KlezFest St Petersburg 2004

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KLEZFEST ST. PETERSBURG 2004

The Center for Jewish Music of the Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg
is proud to announce "KlezFest St. Petersburg 2004," an international
seminar on the traditional music of Eastern European Jewry, to be held June
12-16, 2004 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," now in its eighth year, is the oldest Klezmer
seminar in Russia. The 2004 festival will include master-classes on Yiddish
folk songs and Klezmer music, workshops on Yiddish folklore and Yiddish
dance, lectures, concerts, and two excursions: "Jewish St. Petersburg" and
"Rivers and Canals of St. Petersburg." The staff will include world-famous
musicians -- the world's leading expert on Yiddish dance, violinist,
accordion player, vocalist, and ethnomusicologist Michael Alpert from New
York, the outstanding Klezmer clarinetist from Berlin, Christian Dawid, and
others. 

"KlezFest St. Petersburg," dedicated to bringing Klezmer music and Yiddish
culture back to the land of their birth, includes Jewish musicians from the
vibrant centers of the Jewish renaissance throughout the former Soviet
Union. This year again there is a special program for lovers of Yiddish
music and culture from other parts of the globe. The festival is asking for
a contribution of $550. This sum will include food and lodging in St.
Petersburg for 5 days and the entire seminar program, including interpreters
when needed, concerts and the two excursions. Participants will pay their
own transportation to St. Petersburg.

For more information, please contact the Jewish Community Center of St.
Petersburg via fax at (+7-812) 314-5117, or e-mail frenk (at) lea(dot)spb(dot)su
For advice on travel and visa arrangements, contact our American sponsor,
the Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine, a project of
the American Jewish World Service (New York), via telephone: (+1-212)
273-1642, or e-mail: jcdf (at) ajws(dot)org
http://www.ajws.org

Join us at "KlezFest St. Petersburg" this summer! If you haven't been on the
Neva River during White Nights with Russian klezmorim, you haven't lived!


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