CD release concert of CROSSING THE SHADOWS

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

I am posting this for Josh.

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From:  Joshua Waletzky [SMTP:josh (at) waletzky(dot)com]
Sent:  Sunday, May 06, 2001 5:41 PM
To:  reyzl (at) waletzky(dot)com




Come celebrate the CD release of

CROSSING THE SHADOWS
new Yiddish songs by Josh Waletzky
featuring Josh Waletzky,
Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer


Sunday afternoon, May 13, 2001
1:30 and 3 pm (doors open at 1 pm)
$10 one set, $15 both


at Tonic (212.358.7501)
107 Norfolk Street,
between Delancey & Rivington
F train to Delancey
Or J, M, or Z train to Essex



REVIEWS OF THIS NEW YIDDISH MUSIC:

"The tension between the urge to dance and the need to mourn fuels this 
starkly intimate song cycle forthcoming from vocalist/composer/pianist 
Joshua Waletzky, which features original, poetic Yiddish art songs 
disguised in haimish folk arrangements and infused with a deep and 
timeless sense of Yiddishkeit." [Moment Magazine]
"...truly wonderful, stirring, provocative, and a great step forward 
for Yiddish song..."
-- Seth Rogovoy, author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music 
   Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul"


"Joshua Waletzky, a cinematographer of note, is also a seasoned and 
talented Yiddish poet and composer.  In this most recent CD, he has 
created moving tone poems that  ...  evoke the freylekh beat of klezmer 
music, the outpouring of a soulful Hasidic nign, the liturgical 
recitiative, which blend with a lilting Ukrainian refrain and recall 
the range of the Yiddish folksong and the poetry of Moishe Kulbak and 
Itsik Manger.  His treatment of universal and Jewish themes of peace, 
Ireland and the Sabbath is rendered in a contemporary style and 
setting.  A welcome addition to the Yiddish art song treasury."
-- Chana Mlotek, Co-compiler of the "Pearls of Yiddish Song" 
   series, Music Archivist at the YIVO Institute


"...a magnificent new album, in which Waletzky reinvents the entire 
repertoire of Ashkenazic music: zmires for the Sabbath and 
niggunim-without-words; freylekhs and wedding songs; lullabies, 
laments, and love songs.  Waletzky achieves a seamless fusion of old 
forms with new content.  Listen to his opening elegy to the brothers 
and sisters murdered in the Holocaust.  It is sung to a melody that 
might have been played at their weddings, had they lived out the 
fullness of their years.  Listen for the rhythm of the sea shanty 
(hardly an indigenous Jewish genre!), which informs his song about 
Noah's Dove.  Listen to the way he mixes and matches Hebrew and 
Yiddish, hasidic fervor and a passion for peace, the mandolin and 
modernity.  Capped by a lyrical, at times, haunting, performance style, 
Josh Waletzky's CD will become a classic of the American-Jewish folk 
revival."
-- David  G. Roskies, Professor of Jewish Literature, Jewish 
   Theological Seminary



MORE INFORMATION WILL SOON BE POSTED ON HOW TO ORDER THE CD.

Josh Waletzky
josh (at) waletzky(dot)com

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