2 Music Performances - 1 Yiddish/1 Klezmer

[Philip <mike...>]

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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 11:06:44 -0500
From: sroolik (at) aol(dot)com
Subject: Der Yidisher 'Mikado'

A comic operetta with English dialog and Yiddish songs based on the
Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan, will be presented at:

Beth Tikva Synagogue, 2200 Baltimore Road, Rockville, Maryland 20851.
  Phone: 301-762-7338.

Saturday, Dec. 2, and Sunday Dec.3, 1995.

The Saturday evening performance will be at 8:00pm, and the Sunday matinee
performance will be given at 2:00 pm.

This Gilbert & Sullivan performance will be presented by the Light Opera
Company of Long Island

At the door:
Saturday General Admission will be $18, Seniors and Students: $15.

 Sunday General Admission will be $15, Seniors and Students: $12.

Early Subscriptions: Mail in for tickets and get a $2.00 discount.

Kumts  un  zayts  freylakh  mit  gelekhter!!

Mendy Fliegler

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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:32:41 -0500
From: warschauer (at) aol(dot)com
Subject: Jeff Warschauer Performs at Hebrew Union College

The Jeff Warschauer Klezmer Ensemble
391 Fourth Street, Suite 4*Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA
phone & fax 718/499-8879*e-mail: warschauer (at) aol(dot)com

        For Immediate Release
        Info: Tracy Nathan (212) 674-5300 x205

Klezmer mandolinist, guitarist, and singer Jeff Warschauer will be
performing a concert of original and traditional Klezmer instrumentals,
and songs in Yiddish and English.  The concert will take place on Sunday,
December 3, 1995, 3:00 PM, at Hebrew Union College Brookdale Center, One
West 4th Street, New York City.  Admission $7.00 / seniors and students
$5.00.

Jeff is known internationally as one of the foremost exponents of the
Klezmer mandolin, and as a unique innovator in the development of an
authentic Klezmer guitar style.  His CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer
Guitar and Mandolin, is scheduled to be released on the Vanguard
Classics/Omega label. Jeff will be joined by guest artists Kurt Bjorling
(clarinet, accordion and tsimbl), and Deborah Strauss (violin), of the
Chicago Klezmer Ensemble.

The concert is a joint production of Living Traditions, a non-profit
organization dedicated to the development of Yiddish culture, and Hebrew
Union College.

For more information, please contact Tracy Nathan, at (212) 674-5300
x205, or Jeff Warschauer at (718) 499-8879.

Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo, vocals) is known
internationally as one of the foremost exponents of the Klezmer mandolin,
and as a unique innovator in the development of an authentic Klezmer
guitar style.  He has played and taught throughout the United States, in
Western Europe, Poland, the Czech Republic, the former Soviet Union,
Australia and New Zealand, and for the U.S.O. in Greenland. He is a
member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, has performed with the Bolshoi
Ballet, and has been Composer, Music Director and/or featured
instrumentalist for numerous theatrical productions, recordings, and film
soundtracks. In addition, he performs extensively in duo and trio
combinations with Dutch Yiddish singer Shura Lipovsky, and New York
pianist Zalmen Mlotek. In 1986 he won the Amalgamated Bank Prize for
Yiddish Studies at the Oxford University Summer Programme, and he was
awarded a 1990 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship for his Klezmer mandolin
and solo guitar work.  He recently appeared both on-stage, and in the pit
with the hit musical Shlemiel the First, and this past summer he
delivered a series of lectures on the history of Klezmer music at the
Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies.  A graduate of the New England
Conservatory of Music, Jeff is on the faculty of the Longy School of
Music and the KlezKamp Yiddish Folk Arts Institute.

Kurt Bjorling (clarinet, accordion and tsimbl) is one of the finest
clarinetists to emerge from the current klezmer revitalization.  Known
for his soulful and elegant interpretations of traditional klezmer music,
as well as for the jazzy innovation he brings to the style, Bjorling is
clarinetist with the internationally renowned group Brave Old World.
Bjorling has also been clarinetist and musical director of the Chicago
Klezmer Ensemble since 1984, and toured Europe in 1988-89 as featured
guest artist with The Klezmatics.  In 1991, he appeared at Lincoln Center
as guest soloist with the Concordia Chamber Symphony to perform his
original work A Suite of Yiddish Music, commissioned for the occasion.
Bjorling studied clarinet with Lloyd Scott and Larry Combs, principal
clarinetist of the Chicago Symphony, and teaches at KlezKamp and
Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music  He is active in the jazz,
chamber music, and ethnic music fields, and arranges and performs for
theater and video.  He is the music archivist at Spertus College of
Judaica in Chicago, and also builds and restores exotic musical
instruments.

Deborah Strauss (violin) is considered one of the finest practitioners of
traditional Jewish violin style today.  Known for her thoughtful
attention to detail and powerful expressivity, she performs with Kurt
Bjorling as a violin/tsimbl duo, and is a member of the Chicago Klezmer
Ensemble.  Deborah teaches at KlezKamp and Buffalo on the Roof, appears
on  Kapelye's new CD, On the Air, and has performed in numerous workshops
with Brave Old World.  In 1994 and 1995, she appeared as a soloist at the
Festival of Jewish Culture in Cracow, Poland.  Deborah is pursuing her
doctorate in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.

Jeff Warschauer


Philip J. Leonard
mike (at) order(dot)ph(dot)utexas(dot)edu