________________________________________ Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements
Aug. 16, 2012 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding,or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] Date: Aug 2 Subject: Auditions Auditions are coming up for the 2012/2013 season of The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus / JPPC, the accomplished Yiddish chorus in New York City, conducted by Binyumen Schaechter. No knowledge of Yiddish required. The auditions will be held on the evenings of September 4, 5 and 6, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:30 PM at the Marseilles, 230 West 103 St, New York City. Auditions by appointment only. Email Lisa at [email protected]. If unavailable on any of the 3 eves listed above, please contact Lisa to schedule another time. The JPPC performs only in Yiddish. Knowledge of Yiddish is not required to sing in the chorus. Lyrics are in English transliteration. Word-for-word translations are provided. Ability to read musical notes or sight-sing is beneficial. MP3s of vocal parts with lyrics are provided. Rehearsals are on Mondays at the address above, from 6:30 to 8:30 (8:45 as we get closer to concerts), from September through early June, except on Jewish and some national holidays. First rehearsal this year is on Monday eve, September 10. Due to the Jewish holidays, our 2nd rehearsal will be Sept. 24, and our 3rd - October 15th. To hear live recordings from recent JPPC concerts, send an email to [email protected] and we'll be glad to send you individual mp3s of Tum balalayke ("Tum, Balalaika"), Unter dayne vayse shtern ("Under Your White Stars"), Vaserl ("Little Stream"), or a variety of other songs. And if you're interested in reading about a recent concert, you can click on http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/7368-bridging-two-worlds-a-yiddish-musical-journey We already have two concerts scheduled for this coming season - listed below - and other performances invariably come up during the year. Saturday evening, December 15, 2012, Town & Village Synagogue, 334 East 14 St, New York City. JPC Gala Spring Concert, Sunday, June 9, 2013, 4:30 PM at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (95th St.), New York City. All info about JPPC concerts can be found here: http://thejppc.org/id3.html For more information, feel free to contact Conductor Binyumen Schaechter at [email protected] _____________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices and announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership,should be sent to: victor.bers at yale.edu (IMPORTANT! in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e,inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ ________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
