GOYLEM ! Free Music and Life Concert in Geneva
Lundi 25 juillet 2011 ร 12h30
GOYLEM ! sera en concert pour “Musique et Vie” ร l’Eglise Luthรฉrienne (Place du
Bourg-de-Four, angle rue Verdaine et rue de la Fontaine, Genรจve, Suisse).
Musique klezmer avec Michel Borzykowski (saxophones), Bianca Favez (violon) et Patrice Mugny (accordรฉon).
Entrรฉe libre. Collecte en faveur de lโenseignement de lโart dans les รฉcoles au
Kosovo, afin de faciliter la comprรฉhension
et lโรฉpanouissement des enfants, dโaprรจs une idรฉes de Yehudi Menuhin et Werner
Schmitt.
Informations: www.musique-vie.ch/Homepage francais.htm
Ellen S. Whitaker, a guitar teacher in North Carolina, has created an excellent book of guitar arrangements of Jewish favorite melodies. The book is intended for intermediate to advanced guitar players, with a few easier pieces. It includes a key to the guitar notation used in the work, the texts to the songs in transliteration, occasionally in Hebrew text, with English and an annotation about the meaning of the song along with performance notes about each piece. The guitar music, both solos and duets are presented in a separate section, which is an excellent arrangement of the book for learning and performance. The end of the collection includes an appendix explaining the Jewish modes, a second appendix linking each piece with the mode used, a glossary of each of the musical terms, a bibliography and discography.… 
Shoshana Damari, with a completely distinctive voice, and a career as one of Israel’s favorite singers, died on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at a hospital in Israel from pneumonia. She was 83. Damari was called by Haaretz newspaper as the “Queen of Israeli Song” , others the “diva of popular song”. Damari was born in Yemen, in the city of Damar, migrating with her family to Israel in 1924. She was a child prodigy and sang at many functions in her community. As a young teenager, she went to seek her career in Tel Aviv, landing a job at the Li-La-Lo Theater and becoming a permanent cast member. One of her solo numbers was by Shlomo Wilenski, called “Kalaniot” (Anemones) and it became her signature song.…