Re: CD release concert of CROSSING THE SHADOWS

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

Mazel Tov, Josh and Reyzl!  Can't wait to hear it!
Lorele

Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:

> 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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