Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer Duo New Program

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Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer Duo
New Program Announcement and 
March 1999 Concerts and Events

Dear Friends, 
We are very happy to announce the premiere of our new program.  Also please
see the listing of public concerts and events.  Hope to see you there!  

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The Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer Duo announce their new program for
Spring and Summer 1999: 

"In My Garden: Yiddish Songs and Music of Love and Rejoicing."

Yiddish music is rich with songs about love in its many different forms.
Violinist Deborah Strauss and guitarist, mandolinist and singer Jeff
Warschauer perform familiar, rarely heard and original songs and klezmer
melodies that celebrate family, nature and community along with spiritual and
romantic love.  Join them in this unique and uplifting concert event.  

The program will premiere in New York City on March 21, 1999.

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Saturday 3/6 at 8:30 PM.  Concert at The Old Broadway Synagogue, 15 Old
Broadway (1 block east of Broadway between 125th and 126th Streets), NYC.
$7.50; students $5.00.  Info: (212) 662-9767 (leave message) or Rabbi Mann at
(212) 423-6712.  

Sunday, March 21 at 3:30 PM.  Premiere Concert of "In My Garden," at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1 West 4th Street (between
Broadway and Mercer), NYC.  $10.00; students/seniors $8.00.  Info: (212)
824-2253.

Also: Deborah and Jeff will be performing with Josh Waletzky in Crossing the
Shadows/Ariber di Shotns, his program of original Yiddish songs and melodies,
March 20, 8:00 PM at Kane Street Synagogue, Brooklyn.  $18 including wine and
dessert reception.  Info: 718-875-1550.  

Jeff's Klezmer Ensemble Workshop at the Workmen's Circle in NYC begins its
second session on Monday, March 8.  New ensemble members are welcome!  Info:
(212) 889-6800. X220.  

To contact Deborah and Jeff: (718) 499-8879 or warschauer (at) aol(dot)com  

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Deborah Strauss (violin) is considered one of the finest practitioners of
traditional Jewish violin style today.  She is a member of the Chicago Klezmer
Ensemble, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and performs in a duo with guitarist,
mandolinist and singer Jeff Warschauer.  In addition, Deborah has worked with
Brave Old World, Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper and at the Folksbiene Yiddish
Theatre.  In 1994 and 1995 she appeared as a soloist at the Festival of Jewish
Culture in Cracow, Poland, and in 1996 performed and led workshops at the
Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival.  Deborah is featured in the Emmy
award-winning film, "Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House" and performs with
Mr. Perlman in concert.  Deborah teaches privately and at many Yiddish culture
workshops including KlezKamp, Buffalo on the Roof and KlezKanada.  She holds a
Bachelor of Music degree from Rutgers University, and is completing a degree
in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.
 
Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) is known internationally as one of
the foremost exponents of the klezmer mandolin, as a unique innovator in the
development of an authentic klezmer guitar style, and as an expressive Yiddish
singer.  He has played and taught throughout the United States, in Eastern and
Western Europe, and in Australia and New Zealand.  He is a member of the
Klezmer Conservatory Band, plays in a duo with violinist Deborah Strauss, has
performed with the Bolshoi Ballet, and has been composer, music director
and/or featured instrumentalist for numerous theatrical productions,
recordings, and film soundtracks.  He also performs with Josh Waletzky, Shura
Lipovsky, Michael Alpert and Zalmen Mlotek.  Jeff appears with Itzhak Perlman
in both the Emmy award-winning film documentary and the CD entitled In the
Fiddler's House.  Jeff's solo CD, "The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and
Mandolin," released on the Omega label, has received widespread critical
acclaim.  In 1986 he won the Amalgamated Bank Prize for Yiddish Studies at the
Oxford University Summer Programme, and in 1995 returned to England to lecture
on the history of klezmer music at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies.
He was awarded a 1990 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship for his klezmer
mandolin and solo guitar work.  A graduate of the New England Conservatory of
Music, Jeff has taught for three years at KlezKanada and for eleven years at
the KlezKamp Yiddish Folk Arts Program.  

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