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Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements April 30, 2013 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to [email protected] 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: Jeff Warschauer [email protected] via mx.aol.com Date: Feb 19 The Strauss/Warschauer Duo (Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer) will be spending part of the summer in Europe and part in North America. Plus! We are celebrating 18 (chai!) years as a duo and we have a brand new CD: "Once I Had a Fiddle." We still have some open dates in June, July and August on both continents, and we are available for concerts, workshops, lectures and other programs. For synagogues, chavurot and retreats, the Duo leads lively, participatory services. In addition we can read any Torah and/or Haftarah portion. The Duo offers concerts of klezmer music and Yiddish song. We also lead hands-on workshops and lecture-demonstrations for all ages and backgrounds in: · Klezmer Music (all levels, all instruments) · Yiddish Song · Yiddish Dance (instruction and dance party w/live music) · Klezmer for Kids · Yiddish Shabbaton · Jewish Cantorial Music · Nigunim and Zemiros · Klezmer Fidl-Kapelye · Plucked String Orchestra For more information, please contact Jeff and Deborah at [email protected] Also, please check out their website: www.klezmerduo.com For over 25 years, Deborah Strauss (violin, accordion, vocals, dance) and Jeff Warschauer (guitar, mandolin, vocals) have been at the forefront of the international klezmer and Yiddish music scene. They were both long-time members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, one of the premiere groups of the klezmer revival, and have performed with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman on film and in concert. As the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, they have performed to overwhelming acclaim in such diverse venues as the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Great Britain's Fiddles on Fire, the Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, Poland, and the Art of Yiddish in Los Angeles with actor and singer Theodore Bikel. Deborah and Jeff are Yiddish speakers, and have researched and collected Yiddish and Hebrew songs and instrumental melodies since the 1980s. They lead some of the most popular klezmer music, Yiddish song and traditional dance workshops throughout North America, and Eastern and Western Europe. Jeff is Founding Artistic Director and Senior Artistic Advisor of the KlezKanada Institute for Yiddish/Jewish Culture and the Arts, is on the faculty of Columbia University in New York, and is a graduate student in cantorial music and Modern Jewish studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Deborah, an award-winning educator, has been Arts and Programming Director of two New York Yiddish afternoon schools for children. She studied violin at Rutgers University and ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. Both teach regularly at KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and the Warsaw International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture. "Terrific" The New York Times "Phenomenal" Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland __________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. 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