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Sunday, May 1st- Aaron Alexander's New Klezmer Quintet, featuring music from his latest release on TZADIK records, "Midrash MishMosh"
with Michael Winograd - clarinet
Alex Kontorovich - tenor sax
J. Granelli - bass
Jay Vilnai - guitar
Michael Sarin - snare drum
Aaron Alexander - poyk
at Tribeca Shul -- two sets at 10AM & 12:30PM
67 Hudson Street / 1 Jay St.
tel: 212.608.0555
The Afro-Semitic Experience
Sunday, May 1, 4:00 p.m.
a benefit concert for Christian Community Action at Bethesda Lutheran Church, 305 St. Ronan Street, New Haven, for more info 203-777-7848.
Klezmer-Style Contra Dance with open band
May 3, 2005
8:00 - 10:30 pm
In MIT's Walker Memorial Hall: Morss Dining Hall (142
Memorial Drive at Ames Street, Cambridge MA, just east of
the main MIT campus complex)
Caller: Jacob Bloom
Music: 'ContraKlez' with John Chambers & Friends, Sit-In
musicians Welcome
Yiddish dance expert Jacob Bloom will lead a night of Klezmer-dance-influenced contra dancing. John Chambers will lead the band 'ContraKlez', and sit-in musicians are welcome to bring an instrument and join the band. All dances are taught, and beginners are welcome.
Suggested donation $5 general, $3 students, free for MIT/Wellesley students.
Sponsored by the MIT Folk Dance Club
tel: (617) 253-FOLK (recorded info line)
Cambridge, MA
mit.edu/fdc
Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.
Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.
World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:
Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531
387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072
The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.
For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.
Massel-Tov
86949 Windach
Pfarrsaal im Pfarrzentrum Windach,
Benefizkonzert für brasilianische Straßenkinder
Eintritt frei, Spende erbeten
20.00h
mehr Infos unter: www.lajedao.de
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
4 Mai 2005, 9 PM - Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam.
Info/res: + 31-(0)20 - 662 3675
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
13 March, 3 PM - 't Mosterdzaadje, Santpoort-Noord.
Info/res:+31-(0)23-537 8625
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
Massel-Tov Trio
80333 München
Cohen's - Lange Nacht der Musik
Theresienstr. 31
ab 19.00h
T. 089-2809545
Ron Caswell's TUBAPALOOZA
Saturday, May 7th 2005 9pm—very late!
Zebulon
258 Wythe Avenue (betwixed Metropolitan Ave. and N. 3rd)
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (Williamsburg)
L train to the Bedford Stop
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands!
4 bands 4 FREE!
roncaswell.com
9pm - Susan Watts and the Fabulous Shpielkehs!
Susan Watts, mighty trumpet princess of Philadelphia's klezmer Dynasty, House of Hoffman.
10pm - the Knobs!
Polished and turned on!
11pm - Who's Yo' Crawdaddy?
Daddy's got some gumbo for you!
12am - Slavic Soul Party
Brash and strong as slivovitz, Slavic Soul Party! is downtown's answer to Balkan brass band music!
KlezFactor
returns to the Renaissance Cafe (1938
Danforth Ave, west of Woodbine subway stop, Toronto) on
Saturday, May 7, 2005. The show will begin at 9PM and
entry can be gained for $5.
KlezFactor is pleased to announce our new bass player, Steve Gotlib, who has been playing with us since March.
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
8 Mai 2005, 11:30 AM - De Lawei, Drachten.
Info/res: +31 - (0)512 - 513 344
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
13 March, 3 PM - 't Mosterdzaadje, Santpoort-Noord.
Info/res:+31-(0)23-537 8625
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.
Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.
World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:
Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531
387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072
The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.
For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.
May 8th
AUSTA KLEZMER WORKSHOP
Sun. 2-4pm
Australian String Teacher's Association
Brighton Grammar School
90 Outer Crescent
Brighton,
Victoria
$20 non members/$15 AUSTA members/$10 concession
Enquiries Christine Leslie-Pfitzner 9568 4061
May 8th AUSTA KLEZMER WORKSHOP Sun. 2-4pm
Australian String Teacher's Association
Brighton Grammar School
$20 non members/$15 AUSTA members/$10
concession Enquiries Christine
Leslie-Pfitzner 9568 4061<
Free Open House Tuesday, May 10, 2005 from 7-9 PM
Followed by a 6-week session - Tuesdays - May 17, 24, 31,
and June 7, 15* or 16*, 21
The open house and all sessions will take place at the Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd Street (between Park and Madison), Manhattan.
Hands-On Workshop
Members $140; per session $25
Non-members $170; per session $30
For more information contact:
Lisa Stein
New York Regional Director
Workmen's Circle
45 E. 33rd Street
New York, NY 10016
212-889-6800 x271
212-532-7518 - fax
www.circle.org
E-mail Lisa Stein.
*Please note: Tuesday, June 14 is Shavuot. We will not hold class that evening. Instead, we plan to hold class on June 15 or 16, depending on the participants' availability.
Yiddishe Cup
Wed. May 11, Fairmount Temple, Beachwood, Ohio. 6:30. yom ha'atzmaut. free. 216-464-1330.
Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Wednesday May 11th 8pm, free
@ Simple Pleasures Caf@eacute;
3434 Balboa at 36th Avenue
Richmond District, San Francisco
CELEBRATE LIFE!
The Orange County Klezmers will be playing Jewish music on Wednesday nights, 7-9pm, beginning May 11th at the Tee Room located at 3100 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach. Drinks and food will be available for a nominal charge. Tickets are $7. For more information and directions see www.ocklezmers.com/news.html.
You heard it here first.
Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle Express
Klezmatics' founder goes solo with an unplugged 'roots' show: three sizzling fiddles, tsimbl, bass and drums! Traditional East European Jewish music at its ecstatic best.
Johnny D's
17 Holland St,
Davis Square
Somerville, MA
8:30pm
Tel: (617) 776-2004
Vampire Suit is very proud to be part of a special new Jewish music bill, featured alongside Greg Walls' Later Prophets. The performance will take place at Makor, 35 W. 67th St., on Thursday, May 11th, at 9:30pm (Later Prophets at 8:00pm). Tickets are $12 in advance/students at the door, $15 at the door.
Stu Brotman writes about the "great lost" Brave Old World program, now being released on CD, and now appearing in NYC!
Brave Old World will be presented by the Folksbiene Theatre in New York this May 11-15. We¹ll be performing our program called "Song of the Lodz Ghetto," which has just been released as a beautiful new Winter and Winter cd called "Dus gezang fin Geto Lodzh."
From the Folksbiene's announcement on their website, folksbiene.org/!musical-events.html:
The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.) The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.)"
I¹m very proud of this show. It¹s essentially a through-composed tone poem, a one-act musical play, in suite form, in Yiddish and Polish, with English supertitles projected overhead. Long-lost songs of resistance from street-singers of the Lodz ghetto are contrasted with pre-war Polish and Yiddish songs; original klezmer laments and deep jazz improvisations, references to Beethoven, evoke powerful emotions.
Yiddishkayt LA and Avada present Red Yiddish
For Angelenos in their 20s and 30s.
Red Yiddish is for Angelenos in their 20s and 30s interested in exploring contemporary Yiddish culture. Red Yiddish salons are monthly presentations by Los Angeles-based artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, and professors who are pushing the boundaries of Yiddish culture. Study beginning Yiddish for the first hour (at 7:30) or come for the guest speaker at 8:30. Red Yiddish salons are held in the library of the Yiddish Culture Club, inside the Jewish Educational Institute.
Thursday, May 12, 2005, Free Admission
7:30PM - Beginning Yiddish with Miriam Koral
8:30PM - Program to be announced
9:30PM - Yiddish/Klezmer jam
L.A. Yiddish Culture Club
8339 W. Third Street (2nd Floor library)
Between Flores and Kings Rd.
Dessert, coffee and wine.
Tel: 323-692-8151
Web: www.yiddishkaytla.org
E-mail Yiddishkayt LA.
Red Yiddish is a program of Yiddishkayt's Avada Project. Avada engages Angelenos in their 20s and 30s with the history, complexity and depth of Yiddish culture through quality, experimental programming. Avada offers an alternative vision of what it means to be Jewish today. In Yiddish, the word avade means of course. Visit Yiddishkayt or Avada for more information on our programs and upcoming events.
Stu Brotman writes about the "great lost" Brave Old World program, now being released on CD, and now appearing in NYC!
Brave Old World will be presented by the Folksbiene Theatre in New York this May 11-15. We¹ll be performing our program called "Song of the Lodz Ghetto," which has just been released as a beautiful new Winter and Winter cd called "Dus gezang fin Geto Lodzh."
From the Folksbiene's announcement on their website, folksbiene.org/!musical-events.html:
The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.) The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.)"
I¹m very proud of this show. It¹s essentially a through-composed tone poem, a one-act musical play, in suite form, in Yiddish and Polish, with English supertitles projected overhead. Long-lost songs of resistance from street-singers of the Lodz ghetto are contrasted with pre-war Polish and Yiddish songs; original klezmer laments and deep jazz improvisations, references to Beethoven, evoke powerful emotions.
Klezska
Klezmer/Ska Music
10pm
Admission $15 - Please purchase tickets at the door
Klezska. Skavanagila Baby! Described as "the klezmer of Kingston" by klezmer author Seth Rogavoy. This is their fifth appearance at Satalla begining with the club's opening night of live music. Klezska combines the music, melodies and rhythms of Jewish and Israeli music with the style and substance of traditional Jamaican genres from early ska through rock-steady reggae and dancehall. The core of musicians include: Mike Severino (drums) - Blaaka (bassey) - Original Smurph (guitar, vocals) - Chava Mirel (vocals, melodica, guitar, keyboards) - Glenn Tamir (percussion, keyboards, vocals). Other special guests are always present, some who have performed with leading reggae groups like Burning Spear, the Skatalites, Big Mountain and Culture. A spiritual gathering between two culures that know how to party! Please join us.
American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011
May 13
James Loeffler, Columbia University, "Between Wissenschaft and Etnografiia: The Search for a Jewish Musical Science in Eurasia, Past and Present"
Guest chair and respondent: Dr. Ludmila Sholokhova, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
All sessions will take place on Friday mornings, beginning at 10:00 AM at the Center for Jewish History. Please RSVP via e-mail to the American Society for Jewish Music or call 212-294-8328. For additional information, please see www.jewishmusic-asjm.org.
The Jewish Music Forum, a new initiative of the American Society for Jewish Music, an affiliate of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History, is pleased to announce its inaugural academic seminar series. This ongoing seminar will feature leading scholars presenting new research findings and theoretical contributions to the academic study of Jewish music. All events are free and open to the public.
Jewish Music Forum
Spring 2005 Academic Seminar
"New Perspectives on Music in Jewish Life"
American Society for Jewish Music
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Fredag d. 13. maj kl. 19:30 (Entré 75,-) :
Platancaféen, Præstegårdsvej 8, 4760 Vordingborg
(m. mulighed for spisning fra kl. 18:00)
www.platancafeen.com
Stu Brotman writes about the "great lost" Brave Old World program, now being released on CD, and now appearing in NYC!
Brave Old World will be presented by the Folksbiene Theatre in New York this May 11-15. We¹ll be performing our program called "Song of the Lodz Ghetto," which has just been released as a beautiful new Winter and Winter cd called "Dus gezang fin Geto Lodzh."
From the Folksbiene's announcement on their website, folksbiene.org/!musical-events.html:
The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.) The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.)"
I¹m very proud of this show. It¹s essentially a through-composed tone poem, a one-act musical play, in suite form, in Yiddish and Polish, with English supertitles projected overhead. Long-lost songs of resistance from street-singers of the Lodz ghetto are contrasted with pre-war Polish and Yiddish songs; original klezmer laments and deep jazz improvisations, references to Beethoven, evoke powerful emotions.
Stu Brotman writes about the "great lost" Brave Old World program, now being released on CD, and now appearing in NYC!
Brave Old World will be presented by the Folksbiene Theatre in New York this May 11-15. We¹ll be performing our program called "Song of the Lodz Ghetto," which has just been released as a beautiful new Winter and Winter cd called "Dus gezang fin Geto Lodzh."
From the Folksbiene's announcement on their website, folksbiene.org/!musical-events.html:
The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.) The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.)"
I¹m very proud of this show. It¹s essentially a through-composed tone poem, a one-act musical play, in suite form, in Yiddish and Polish, with English supertitles projected overhead. Long-lost songs of resistance from street-singers of the Lodz ghetto are contrasted with pre-war Polish and Yiddish songs; original klezmer laments and deep jazz improvisations, references to Beethoven, evoke powerful emotions.
If you will be in Cleveland this Sunday, please come to Legacy Village, at Cedar and Richmond.
The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Orchestra, featuring singer/folklorist Lori Cahan-Simon, will be performing at Legacy Village this Sunday, May 15 at 2pm in a free outdoor concert of klez and Yiddish Theater standards.
Come and have fun with the largest Klezmer Orchestra in the world!
Klezical Tradition
Sunday, May 15, 2005, 4:00pm. Temple Beth Am in Framingham, MA. Address: 300 Pleasant Street
Full length, concert featuring Fraidy Katz, vocalist, Walter Mamlok, clarinetist, Cookie Segelstein, fiddle, Adrianne Greenbaum, flute, tsimbl and keyboard, Gary Ribchinsky on drums and Roy Wiseman on bass. Yiddish songs and klezmer tunes from Goldensteyn repertoire and more, & a few bows to Israel's Big Day. Soul, humor, and audience singing and dancing in one afternoon. Tickets: $8 adults, $5 students and seniors, under 5 are free. ($20 family maximum) For advanced tickets and information call 508-872-8300 or visit www.tempbetham.org. Other activies beginng at 3:00.
Oi Va Voi and friends present
Sunday 15th May 6pm – 1am
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W12
6pm – 1a.m. @pound;5.
After March’s total roadblock, Radio Gagarin is back with the second in a series of regular Gypsy Balkan Russian Klezmer socialist shakedowns at the NHAC. The Commissar pledges exclusive new music from Oi Va Voi plus special guest musicians Moshikop and Pinedrop, Siberian throat singer, Chyskyyrai, straight from the steppes, sound/art/poetry/circus/puppet theatre/video installations for the Proletariat featuring state artists Adrian Philpott, Zoe, Liz, Josephine and Sara; frozen vodka & rakiya galore and resident DKs (Dancefloor Komissars) Lemez Lovas, Max Reinhardt, Starets & special Siberian guest DK Heretic sweating it out in the Gypsy Diskoteka til’ the road of excess has led us to the place of wisdom. Early evening come to feed your soul with borscht 'n' blinis in the Soviet kitschen and take a rest from your fight for Revolutionary Determinism, for a few counter-rev moments in the Kinodrom with award-winning Czech, Russian and Bosnian shorts plus a feast of new and classic animation in the legendary Jan Svankmajer style. Long live the memory of our fallen comrades at Kronstadt...
Co-Produced by Adrian Philpott/ Oi Va Voi / Taskovski Films / YaD Arts / Ziggurat.
www.yadarts.com
Alicia Svigals Klezmer Fiddle Express
Klezmatics' founder goes solo with an unplugged 'roots' show: three sizzling fiddles, tsimbl, bass and drums! Traditional East European Jewish music at its ecstatic best.
Sunday, May 15, 6 p.m.
Acoustic Cafe
2926 Fairfield Ave.
Bridgeport, CT
www.acousticafe.com
203-335-3655 Call for tickets
The Workmen's Circle jam is this Sunday May 15 7-9 pm.
<We play from printed music, which we will have available in C and B-flat. All levels of players are welcome. There is a piano, though keyboard players are welcome to bring a portable keyboard in case more than one pianist shows up.
The WC is at 1762 Beacon Street in Brookline, about 5 blocks west of Washington Square, which is about 12 blocks west of Coolidge Corner, right on the Green Line Beacon Street route.
Glorious operatic and choral music by Sullivan, Verdi, Puccini and composers associated with the Freemasons, Introduced by Rhonda Bachmann in the persons of Madame Adelina Patti and Dame Nellie Melba with Steven Leas, Miriam Brickman and Chorus Conducted by Ron Corp. Concert dedicated to the memory of Peter Gellhorn, to launch the JMI 'Continental Britons - The Émigré Composers' fund.
Wednesday 15 June
7.30pm
Freemasons' Hall
60 Great Queen Street
London WC2B 5AZ
£25 (£20 groups of 10 or more and for seniors and students)
Tel: 020 8909 2445
e-mail Jewish Music Institute
Jewish Music Institute
Stu Brotman writes about the "great lost" Brave Old World program, now being released on CD, and now appearing in NYC!
Brave Old World will be presented by the Folksbiene Theatre in New York this May 11-15. We¹ll be performing our program called "Song of the Lodz Ghetto," which has just been released as a beautiful new Winter and Winter cd called "Dus gezang fin Geto Lodzh."
From the Folksbiene's announcement on their website, folksbiene.org/!musical-events.html:
The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.) The New York premiere of the innovative klezmer group's moving, theatrical musical program blending Yiddish tradition, classical music, jazz, and rare Jewish street and cabaret songs from the Nazi ghetto of Lodz, Poland between 1940 and 1944. (At the Triad Theater, on West. 72nd Street, 9pm, $20.)"
I¹m very proud of this show. It¹s essentially a through-composed tone poem, a one-act musical play, in suite form, in Yiddish and Polish, with English supertitles projected overhead. Long-lost songs of resistance from street-singers of the Lodz ghetto are contrasted with pre-war Polish and Yiddish songs; original klezmer laments and deep jazz improvisations, references to Beethoven, evoke powerful emotions.
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Tirsdag d. 17. maj kl. 20:00 (Fri entré) :
Hansted, Vestergade 2, 5700 Svendborg
(m. special guest : Bjarke Kolerus, klarinet)
www.platancafeen.dk
Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment
Tuesday May 17th 9:30 pm, $6
@ the Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St. b/w Post and Sutter
With Graham Connah’s Sour Note 7
I’m excited to share the stage with Graham and his bandmates (among them Ben Goldberg on clarinet: you might know of him from the Klezmorim and the New Klezmer Trio; and Ches Smith on drums who you may know from countless bands). I’m also excited because of the etymological connections between the names of our 2 ensembles, the "sour note," and "Zoyres" (coming from the Yiddish word "zoyers" referring to soured [i.e. fermented] foods such as sauerkraut, pickles, etc.). I’ll probably bring a jar of homemade sauerkraut (teamin' with probiotic Lactobacilli!) to celebrate the occasion, so bring a fork!
CELEBRATE LIFE!
The Orange County Klezmers will be playing Jewish music on Wednesday nights, 7-9pm, beginning May 11th at the Tee Room located at 3100 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach. Drinks and food will be available for a nominal charge. Tickets are $7. For more information and directions see www.ocklezmers.com/news.html.
THURSDAY, MAY 19, 2005
7:00 PM
Kavehoyz:
PHYLLIS BERK
An evening with the beloved folksinger and Yiddish hepcat.
Admission: $7.00
Specially sponsored by Beyle and Itzik Gottesman. The "Kavehoyz" series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
CONGRESS FOR JEWISH CULTURE
Atran Center
25 E. 21st St (between Park and Broadway), Manhattan
Congress for Jewish Culture
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Søndag d. 22. maj kl. 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 :
Dansk Jødisk Museum, Proviantpassagen 6, 1218 K
(Mini-koncerter for børn og deres familier)
www.jewmus.dk
An exciting evening of dance and music as the Machaya Klezmer Band entertains with the beauty of Klezmer music. Dance instructor Jay McCrensky will teach basic and advanced simcha dancing, couple dancing, Hassidic dancing, shers,jocs, and terkishes. Klezzazz will also be there.
Sunday, May 22 7 - 9 pm, $8 mem./$10 general public/$5 children under 12 years. Reservations not necessary.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington
6125 Montrose Rd.
Rockville, MD 20852.
For more information,
301-348-3840
Web: www.jccgw.org
E-mail JCC of Greater Washington.
Yale Strom will be in Warsaw to present his film "L'CHAYIM COMRADE STALIN!" which examines the formation, history and current status of the "Jewish Autonomous Region" - better known as Birobidzhan. The JAR was the first and only secular Yiddish state created 20 years before the State of Israel specifically for Soviet Jews and Jews in the rest of Eastern Europe. Yale will be present after the screening for Q&A and to perform a few klezmer tunes (violin) after the screening. The film is in competition and part of the WARSZAWSKI MIEDZYNARODOWY FESTIWAL FILMOWY (Warsaw Jewish Film Festival). The film will be screened at the Kino Muranow on Ulica Gen. W. Andersa 1, on May 23rd, 2005 at 9:50pm. For ticket info. go to www.warsawjff.ant.pl
CELEBRATE LIFE!
The Orange County Klezmers will be playing Jewish music on Wednesday nights, 7-9pm, beginning May 11th at the Tee Room located at 3100 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach. Drinks and food will be available for a nominal charge. Tickets are $7. For more information and directions see www.ocklezmers.com/news.html.
HEART/BEAT: SECULAR MUSIC'S JEWISH SOUL:
Three evening lecture concert series
with Joshua Jacobson
Jack Gottlieb
Hankus Netsky
Josh Dolgin
The Zamir Chorale
MAY 25; JUNE 1 AND 19, 2005
7:30 p.m.
Berenson Hall
Joshua Jacobson
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Sacred Song: From liturgical piece to masterpiece
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 7:30 P.M.
Programs are $12 advance paid registration, $15 at the door, $30 advance paid registration for all three programs. Matriculated students receive a 50 percent discount.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW AT: www.hebrewcollege.edu/selreg or call 617-559-8709 to register by phone with a credit card.
FOR FULL DETAILS, go to www.hebrewcollege.edu/heartbeat
During this enlightening and entertaining lecture-performance series at Hebrew College, attendees will learn how the music of Jewish culture crept and sometimes swept into the mainstream – yet remained faithful to its origins. The three evenings will be lavishly accompanied by music: Boston's famed Zamir Chorale singing excerpts of the breathtaking Sacred Service; award-winning composer and author Jack Gottlieb playing Broadway and Hollywood favorites on the piano; and internationally acclaimed musicians Josh Dolgin, Hankus Netsky and colleagues performing a startling synthesis of synagogue, klezmer and hip-hop music.
The Young Philadelphians: Marc Ribot, Anthony Coleman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Calvin Weston at 8pm & 10pm, $12 per set With Anthony Coleman (keyboard / piano), Marc Ribot (guitar), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass) & Calvin Weston (drums). Four professional, harmelodic noise improvisers with an uncommon love of Philly soul and hard groove. Sometimes backing, sometimes fronting, sometimes ignoring, but always rockin' the house. Forever young, forever Philadelphian, forever fixated on the moment before dance went digital. Ladies and Gentlemen... the hardest working men inn punk/funk/soul/noise: The Young Philadelphians!!!
TONIC
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501
www.tonicnyc.com
Klez Dispensers
Wednesday night, May 25th, 9 PM
The Klez Dispensers rock out at the Slipper Room (167 Orchard St at Stanton).
Featuring:
Susan Watts (vocals),
Alex Kontorovich (clarinet),
Audrey Wright (saxophones),
Ben Holmes (trumpet),
Amy Zakar (violin),
Adrian Banner (keyboard),
Julian Rosse (bass),
Gregg Mervine (drums).
ART BAILEY'S ORKESTRA POPILAR plays the music of JOSEPH MOSKOWITZ- Accordionist Art Bailey spent years with the Klezmer conservatory band and has also performed with the Del McCoury band and Itzhak Perlman. His new project takes on the music of the great romanian cymbalum player Joseph Moskowitz - which may be some the most beautifu music ever recorded: a lyrical take on eastern european jewish music that integrates romanian and gypsy string music traditions - with Brandon Seabrook on mandolin, (playing cymbalum lines) Yeako Miranda on violin, Nicholas Cudahy on bass and Art Bailey on Accordion
$10 Barbes is located at 376 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 718-965-9177 www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Directions: Take the F TRAIN to 7th Ave and exit to the southwest corner. Make a U-Turn and walk uphill on 9th St. towards 6th Ave. Barbes will be on the left - a couple of stores in from the corner of 6th Ave.
Thursday, May 26
Sanda Weigl
European / Romanian Music
7:30pm
Admission $15 - Please purchase tickets at the door
SATALLA
37 W 26th St Btwn 6th Ave & Broadway
212.576.1155
www.satalla.com
To call Sanda Weigl's voice "powerful" would be an understatement. With an impressive vocal range, her interpretations are dramatic, even theatrical, but never "over the top." Her range, timbre and declamatory style makes for an intriguing presentation of passion and even sexuality that is a synthesis of male and female. Sanda's purpose is not to shock, but rather to communicate the vibrant life force inherent in the music she performs - which she does admirably, with energy and panache. Still, it always comes back to her extraordinary voice. Fresh from a music hunting trip to unmapped Romanian Gypsy villages, Sanda will perform her standards and new repertoire, entitled "Gypsy in a Tree".
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Torsdag d. 26. maj kl. 20:00 :
Veranstaltungssaal, Max Ernst Museum
Comesstrasse 42
D-50521 Brühl, Tyskland
www.bruehl.de/veranstaltungssaal
YALE STROM and Klezmer "Con" Fusion with special guests Spanish phenom VICTOR PRIETO (accordion), NORBERT STACHEL (clarinet, sax, flute) & SPROCKET (bass). Violinist and Hot Pstromi leader, Yale Strom, composes his own "New Jewish" music, which combines klezmer with Hasidic nigunim, Rom, jazz, classical, Balkan and Sephardic motifs. He is also an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and is one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer music and culture. $10 Barbes is located at 376 9th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 718-965-9177 www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Directions: Take the F TRAIN to 7th Ave and exit to the southwest corner. Make a U-Turn and walk uphill on 9th St. towards 6th Ave. Barbes will be on the left - a couple of stores in from the corner of 6th Ave.
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Fredag d. 27. maj kl. 20:00 :
Kito, Alte Hafenstrasse 30
D-28757 Bremen, Tyskland
www.kitoinbremen.de
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Lørdag d. 28. maj kl. 19:00 (Koncert):
Kulturzentrum Schloss Bevern
D-37639 Bevern, Tyskland
www.bruehl.de/veranstaltungssaal
www.schloss-bevern.de
ARI BEN MOSES BAND
Chicago's Finest World Rock and Reggae Band,
recently featured in The Chicago Tribune, and soon to be
reviewed in The Jerusalem Post, will be performing:
SATURDAY, MAY 28th at THE HEARTLAND CAFE,
7000 North Glenwood (773) 465-8005
We are honored to have THE SHIVITI DRUMMERS from
The Mitziut Jewish Community of East Rogers Park
opening for us. Here's the lineup:
9:15 - 9:45 THE SHIVITI DRUMMERS
10:00 - 10:45 ARI BEN MOSES BAND
11:00 - 11:45 ARI BEN MOSES BAND
>From Midnight to Closing members of both ensembles
will be on hand for a Jam Session. DON'T MISS IT!!!!
Admission is only $7 for this amazing evening of
spiritually-charged and intelligent original music.
Zun mit a regn (sun and rain)—laughter through tears is part and parcel of Yiddish music. Jewish composers devoted a great deal of attention to it and so did Shostakovich.
Jewish Music Projects Foundation presents works in this style by Shostakovich (1908-1975) and his friends Weinberg (Vainberg) (1919-1996) and Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) in a series of concerts in the Netherlands.
World War Two and the reign of terror in the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the composers. They expressed themselves in their music. The music of the persecuted Jewish people was their source of inspiration - an act of courage in a period when open pronouncements could have fatal consequences. It was often years before the works could be premiered. Now these extraordinary and intense works will be performed in the Netherlands by an ensemble of specialised musicians:
Sovali (Sofie van Lier) - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
24 October 2004, 7:30, Enschede Synagogue. Tel. +31(54) 432 4507
6 February 2005, 2:30, Nijmegen Synagogue. Tel. +31(24) 345 2572
6 March 2005, 3:00, Delft Synagogue. Tel. +31(15) 256 3371
18 March 2005, 8:15, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda. Tel. +31 (76) 529 9600
10 April 2005, 2:30, A.A. Brediusstichting, Hernen Castle. Tel. +31(487) 531
387
4 May 2005, 9:00, Uilenburger Synagogue, Amsterdam. Tel. +31 (20) 662 3675
8 May 2005, 11:30, De Lawei, Drachten. Tel. +31 (512) 513 344
29 May 2005, 7:00 u. De Buitenplaats Museum, Eelde. Tel. +31 (50) 309 2072
The concerts are supported by the VSB Fund, the SNS Reaal Fund and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Foundation.
For more information, please call Sofie van Lier, tel. 020-6623675; or email her.
Trio Klezmer "Nussbaum - Smidl - Ougaard" optræder LIVE
Søndag d. 29. maj kl. 11 - 18 (Gesangs-Workshop):
Kulturzentrum Schloss Bevern
D-37639 Bevern, Tyskland
www.bruehl.de/veranstaltungssaal
www.schloss-bevern.de
Metropolitan Klezmer
Sunday, May 29
National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst MA
2:00pm concert, $10; reservations suggested
On the campus of Hampshire College...
Klezbos returns to one of our favorite stages!
If you haven't seen this place, it's gorgeous & this is Memorial Day Weekend.
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
29 Mai 2005, 7 PM - Museum "De Buitenplaats", Eelde.
Info/res: +31 (0)50 -309 5818
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
"Zun mit a regn" (sun and rain) - Jewish themes in the music of the three composer-friends Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Veniamin Basner (1925-1996) & Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).
Sovali - soprano
Boris Goldenblank or Alexej Pevzner - violin
Alexander Oratovski or Wladislaw Warenberg - cello
Sander Sittig - piano
13 March, 3 PM - 't Mosterdzaadje, Santpoort-Noord.
Info/res:+31-(0)23-537 8625
More information: JMP, c/o Sofie van Lier, T: +31-(0)20-662 3675, E-mail JMP.
Jeremiah Lockwood: Guitar and vocals
Tomer Tzur: Percussion
(Take the G train to the Greenpoint Ave stop; Tommy's is on the corner of Manhattan Avenue and Green Street)