Klezmer and Yiddish Highlights

[Geraldine Auerbach <jewishmusic...>]

Dear listees

If you can get to London this autumn there are lots of Jewish music goodies
in store - here are some Klezmer Highlights of the JMI Autumn Season 2003 of
Jewish music performances and events.  If you want to see the whole
programme, that ends with a great Chanukah concert at the Queen Elizabeth
Hall on December 18 conducted by Stephen Glass of Montreal, go to the JMI
Website www.jmi.org.uk.

Giora Feidman, the magical and longed for Klezmer Clarinettist and his
quartet bring TangoKlezmer to the Union Chapel London on Thursday 23
October. A leader of the Klezmer revival in the 70s and 80s, Giora's
clarinet laughs and sighs as only Giora's can. Don't miss this return visit
of a maestro.  There are 4 concerts in a series called Klezmer Beats on
Upper Street at the Union Chapel:

Giora Feidman                   (23 October)
Lloica Czackis and Tangele      (9 November)
The World Quintet                       (20 November)
Budapest Klezmer Band           (29 November)

A season Exploring Yiddish Drama and Literature starts on Thursday 16 with a
talk on the London Yiddish Theatre at SOAS. Don't forget the next klezmer
Jams at Lauderdale.  This will now be led by Susi Evans of Shekoyokh Klezmer
Ensemble. There is a concert for Peace on 30 October and music from Terezin
Concentration camp on 28 and 29.  See all October listings below including a
walk by Clive Bettington in the Jewish East End. The JMI autumn season kicks
off with a birthday concert for conductor and composer Malcolm Singer on
Monday 13 October and goes on till 18 December.


Monday 13 October 7.30pm
Malcolm Singer 50th Birthday Concert
The Zemel Choir
St Alban's Chamber choir
Yehudi Menuhin School and others
JMI celebrates composer and conductor Malcolm Singer's birthday in a concert
featuring ensembles that have commissioned and premiered his works. Malcolm
has been associated with some of the most important Jewish music events in
the past decades including concerts in Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster
and St Paul's.
£15 - 7.50 concessions half price
St. John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA 020 7222 1060

Thursday 16 October 8.00pm
Illustrated lecture: Yiddish Theatre in London
David Mazower
A lecture with slides detailing the development and highlights of the
Yiddish Theatre in London.
First in a series: Exploring Yiddish Drama and Literature, A project of the
JMI International Forum for Yiddish Culture in association with the Spiro
Ark.
Room G51, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG
£5 concessions £3
Booking: The Spiro Ark 020 7723 9991.  Also enquire about the Yiddish
Library and Book Club. Meets once a month to borrow, read and talk about
Yiddish books.  Donations of Yiddish books gladly accepted.

Sunday 19 October, 10.30am - 1.00pm (walks also 2 November, 7 and 14
December)
Guided Walk, Spitalfields: A journey in the heart of Jewish London:
Cigar Makers, Philanthropists and Artists.
Walk Leader: Clive Bettington, Registered City of London Tourist Guide.
Settlement of Dutch, West European and Eastern European Jews fleeing
persecution in 19th      and early 20th Centuries - trades, institutions and
artists. Bomberg, Gertler and others.
JMI International Forum for Yiddish Culture association with the Jewish East
End Celebration Society
Meet at 10.15am at Aldgate Tube Station Ticket Office (Clive Mobile: 07941
367 882)
£8 concessions £6
www.wayahead.com or 0871 22 00 260
www.ticketweb.co.uk or 08700 600 100

Thursday 23 October 8.00pm
Tango Klezmer: Giora Feidman Quartet
Eagerly awaited return of a true phenomenon, whose playing is magnetic. His
clarinet laughs and weeps and tells incredible stories about his Argentinean
and Jewish background
One of a series of 4 concerts: Klezmer Beats on Upper Street (23 October, 9,
20 and 29 November)
Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Upper Street, Islington N1
£17.50 concessions £14.00, Pass for all four concerts £50
www.wayahead.com or 0871 22 00 260
www.ticketweb.co.uk or 08700 600 100
In person from Reckless Records 79 Upper Street N1 (next to Screen on the
Green)
(Also in Manchester, Tuesday 21 October 7.30pm 0161 798 5577
www.klezmer.co.uk)


Monday 27 October 2003 8.00pm
JMI Klezmer Jam at Lauderdale House
Led by acclaimed Shekoyokh Klezmer Ensemble clarinettist, Susi Evans
Also 24 November led by Ilana Cravitz with dancing led by Vivi Lachs
And 22 December Vivi Lachs leads Yiddish song jam
Bring your instruments and your favourite Klezmer tunes and join North
London's first Klezmer Jam.  Led by experienced players and KlezFest
graduates all levels will be made welcome or just hang out and listen.
Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG 020 8348 8716
£5 (concessions £4 if you bring an instrument) on the door - Bar open from
7.30pm.

Tuesday 28 October 7.30pm
Under the Umbrella of Terezin - Music Against the Odds
Miriam Brickman Piano, Lloica Czackis, mezzo soprano, Rabbi Albert
Friedlander and Evelyn Friedlander, Narrator, in conversation with Ronald
Senator
That music and poetry of such stature was written and performed in
concentration camps like Terezin is beyond comprehension. Rabbi Albert
Friedlander, who wrote the Libretto, which uses liturgical texts and
children's poems from Terezin, and Evelyn Friedlander talk with Ronald
Senator about Ronald's Kaddish for Terezin, first performed in Canterbury
Cathedral (1986).  They play extracts from the CD of this performance.
Miriam Brickman performs piano music by incarcerated composers, Krasa,
Ullmann and Schulhoff. Lloica Czackis sings cabaret songs from the camp in
the most fitting venue in the City which was bombed by the IRA and has
opened its gates as a centre for reconciliation and peace.
Presented by the Jewish Music Institute, the Spiro Ark, the St Ethelburga's
Centre for Reconciliation and Peace and CCJ.
St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2
£12, concessions  £10 (advance booking essential)
The Spiro Ark 020 7723 9991 email spiroark (at) aol(dot)com

Wednesday 29 October 7.30pm
Piano works by Zikmund Schul and Viktor Ullmann
Jacqueline Cole, Piano
Graduate of the Menuhin School, Jacqueline has performed music by Victor
Ullman in Cieszyn, the place of his birth and the church of his baptism and
will perform the same programme in Terezin on 16 October 2003. Zikmund
Schul: Fugue (Prague 1941) UK premiere, Viktor Ullmann Sonata No 7 (Terezin
1944) Also JS Bach, John Ireland and Frederick Chopin
Concert presented by the Viktor Ullmann Foundation, supported by the Anglo
Austrian Society and JMI IFSM.
£18, £15, £12, £10
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, London W1
020 7935 2141

Thursday 30 October 7.30pm
Concert for Peace
The Israel String Ensemble
Wissam Boustany, Flute
Raphael Wallfisch, Cello
Ada Pelleg, Musical Director and Conductor
The event aims to highlight the vision of the people of the village of Neve
Shalom ~ Wahat al-Salaam that people of the great monotheistic religions
should live together in peace in the land that gave birth to those faiths.
The Israel string orchestra visiting the UK for the first time, and the
Lebanese and British soloists share this vision. There is now a flourishing
and democratic community of Jews and Arabs, who choose to live together and
have established and enviable internal and outreach educational programme.
Concert includes works by
Elgar and Tchaikovsky with UK premières of beautiful works by
Levi and Kopytman
To learn more about the Village and its aims contact Gillian Gruder, British
friends of Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salaam
Tel/Fax: 020 8952 471 Email: british(dot)friends (at) nswas(dot)com
Presented in association with JMI
St John's, Smith Square London SW1
£18, £15, £12, £8 (£50 with private reception tel 020 8952 4717)
020 7222 1061

JMI Website www.jmi.org.uk  for more concerts and the whole season to 18
December.




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