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Instrumentalworkshop für Fortgeschrittene
July 15-22, 2008

Instrumentalworkshop für fortgeschrittene Musiker
(in Englisch und Deutsch mit Übersetzungen in Französisch und Russisch). Freut Euch auf eine intensive Erforschung von jiddischem und Roma-Repertoire und –Stil, angeleitet u.a. von großartigen Musikern des EU-Projektes.

Yiddish Summer Weimar
Veranstalter other music e.V.
c/o Kulturbüro LaRete | Goetheplatz 3 | 99423 Weimar
Fon +49 (0)3643 50 66 77 | Fax +49 (0)3643 49 86 04
Mehr Informationen zum Festival finden Sie unter
www.yiddish-summer-weimar.de

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Free concert by di bostoner klezmer on Thursday, 7/17, 6:30 p.m. at New Bedford Whaling National Park, 33 William Street, New Bedford (for directions: www.nps.gov/nebe/planyourvisit/directions.htm

There's a Jewish connection to this area's whaling—a shnayder (shoemaker) supplied materials, and after the demise of the industry, the whaling captains used to hang around his shop and reminisce. We'll play original tunes composed by all three members (a world-premier of one of them!) and promise mostly rollicking and a couple of reflective moments.

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Dec. 17th, 7pm: concert and panel discussion at the Eldridge Street Synagogue for the one year anniversary of A GREAT DAY ON ELDRDIGE STREET (Note: Elizabeth Schwartz will be ONLY DISCUSSING the art of Yiddish and klezmer vocalizing on the panel due to Kol Isha)

For information, tickets: (212) 219-0888
www.eldridgestreet.org

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Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Bente Kahan in Concert in Echoes
July 16 & 17, 7:30PM
Part of the Guest Artist Series at Dance Theatre Workshop
219 West 19th Street, NYC
Tickets: $25, Members $15. Buy 2 tickets to any two programs and get 20% off.
212-924-0077 or www.dtw.org

Carolyn Dorfman and Bente Kahan, a celebrated Jewish-Norwegian artist residing in Wrølaw, Poland, are currently collaborating on ECHOES: an evening of dance, music and theater that embraces the best of Dorfman and Kahan's individual repertoires, cabaret-style intimacy and their newest collaboration. The work incorporates choreography from Dorfman's highly acclaimed dance piece, Cat's Cradle and Kahan's one woman "tour de force" theatre piece, Voices of Theresienstadt. Mayne Mentshn, originally created with support from the Foundation's The Pearl S. Zeltzer Fund for Jewish Choreography*, will also be excerpted.

*the Fund is currently supporting the New Dance from Israel initiative; no applications are available or will be accepted at this time.

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Asefa

July 17, 8pm, $5 suggested donation
The Tea Lounge 837 Union St., Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.tealoungeny.com

Come on out and enjoy one of Brooklyn's best music spots. Rich rockin' the skins, Yoshi adding swirling colors on oud/guitar, Noah hammering home groove, special guest Kevin Zubek drilling the drums, and Sammy twisting and vibrating the airs around him.
You don't want to miss it!

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"Degenerate Music": Jewish Music of Weimar Germany
The Mendocino Music Festival
Thursday, July 17, 8:00 pm
Susan Waterfall & The Mendocino Music Festival Chamber Players
Erin Neff, vocalist

After World War I, Weimar Berlin was a cauldron of artistic ferment as avant-garde artists and intellectuals, most of them Jewish, struggled to create a modern German culture. Exuberant freedom and hectic experimentation masked a sense of impending doom. After 1933, Hitler denounced them all as "degenerate" and their forced exile carried Weimar modernity to the rest of the world. A re-creation of this fascinating and pivotal era with cabaret and chamber music of Weill, Schoenberg, and Eisler, photographs and film.

Presented by The Mendocino Music Festival in association with the Jewish Music Festival

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