Re:Klezmer in College Station

[Jennifer Wollock <jennifer...>]

Members of the list who will be in the vicinity might
like to know about a klezmer program that we have
organized at Texas A&M University. (Details below.)
Please contact me for further information. (If anyone
is interested in bringing this program to your location
in the future, please contact me about that, too.)

Jenny Wollock

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Bnei Pedutser*
Klezmer Quartet in Residence
At Texas A&M University
April 6-9 2003

Sunday April 6, 7:30 p.m. A concert of traditional Jewish dance
music, MSC Stark Gallery. To reserve tickets contact Jennifer
Wollock, 862-3571 (j-goodman (at) tamu(dot)edu)

***Monday April 7, 4:30 p.m. Dr. Jeffrey Wollock, "Music and
Performance in the traditional Eastern-European Jewish Wedding," (a
lecture with live music)(Lecture co-sponsored by the Melbern G.
Glasscock Center the Humanities and TAMU Libraries), Evans Library
204E

Tuesday April 8, 7:30 p.m. Klezmer Dance Workshop with Annette
Bjorling. Lean eastern-european Jewish folk dances with live
instrumental accompaniment. Hillel Foundation, 800 George Bush
Drive.

Wednesday April 9, 7-9 p.m. Listen to Rejuvenating Heritage with
Dr. Mike Sherman on KEOS (89.1 FM) for an interview with the band
and live klezmer music.

Personnel:

Dr. Jeffrey Wollock (Kapelmeister/Director) (Ph,D. Oxford) ?
Violin, viola. Dr. Wollock is an outstanding representative of the
traditional klezmer violin style. He studied violin at the Yale
School of Music and privately with Paul Doktor and Emanuel Vardi.
He performed in classical ensembles for many years in the United
States and England. He has taught klezmer music at KlezKanada and
the New England Conservatory, and served for several years as field
research coordinator of the Soviet Jewish Cultural Initiative of
the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York. In
addition, Wollock is known for his research on the history of
klezmer music and early klezmer recordings

Kurt Bjorling ? Clarinet, tsimbl (hammered dulcimer),  accordion,
and other instruments.  Kurt Bjorling is director of the Chicago
Klezmer Ensemble and tours with the internationally acclaimed
Yiddish music quartet Brave Old World. He performs and teaches at
festivals of Jewish music in the USA, Canada, Germany, Poland, the
Netherlands and Hungary. Bjorling is also a leading authority on
early klezmer recordings.

Josh Huppert ? Violin. Josh Huppert plays lead violin with the
Chicago Klezmer Ensemble.

Paul Morrissett ? Bass, accordion, tsimbl, and other instruments.
Paul Morrissett is a member of the world-famous klezmer group The
Klezmatics.

Kurt and Paul are featured on Itzhak Perlman?s PBS program "In the
Fiddler?s House."

Annette Bjorling ? Kezmer dance instructor. Annette Bjorling is
also a classical and klezmer harpist, and plays with her husband
Kurt in the group Duo Controverso.

For more information please contact Jennifer Goodman Wollock
(jennifer (at) nativecouncil(dot)com) (979-862-3571 (office); (979)693-6164.

This event is sponsored by the Jewish Faculty Network, and co-
sponsored by Congegation Beth Sholom, the Department of English,
Hillel Foundation, MSC Literary Arts Committee, and TAMU Libraries.

The program was developed with the assistance of the Yiddish
Language and Folk Arts Network (YLFAN), a project of the
Solidarity Foundation, New York, NY.

*The name Bnei Pedutser (sons of Pedutser) commemorates one of the
greatest of the old klezmorim, the violinist Arn-Moyshe Kholodenko
(1828-1902) of Berdichiv, Ukraine, better known as "Pedutser."




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