Re: Klezfest in Ukraine, 2002

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Dear Mikhail Frenkel,
Congratulations on the interesting programme of the 'Klezfest in Ukraine'.
Wish you every success with this event.

Lena Stanley-Clamp
Director
European Association for Jewish Culture

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Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 10:42 AM
Subject: Klezfest in Ukraine, 2002


> PRESS RELEASE
>
> Mikhail Frenkel
>
> "Klezfest in Ukraine-2002" will take place in Kiev on July 28 -
> August 2
>
> "Music was born by the spirit of prophets; it contains power able
> to lift everyone up to the level of prophetic inspiration".
>
> These words of a wise man - rabbi Nachman - are the best
> description of the musical soul of the Jewish people.
>
> For many ages, one of the brightest components of this soul has
> been the art of klezmers - wedding musicians. Today, after decades
> of oblivion, the klezmer art is coming back to life. For the third
> year in a row, due to the efforts of a group of enthusiasts led by
> Yana and Boris Yanover, a festival of klezmer music will take
> place in Ukraine this year.
>
> According to tradition, "Klezfest in Ukraine-2002" is not just a
> meeting of the best performers, but it is first of all training
> and exchange of creative experience. Around fifty participants in
> the festival from Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and
> Kazakhstan will become diligent students of master classes taught
> by famous performer of songs in Yiddish Adrianne Cooper (USA),
> artistic director of the Broadway Jewish Theater "Folksbineh"
> Zalmen Mlotek, and world leading traditional klezmer clarinetist
> Merlin Shepherd (Great Britain). Stas Raiko, leader of the
> "Kharkov Klezmer Band", which is popular both in Ukraine and
> abroad, will for the first time take upon himself the role of a
> teacher as well.
>
> Guests of the festival will also be Eda Beregovskaya, daughter of
> the world's greatest researcher of Jewish folk music Moshe
> Beregovsky, and sound archivist from the Chicago department of
> YIVO Cyril Robinson.
>
> Sponsor general of the festival: the Fund for Development of
> Jewish Communities in Russia and Ukraine (New York, USA), a
> project of the American Jewish World's Service.
>
> Sponsors: Public Affairs Section of Embassy  of USA in Ukraine,
> the Jewish Agency "SOHNUT-UKRAINE", the American Jewish Joint
> Distribution Committee, "Good News" International Charitable Fund.
>
> Information support: newspapers "Jewish Observer" and "Einikait".
>
> All events of "Klezfest" will take place in the "Dubek" boarding
> house in Puscha-Voditsa, outside Kiev. And the final concert,
> whose culminating point will be the unique "Ghetto Tango" program
> of Adrianne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek, will start at 7 p.m. on
> August 1 at the "Slavutich" music hall.
>
> No doubt, it will be a real festival of the Jewish folk music.
> Everyone who would like to get additional information on "Klezfest
> in Ukraine - 2002" can browse website http://jewukr.org/klezmer or
> call the following numbers:
>
> (044) 248-36-70, 248-36-34, 248-53-77.
>
>
>
>
>

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