2007
January 2007
Saturday 6 January 2007
Sat 6 Jan. Brandon Seabrook (mandolin), Jazer Giles Schwartz (accordion), and Yaeko Miranda Elmaleh (violin) perform Jewish music from the Eastern European, Gypsy and Klezmer traditions. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 7 January 2007
Sun 7 Jan, 2 pm. The first event in our Winter Film Festival - Soul Music series. Music is a window into the Jewish soul. Join us to explore the rhythm and range of Jewish music - from klezmer to jazz. Nikitov, an intercontinental band, led by charismatic Yiddish song maven Niki Jacobs, has riveted audiences in Europe and the U.S. with its originality and driving Eastern European rhythms. Reservations suggested. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 10. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Saturday 13 January 2007
Sat 13 Jan. The Hevreh Ensemble; Jeff Adler on bass clarinet, soprano saxophone and Native American Flute; Judith Dansker on oboe, oboe d'amore, english horn and Native American Flute; Laurie Friedman on clarinet, percussion, Native American Flute and Shofar; and Donald Sosin on keyboard perform original works that combine themes from Jewish Spirituality with classical, jazz and world music elements. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 14 January 2007
Sun 14 Jan, 2 pm. Isa Kremer's remarkable rise from her childhood in a Russian shtetl to international stardom dovetailed with the political turbulence of the early 20th century. (2000; 56 min.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Saturday 20 January 2007
Sat 20 Jan. Flutist Sarah Swersey and pianist Nadine Shank present a program of recently discovered music by pre-World War II Dutch composers as well as works by Copeland and Mendelssohn. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 21 January 2007
Sun 21 Jan, 2 pm. The brilliant American composer George Gershwin is recalled in this feature. "Rhapsody in Blue" is performed almost in its entirety by famed pianist and Gershwin's friend, Oscar Levant. (1945; 139 min.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Saturday 27 January 2007
Sat 27 Jan. The vocal ensemble Cantabile, (Deanna Joseph, Kayla Werlin, Dorie Goldman, David Olsson, Jim Mead, and Peter Shea) perform a variety of sacred and secular music by the eminent late renaissance Jewish composer Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 28 January 2007
Sun 28 Jan. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 28 Jan, 2 pm. In this uplifting tale of survival, acclaimed Sephardic folksinger Flory Jagoda tells her story and sings in Ladino, the tongue of her ancestors. (2000; 40 min.) Also showing Embroidered Canticles. This mesmerizing concert film features Moroccan musical masters Rabbi Haim Louk and Abdelsadek Chekara performing mystical songs from the "Matruz" tradition, a shared Muslim-Jewish musical form. (1991; 26 min.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]