The Strauss/Warschauer Duo to Perform at Tonic in NYC

[Warschauer <Warschauer...>]

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo will perform a concert of Klezmer music and 
Yiddish song on Sunday November 5, 2000 at Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between 
Delancey and Rivington Streets), NYC.  Sets will be at 1:30 and 3:00.  
Admission is $10.00 for one set, $15.00 for both.  For more information call 
(212) 358-7503.  

The concert will feature selections from the Duo's program, "In My Garden: 
Yiddish Songs and Music of Love and Rejoicing," and from their new program, 
"Life and Love."  The Strauss/Warschauer Duo's appearance at Tonic is part of 
a series of Sunday afternoon klezmer and Yiddish music concerts curated by 
clarinetist and composer David Krakauer.  

The Strauss/Warschauer Duo brings together two established musicians who are 
deeply committed to klezmer music and Yiddish song.  Their performances are 
an integrated and intimate blend of songs, translations and instrumental 
music - grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary.  They draw from 
klezmer, Yiddish, Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own 
original compositions and song settings.  As they sing and play in shifting 
combinations of violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion, they create a dynamic 
atmosphere with an exceptional range of feeling - from delicate and refined 
to exuberant and foot-stomping.

Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer are two of the most active and 
well-respected performers and teachers in the klezmer and Yiddish music 
scene.  As a duo, they have performed to overwhelming critical and public 
acclaim in such diverse venues as the Amsterdam International Yiddish 
Festival, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, the Ashkenaz Festival in 
Toronto, and the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater and American Jewish Theater in 
New York City.  They lead workshops and classes throughout North America and 
Europe and are on the faculty of the KlezKamp and KlezKanada Yiddish culture 
programs.    

Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals) is one of the finest 
practitioners of traditional Jewish violin today.  She is a member of the 
Chicago Klezmer Ensemble and the Klezmer Conservatory Band.  She has also 
worked with many of the leading artists of the klezmer revival including 
Brave Old World, Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek.  Deborah is featured in 
the Emmy award-winning film, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House and has 
toured with Mr. Perlman in the United States and Mexico.  She is a popular 
teacher of klezmer style and technique to students of all ages.  Deborah 
studied violin at Rutgers University and 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 an innovator in the 
development of a klezmer guitar style, as an expressive Yiddish singer, and 
as a skillful and inspirational teacher.  Jeff is also a composer whose music 
has been heard in films and theater productions, and on Public Radio 
International and HBO.  He has received two Meet the Composer grants from the 
State of New York and was awarded a 1990 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship.   
Jeff is a member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, has performed with the 
Bolshoi Ballet, and has appeared with Itzhak Perlman on film, in concert and 
on two CDs. He was a prize-winning student at the Oxford University Summer 
Programme in Yiddish and returned to Oxford to lecture on klezmer music.  A 
graduate of the New England Conservatory, Jeff's solo CD, "The Singing Waltz: 
Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin," on the Omega label, has received widespread 
critical acclaim.  
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