Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC

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      a concert featuring
      Ashkenzim Jewish Vocal Quartet
      April 6, 2003 at Tonic in NYC 

     

       

      The unique and lush a capella singing of Ashkenazim, a Jewish vocal 
quartet from Russia, will be featured at Tonic’s Klezmer Brunch on Sunday, 
April 6, starting at 1:30pm. Winners of the Second Moscow International 
Competition of Jewish Performers in 2000, they have been dubbed “one of the 
newest, freshest sounds in Yiddish choral music today” by Zalman Mlotek, 
Executive Director of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater in New York. Ashkenazim is 
known for creative and exciting vocal arrangements of traditional songs as well 
as new compositions, sung in Yiddish and Russian. The group will be in New York 
on a rare visit from their hometown of Kazan, in the Russian republic of 
Tartarstan. 
      They will be performing selections from their latest concert program Di 
Yidishe Gas (The Jewish Street). Each song describes a person that lives on 
‘the street’. You can listen to a young woman’s love story and a 
cantor’s prayer. You can hear young couples argue and the joyful tune of an 
old drunken Jew. You can hear the breathing of a fresh wind that rushes into 
The Jewish Street and the silence of a calm mountain that sleeps in the 
darkness. 

      Ashkenazim was founded in 1996 by leader, arranger and composer Paulina 
Achkinazi. The musicians combine classical training with folk sensibilities, 
tight harmonies and a healthy dose of Yiddish soul. They have performed in the 
US and throughout the former Soviet Union. 


            Sunday, April 6, 2003 
            Unique sets starting at 1:30 and 3pm 
            $10 for one set, $15 for both  


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


      For sound clips and more photos, see: www.renewablestoday.com/ashkenazim
      For more information, contact: Jeff Perlman, (718) 386-3007

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