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MAJOR CONCERTS AND PROGRAMS
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Klezmer Company Orchestra Presents “JudeoJazzistico”
Kultur Festival 2010: Main Event
Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 3pm
Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus
Tickets: $18-$42
Contact: http://www.fauevents.com/
Tel: 800.564.9539
The 25-member Klezmer Company Orchestra (KCO), together for the first time with the KlezKats vocal ensemble, performs a tour-de-force concert of new orchestrations and arrangements. KCO celebrates its 13th year with music from the Americas, Europe and the Mediterranean. Music director Aaron Kula turns up the heat with premieres of classic Klezmer melodies in new settings that push cultural boundaries. JudeoJazzistico will be one of the year’s most exciting musical events!
Kultur Festival 2010: “Coexistence through Culture”
A Celebration of Jewish Music and Art
Wednesday, March 3 through Thursday, March 11, 2010
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus
Tickets: $5-$42
Contact: http://www.fauevents.com/
Tel: 800.564.9539
Kultur Festival 2010 is the only festival of its kind in South Florida. This second annual celebration of Jewish culture includes six days of concerts, presentations, lectures, song, dance, film and book arts. The festival showcases FAU Libraries' special collections through the talents of guest artists, distinguished scholars and critically acclaimed musicians, including Klezmer Company Orchestra (KCO), the library's professional ensemble-in-residence. All events held on FAU Boca Raton Campus.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ Noon - Conversations and Coexistence: Cultural Diversity at FAU
Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 3 p.m. - Klez4Kidz: The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band
Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 7 p.m. - Tantz and Salsa
Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1 p.m. - Keynote Address, “Coexistence through Culture”
Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 3 p.m. - KCO performs “JudeoJazzistico”
Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2 p.m. - Hebrew Book Arts: The Art of Haggadah
Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 7 p.m.- Film: Yidl Mitn Fidl with KCO violinist, Randi Fishenfeld
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 3 p.m. - Cantor Lieb Glantz: The Man Who Spoke to God
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 7 p.m. - Argentine Music and Theatre,
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 3 p.m. - Yiddish Zingfest with Phyllis Berk,
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7 p.m. - Klezjam with KCO
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7 p.m. - Hazzanut Espagnol, Mizrachi & Ladino Love Songs.
Spirit of America 2010
The Bernstein Song Book and Music from Fantasia
Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 3 p.m.
Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus
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Grand concert featuring the 60 piece Klezmer Company Orchestra conducted by Maestro Aaron Kula, performing classic American music from the Bernstein Song Book and more!
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ADDITIONAL KCO PERFORMANCES
AND EVENTS
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The American Yiddish Jazz Orchestra
Seven KCO musicians play music from the Florida AtlaLibraries' Jewish Sheet Music Collection. This concert is to benefit the library and is hosted by the FAU Jewish Culture Society.
Venue: FAU Lifelong Learning Society, Boca Raton
Date/Time: Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 3-4 p.m.
KCO LIVE on WXEL’s Classical Variations with Joanna Marie
Tribute to the American Yiddish Radio Hour with Aaron Kula
This creative live broadcast will include a variety of segments including music, meet the Klezmorim, and vignettes of humor and parables modeled after the 1930’s radio program WEVD in New York City.
Venue: WXEL FM Radio 90.7, Live Studio Broadcast
Date/Time: Monday, November 16, 2009 @ Noon
Klezmer Company Jazz Ensemble
KCO musicians perform a concert of American Yiddish music from 1930-50. The music includes traditional Klezmer songs with extended improvisational solos and innovative arrangements of standard Yiddish sings.
Venue: Valencia Isles, Boynton Beach
Date/Time: Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 @ 7:30 p.m. - PRIVATE CONCERT
SALON CONCERT for Jewish Cultural Society
This creative live broadcast will include a variety of segments including music, meet the Klezmorim, and vignettes of humor and parables modeled after the 1930’s radio program WEVD in New York City.
Venue: Private Home
Date/Time: Sunday, December 13, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
Tickets: $72
Contact: 561.297.3921
American Sheet Music Sing Along at Lifelong Learning
Join KCO as they lead an American sheet music sing along that will include some of the biggest hits from stage and film. They will improvise over arrangements on well known songs from FAU Libraries’ American Sheet Music Collection dating from 1890-1950.
Venue: FAU Lifelong Learning Society Hall in Jupiter and Boca Raton
Date/Time: Sunday, January 3, 2010 @ 6:30-7:45 p.m. (Jupiter Campus)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 7:00-8:45 p.m. (Boca Raton Campus)
Contact: 561-297-3185, Boca Raton
561-799-8667, Jupiter
Beyond The Tribes
KCO plays music from its 2009 award winning album of the same name, including songs from New Orleans and Latin America. The music fuses Klezmer, Latin, and Jazz into a celebration of Klezmer on steroids.
Venue: King’s Point, Tamarac
Date/Time: Sunday, January 10 @ 2:00 pm
- PRIVATE CONCERT
Private Concert to Benefit: FAU Holocaust Outreach Center
Venue: Live Oak Pavilion
Date/Time: Monday, January 11, 2010 @ 6:30-7:30 p.m. - PRIVATE CONCERT
American Yiddish Radio Hour
Lecture with Maestro Aaron Kula
Jewish Cultural Society at FAU
Kula will lecture and use vintage recordings to examine Jewish music of the 1920s and 1950s.
He is director of music collections and performance at FAU Libraries and founder of KCO, which is the library’s professional ensemble-in- residence.
Venue: Florida Atlantic University, Wimberly Library, fifth floor
Date/Time: Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010 @ 3 p.m.
Contact: Dottie Pierce at 561-852-9720 or dottiepierce@comcast.net or
Sara Landset at 561-297-3921 or slandset@fau.edu
Tantz, Samba & Soul with The Ebony Chorale
KCO and The Ebony Chorale of Palm Beaches join forces for a performance of Negro and Jewish spirituals that will rock the house of prayer. Songs will include music by Gershwin, Blues Kiddush by Kurt Weill, Mambo Freylachs.
Venue: Temple Emanu-El of Palm Beach
Date/Time: Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Contact: 561-832-0804
Century Village Deerfield Library
KCO trio including violin, bass, and accordion performs traditional Klezmer and Yiddish songs with commentary by Aaron Kula.
Venue: Century Village Library in Deerfield
Date/Time: Monday, January 25, 2010 @ 1:30 p.m.
Free and open to public
KCO LIVE on WLRN’s
Folk and Acoustic Music with Michael Stock
Tribute to the American Yiddish Radio Hour with Aaron Kula
This creative live broadcast will include a variety of segments including music, meet the Klezmorim, and vignettes of humor and parables modeled after the 1930’s radio program WEVD in New York City.
Venue: 91.3 FM radio
Date/Time: Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 12-1 p.m.
The American Klezmer Orchestra:
Lecture by Aaron Kula for Jewish Music Month
Venue: Boynton Beach, Hadassah Chapter, Simcha of Aberdeen
Date/Time: February 1, 2010 @10 a.m.
- PRIVATE CONCERT
From Shelf to Stage: Lecture by Aaron Kula on
Preservation and Performance at FAU Libraries
Venue: Boynton Beach
Date/Time: February 10, 2010 @ 9a.m.
- PRIVATE EVENT
Kultur Festival at FAU Libraries March 7-11
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus
Contact: http://www.fauevents.com/
Tel: 800.564.9539
Klez4Kidz: “The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band”
Klez4Kidz is an event for the whole family! This multimedia presentation of the critically acclaimed children’s book The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band features narrator Riva Ginsburg and members of the Klezmer Company Orchestra. A dramatic reading, live music and projected illustrations from the book will bring this charming story to life. 10-year-old Shira loves the fiddle, but is she good enough to play with her father’s Klezmer band? Parents and children are encouraged to bring blankets. Dancing to the musical interludes is also a favorite activity for both young and mature attendees. Grandparents are sure to enjoy this unique program too!
Date/Time: Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 3 p.m.
Contact: http://www.fauevents.com/
Tel: 800.564.9539
Tickets: $9/Adults, Free Tickets for Kids Under 12
KlezJam with Members of KCO
Jam with KCO led by director Aaron Kula! This is a rare opportunity to play popular Klezmer tunes with the professional musicians of KCO. Participants will learn the basics of playing in a Klezmer band. Music - lead sheets with chord changes will be provided and notated for C, Bb, Eb and bass clef instruments. All instruments and listeners are welcome with limited seating. Bring your own portable music stand.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 7:00-8:30
Contact: http://www.fauevents.com/
Tel: 800.564.9539
Tickets: $9/Adults
St. Patrick’s Day Sing Along with KCO
Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an Irish sing along. KCO will play folk songs from the vast FAU Library Sheet Music Collection that includes some of the most famous Irish folk songs including Danny Boy, My Wild Irish Rose, Greensleeves, and more. St. Patrick’s at the library will be another one of a kind experience with KCO.
Venue: Wimberly Library
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public
For more information contact: Sara Landset at 561-297-3921 or slandset@fau.edu
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