The 7th Annual San Diego Jewish Music Festival

The 7th Annual San Diego Jewish Music Festival

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Moscow Male Jewish Choir

Saturday, September 9, 8:30 P.M.
at the Chabad Educational Center 10785 Pomerado Road
Scripps Ranch, San Diego, CA 92131


Moscow Male Jewish Choir

Chabad of San Diego and the San Diego Jewish Music Festival invite you to join us as we re-create the music and the magic of a by-gone era in a contemporary celebration of the High Holiday season.

Winner of international music competitions in Moscow and Israel, the "Hasidic Cappella," a versatile 22-member choir, performs a wide range of Jewish vocal music, from Russian folk songs to Jewish liturgical music, classical and modern Israeli compositions.They have recovered, and brought to public performance, music manuscripts once confiscated from synagogues and Jewish ensembles by the KGB. Under the artistic direction of Alexander Tsaliuk, they have toured throughout Europe and the United States, performing with many renowned Cantors, such as Cantor Joseph Malovany of New York, and performed for Scandinavian royalty as well as for unique commemorations such as the 60th Memorial of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland.

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Sunday, April 2, 12:30 & 2:00pm
Instrument Petting Zoo 12:00 & 1:30pm


Tubby the Tuba, the musical story of a loveable tuba and Critters
San Diego Composer John Lorge's colorful work for woodwind quintet 
and narrator, will delight the younger set. Matthew Garbutt conducting.


Before the concert, the children may climb into the Ark and meet Noah and his animal "critters."


Violinist Zina Schiff in Recital: Music Played in Terezin

Monday, May 15, 7:30pm
Underwriters & VIP Reception, 6:00pm


Violinist Zina Schiff Zina Schiff, a Heifetz prodigy, will play a program modeled after recitals in Terezin (Theresienstadt) with selections from the classics and Jewish composers. Schiff has received rave reviews as soloist with major orchestras in Eastern Europe, Israel and America. Among her recital venues are London's Wigmore Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Her expressive playing was selected by Maurice Jarre for his soundtrack on the MGM movie The Fixer. Two of her ten acclaimed CDs are with the Israel Philharmonic and she has a trilogy of CDs devoted to Jewish music.


"Zina Schiff is a remarkable violinist with a huge range of color and nuance." —American Record Guide.


Mary Barranger, staff pianist of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra will accompany.


We Were In Terezin: Theresienstadt

Ancillary Program
Tuesday, May 16, 7:30pm


Varian Fry Assignment: Rescue

May 15–June 4


Varian Fry Assignment: Rescue Varian Fry Assignment: Rescue, a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, depicts the work of Varian Fry, the first American honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. A Harvard graduate working as an editor, Fry had managed to save 2,000 political and intellectual refugees from Nazi-controlled Vichy France, including Max Ernst, Gustav Mahler's wife Alma, Hannah Arendt and Marc Chagall.


Exhibit in the Gotthelf Art Gallery.

Free Admission


IRC and Music Festival VIP Reception

Wednesday, May 17, 7:30pm

Join us for a special discussion on Varian Fry, by one of those Fry rescued, as well as highlights of the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in San Diego.


Co-sponsored by the International Rescue Committee


FATHOM: The Body as Universe, Partner's Celebration Performance

Thursday, May 18 @ the Stephen and Mary Birch North Park Theatre


FATHOM: The Body as Universe Partner's Celebration Performance FATHOM: The Body As Universe is a collaboration bridging the disciplines of dance, visual art and music. Blending ancient Buddhist and Jewish beliefs, FATHOM expresses the mystical language of the universe as spoken through the microcosm of the human body. Created by choreographer John Malashock (San Diego), Japanese-born artist Junko Chodos, and Israeli composer Ariel Blumenthal.


Additional performances of Malashock Dance Company's FATHOM will be presented at the Stephen and Mary Birch North Park Theatre, and at the Japanese American Cultural Center in Los Angeles.


www.malashockdance.org


In alliance with The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity, Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, Malashock Dance Company, San Diego Master Chorale


Celebrating Shostakovich

Celebrating Shostakovich Wednesday, May 24, 7:30pm


Dmitri Shostakovich, the great 20th century Soviet composer, felt a kinship and solidarity with the Jews. Although not Jewish himself, he wrote a stunning song cycle for three singers and piano using Russian translations of Jewish folk poems. From Jewish Folk Poetry, op. 79 will be performed with the original Yiddish poems as reset by Israeli musicologist Joachim Braun. To appreciate Shostakovich's Jewish music inspiration, the program will open with a bouquet of Yiddish folk songs accompanied by accordion. A Piano Trio in memory of Shostakovich by the Odessa-born Israeli composer Joseph Dorfman concludes the program.


In alliance with The Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity and United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism


Danny Maseng: Wasting Time with Harry Davidowitz

Saturday, May 27, 8:00pm


Danny Maseng: Wasting Time with Harry Davidowitz
There are great singers,
There are gifted teachers,
There are master storytellers,
There are inspired speakers;
Once in a generation they all come together in one person...


— DANNY MASENG



Master storyteller, singer, composer and classical guitarist, Danny Maseng takes
you along on his odyssey from Jerusalem to Eilat, from Hassidic Rebbe's
Shteible to Zen Monastery, in the musical rendition of his fascinating
search for spiritual fulfillment. One unforgettable evening of drama and song.


An intergenerational family story told thru music.


L'Cha Dodi with Danny Maseng

Ancillary Program
Sunday, May 28, 10:00am


Cuarteto Latinoamericano

Cuarteto Latinoamericano Tuesday, May 30, 7:30pm


The Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a unique voice in classical music, bringing the works of Latin American composers to the public. The Grammy-nominated ensemble, consisting of Saul and Aron Bitran, violins, Javier Montiel, viola, and Alvaro Bitran, cello, is the Quartet-in-Residence at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Gershwin, their program will feature Yiddishbbuk by the Argentine composer, Osvaldo Golijov.


In alliance with Mainly Mozart and The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival


Klezmer in the Park at the Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park Klezmer in the Park at the Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park

Thursday, June 22, 6:15pm


Enjoy life with a spirited concert of Klezmer music and Israeli dancing music on a summer solstice night at Balboa Park.


Free Admission


In alliance with "Twilight in the Park"





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