Re: Klezmer and Yiddish Highlights

[cyril robinson <lunar...>]

Vivien and Don -if you check this site about the time you are going to 
London, you can find out is there are any Jewish musical events in London. 
Cyril
At 12:10 PM 10/11/2003 +0100, Geraldine Auerbach wrote:
>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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