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RE: Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC
- From: Ted Kuster <ted...>
- Subject: RE: Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC
- Date: Fri 21 Mar 2003 18.18 (GMT)
Is there any chance of this act making it to the West Coast? Anybody know?
Ted Kuster
www.ReadThisToMe.com/meshuggenismo
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From: Ashkenazim <ashkenaz (at) mi(dot)ru>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Received: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:13:03 +0300
Subject: Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC
>Message
> 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 Tonicâ??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 â??one of the newest, freshest sounds in Yiddish
>choral music todayâ?? 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 â??the
>streetâ??. You
>can listen to a young womanâ??s love story and a cantorâ??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., Ð? block north of Delancey, on
> Manhattanâ??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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