to gold by the liquid sound
of the Russian Language.' (Financial Times) 'She mesmerises, tantalises and demands
total attention.' (The Guardian). Also, Shostakovich: Preludes op 34 (piano), and the
poignant last work of Shostakovich, the Sonata for Viola and piano op 139.
St John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA. Tickets £16.00, £14.00, £12.00, £8.00,
(discount: A-E see box) Booking: 020 7222 1061 and Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020
7960 4242
Wednesday 5 July, 7.30pm, Liberal Jewish Synagogue
Sons and Daughters of Abraham
Featuring sacred Jewish, Christian and Muslim songs performed by singers from the USA, Jamaica and Pakistan.
Part of Sacred Voices Millennium Music Village, 28 June-16 July. Information Hotline: 020 7456 0404
Wednesday 5 July, 9.00pm, The Spitz
Oi-Va-Voi at the Spitz
New, young, British ensemble Oi-Va-Voi mix the beats and attitude of London club culture
with the ethnic soundscape of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea. With their driving
rhythm section, searing front line of trumpet, violin, clarinet, and haunting vocals,
Oi-Va-Voi combine intimate knowledge of traditional material with explosive creative
energy to bring folk music out of the library and onto the dance-floor. Prepare to have
your preconceptions shattered.
The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, 109 Commercial Street, London E1. Tickets £7.00
(concs £5.00) Booking: 020 7392 9032
Thursday 6 July, 7.30pm, Lauderdale House
Blues for Uncle Elef
New Jewish music
The Makhes: Rebekka Wedell, voice/percussion, Sarha Moore,
saxophones, Philip Alexander, piano, and friends
Composers mix classical, contemporary, jazz and folk genres with Jewish repertoire
creating a dynamic programme of new Jewish sounds. Using improvisation, innovation and
re-arrangement, klezmer, Yiddish song and hassidic nigunim come face to face with modern
musical techniques and erupt in exciting forms. Music by Malcolm Singer; Adam Gorb,
Erika Fox; Dorry Lake, Philip Alexander and Rebekka Weddell, including new compositions
for this concert.
Presented by the Makhes. Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, London N6.
Tickets: £8.00 (concessions £5.00)
Booking: 020 8291 2137
Thursday 6 July, 7.30pm, Union Chapel
Sacred Music of Many Faiths
Sacred Jewish music in an evening of music of diverse faiths. Part of the Sacred Voices
Millennium Music Village 28 June-16 July, a Festival of divinely inspired vocal music
from around the world featuring nearly 500 outstanding sacred singers from the world's
main faiths. Free weekend concerts, talks, seminars, exhibitions and concerts in places
of worship. Information Hotline: 020 7456 0404
Promoted by Cultural Cooperation Ltd. Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London,
N1 2XD.
Tickets: price tbc Booking: Blackheath Halls 020 8463 0100
Sunday 9 July, West London Synagogue 6.30pm reception, 7.30pm concert
Hugo Gryn Tribute Concert
City of London Sinfonia, Rivka Golani, viola, James Griffett, tenor,
Sydney Fixman, conductor and special guest Michael Buerk (tbc)
There were composers who showed solidarity with the Jewish people in troubled times. A
special salute is offered to Hindemith and Finzi, two of those who had the courage to
speak out when others were silent. The Jewish Music Festival is honoured to include this
tribute concert to its late patron, Rabbi Hugo Gryn, a figure highly respected and much
loved by his community and in the national and international arenas. Varied and moving
works: Finzi, Farewell to Arms; Hindemith, 5 Pieces for Strings, Mendelssohn, Symphony
no. 10, Partos, Yizkor, Gershwin, Lullaby, Bloch, Concerto Grosso no. 2.
Presented by the West London Synagogue and the Hugo Gryn Memorial Trust. In aid of the
Hugo Gryn Children's Library and the Jewish Music Institute. West London Synagogue, 34
Upper Berkeley Street, London W1. Tickets £30.00, £20.00, £10.00, unwaged £2.00
(includes reception) Booking: 020 8452 1093
Monday 10 July, St John's, Smith Square, 6.00pm talk, 7.30pm concert
Hungary in Focus: Concert
György Pauk, violin, Rivka Golani, viola, Gervase de Peyer, clarinet, János Oesovaj,
tenor, Miriam Brickman, piano, Callino quartet and string players, conducted by George
Badacsonyi
Pre-concert Talk: Hungarian Jewish composers
Rachel Beckles Willson
Tickets £3.00 or free for concert ticket holders
Chamber Concert
Music highlighting Hungarian Jewish Composers and their outstanding contribution to
Hungarian and world music. First UK performances of chamber cantatas by György Kósa for
tenor and strings, Habbakuk and Diary Notes. Also Leo Weiner's Sonata for violin and
piano and works by Pártos, Mátyás Seiber, Bartók and Brahms.
Promoted by the Hungarian Cultural Centre. St John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA.
Tickets £16.00, £14.00, £12.00, £8.00
(discount: A-E see box) Booking: 020 7222 1061 and
Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Monday 10 July, 7.30pm, Hampstead Synagogue
Simcha Youth Choir, Minsk
All the way from Minsk in Belarus, come these enthusiastic young singers and musicians,
students and graduates of the Minsk special music school. Reviving their Jewish
tradition that was suppressed for so long in the Soviet Union, they have created a
colourful and fascinating programme of sacred and folk songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian
and English, with inventive choreography and fine musical arrangements. Their
performances have delighted and charmed audiences in their home country and across
Europe.
Presented by the Raoul Wallenberg Lodge and Bnai Brith UK In aid of Child Victims of
Chernobyl and Bnai Brith educational projects worldwide. Hampstead Synagogue, 1
Dennington Park Road, London, NW6 1AX. Tickets: £15.00, £10.00
Booking: Sandra 020 8450 4469 or Beryl 020 8959 1080
Tuesday 11 July, 8.00pm,
Liberal Jewish Synagogue, St John's Wood
Simcha Youth Choir, Minsk
Choral and Instrumental Concert: Another chance to experience the delightful and
enchanting youth singers and musicians from Minsk. See above, 10 July for information on
the group.
Liberal Jewish Synagogue St John's Wood, 28 St John's Wood Road, London, NW8. Tickets:
£15.00, £10.00, (children £5.00) (adult
discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Tuesday 11 July, 8.00pm, Sephardi Centre
Jewish life in Andalusia
Yvonne Behar and Ensemble, voice, violin, cello and piano
The Golden age of the Sephardi Jews in medieval Spain is revealed as Yvonne Behar,musician and scholar, illustrates with family stories, poems, pictures and music thisrich flowering of Jewish culture. Ballads and songs of the Sephardic diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and beyond forever echo themes of Andalusian Jewish life and culture. Sephardi delicacies will be served.
Sephardi Centre, 2 Ashworth Road, W9 1JY. Tickets: £10.00
Booking: 020 7266 3682
Wednesday 12 July, 8.00pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Basya Schechase. Pharaoh's Daughter World Music Concert: This band is red-hot, at the cutting edge of the Jewish music scene from The Knitting Factory (the bastion of downtown cool) in New York City. From Yiddish standards with Middle Eastern arrangements to new melodies of liturgical staples, Pharaoh's Daughter will bring you to your feet with their spontaneous and spiritual jams. Their sounds, influenced by Basya's hitchhiking adventures in Africa, will leave a lasting impression with their masterful ability to evolve from a hypnotic, meditative sound into a full-throttle celebration complete with high energy and ecstatic grooves. Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets: £18.50, £15.50, £12.50, £9.50 (discounts: A-E see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242 **********************************************
Wednesday 12 July, 9.00pm, The Spitz
Gregori Schechter at the Spitz
Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band
'One of Klezmer's most charismatic stars.' (The Times) Gregori Schechter and his
renowned band play exciting toe-tapping Jewish party music as played at weddings,
barmitzvahs and celebrations all over Eastern Europe at the turn of the previous
century.
Presented by City of London Festival. The Spitz, Old Spitalfields Market, 109 Commercial
Street, London E1. Tickets £7.00 in advance £8.00 at the door (Concessions £6.00 in
advance only)
Booking: Barbican Centre Box Office 020 7638 8891
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Thursday 13 July, 5.00pm, Purcell Room
Art of the Jewish Cantor
Moving and uplifting music of Hebrew prayer and psalm sung by Cantor Moshe Haschel and
the Neimah Singers, London's most outstanding synagogue choir and cantor, conducted by
Marc Temerlies. A sequel to the sell-out concert at the Purcell Room in November 1999.
Programme includes traditional Sabbath prayers, High Holiday psalms and festival
celebrations.
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets: £15.50,
£12.50, £9.50 (discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 13 July, 8.00pm, Purcell Room
Berlin and Paris Cabaret
Alexandra Valavelska with Jam and Spice Sizzling Cabaret
Cabaret, which flourished in Paris and Weimar Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, counted
among its stars Dietrich, Garbo, Piaf and Lenya who immortalised many of these songs,
considered daring and dangerous in their day. Sultry Alexandra Valavelska, who has lived
in Germany, Israel, America, and is now based in the UK, illuminates afresh songs such
as Mack the Knife, I am a Vamp, and La Vie en Rose in a programme of witty texts,
sparkling melodies, parodies and satires, all mixed with 'musical eroticism.'
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets: £15.50,
£12.50, £9.50 (discounts: A-E see box)
Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box Office 020 7960 4242
Thursday 13 July, 8.00pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Brave Old World: klezmer all-stars
Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, Stuart Brotman
Brave Old World, 'Klezmer's supergroup' (The Washington Post), combines the vibrant
power of East European Jewish tradition, the innovation of jazz and the artistry of
classical music in a two part program. Song of the Lodz Ghetto is a performance of rare
Yiddish songs collected by the group in Israel, from Ghetto survivors. New Jewish Music
is their latest musical programme of deep-rooted 'Yiddishkeyt' (Jewishness)
reinterpreted. World renowned for their tours, recordings and collaboration with Itzhak
Perlman, the band members have appeared with all the legendary Klezmer ensembles.
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX. Tickets:
£18.50, £15.50, £12.50, £9.50 (discounts: A-E see box) Booking: Royal Festival Hall Box
Office 020 7960 4242
Community Events
Thursday 15 June, 7.30pm,
Finchley Synagogue
Israeli Song and Jazz
Topaz Singers & Jazz Group Synergy
Israeli folk song specialists, the Topaz Singers perform for community celebrations in
and around London. Under the musical direction of Hagai Sigalov, they have arranged a
concert in Finchley of spirited Israeli songs, teaming up with North London Jazz
enthusiasts, Synergy.
Finchley Synagogue, Kinloss Gardens, N3. Tickets £5.00 including refreshments Booking:
Shirley 020 8360 3567
Sunday 25 June, 4.30pm, 7.30pm, Roehampton
From Eden to Sinai Performers of all ages from the South London Jewish community combine in a two part journey in words and music, from The Creation through the Exodus from Egypt, to the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. A number of choirs, children's groups, ensembles and soloists from south of the river perform original and specially arranged music interwoven with poetry and prose. Directed by Raphael Gonley. Presented by the South London Jewish Music Forum. Southlands College, University of Surrey Roehampton, Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5SL. Tickets: Combined ticket £12.00, (concs £6.00) single concert £8.00 (concs £4.00) Booking: 020 8940 6686
**********************************************Sunday 9 July, 11.00am-6.00pm, Millennium Dome
Jewish Culture Day at the Dome British Jews join in the nation's celebration of the turn of the century with a joyful presentation of contemporary Anglo-Jewish culture. Individuals and groups from the communities across the country will take the spotlight on the various stages spread throughout the Millennium Dome complex. Visitors will experience the vibrancy and talent of Klezmer bands, choirs, pop groups, folk dance ensembles and singers. Supported by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Co-ordinator: Joan Noble. The Millennium Dome reached by Jubilee Line, North Greenwich Station www.dome2000.co.uk Booking: 0870 606 2000
Plays
Thursday 1-Saturday 3 June, 7.30pm, Edward Alleyn Theatre
Loyalties by John Galsworthy Dulwich Players in association with Jewish Community Theatre A play about antisemitism in 1920's England. Edward Alleyn Theatre, Dulwich College, SE21. Booking: 020 7737 4361 **********************************************Sunday 11 June, 8.00pm, The Sternberg Centre The King of Schnorrers Labyrinth Theatre Company Adapted by Robert Messik from the novel by Israel Zangwill, the caricatures projected by this intensely physical piece illustrate the skills and craft required to master the very art of schnorring (begging). Sternberg Centre for Judaism, 80 East End Road, Finchley, London N3 2SY. Tickets £9.00, £7.00 (Concs £5.00). Booking: Jewish Museum 020 8349 1143
Illustrated Talks
Monday 12-Friday 16 June, SOAS
JMI free lunchtime lectures Music of the Hebrew Bible I-IV 12 June, 1.00pm-2.00pm, SOAS I: Musical Instruments Malcolm Miller, music critic and associate lecturer at the Open University, discusses with musical and visual illustrations what musical instruments may have looked and sounded like.
13 June, 1.00pm-2.00pm, SOAS II: Cantillation of the Bible (session 1 of 2) Victor Tunkel, consultant to the JMI, looks at the origin and nature of the notation systems and their implementation by Jews across the world (session 2 Thursday 15)
14 June, 1.00pm-2.00pm, SOAS III: 'Can you hear us?' Ruth Rosenfelder, whose doctoral thesis is on women's music in Traditional Judaism, discusses views on the subject of women's involvement in music making in the Bible.
15 June, 1.00pm-2.00pm, SOAS IV: Cantillation of the Bible (session 2 of 2). Victor Tunkel continues by looking at the six different ways in which the musical signs are practically applied to the various 'prose' books of the Bible; and the separate notation system of 'poetic' signs of the Psalms, Proverbs and Job.
16 June, 1.00pm-2.00pm, SOAS Yiddish Song Octogenarian treasure house of the Yiddish world, Majer Bogdanski, will explain the characteristics and origins of Jewish folk songs and perform examples of this art. (His CD of Yiddish folk songs will be launched) Room L61, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Admission free **********************************************
Tuesday 13 June, 7.30pm, Hungarian Cultural Centre Jewish Life in Hungary György Kármán, who is both Professor at the National Rabbinical Institute and Jewish University in Budapest and editor of the Jewish religious programme on Hungarian television, presents a fascinating picture of Jewish life in Hungary in the last fifty years. Illustrated with film and photographs. (see also exhibition: Stones) Presented by Hungarian Cultural Centre (HCC). HCC, 10 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA. Tickets £5.00 (£7.50 for two HCC events or £10 for all three: 13 June (talk), 14 June (recital) and 5 July (talk). See also exhibitions: Stones) Booking: 020 7240 6162 **********************************************
Wednesday 21 June, 8.00pm, West London Synagogue Music in Extremis: Victor Ullman Dr Phillip Silver of the University of Maine talks with musical examples about this composer who was incarcerated in Theresienstadt and was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Presented by Sydney Fixman. Council Room, West London Synagogue, 34 Upper Berkeley Street, London, W1. Admission free
**********************************************Sunday 25 June, 11.00am, Jewish Museum, Camden Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts Talk by Ilana Tahan, curator of one of the most important collections of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world at the British Library. Tickets £6 (or £7.50 including bagel lunch) with free entry to the museum. Jewish Museum, 129-131 Albert Street, London, NW1 7NB. Tel 020 7284 1997 25 June 3.00pm-4.30pm, Hampstead Healing and Sacred Sound Ariel Klein gives an introduction to the healing qualities of sound and demonstrates the effects of pure tones, generated through the medium of quartz crystal bowls, on the mind and body. The Healing Room, 7 Rosecroft Avenue Hampstead NW3 7QA, Tickets £12.00 (concessions £9.00) details and Booking 020 7794 8024
Tuesday 4 July, 8.00pm, Leo Baeck College Jews and Cabaret Alexandra Valavelska talks about and sings examples of cabaret in pre- and post-war Berlin and Paris, accompanied by Steven Edis. Part of the Leo Baeck College Summer Study Week. Sternberg Centre, 80 East End Road, London N3 2SY. Tickets: £5.00. Booking: 020 8349 4525 Wednesday 5 July, 5.30 pm, Hungarian Cultural Centre Rivka Golani in conversation One of the great violists of today, Golani talks to Katalin Bogyay, Director General of the Hungarian Cultural Centre about her musical career and her close links with Hungary. Presented by Hungarian Cultural Centre. HCC, 10 Maiden Lane, WC2E. Tickets £5.00 (£7.50 for two HCC events or £10 for all three: 13 June (talk), 14 June (recital) and 5 July (talk). See also exhibitions: Stones) Booking: 020 7240 6162
Guided Walks
Sunday 18 June, 10.15am, Spitalfields
The Jewish East End
Leader: Denis Davis
Meet Whitechapel Art Gallery
(Tube: Aldgate East)
Sunday 2 July, 10.15am, City of London
The Jewish City of London
Leader Reg Glick
Meet Guildhall Yard, off Gresham Street, EC2 (Tubes: Bank, Moorgate)
Exhibitions
Until 3 September
Jewish Museum, Camden
Judaica 2000: Contemporary British Ceremonial Art
The Bible says that, as an expression of religious devotion, Jewish rituals should be
enacted using the most beautiful objects. This exciting exhibition shows how the past
inspires the future in original works of art in silver, pewter, textiles, ceramics and
stained glass, and in ritual objects suitable for use in the home or the Synagogue.
Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, London NW1 7NB. Tel 020 7284 1997 for
charges and opening hours
Until 29 October,
Jewish Museum, Finchley
Taxi! Jewish Taxi Drivers and the London Cab Trade
Photographs, objects, cartoons and memorabilia as well as oral history recordings and
video tapes.
80 East End Road, N3. 020 8349 1143 for charges and opening hours
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Sunday 11 June-Sunday 25 June Doreen Kern: Open Sculpture Studio Bronze Portrait Sculpture of musical and leading Israeli personalities including well known bronze of Anne Frank. Private View, Sunday 11 June, 10.30am-12.00pm, 38 Canons Drive, Edgware, HA8 7QT. admission free, wine and biscuits. (other times by appointment) 020 8952 1345.
Tuesday 13 June-Wednesday 5 July, Hungarian Cultural Centre Stones: Jewish Cemeteries of Hungary György Paraszkay's beautiful photographic documentation of Jewish graves in Hungary. Open for the three events at HCC (13 June (talk), 14 June (recital) and 5 July (talk) and other times by appointment. Booking: 020 7240 6162
International Conferences and related events
Sunday 25 June, 9.30am-4.00pm, SOAS Adel Salameh workshop Middle Eastern Music: Adel Salameh, virtuoso oud (Arabic lute), and his accomplished Jewish-Arab duo. Music and the techniques of Middle Eastern oud and percussion. Audience and participants (on similiar instruments, grade 4 and above) are welcome. SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. e-mail: ak42@soas.ac.uk. Tickets £12.00, (concs £6.00) Booking: 020 7898 4688
Sunday 25-Friday 30 June, SOAS
Third London International Conference on Jewish Music: Music in Jewish Communities:
Dispersal, Displacement and Identity,
Conference Director Alexander Knapp, Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS. Papers by
scholars on Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Oriental Jewish music, liturgical, folk, popular and
classical styles.
Presented by the Department of Music, and the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS. SOAS,
University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Information
and registration: www.jmi.org.uk. Booking: A. Knapp: 020 7898 4688 Fax 020 7898 4699
e-mail ak42@soas.ac.uk
Thursday 29 June, 1.00pm, SOAS
Houston Jewish Music Ensemble The Unknown Musician: Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930) The Society for Jewish Folk Music of St Petersburg in the early twentieth century was the catalyst for a brief but golden age of composition of art music on Jewish themes. Paula Eisenstein Baker, cellist and musicologist, will perform published and unpublished works with violin, viola, and piano with guest British soprano Vivienne Bellos. Admission Free
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'Entartete Musik' Thwarted Voices: Music Suppressed by the Third Reich.
Chairman Michael Haas, Conference Director Erik Levi. Invited speakers, Christopher
Hailey (USA), David Matthews (UK), Martin Shüssler, Thomas Gayda and Kolja Lessing
(Europe) on Franz Schreker the most influential European composition teacher based in
Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s and his students, among them, Berthold Goldschmidt, Ernst
Krenek, Karol Rathaus, Max Brand, who were considered the rising talents in Western
Europe, writing tonal music whilst being part of a very spirited avant-garde, until
almost without exception, they were forced into exile by the Nazis at the start of
promising careers.
Presented by the International Forum for Suppressed Music of the Jewish Music Institute.
Co-hosted by the Music Department. SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H
0XG. Information and registration: www.jmi.org.uk Booking: Erik Levi 01784 443 532 Fax
01784 439441.
e-mail uhwm018@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk
Synagogue Services
Saturday 10 June, 11.00am,
Westminster Synagogue, Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, SW7 1BX
Minister: Rabbi Salamon, Singer: Mark Glanville, Organ: Harold Lester
Friday 16 June, 6.30pm
Saatchi Synagogue,21 Andover Place, London NW6 5ED
Young vibrant congregation with spiritually uplifting service in the style of the much
loved Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach. Followed by a traditional Friday night Dinner. Please
pre-book the dinner at the special Festival price of £15 on 020 7266 2026
Minister: Rabbi Pini Dunner
Friday 23 June, 6.30pm,
North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, NW11
Informal and friendly service, specially featuring the Kids Choir.
Minister: Rabbi Charles Emanuel
Music Director: Vivienne Bellos
Friday 23 June, 7.30pm,
Hampstead United Synagogue
1 Dennington Park Road, NW6 1AX
Traditional Choral Friday evening service followed by a Sabbath dinner. Please pre-book
for dinner on 020 7435 1518.
Cantor: Rev Stanley Brickman
Choir conducted by Emanuel Fisher
Friday 30 June, 6.30pm,
Kenton Synagogue,
Shaftesbury Avenue, HA3 0RD
Minister: Rabbi Saul Zneimer
Singer: Robert Brody
Choir Master: Frank Wienberg
Friday 30 June-Saturday 1 July,
Edgware United Synagogue, Parnell Close, Edgware Way, HA8 8YE
Special Choral Shabbaton this weekend with guests, Israeli-based Cantor Lionel Rosenfeld
and the Shabbaton Choir (male) conducted by Stephen Levy. Minister: Rabbi B. Rabinowitz
Saturday 1 July, 9.00am,
St Johns Wood United Synagogue,
37-41 Grove End Road, London NW8
Special choral service for Shabbat Mevarchin, (Sabbath of the blessing of the New Noon).
Minister: Dayan Ivan A. Binstock, Cantor: Cantor Moshe Haschel, The Neimah Singers
conducted by Marc Temerlies
Friday 7 July, 6.45pm,
Belsize Square Synagogue, 52 Belsize Square, London NW3 4HX
Friday night service in the style of the Central European Liberale tradition with music
by Sulzer and Lewandowski. Minister: Rabbi Rodney Mariner, Cantor: Cantor Laurence Fine,
Mixed Choir conducted by Ronald Rappoport
Associated Events Around the Country
Wednesday 1-24 March, Leicester
First Festival of Jewish Music and Arts to take place in the East Midlands. Concerts,
cabaret, performance poetry, film klezmer dancing and exhibition. Enquiries and details
of future events:
clarick@gatjack.u-net.com
Monday 29 May, 8.00pm, Bristol
An evening at the QEH Theatre of Jewish and Gypsy Jazz. Bristol based composer, Jon
Stein presents The Yiddish Fantasy suite for jazz band based on Jewish melodies,
performed by highly acclaimed quintet, Musaic. Bath-based group, Hot Strings perform in
the Gypsy jazz style of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
Part of the BBC Music Live festival. Tickets: £8.00 (Concessions £6.00).
Booking: Davar 0117 970 6594
Wednesday 31 May, 9.00pm, Teignmouth, Devon
Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band at Rhythms of Life Festival.
Details: 01647 253 115
Sunday 18 June, 7.30pm, Bristol
Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico Ensemble at the QEH Theatre.
Booking: Davar 0117 970 6594
Sunday 25 June, Stamford Hill
100 years of Jewish Life in Hackney Celebrating the lives of residents since 1900 in
their own words and music. Details 020 8800 5672
Sunday 25 June, 7.30pm,
Komedia Theatre, Brighton
Klezmer en Buenos Aires in Brighton. Booking: 01273 647 101
Sunday 25 June, Glastonbury Festival
Mukka perform Balkan Horas, Gypsy classics and Arabesques.
Details: Philippe Wittwer 020 8802 0749
30 June-2 July, Nottingham Residential Jewish Choirs Festival, Nottingham University Campus. The first UK three-day residential choir festival. Sing together for Shabbat, workshops on vocal technique, repertoire and choral training. Concert with Lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush. Open to choirs, individuals and anyone interested in singing. Details: Vivienne Bellos 020 8883 1773
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Various day centres and homes
Musical Reminiscences with Hanna Yaffe's Lullaby project.
Details: 020 8347 5306
Wednesday 5 July, 7.30pm,
Exeter Festival
Kol Simcha from Switzerland. Tickets: £12.00-£10.00, Booking: 01392 213 161
Wednesday 12 July, 7.30pm, Birmingham
Simcha Jewish Youth Choir, Minsk. Details: Mrs Jacobson 0121 440 3068
Thursday 13 July, 7.30pm, Manchester
Simcha Jewish Youth Choir, Minsk Details: Joy Wolfe 0161 491 1350
Thursday 13 July, 1.00pm and 6.00pm, Greenwich and Dockland Festival
Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band play the toe-tapping tunes of turn of the
century Eastern Europe.
Details: 020 8305 1818
Sunday 26 November on the South Bank
A Tribute to Yehudi Menuhin, with Humphrey Burton, Menuhin's biographer, a film about
the maestro and the orchestra and soloists of the Yehudi Menuhin School conducted by
Malcolm Singer. Details JMI 020 8909 2445
Associated events include Gershwin, Bustan Abraham, and Liberal Ref0rm Synagogue music.