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Tickets for Annual Kultur
Festival Featuring Klezmer Company Orchestra and
Distinguished Artists on Sale at FAU Box Office
BOCA RATON, FL (December 16, 2010) -- Tickets for “Kultur Festival 2011,” the third annual celebration of Jewish culture, taking place Saturday, March 5, 2011 through Thursday, March 10, 2011 at Florida Atlantic University, currently are on sale at the FAU Box Office.
The festival, the only one of its kind in South Florida, showcases FAU Libraries’ Special Collections through the talents of guest artists, distinguished scholars and critically-acclaimed musicians, including Klezmer Company Orchestra (KCO), the library’s professional ensemble-in-residence.
Some of the festival events that will take place on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, include:
Klez4Kidz:
“The Wedding That Saved a Town”
Saturday, March 5, at 3 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth Floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
KCO members will perform musical interludes for this
multi-generational program that features a dramatic reading of
The Wedding That Saved a Town, a book written by famed
Klezmer musician Yale Strom.
Film screening of “Singing in the
Dark”
Saturday, March 5, at 7 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth Floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
“Saturday Night at the Movies” features a
Florida premiere of the recently remastered
“Singing in the Dark” starring Moishe
Oysher. This rare 1956 drama features a mix of musical, mystery
and gangster genres.
Klezmer Company Orchestra Presents
“KlezmerOlogy”
Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m.
Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
Conductor and festival director Aaron Kula and the
25-member KCO will perform
Klezmerology, the festival’s main event, a tour
de force concert with special guest vocalists. The musical
covers everything from a Viennese waltz to ethnic Jazz, Latin
Klezmer to classic Yiddish songs and tap-your-feet swing to
world beats.
“Celebrity Roast & Toast Dinner in Honor of
Aaron Kula”
Sunday, March 6, at 5 p.m.
Live Oak Pavilion
Call 561-297-3921 or e-mail librariespr@fau.edu for tickets
Rabbi Irwin Kula, a noted author and TV personality, will
serve as the master of ceremonies and special guests include
WXEL radio personality Joanna Marie and KCO musicians. The
Jewish Cultural Society at FAU (JCS) is sponsoring this
fundraising tribute.
Hebrew Book Arts: “K’Tubot: Art and Melody of
Love Letters”
Monday, March 7, at 2 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
Book arts collector Arthur Jaffe and K’tubot
collector Richard Levy present a lecture and exhibition exploring
the beauty and history of K’tubot, Jewish marriage
contracts.
Internationally-acclaimed cellist Racheli Galay will perform wedding music from FAU Libraries’ Print Music Collection to complement the K’ tubot presentation.
“Jewish Humor: From Bible to Borscht
Belt”
Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
Distinguished scholar and humorist Henry (Hillel)
Abramson will present a historical overview of Jewish humor
from ancient times to the present.
“Zigun un Zogn: Songs and Stories”
Tuesday, March 8, at 2 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth floor)
For tickets call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com.
Unique program of Yiddish songs and stories evokes
nostalgia for the bygone era of the shtetl presented by
multi-talented sisters Phyllis Berk and Roslyn Perry.
Latin American Jewish Theater and Music
Tuesday, March 8, at 7 p.m.
Wimberly Library (Fifth floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
Enjoy an evening of theater and songs by Jewish
playwrights and composers from Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The
Gloria Waldman Theater Troupe will perform excerpts from plays
translated into English and vocalist Susana Behar will sing
folk songs in Spanish and Portuguese.
“The Jewish Woman in Song”
Wednesday, March 9, at 2 p.m.
Wimberly Library, (Fifth floor)
Call the box office at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
Distinguished musician and scholar Leonard Lehrman,
Ph.D., and soprano Helen Williams present a song recital and
lecture that will take you on a journey to the Yiddish theater,
Broadway, the opera stage and beyond.
“Sephardic Soul, the Joe Elias Memorial
Concert”
Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m.
FAU Student Union, Live Oak Pavilion
Call the box at 1-800-564-9539 or visit www.fauevents.com for tickets.
The Susana Behar Sephardic Music Ensemble and the Elias
Ladino Ensemble, led by Daniel Elias, perform traditional
Ladino songs about love, family and life to honor Joe Elias,
the master of Ladino folk song who died in this year.
Kultur Festival 2011 is made possible in part by the
generous support of the Jewish Cultural Society at FAU.
Additional support provided by WXEL, the Sephardi Federation of
Palm Beach County and the South Florida Association of Jewish
Libraries.
For more information on the festival events, visit www.library.fau.edu/news/kultur.htm.
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