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| Alicia Svigals Performs In The Maverick Violin virtuoso and composer Alicia Svigals brings her klezmer magic to the Maverick concert hall, Woodstock on Saturday, August 5. 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. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |