Concerts
MUSIC OF OUR TIME
Schulhoff Weekend at 92nd Street Y
Saturday May 1 8PM performed by the Julliard Orchestra, cond. by James Conlon and Sunday, May 2 3PM will have concerts of the music of Erwin Schulhoff. For tickets, www.92Y.org/Schulhoff or call 212-415-5500. concert tickets $30. Not to be missed… concerts at the 92nd Street Y Tisch Center for the Arts, 1395 Lexington Ave. in New York
KLEZTRAPHOBIX
Tuesday, April 27th, 2004 @ 9pm @ Club Seho (formerly Club Lickwed) 113 Ludlow St. (between Rivington and Delancey) Lower East Side, NYC, just a few blocks away from the Williamsburg Bridge. By subway: J, M, Z, F to Delancey / Essex St. Mike says: “Yes kiddies, there is no cover so you’ll be able to bring a date! We’ll be playing all you Klezmer favorites plus a few new tunes soon to become Klezmer standards. ”
then… onward and downward…
We’re catching cabs to Dr. Jelly Finger’s Paradise Jam @ Otto’s Shrunken Head and Tikki Bar located 538 E 14th St. between Ave. A & B. This is the Times Square of the East Village. Mike says: “We’re literally just going to throw everyone off the stage.…
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YOM HAATZMAUT/ ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY CONCERT &
The American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House is thrilled to
invite you to our concert featuring the talented Cantor Moshe Tessone and his
unforgettable Oriental ensemble.
FOR RESERVATIONS, CALL BOX OFFICE (917) 606-8200 or EMAIL:
ISPERLING@ASF.CJH.ORG.
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY, 15 W. 16TH STREET, BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH
AVENUES, NEW YORK CITY; 7 PM Reception, 7:45 Concert.
Admission: $20; $15: For Advance Reservations, Students, Seniors,
Members of ASF, YUM & the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
PIEROGIES AND PO-BOYS
Romashka, The Village Klezmer Quintet, and the Gold Sparkle Brass Band are joining forces at the Baggot Inn.
When?
Thursday, May 6th
7 pm – The Village Klezmer Quintet
8 pm – The Gold Sparkle Brass Band
9 pm – Romashka, the NYC Gypsy Dance Party Band
$5 cover
Where:
Baggot Inn is located at 82 W. 3rd Street, bet. Thompson and Sullivan, New York., phone: (212) 477-0622
Klezmer Sundays
Klezmer & Latin Jazz octets, double your pleasure
Divahn in Concert
April 21st – Wednesday
Washington, D.C.
8 pm
Washington Jewish Music Festival
Opening: John Bell, Sitar and Broto Roy, Tabla
Member: $20 Non-member: $25 Student/Senior: $12
For tickets or brochure:
202-777-3208 or jessika@dcjcc.org
For more info on the Festival:
http://www.dcjcc.org/arts/music/WashingtonJewishMusicFestival.htm
Shifre Lerer at Kavehoyz
Kavehoyz, sponsored by the Congress for Jewish Culture,
will feature the actress Shifre Lerer, star of the Yiddish stage
since the 1940s. (She was the lead in the Yiddish film “God, Man, and
Devil”). The program “Al dos guts” – From all the best – will
feature songs, skits and memoirs. At the piano – Herb Kaplan.
Thursday, March 25, 7:00 PM
at the Congress for Jewish Culture
25 E. 21st. NYC
information: 212-505-8040
admission: $10 includes kosher pastry and coffee.
PITTSBURGH JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival, a new annual
concert series devoted to Jewish-themed classical
music, will debut this spring. The festival is founded by
cellist Aron Zelkowicz and will feature musicians of the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and guests. This
year’s theme is “A Vanished World”, an exploration of
Jewish culture in Eastern Europe at the beginning of
the twentieth century, and consists of three programs:
1.Monday, April 19, 2004 8pm
2. Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8pm
3. Wednesday, May 5 2004 8pm
For more info…
“Ad-nai and I” in NYC in April
David Gould’s “Ad-nai and I” project is bringing its eclectic roots reggae and dub sounds back to NewYork City performing some Passover favorites along with a set of reinterpretations of traditional Hebrew prayers, melodies, psalms, and classic Jamaican reggae tracks.
Sat. April 17th- Makor
35 W. 67th St- New York
phone- 212-601-1000
doors at 8pm
tickets- $15
9pm- Klezska
10pm- A&I
Jerusalem Lyric Trio performs Denburg World Premiere
The Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles presents The Jerusalem Lyric Trio
in their World Premiere performance of Moshe Denburg�s �In the End of Days�,
(B�Aharit Hayamim). This piece was made possible by a grant from the Canada
Council for the Arts.
WHEN: Thursday, March 25, 2004
7:30 PM
WHERE:Valley Beth Shalom, 15739 Ventura Boulevard,
Encino, CA 91436
www.vbs.org
Tickets $20. Call (818) 788-6000.
More info…
Cantors in Concert with Susan Kander World Premiere
And the Time of Singing has Come…
An Evening of Cantors in Concert
Honoring Cantor Israel Goldstein, Director
School of Sacred Music – Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Thursday April 1 2004 7:30 PM
Congregation Rodeph Sholom
7 West 83rd St (off CPW)
New York City
Presenting the world premiere of a vocal work by composer
Susan Kander, with Sandra Schipior, violin… more info…
THE JEWISH PEOPLES PHILHARMONIC CHORUS (JPPC)
Der yidisher filharmonisher folkskhor
with CONDUCTOR BINYUMEN (“BEN”) SCHAECHTER
have upcoming performances in PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK and NEW JERSEY, USA.
THE JPPC is the LONGEST CONTINUALLY PERFORMING
YIDDISH – and JEWISH – CHORUS IN THE WORLD.
Upcoming performances:
1) Sun., March 28, 7:30 PM, Gratz Coll., Melrose Park, nr. Philadelphia, PA
2) Sunday, April 18, 7:15 PM, Riverdale Jewish Center, Bronx, NY
3) Sunday, April 25, 6:30 PM, Temple Beth Elohim, Old Bethpage, NY
4) Wednesday, May 19, 8:00 PM, Highland Park Conservative Temple, NJ
5) Sunday, June 6, 2:00 PM, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY
more details….
The Youngers of Zion
Traditional acoustic Yiddish dance music and song played by three master musicians. Sunday, April 4 at 7:00-9:00 PM
@ :::: S A T A L L A :::::: 37 West 26th St. (bet: 6th/Bway) NYC
212.576.1155 http://www.satalla.com/ $12 cover/$10 minimum. More info…
Torat Chayim Choral Concert
Temple Shalom of Newton, MA will have a choral concert with music by Ben Steinberg, Saturday March 20, 2004 at 7:30pm. Featuring Cantor Renata Kruzhkova Braun, and acompanied by David Carrier and Chamber Orchestra, the piece is Torat Chayim: A Torah of Life, a work for Voice, Chorus and Chamber Orchestra. Tickets–general admission $25.00 Patron $100 reserved seating. Temple Shalom of Newton, 175 Temple Street. W. Newton, MA 02465. For tickets call: 617-332-9550. Tickets will be held at the door.
Gerald Cohen– Upcoming Performances
Gili Sharett at Carnegie Hall
Gili Sharett will perform a concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday May 9 at 5:30 pm. in the Weill Auditorium.
Sharett is a bassoon player, and is premiering three pieces by contemporary Jewish composers: Sheila Silver, Yehezkel Braun and Noam Sivan. For this and other great concerts, see the Carnegie Hall website: http://www.carnegiehall.org/intro.jsp
More about the concert…
Yiddish ‘Pirates of Penzance’
GET READY NYC! because on May 2, 2004
Zalmen Mlotek will conduct the New Yiddish Chorale in a Folksbiene Theatre presentation of Al Grand’s Yiddish version of “The Pirates of Penzance” (a.k.a., DI YAM GAZLONIM) at Temple Shaaray Tefila, 250 East 79th Street (at Second Avenue), New York on Sunday, May 2, 2004 at 3:00PM. For ticket information and group sales please call the Folksbiene at (212) 213-2120… more info…
Hasidic Cappella
Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, CA
Sunday, March 21
at 4:00pm
The Moscow Male Jewish Choir, “Hasidic Cappella”
General admission seats are only $25 ($18 for seniors and students). Premier seating and entrance to the champagne reception with the artists are only $45. For more information and tickets, call the Canyon Club 818-879-5016.
administration@adatelohim.com
MILWAUKEE JEWISH COMMUNITY CHORALE
SimplyTsfat
Kavehoyz concert-series
As part of the monthly Kavehoyz concert-series,
Temple Beth Elohim (the Garfield Temple),
The Congress for Jewish Culture, with Yugntruf and the League for
Yiddish invite you to an evening of Yiddish song with
Janet Leuchter, Jeanette Lewicki,
Shura Lipovsky (from Holland), Josh Waletsky,
and Jeff Warschauer
Special guest artists:
Deborah Strauss and Jake Shulman-Ment.
Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:00 PM
Congregation Beth Elohim (Garfield Temple)
271 Garfield Place (8th Avenue and Garfield Place)
Park Slope, Brooklyn …. more….
“Old World” Klezmer Concert
An evening with Alicia Svigals & Pete Rushefsky
8pm Saturday, February 28
$16 members / $18 nonmembers
Open Center
83 Spring St., NYC
(212) 219-2527
Before the big klezmer bands of New York arose with their brass and clarinets, there were the archetypical Jewish orchestras of the old world, led by the fiddle and borne aloft by the otherworldly sounds of the harp-like “tsimbl”, or Jewish hammered dulcimer…..
The 20th Zimriya: World Assembly of Choirs in Israel