September 30, 2016Books, Concerts, Klezmer, Lectures, WHERE: USA_NYjudy-p

Klezmer: Music, History and Memory Lecture & Music at NYPL

Klezmer: Music, History and Memory: Aesthetic and Cultural Dimensions
published by Oxford University Press, Fall 2016

Lecture and Musical program

Thursday, December 22 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library (NYPL)

455 5th Ave, New York, New York 10016

A lecture and musical program with Dr. Walter Zev Feldman (author, cimbal) and Deborah Strauss (violin)

This event is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis, and is generously sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division in cooperation with Yiddish New York and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/12/22/klezmer-music-history-and-memory
From the NYPL announcement:

Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest transnational Jewish community of modern times – the Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe.…
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September 30, 2016Front Page, Holidayjudy-p

L’Shana Tova 2016

L’Shana Tova!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHlLYhYNbc0

September 23, 2016Lectures, Uncategorized, Yiddish or Folkjudy-p

TALK | “Breath in a Ram’s Horn: The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music,” with Daniel Asia

Sunday, October 30, 2016 2-3:30pm

Yiddish Book Center 1021 West Street Amherst, MA 01002

http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/Calendar?id=7451&view=Detail

Composer, conductor, professor, and activist Daniel Asia talks about the origins of Yiddish song in Eastern European culture, its continuation on the American scene in the music of Yiddish composer Lazar Weiner, and its influence on Asia’s own award-winning music.

This event is free and open to the public.

September 19, 2016Frum Pop, Holiday, Uncategorizedjudy-p

Rosh Hashana Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_M5-qthA8w

September 19, 2016Choral, Concerts, Front Page, WHERE: USA_NY, Yiddish or Folkjudy-p

To Life, To Laugh, L’chaim! Concert by Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus

Sunday, September 25, 2016, 4:30 p.m.

Merkin Concert Hall

129 West 67 Street, New York City

To Life, To Laugh, L’chaim!

A Centennial Celebration in Song

of the Classic Yiddish Writer

Sholem Aleichem

performed by the

Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC

Binyumen Schaechter, Conductor

Seth Weinstein, Pianist

with featured soloists

Cantor Joel Caplan

and

Temma Schaechter (of Di Shekhter-tekhter)

For more information and to order tickets:

www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org

To hear a sampling of JPPC YouTube videos:

https://www.youtube.com

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kK2qAVmPYjc

September 19, 2016CD Releases, Uncategorizedjudy-p

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu Releases new CD

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu is excited and proud to announce their New CD “Scalerica de oro” which was launched on the 4th of September 2016, at the International Jewish Day, in Geneva. After working hard for two whole years, recording, editing, searching and exploring, Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu finally has the result! The new CD is available for sale at web-site: www.mlat.org <http://www.mlat.org> .* There are some sample tracks that are from the CD so that you can enjoy the music and decide if you like it enough in order to order one!

Ensemble Me La Amargates Tu

Esteban Manzano– tenor

Doret Florentin– recorder

Tulio Rondón– viola da gamba

Dieter Hennings– guitar

Juan Martínez– percussion

September 19, 2016Uncategorizedjudy-p

The Legacy of Robert Moevs

Event title: The Legacy of Robert Moevs; includes Elijah’s Chariot for string quartet and electronics from shofar sounds by Judith Shatin

Event date: Nov 13, 2016

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Address: Shindell Choral Hall, 79 George St. City/Town: New Brunswick, NJ Country: US – United States State: NJ New Jersey Zip Code: 08901

This concert features Composition Teachers and Students at Rutgers University. Distinguished composer Robert Moevs, in whose honor the concert was conceived, was the first composition teacher of Judith Shatin, now William R. Kenan Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. In turn, her PhD advisee, Steven Kemper, is now Assistant Professor of Music at Rutgers University. This concert features music for string quartet, in Shatin’s case with electronics fashioned from recordings of Shofar calls, and shows the circle continuing.…
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September 19, 2016Competitions/Special Events, Festivals, WHERE: Europejudy-p

International Jewish Music Festival

Amsterdam, May 4-8, 2017

Uilenburger Synagogue / DeLaMar theater

https://ijmf.wordpress.com/

International Jewish Music Festival 2017

IJMF 2017 Amsterdam

Amsterdam is hosting the 20th International Jewish Music Festival (IJMF) from the 4th until 8th of May 2017. IJMF will welcome over 100 musicians from all around the world playing everything from World music to Rap, from Classical to Klezmer.

The competition is for both ensembles and individual musicians, whose music contain Jewish elements.

Besides music, there will be lots of activities for young and old.

On May 8th, the big final will be held in the Wim Sonneveld hall in DeLaMar Theater. Here, winners will be pronounced and prizes will be handed out.

Jewish Music WebCenter

מרכז-רשת למוזיקה יהודית

Monthly Archives: September 2016