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Jewtopia
TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE ONLINE BUT CAN BE PURCHASED AT THE DOOR FOR $20.00 THANK YOU.
Special Pre-Hanukkah Concert
Jewtopia - Michael Alpert and Pete Rushefsky
Presented by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Stanton Street Synagogue in conjunction with the 2019 Yiddish New York Visual Arts Exhibition UTOPIAS: Visions and Tradition
At the Stanton Street Synagogue
180 Stanton Street, Lower East Side
(between Clinton and Attorney Streets)
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
6:00PM-9:30PM (concert begins promptly at 7:00PM)
Admission $20 (Synagogue Members $10)
Join us for Jewtopia, a special concert at the Stanton Street Shul, a historic synagogue founded when the Lower East Side was the worlds biggest Jewish neighborhood. Two of the worlds leading contemporary performers of Yiddish music, Michael Alpert (Scotland) and Pete Rushefsky (NYC), present exuberant and plaintive melodies discovered on travels to lost shtetls, emigre boardwalks, Hasidic homes and Soviet archives, as well as new songs that draw upon traditions from Yiddishland to Mexico to the Celtic Isles.
The concert is produced in conjunction with the 2019 Yiddish New York Visual Arts Exhibition, UTOPIAS: Visions and Tradition, and attendees will be able to visit the exhibition in the synagogue's upper gallery.
Michael Alpert is a pioneering Yiddish singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and scholar who has been a key figure in the renaissance of East European Jewish music and culture worldwide since the 1970s. Alpert was born into a Yiddish-speaking family in Los Angeles, California, in 1954. He grew up immersed in immigrant music and culture, including the Yiddish boardwalk scenes of Venice Beach, West Hollywood, and similar locales on the East Coast. Moving to New York City in 1979, he was co-founder of the pioneering klezmer band Kapelye and began intensive documentation of traditional East European-born Yiddish performers, including master singer Bronya Sakina, klezmer violinist Leon Schwartz, singer/drummer Ben Bayzler, and clarinetist German Goldenshteyn, all of whom influenced him and the Yiddish/Klezmer Renaissance profoundly. Alpert is best known for his performances and recordings as a solo artist, with the ensembles Brave Old World and Kapelye, and collaborations with artists across a broad spectrum of cultures and generations, including Itzhak Perlman, Theodore Bikel, Daniel Kahn, and Ukrainian-American singer/bandurist Julian Kytasty. He has performed and taught Yiddish music and culture throughout North America and the world, in venues ranging from Polish village streets to a farmworkers school in Florida to Carnegie Hall. As musical director of the PBS Great Performances special Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddlers House, he helped bring global attention to Yiddish and klezmer music. In 2015, Alpert was named a National Heritage Fellow (a lifetime honor) by the National Endowment for the Arts, our nations highest honor in folk/traditional arts. His personal archive of rare field recordings was recently acquired by the American Folklife Center of the US Library of Congress.
Pete Rushefsky is a leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Joanna Sternberg and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nations leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of published articles on traditional music and culture. He is a founder of Yiddish New York, the USs largest festival of Yiddish culture and has appeared on PBSs Great Performances, NPRs Prairie Home Companion and Weekend Edition, and Frances Radio 1. Rushefsky has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, Barclays Center, as well as numerous folk festivals, and has taught at Yiddish folk arts camps from LA to Safed.
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LocationStanton Street Shul (View)
180 Stanton Street
New York, NY 10002
United States
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