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7 PM Eddy Khaimovich Quartet
featuring: Gian Tornatore, saxophones; Alex Brown, piano; Eddy Khaimovich, acoustic and 6-string electric basses; Eric Doob, drums.
Eddy Khaimovich, a much sought-after Israeli bassist and composer living in New York, has recorded his first album featuring multi Grammy-award winning trumpeter Roy Hargrove to raving acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Since moving to New York in 2001 to attend the prestigious Manhattan School of Music on full scholarship, Eddy’s facility and agile command of the instrument as well, as warm, deep tone and unique musical voice have earned him a solid reputation on New York music scene in Jazz, Classical, World and Commercial music worlds. A long time recipient of the prestigious America-Israel Cultural Foundation grants, he has played and/or recorded with world renowned musicians including Jazz greats, such as multiple Grammy-award winner Roy Hargrove, 2010 Latin Grammy-award winner Fernando Otero, James Moody, Paquito D’Rivera, Fred Hersch, Benito Gonzales, Etienne Mbappé, Oz Noy, Delmar Brown, Alvester Garnett, Hal Galper, Arnie Lawrence, Andy LaVerne, Henry Threadgill, Steve Davis, Jeff Hirshfield, Mike Holober, Gene Jackson, David Schnitter, Bill Goodwin, Sam Barsh, Dave Silliman, Valery Ponomarev, Curtis Fowlkes, Darrell Green, Mauricio Zottarelli, Borislav Strulev Chamber Jazz Ensemble and classical luminaries Lorin Maazel, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Spivakov, Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Lara St. John, among many others. Eddy has been featured on the Israeli National Broadcast radio and has received coverage of his music by multiple programs on several Israeli National TV channels and International TV Channel RTVI. Eddy has appeared on the "Night Bird" talk show and at the live broadcast of the International Tel-Aviv Jazz Festival (2003), which has been aired since then in over thirty countries. He has also performed in many prestigious venues and festivals around the world such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Blue Note, Blues Alley, Smalls, Birdland, Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel and UBS Verbier Festival in Switzerland.
In his music, Eddy Khaimovich connects the multiple musical and cultural influences he has absorbed on his musical journey. The result is a charging mixture of Israeli-infused melodic character, South American and African Rhythmic textures, Western European harmonic language and true Jazz concept reflecting in thru-composed sections that subtly intertwine with tour-de-force improvised solos by all members of the band. His music fuses these seemingly different musical disciplines together into a fresh sound with much respect and appreciation to the past of each of these musical traditions – something that reflects Eddy’s strong belief that through art and music all boundaries and misconceptions can be overcome and true understanding, reciprocity, mutual respect and spiritual union may be achieved among people of diverse cultural backgrounds, religions and beliefs.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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9:30 PM Rafi Malkiel
Composer, trombonist and euphonium player Rafi Malkiel, from Israel, has delighted audiences around the world, performing with artists such as Willie Colon, Arturo O’Farrill, Ray Anderson, and with Grammy-nominated Colombian singer Toto La Momposina, and he participated in Reggie Workman’s John Coltrane Africa Brass Live project and Jason Lindner’s Big Band.
In 2003 he formed The Rafi Malkiel Ensemble, a group of virtuosi and versatile musicians living in New York City. The group plays original compositions and unique arrangements by Malkiel, fusing Jazz and Latin-American standards with Afro-Caribbean rhythms. The music is both composed as well as improvised. Rafi Malkiel has performed in many prestigious venues and has recently recorded his debut CD My Island. The CD also features some of the best Jazz and Latin musicians in New York City, including legendary tuba player Howard Johnson, bassist Andy Gonzalez, clarinetist Anat Cohen and many more.
Rafi has performed in numerous festivals around the world such as the JVC Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Summer Stage, WOMAD festivals in Greece, New Zealand, and Australia, the Sydney Festival in Australia, and the Red Sea International Jazz Festival in Israel. He has played in New York City in venues such as Madison Square Garden, Radio City, Town Hall, Symphony Space, the Carlyle Hotel with Bobby Short, Jazz Standard, Joe’s Pub, Sweet Basil, SOB’s, and Smalls.
Rafi has recorded over forty Jazz, Latin, and Rock albums with notable artists such as Ray Anderson, Salsa Picante, Toto La Momposina and Lauryn Hill.
Rafi was cited in the Recommended Jazz Trombonists list in PBS’ website Jazz, a film by Ken Burns, as well as in The Young Guns of Jazz, trumpeting the best of a new generation, by Chip Deffaa in the New York Post, July 2001.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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7:30 PM Hadar Noiberg
Since arriving in NYC at age 21, flutist, composer and arranger HADAR NOIBERG has established herself as a major force in the Cuban, Jazz and World music scenes. With a language that transcends her Middle Eastern roots, she fuses styles seamlessly, distinguishing her as both innovative and highly skilled.
Growing up in Israel with its eclectic musical culture, Hadar was surrounded by various styles of music that are a part of the Israeli melting pot: Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Yemenite and Moroccan music, to name only a few. Now she infuses her own compositions with those influences, sliding in and out of Jazz improvisation and Western harmonic structure with Middle Eastern rhythms and semitones.
Hadar's new sophomore CD, Journey Back Home, is also a journey of the flute as a lead instrument. She explains: “The flute in Western improvised music has always been an instrument that was either used by doublers or was not considered a serious main instrument. In the Eastern and Middle Eastern musical traditions the flute, the Middle Eastern ney or the Indian bansuri are primal and influential instruments that hold the deep soul of the music. I want to bring that depth and richness into my music, which is influenced by both West and East, and feature the flute as a strong leading instrument.”
Hadar has been a featured performer with acclaimed artists such as Yemen Blues, Dave Valentin, Anat Cohen, Omer Avital, Coco Mama, Alvester Garnett, Joel Frahm, Junior Rivera, Louis Kahn, Rufus Reid and many more. She currently performs and tours nationally and internationally, having already showcased in such venues and festivals as Blue Note (NY), WOMEX, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Babel Med Music, Central Park SummerStage, Iridium Jazz Club, Jazz Standard, Sweet Rhythm, Small’s Jazz Club, Merkin Concert Hall, The 55 Bar, Creole Blues Festival, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Midsummer Night Swing, Roskilde Festival, Nessiah Festival, among others.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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9:30 PM Jonathan Greenstein
Just as Hard-Bop brought soul and melody to the innovations of the Bebop movement, Jonathan Greenstein’s music does the same for 21st century Jazz. Combine that with a wide range of influences, from 20th century Classical music to Neo-Soul, and an ever-growing respect for the Jazz tradition and you get what Jonathan’s music is all about. His debut album, Thinking (Fresh Sound : New Talent), presents these concepts in the best possible way- High level, sophisticated and soulful playing.
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Greenstein grew up in an art-loving family. He fell in love with Jazz in his teens studying with Eli Degibri, Omer Avital and the late Amit Golan and was awarded the Presidential Scholarship to the Rimon of School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. Graduating in only one year, Jonathan received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Taking example from his Grandfather, an actor and director, Greenstein was professionally playing from an early age. He performed in venues such as the Blue-Note NYC, Boston's Hard Rock Café , Ryles, the Fat Cat, Smalls, HR-57, Sculler’s, The Iridium and many more, as well as playing in all of Israel’s major festivals. He had played with many great musicians, some of which are - Valery Ponomarev, Omer Avital, Ralph Peterson, Judi Silvano, Myron Walden and Terri-Lynn Carrington. All this playing created a nice following for his shows and music, both in Israel and in the United States.
Greenstein’s music caught the attention of Jordi Pujol, owner of Fresh Sound records. He gladly released it under the Fresh Sound : New Talent label, which was home for many young artists - Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Ambrose Akinmusire, Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Bad Plus and many more. The Album, “Thinking”, presents 61 minutes of original music and beautiful playing, and is a great addition to the Fresh Sound roster. The band features Ilan Bar-Lavi on Guitar, Victor Gould on Piano, Dan Carpel on Bass and Jeff Fajardo on Drums. Trumpet great Darren Barrett, who played with Elvin Jones and Herbie Hancock, honored them with his presence on a few tracks as well.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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7:30 PM Reut Regev
Born and raised in Israel, Trombonist, composer and bandleader Reut Regev started shaping her impressive reputation on the Jazz scene at a young age. At only five years old she was introduced to the piano, and then added the trombone to her repertoire at age thirteen. While in high school, she had the opportunity to play with some of Israel’s most creatively improvisational musicians, as well as perform at Israel’s top Jazz Festivals. Reut eventually decided to concentrate on her beloved trombone, and has proven to be a remarkably inspiring innovator. After serving in Israel’s army band as first Trombnonist and soloist, Reut made her way to NYC, joining her now husband, drummer Igal Foni.
Reut has been living and creating music in NYC for over a decade, collaborating, recording and touring with some of the finest musicians in various fields, including Latin, Klezmer, Rock, Blues, Jazz, contemporary classical and improvised music. Anthony Braxton, Frank London, Butch Morris, Joe Bataan, Firewater, Elliott Sharp, Dave Douglas, Metropolitan Klezmer, Hazmat Modine and many more have picked Reut as their Trombonist of Choice for tours, recordings and other projects.
After years of working mostly as a side musician, Reut has finally decided to put her own spin on things. Together with her husband Igal and some of the top musicians in NYC, she has recorded her debut Album"This is R*time"
All about Jazz calls it “a stunning debut”, “Breathtakingly expansive and unabashedly modern”, the Jazz Times says “wildly imaginative and virtuosic”, “a provocative brew that straddles the heavy metal bebop devide”, and the IAJRC - “a knock-out”
Starting in the Fall of 2009 Reut, Igal and R*time began touring extensively, being featured in multiple European and North American Festivals, and receiving fantastic reviews.
Reut continues to create and her plans for the near future include releases with some of her other projects, including a duo with Igal Foni, and “Brassix”, a Brass centric Ensemble, playing compositions originally commissioned by the Festival of New Trumpet music.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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9:00 PM Dan Aran
Drummer Dan Aran established himself as an in demand side man in the New York Jazz scene shortly upon arrival to the US in 2001.
Aran started his musical journey in his hometown of Jerusalem, fascinated with the dumbek and drum set Dan got his first drums at 11 and a year later enrolled at the Rubin Academy of Music high school. Dan graduated from the school at seventeen and was already a busy drummer in the Israeli music scene, playing with a number of different groups including performing with bassist Avishai Cohen, the Amos Hoffman group, Omer Avital and with Mr. Arnie Lawrence's groups.
He has performed at most of the major venues in Israel including the Jerusalem Theater, the Camelot and the International Red Sea Jazz Festival.
Dan continued his education by enrolling at the New School University, located in New York City.
He graduated in 2004 earning a BFA in performance and is now an active player on the New York City scene, He has played in major venues in the U.S, Europe, the Middle East and Asia and is active in both the jazz scene and in the world music scene.
In addition to working with artists such as, Harry Whitaker, Junior Mance, Natalie Merchant, Stacey Kent, Art Hirahara, Ray Gallon, Dave Glasser Quartet, pharaoh's daughter, Nick Hempton, Omer Avital, Eti Ankri, John Di Martino, Alon Yavnai, Ron Affif, and many others, Dan leads his own quintet and is establishing himself as a writer and bandleader. Dan's record "Breathing" was released in 2009 to raving reviews.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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7:30 PM Daphna Mor presents "East of the River"
ft. Daphna Mor, Nina Stern- Recorders
Uri Sharlin-Accordion
Shane Shanahan- percussion
And with special guest: Jesse Kotansky- Violin
Daphna Mor has performed throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist and as an ensemble player. Her appearances include solo recitals in Croatia, Germany and Switzerland; Recitals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Trinity Church, New York;
Soloist with The New York Collegium (Andrew Parrot, conductor); Soloist with New York Early Music Ensemble (Fred Renz conductor); Soloist at Carnegie Hall with Little Orchestra Society. Orchestra member with the New York Philharmonic (Allen Gilbert, conductor); City Opera, Mostly Mozart. Lincoln Center; Piffaro- The Renaissance Band and Repast; Awards include First Prize in Settimane Musicali di Lugano Solo Competition and two times winner of The Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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9:30 PM Alon Nechustan
Alon Nechushtan's music adventures have brought him to far corners such as the Yokohama Festival Japan with his contemporary compositions, The Sao-Paolo Brazil Jewish Music Festival with his Quintet Talat, Toronto and Montereal's Rex Hotel with his Jazz Trio and The Tel Aviv New Music Biannale with his Compositions for Large Ensemble.
Resident of New York City, Alon has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Central Park Summer Stage, The Blue Note Jazz Club and Joe's Pub frequently with his projects as a band leader of various groups or as an in demand sideman.
All About Jazz magazine called him a fantastic pianist-composer with abundant chemistry and boundless eclectisism.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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9:30 PM Frank London, Guy Barash, Eyal Maoz
Frank London is a New York City-based trumpeter, bandleader, and composer active in klezmer and world music. He also plays various other wind instruments and keyboards, and occasionally sings backup vocals. With The Klezmatics, he won a Grammy award in Contemporary World Music for "Wonder Wheel (lyrics by Woody Guthrie)".
Guy Barash is a versatile musician, active in many musical genres as a composer, arranger, curator and performer. He composes orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic music. In addition, he creates interactive installations for live performances.As a 2010 Jerome Foundation Award winner, 28 year-old Barash is “a compelling composer/sound artist ... already making some serious contributions to the New York new music scene.” (Urban Modes)
Eyal Maoz is an Israeli born American guitarist, band leader, solo performer and composer. His music is a synthesis of rock, jazz and avant-garde, tinged with deep electronic and radical Jewish-middle-eastern music. According to John Zorn, Maoz is a “cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot…keep your eyes and ears on this guy...[Eyal is] a vital member of the New York downtown Scene."
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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7:30 PM Uri Gurvich
Born and raised in Israel, alto saxophonist and jazz composer Uri Gurvich first began playing the saxophone at the age of 10. He studied at the Rimon School in Israel and was a member of the Tel Aviv Jazz Orchestra before relocating to the U.S. and Boston in 2003 to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying there with Joe Lovano and Herb Pomeroy. After graduating from Berklee with honors, Gurvich moved to Brooklyn, and began playing regularly with various ensembles in the New York City area and also became active on the international jazz festival circuit, which has taken Gurvich and his brand of folk-jazz all though the U.S., Europe, Japan. and elsewhere. His debut album as a bandleader, The Storyteller, was released in 2009 by John Zorn's Tzadik Records and featured Francisco Mela on drums, Leo Genovese on piano, Peter Slavov on bass, and guest Chris Cheek on tenor sax.
$10 Cover
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9:30 PM Edom
Edom is a project of Israeli born American guitarist, band leader, solo performer and composer Eyal Maoz. His music is a synthesis of rock, jazz and avant-garde, tinged with deep electronic and radical Jewish-middle-eastern music.
According to John Zorn, Maoz is a “cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot…keep your eyes and ears on this guy...[Eyal is] a vital member of the New York downtown Scene.”
He leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon, and Crazy Slavic Band. He also co-leads the Maoz-Sirkis Duet, the Maoz-Masaoka Duet (with koto player Miya Masaoka) and Hypercolor (with Lukas Ligetiand and James Ilgenfritz), and is a guest member of John Zorn’s Cobra.
Eyal’s ensembles have performed at major music festivals worldwide such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, NYC 2007 Winter Jazz Fest, Brooklyn BAM Next Festival, Verizon Jazz Festival, the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival, Florida Music Harvest, The Jewzapalooza Festival in NYC and many more.
His music was featured in the movies Keepers Of Eden by Yoram Porath, Israeli’s Cinema History documentary by Raphael Nadjari, as well as at the MTV show “Undress.” WNYC/NPR recently interviewed him and dedicated a 90-minute program to his music.
Eyal started to explore jazz, rock and avant-garde music at an early age. He led the highly celebrated Lemon Juice Quartet which performed regularly at the Red Sea International Jazz Festival, released three original CDs and was heralded for their CD “Peasant Songs,” a version of Bela Bartokand Eric Satie’s music on Piadrum Records.
Eyal’s collaboration with long-time childhood friend and drummer Asaf Sirkis, has resulted in two duo CDs; the most recent “Elementary Dialogues” released in June 2009 by Ayler Records (France).
His Jewish music acoustic ensemble, Dimyon, has earned critical acclaim after performances in Israel and Italy.
After a solo tour in Austria, Eyal recently completed a guitar tour in China, playing solo as well as performing with local musicians from straight-ahead jazz aficionados to extreme avant-garde noisemakers.
“Hope and Destruction,” his second CD on Tzadik Records with his ensemble “Edom” was released in 2009. The group’s debut CD, featuring Maozwith John Medeski, Shanir Blumenkranzand & Ben Perowsky, earned critical acclaim.
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine
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7:30 PM Itai Kriss
Itai Kriss is a dynamic flutist whose musical style encompasses Jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern sounds. Born into a musical household in Israel, to a British father and a South African mother, Itai started playing flute when he was 9. Alongside private lessons, he broadened his knowledge of music in the jazz streams of the Tel Aviv School for the Arts (’90-’94) and the prestigious Telma Yellin High School for the Arts (94-97). At Telma Yellin, an interest in swing, bebop and hard bop, along with his love for local Middle Eastern sounds, led to a period of experimentation in an ensemble of friends that resulted in Itai winning the Jerusalem Municipality competition for young composers. That grant financed the recording and release of his first album, Sababa, in 2000.
In January 2002 Itai toured the United States as part of a unique musical peace expedition headed by renowned saxophonist Arnie Lawrence--an ensemble of leading Jewish and Arab Israeli musicians, performing at various venues in Los Angeles, Miami and New York. Later that month he was again invited to play at New York's Blue Note as a special guest. This successful appearance launched Itai’s New York career.
Itai currently resides in New York where he continues to play with some of the most exciting jazz musicians in town, including Dafnis Prieto, Harry Whitaker, Joe Locke, Gregory Hutchinson, Andy Gonzalez, Omer Avital, Yosvany Terry, Edmar Castaneda, Avishai Cohen, Eric McPherson, Jason Lindner, Alon Yavnai, and Aaron Goldberg, to name a few.
A selected list of venues Itai has performed in includes The Blue Note, Birdland, S.O.B.’s, Carnegie Hall, Zinc Bar, Smalls, Joe’s Pub, Fat Cat, Smoke, Nublu, Nuyorican Poets Café, St Nick's Pub and The Copa Cabana.
In 2008 Itai participated in the prestigious Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead residency program for emerging performers and composers , at the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts. During the residency, Itai developed and performed new compositions, working closely with such jazz legends as Curtis Fuller, Nathan Davis and Dr. Billy Taylor. Some of these compositions appear on The Shark Itai’s latest album, featuring Aaron Golberg, Omer Avital and Eric McPherson (to be released in 2010).
Besides working on The Shark, Itai Kriss is currently involved in writing for and playing in a variety of ensembles including The Itai Kriss Quartet and La Bola. Itai is also an arranger, producer and musical director for Latin, jazz and pop recordings.
for more info visit http://www.itaikriss.com/
$15 Cover/Free glass of wine!
WordSpoke Festival at the Sixth Street Synagogue presents
Radical Poetics with Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, and Erica Kaufman
Milestone publication of the "Radical Poetics & Secular Jewish Culture" - a collection of poetry & criticism - opened a great deal of dialogues, readings, and possibilities for contemporary exploration of Jewish identity. Publication's contributors Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer (on a rare visit from Tuscaloosa, Ala.!) will be joined by Erica Kaufman for a poetry reading and conversation.
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets). In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2005, Bernstein was awarded the Dean's Award for Innovation in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard College, he has been visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Creative Writing at Columbia University, Brown University, and Princeton University. A volume of Bernstein's selected poetry from the past thirty years, "All the Whiskey in Heaven," was published in 2010 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Bernstein's continued commitment to small presses remains strong - In the same year that FSG released his major collection, Chax Press released "Umbra," a collection of Berstein's latest translations of poems from multiple languages. The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein is forthcoming from Salt Publishing. Bernstein will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Theory at Princeton University in the Fall Term of 2011. In May of the same year, The University of Chicago Press will release Bernstein's new collection of essays, "Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions."
Hank Lazer has published seventeen books of poetry, including Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies and Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at University of Alabama, where he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press.
Erica Kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009). Excerpts from her newest project, INSTANT CLASSIC are available in chapbook form from Least Weasel and Belladonna*, and online in Little Red Leaves and Elective Affinities. kaufman lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and is a faculty associate of Bard College’s Institute for Writing & Thinking and Institute for Language & Thinking.
Curated by Jake Marmer
Cover: $5
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Created and Curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, “6th Street Sundays” is a salon-style world and classical music series currently in its 3rd season.
3 PM Concert with A Capella Choral Blast
A Capella Choral Blast featuring: Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chous, Cantigas Women’s Choir and NYU Madrigal Singers
The Jewish People’s Philharmonic Chorus (JPPC) is part of the modern Yiddish renaissance – more than thirty members strong, from teens to retirees. The JPPC has a century-spanning repertoire – exciting oratorios and operettas, labor anthems, folksongs, and popular tunes – all in Yiddish. Committed to strengthening Yiddish as a living language, the JPPC has commissioned and premiered new Yiddish choral works and shares the rich legacy of Yiddish song by performing year-round for old and young of all faiths at community centers, universities, K-12 schools, museums and places of worship throughout NYC's 4-state region. The JPPC has also performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, at Ground Zero and the West Point Military Academy, as well as at the North American Jewish Choral Festival.
Cantigas Women's Choir is under the artistic direction of Joan Isaacs Litman. The choir brings women of the community together to explore the rich tradition of women's singing and performs a broad spectrum of global music, both ancient and contemporary. The Cantigas Women's Choir advocates through song for those whose hearts need to be uplifted and whose voices need to be heard; the group has performed with the inmates of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey, and performs regularly in Hoboken.
NYU Madrigal Singers is a small, coed ensemble of 12-16 singers dedicated to the joy of a capella singing. Challenging repertoire includes music from Renaissance to Contemporary and all things in between. Directed by Nancy Ellen Shankman, the group is trained to perform without a conductor. In addition to participating in the fall and spring concerts at the university, the ensemble pursues its mission to bring music to the community by performing at local public and private schools, such as the George Jackson Academy, and hospitals and senior centers including the Hallmark Senior Residence in Battery Park City. Madrigal Singers also takes its program to organizations such as the Salmagundi Arts Club and others dedicated to supporting the arts. The ensemble is involved in the revitalization of the NYU Choral Alumni and sang last spring at the Memorial/Dedication of the plaque for Marian Konstan, in the choral suite at the Kimmel Center.
The New York University Madrigal Singers performed at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Society of Music Education held in Beijing, China in August of 2010. Last spring, the ensemble did a combined concert with the Yale University Madrigal singers, and just concluded a 9 concert tour with the NYU Jazz Choir at the United Arab Emirates University, The University at Sharjah and NYU Abu Dhabi during January of 2012.
For more info: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nyu+madrigal+singers
** Please note that there is no workshop before this concert.**
WordSpoke Festival at the Sixth Street Synagogue presents
Reading & Writing New Jewish Poetry: Workshop led by Adeena Karasick & Jake Marmer
This summer, KlezKanada festival will be piloting the world's first Jewish poetry retreat, co-hosted by Adeena Karasick and Jake Marmer. Join them for the preview of the upcoming attractions, a sample workshop session.
Bagels will be had!
A few words about methodology and the upcoming retreat:
Poetry’s greatest moments have often been measured by its proximity to music. And so, this year, KlezKanada – legendary festival of Jewish music and culture – is inviting poets world-wide to join the festivities at a week-long writing retreat. Two daily workshop sessions will explore the poetic tradition and anti-tradition across the three millennia of Jewish discourse, with a special focus on the avant-garde and otherwise contemporary work. We’ll look at the ecstatic tradition of poetry-prophecy; Talmud and its dialectic-semiotic heritage; practice of Darshening; Uncreative Writing; Kabbalistic language experiments; Concrete Poetry; Jazz/Klezmer Poetry; Yiddish voices; Modernists – and much more. There will be one-on-one time with the faculty and encounters with internationally celebrated poets, musicians, artists, and academics. Poets will be encouraged to draw inspiration from the numerous concerts, and to collaborate with musicians, dancers, painters and other participating artists, to attend lectures, Yiddish classes, sing, dance, celebrate. Held in the beautiful mountain settings in the heart of the Canadian Laurentians.
More info: http://klezkanada.org/poetry-retreat/
About the poets:
Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, most recently, Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009) and The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004 as well as 4 videopoems regularly showcased at Film Festivals world wide. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein) "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail) and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University in New York. This Poem is forthcoming Fall 2012.
Jake Marmer is a poet, performer, and literary critic. His first collection of poems, "Jazz Talmud" was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. It was endorsed by Jerome Rothenberg as "triumph of the Fancy in full flight, comic & serious by turns." He's written for the Forward and Tablet magazines, and performed widely in New York and Jerusalem. Performance videos, latest updates and the schedule of upcoming gigs can be found at http://jakemarmer.wordpress.com.
Cover: $5
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Yom Ha'atzmaut on Sixth Street!
7:30 PM Screening of "Israel Inside" in honor of Israeli Independence Day
Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference is a new feature-length documentary that explores the positive characteristics of Israeli society from a humanistic, psychological, and emotional perspective. This insightful and uplifting documentary sidesteps the usual conversation of politics, conflict and violence, and tells the story of the Israeli people – whose resilience has propelled Israel to the forefront of world innovation and progress.
Despite daily challenges ranging from limited resources to security needs, Israeli creativity and inventiveness help make the world a better place. Israel has made significant advancements in the fields of science, environment, medicine and technology, and has shared these developments with the rest of the world.
for more info see: http://www.israelinsidethemovie.com/
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2:00 PM Yom Hashoah screening of Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah": Part II. A selection from the critically acclaimed 9 1/2 hour film.
WordSpoke Festival at the Sixth Street Synagogue presents
Radical Poetics: Stephen Paul Miller, Adeena Karasick, and Bob Perelman
Milestone publication of the "Radical Poetics & Secular Jewish Culture" - a collection of poetry & criticism - opened a great deal of dialogues, readings, and possibilities for contemporary exploration of Jewish identity. Publication's editor Stephen Paul Miller as well as contributors Adeena Karasick and Bob Pereleman will convene for a poetry reading and conversation.
Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award winning poet, media-artist and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, most recently, Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009) and The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004 as well as 4 videopoems regularly showcased at Film Festivals world wide. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Her writing has been described as "electricity in language" (Nicole Brossard), "plural, cascading, exuberant in its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" (Charles Bernstein) "a tour de force of linguistic doublespeak" (Globe and Mail) and "opens up the possibilities of reading" (Vancouver Courier). She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University in New York. This Poem is forthcoming. Fall 2012.
Bob Perelman teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 19 books of poems, including: Iflife (N.Y: Roof Books, 2006); Playing Bodies, in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw (N. Y.: Granary Books, 2004); and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1999). His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History ; The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. His work can be accessed on Penn Sound (http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound); his website is http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/perelman/ a feature on his work appears in Jacket 39 (http://jacketmagazine.com/39/index.shtml)
Stephen Paul Miller is the author of several books including The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (Duke University Press) and several poetry books including There’s Only One God and You’re Not It (Marsh Hawk Press), Being with a Bullet (Talisman), Fort Dad (Marsh Hawk Press), Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam (Domestic), The Bee Flies in May (Marsh Hawk Press), and Skinny Eighth Avenue (Marsh Hawk Press). He also co-edited, with Daniel Morris, Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press), and, with Terence Diggory, The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets (National Poetry Foundation). His work has or soon will appear in New American Writing, Best American Poetry, Lit, Jacket, Columbia Review, Pataphysics, Zeek, Black Clock, Scripsi, Shofar, Mipoesias, Boundary 2, Columbia Review, American, Letters and Commentary, Another Chicago Magazine, Paterson Review, Eoagh, Coconut, Zen Monster, Poetry New York, Mudfish, Tygerburning Literary Journal, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Appearances, Bowery Poetry Club, Brooklyn Rail, Voices Israel, Literature around the Globe, Critiphoria, Tribe of John, Burning Interiors, Reading the Difficulties, Marsh Hawk Review, The Contemporary Narrative Poem: Critical Crosscurrents, and elsewhere. He is a Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York, and he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Curated by Jake Marmer.
Cover: $5
WordSpoke Festival at the Sixth Street Synagogue presents
Downtown Perspective: Steve Dalachinsky & Friends
Stellar line-up of downtown New York poets and characters!
Featuring: Hersch Silverman, Bonny Finberg, Ivan Klein, Danny Shot, Eliot Katz, Tsaurah Litzky, Jake Marmer, and Steve Dalachinsky.
Curated by Steve Dalachinsky and Jake Marmer.
Cover: $5
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Zevy Zions opens for Michael Winograd!
Accordionist Zevy Zions is one of the most in demand musicians in the Jewish wedding circuit in the NY tri-state area. His klezmer experience is extensive. He has worked with Andy Statman, Paul Pincus, Joel Chernet, Howie Leess, and Klezmerfest, among others. Zions studied with the great performer and teacher,Charles Nunzio who, in turn, was a student of the legendary Pietro Frosini. Zev began music lessons at the age of four, having started with the piano. His mother loved the accordion, so she bought him a used, smaller sized instrument. Zevy sutdied with Charles Nunzio for eight years. Emphasis on technique, expression and overall musicianship was covered over that period of time. Zevy considers himself lucky to have studied with Mr. Nunzio
Zevy has released several solo albums: "Olive Blossoms", "Dizzy Accordion", "William Tell" and his new CD, "Bolero Fantasia".
Clarinetist Michael Winograd has recorded and performed with SoCalled, Budowitz, Frank London, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He has led workshops and performed near and far, with highlighted performances in Reunion Island, the Dawson City Music Festival (Yukon), the Winnepeg , Calgary and Richmond Folk Festivals, Klezmore Festival (Vienna), the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He has taught Klezmer music at the Paris Klezmer week, Yiddish Summer Weimar, KlezKanada, and Living Traditions KlezKamp. In his spare time he produces records, composes music, and plays synthesizer in the Brooklyn based metal band Yiddish Princess.
Michael Winograd - clarinet, band coordinator
Patrick Farrell - accordion
Pete Rushefsky - tsimbl
Deborah Strauss, Keryn Kleinman, Adam Moss - fiddles
4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Michael Winograd $25
8 – 8:30 Zev Zions CD Release Party: Bolero Fantasia
8:40-10:00PM Michael Winograd
10:00 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
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Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band
Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.
Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times
admission: $10 at the door
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Friday, April 6, 7PM: Seder on Sixth!
The deepest, most liberating, ritualistic, theatrical, fun Jewish holiday - the Sixth Street Community Synagogue will be hosting a First Night Seder. Swinging between tradition and utter hipness, Rabbi Greg Wall will lead community through this wonderful meaningful night. The first night seder will recap the very basics of the tradition, in the most user-friendly warm fashion. Delicious food, plenty o' wine, and all the matza you can eat..
Click HERE to reserve your seat!
The celebration is co-sponsored by Passover Across America and the National Jewish Outreach Program.
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Darshan
7:30pm The Art of Judaism with Rabbi Greg Wall
8:30pm Darshan in concert
Only $10 (at the door)
The first Thursday of every month Shir Yaakov and Eden
“Eprhyme” Pearlstein perform with a rotating cast
of creative characters. Each month offers something
new, showcasing this unique and versatile Musical
Midrash project. From straight-up hip-hop, to sit-down
meditative acoustic experiences, to far-out improv-
oriented excursions, and everything in between. Each
month features very special guests....
Each month will feature a guest lecture or class taught
by Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall, followed by the concert.
DARSHAN IS...
Astral rap. Liturgical jazz. Audio alchemy. Harmonizing
Hebrew chant with hiphop, folk rock with electro-pop,
love poetry with kabbalistic psychology, Darshan is a
unique and organic weave of world wisdom traditions
and modern musical styles.
Shir Yaakov is a master of melody who has given
birth to hauntingly beautiful liturgical chants that
echo around the world. He is the Creative and Musical
Director of Romemu, NYC’s Renewal Community.
Eprhyme is a Radical Jewish Rennaissance Rapper.
Together, as Darshan, these two combine and connect
to create something that is altogether new, and at the
same time ancient. Darshan is “an uncompromising
blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality.” —
The Forward.
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Arkady Goldenshtein & Benjy Fox-Rosen in concert!
Arkady Goldenshtein was born in Mogilev-Podolsk on the border of Ukraine and Moldova in 1963 and grew up in Moldova. He has lived in Israel since 1990. Goldenshtein has played klezmer on the clarinet since childhood, and performed regularly in affairs of the Jewish community during the Communist era, which was in those days a somewhat risky venture. He has participated in many festivals in Israel and abroad, most recently the KlezKanada Festival and has toured in England and Germany. His ensembles have been awarded prizes at the Safed and Raanana Klezmer Festivals in Israel. He currently conducts the Haifa Klezmer Orchestra, and teaches clarinet in conservatories and in the public school system.
Benjy Fox-Rosen's Quintet presents an arresting synthesis of Yiddis folk songs, art songs, Klezmer music, and original compositions. Band leader Fox-Rosen – singer, composer, and bassist – is joined by some of the most compelling klezmer musicians in New York City. Together, they focus on the poetry of beloved Krakow songwriter Mordechai Gebirtig, presenting his poems as alluring and engaging art songs.
This evening will be the US premiere of an as yet unnamed suite of compositions from the poetry of Gebirtig!
Featuring: Benjy Fox-Rosen: voice, bass, Michael Winograd: clarinet, Patrick Farrell: accordion, Avi Fox-Rosen: guitar, and Tyshawn Sorey: drums
4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 9:15PM Benjy Fox-Rosen and Arkady Goldenshteyn $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
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New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.
Rare As Radium
Catherine Sikora - soprano sax
Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon
Sam Bardfeld - violin
Art Bailey, accordion and compositions.
Richly hued, complex tapestries of sound and improvisation-Rare As Radium. A new avant-chamber project from composer/accordionist/pianist Art Bailey, featuring four of the most adventuresome and sympathetic improvisers active today.
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Tziporah's True Blood
What has Tziporah, daughter of a Midianite Priest, now wife of the Prophet Moses, gotten herself into? Come experience the spirited and subversive lives of the women of Pesach in text and story, music and dance, puppetry and theater.
Featuring Sydney Schiff, Yitzchak Buxbaum, Carole Forman, Rabbi Jill Hammer, Dr. Amy Kalmanofsky, Bronwein Mullen and Jesse Freedman. Plus: performances by Shoshana Jedwab, Daniel Silverstein, Alisha Desai and Kambi Gathesha
.Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band
Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.
Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times
admission: $10 at the door
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4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 10:00PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party, featuring Michael Alpert $15 (includes a drink)
10:00 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series. Featuring dance leading by Michael Alpert, and a live ensemble led by Michael Winograd.
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New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.
Shabbes Elevator
Matt Darriau - reeds
Nir Felder - guitar
John Mettam - drums
and special guest...
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Shabbes Elevator is the new project from Matt Darriau (Paradox Trio and the Klezmatics). After years of dedication to the performance and study of Klezmer music and its surrounding tributaries, Darriau approaches his new group from a more original and free point of view. The use of electronic sounds come into play as well, from Darriau's multi-reeds to Nir Felder's wide ranging modernist guitar approach. The trio also often features Curtis Hasslebring on trombone!
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Film Series Curated by Minna Packer presents:
Gentelman's Agreement
2:00pm Screening of Gentelman's Agreement “This acclaimed adaptation of Laura Z Hobson’s bestseller stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar® nominated role as a journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism. Searching for an angle, he decides to pose as a Jew – and soon discovers what it is tobe a victim of religious intolerance”.
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4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 9:15PM The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
The Sy Kushner Jewish Music Ensemble
featuring Sy Kushner (accordion), Aaron Kushner (alto sax), Jeremy Brown (violin,) and Marty Confurius (bass) and special guest Ken Maltz on clarinet
On a mild July evening, seven years ago [1960], on a semi-lit stage in Camp Hi-Li, three musicians (who were to become known as The Mark 3) met and played their first note together. To all present, it was obvious that they were witnessing the birth of a sound-a sound that was to bring to Israeli and Chassidic music a depth which it had never before known. - Excerpt from the liner notes of the original 1966 Mark 3 recording which was re-released in 2009.
That album was to become the seminal opus: an album that was to influence the course of Jewish music for years to come. And Sy Kushner was one of its founders and musical director. It was the beginning of a long and varied career for Sy, taking him through Chassidic, Israeli folk, klezmer, and most recently newly composed Jewish music. His CDs of original works have received rave reviews.
This disc[Arise!] embodies the idea that klezmer is a living and viable genre…. Kushner’s klezmer music integrates non-klezmer sounds, but so smoothly that the result is more like stirred paint, in which each new added element changes the color of the whole. – Paul Wieder, Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation.
Sy Kushner is a klezmer lifer, a leading figure on accordion as well as a composer since his Mark 3 days in the ’60s…… highly refined musical gold. - George Robinson…..Jewish Week 2009
What a wonderful day you gave us. Your music brings me warm memories of a time long ago. Thanks. - Joan Levine and Jonah Berman commenting on a 2009 City Winery performance.
Kushner’s authority, clarity, and grace on the accordion makes this album very special.….The way Kushner plays, you feel as though you can tell what is really happening. - Ari Davidow’s review of KlezSqueeze(CD)
The CD (KlezSqueeze) impresses with its simplicity and virtuosity. In many respects, I wondered, how is it possible to play like that? ….For myself, it is one of the best records ever. - Andreas, from Virtual Klezmer(Germany)
The Kushners are the great biblical begots of klezmer music. - Jonathan Mark, Associate Editor, Jewish Week
Accordionist Kushner has been making excellent klezmer since his hits with the Mark 3 Orchestra back in the 1960s. He has only gotten better and deeper. - Ari Davidow-Klezmer Shack
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New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.
Jeremiah Cymerman & Anthony Coleman
Jeremiah Cymerman (clarinet, electronics)
Anthony Coleman (keyboard)
The first evening length concert between improvisers Jeremiah Cymerman and Anthony Coleman. Dysfunction and malady abound.
Anthony Coleman is a composer-keyboardist who has performed and recorded throughout the world. His projects include the piano trio Sephardic Tinge, which has released three discs: Sephardic Tinge, Morenica, and Our Beautiful Garden Is Open (Tzadik) and has performed at the Sarajevo Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Festival, and the Krakow and Vienna Jewish Culture Festivals. His Selfhaters Orchestra has issued two CDs: Selfhaters and The Abysmal Richness of the Infinite Proximity of the Same (Tzadik).
Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer & clarinetist based in New York City since 2002. An active participant in several different scenes, Cymerman’s work reflects an interest in improvisation, electronic manipulation & production, traditional, studio & graphic composition and solo performance. Cymerman has worked or performed with a broad range of contemporary artists and frequent collaborators include Toby Driver, Nate Wooley, Brian Chase, Mario Diaz de Leon, Christopher Hoffman, Jessica Pavone and Matthew Welch. Cymerman has toured internationally, received numerous commissions and published several articles on music and music production. He has released several recordings of his own music and his record output has been documented on the Tzadik and Porter record labels.
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Created and Curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, “6th Street Sundays” is a salon-style world and classical music series currently in its 3rd season.
3 PM Concert with Vampire Suit
2 PM Workshop/Masterclass: The workshop will focus on some of the rhythmic and metric ideas that go into our music. We will be playing some music and breaking down the rhythmic language it's comprised of. Come join in the fun!
Vampire Suit creates a highly personal musical texture that takes you from the tribal dances of North Africa to the marshes of the Balkans. The band's unique sound comes from drawing on rhythms and forms of musical traditions from around the world and infusing them with ideas and harmonies from jazz, 20-century music, blues and other modern genres. The result is a musical journey that is at once personal and global, music that is at the same time unmistakably modern, yet feels old and familiar, a new tradition for a generation that hails from so many traditions.
Performers of Vampire Suit include:
Jay Vilnai - guitar, Skye Steele - violin, Gary Pickard - soprano sax and clarinet, Reuben Radding - bass and Rich Stein - percussion
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Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.
The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.
New American Quartet
Playing the original jazz compositions of pianist/composer Mitch Schechter, the New American Quartet features Mitch Schechter on the piano, Greg Wall on the saxophone, Takashi Otsuka on the acoustic bass, and Jonathon Peretz on the drums.
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Admission is $10
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Student Klezmer Concert!
The East Village Klezmorim are a group of students who have been
attending the Klezmer Workshop at the East Village Klezmer Series
since September 2011. The have learned new repertoire every week from
their instructor, Aaron Alexander, as well as guest teachers including
Margot Leverett, Pete Sokolow, Deborah Strauss, Matt Darriau, and
others. They have participated in the jam sessions following the
concerts, and developed into an outstanding klezmer group.
The City College Klezmer Konsortium (CCKK), led by Grammy Award-winner
and leader of the Klezmatics, Frank London, is at the forefront of the
up-and-coming Klezmer bands. In line with the mission of the City
College of New York, to provide education to the working man, the
CCKK's aim is to bring traditional Klezmer music back to the common
folk, from whence it came. Through a strong, yet developing
understanding of Klezmer music, as well as a deep love of Pop, Jazz,
Funk, Impressionism...etc., the CCKK dishes out a blend of traditional
yet contemporary, and cerebral yet danceable repertoire that is sure
to start your shtetl shaking!
The CCKB is supported by the Jewish Studies Department of CCNY, led by Roy Mittelman.
4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 9:15PM East Village Klezmorim & The City College Klezmer Band in Concert $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
Student Concert featuring the East Village Klezmorim, The City College Klezmer Band and more!
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6 PM: Join 24/6: A Jewish Theater Company to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Japan’s Tohoku region, as we join theaters nationwide to present works by major American and Japanese theater artists. The Japan Playwrights Association will disperse the proceeds from this one-day-only event to the Japanese theater community affected by the disaster.
$15 Donation at the door.RSVP: twentyfoursix@hotmail.com
Please visit www.twentyfoursix.weebly.com for more information and to watch a video about the event.
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The Annual Purim Bash and Masquerade @ The Sixth St. Synagogue returns Wednesday, March 7.
Celebrating "Purim in the Shtetl" with incredible shtetle gourmet food by Itta Roth of "The Hester", liquid cheer and music by Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh with speacial guest Yakar Rhythms from Senegal!
24/6: A Jewish Theater Company will be presenting a 15 minute improvisation based Purim spiel featuring
members of it's new improv wing IMPROVODOX. Bring your Purim time suggestions to inspire their spiel!
Tickets start at $25/early bird special $18 (before March 1)
Purchase tickets here.
Midrash Mish Mosh is a modern klezmer band featuring all original music by Alexander, an all-star band of downtown jazz/Jewish music stalwarts, and an exciting mix of klezmer with thrash punk, jazz, balkan & African influences. The band has performed in the NY metro area, as well as in Canada, and Europe. It is led by Aaron Alexander, one of the prominent drummers in the worldwide klezmer revival since the late 1980s, who performs with such groups as Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Hasidic New Wave, Klezmerfest, Babkas, Alicia Svigals Party Band, The Klezmatics, Greg Wall’s Later Prophets and many more. He is also curator of the East Village Klezmer Yiddish Culture Series.
ft. Michael Alpert, vocals + Alex Kontorovich - clarinet, Arnold Hammerschlag - trumpet.
Zach Mayer - baritone sax, Rabbi Greg Wall - special guest tenor sax, Jon Madof - guitar
Brian Glassman - bass, Alioune Faye and Rich Faye - Sabar drums, Aaron Alexander - drums
6:30PM Maariv
7:00PM Megillah Reading
7:30PM Buffet Dinner
8:00PM Concert with Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh
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“Shabbat Across America” is coming to the East Village on Friday, March 2! The Sixth Street Community Synagogue and the Stanton Street Shul invite you to an inspiring Friday night service with lots of singing, a scrumptious Shabbat dinner, delicious wines, warm company, and much more! Mincha at 5:37 p.m., followed by Kabbalat Shabbat, champagne kiddush and dinner. Come one, come all! Reserve HERE..
On Friday night, March 2, 2012 hundreds of synagogues across the continent will take part in an historic national Jewish event to celebrate what unifies all Jews — Shabbat! Everyone is invited… singles, couples, families — all ages.
“Turn an ordinary Friday night into something extraordinary!”
That’s the magic of Shabbat Across America. By participating in this continent wide event, you will not only have the opportunity to experience Shabbat, but you will be sharing your experience with tens of thousands of Jews across North America.
Tix available HERE
.Darshan
7:30pm The Art of Judaism with Rabbi Greg Wall
8:30pm Darshan in concert
Only $10 (at the door)
The first Thursday of every month Shir Yaakov and Eden
“Eprhyme” Pearlstein perform with a rotating cast
of creative characters. Each month offers something
new, showcasing this unique and versatile Musical
Midrash project. From straight-up hip-hop, to sit-down
meditative acoustic experiences, to far-out improv-
oriented excursions, and everything in between. Each
month features very special guests....
Each month will feature a guest lecture or class taught
by Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall, followed by the concert.
DARSHAN IS...
Astral rap. Liturgical jazz. Audio alchemy. Harmonizing
Hebrew chant with hiphop, folk rock with electro-pop,
love poetry with kabbalistic psychology, Darshan is a
unique and organic weave of world wisdom traditions
and modern musical styles.
Shir Yaakov is a master of melody who has given
birth to hauntingly beautiful liturgical chants that
echo around the world. He is the Creative and Musical
Director of Romemu, NYC’s Renewal Community.
Eprhyme is a Radical Jewish Rennaissance Rapper.
Together, as Darshan, these two combine and connect
to create something that is altogether new, and at the
same time ancient. Darshan is “an uncompromising
blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality.” —
The Forward.
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4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 9:15PM Brian Glassman's Klezmer-Jazz Alliance $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
As the name of the band suggests this is a combo made up of master musicians uniquely at home in both musical genres.
This group seeks to explore the area of American music where Klezmer / Yiddish, Jazz & Swing styles all intersect. The Jazzy side of Dave Tarras, the Yiddish tinged Swing stylings of Cab Calloway, the Ashkinaz influenced sound of the 2nd Ave. Yiddish Theater and early Broadway composers that made it's way into so much music from The American Songbook to Be-bop; all this and more are interpreted by this exciting all-star group of NYC pros.
Brian Glassman - Double bass
Rabbi Greg Wall - Clarinet, Tenor & Soprano Saxophones
Dan Rosengard - Piano
Aaron Alexander - Drums
and featuring special guest Vocalist - Daniella Rabbani
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New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.
Collapse Quartet
Ty Citerman
Eyal Maoz
Yoshie Fruchter
Marco Capelli
Collapse Quartet is a sonic exploration of the infinite possibilities of four guitars. Channeling groups such as the Fred Frith guitar quartet and Robert Fripp's various groups, Collapse uses multiple sounds to create songs that have a sense of melody, texture and humor. Guitarists Ty Citerman, Eyal Maoz, Yoshie Fruchter and Marco Capelli are all accomplished composers and improvisers in their own right, and combine forces in this unique, and forwardthinking ensemble.
.Ayn Sof Arkestra & Bigger Band
Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.
The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.
Meet NYC’s newest addition to the canon of new Jewish influenced music and culture, the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, under the direction of saxophonist Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall and grammy winning trumpeter Frank London. The Arkestra consists of some of the most innovative artists on the scene today – Pam Fleming, Paul Shapiro, Aaron Alexander, Fima Ephron, Eyal Maoz, and many others. The repertoire includes original compositions and arrangements of the members and guest composers in the great NuJu/Rad Jew/SunRaJoo tradition.
Read the low-down on Ayn Sof in the New York Times
admission: $10 at the door
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The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture is pleased to present our popular Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party series, as part of the Sixth Street Community Synagogue's klezmer series. Featuring dance led by Avia Moore, and a live ensemble led by renowned fiddler Deborah Strauss.
TIME CHANGE: YIDDISH CLASS IS BACK, NOW STARTING AT 4:30 PM
/tu4:30-6:00PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 10:00PM Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party, featuring Avia Moore $15 (includes a drink)
10:00 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
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New work by established and up-and-coming artists involved in New York City's vibrant Downtown/Jazz/Jewish music community.
Days of Awe
Yoni Kretzmer - tenor sax
Eyal Maoz - guitar
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz - double bass
Devin Gray - drums
Days of awe is a new project dedicated to the interpretation of synagogue based pieces or synagogue influenced compositions. Emphasising the abstract and non specific folky-ness that these tunes curry within their being the band sets off with the belief that the 60s free-jazz Aylerian spirit is to be found with in the natural boundaries of these hymns.
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Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.
The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.
Thu Feb 16, 8:30pm
Jewish Art Salon and Sixth Street Synagogue premier a night of break-through cross-genre collaboration! Performance poet Jake Marmer will recite his cycle of Talmud-inspired poems, while saxophonist Greg "Jazz Rabbi" Wall, Rob Henke (trumpet), Uri Sharlin (keys), and Jon Madof (guitar) will spontaneously interact with, and interpret the spoken material.
The audience is invited to sketch or paint in response to the performance. There will be discussion and conversation interspersed with the performance.
Admission $10
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6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
6 - 7:30PM Yiddish Class taught by Dmitri Slepovitch $25
8 – 9:15PM Margot Leverett Band $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
Margot Leverett band featuring music by Sid Beckerman with Margot Leverett on clarinet, Aaron Alexander on drums and Christina Cowder on accordion.
Margot Leverett is one of the foremost clarinetists of the klezmer revival. Classically trained at Indiana University School of Music, she was involved in avant-garde music when she first heard klezmer, the dynamic East European music traditionally played at Jewish weddings. Leverett was a founding member of the Klezmatics in 1985 before moving on to establish a solo career. Her first CD, "The Art of Klezmer Clarinet," a tribute to classic klezmer of the 20's and 30's, was released in 2001 on Traditional Crossroads (CD4296) to glowing reviews. Her “Klezmer Mountain Boys” band has delighted audiences around the world.
For more info: visit http://www.klezmermountainboys.com/content/margot-leverett"
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Created and Curated by cellist Jessie Reagen Mann, “6th Street Sundays” is a salon-style world and classical music series currently in its 3rd season.
3 PM Concert with East of the River
2 PM Workshop/Masterclass
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East of the River presents
“Levantera”
In the spirit of the program’s title “Levantera*”, East of the River explores Medieval music of the Mediterranean and travels eastward through the Balkans to Armenia and the Middle East, exploring the earliest songs of those extrao...rdinary cultures, together with their traditional dances - the origins of which go back centuries.
*a strong easterly wind of the Mediterranean
Nina Stern and Daphna Mor, Recorders
Uri Sharlin, Accordion and Percussion
Shane Shanahan, Percussion
$15 includes admission to both and a free drink
The workshop is open to players of all instruments and those who just want to listen and learn. Some extra percussion instruments will be available.
East of the River was founded by internationally renowned recorder players Nina Stern and Daphna Mor. The project explores haunting and virtuosic melodies from the traditional repertories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, as well as gems of the Medieval European classical repertory. The music is arranged and interpreted by musicians whose musical backgrounds include Classical, Jazz and World Music. Together they create the unique blend that is East of the River. Stern and Mor early music specialists and “recorder virtuosos”, according to the New York Times, have appeared as a duo with groups as varied as The New York Philharmonic and world music ensemble Pharaoh’s Daughter, in venues including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. In East of the River they collaborate with acclaimed composer/ accordionist Uri Sharlin, and Yo Yo Ma’s “Silk Road Ensemble” percussionist Shane Shanahan. The group has performed at venues as various as Bargemusic, Joe’s Pub, Zebulon, Le Poisson Rouge, and universities. Their first album “East of the River” was released in 2009.
.Jazz Rabbi Greg Wall is hosting his Thursday night series of mystical learning and jazz. The nights begins with his popular class, “The Art Of Judaism”, featuring the work of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Rav Kook, and the Rav HaNazir at 7:30pm, and then continues with a concert featuring one of Rabbi Wall’s bands at 8:30pm.
The class is free, the cover charge for the concert is $10.
New American Quartet
Playing the original jazz compositions of pianist/composer Mitch Schechter, the New American Quartet features Mitch Schechter on the piano, Greg Wall on the saxophone, Takashi Otsuka on the acoustic bass, and Jonathon Peretz on the drums.
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Admission is $10
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6 - 7:30PM Klezmer Workshop led by Aaron Alexander and various esteemed guests $25
8 – 9:15PM The Levitt Legacy, ft. Dave Levitt and guest vocalist Joanne Borts, $15 (includes a drink)
9:30 – 11PM Klezmer Jam Session, led by Aaron Alexander and guests
Full evening pass $35 (includes Workshop or Yiddish Class, Concert, Jam Session & one drink!)
Featuring Dave Levitt & guest vocalist Joanne Borts.
Dave Levitt learned the music business from his parents. They got him started at age eight in Hollywood, Florida. He went on to appear with his folks at every one of their performances. First it was drums and clarinet. Later it became alto sax before Dave finally settled with the trombone at age fourteen. As a teenager Dave attended the famous Laguardia H.S. of Music and Art in New York. While a student there, he was a cast member in the Elizabeth Swados production "Swing" which had a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. After completing High School, Dave attended Manhattan School Of Music on a scholarship. As student at MSM, Levitt had the good fortune of appearing with many notable jazz musicians. They included Red Rodney, Al Grey, Clark Terry as well as many others. It was about this time that Dave started to arrange and record Klezmer music with his father. These recordings also included their distant cousin Howie Leess on alto saxophone. After finishing his education, Dave took his artistry on the road which included the U.S. as well as Europe. Two of his European tours were with the Epstein Brothers Klezmer Band. Dave was the youngest member of the group as the brothers were well into their 70's. The eldest brother Max Epstein was in his early 80's. It was about this time that Dave started his own company called Progressive Music. The business operated as a rehearsal/recording studio for thirteen years. The business has since shifted gears and Dave is now involved in publishing as well as operating as a record label. The initial release of the label is called "Marty Levitt's Greatest Hits". It's a series of recordings with two generations in the ensemble. (Marty and Dave Levitt).
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.Darshan
7:30 PM Lecture with Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
8:30 PM Darshan Concert
Darshan is kicking off their new monthly musical residency at The Sixth Street Synagogue Thursday night February 2nd.
That's right! Every first Thursday Shir Yaakov and Eden "Eprhyme" Pearlstein will be performing with a rotating cast of creative characters. Each month will be something new, showcasing this this experimental, unique, and versatile musical project. From straight-up rockin hip-hop and funk sets, to sit-down meditative acoustic experiences, to far-out improv-oriented excursions, and everything in between. Check back each month for featured guests.
Darshan is astral rap, liturgical jazz, audio alchemy. Harmonizing Hebrew chant with hiphop, folk rock with electro-pop, love poetry with kabbalistic psychology, Darshan is a unique and organic weave of world wisdom traditions and modern musical styles.
Shir Yaakov is a Master of Melody who has given birth to hauntingly beautiful liturgical chants used in havurot and synagogues around the world.
Eprhyme is a Radical Jewish Rennaissance Rapper.
Together, as Darshan, these two combine and connect to create something that is altogether new, and at the same time ancient. Darshan is "an uncompromising blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality." — The Forward.
admission: $10 at the door
The concert will be preceded by a guest lecture on "Torah and Creativity" by Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, an internationally acclaimed bible scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet, is well known in the Jewish community for his essays on the weekly Bible portion. His vibrant thematic-analytical approach blends the methods of modern academic scholarship with traditional Jewish approaches to the Biblical text. He is best known for his ability to teach students how to study rather than simply read Biblical passages. As his essays focus on meta-themes in the Bible, his readership has expanded to students of the Bible from all religions and walks of life.
In Israel, Rabbi Leibtag teaches at Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshivat Shaalavim, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and at Yeshiva University's Gruss Center.
