RE: Radio Programmes of Jewish Music in London UK

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

You may be interested to hear about the ?Music Zone? on the new Jewish radio
station, Shalom FM.  Betty Collick will host a month of programmes of all
kinds of Jewish music with star presenters. (see below) Happy listening if
you are in earshot. Only 15 miles around London!
Geraldine


The Music Zone on Shalom Radio 87.9 FM




Every day   Monday ? Thursday 2.05 ? 2.30pm January 7 ? 31 2002



Broadcasting from Yakar, 2 Egerton Gardens, Hendon, London NW4


Betty Sagon Collick of the Jewish Music Institute, (JMI) who has spent a
lifetime in opera, the music business and radio, will host a series of 12
JMI programmes, every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday covering many facets of
Jewish music. On Wednesdays Rev Reuben Turner will present Great Cantors.
Betty will introduce twelve star presenters, including Michelene Wandor,
Gregori Schechter and Lucie Skeaping who will take us into the worlds of
Yiddish Song, Baroque Italian Jewish music, Klezmer and Sephardi music as
well as music related to the Holocaust. Jewish Music Distribution will tell
us of the top ten discs of 2001 and we will hear about some of the exciting
new Jewish music projects being undertaken by JMI Millennium Award Scheme
winners. Rev Reuben Turner will be covering the greats in Cantorial music on
Wednesdays, so clearly there is something for everyone.  A free CD will be
offered as a prize for the first correct answer to a question on Jewish
music posed each day.

Monday 7                  2.05 ? 2.30pm Geraldine Auerbach Takes you on a
journey in Jewish music in a talk called: How does a Jewish girl from
Kimberley, get to have tea with the Queen?

Tuesday 8                2.05 ? 2.30pm Sex and Love in Sephardi song, Yvonne
Behar musician teacher and writer specialises in the history of the Golden
Age of Sephardi Jews in Medieval Spain

Wednesday 9 2.05 ? 2.30pm Three Great Cantors introduced by Rev Reuben
Turner

Thursday 10            2.05 ? 2.30pm Noa Lachman of JMD the UK?s only
company bringing you all types of Jewish music at the touch of a button,
presents the 10 most popular CDs of 2001

Monday 14               2.05 ? 2.30pm What is Klezmer? Merlin Shepherd,
(tbc) internationally acclaimed authority, talks on the origin and
development of Eastern European Jewish wedding music and plays some of his
favourite original Klezmer Recordings

Tuesday15               2.05 ? 2.30pm Who was Salamone Rossi?  Poet and
playwright Michelene Wandor takes us into the world of the Gonzaga Court in
Mantua in the 17th century to meet this Jewish composer

Wednesday 16            2.05 ? 2.30pm Three more Great Cantors introduced by
Rev Reuben Turner

Thursday 17            2.05 ? 2.30pm Lucie Skeaping, talks about how she
started the UK?s most versatile and widely acclaimed Jewish music ensemble
and relates the adventures of The Burning Bush researching and performing
Sephardi and Ashkenazi music

Monday 21               2.05 ? 2.30pm Michael Haas, executive producer of
the Decca recordings of music suppressed by the Third Reich, discovers what
happened to composers from Nazi Germany who came in Exile to Britain

Tuesday  22    2.05 ? 2.30pm Gregori Schechter, Klezmer clarinet virtuoso,
leader of the first UK klezmer band, talks about his early life in Russia,
his time in Israel and other musical highlights

Wednesday 23            2.05 ? 2.30pm Three more Great Cantors introduced by
Rev Reuben Turner

Thursday  24           2.05 ? 2.30pm Acclaimed playwright Julia Pascal joins
her award winning Cellist cousin Natalie Clean in a concert at the Purcell
Room next Tuesday to commemorate the holocaust. She introduces the words and
music we will hear

Monday 28 Beyond Recall?. 2.05 ? 2.30pm Walter Woyda who grew up in Berlin
shares with us the contents of the commemorative box of 11 CDs of Jewish
music and one DVD with a huge book of documents relating to the period
1933 ? 1938 when Jews were no longer allowed to take part in public music in
Germany

Tuesday  29             2.05 ? 2.30pm Yiddish actor and teacher, Barry Davis
celebrates the life of Mordechai Gebirtig who died in 1942. His poems
inspired joyful, light-hearted, popular as well as poignant songs known and
loved the world over

Wednesday 30            2.05 ? 2.30pm Three more great cantors introduced by
Rev Reuben Turner

Thursday 31 Joan Noble 2.05 ? 2.30pm JMI Millennium Award Scheme Manager
will introduce some of the 25 people who are working on Millennium Award
projects in Jewish music and invites Yiddish singer Judith Silver and
members of the cutting London band Oi-Va-Voi in the studio
Programmes subject to change  (programme as at 4/1/02)

To purchase any recordings heard on the programmes, (and many others) please
telephone Jewish Music Distribution 01323 832 863 or email jmduk (at) 
hotmail(dot)com
<mailto:jmduk (at) hotmail(dot)com>



To contact Betty Sagon Collick: JMI Programme manager and host ring Jewish
Music Institute the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London on 020 8909 2445 e-mail jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk
<mailto:jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk>