"Lost Music" String Quartet/Klezmer 12/16

[Ellen Kushner]

Yeah, me again! Told you it was a busy month. Hope yours is full of
deliciousness & delights.

First, my thanks to everyone who showed up to make last night's NYRSF
reading a full house and a lot of fun!

My play THE GOLDEN DREYDL opened at Vital Theatre last weekend, and is
off to a fabulous start. Shows run through Jan. 3rd, and tix sell out
fast, so don't delay theatrical gratification:
http://www.vitaltheatre.org/TheKlezmerNutcracker.php

Meanwhile, there's another show I wanted to tell you about, even
though I'll only be in the audience: my friend & colleague, musician
& filmmaker Yale Strom (our collaborator on THE WITCHES OF LUBLIN
music/radio project), has an exciting premiere this month.


Dec. 16th at 7pm
the world premiere of
YALE STROM'S quartet
"IN THE MEMORY OF..."


In the summer of 2008, musician Yale Strom traveled to Romania and
discovered a musical treasure trove. In the upstairs women's balcony
of the 1871 synagogue of Carei he found a box of old books including
the cantor's music book with over 250 melodies notated by hand. "In
Memory of..." is a performance based upon the cantorial music he
uncovered, and is dedicated to the Jews who perished during the
Holocaust. Virtuoso cellist Mike Block and his string quartet will
perform the new composition.

After the quartet, Cantor Ari Priven (Cong. Bnai Jeshurun) will sing
some of the melodies from the "lost" cantor's book and then Yale Strom
and Mike Block will perform melodies from the same work, as klezmer
pieces.

Location: 12 Eldridge Street (off Canal), NYC
Tel: (212) 219-0302
Seniors $12.00 Public $15.00


MIKE BLOCK
Hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the “ideal musician of the 21st Century”, Mike
Block is a pioneering multi-genre cello player living in New York
City. While studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined The Silk
Road Ensemble as its youngest member, and upon graduation in 2006,
also joined Grammy Award winner Mark O'Connor in his Appalachia Waltz
Trio. Since then, Mike has become an in-demand player in many musical
genres, and has joined Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, The Knights,
The Absolute Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, yMusic, Bassam Saba's
New York Arabic Orchestra, and a duo with Chinese Pipa virtuoso, Yang
Wei. As a composer, Mike writes extensively for the Mike Block Band,
and has also had his pieces performed at the Tribeca New Music
Festival, and the MATA Festival

www.yalestrom.com