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Welcome to the first edition of our new JMI
newsletter. It’s extremely exciting to be relaunching the Jewish Music Institute this year and to be able to announce a really amazing programme of concerts, festivals and workshops coming up over the next few months, and culminating with our Big Relaunch event in October. I want to say a great big thank you to all the JMI team for making me feel so welcome. It’s been a very inspiring first few months getting my feet under the table and finding out all I can about the fantastic legacy of our founding director and 29 years of amazing work. It’s wonderful to be able to share brainstorming meetings with so many interesting people - musicians, educationalists, producers, promoters - and to begin to see our vision for the future becoming a reality. It has also been wonderful to meet many friends of the JMI who have supported the organisation over the years and to see your passion for everything that it is that we do. I look forward to meeting more of you over the coming months and hearing about what the JMI means to you.This is going to be an amazing journey, with a great soundtrack. And the first step - check out the new look www.jmi.org.uk, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, become a Friend, say hello! Sophie |
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A spectacular day relaunching JMI and celebrating the
inspirational world of Jewish music. We have 3 wonderful events:
THE KLEZMATICS WITH SPECIAL GUEST SOPHIE SOLOMON
The Grammy-winning Klezmatics fly in from New York City for their first UK gig in nearly a decade, with London’s own violin superstar Sophie Solomon lending her electric energy to the mix. Expect a night of high octane klezmer and beautiful Yiddish song, a concert steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition combined with more eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms
The Great Big Story Adventure presents ‘Jonah and the Wailers’
A new programme of of interactive musical storytelling for 4-8 year olds lead and performed by Saul Eisenberg’s Junk Orchestra and storyteller Vanessa Wolf with special guest Susi Evans on clarinet. Join us as we whirlwind around the world telling enchanting stories of new and old, yesterday and tomorrow.
Musical East End Walk
In a special East End walk with music devised for the JMI, local historian and East End aficionado David Rosenberg will tell the story of the area from 1880 to the First World War, explaining the impact of Jewish immigration on all aspects of life. The walk will take in landmark buildings such as the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Rothschild Buildings, the Workers Circle, the first Yiddish workers co-op and the first Yiddish theatre and guest musicians Dave Shulman and Zachary Gvirtzman will pop up en route to perform pieces by local East End boys such as Ronnie Scott, Solomon Schwartz, Joe Loss and Bud Flanagan. Finish off the walk in style by stopping off at the Brick Lane Beigel Bake for an old-time taste of the East End.
KLEZMATICS WITH SPECIAL GUEST SOPHIE SOLOMON
Venue: Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London, N1 2UN
Time: 7pm
Price: £18 (£15)
THE GREAT BIG STORY ADVENTURE PRESENTS ‘JONAH AND THE WAILERS’
Venue:Jackson’s Lane Community Centre, 269A Archway Road London N6 5AA
Workshops: 1.30pm-2.15pm, 2.45pm-3.30pm, 4pm-4.45pm
Price: £9.95, £7.95
(for additional children)
MUSICAL EAST END WALK
Walk Times: 10-11.30am, 12-1.30pm
Meet at: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Price: £12 (£10), under 10s go FREE
Songlines Encounters Festival
JMI is proud to be collaborating with
Songlines Magazine and Ikon Arts on their annual world music festival
at Kings Place. We have curated a series of top class London based
world music acts who will be performing for free before and after the
main events in the foyer. Artists include Mavrika, Katy Carr & The
Aviators, Nick Hart, Alua Nascimento and Alba Cabral and DJ Max Reinhardt.
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Date: Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 June Time: 6.45-10.30pm Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Price: Foyer events FREE
The Big Klezmer Jam
The Big Klezmer Jam does what it says on the tin. It is London’s monthly event for klezmer enthusiasts to get together and play some tunes. The session, on the second Sunday of every month, is a free event with a super-friendly vibe. Bring an instrument and a melody and be ready to jam 2-4pm. There will be an Introduction to Klezmer workshop from 1-2pm led by some of the UK's finest klezmorim, kicking off this month with Francesca Ter-Berg (cello).
Date: Starting 10 June 2012 and continuing monthly. Please see our website for up to date info.
Time: Workshop 1-2pm, Jam 2- 4pm
Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Price: Jam is free, optional workshop is £5 (pay on door)
JCC Big Midsummer Fest
JMI is collaborating with JCC, the Jewish Film Festival and Jewish Book Week on the Big Midsummer Fest, with music by The Dead Victorians and She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble.
Date: Sunday 17 June Time: 7-11pm
Venue: Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Price: £6 per person
Come and discover the joys of klezmer with two of
the UK’s
top teachers and performers, Ilana Cravitz (fiddle) and Merlin Shepherd
(clarinet). Over the course of the week you’ll learn how to
play the soulful and celebratory music of Jews from Eastern Europe
from the last century. Open to all instruments and ages.
For more details, see the website or
contact musicevents@soas.ac.uk.
Date: Monday 2 - Friday 6 July
Time: 6.45-10.30pm
Venue: SOAS Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
With guest cantors Joseph Malovany(New York), Aaron
Bensoussan (Canada), Yechezkel Klang (Israel) and Alexander Tsaliuk
(Moscow).
Contact: Alex Klein, Convener Elect, European, Cantors Convention,
Cantors Association, 0161 798 7631, 07792 494 584, alexmrmusic@aol.com
Date: Monday 2 - Thursday 5 July
Time: 6.45-10.30pm
Venue: Manchester UK
Instrument workshop with Jake Shulman-Ment
An afternoon of Klezmer music and dance with internationally
renowned teachers Steve Weintraub (dance, US) and Jake Shulman-Ment(USA/France)
who will be joined by Ilana Cravitz (violin), Carol Isaacs (accordion)
and Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) for a very special
workshop for all ages and abilities.
For more details, see the website and/or contact Ilana
Cravitz.
Date: Sunday 15 July
Time: 1-5pm
Venue: SOAS Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Price: Afternoon workshop £25, concession £20.
Individual lessons: Book by Wednesday 11 July if you would like a 40-minute 1-2-1 lesson
JMI’s famous full immersion course in Yiddish
Language and Culture for people of all ages, levels and backgrounds – where
even complete beginners learn to speak, read, write and even dream
in Yiddish in a week. Classes are held at 4 levels, led, as ever
by Helen (Khayele) Beer with her popular team of Sonya Pinkusowitz,
Heather Valencia and Lily Kahn and with Barry Davis presenting films.
Shura Lipovsky, Director of the JMI Yiddish Song School, will be
teaching a daily session of Yiddish through song. You will also be
amazed at how much you are able to learn about reading writing and
speaking Yiddish in only one week.
This year is the 60th anniversary of the execution of Soviet Yiddish
writers and so we will feature literature and poetry from this period,
together with a chance to watch rare films of the era presented by
Barry Davis.
Dates: Sunday, 12 Aug - Friday, 17 Aug
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue: SOAS Vernon Square Campus WC1X 9EW
Price: £235 (students £135)
JMI’s annual Yiddish Song School (Formerly
Tumbala!) is for advanced singers who wish to embrace the rich Yiddish
song repertoire. Mornings are spent studying the vocabulary, syntax,
grammar and pronunciation of the language with the outstanding language
of teachers of JMI’s Ot Azoy! Experience has shown that being
able to understand and speak a little Yiddish adds enormously to
a singer’s musical interpretation. The afternoons will be devoted
to masterclasses and workshops in style and approach with some of
the world’s most revered teachers and performers of Yiddish
song, Shura Lipovsky (Amsterdam), Polina Shepherd (Brighton) and
Hilda Bronstein(London).
This year we will feature many of the songs
made famous by the much admired Yiddish singer Adrienne Cooper who
died tragically last year and will celebrate Adrienne’s life
in the Thursday evening event ‘Lomir alle zingen’.
Dates: Sunday, 12 Aug - Friday, 17 Aug
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue: SOAS Vernon Square Campus WC1X 9EW
Price: £235 (students £135)
World-class soloists perform classical works by Israeli composers and the music of Ernest Bloch as they compete in the finals of these two prestigious annual awards.
Date: Thursday 12 July Time: 6.45-10.30pm
Venue: The Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BS
Price: £15
The JMI’s Klezmer in the Park festival in Regent’s Park has become something of an institution. This year’s artists include the London Klezmer Quartet, Los Desterrados, the Yiddish Twist Orchestra, Monooka, She’koyokh and DJ Max Reinhardt. There’ll be Klezmer on Stilts, Sephardi and Ashkenazi eats and children’s workshops. Come on down for a fun-packed afternoon for all the family in one of London’s most beautiful parks.
Date: Sunday 9 September
Time: 1.00-6pm
Venue: Regent’s Park Bandstand
Price: FREE
Tcha Limberger @ the Vortex
13 June, 8pm: Tcha Limberger @ the Vortex.
www.vortexjazz.co.uk/special-events.html www.wegottickets.com/event/165236
Concert and Lecture on the
Jews of Kurdistan
28 June, 6pm: Concert and Lecture on the
Jews of Kurdistan, at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington.
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South London One Day Limmud 2012
An exciting day of Jewish study with 80 top line presenters
Sunday 1 July 9am-6pm
Pimlico Academy, London, SW1V 3AT
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