Strauss/Warschauer Duo at Wesleyan University on January 30

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The Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer Duo will be performing a concert 
entitled "In My Garden: Yiddish Songs and Music of Love and Rejoicing," as 
part of the Music at the Russell House Series on Sunday, January 30, 2000 at 
3 PM at Russell House (corner of High and Washington Streets), Wesleyan 
University, Middletown, CT.  

Admission is Free
Reception with the artists following. 

For more information, please call (860) 685-2280.  

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

Yiddish music is rich with songs about love in its many different forms.
Deborah Strauss (violin, vocals, accordion) and Jeff Warschauer (vocals,
guitar, mandolin) perform familiar, rarely heard, and original songs and
klezmer melodies that celebrate family, nature, and community along with
spiritual and romantic love. Join us for this unique and
uplifting concert event.

The Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer Duo brings together two musicians
whose individual backgrounds in klezmer music and Yiddish song create a
performance style that is traditionally informed yet uniquely their own.
They weave songs, translations and instrumental music into a sound which
encompasses an exceptional range of colors and texturesofrom delicate and
refined to exuberant and foot-stomping.

As a duo, they have performed to overwhelming critical and public acclaim
in such diverse places as the Amsterdam International Yiddish Festival,
the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto,
and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York City. They can be heard
together on Jeff's solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and
Mandolin and on the Ellipsis Arts compilation, Klezmer Music: A Marriage
of Heaven and Earth. They are currently working on their first duo CD.  

The New York Times calls their music "terrific," and Gazeta Wyborcza
(Poland) says "phenomenal."

Deborah is considered one of the finest practitioners of traditional
Jewish violin today. She is a member of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, and
the Klezmer Conservatory Band. In addition, she is currently
collaborating with composer Josh Waletzky on Crossing the Shadows, a
program of his original Yiddish songs and melodies. Deborah is featured
in the Emmy award-winning film, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddleris House
and performs with Mr. Perlman in concert. She tours internationally and
teaches privately and at many Yiddish culture workshops including
KlezKamp, KlezKamp West, Buffalo on the Roof and KlezKanada.

Jeff Warschauer is known internationally as one of the foremost exponents
of the klezmer mandolin, as an innovator in the development of a klezmer 
guitar style, and as an expressive Yiddish singer. He
has played and taught throughout North America, in Eastern and Western
Europe, and in Australia and New Zealand. 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. Jeff has
appeared with Itzhak Perlman on film, in concert and on two CDs. In 1995
he lectured on klezmer music at Oxford University.
   

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