Alicia Svigals, Klezmer Violin
Saturday, August 5, 8 pm
Pete Rushefsky, Tsimbl
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., July 24, 2006 -- Violin virtuoso and composer Alicia Svigals brings her klezmer magic to the Maverick concert hall on Saturday, August 5, at 8:00 p.m. She will be joined by Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl.
A founder of the Klezmatics and of the all-women band Mikveh, Alicia Svigals is considered by many to be the world's foremost klezmer fiddler. During the past decade, she almost single-handedly revived klezmer fiddle playing, which had come close to extinction in the last century. She taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, and she was awarded first prize at the international klezmer festival competition in Safed, Israel. She and the Klezmatics have recorded two albums for EMI with Mr. Perlman, one of which is among the best- selling folk albums of all time.
Ms. Svigals has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS's Great Performances, Good Morning America, Nickelodeon, NPR's New Sounds, and BBC television and radio, and she was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or cimbalom, the traditional Klezmer hammered dulcimer. A stringed instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl creates a mystical, harp-like sonority. It was a popular instrument in Jewish klezmer bands across Eastern Europe from the 1600s through the first decades of the twentieth century.
Mr. Rushefsky is one of just a few brave young klezmer musicians to use archival research and fieldwork to create a performance style for the tsimbl. He performs with some of the finest practitioners of traditional klezmer music including Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. His new Yiddishland Records release with singer/pianist Rebecca Kaplan is entitled On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl.
Maverick is committed to expanding the definition of chamber music, and has one more ground-breaking program planned for this season, when jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell performs on Aug. 19. Maverick Concerts, near Woodstock, New York, is the oldest continuous summer chamber music series in America. The Maverick Concert Hall was built by hand in 1916 in the pristine Catskill woodland, and now it is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. Presenting concerts by nationally and internationally known performers at affordable prices, Maverick continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative 101-year-old Maverick Art Colony.
Classical concerts are Saturday evenings at 6:00 and Sunday afternoons at 3:00, with jazz and klezmer on selected Saturday nights at 8:00. Young people's concerts are Saturday mornings at 11:00.
The box office opens an hour before each concert; the hall opens half an hour before curtain time. Except for the last concert of the season, ticket prices are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Books of ten tickets, to be used in any combination at any regular concert throughout the season, may be purchased at the box office for $150 or by writing to Maverick Concerts, P.O. Box 9, Woodstock, NY 12498. Children under 12 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Donors of $50 or more to the sustaining fund of the series may attend the season-closer Friends of Maverick Concert.
Tickets are general admission with no reserved seating, and a special “rock bottom" area provides pay-what-you-can seating. The Maverick Concert Hall is accessible to persons with disabilities.
The Maverick Concert Hall is located on Maverick Road, near Woodstock, approximately one mile from the road's junctions with either Route 375 or Route 28. For additional information, visit < http://www.maverickconcerts.org> , call the Maverick's recorded message line at 845-679-8217, or send e-mail to [email protected].
Yamaha is The Official Piano of Maverick Concerts; the C7 grand piano on the Maverick stage appears through the generosity of Yamaha Music Corporation of America.
Maverick Concerts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is supported by The Maverick Endowment Fund, Friends of Maverick, public and private foundations, local businesses, the Towns of Woodstock and Hurley, and by public funds from The New York State Council on The Arts, a state agency.
Saturday, August 5, 8 pm
Pete Rushefsky, Tsimbl
WOODSTOCK, N.Y., July 24, 2006 -- Violin virtuoso and composer Alicia Svigals brings her klezmer magic to the Maverick concert hall on Saturday, August 5, at 8:00 p.m. She will be joined by Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl.
A founder of the Klezmatics and of the all-women band Mikveh, Alicia Svigals is considered by many to be the world's foremost klezmer fiddler. During the past decade, she almost single-handedly revived klezmer fiddle playing, which had come close to extinction in the last century. She taught and toured with violinist Itzhak Perlman, and she was awarded first prize at the international klezmer festival competition in Safed, Israel. She and the Klezmatics have recorded two albums for EMI with Mr. Perlman, one of which is among the best- selling folk albums of all time.
Ms. Svigals has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS's Great Performances, Good Morning America, Nickelodeon, NPR's New Sounds, and BBC television and radio, and she was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl, or cimbalom, the traditional Klezmer hammered dulcimer. A stringed instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl creates a mystical, harp-like sonority. It was a popular instrument in Jewish klezmer bands across Eastern Europe from the 1600s through the first decades of the twentieth century.
Mr. Rushefsky is one of just a few brave young klezmer musicians to use archival research and fieldwork to create a performance style for the tsimbl. He performs with some of the finest practitioners of traditional klezmer music including Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. His new Yiddishland Records release with singer/pianist Rebecca Kaplan is entitled On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl.
Maverick is committed to expanding the definition of chamber music, and has one more ground-breaking program planned for this season, when jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell performs on Aug. 19. Maverick Concerts, near Woodstock, New York, is the oldest continuous summer chamber music series in America. The Maverick Concert Hall was built by hand in 1916 in the pristine Catskill woodland, and now it is a multi-starred attraction on the National Register of Historic Places. Presenting concerts by nationally and internationally known performers at affordable prices, Maverick continues the vision of Hervey White, founder of the collaborative 101-year-old Maverick Art Colony.
Classical concerts are Saturday evenings at 6:00 and Sunday afternoons at 3:00, with jazz and klezmer on selected Saturday nights at 8:00. Young people's concerts are Saturday mornings at 11:00.
The box office opens an hour before each concert; the hall opens half an hour before curtain time. Except for the last concert of the season, ticket prices are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Books of ten tickets, to be used in any combination at any regular concert throughout the season, may be purchased at the box office for $150 or by writing to Maverick Concerts, P.O. Box 9, Woodstock, NY 12498. Children under 12 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Donors of $50 or more to the sustaining fund of the series may attend the season-closer Friends of Maverick Concert.
Tickets are general admission with no reserved seating, and a special “rock bottom" area provides pay-what-you-can seating. The Maverick Concert Hall is accessible to persons with disabilities.
The Maverick Concert Hall is located on Maverick Road, near Woodstock, approximately one mile from the road's junctions with either Route 375 or Route 28. For additional information, visit < http://www.maverickconcerts.org> , call the Maverick's recorded message line at 845-679-8217, or send e-mail to [email protected].
Yamaha is The Official Piano of Maverick Concerts; the C7 grand piano on the Maverick stage appears through the generosity of Yamaha Music Corporation of America.
Maverick Concerts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is supported by The Maverick Endowment Fund, Friends of Maverick, public and private foundations, local businesses, the Towns of Woodstock and Hurley, and by public funds from The New York State Council on The Arts, a state agency.
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