Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Musical Revival
Sun, Mar 14, 2010 3:00 PM
Music scholars Benjamin Brinner (UC Berkeley), Judah Cohen (Indiana University) and Edwin Seroussi (The Hebrew University), will explore early attempts to restore Sephardic and Ashkenazi musical traditions. They will be joined by Martin Schwartz (UC Berkeley), whose record collection was seminal to the klezmer revival. Moderated by Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes).
Yuval Ron: Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East
Sat, Mar 20, 2010 8:00 PM
The Yuval Ron Ensemble, with Dervish Aziz, from the Mevlavi Sufi Order
World-music artist, composer, producer, educator and peace activist, Yuval Ron and his ensemble unite the sacred music traditions of Judaism, Sufism and the Armenian Church.
Zmiros
Fri, Mar 26, 2010 8:00 PM
Service and Concert
Stunning sacred songs for Shabbos and Pesach with Lorin Sklamberg and Frank London, of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics
Diaspora Redux - American Premiere
Sat, Mar 27, 2010 8:00 PM
A brilliant septet from New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires – three great melting-pots and cradles of contemporary jazz, klezmer, tango, and avant-garde music. Created and directed by Alan Bern of the world renowned band Brave Old World, and including Klezmer Buenos Aires, musical wizardry from Argentina
Master class: Improvisation in New Jewish Music
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 12:30 PM
A four hour Master class with Alan Bern (Brave Old World) and other members of Diaspora Redux.
Saints and Tzadiks
Sun, Mar 28, 2010 8:00 PM
Through archives and old recordings, Grammy-winning vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg and band have gathered a rich mix of songs from Jewish and Irish traditions on love, death, betrothal, betrayal and the demon drink. Be prepared to laugh, cry, mourn and rejoice.
Klezmer Buenos Aires
Mon, Mar 29, 2010 1:30 PM
Matinee
This brilliant duo presents a stellar blend of klezmer, Argentinean folk music, tango and jazz improvisation. Their stunning virtuosity on flutes, wooden flutes, bagpipe, duduk (wind instrument), clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, harmonica, accordion, piano and percussion sounds more like an orchestra than a duet.