Re: Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer Duo New Program

[Olga van der Hoeden <tulipart...>]

Dear Jeff and Deborah,

Many congratulations with your new Program!!
Wish you lot's of succes.
I would be honoured if you would do some of this program as a concertperformance
during your workshops!

Mazl Tov!!
Olga Tulip

Warschauer (at) aol(dot)com schreef:

> 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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