Re: Yiddish in the Park - Wednesday, July 12th, New York City (Seton Park)

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Is Zalmen going to be at that concert so soon?

wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com wrote:

> Here it's billed as:
>
> The Russian Klezmer All-Stars
> Seton Park, Riverdale [really Spuyten Duyvil, in the Bronx] (231st St.
> & Independence Ave.)
> Wednesday, July 12th, 7:00 PM
> with Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek
> Free Admission!
> For information call (212)889.6800 x220/215
>
> If someone needs directions and can't get it from the above telephone
> #, they can write to me.  (The park is a few blocks from where we live
> and we'll be there.)
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:48 AM
> Subject: Yiddish in the Park - Cleveland
>
> >Marvelous event!  The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Orchestra played for
> an
> >hour before the main concert.  Then came the wonderful musicians from
> St
> >Petersburg, Russia, coordinated by the always amazing Adrienne
> Cooper.
> >Leonid Sonts, violin; Maria Yakubovich, Marina Lebenson, Anzhela
> Pikhut
> >and Yefim Chorny, vocals; a woman, also from Russia, on piano, whose
> >name I, sadly, cannot remember, the former drummer from Maxwell
> Street,
> >whose name also escapes me (I'm sorry); and Eugeny Khazdan, piano;
> Steve
> >Ostrow, of our own Yiddishe Cup, played trombone admirably; and
> Margot
> >Leverett played soulfully on clarinet.   The Russian woman pianist,
> >Steve, Margot, and the drummer were called on last minute because the
> >American embassy refused to issue visas to 5 of the original 10
> >musicians scheduled to play.  You never would have known it.  They
> >played as if they had been part of the original group.  It was an
> >exciting and varied show with musicianship of the highest caliber.
> >There is so much more to say, but I have not the energy to go on and
> >need to go to work.  If anyone saw their performance in Detroit last
> >night or are planning to go to the one in New York, please post some
> >more details.  I have to say, though, not only were they exquisite
> >performers, but lovely and generous people.  I hope to be able to go
> to
> >the St. Petersburg Klezfest next summer.
> >
> >Lorele
> >
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