Monthly Archives: February 2014

Cantorial, WHERE: Europe

ECA Budapest Cantors Convention

Booking is now officially open for the ECA Budapest Cantors Convention
July 2014: Thursday 10 – Monday 14th.
Guest teachers: Asher Hainovitz and Yaakov Motzen
Subject the High Holydays

Convention includes Shabbat Services in the Hungarian tradition, a concert by world class cantors and an evening for young talent to perform. It also includes a Tour of Jewish Budapest and a personal tour of the Dohány Street Synagogue on Sunday afternoon.

Fees: full fee is £245 and for students it is £145. Some scholarships are available particularly for Eastern European delegates. There is a £15 discount on all bookings before 30 April.

This year the prices include (as well as breakfast and light lunches) Shabbat lunch and dinners on Thursday, Friday and Sunday for delegates. Accommodation is not included, but for early bookers there is a special discount price at the Convention Hotel: The Golden Park, which is near the synagogue.…
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CD Releases

Film Music of Yuval Ron CD Release

New CD Release!
20 Years of Film Music by Yuval Ron
February 25, 7pm
A New CD Release!
Film Music of Yuval Ron:
20 Years of Innovative Scores

Location: A recording studio in West Los Angeles. Please rsvp to receive exact address details.
Note:doors open at 6:30pm, event begins at 7:00pm< ,br />
Admission: Free, but seating is limited! RSVP: RSVPs required by 02/21/14 to info@yuvalronmusic.com

In celebration of the 20th year of Yuval Ron’s composing career in Los Angeles. this
album showcases highlights from such scores as West Bank Story (Academy Award winner
for Best Short Film), Road to Victory (Best Original Soundtrack, Moondance Film
Festival), Breaking the Maya Code (Best Film Award, Nyon Film Festival), Proteus
(Best Film Award, Philadelphia Film Festival), Samsara, Spiral Staircase and more.…
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Lectures

Crossing the sea of song, Popular Music in the Mediterranean, from Italy to Israel

February 20, 2014 from 6:30pm to 9pm
Location: Italian Cultural Instituite
Street: 814 Montgomery Street
City/Town: San Francisco

Showing the impact of Italian popular music, and especially the Sanremo Song Festival (Festival della Canzone Italiana), on the development of Israeli popular song from the 1950s to the present, musicologist Francesco Spagnolo explores the politics of culture and national identity across the Mediterranean. The talk, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of Italy’s public television broadcasting, will be illustrated by numerous recordings and videos of Italian songs and their Hebrew adaptations. Francesco Spagnolo, PhD, is the Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and a Lecturer in the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.

This event is co-presented by the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest.…
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Radio or TV

Jewish Radio Winnepeg–Fiddler with Authentic Instruments?

The first part spotlights one of the most popular musicals of all times –
Fiddler on the Roof. This year Fiddler celebrates its 50th anniversary.
It first opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964 and still has great
appeal around the world. As well as selections from the show, you’ll hear
an interview with Theodore Bikel and a comic take based on the musical by
Dudu Fisher,

However the real inspiration for this show came from Stephen Pearl of Stage
Stars Records. The show, which takes place in Eastern Europe in 1905 has normally had an orchestra. However, if you lived in Anatevka you would have been listening to Klezmorim. Therefore Pearl has re orchestrated and recorded new version of Fiddler with a klezmer band using instruments that Klezmer musicians play and a full cast of performers.…
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Concerts, WHERE: Europe, Yiddish or Folk

Ayn Neue Lid–When Yiddish Was Young

Lucidarium, a group specializing in music of the MIddle Ages and Renaissance, will have an upcoming tour of Holland. This tour is part of the group’s plan “to teach people that there is more to Jewish early music that Salomone Rossi and Sephardic songs played on recorders and viola da gambas…”

The program is “Ayn Neue Lid – When Yiddish Was Young,” created with a grant from the EAJC and the Rothschild Foundation Europe.
Here’s the schedule –

za 22 feb, 20.15 uur | Utrecht, Geertekerk
zo 23 feb, 14.30 uur | ‘s-Hertogenbosch, De Toonzaal
di 25 feb, 20.15 uur | Amsterdam, Waalse Kerk
wo 26 feb, 20.30 uur | Rotterdam, Laurenskerk (19.45 inleiding)
do 27 feb, 20.15 uur | Westzaan, Zuidervermaning
vr 28 feb, 20.15 uur | Deventer, Penninckshuis

For more info –
http://www.oudemuziek.nl/musici/lucidarium/

Exhibits

MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS

GRAND OPENING OCTOBER 28, 2014

Warsaw, Poland–The Grand Opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews will take place on October 28, 2014. At this time, the 8-gallery Core Exhibition, presenting 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland, will be unveiled to the public. This announcement follows closely on that of the appointment of the new Museum director, Dr. Dariusz Stola, who begins his position on March 1.

Even before its Grand Opening, the Museum has received accolades. The New York Times named the Museum’s Core Exhibition the one to watch in its “Great Expectations 2014” list. The Architectural Record featured the Museum building in its Design Vanguard 2013 issue.

The Museum held its soft opening on the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 2013, and has since received more than 200,000 visitors.…
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Concerts

Like Wildflowers, Suddenly

Like Wildflowers, Suddenly
Sunday, March 2, 4:00 pm
Congregation Mishkan Tefila
300 Hammond Pond Parkway,
Chestnut Hill, MA
Zamir is delighted to join Cong. Mishkan Tefila in honoring Cantor Aryeh Finklestein.
The program will feature the stunning oratorio Like Wildflowers, Suddenly, composed
by Cantor Charles Osborne, lyrics by Cantor Finklestein.
For more information: visit www.mishkantefila.org
click here.
This program is part of the Boston Jewish Music Festival