"Essential Klezmer" Update: October NYC Library Tour

[Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy...>]

Seth Rogovoy, author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's
Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul" -- widely hailed as the "definitive"
guidebook to klezmer -- will be in New York City in mid-October
for a weeklong series of talks at branch libraries of the New York
Public Library.

**THE ESSENTIAL KLEZMER NYC LIBRARY TOUR, Oct. 16-21. 2000**

10/16 (Monday): Yorkville Library (Upper East Side),
222 East 79th Street (btwn. Second and Third Aves.), 6 p.m.

10/17 (Tuesday): Bloomingdale Regional Library
150 West 100th Street (btwn Amsterdam and Columbus), 6:30 p.m.

10/19 (Thursday): Riverside Branch
127 Amsterdam Avenue (at West 66th St.), 6 p.m.

10/20 (Friday): Riverdale Branch Library
5540 Moshulu Avenue (one block east of Riverdale Ave.
at West 256th Street), Bronx, N.Y., 1:30 p.m.

10/21 (Saturday): Baychester Regional Library
2049 Asch Loop North (Bartow Avenue entrance to Co-op City)
Bronx, N.Y., 2:30 p.m.

Other upcoming book talks and signings include:
10/29: 2 p.m., Oblong Books and Music, Millerton, N.Y.
11/5: 2p.m., Spencertown (N.Y.) Academy
11/9: 7:30 p.m., Jewish Federation of the Berkshires, Pittsfield, Mass.
11/14: 7:30 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Forest Hills, N.Y.
11/19: 7p.m., Garland Auditorium, Polytechnic School, Pasadena, Calif.
11/28: 7 p.m., Congregation Shaarie Torah, Portland Oregon
11/29: 7p.m., Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
12/3:  10 a.m., Temple Beth Am, Seattle

Recently called "invaluable" by the New York Times, "The Essential
Klezmer," the new 300-page illustrated guidebook which includes an
80-page critically annotated discography, traces the history and evolution
of klezmer from its roots as the dance music of the shtetl through its
jazz-age immigration to the U.S. to its triumphant revival as an American
folk music and source for avant-garde improvisation.

In addition to classic figures like Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein, the
book
includes profiles and photos of many of today's leading klezmer bands,
including
the Klezmatics, New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, Brave Old World, Andy Statman
Klezmer Orchestra, Klezmer Conservatory Band, downtown-klezmer figures
including David Krakauer and Naftule's Dream, and new Jewish music artists
including Wolf Krakowski, John Zorn, Gary Lucas and King Django.

Author and music critic Seth Rogovoy is currently on a speaking
tour and doing radio and television interviews about his book
and the story of klezmer. He was recently interviewed for an
upcoming edition of CNN's "Worldbeat," will be a guest on Joey
Reynolds show on the nationally-syndicated WOR-AM radio network at
midnight on Oct. 21 (Friday night), and will be speaking in Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Seattle and Portland in coming months.

Rogovoy will also be teaching a three-session course on klezmer at
Makor (www.makor.org) in New York City in December and a one-month
course on klezmer at Williams College in January 2001.

For more information and a complete schedule of book-related events,
please visit Algonquin Book's website for "The Essential Klezmer" at
http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5.

For more information about Seth Rogovoy, please visit
http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy and
http://www.wamc.org/roundtable or send Email to rogovoy (at) 
berkshire(dot)net(dot)

**What they're saying about "The Essential Klezmer":**

“COMPREHENSIVE AND INFORMATIVE ....
ENGAGINGLY FRESH .... ESPECIALLY
VALUABLE” -- Publisher's Weekly

“ALL-ENCOMPASSING, CRITICALLY ASTUTE
AND UNFAILINGLY ENTHUSIASTIC” –Newsday

“…. FANS SHOULD EVER BLESS ROGOVOY.” – Booklist

“INDISPENSABLE ….” – Jewish Week

“FASCINATING [and] COMPREHENSIVE” –
City Paper (Washington, D.C.)

“DEFINITIVE” – The New York Resident

“SWEEPING, COMPREHENSIVE, INVALUABLE ….
AN ENTHUSIAST’S SOURCEBOOK” – The New York Times

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