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Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Concert at this Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 PM at National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
- From: Warschauer <Warschauer...>
- Subject: Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Concert at this Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 PM at National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
- Date: Thu 29 May 2003 05.32 (GMT)
Date: May 14, 2003
Contact: Nora Gerard
413-256-4900, ext. 116
ngerard (at) bikher(dot)org
National Yiddish Book Center Presents
The Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Concert
Amherst, MA – May 14, 2003 – The National Yiddish Book Center, located on
the campus of Hampshire College, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA, 01002,
proudly presents the Strauss/Warschauer Duo in the annual Sarah Rose Lazarus
Concert, on Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 2:00 pm. A donation of $8.00 for adults
and $4.00 for children is requested. Reservations are suggested.
The Strauss/Warschauer Duo brings together two established musicians who are
deeply committed to klezmer music and Yiddish song. Deborah Strauss and
Jeff Warschauer are two of the most active and well-respected performers and
teachers in the klezmer and Yiddish music scene. They are both members of
the Klezmer Conservatory Band and have performed with violinist Itzhak
Perlman on film and in concert. Their performances are an integrated and
intimate blend of songs, translations and instrumental music grounded in
tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary. They draw from klezmer, Yiddish,
Hasidic and liturgical music and culture, adding their own original
compositions and song settings. As they sing and play in shifting
combinations of violin, guitar, mandolin and accordion, they create a
dynamic atmosphere with an exceptional range of feeling – from delicate and
refined to exuberant and foot-stomping.
Deborah Strauss is also a member of the Chicago Klezmer Ensemble and studied
ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. Jeff Warschauer is an
award-winning musician, composer and arranger whose music has been heard on
Public Radio international and HBO. A graduate of the New England
Conservatory of Music, Warschauer’s solo CD, The Singing Waltz: Klezmer
Guitar and Mandolin, has received widespread critical acclaim.
The National Yiddish Book Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
rescuing Yiddish and other modern Jewish literature and celebrating the
culture they contain. Cultural and educational programming at the National
Yiddish Book Center is a project of the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center for
Jewish Culture. For more information, call (413) 256-4900, email
yiddish (at) bikher(dot)org, or visit our website at www.yiddishbookcenter.org.
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