The Gallery page now includes links to musical clips from the East Meets West Concert of April 22, 2006, including Theodore Bikel. A sheynem dank to David Weigins for recording and editing.

Episode 5 with SoCalled is now available at the iTunes Music Store.

Enjoy!

Keith Wolzinger

SUN. 9/17
From Thursday September 14 through Sunday the 17th, New York offers a wealth of Klezmer, featuring many of our faculty and scholarship students. The highlight will be the:

GOLDENSHTEYN TRIBUTE CONCERT/DANCE PARTY
Goldenshteyn Tribute Ensemble Featuring:
Alicia Svigals, Pete Sokolow, Aaron Alexander, Margot Leverett, David Licht, Susan Watts, Cookie Segelstein, Rachel Lemisch, Sarah Ferholdt, Dan Blacksberg, Michael Winograd, Jeff Perlman, Audrey Wright, Mark Rubin (all the way from Austin, TX!), Timothy Quigley, Joey Weisenberg, Adrian Banner, Amy Zakar, Jeff Warschauer, Deb Strauss, and many more!
7pm doors
$25
>> buy tickets

 For more New York events coming September 14 through 17 (more…)

Thanks to Claire Dubin, a fellow Philadelphian, the Gallery now includes close-up pictures from the 2006 faculty concerts, a selection from the Shabbes march and expanded coverage of the East Meets West concert. Thanks again to Harold Perlman and Claire for sharing their pictures. We look forward to receiving and posting more.

 Bob Blacksberg

Episode 4 is up, featuring Alex Kontorovich and Eric Stein. Currently on our web site, but should be up at the iTunes Music Store shortly.

Keith Wolzinger

The Gallery now includes a selection of photographs of Theodore Bikel at KlezKanada 2006, including scenes around camp, and his performances during the bas mitsve celebration and at the East Meets West concert. Also, I added photos from the faculty concerts.
Bob Blacksberg

From Alex Kontorovich -  

Dear friends,

I hope this email finds you well. As exciting as my summer has been with traveling, performing and teaching all over the world, I’ve returned home with a harsh reminder of the song “Abi Gezunt” - if you have your health, thank your lucky stars. My grandfather and a close friend from high school and college are both sleeping in hospital beds tonight, and as you are probably already aware, earlier this summer we lost German Goldenshteyn. There is little I can do for the former beyond praying and visiting, and, well, it’s too late for German.

In an effort to repay German’s family for his years of tutelage, the world’s top klezmorim have agreed to join me in a memorial concert benefiting his widow, Mina. We cordially invite you to strap on your dancing shoes and come find out why German’s 1000-tune repertoire is notorious for filling the dance floor. Let’s show the Goldenshteyn family that, although German is gone, his influence is everlasting (I’m sure they’d reverse the trade in a heartbeat if they could).

The details:
Sunday Sept 17th, at SouthPaw, 125 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn, 7 PM doors, 8 PM
concert/dance party
Tickets $30 at the door, $25 in advance - go to http://metpo.com/tickets
All proceeds go to the family
The lineup:
Alicia Svigals, Pete Sokolow, Aaron Alexander, Margot Leverett, David Licht, Susan Watts, Cookie Segelstein, Rachel Lemisch, Sarah Ferholdt, Dan Blacksberg, Michael Winograd, Jeff Perlman, Audrey Wright, Mark Rubin (all the way from Austin, TX!), Timothy Quigley, Joey Weisenberg, Adrian Banner, Amy Zakar, Jeff Warschauer, Deb Strauss, and many more!

Thanks for your time, and I hope to see you on the 17th. Let’s pray all our loved ones have a speedy recovery. All the best,

-Alex