"Tanz Tanz" Mishkalé, Caraglio, Italy, 2 Apr 2011
"Tanz Tanz" Mishkalé in concert
Saturday, April 2 · 9:30pm - 11:30pm
Caraglio (Cn), Italy - teatro Comunale
Mishkalé Klezmer
More Info: www.comune.caraglio.cn.it/legginews.asp?ID=28
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April 2, 2011
Craig Taubman, Scarsdale, NY, 2 Apr 2011
2nd Annual Jonah Maccabee Memorial Concert
Saturday, April 2, 8:00pm
Westchester Reform Temple (255 Mamaroneck Rd, Scarsdale, NY 10583)
Remembering Jonah, Katie Dreskin, Billy Dreskin
An evening of contemporary Jewish music featuring CRAIG TAUBMAN. Doing what Jonah loved ... making music and making friends. Proceeds from ticket sales will support scholarships to URJ summer camps and NFTY events.
TICKETS NOW ON SALE (AND GOING FAST)!
wct.org/jonahmaccabeememorialconcert
We will not be selling tickets at the door, so please make sure you follow the link above if you're planning on joining us.
Afro-Semitic Experience, Flushing, NY, 2 Apr 2011
Monday, Jan 24
The Afro-Semitic Experience
April 2, Saturday, 8 pm, Afro-Semitic Experience in concert as part of the
American Express Cultural Heritage Series, Queens Theater in the Park,
Flushing, NY for more info please call 718-760-0064 or visit the QTIP
website: www.queenstheatre.org/web/frontends/event/2/0/187
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Beyond the Pale tour "down under", Castlemaine, Australia, 2 Apr 2011
Saturday April 2, 8pm
Castlemaine Performance of "Beyond Mozart" program
Castlemaine State Festival
Castlemaine Town Hall,
25 Lyttleton St,
$40/$35
Klezmania, N. Melbourne, Australia, 2 Apr 2011
Saturday April 2nd
Czech House
497 Queensberry St,
North Melbourne
8:30pm
Tickets: $24/$22 concession
Bookings via telephone: 0425835705 or 0403947836
April 3, 2011
Sy Kushner, City Winery Brunch, 3 Apr 2011
Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Apr 3, 2011 features new Jewish music from Sy Kushner. The band will include Sy Kushner: accordion; Aaron Kushner: alto sax; Marty Confurius: string bass; Larry Eagle: drums, percussion.
General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
For further info: www.citywinery.com
Purchase tickets online
Craig Taubman, Edison, NJ, 3 Apr 2011
Craig Taubman
The Susy Schwartz Memorial Concert
Sunday, April 3, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Congregation Neve Shalom
250 Grove Avenue
Edison, NJ
www.neveshalom.net
Steven Greenman/Kurt Bjorling Violin-Tsimbl Duo Concert, 3 Apr 2011
Sunday, April 3, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Park Synagogue East - 27500 Shaker Blvd, Pepper Pike, OH
Klezmer Concert and Spaghetti Supper
Join us for Park's final chometz meal before Passover, featuring Park's klezmer teacher and performer Steven Greenman and master clarinetist and tsimbl player Kurt Bjorling.
Opening act: Park Teen Klezmer Band
$10 Adults, $5 children
Family special: 2 adults and 2 children $25
Any questions: Call 216 371-2244 Ext. 165
Sponsored by the Wolf Religious School and Park Synagogue Sisterhood
More Info at www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150026751726140
Beyond the Pale tour "down under", Castlemaine, Australia, 3 Apr 2011
Sunday April 3, 8pm, Castlemaine
Castlemaine State Festival
Theatre Royal, 30 Hargraves St., $35/$30
"Lost and Found—Jewish Musical Treasures" w/Hankus Netsky, Waltham, MA, 3 Apr, 2011
Lost and Found - Jewish Musical Treasures
Sunday April 3, 2011, 3PM
Temple Beth Israel
25 Harvard St
Waltham, MA
Temple Beth Israel will present "Lost and Found—Jewish Musical Treasures," directed by Hankus Netsky, featuring members of the world renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band and students from the New England Conservatory. Netsky has selected a program of old favorites and recent discoveries. The concert will feature Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hassidic repertoire, including little-known melodies gathered from diverse sources such as the Frydman family, Esther-Leah Marchette, the Barsh family klezmer band, and TBI member Morris Hollender. There will be dancing and kosher refreshments for all. All ages are welcome to come and celebrate the spring season and the renewal of Jewish culture!
Music director Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and Music Director for Itzhak Perlman's "In the Fiddler's House" and "Soul of Jewish Music" projects. He heads the Discovery Project at the National Yiddish Book Center and is chair of the Contemporary Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory.
$20 General
$15 Temple Members/Seniors/Students
$5.00 for children under age 15
Asefa, New York, NY, 3 April 2011
Asefa
Moroccan-Sephardic Fusion
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St., NY, NY
Sunday, April 3, 2011
9:00 PM
$18
www.asefamusic.com
April 4, 2011
Greg Wall's Later Prophets, NYC, 4 Apr 2011
Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - April 4 at 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) 'Derech Hashem' – All welcome, especially first-timers!
8:30 PM - Later Prophets
Greg Wall’s Later Prophets, Tzadik recording artists, bring a highly literate Jewish sensibility to the forefront of jazz. Wall, has found the perfect partners in his bandmates keyboard wiz Shai Bachar, drummer extraordinaire Aaron Alexander, and the effervescent David Richards on bass. Together, they are able to simultaneously straddle the gates of the ancient and avant-garde. A leading figure in NY’s downtown music scene, “rabbi and fiery, eclectic Jewish-jazz luminary” (Time Out NY) Greg Wall was ordained in 2006 and may well be the only recording and touring jazz musician who is also a rabbi. His work is “a surprising multicultural collision worthy of Bill Laswell or Kip Hanrahan at their best,” noted Jon Andrews in DownBeat.
Cover $10 / Class is free
More info about Later Prophets
April 5, 2011
Isle of Klezbos, NYC, 5 Apr 2011
Isle of Klezbos (all-instrumental quintet)
Tuesday, Apr 5, 8:30pm
Sixth Street Synagogue Klezmer series
325 E 6th St NYC, concert: $15 includes one drink
sixthstreetsynagogue.org/special-events/eastvillageklezmer/
April 7, 2011
Beyond the Pale tour "down under", Melbourne, Australia, 7 Apr 2011
Thursday April 7, 7:30pm, Melbourne
World Music Café, BMW Edge, Federation Sq.
$45/$38, group discounts
Tel: 03 9417 1983
Presented by The Boite and Nexus Arts
April 8, 2011
Beyond the Pale tour "down under", Apollo Bay, Australia, 8-9 Apr 2011
Friday & Saturday, April 8-9, Apollo Bay
Apollo Bay Music Festival
Atelier Klezmer, Geneva, Switzerland, Apr 8-9, 2011
Pour la quatrième année, 'MUSIJEUNES', en collaboration avec l'AMJ organise un:
ATELIER KLEZMER
Vendredi 8 avril à 20h30; concert de Hotegezugt avec Vincent Thévenaz (à l’orgue!!!) au Temple de Chêne, route de Chêne 153, 1224 Chêne-Bougeries (Genève, CH).
Samedi 9 avril de 11h à 18h30 et dimanche 9 avril de 9h à 16h30: travail musical en groupes
Dimanche10 avril à 17h: audition-concert des participants et des animateurs.
L’atelier sera conduit par Michel Borzykowski (instr. à vent et danse), Pier-Yves Têtu (accordéon) et Bianca Favez (violon) du groupe HOTEGEZUGT. Il est destiné aux musiciens de tous âges et tous niveaux.
Lieu: Salle Paroissiale St-François, 16 av. Petit-Senn, 1225 Chêne-Bourg (Genève, CH)
Coût: 150.- Frs (130.- pour membres MusiJeunes).
Repas en commun (apportez vos piques-niques!). Boissons offertes.
Renseignements:
Michel Borzykowski
Tél. 0041 22 755 41 23
site klezmer: www.borzy.info
Atelier Klezmer, Geneva, Switzerland, Apr 8-9, 2011
Pour la quatrième année, 'MUSIJEUNES', en collaboration avec l'AMJ organise un:
ATELIER KLEZMER
Vendredi 8 avril à 20h30; concert de Hotegezugt avec Vincent Thévenaz (à l’orgue!!!) au Temple de Chêne, route de Chêne 153, 1224 Chêne-Bougeries (Genève, CH).
Samedi 9 avril de 11h à 18h30 et dimanche 9 avril de 9h à 16h30: travail musical en groupes
Dimanche10 avril à 17h: audition-concert des participants et des animateurs.
L’atelier sera conduit par Michel Borzykowski (instr. à vent et danse), Pier-Yves Têtu (accordéon) et Bianca Favez (violon) du groupe HOTEGEZUGT. Il est destiné aux musiciens de tous âges et tous niveaux.
Lieu: Salle Paroissiale St-François, 16 av. Petit-Senn, 1225 Chêne-Bourg (Genève, CH)
Coût: 150.- Frs (130.- pour membres MusiJeunes).
Repas en commun (apportez vos piques-niques!). Boissons offertes.
Renseignements:
Michel Borzykowski
Tél. 0041 22 755 41 23
site klezmer: www.borzy.info
April 9, 2011
Atelier Klezmer, Geneva, Switzerland, Apr 8-9, 2011
Pour la quatrième année, 'MUSIJEUNES', en collaboration avec l'AMJ organise un:
ATELIER KLEZMER
Samedi 9 avril de 11h à 18h30 et dimanche 9 avril de 9h à 16h30: travail musical en groupes
Dimanche10 avril à 17h: audition-concert des participants et des animateurs.
L’atelier sera conduit par Michel Borzykowski (instr. à vent et danse), Pier-Yves Têtu (accordéon) et Bianca Favez (violon) du groupe HOTEGEZUGT. Il est destiné aux musiciens de tous âges et tous niveaux.
Lieu: Salle Paroissiale St-François, 16 av. Petit-Senn, 1225 Chêne-Bourg (Genève, CH)
Coût: 150.- Frs (130.- pour membres MusiJeunes).
Repas en commun (apportez vos piques-niques!). Boissons offertes.
Renseignements:
Michel Borzykowski
Tél. 0041 22 755 41 23
site klezmer: www.borzy.info
Beyond the Pale tour "down under", Apollo Bay, Australia, 8-9 Apr 2011
Friday & Saturday, April 8-9, Apollo Bay
Apollo Bay Music Festival
April 10, 2011
Tyshawn Sorey & Michael Winograd, City Winery Brunch, 10 Apr 2011
Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Apr 3, 2011 features new Jewish music from Tyshawn Sorey & Michael Winograd.
General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
For further info: www.citywinery.com
Purchase tickets online
Zamir Chorale w/Middle East Harmonies, Cambridge, MA, 10 Apr 2011
The Zamir Chorale of Boston will present Middle East Harmonies at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge at 2:00 pm on Sunday, April 10. Conducted by Northeastern Professor and Zamir's founder and Artistic Director Joshua Jacobson, the concert will feature a meeting of the musical minds of the Middle East. Zamir will perform coordinated choral selections in both Arabic and Hebrew. We are thrilled to present as our special guests original members of Bustan Abraham in reunion. From 1991 until they disbanded in 2003, these Arab and Jewish musicians pioneered a unique form of instrumental music, combining elements of east and west, and Bustan was considered the finest ensemble of its kind.
The following evening, Monday, April 11, 7:30 pm at the Fenway Center, Northeastern University will host a symposium in conjunction with Middle East Harmonies. Presenters, including renowned ethnomusicologist Benjamin Brinner, will address the use of music to increase empathy and mutual understanding among people who have been separated by borders of various kinds and alienated by conflicting politics.
Cosponsoring and cooperating groups include: the Consulate General of Israel to New England, Northeastern University Departments of Music and Jewish Studies, Northeastern University's Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Harvard Hillel, the American Jewish Committee, the New Center for Arts and Culture, and Hebrew College.
Four Stories Quartet, NYC, 10 Apr 2011
6th Street Sundays - April 10 at 3:00 PM
At 3PM:
Four Stories, the resident quartet of Con Vivo Music based in Jersey City, will perform quartets by Edvard Grieg and Philip Glass, as well as originals by quartet members.
This is Four Stories' inaugural season as an ensemble. The name is taken from the players' diverse musical and personal backgrounds. They bring a unique energy and virtuosity to a wide range of music.
Four Stories String Quartet:
Yon Joo Lee and Mazz Swift, violins
Amelia Hollander Ames, viola
Yoed Nir, cello
At 2PM:
Our pre-concert workshop will focus on the adventures, joys and challenges of running a musical non-profit, with Con Vivo artistic director Amelia Ames and Managing Director Janet Hollander, as well as Sixth Street Sundays curator Jessie Reagen Mann.
3pm concert & 2pm workshop + beverage for only $15!
Yale Strom debut, "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911, San Diego, CA, 10 Apr 2011
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911
An Original Cantata
by Artist-in-Residence Yale Strom
Join us for the debut of an original composition of music and song commemorating the lives of the Jewish and Italian immigrants who lived in the Lower East Side and tragically died on March 25th, 1911 in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire which, until 09/11, was the worst single calamity in New York history.
Featuring:
Yale Strom, violin
Elizabeth Schwartz, vocalist
Mark Dresser - contrabass
Fred Benedetti - guitar/mandolin
Lou Fanucchi, accordion/vocals
Introduced by Professor of Women's History Dr. Susan Gonda, Grossmont College
Sunday April 10, 2011, 7:00 PM
Temple Beth Israel, Heritage Park, Old Town, San Diego
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Co-Sponsored by the Dorris Lipinsky Endowment for the Jewish Performing Arts, the Jewish Studies Program, and the European Studies, History, and Women's Studies Departments, SDSU
April 11, 2011
The New American Quartet, NYC, 11 Apr 2011
Jazz Rabbi’s Invitational - April 11 at 7:30 PM
7:30 PM - Class on Ramchal’s (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato) 'Derech Hashem' – All welcome, especially first-timers!
8:30 PM - The New American Quartet: Mystical Americana-influenced music.
Jonathon Peretz – dr
Takashie Otsuka – b
Mitch Schechter – p
Greg Wall – s
Cover $10 / Class is free
April 12, 2011
Avram Pengas Ensemble, NYC, 12 Apr 2011
Avram Pengas Ensemble
Apr 12, 8:30pm
Sixth Street Community Synagogue
325 E. Sixth Street (between 1st Ave. and 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY 10003
Tel: 212.473.3665
Cover: $15 (drink included)
Klezmer and Yiddish Music returns to the East Village, where it once was king, at a new series curated by Aaron Alexander at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue. The lineup for the winter/spring series includes a fantastic lineup including wonderful klezmorim from New York and faraway places such as Montreal, Berlin, Boston, and the UK. Please come out and support the series!
The series are co-sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeiter Ring of NY
April 15, 2011
Girls in Trouble & the Real Vocal String Quartet, Berkeley, CA, 15 April 2011
Girls in Trouble with Mirah Zeitlyn & the Real Vocal String Quartet
Subterranean Arthouse
2179 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA
Friday, Apr 15
9pm
$10-20 sliding scale
www.brownpapertickets.com
http://www.facebook.com
Girls in Trouble is an art-folk song cycle about the women of the Old Testament created by Brooklyn-based violinist, singer, and writer Alicia Jo Rabins. Drawing from two years spent studying holy texts in Jerusalem and playing in rock clubs at night, Girls in Trouble combines mysticism, poetry, and ancient women's tales to weave improbably beautiful songs about androgyny, knives & leprosy. This performance celebrates the release of Girls in Trouble's 2nd album, 'Half You Half Me.'
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has been at the heart of the vibrant Northwest independent and alternative music scene ever since releasing her debut album 'You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This' in 2001. Her music is characterized by an evocative mix of striking lyrical poise and unabashed emotional honesty. Her
performance at the Subterranean Arthouse is a bit of a secret, but we're letting you in on it. Shhhhhhhhh.
Real Vocal String Quartet was formed in 2003 by premier San Francisco violinist/composer Irene Sazer. Since then, the quartet has performed to sold out audiences around the Bay Area. The group is thrilled to announce the release this February of their first studio album. RVSQ's influences range from traditional American string band music to contemporary improvisation, from Brazilian folk rhythms to hypnotic meditations from West Africa. Through it all, the threads of spine-tingling vocal and instrumental harmony and fearless, inspired improvisation weave a web of original acoustic music played with a deep groove.
Irene Sazer, violin and voice
Alisa Rose, violin and voice
Dina Maccabee, viola and voice
Jessica Ivry, cello and voice
April 16, 2011
Yale Strom, Los Angeles, CA, 16 April 2011
April 16th, 1:30pm Yale Strom lectures at the Skirball Cultural Center: “How to teach klezmer history/culture to students” 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049 Tel: (310) 440-4500
Afro-Semitic Experience, Middletown, CT, 16 Apr 2011
Monday, Jan 24
The Afro-Semitic Experience
April 16, Saturday, 8 pm concert at Adath Israel 8 Broad Street, Middletown,
CT 06457-3203, for reservations and more info (860) 346-4709
April 17, 2011
New England Folk Festival, Mansfield, MA, 17 April 2011
Klezmer dance and jam at the New England Folk Festival
Sunday April 17, 2011
Mansfield High School, Mansfield MA
At 11 AM, join us for an open klezmer jam. Sheet music will be provided.
And at 2:30 PM, Jacon Bloom will lead easy dances to klezmer music, which can be followed with a minimum of teaching. Mostly circle dances, such as the freylakhs, bulgar, slow hora, chusidl, and terkisher.
Both events will have live music by the band Shver un Shviger.
For festival information, see http://neffa.org
Isle of Klezbos, City Winery Brunch, NYC, 17 Apr 2011
Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Feb 6, 2011 features Isle of Klezbos
General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
For further info: www.citywinery.com
CD Release for Temple Rockers, Ithaca, NY, 17 Apr 2011
On Sunday April 17th, 2011, roots reggae ensemble The Temple Rockers will be performing an ages, early show at Castaways in Ithaca, NY to celebrate the Tzadik Records CD release of David Solid Gould vs. Bill Laswell: Dub of the Passover.
2 sets
Castaways- Ithaca, NY
special guests: the Cornell Klezmer Ensemble
7pm showtime
ALL AGES!
$10 Cover
For more info: www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=158363770886510
April 21, 2011
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, San Marcus, CA, 21 April 2011
April 21st, 7pm: Celebrate Earth Day with Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi (Strom, violin; Jeff Pekarek, bass; Lou Fanucchi, accordion; Gene Perry, percussion; Elizabeth Schwartz, vocals). CSU San Marcus State University.
Magillah, Montreal, Canada, 21 Apr 2011
Thursday april 21 2011 - 8pm
Église Jean XXIII
7 101, avenue de l'Alsace, Anjou
Informations : 514 493-8200
April 24, 2011
Victor Prieto, City Winery Brunch, 24 Apr 2011
Every Sunday Morning, combining live music and food in a fresh, cultural environment, City Winery’s Klezmer brunch series pairs some of the greatest musicians in the world with delicious lox, bagels and other tasty fare on Sunday mornings from 11am to 2pm. City Winery's brunch on Apr 3, 2011 features Victor Prieto.
General Admission: $10 / Children Under 13 - Free
City Winery
155 Varick Street
New York, New York 10013
(212) 608-0555
For further info: www.citywinery.com
Purchase tickets online
Eyal Maoz's Edom & Avishai Cohen's Band, 24 Apr 2011
Sunday, April 24 at 9 PM
Nublu
62 Avenue C. New York, NY 10009
Tel: (212) 979-9925
Cover price: $10 for the whole night of both bands!
Rare Edom performance following by Avishai Cohen's group: Where Jazz meets New Wave, and echoes of Joy Division are counterposed with John Zorn's Electric Masada, begins the rocking odyssey of Edom. With Eyal Maoz: guitar; Shanir Blumenkranz: bass and Yuval Lion: drums.
April 28, 2011
Musicians of Lenox Hill, NYC, 28 Apr 2011
On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM, the Musicians of Lenox Hill, under the artistic direction of Soo-Kyung Park, will perform an Evening of Romantic Chamber Music at Temple Israel of the City of New York, 112 East 75th Street, New York City
The program includes the New York City premiere of the Piano Trio in F Major by Marcel Tyberg, whose works
were thought lost in the Holocaust. Cantor Robert P. Abelson of Temple Israel will introduce the Tyberg Trio and tell the incredible story of the loss and rediscovery of Tyberg's music. Cantor Abelson has been a member of the New York City Opera and is a specialist in Yiddish Art Song. He is featured on a recording of Composers of the Holocaust, rated as "one of the best recordings of the year" by Jewish Week. The program also features Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No.2 in D Major, Frederic Chopin's Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante Op. 22 for Solo Piano, and Three Watercolors for Flute, Cello and Piano by Philippe Gaubert.
Admission to the concert is free with a suggested donation of $20. The performers, who are all graduates of The Juilliard School and have won dozens of national and international awards and competitions between them, include Jae-Hyuck Cho, piano, Cornelius Dufallo and Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin, Sean Katsuyama, cello, Wei-Yang Andy Lin, viola, and Soo-Kyung Park, flute and artistic director.
Temple Israel of the City of New York is located at 112 East 75th Street, NY, NY between Lexington and Park Avenues, and can be easily reached on the 6 train (77th Street station). Free, suggested donation $20. Reserve seats at www.MOLH2011.eventbrite.com
More info: call 646-292-9469, visit LenoxHillMusic.com
Psoy Korolenko's Film-Performance, Philadelphia, PA, 28 Apr 2012
Psoy Korolenko's Film-Performance
Sat, April 28! $10. Doors open at 7:30.
Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19107-4913
Moscow’s renowned troubadour, “wandering scholar” and “singing professor,” Psoy Korolenko, presents a film screening and performance of his live sound track & rap style-commentary to the Russian silent movie classic 'Bed and Sofa' ('Tretya Meshchanskaya') by Abram Room and Victor Shklovsky (1927; 75 min).
Please pay cash for the admission. Credit card may be used for
drink and food purchases.
Don’t miss this PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE and opportunity to witness a cine-performance of Bed and Sofa with Psoy Korolenko -- songwriter/performer/'avant-bard' and professor of Literature from Moscow.
Korolenko’s live accompaniment contains elements of allegedly irreconcilable styles–Russian urban songs, contemporary sound poetry, rap, ands freestyle commentary—presenting a playful reflection on the movie in the context of the Russian revolution, Erotic Utopias of Russian modernity, and the history of famous Russian threesomes whose real-life dramas inspired the story in Bed and Sofa.
When the film Bed and Sofa was originally reviewed by Vincent Canby, of the New York Times, he described it as an "oddball, engaging, pocket-size 'silent movie opera.” Known as one of the most controversial Soviet avant-garde movies, Bed and Sofa is a brilliant and hilarious social commentary that centers on a bizarre love triangle in the midst of a housing shortage in Lenin’s Moscow. Supposedly based on the details in the life of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, this film rejects politics and symbolism for a sense of humor and naturalism. The decision reached at the end of the film by the woman at the center of the triangle represents the liberation of women in the new Soviet society.
Korolenko’s aim is to render the spirit and vibe of early Soviet culture using the styles and devices of the 21st century – and this classic film, as the basis for a contemporary artistic exploration.
Korolenko’s first cine-performance of Bed and Sofa was presented in Moscow’s ‘Silent Movie, Live Music' project – inspired by the 'Loud Music, Silent Film' series which originated in NY at the Knitting Factory, and brought together radical musicians to sound old silent movies.
This performance will be in English, and the lyrics have been translated by Professor Stuart Goldberg (Atlanta, Georgia Tech U), and poet-singer/songwriter Daniel Kahn (USA-Germany).
April 29, 2011
Premiere of Frank London's "1001 Voices" symphony, NYC, 29 Apr 2012
WORLD PREMIERE
“1001 Voices: A Symphony for Queens” is a three-movement symphony that reflects the ideas of transformation, migration and finding home.
Music composed by Frank London. Libretto by Judith Sloan
Visuals by Warren Lehrer with Brandon Campbell
Conducted by Constantine Kitsopoulos, Queens Symphony Orchestra music director
Performed by full orchestra and a 190-voice chorus comprised of the Queens College Choral Society and Queens College Choir, James John, Music Director
Featured Tabla Soloist Deep Singh
Spoken word performed by Judith Sloan in English with additional translations performed live in Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic by Dailyn Despradel, Krussia, Haojie Huang, and Catherine Hanna.
Sunday April 29, 2012
3 pm, FREE!
Colden Auditorium, Queens College, Kupferberg Center for the Arts Commissioned by the Queens Symphony Orchestra
directions!
kupferbergcenter.org/directions.htm
This new work was supported in part by a grant from Meet the Composers.
Thanks to Daniel Vatsky, video projection consultant.
Thanks for help with multiple language translations to Olga Hiva, Linkai Jiang, Chuy Sanchez, Justin Hudson, Garima Thakur, Juan Carlos Veloza and Camilo Perdomo.
Additional support with sound engineering and consulting Touré Southpaw Harris and Red Ukachukwu. Thanks to Luke Santy, Garima Thakur, Jonathan Stuart, all the folks in partnership with EarSay's program at the International High School at LaGuardia Community College.
The Moors, Hastings, E. Sussex, UK, 29 Apr 2011
Fri 29 April, 2011, 8.00pm
The Queen's Head Inn
Landgate, Rye, East Sussex
April 30, 2011
Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi, San Diego, CA, 30 April 2011
April 30th, 3pm: Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi headline the ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS FESTIVAL, San Diego
May 1, 1:30pm: Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi ADAMS AVENUE ROOTS FESTIVAL, San Diego
For more information: www.adamsavenuebusiness.com Free to the public!
Benjy Fox-Rosen, New York, NY, 30 April 2011
THE CENTER FOR TRADITION MUSIC AND DANCE'S AN-SKY INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH CULTURE PRESENTS: TICK TOCK CD RELEASE PARTY!
Please join us for the CD release of Benjy Fox-Rosen's Tick Tock, a new recording of Yiddish song from the acclaimed bassist/singer of the Luminescent Orchestrii and the Michael Winograd Trio.
The evening begins with an opening set of Yiddish song performed by Adrienne Cooper, Yiddish Diva Superstar. Then Fox-Rosen will debut the album, and we'll top it all off with a Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance party, dancing set led by Michael Winograd.
@ Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 2nd Ave
between East 9th St. & St. Marks Place in Manhattan
April 30, 2011 doors open at 7:30pm
$12-20 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds
Listen to the album here:
http://benjyfoxrosen.bandcamp.com/
Cd release and dance band featuring:
Benjy Fox-Rosen
Avi Fox-Rosen
Carmen Staff
Noah Kaplan
Michael Winograd
Tyshawn Sorey
Dan Blacksberg