FW: IC Klezmer Concert and Dance Party

[Joel E. Rubin <rubin...>]

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> From: Aron Gutman <agutman (at) ithaca(dot)edu>
> Date: Mon Mar 1, 2004  2:35:44  PM America/New_York
> To: Keith Davis <kdavis (at) ithaca(dot)edu>
> Cc: agutman (at) ithaca(dot)edu, barbara johnson johnson <johnsonb (at) 
> ithaca(dot)edu>
> Subject: IC Klezmer Concert and Dance Party
>
> Jewish Studies at Ithaca College to host big-time Klezmer
> collaboration:
>
> On Sunday, March 21st at 7:30 pm the Ithaca College Klezmorim, under
> the direction of Dr. Peter Rothbart, will perform a concert for
> listening and dancing at Emerson Suites on the Ithaca College Campus.
> They will be joined and led by world-renowned klezmer clarinetist Joel
> Rubin and his Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble.  Yiddish dance
> expert Roey Mendel will teach and lead klezmer dance before and during
> the concert.
>
> Klezmer music lovers of Ithaca are very fortunate to have a great
> resource in town this year.  Joel Rubin is a post-doctoral Mellon
> fellow in the Music Department at Cornell University.  He is teaching
> courses on Klezmer music and ethnomusicology, directing the Cornell
> Klezmer Ensemble, and consulting and performing with the Cornell Mid
> East Ensemble.  Joel has been active in the ?Klezmer revival¹ movement
> since it¹s inception in the late 1970¹s and early 1980¹s.  He has
> performed and written widely while helping to produce a film and
> numerous recordings and special broadcasts on Klezmer and other Jewish
> musical traditions.  Cornell University will host a special residency
> with members of the Joel Rubin Jewish Music Ensemble from 3/16-19/04.
> For more on Joel Rubin, see www.rubin-ottens.com.
>
> The Ithaca College concert will include a performance by Joel Rubin
> with visiting Italian accordionist Claudio Jacomucci and Peter
> Rushefsky on tsimbl (an Eastern European Jewish hammered dulcimer) as
> well as collaborations with the student ensembles from both campuses.
> Roey Mendel of Rochester¹s 12 Corners Klezmer Band will teach a
> Yiddish dance workshop preceding the concert at 5:30pm, and will lead
> dancing during the performance.
>
> This event, a culmination of this year¹s series of Yiddishkayt
> programs, is sponsored by Jewish Studies with support from Hillel and
> the School of Music at Ithaca College.   The concert is free and open
> to the public.  Sunday, March 21st, 2004 in Emerson Suites in Phillips
> Hall, Ithaca College.  7:30 concert and 5:30 dance workshop.
>
> Contact:  Aron Gutman ­  agutman (at) ithaca(dot)edu or 607-274-7001.

>
> Aron Gutman, Program Director
> Hillel at Ithaca College
> 1001 Muller Chapel
> Ithaca, NY  14850
> 607-274-7001
> fax: 274-1901
> agutman (at) ithaca(dot)edu

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