Strauss/Warschauer Duo in Concert at this Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 PM at National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts

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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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