Moldovan Jewish Music Concert - Sun. March 9 in NYC

[Shayna Silverstein <shaynasilverstein...>]

MessageTo the list,
 

Please invite friends and family to a special concert this Sunday at Tonic in 
New York City - much more below!



Thanks,

Shayna Silverstein



 

       a concert featuring
      Moldovan Masters of Jewish Music
      March 9, 2003 at Tonic in NYC 
     
      On Sunday March 9, 2003, a unique event in the Klezmer Brunch series at 
Tonic will unite visiting Moldovan artists with their musical brethren living 
in New York City's vital community of Soviet immigrants. World-renowned 
vocalist Yefim Chorny and pianist Suzan Gergus, visiting from Moldova, will 
give a rare New York performance of their Yiddish repertoire at 3:00 p.m. 
Brooklyn-based musicians German Goldenshteyn and Aron Gershman will precede 
them at 1:30, performing the lively, danceable klezmer music of Moldovan-Jewish 
celebrations. 

            Yefim Chorny 
             

            Yefim Chorny is an award-winning Yiddish folk singer who continues 
to work and live in his hometown of Chisinau, Moldova. He captures the range of 
human emotions with his sonorous baritone, sometimes soaring with joy, 
sometimes bringing tears to the eye, always with a warm, toothy smile. At the 
age of seven he began performing in the Jewish Folk Theatre of Kishinev. He has 
participated in klezmer festivals in St. Petersberg, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine 
(a video of his performance at KlezFest Ukraine 2002 is available here) and has 
performed throughout Romania, Greece, France, Czech Republic, the Former Soviet 
Union and America. Yefim won first prize in the International Festival of 
Jewish Singers in Moscow (2000). 


           German Goldenshteyn 
             

            German Goldenshteyn is a treasured clarinetist, currently living in 
Brooklyn, who spent many decades playing at Jewish weddings in Moldova and 
Ukraine. For several years he has been a featured performer in the Center for 
Traditional Music and Dance's Nashii Traditsii concert series and a teacher at 
the KlezKanada summer festival. He is beloved for his Old World style and vast 
musical memory of over 800 Jewish and Moldovan songs. 


           


      Passionate and melodious, earthy yet ethereal, Moldovan-Jewish music is 
deeply rooted in ancient traditions. It draws heavily on energetic Moldovan 
folk music, and has Romanian, Turkish and Gypsy influences. It is also 
comprised of prayerful cantorial elements, with vocals sung in Yiddish and 
Russian. The afternoon promises to be filled with magic, joy, wistfulness and 
beauty. 

      Moldova - Bessarabia, Moldavia, Kishinev (today Chisinau) - located on 
the border between Ukraine and Romania, is a country historically rich in music 
and Jewish culture. Only several decades ago, Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, 
housed a Jewish theater and was a major center of Yiddishkeit. Today, most 
Moldovan Jews have left the former Soviet Union for America, Israel and Western 
Europe. This event provides a rare opportunity for immigrants to hear artists 
from their homeland, as well for other New Yorkers to experience this soulful 
music. 



            Sunday, March 9, 2003 
            1:30 pm  German Goldenshteyn, Aron Gershman and ensemble, playing 
Moldovan-Jewish wedding music.  
            3 pm  Yefim Chorny and Suzan Gergus, performing Yiddish songs from 
Moldova.  
            $10 for one show, $15 for both  

      Tonic is located at 107 Norfolk St., ½ block north of Delancey, on 
Manhattan's Lower East Side: 
      F train to Delancey, JMZ train to Essex. 

      For more information and sound clips, see

      http://www.renewablestoday.com/moldova

      or contact 
      Jeff Perlman (jeffrey(dot)perlman (at) aya(dot)yale(dot)edu) (718) 
386-3007 or Shayna Silverstein (shaynasilverstein (at) hotmail(dot)com) (917) 
969-2449.

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