Alicia Svigals & Friends at Boston University September 24

[Pete Rushefsky <klezbanjo...>]

B o s t o n   U n i v e r s i t y
Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies
presents the Horn-Berger Concert

     
A l i c i a   S v i g a l s
          and her Ensemble



Wednesday, September 24, 2003
8 p.m.
School of Management Auditorium
595 Commonwealth Ave.


Violinist Alicia Svigals, who is considered by many to be the world's leading 
klezmer fiddler, was a founder of the renowned Jewish roots groups the 
Klezmatics, and of her current band, the all-female Mikveh.   As a musician and 
composer, she has worked with Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights 
Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, Allen Ginsburg, Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and 
Jimmy Page, Hasidic superstar Avraham Fried, and singer/songwriter Debbie 
Friedman. 

She has been at the forefront of the Klezmer revival, rediscovering and 
reinventing the sound of the Klezmer fiddle, the central instrument in klezmer 
music before the Holocaust.  A musician and composer, Svigals is widely 
acclaimed for her virtuosic technique and lyricism. 

Svigals will be joined by an old-world string band made up of Boston's finest 
klezmer musicians, including members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and of 
Andy Statman's ensemble:  Jim Guttman, bass; Miriam Rabson and Rohan Gregory, 
violins; Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl; and Larry Eagle, percussion.

Free and open to the public. For information call 617-353-8096.


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