Re: Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC

[Ashkenazim <ashkenaz...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Kuster" <ted (at) jue-kuster(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:13 PM
Subject: RE: Ashkenazim Russian Jewish Vocal Quartet - April 6 @TONIC


> Is there any chance of this act making it to the West Coast? Anybody know?
> 
> Ted Kuster
> www.ReadThisToMe.com/meshuggenismo


Here is what we have:


29, March -  National Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts 

1, April -  The JCC of Manhettan, New York 

5, April - Fairlawn, New Jersey 

6, April - "Tonic", Manhattan, New York (2 sets, at 1:30 pm, and at 3pm.)

 

8 or 9 or 10, April - Trinity College in Hartford (CT) 

11, April - Morristown (NJ).

13, April - New York 



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> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
> 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
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> >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 Tonic??Ts 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??T. You 
> >can listen to a young woman??Ts love story and a cantor??Ts 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., ?. block north of Delancey, on 
> > Manhattan??Ts 
> >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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