KlezCalendar

“The Glass House Project”
Three concerts in NY & DC recreate the musical culture of Hungarian Jewish communities
destroyed by the Holocaust

Grammy Award-winning trumpeter FRANK LONDON (of The Klezmatics)
brings together a supergroup of jazz/world/folk virtuosi from Hungary & NYC

Working from meticulously reconstructed scores & archival records of long forgotten folk songs, performances range from the reverential to the decidedly experimental

THE GLASS HOUSE ENSEMBLE:
from Hungary
MIKLÓS LUKÁCS, cimbalon
BÉLA ÁGOSTON, winds
SZIRTES EDINA MÓKUS, singer
ÁRON SZÉKELY, kontra
KATA HARSÁCZKI, singer

from NYC
FRANK LONDON, trumpet
PABLO ASLAN, bass
RICHIE BARSHAY, drums
ARAM BAJAKIAN, guitar
JAKE SHULMAN-MENT, violin

Tuesday, May 27, 7:00 pm
Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Pl, New York City
Free Admission

Wednesday, May 28, 6:00 pm
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater
2700 F St NW, Washington, DC
Free Admission

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DI GOLDENE KALE (The Golden Bride)
FREE at Baruch, sponsored by CUNY

TUESDAY, MAY 27 @ 7PM
Baruch Performing Arts Center, Nagelberg Theatrer
55 Lexington Avenue (enter 25th Street)
NY, NY 10010
Box Office: (646) 312-5073
The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene

Music from this delightful 1923 operetta, written by Joseph Rumshinsky, will be heard for the first time in New York in over 65 years in this staged presentation. This classic work has been restored by former Harvard University librarian Michael Ochs.

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New York Klezmer Series (formerly East Village Klezmer Series)
CTMD Tantshoyz—Yiddish Dance Party!
w/ Steven Weintraub, Music by Amy Zakar's Fidl Kapelye

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
30 W. 68th St.
NYC

All Concerts begin at 7:30pm; $15. jam sessions afterward
Klezmer Instrumental Music at 5:30pm. $25 per class,
Kidz Klezmer Band starts at 4pm—see page for pricing.
Full night pass—$35 (includes class, concert & jam sesson)

More info: aaronalexander.com/wp/ or email NY Klezmer Series

New York Klezmer Series is hosted by and receives support from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. We are also supported by The Center for Traditional Music and Dance. Our media co-sponsors are Workmen's Circle.

Support for the NY Klezmer Series is provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency in partnership with Governor Andrew Cuomo. Major support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture was provided to the Center for Traditional Music and Dance by the Keller-Shatanoff Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Atran Foundation. Additional support was provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New York Community Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Scherman Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/486416598124717/

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Metropolitan Klezmer

TUES 5/27/14, 6pm–7:15pm
Bryant Park
Manhattan, NY

Accordions Around the World series feature concert
Fountain Terrace near W 41st St /Sixth Ave NYC.
Free & outdoors (weather permitting)

More info: bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/accordion.html

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