30th Anniversary of Klezmer Conservatory Band Features Reunion with
Clarinetist Don Byron & Vocalist Judy Bressler; JDub Recording Artists, Golem, Opens Show
The legendary Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB), the band that kick-started the klezmer music revival, will open the first annual Boston Jewish Music Festival (BJMF) with a gala concert celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary at the Berklee Performance Center on March 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM.
Tickets for the concert are on sale through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com) and the Berklee box office. Tickets for other BJMF events are now on sale, most through Ticketweb (www.ticketweb.com). The entire festival schedule is now posted on the BJMF web site.
Two former members who were instrumental in helping build the band’s reputation—vocalist Judy Bressler and clarinetist Don Byron—will reunite with them for the first time in more than 20 years.…
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Saturday 29 November 2003, 8.00pm
Budapest Klezmer Band (Hungary). Coming from the heart of Europe, where klezmer music originated, this ensemble sweeps you off your feet from the first moment with their raw
energy, soaring sounds and gypsy folk rhythms. With exuberant vitality and yet with extreme poignancy they conjure up a time when this music was an integral part of European Jewish life.
Presented by the Jewish Music Institute supported by Warner Music UK, The Spiro Ark, The Swiss Embassy, the Hungarian Cultural Centre and The Jewish Chronicle.
Doors open 7.30, bands on at 8.00
Tickets £17.50 Concessions £14.00 Pass for all 4 concerts £50. Concessions for seniors, students, children, unwaged, groups of 10 or more or if coming to more than 1 concert) .…
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–Holland–
The Dutch duo, Mariejan van Oort and Jacques Verheijen, have just released their new CD “Benkshaft”. Visit their website at www.demaatschap.net for more details.
Load date 12.08.00
–Boston, MA–
“Klezperanto” CD Release. The band will have CD release event Thursday night Nov. 30 (that’s one week after Thanksgiving)at 9 p.m. at Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant and Music Club* (17 Holland Street, Somerville, MA 617 776-2004)
to celebrate the long-awaited release of the CD, Klezperanto! on the Naxos World label. “With solid klezmer roots, spectacular technical virtuosity, and a wry sense of humor, Ilene Stahl, Evan Harlan, and Boston’s hottest musisicans from the klezmer scene re-groove Yiddish and Mediterranean melodies with zydeco, funk, cumbia, rockabilly, and Romanian surf music.”
Load date 11.27.00
–Trieste, Italy–
Vanja Cvelbar has a band, The Original Klezmer Ensemble, in Trieste, Italy, that has released two CD’s: Klezmatic Tantz and Halleluja.…
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AMJ: L’Association Amis de la Musique Juive
L’Association AMJ: Les Amis de la Musique Juive –Friends of Jewish Music in Geneva, Switzerland sponsors exhibits, concerts, lectures, debates and music workshops. The first CD produced by AMJ has segments that can be listened online. It’s the digital “live” recording from the “Psalm” concert organized on March 11th 2001. To hear a presentation:
http://www.club-association.ch/amj/WCD001-presE.htm
Voices: Continuity and Community
Gala opening concert of the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
Saturday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m., Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash Street (at 45th
Avenue), Vancouver
The Peretz Centre will celebrate the offical opening of its new
facilities with a concert featuring vocalists Claire Klein Osipov,
Grace Chan, Marcus Mosely and Stephen Aberle.…
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Boston Jewish Music Festival
Preview Concert
HABANOT NECHAMA
January 10, 2010
7:30 PM
Temple Aliyah, Needham
See the group that’s all the rage, one of Israel’s hottest acts, Habanot Nechama,
in a special concert at Temple Aliyah in Needham.
The concert is sponsored by Temple Aliyah, Temple Beth Shalom, the Israeli Consulate
and the Boston Jewish Music Festival
Ticket Price:$18
Order tickets online at
www.templealiyah.tix.com
Temple Aliyah
1664 Central Ave., Needham, MA
Preliminary Schedule
Boston Jewish
Music Festival
Saturday 3/6: Opening Night Gala Concert, 30th Anniversary of the Klezmer Conservatory
Band with special guests vocalist Judy Bressler and Don Byron, clarinet. Also: JDub
recording artists Golem.
7:30 PM
at Berklee Performance Center.
Sunday 3/7: Family Music Concerts, 1 PM. Shira Kline and Shir-La-La, JCC in Newton;
Peter & Ellen Allard, Metrowest Community Day School; Yehuda Katz, Sharon/South
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–New York, NY–
A Tribute to Cantor Moshe Koussevitsky the Holocaust Survivor.
100 YEARS OF THE LEGACY
A tribute to the Tlomitzka Synagogue of Warsaw
World renowned Cantors Ben Zion Miller, Joseph Malovany, Moshe Schulof, the
Yuval Cantors choir of Israel, and other world famous artists will present
their renditions of the music which Koussevitzky was highly acclaimed.
Music performed by a symphonic orchestra led by: Conductor Dr. Mordechai Sobel of Tel Aviv. Date: Sun. Evening- March 5, 2000. Location: Avery Fisher Hall- Manhattan For more information on how to set aside advance tickets for your organization contact: Jill Smulevitz. JEWISH STARS.(516) 292-0670. JS4Talent@aol.com
Tickets are available for fundraising purposes.
The concert committee will update you with the complete list of world famous
performers.…
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June 20-27
D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building on the Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus in West Bloomfield.
http://www.jccdet.org/musicfest/
Tickets on sale May 10, 2004
Highlighting the musical heritage of the Jewish people through a variety of programs that educate and entertain our community, while encouraging affiliation with the Jewish Community Center.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Katie Marcus at
kmarcus@jccdet.org
Klezperanto’s back in Boston in an exciting double bill with The Wiyos
SUNDAY JULY 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the STUART STREET PLAYHOUSE, corner of Charles and Stuart Streets in the heart of Boston’s theater district, www.stuartstreetplayhouse.com with very special guests, THE WIYOS, “Vaudevillian Ragtime-Blues and Hillbilly Swing”
You can read all about them at truthfacerecordings.com/wiyos where you can see pictures, check out their tour schedule and press stuff, and hear samples, but it’s even BETTER to see this amazing ensemble LIVE!
Price: $15.00 in advance, $20.00 day of concert
To purchase tickets online visit Tele-Charge Online
To purchase tickets by phone call 800-447-7400*
*Service fees may apply
To purchase tickets in person visit the Stuart Street Playhouse Box Office 200 Stuart Street (in the Radisson Hotel Boston).…
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The Zamir Chorale of Boston invites you to
From Boston to Berlin
A cabaret-style evening featuring
the Zamir Chamber Chorus
which will perform highlights of Zamir Chorale of Boston’s upcoming concerts in
the first Louis Lewandowski Festival in Berlin, Germany
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Goethe-Institut*, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
(between Berkeley and Clarendon Streets)
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Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director
Remarks by
Friedrich Löhr, German Consul General in Boston
Ralph Selig, International Authority on German-Jewish
Chazzanut (liturgical music)
Light kosher refreshments will be served.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston is headed to Berlin, Germany, December 15-18, to represent
the United States at the Louis Lewandowski Festival. Zamir will join six other choirs
from around the world in paying tribute to the German Jewish composer who became
world renowned because of his beautiful choral settings of the synagogue liturgy.…
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–Syracuse, NY–
Klezfest photos from Klezfest 2001 and 2002.Next Festival on June 8, 2003.
http://www.sjfed.org/klezfest/gallery.html
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–New York–TOUR with MUSIC–
LOWER EAST SIDE SERENADE
Musical Walking Tour Sings the Stories of the Lower East Side
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2002, 11 AM
Lower East Side, New York . . . On Sunday, October 27, 2002, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the Eldridge Street Project will host the Lower East Side Serenade, a musical walking tour of the historic sites and sounds of the Lower East Side. As they meander along the streets, tour-goers will be treated to live performances of Yiddish and English songs which reference turn-of-the-century immigrant life in the neighborhood. World-renowned “minstrelâ€, Jeff Warschauer, will sing his heart out as architectural historian Lucien Sonder points out nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century landmarks in the neighborhood.…
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Habrera Hativeet, featuring Shlomo Bar
co-presented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival and the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (MFA)
If you’ve never seen this group, you owe yourself a treat next week. **Highly recommended** by JMWC.
So follow the drummer this summer on Sunday, June 18, 1PM, Remis Auditorium
Habrera Hativeet fuses together artists with authentic Sephardic,
African, Indian and Middle Eastern roots, time-honored songs from
Andalusian Spain, Yemen, and Morocco, Hasidic chants from Eastern
Europe, and contemporary Israeli poetry. Their music bridges time,
cultures, and mindsets in Israel and beyond. The group’s website can
be found at www.shlomobar.com
Tickets are $20 for MFA and Boston Jewish Film Festival members,
students, and seniors; $25 general admission. Front-of-house tickets
(guaranteed general admission seating within the first three rows) are
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Washington Jewish Music Festival 2008
May 31 – June 8
Nine days of music, film and dialogue from an amazing variety of artists and musical
styles. Visit www.wjmf.org for a full line-up and tickets.
The Ninth Annual Washington Jewish Music Festival celebrates and explores the wide
spectrum of sounds and traditions that make up Jewish music. Throughout a nine-day
festival, audiences will be able to hear a wide range of styles and influences that
make up the richness of Jewish music. The Festival will feature David Buchbinder’s
Odessa/Havana, an exciting Jewish-Cuban musical fusion; the Afro-Semitic Experience,
showcasing the musical traditions of both Jewish and African diasporas; Beyond The
Pale, presenting new klezmer music, fused with folk and roots; the silent film The
Golem set to live music performed by Davka; the Sisters of Sheynville who swing in
Yiddish; dance music and classical music; musical theater and pop; and much more.…
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VOICE OF THE TURTLE 27th ANNUAL HANUKKAH CONCERT
El Mez de Hanukkah,The Month of Hanukkah!
WHEN:
Sunday Afternoon. NOVEMBER 21 at 3 PM
WHERE:
TEMPLE SHALOM, NEWTON
175 Temple Street, West Newton, Massachusetts
Directions: (http://templeshalom.org/directions.html)
TICKETS:
$18.00 in advance by phone or email reservations
$25.00 at the door on day of concert
Tickets for the Seventh Annual Winter Jewish Music Concert, to be held at Broward College in January 10 2015 are now on sale.
For Info: http://www.jewishconcert.org
As in past years, we anticipate that the concert will sell out ahead of time, so we
suggest that you order your tickets early.
General admission tickets for the concert will again be only $18.00.
For those patrons who would like to reserve a seat in the front of the Bertha Abess
Sanctuary, we are offering a limited number of Preferred Seating tickets available
for $100.00. The remainder of the seats will continue to be general admission
tickets.
Tickets may be purchased online (http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/) or by
calling 1-800-838-3006.
Koleinu, Boston s Jewish Community Chorus, was founded in 2002 by Hazzan Scott
Sokol, of the Jewish Music Institue of Hebrew College, and by Larry Kozinn to
provide a place open to all to learn, sing and perform Jewish choral music. Carol
Marton, known for her work in Jewish choral music, is the founding Artistic
Director.
Since that time, Koleinu has given concerts for enthusiastic audiences at synagogues
all around Greater Boston, at Hebrew College and annually at Hebrew Senior Life. In
the fall of 2009, Koleinu represented Boston at an historic concert in Providence,
RI, marking the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht a sold-out, multimedia production
that featured 200 adult and youth voices, full orchestra, and narration by Leonard
Nimoy. In the spring of 2008, Koleinu spearheaded Voices Raised Against Violence,
a collaborative concert of Jewish and Gospel music, to benefit an anti-violence and
leadership development program for Boston s youth.…
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It’s quite a lineup. Boston’s From March 6-20, 2011, the Boston Jewish Music Festival.
Visit the website for complete lineup information, with dates, times and prices, including the hot new “Yemen Blues.”http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events-tickets/
Full website, with blog, artist pics and links, and event listings: http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/
# Divine Sparks – where traditional hazzanut meets contemporary
improvisation with Frank London, Yaakov Lemmer, Aaron Bensoussan,
and Boston’s own Gastón Bogomolni, Jessica Kate Meyer, and
Elias Rosemberg.
# The New England Premiere of Ravid Kahalani and Yemen Blues, the
incredible new world music ensemble from the former lead singer of
The Idan Raichel Project.
# Sing Songs of Shabbat with your choice of 4 unique Friday night
musical services at synagogues across Greater Boston.
# A very special family concert featuring Maurice Sendak’s adaptation of Peter and the Wolf, called Pincus and the Pig.…
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The Sacred Bridge
December 3, 2011 8:00 pm – Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA
For tickets and prices, visit http://www.bostoncamerata.org/tickets.html
Back by popular demand, a second interfaith celebration, a holiday program unlike
any other. Discover with The Boston Camerata the common musical roots of Jewish, Arabic, and Christian
religions, and the astonishing and beautiful interactions among these traditions.
Joel Cohen and The Boston Camerata are joined by members of the Sharq Arabic Music
Ensemble.
http://www.bostoncamerata.org/
Boston, you will be delighted because there’s another chance to catchA Cantor’s Tale
I’ve seen it, and it’s wonderful. You’ll be humming cantorial music when you leave. No, really, you will.
It’s screening as part of The Boston Jewish Film Festival: Encores (series runs through July 6 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
A Cantor’s Tale
Sun, Jun 18, 4 pm
Thu, Jun 22, 6 pm
A Cantor’s Tale by Erik Greenberg Anjou (2005, 95 min.). A joyous,
crowd-pleasing documentary, A Cantor’s Tale pays loving tribute to the
“golden age” of chazzanut, the celebrated art of cantorial music.
Brooklyn-born Cantor Jacob “Jackie” Mendelson traces the American
origins of Jewish liturgical music back to the vibrant culture of
1950’s Brooklyn, when the great cantors of New York had chart-topping
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DATE & TIME:Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION:The Fenway Center at Northeastern University (corner St. Stephen and
Gainsborough Streets), Boston, MA
COST:NU Students with ID free; Adults: $20. To buy tickets: www.gonu.com/tickets/
Northeastern University will present the only Boston appearance by the renowned
Jerusalem Academy Chamber Choir, under the direction of Prof. Stanley Sperber. The Academy Choir, now in its 40th season, iis considered one of Israel’s finest vocal ensembles, performing frequently with
the Israel Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This will be the first concert on the choir’s
American tour. Also on the program will be the Northeastern University Chamber Chorus and the Zamir
Chorale of Boston, conducted by Prof. Joshua Jacobson. The program includes Daniel Pinkham‘s Wedding Cantata, Yehezkel Braun‘s Song of Songs, and other works by American and Israeli composers.…
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Sunday March 25, 2007. Boston, MA 3pm.
3:00 PM – Mayyim Hayyim’s Signature Chocolate and Champagne Reception in the Back Bay Grand Ballroom
4:00 PM – Performance: Mikveh, Music and More in the John Hancock Hall
“Mikveh, Music and More” will be held at the John Hancock Hall in Boston’s Back Bay. Every seat is a great seat – reserve early! John Hancock Hall is located at 180 Berkeley Street in Boston. There will be parking available at nearby lot for $6 or free street parking.
Debbie Friedman,
Cantor Benjie Ellen Schiller, Peri Smilow, The Allards, Jeff Klepper and
Josh Nelson will be performing. With NEW music by all of the above-and by
Danny Maseng, Craig Taubman, and Julie Silver (who unfortunately, won’t be
attending). Kudos to Josh Nelson who conceived of and directs the
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Two of Boston’s finest choruses
presenting 400 years of the most beautiful music
from the Christian and Jewish traditions.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
The Trinity Choirs
together in concert
120 voices
in historic Trinity Church, Copley Square,
one of the America’s architectural Jewels
with cantors Scott Sokol and Elias Rosemberg
To Order Tix: http://www.trinityinspires.org/concerts-events/music-for-all/zamir-concert/
Special Half Price Tickets to see Dudu Fisher
Live in Concert at Boston Symphony Hall – November 1, 2009
Known for his stirring performance on Broadway as
Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES and as a world
famous Israeli cantor, Dudu Fisher brings an
exciting and visually stunning show to Boston’s
Symphony Hall on Sunday, November 1, at 7:30 PM.
Based on his highly successful PBS special, IN
CONCERT FROM ISRAEL, Fisher will take the
audience on an inspired journey connecting his
talent as a Broadway performer, cantor, and
contemporary artist with music and stories that
celebrate the beauty of Israel’s landscape, culture and people.
We are pleased to offer half-price tickets to
those who mention this announcement by calling
617-266-1200 or by visiting www.bostonsymphonyhall.org/dudufisher.
Fisher has performed on the stages of Broadway,
the West End in London, Israel, and throughout
the world, including singing with the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin
Mehta, recording an album of show tunes with the
London Symphony Orchestra, and performing for
Britain’s Royal family and Bill and Hillary
Clinton.…
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Cantata Singers & Ensemble
David Hoose, Music Director
World Premiere: Lior Navok‘s
And the Trains Kept Coming . . .
Cantata Singers Commission
Kurt Weill: The Prophets from The Eternal Road
First Boston performance
Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 3 p.m.
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall,
30 Gainsborough St., Boston
617-868-5885
Available at www.cantatasingers.org
https://secure.cantatasingers.org/orderforms/tickets_season07-08.htm
TICKETS: $54, $34, & $20; $5 discount for WGBH members. $15 for students and seniors
(section C tickets only).
Limited student rush tickets available 30 min. before concert time with $10 cash and
student ID.
Jordan Hall Box Office
30 Gainsborough Street in Boston
(617-585-1260) or BosTix at Faneuil Hall & Copley Square.
Zamir Chorale of Boston announced that two women will be involved with their organization as conductors. Lidiya Yankovskaya will be this season’s Assistant Conductor and Hinda Tzivia Eisen will be the 2008-09 Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellow.
Read more…
Together with Outside the Box, Boston Jewish Music Festival will be presenting the grand finale event, a concert by Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies. This is a unique multi-ethnic, Israeli and Indian ensemble that produces ‘world devotional music.’ Don’t miss what promises to be a remarkable free concert Sunday, July 21, 4 pm at Boston City Hall Plaza.
Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel will be singing with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman
in Long Island City on Wednesday, July 17, and with
Dr. Hankus Netsky in Boston on Monday, August 5.
See details:
Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae singer, whose lyrics reflect his religious views, but is still making the cross overto the mainstream. He’s appearing on David Letterman on Monday, Jan. 16, but will be live in Boston, Sunday Feb. 12, 2006 at 7pm at the Avalon Ballroom in Boston. Matisyahu has recently been causing a huge stir, following the press at:http://www.matismusic.com/.
The MFA Concert Program and The Boston Jewish Film Festival are delighted to present The Klezmatics in concert on Sunday, March 11, 7:30pm. The Boston Jewish Film Festival has screened several films over the years for which scores have been written by the Klezmatics, including Jonathan Berman’s The Shvitz (1995 and 1999 Festivals), Pearl Gluck’s Divan (2003 Festival), and Eric Greenberg Anjou’s A Cantor’s Tale (2005 Festival).
Ticket prices: Members, BJFF members, seniors, students $20; nonmembers, general admission $25.
Front-of-house seating, available for an additional $5 at each price level.
Front-of-house seating guarantees general admission seating within the first three rows of Remis Auditorium.
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Julie Silver plays Hancock Hall in Boston, March 22nd, 4PM…with the tremendously talented Yavilah McCoy and Josh Nelson.
Program: The Colors of Water – An original Mayyim Hayyim production telling the unique musical family history of four generations who found a home in Judaism through spirit and song.
Written by Anita Diamant, Janet Buchwald and Yavilah McCoy
Performers: Yavilah McCoy, Julie Silver, Josh Nelson and more!
Hancock Hall
180 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
Tickets:
$54 General Admission (Reception and Performance) –Dessert Reception starts at 3pm
$36 Performance Only
$18 Students (performance only, please arrive at 3:45)
http://www.mayyimhayyim.org/Water2009/
It’s major! The Boston jewish Music Festival February 27 – March 15 2015 has plenty of events around the region. If you haven’t gone yet, this is your chance to get tickets to major or any events you want to attend. There’s plenty for adults, children, teens and families.
http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/events/
To get the online brochure of the festival, just
click here!
Get on board! The Boston Jewish Music Festival just keeps getting better and better. This year has some spectacular events planned with a theme of “musical bridges” .
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents Boom Pam “The hottest ethnic beat group in
Zion .
Boom Pam come to the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday 27th June as part of their
popular summer outdoor music series, held in the beautiful Calderwood Courtyard.
Boom Pam first hit the music scene in Tel Aviv in 2004 with their cover of Aris San
s 1969 hit Boom Pam . Since then, the hype surrounding these musicians has boomed.
They are an intriguing yet simple mix of electric guitars, drums and tuba. Boom Pam
s original music and arrangements of Balkan, Jewish, Greek and Mediterranean songs,
seasoned with dueling guitars and a rock attitude. With this uplifting combination
of music, Boom Pam is a band that shouldn t be missed.…
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Koleinu, the Jewish Community Chorus of Boston is having a concert on Thursday, June 10 at 8pm at Temple Emeth in Chestnut Hill, MA. Cantor Gaston Bogomolni and Cantor Lousie Treitman will be the soloists. Carol Marton will direct.
Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. go to www.koleinu.org or call 617-559-8649 to get more information or order tickets.
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Volume IV. Number 1. 5742/1981-82
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
Laura Leon-Cohen, Associate Editor
Dedicated to the Memory of Albert Weisser (1918-1982)
| CONTENTS | | |
| The Music Division of the Jewish-Ethnographic Expedition in the Name of BaronHorace Guinzbourg (1911-1914) | Albert Weisser | p.1 |
| Curt Sachs and the Library Museum of the Performing Arts | Carleton Sprague Smith | p.9 |
| The Role of Ethnomusicology in the Study of Jewish Music | Johanna Spector | p.20 |
| The Enigma of the Antonio Bustelo Judeo-Spanish Ballad tunes in Manuel L. Ortega's Los hebreos en marreucos | Israel J. Katz | p.33 |
| On the Melody of David Edelstadts's "Vacht Oyfl" | Robert A. Rothstein | p.69 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Neil Levin, ed. |
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Volume III. Number 1. 5741/1980-81
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
| CONTENTS | | |
| Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) and the Lost Generation | Alexander L. Ringer | p.1 |
| Toward Defining the Jewish Prayer Modes: With Particular Emphasis on the Adonay Malakh Mode | Joseph A. Levine | p.13 |
| Seged: A Falasha Pilgrimage Festival | Kay Kaufman Shelemay | p.43 |
| The Jew in German Musical Thought before the Nineteenth Century | Jacob Hohenemser | p.63 |
| Letters to the Editors: An Encyclopedist's Ailments--Reviewing Reviews of the Encyclopaedia Judaica on Jewish Music | Hanoch Avenary | p.74 |
| Letters to the Editors: A reply to Dr. Avenary | Eric Werner | p.76 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Robert Strassburg, Ernest Bloch: Voice in the Wilderness (Los Angeles, 1977) | Byron Cantrell | p.77 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Miriam Gideon: Shirat Miriam L'Shabbat: A Sabbath Evening Service (London, 1978) | Hugo Weisgall | p.80 |
| Book and Music Reviews: Hugo Weisgall, The Golden Peacock: Seven Popular Songs from the Yiddish (Bryn Mawr, 1980) | Bruce Saylor | p.82 |
| Contributors of Articles | | p.86 |
| In Memoriam: Marvin Duchow (1914-1979) | Israel J. |
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Volume II. Number 1. 5738/1977-78
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
CONTENTS
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| Lazare Saminsky's Years in Russia and Palestine: Excerpts from an Unpublished Autobiography/ | Edited and annotated by Albert Weisser | p.1 |
| The Music of the Synagogue as a Source of the Yiddish Folksong | Max Wohlberg | p.21
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| Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Musical Traditions: The Music of the Jews of Cochin/ | Israel J. Ross | p.51 |
| Soviet-Yiddish Folklore Scholarship/ | Eleanor Gordon Mlotek | p.73 |
| Book Reviews: The Articles "Music, Masoretic Accents, and Hazzan" in the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 1971) | Eric Werner | p.91
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| Book Reviews: Chanah Milner and Paul Storm, eds. Sefardische Liederen en Balladen (romanzas) (The Hague, 1974) | Samuel G. |
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Volume VII. Number 1. 5745/1984-85
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
CONTENTS
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| Yemenite and Babylonian Elements in the Musical Heritage of the Jews of Cochin, India | Johanna Spector | p.1 |
| Songs of the Jews on the Island of Djerba. A Comparison between Two Surveys: Hara Sghira (1929) and Hara Kebira (1976) | Ruth Francis Davis | p.23 |
| The Resurgence of Jewish Musical Life in an Urban German Community: Mannheim on the Eve of World War II | Philip V. Bohlman | p.34 |
| Felix Mendelssohn's Commissioned Composition for the Hamburg Temple: The 100th Psalm (1844) | Eric Werner | p.54 |
| Another Anthology of Sephardic Folksongs (A Review Essay) | Samuel G. Armistead, Israel J. |
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Volume V. Number 1. 5743/1982-83
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Laura Leon-Cohen, Associate Editor
| CONTENTS | | |
| Hugo Weisgall's The Golden Peacock: A Stylistic and Interpretive Analysis of Two Songs | Laura Leon-Cohen | p.1 |
| Frederick Emil Kitziger of New Orleans: A Nineteenth-Century Composer of Synagogue Music | John H. Baron | p.21 |
| The Biblical Trope System in Ashkenazic Phrophetic Reading | Joseph A. Levine | p.35 |
| Modulation as an Integral Part of the Modal System in Jewish Music | Judit Laki Frigyesi | p.53 |
| The Development of the Hallel Chant as Reflected in Rabbinic Literature | Macy Nulman | p.72 |
| Antisemitism and Music in Nineteenth-Century France | James H. Johnson | p.79 |
| Record Reviews: The Art of Moshe Rudinow. |
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Volume VIII. Number 1. 5747/1985-86
Editor:
Israel J. Katz
Associate/Review Editor, Neil W. Levin
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| A Family of Jewish Musicians in Mid-Eighteenth Century Paris | Alexander L. Ringer | p.1 |
| Reminiscences of Guido Adler (1855-1941) | Carl A. Rosenthal | p.13 |
| Salomon Sulzer's Schir Zion, Volume One: A Survey of Its Contributors and Its Contents | Abraham Lubin | p.23 |
| A Perception of the Prayer Modes as Reflected in Musical and Rabbinical Sources | Macy Nulman | p.45 |
| They Made Me a Jewish Composer | David Finko | p.59 |
| Ami Maayani and the Yiddish Art Song (Part I) | Laya Harbater Silber | p.75 |
| Book Reviews: Eric Werner, The Sacred Bridge: The Interdependence of Liturgy and Music in Synagogue and Church during the First Millenium, Volume Two (New York, 1984) | Theodore C. |
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Volume VI. Number 1. 5744/1983-84
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
CONTENTS
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| Lazare Saminsky's Early Years in New York City (1920-1928): Excerpts from an Unpublished Autobiography | Edited by Israel J. Katz | p.1 |
| Sephardic Folkliterature and Eastern Mediterranean Oral Tradition | Samuel G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman | p.38 |
| A Trascription of the Judeo-Spanish Ballad La vuelta del marido | Israel J. Katz | p.55 |
| The "Prologue" to Jewish Music in Twentieth-Century America: Four Representative Figures: [Bloch, Saminsky, Copland, and Weisgall] | Albert Weisser | p.60 |
| Max Helfman: The Man and His Musical Legacy | Philip Moddel and Richard J. Neumann (Including a listing of Helfman's compositions compiled by Judith Tischler) | p.67 |
| Last Chants for the Cantorate? |
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Volume I. Number 1. 5736/1975-76
Editors:
Israel J. Katz
Albert Weisser
CONTENTS
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| Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938): A Bibliography of His Collected Writings/ | Israel J. Katz | p.1 |
| Medieval Elements in the Liturgical Music of the Jews of Southern France and Northern Spain/ | Judith K. Eisenstein | p.33 |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Jew and His Relationship with Richard Wagner/ | Joan L. Thomson | p.55 |
| Review Essay: The Music of Europe and the Americas (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) in the Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem, 1971)/ | Albert Weisser | p.87 |
| Facsimile of Two Fragments of Joseph Achron's Kiddush Hasem | Almanach of the Yiddish Art Theatre | p.104 |
| Contributors of Articles | | p.105 |
| Alfred Sendrey (1884-1976): In Memoriam/ | Israel J. |
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World Premiere Performance of Meira Warshauer Symphony No. 1 Living,
Breathing Earth by South Carolina Philharmonic on March 24
The World Premiere performance of Meira Warshauer’s Symphony No. 1 –
“Living, Breathing Earth” will be given by the South Carolina
Philharmonic, Nicholas Smith, Music Director, at 7 PM on Saturday, March
24, 2007 as part of their Master Series 7 concert at the Koger Center
for the Arts, 1051 Greene Street in Columbia, South Carolina.
Tickets for the March 24 concert are $40, $32, $23, $16 and $13. For
tickets and more concert information, please call the South Carolina
Philharmonic box office at 803-254-7445 or visit them online at
http://www.scphilharmonic.com/buynow.html.
Winter Jewish Music Concert presents its first solo concert
For details: http://www.jewishconcert.org
For five years the Winter Jewish Music Concert has presented large-scale concerts of
Jewish music, with twenty or more singers at each concert.
On Sunday, June 9th, at 4:00 p.m., we will for the first time present a concert
featuring only one singer. The performer at this very special event will be Anthony
Mordechai Tzvi Russell, who over the past year has gained attention as the new voice
of Yiddish song. He will be singing from the songbook of Sidor Belarsky, one of the
20th Century’s greatest singers of Jewish song.
Mr. Russell’s personal story is compelling. He is a classically-trained
African-American singer who converted to Judaism and whose partner is a rabbi.…
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A GREAT event celebrating 26 years of the world renowned Klezmer
Conservatory Band, with workshops, discussion and more! in happening March 25 and 26 in Newton, MA.
Klezmer Conservatory Band Reunion Concert and Mini Music Festival
at the Leventhal Sidman JCC, 333 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA
JCC Box Office: 617-965-5226
A celebration of klezmer in Boston, birthplace of the klezmer
revival, features the Klezmer Conservatory Band along with former
band members Michael Alpert, Rosalie Gerut, Jeff Warschauer, Deborah
Strauss and other surprise guests!
Concerts
Saturday, March 25, 2006 8pm
Sunday, March 26, 2006 Concert 4:00
pm
Daniel S. Gil presents The Legacy of Spirit Concert & Presentation
featuring Conductor Gilbert Trout at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall.
Sunday, June 6 2:45 PM (2:00 PM doors).
U.S.$15.00-U.S.$36.00.
http://www.legacyofspirit.org/
The Afro-Semitic Experience is making its Boston debut this Wednesday,
October 11 at 6:30 p.m. They will be playing at Cathedral High School, 74 Union Park Street, Boston.
At 2:30 Baba Coleman and Babafemi Alvin Carter, Jr. will be presenting a
drumming workshop for the students and then at 6:30 will be the
concert.
Joining this concert will be special guests Art Blakey,
alumnus Kalim Zarif on piano (Warren is in Nepal!!) and Paradox Trio’s very
own Matt Darriau on clarinet and sax. Admission is free, but seating is
limited. For more info please call 617-542-2325.
Tell your friends and invite them to join in, as this is a low key (but hi-energy) event.
This thoroughly researched biography, commissioned by Verna Fine, widow of the composer, is a highly readable entree not only to the life and works of Irving Fine, but to the history of the Brandeis University Department of Music. Irving Fine was a highly creative and innovative composer, and became the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music and Chairman of the School of Creative Arts at Brandeis. His inventive leadership of a newly formed Creative Arts Department would set the tone and course of study for the next 50 years. Fine had taught theory and music history at Harvard from 1939-50, when he joined the music faculty of Brandeis in Fall, 1950, as Lecturer in Music and Composer in Residence. Fine’s intellect led him to a style of “Stravinskian neoclassicism and romatically inflected serialism” that was to catch the imagination and close friendship of the American musical luminaries of the day, including Boston Symphony conductor Serge Koussevitzky, composers Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, and his Brandeis colleagues Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger.…
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Zamir Chorale of Boston sends this message about their recordings:
All Zamir Chorale of Boston
recordings on sale
Through December 31, 2007
Compact Discs: regularly $15, now $10
Cassettes: regularly $10, now $5
Ten-CD gift set: regularly $118, now
$80
Choose from the outstanding
collection
of
performances by “America’s foremost Jewish
choral
ensemble”
(American Record Guide)
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Lights: Music for Chanukah
Psalmsensation
Zamir: Greatest Hits
Seasons of Our Joy
Soul of the Sabbath
The Monster and the Nightingale
Jewish Composers in America
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Do you love to sing? Do you want to share in the joy and meaning that
comes from singing Jewish music in a chorus? Koleinu, Boston’s Jewish
Community Chorus, invites you to join us as we begin our 8th season on
Thursday, September 10, 2009.
Koleinu (“ko-lay-noo”)/Our Voice, a non-audition group of 60+ members
who love learning and singing Jewish music together, is directed by our
dynamic and skilled conductor, Carol Marton. Koleinu meets Thursday
nights from 7:30 to 9:45 PM at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Rd. in Newton
Centre.
Our first three rehearsals are open, so why not give us a try? No
pressure to join; no prior musical or Jewish experience necessary.
Openrehearsals will be held on 9/10, 9/17, and 9/24 in Hebrew
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Julie Silver, the lyrical guitar performer of contemporary Jewish and secular music, will be part of the celebrate Boston Jewish Spirit’s fifth anniversary. The concert happens Sunday, October 18, 2009
at 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury Street , Boston, MA
David Kates, pianist and producer of Julie’s just released CD “Reunion” and New England’s own Dov Schiller on percussion will accompany Julie.
For more information contact: juliesilverconcert@bostonjewishspirit.org
Presented by the Metropolitan Chorale,
Lisa Graham, Music Director
in collaboration with the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Joshua Jacobson, Artistic Director
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 8:00 pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall,
30 Gainsborough St., Boston
$30 Adults
$25 Students, seniors, and WGBH & Coolidge Corner Theatre members
$20 Groups of 10 or more
manager@zamir.org
Founded in 1969, the Zamir Chorale of Boston, a choir of over 45 singers that has performed internationally, supports a website containing a history, concert schedule, tour information, and excerpts from recordings. This site also contains links to Jewish music resources and a newsletter. Joshua Jacobson is the founder and has served as the Director of the Boston Zamir Chorale for over 20 years. Zamir is the choir-in-residence at Hebrew College located in Newton, MA.
http://www.zamir.org
Spring Concert
Join Koleinu for an evening of Jewish choral music on Thursday, June 10th, 8pm at Temple Reyim in Newton. They will be performing a concert of contemporary, liturgical, folk, and Yiddish music with special guest soloist, Cantor Charles Osborne.
Currently finishing its second complete season,
Koleinu initially met in the spring of 2002. As a
community chorus, Koleinu is open to anyone interested in singing Jewish choral music. It is a non-auditioned group, currently about 60 members strong. The group was founded by Cantor Scott Sokol, Director of the Jewish Music Institute at Hebrew College and Larry
Kozinn, a community singer who had long hoped for the creation of just such a group. Koleinu is in residence at Hebrew College in Newton Centre.…
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Jewish Choral Festival
Sunday, May 17,
7:30 pm at Northeastern University’s Fenway Center,
77 St. Stephen Street at the corner of Gainsborough Street.
Hebrew College and Northeastern University jointly present a festive concert,
featuring the four choirs resident at Hebrew College:
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, Koleinu, Kol Rinah and Shir Tsiyon. The combined forces
of more than one hundred singers will present a program of classical and contemporary
Jewish choral music.
COST: $20 ($10 students and seniors)
Click
here to buy tickets.
Monday, May 19, 7:30 pm, “Elijah Rocks” at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA:
Reserve your tickets now for our season finale, “Elijah Rocks.” This multimedia presentation will bring to life some of the great stories from the Bible. Experience the creation of the world, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Moses and the exodus, Joshua at the walls of Jericho, Elijah with the fiery chariot, Shadrach in the furnace, and more. Special guest: the incomparable singer/songleader Nick Page. This year, Zamir is delighted to honor Charles Coe, noted poet and arts advocate; and Heather Zacker, Zamir alumna extraordinaire and healthcare executive. For tickets: ofa.fas.harvard.edu or contact: manager@zamir.org.
The Seventh WASHINGTON JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL is coming soon, on May 16 -24, 2006. Events are being held in various locations, so look at the calendar for times, places and prices. See the Calendar for more information:
Don’t miss Jewish music from around the world: Yiddish, Cantorial, Ladino, Israeli, folk, pop, classical, jazz, tango and beat box (and magic too) in Miami, Florida.
Performed in the glorious 1926 Bertha Abess Sanctuary at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, the oldest Jewish sanctuary in continuous use in Florida. Located at 7 N13.E. 19th Street, the Temple is in Miami’s vibrant urban center, five blocks north from the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, and near the Wynwood Arts District, Midtown, and the Design District.
Tickets for the 2013 Winter Jewish Music Concert are now on sale.
The concert, with a huge cast of cantors and performers, will be Saturday evening, January 19th. Tickets are $18 per person (plus
service charge), and can be purchased online (http://www.jewishconcert.org/tickets/)
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Join us for Yidstock 2013: the festival of new Yiddish music!
Thursday, July 18th through Sunday, July 21 Live at the Yiddish Book Center
DON’T MISS OUT ON WHAT PROMISES TO BE AN AMAZING FESTIVAL!
Purchase your tickets today.
To purchase tickets for individual events or to purchase a Festival Pass:
http://support.yiddishbookcenter.org/site/R?i=OUxhv-zFlGQX0WJsFs28rg
A limited number of Festival Passes are available.*
*Festival Pass includes access to all concerts, lectures, and workshops
Back by popular demand, Yosi’s Kosher Falafel Tent will be serving an assortment of
great food.
Concert Schedule
– Thursday, July 18 –
*7pm | Klezmer Conservatory Band
– Saturday, July 20 –
*7pm | Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys and Klezperanto
– Sunday, July 21 –
*12pm | Wholesale Klezmer Band – Family Concert
*2pm | Brass Khazones: Steven Bernstein and Frank London play Cantorial Music
*4pm | Golem
*7pm | Yidstock All-Stars
Workshop · Lecture Schedule
– Friday, July 20 –
*1pm | Lecture: Hebrew National Salvage: Rediscovering Lost Musical treasures with
Hankus Netsky
*2pm | Lecture: Rockin’ the Shtetl: The Essential Klezmer with Seth Rogovoy
*3:30pm | Workshop: Yiddish Folk Dance with instructor Steve Weintraub
*5pm | Workshop: Instrumental Klezmer with instructor Brian Bender
– Saturday, July 21 –
*4pm | Talk: New Riffs: Improvising a Contemporary Yiddish Culture with Aaron Lansky
and Seth Rogovoy
For more information and to purchase tickets:
Website – www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yidstock
Phone – 413-256-4900
**PLEASE NOTE: Lineup is subject to change.…
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Zamir Auditions for 2011-12
If you are an experienced singer with a strong choral background, consider joining
the Zamir Chorale of Boston!
All voice parts welcome. Auditions for the 2011-12
season will be held on
Sunday, September 25, 2011
7:00 – 10:00 pm, at
Hebrew College,
160 Herrick Road
Newton Centre.
Prospective members will attend Open Rehearsals on Tuesday, September 13 and 20.
Rehearsals during the year are on Tuesdays from
7:15 to 10:00 pm.
Additional details will be posted on the Zamir website in July.
To schedule an audition, contact manager@zamir.org.
Join Shaloh House at an exciting concert by “Oneg Shemesh”
of the famous Moshav Band of Israel.
CONCERT TO WELCOME
SDEROT CHILDREN
Tuesday, July 8th at 4:00 p.m.
Shaloh House Auditorium
29 Chestnut Hill Ave. (2nd floor )
Brighton, MA 02135
Delicious Refreshments
Join us in warmly welcoming these
children to Shaloh House’s summer camp.
Interact with them, and let them experience first-hand our
Ahavat Yisrael for these brave children.
You’ll be glad you came.
For more information, please call 617-787-2200
Yehudi Wyner, composer and faculty member at Brandeis for many years until
his recent retirement, won the Pulitzer Prize in music yesterday for his
piano concerto ”Chiavi in mano.” The concerto was premiered in Boston at
the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert last year. Wyner is the first
Boston-based composer to win for a BSO work since Walter Piston in 1948.
Wyner is the son of Lazar Weiner, and is a well known composer in the Boston
area and internationally. Yehudi was born in 1929 in Calgary, Alberta, but
grew up in NYC. He studied at Julliard, Yale (with Richard Donovan and Paul
Hindemith), and Harvard (with Walter Piston). In 1953, he won the Rome Prize
in Composition. He taught at Yale from 1963-77, and served as head of the
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New England Conservatory, 241 St. Botolph Street, Boston, presents two
ten week courses with Instructor Yelena Neplok. “Eastern European Jewish
Musical Traditions” runs on Wednesdays, February 15-May 3, 2006, from
7:00 -8:30 p.m. and “The Art of Russian Piano Music” runs on Tuesdays,
February 14-April 25, 2006, from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Registration starts on January 10th.
Financial Aid available/*/ (call 617-585-1125 to apply)
For more information, contact the instructor at 617-566-7969 or email:
nigunens@hotmail.com
Tuition for NEC School of Continuing Education is $325 – for non credit,
and $450 for the credit.
Several film at the Boston Jewish Film Festival this year feature music themes.
The festival is running Nov. 1-12, 2006. For information on these features , see this PDF
http://www.jmwc.org/pdf/bjff-music.pdf
Boston is having a Jewish Music Festival !! this March 6-14, 2010.
There will be the Klezmer Conservatory Band, classical music of Osvaldo Golijov, the Ladino music of Flory Jagoda, a presentation of Bloch’s Sacred Service and many events for younger listeners, including a capella groups and Jewish rock bands. For complete information, links to ticket purchase, times and locales, see:
http://bostonjewishmusicfestival.com/
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, “America’s foremost Jewish choral ensemble,” will hold
auditions for all voice parts on Thursday, September 24 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at
Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre. Auditions are by appointment only
and must be scheduled in advance by emailing manager@zamir.org
Candidates must have excellent vocal quality, the ability to sight-read music, and
previous choral experience. In addition to the audition, candidates are required
to attend open rehearsals at Hebrew College on Tuesday, September 8, 15, and 22
from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at Hebrew College, from
7:15 to 10:00 p.m., from September through early June.
For more information about Zamir and audition requirements, visit www.zamir.org
May 31, 12-6PM
Celebrate Israel: Boston
Gann Academy
333 Forest Street, Waltham, MA
Neshama Carlebach will be performing with Josh Nelson, her band, Reverend
Milton Vann and the Glory to God singers.
For further information please visit celebrateisraelboston.com
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, “America’s foremost Jewish choral ensemble,” will hold auditions for all voice parts on Sunday, September 25, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre. Auditions are by appointment only and must be scheduled in advance by emailing manager@zamir.org
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Candidates must have excellent vocal quality, the ability to sight-read music, and previous choral experience. In addition to the audition, candidates are required to attend open rehearsals at Hebrew College on Tuesday, September 13 and 20, from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at Hebrew College, from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m., from September through early June.
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For more information about Zamir and audition requirements, visit www.zamir.org.
The director of the Zamir Chorale of Boston has made many arrangemetns for concerts of this chorale. Recordings are available at their website. Dr. Jacobson is “one of the world s leading authorities on Jewish choral music. He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Northeastern University and Visiting Professor of Jewish Music at Hebrew College. A sought-after scholar and lecturer, his many arrangements, editions, and compositions are performed worldwide. His book,Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation (Jewish Publication Society, 2002), is considered the definitive source in the field. Zamir concerts are known for being highly entertaining, thanks to Dr. Jacobson s colorful programming and his illuminating commentary from the stage.”
http://www.zamir.org
Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies
LIVE ON BOSTON CITY HALL PLAZA
SUNDAY, JULY 21st, 4 P.M.
FREE and Open to the Public
This weekend begins the Outside the Box Festival (OTB), a new, free nine-day festival
of over 200 music, dance, and theater events. The BJMF is presenting the grand finale,
Shye Ben-Tzur & The Rajasthan Gypsies is a unique multi-ethnic, Israeli and Indian ensemble that
creating “world devotional music”–a unique mix of Indian Qawwali music with Hebrew
lyrics. They’ve been hailed around the globe, and this is their U.S. debut.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston, “America’s foremost Jewish choral ensemble,”
(American Record Guide) will hold auditions for all voice parts on Sunday, September
21, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.at Hebrew College, 160 Herrick Road, Newton Centre. Auditions
are by appointment only and must be scheduled in advance by emailing manager@zamir.org
Candidates must have excellent vocal quality, the ability to sight-read music, and
previous choral experience. In addition to the audition, candidates are required
to attend open rehearsals at Hebrew College on Tuesday, September 9 and 16,
from 7:15 to 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at Hebrew College, from
7:15 to 10:00 p.m., from September through early June.
For more information about Zamir and audition requirements, visit www.zamir.org
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An old Phil Ochs song becomes so much more poignant. Released by the Boston Jewish Music Festival today.
As a part of the Boston Jewish Music Festival’s Cafe Crawl, a duo formation of di bostoner klezmer is tickled to announce that they will be performing on Thursday, March 5 from 8:00-10:00 P.M. at Kolbo (437 Harvard St., Brookline/Coolidge Corner, Brookline, MA).
Come hear some rare, tasty, flashy, meditative, authentic klezmer and Hasidic music from clarinetist Dena Ressler and Digital and Acoustic Accordion World Champion Cory Pesaturo.
The festival has a wonderful selection of artists – see bostonjewishmusicfestival.org/ for the complete offerings.
Transportation: Kolbo is on the #66 bus from Harvard and Dudley Squares & within walking distance of the Coolidge Corner stop of the “C” Green Line. On-street and municipal lot parking is available (assuming that we don?t get another 2-4? of snow by then 🙁…
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Song is the Pen of the Soul—An Interfaith Interchange
Sunday, November 15
Wilson Chapel
Andover Newton Theological School
3:30–5:45 p.m.
Free and open to the public
Seating is limited – please register now.
Dr. Joshua Jacobson and the Zamir Chorale of Boston
Reverend Burns Stanfield and the Andover Newton Community Choir
Commentary by Rabbi Daniel Lehmann and Priscilla Deck
Please join the Zamir Chorlae and the Andover Newton Community Choir for a rousing performance, discussion and sing-along of inspiring music from Jewish and Christian faith traditions. Rabbi Daniel Lehmann will discuss the Jewish spiritual music tradition, illustrated by the Zamir Chorale of Boston under the direction of Dr. Joshua Jacobson; the program will feature selections of Hassidic music and works by Louis Lewandowski, Shlomo Carlebach and Ernest Bloch.…
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Do you and your child love to sing? Find out what it would be like to sing in
A Besere Velt,
the Boston Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Community Chorus
Special Workshop for Families
Sunday March 22
at the BWC building, 1762 Beacon St.
The workshop will be from 1-2 pm
Pizza lunch provided at 12:30; workshop begins at 1pm
Our new Chorus Director, Steve Lipsitt,
will give families a taste of the chorus experience,
learning to sing a few songs in harmony.
Parents, Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles or family friends
can come with children ages 9 and up
Knowledge of reading music or Yiddish not necessary
-just a love of singing.
A Besere Velt – A Better World – is a 70-member multi-generational community chorus that weaves the irrepressible idealism of Yiddish folk music into a
vision of justice and humanity for the 21st century.…
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Varna International Presents The 2nd Songs of Life Festival
June 23 at 7:30pm
Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre
ONLINE: (http://www.citicenter.org/songs)
BY PHONE: 866-348-9738
IN PERSON AT OUR BOX OFFICE: (http://www.citicenter.org/contact)
Songs of Life is pleased to announce the addition of the Boston Modern Orchestra
Project to the featured performance of the World Premiere oratorio, A Melancholy
Beauty!
A Melancholy Beauty is a major choral-orchestral oratorio that brings 300 superb
choristers and instrumentalists to the stage in an unparalleled music celebration
which combines classical choral-orchestral music with traditional rhythms and folk
styles that are rarely encountered today. This song of life will unravel the true
story of the Rescue of all Bulgaria’s Jews during WWII. This coming together of
musicians, from the US, Israel, and Bulgaria, the very countries that were impacted
by these crucial events, will redefine freedom and harmony through the power of
music.…
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THE WORKMEN’S CIRCLE PRESENTS A CONCERT AND YIDDISH DANCE PARTY WITH THE
STRAUSS/WARSCHAUER DUO
Saturday, February 11, 8:00 pm
Doors open at 7:30
At the Workmen’s Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline
TICKETS: WC Members: $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Non-members: $15 in
advance, $18 at the door.
For more information contact the Workmen’s Circle at
617-566-6281 or circle@workmenscircleboston.org
The Boston Jewish Film Festival and The MFA Film Program are pleased
to
present two special music documentaries at the MFA’s Remis Auditorium
on Sunday, June 3: Knowledge Is the Beginning at 1:30 pm and The
Ramallah Concert at 3:45 pm. Both of these films chronicle the
formation and livelihood of The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded
by conductor and Pianist Daniel Barenboim and writer Edward Said as a
way of promoting peace in the Middle East through collaborative
artistic effort. Daniel Barenboim is featured as the conductor of the
orchestra in both films.
Conversation and discussion following Knowledge Is the Beginning with
Matthew Guerrieri, composer and music critic, and Amir Milstein,
flutist who co-led Bustan Abraham, a world-music ensemble of Jewish
and Arab musicians that combines Eastern and Western musical traditions.…
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Charitable Concert for AV Israel. All proceeds to benefit Deaf Children at AV Israel.
A beautiful evening by women for women featuring:
Author Naomi Ragen, Singer/Songwriter Nomi Teplow and The Leora Damelin: Women’s Dance Company.
MC: Oshra Koren – Head of MATAN Ra’anana
Monday, January 26, 2009
Time:
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:
Yad L’Banim Concert Hall היכל התרבות רעננה
Street:
147 Achuza Street רח’ אחוזה 147
Doors open at 7.30PM – Evening starts at 8.00PM
Tickets: 55₪ and 75₪
To order tickets please contact:
Doors open at 7.30PM – Evening starts at 8.00PM
Tickets: 55₪ and 75₪
To order tickets please contact:
Jozie Eisner – mobile – 054-5505576
Cecile Rechtman – mobile – 050-7593713
Millie Wolf – mobile – 054-6777048.
Light refreshments will be served.
Light refreshments will be served.
Songs Celebrating Jewish Communities Worldwide: Gershwin, Ravel,
Sephardic Melodies, many more
Featuring Dina Kuznetsova, Rinat Shaham, Steven Goldstein, Steven Blier
and Michael Barrett
FEBRUARY 18 AND 20 2009
AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL, Kaufman Center
at 8 PM
Kaufman Center and New York Festival of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org),
will present Voices of the Jewish Diaspora on Tuesday and
Thursday, February 18 and 20, 2009 at 8 PM at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman
Center. It is the third subscription concert of the New York Festival of
Song, whose CD, Spanish Love Songs, (Bridge
Records, 2008) featuring Lorraine Hunt
Lieberson, Joseph Kaiser, Steven Blier and Michael Barrett was named one of the “Best of the year” by Opera News.
The program features songs in many languages celebrating the culturally
diverse Jewish communities that flourished as the tribes of Israel spread
out across the globe: Sephardic melodies arranged by Roberto Sierra;
Second Avenue specialties by Irving Berlin and Abraham Ellstein; art
songs by Ravel and Mahler; plus music by Gershwin, Bernstein, and Harold
Rome.…
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New Book released by Transcon… Nigun Anthology.
*Unique, diverse compilation of wordless Jewish melodies (nigunim) and
liturgical settings
*Features nigunim from folk tradition and contemporary
composers/songwriters
*Includes Notational index by melody line & foreword by ethnomusicologist
Judah Cohen
*Transcending history, language, and society, the nigun – or wordless
Jewish melody – helps unify us in worship or around the Shabbat table.
Nigunim have long served to spark the spirit: 18th century Chasidim sang
nigunim to create a mood of holiness; in today’s liberal Jewish worship
service, the nigun helps shift focus to prayer from the concerns of the
outside world. Now, Transcontinental Music introduces the first
comprehensive anthology of inspiring nigun melodies, available in a
songbook with CD and on CD alone.
Purchase Songbook with CD
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Purchase CD only:
ITEM=950114 …
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COMPLETE JEWISH SONGBOOK FOR CHILDREN: MANGINOT, VOL. 1 & 2
Magnificent Jewish music for children ages 2 to 13, The Complete Jewish Songbook for Children series provides lyrics, chords, and melodies for hundreds of well-loved Jewish songs for children. Ideal for home and classroom, these volumes feature thematic categories (Jewish holidays, Israel, Holocaust, prayer, and more) to help you find appropriate music for any occasion. Introduce children of all ages to the joy of singing with the help of The Complete Jewish Songbook for Children. For information, call 888.489.8242 or
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