Brown Hillel Foundation and Yarmulkazi present:
Klezmerpalooza with Frank London
Sunday, February 23
2:30pm in Sayles Hall, on the Brown University campus
For more information contact:
Ilana Sherer
Box 4764
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
401-867-5363
klezmer (at) brown(dot)edu
Klezmerpalooza 2003, the fifth annual intercollegiate festival of Klezmer/Yiddish music, brings together college klezmer bands from the Northeast for a day of performances and workshops. The concert will feature Frank London along with klezmer bands from Brown, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and community participation in traditional Yiddish dancing.
London, a trumpeter, composer, and producer has been recording jazz and modern Jewish music since the mid-80s. He has performed with a wide variety of musicians including John Zorn, Mel Torme, LaMonte Young, Gal Costa, LL Cool J, David Byrne, and They Might Be Giants.
London has been a member of the Klezmatics, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Les Miserables Brass Band, and his own group, Hasidic New Wave, in addition to collaborations with vocalist Lorin Sklamberg. In 2000, he collaborated with a number of great New York musicians, to release Invocations for Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series.
As composer and arranger, London has created works for films including Jonathan Berman's The Shvitz (a recording of the music was released by Knitting Factory) and Bruno de Almeida's The Debt, 1993 Cannes Film Festival prizewinner. In theater, London served as music director for Robert Wilson's The Knee Plays, cowrote Chelm, CA with Flying Karamozov Brother Paul Magid, and even composed the score for a marionette production of The Golem!
London attended Brown University in 1976 and graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1980 with a Bachelors of Arts in Afro-American Music.
Frank London will be joined on stage by Brown Universityís Yarmulkazi, the Princeton Klezmocrats, the Princeton Klez Dispensers, the Yale Klezmer Band, The Columbia Klezmer Band, and the Northwestern WildKatz.
Admission: FREE for under 18 or students with valid ID, $10 for adults and non-students