Welcome to the 2008 Jewish Music Festival
EVENT: Opening Night: Musical Fortunes
Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 8:30 PM
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OPENING NIGHT – WORLD PREMIERE
Musical Fortunes: New Music based on Jewish and Romani (Gypsy) Routes.
First Congregational Church of Berkeley:
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
Musical Fortunes: New music based on Jewish and Romani (Gypsy) Routes. A World Premiere of new music based on two rich traditions, mined by Oakland composer/performer Dan Cantrell with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Michael Alpert, Rumen Shopov and dancers Rachel Brice and Elizabeth Strong.
This new work has been commissioned thanks to funding from the Creative Work Fund, The East Bay Community Foundation-Fund for Artists, The MAP Fund, a project of Creative Capital, Lufthansa German Airlines and Leonard Kurz, in memory of Ursula Sherman
Performer bios:
The Jewish Music Festival is a program of the
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (JCCEB)
- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Koret Foundation
- Forest Creatures Entertainment