Re: Announcement, Old Boadway Music Series

[eliott kahn <elkahn...>]

2/25/00       FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE        2/25/00


The Old Broadway Synagogue located on 125th St., one block east of 
Broadway, is pleased to announce the first concert of  its Upper Upper West 
Side Jewish Music Series. The concert, entitled MASTERS OF THE YIDDISH ART 
SONG, will feature baritone Robert Ableson, tenor Bernard Fitch, and piano 
accompanist Mimi Stern-Wolfe. The concert will take place on Sunday, March 
12th at 4:00 PM in Old Broadway's sanctuary. Admission is $10.00.

The Old Broadway Synagogue is the last affiliated Jewish congregation in 
Harlem, which was once a vibrant Jewish community. This concert series is 
sponsored in connection with Old Broadway's 75th anniversary, and presented 
with the goal of revitalizing the shul and  its congregation.

Cantor Robert Ableson has long been acknowledged as one of the world's 
premiere interpreters of the Yiddish art song. A colleague of Yiddish art 
song composer Lazar Weiner, Ableson premiered over twenty of Weiner's songs 
during the 1960s and 70s. He has been a soloist with the New York City 
Opera, the Dallas and Philadelphia Orchestras, and appeared on Broadway in 
Those Were the Days. Cantor Ableson has officiated at Temple Israel of the 
City of New York for over twenty years and also teaches at the Hebrew Union 
College School of Sacred Music in New York City.

Tenor Bernard Fitch is currently a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera of 
New York City. He  has appeared on opera stages and sung with major 
orchestras throughout the world. During the 1960s, he served as cantor at 
the Raleigh Hotel in South Fallsburg, NY. A preeminent Yiddish art song 
interpreter as well as colleague of Lazar Weiner, Fitch sang the lead in 
Weiner's oratorio, The Golem.

For more information, call The Old Broadway Synagogue, 15 Old Broadway, at 
(212) 662-9767.


Eliott Kahn, D.M.A.
Music Archivist
Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
3080 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10027
         (212) 678-8091
FAX: (212) 678-8998