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Coming Up!

October 8-11, 2010

The Western Wind Fall Foliage Workshop

in Ensemble Singing 

at Woodstock, Vermont

 

For more info click here


   A Cappella Since 1969

 

Click Here to hear us sing!

See the joyful faces of singers—young and old—making music at our workshops!”  

(i thank You God by Elliot Z. Levine; visuals by Todd Frizzell)vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

Upcoming Concerts and Workshops:

 

October 8, 2010  Woodstock, Vermont

The Happy Journey

Shaker Songs, New England Anthems and Folk Hymns, Black and White Spirituals,

19th Century Parlor Songs, New American Music, Jazz and Pop

8 PM at the Chapel of the North Universalist Society

For tix click here

 

October 30, 2010 New York City

 Big Apple Workshop in Ensemble Singing!

Medieval, Renaissance, Early American, Contemporary

Music for Halloween

 owls & witches, souls & saints, masses for the dead, fun, scary, spooky

Click here for more info and to enroll

 

November 11, 2010  New York City

Come Life, Come Death, I Care Not

400th anniversary of Michael East’s Third Book of Madrigals (1610)

with Parthenia, a consort of viols

8 PM at Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street

Tickets: $25/$15. Call 212-358-5942 or go to www.parthenia.org

 

Wednesday, November 17, New York City
The Happy Journey

1:15 Immanuel Lutheran Church

122 East 88th Street at Lexington Avenue

for info click here
 

Friday, November 19, St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD

The Happy Journey

 8:15 PM Francis Scott Key Auditorium

free and open to the public

click here  for St. John's College Website

 

Sunday, December 12, New York City

Holiday Light!

Featuring a new version of Elliot Z. Levine’s Cantata for the Animals

created for The Western Wind plus Holiday music for Christmas and Chanukkah.

with guest instrumentalists featuring Patricia Davis, violin

7 PM The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street

 For tix click here

 

click Concert Schedule for details and for a complete list of performances and events

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Support The Western Wind!  Make a tax-deductible contribution here

 

News flash!!

The Western Wind awarded a general operating support grant from the Fund for the City of New York

 

 

Smith Workshop Highlights on Youtube!

Below is a video, created by Western Wind Tenor Todd Frizzell, showcasing the Smith I Workshop. Enjoy!

A kaleidoscopic tapestry of vocal hues...                       The New York Times

...versatility...virtuosity...a  stunning concert.    Los Angeles Times

 

Featured   Recordings

The Birthday of the World,
Music and Traditions of the High Holy Days:
Part I: Rosh Hashanah

Leonard Nimoy,  Narrator

Sung by The Western Wind & Guest Choir

 

"Sung by The Western Wind vocal ensemble with outstanding cantors...this is an ideal Rosh Hashanah service. Comprised of major prayers drawn from traditions ancient and modern, Sephardic and Eastern European, with a splendid  narration by Leonard Nimoy, the performance is outstanding for the beauty of its artistry."

Joan Schwartz Michel (Hadassah Magazine

Originally produced for Public Radio

 details 

 

 

The Birthday of the World,
Music and Traditions of the High Holy Days:
Part II: Yom Kippur

 

Leonard Nimoy,  Narrator

Sung by The Western Wind & Guest Choir

Leonard Nimoy and The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble explore the rich and profound musical and spiritual traditions of the Jewish High Holy Days. The Birthday of the World presents some of the most inspiring music of the Jewish Liturgy performed by The Western Wind, guest singers and four internationally renowned cantors. The choir sings with notably greater unanimity and dynamic polish than one typically hears at an actual service....There is also a female cantor, Faith Steinsnyder Gurney, whose singing is agile and often stunningly turned, although in terms of range and cantorial virtuosity she has nothing on Alberto Mizrahi, the most impressive of the soloists." Allan Kozinn, The New York Times      details   

 



 

 

The Western Wind Judaica Series

 

 7 recordings!

Just  $87.95 (including shipping

 

The Chanukkah Story
The Passover Story
Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews
Birthday of the World, Part I: 

Rosh Hashanah
Birthday of the World, Part II:

Yom Kippur
 
Taste of Eternity: A Musical Shabbat, Part I.  Friday Evening Service

Taste of Eternity: A Musical Shabbat, Part II. 

Saturday Morning Service

  details

 

 

Taste of Eternity
A Musical Shabbat

See review in Hadassah Magazine

Part I: Friday Night Service and Table Songs (
details)

Part II: Saturday Morning
Service (
details)

 



News     (please click Concert Schedule for a complete list of performances and events)

 

4/2010

 

  Western Wind Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Grant under the American Masters: Chamber Music program.
7/08/09   Bar La Barca
Two Madrigal Comedies 400 Years Apart


Hailed by the New York Press!
Click here to read reviews.
5/16/09   "And So It Goes ... "
40 Years of Making Music

Concert and a Dinner Party at the historic Central Park Arsenal

 

The concert and post-concert benefit party were a great success!!
Here are some pictures

4/2009   The Western Wind Featured in ChamberMusic Magazine

Click here (and scroll down the PDF)

3/24/08   Todd Frizzell has posted a lovely video for Elliot Levine's "i thank you God" on You Tube

Click here to watch, and look for familiar faces.
"
i thank you God" is available on Western Wind Encores.  Click here to purchase.

11/2006   See The Western Wind in action!  Check out this clip from the Western Wind residency at Colgate University this past November.  
     
Ordering Chanukkah Music   
   

We are proud to announce that four of the Chanukkah pieces from our Chanukkah Story program have just been published by Transcontinental Music. They are Three Chanukkah Songs (arr. Levine/Zukof) 993306 and Lo V’Chayil by Elliot Z. Levine 9933041. 

Go to http://press.securesites.net/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi and enter the item # to order.

 
Concert Schedule

 

   

Sunday, December 12, New York City

Holiday Light!

 

Featuring a new version of Elliot Z. Levine’s Cantata for the Animals

created for The Western Wind plus Holiday music for Christmas and Chanukkah.

with guest instrumentalists featuring Patricia Davis, violin

 

7 PM The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street

New York City

 

For tix click here

   

Friday, November 19

 8:15 PM

St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD

 Francis Scott Key Auditorium

 

The Happy Journey

Shaker Songs, New England Anthems and Folk Hymns, Black and White Spirituals,

19th Century Parlor Songs, New American Music, Jazz and Pop

 

free and open to the public

For more information on concerts, please call (410) 626-2539.

click here  for St. John's College Website

 

   

Thursday, November 11

 8:00 PM

 

Come Life, Come Death, I Care Not

400th anniversary of Michael East’s Third Book of Madrigals (1610)

with Parthenia, Consort of Viols

 

Corpus Christi Church, 529 West 121st Street, NYC

Tickets: $25/$15. Call 212-358-5942 or go to www.parthenia.org

 

   

October 30, 2010 New York City

10-1; 2-5:30

 

Big Apple Workshop in Ensemble Singing!

 

Medieval, Renaissance, Early American, Contemporary

Music for Halloween

 owls & witches, souls & saints, masses for the dead, fun, scary, spooky

 

Tuition: $95 by October 1; $110 after October 1

 

Click here for more info and to enroll

 

 

   

Friday, October 8

 8:00 PM

Chapel of the North Universalist Society, 7 Church Street Woodstock Vermont

 

The Happy Journey

Shaker Songs, New England Anthems and Folk Hymns, Black and White Spirituals,

19th Century Parlor Songs, New American Music

Tickets: $15 and $10 (Students and Seniors)

Help Support the Western Wind! Purchase a Patron or Sponsor ticket.

Patron $100 ($85 tax deductible)  Sponsor $50 ($35 tax deductible)

Concert free for Workshop Participants

For Tix Click Here

   

Sunday, August 15

 8:15 PM

 

Payomet Performing Arts Center

29 Old Dewline Road (off of South Highland)

North Truro, Mass.

 

Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of Jewish Life

Sephardic & Yiddish Songs, Holiday Music, Pop

For info: click here

For tix call: 508-487-5400
 

   

Friday, July 30 & August 2

8:00 PM

 

The Western Wind in Concert at Smith College

 Sweeney Auditorium, Sage Hall (at the end of Green Street)

 

Music of Orlando di Lasso, Judaica, Jazz and Pop Arrangements

Tickets at the door: $10; $8 students seniors

Opening Concert -Workshop in Ensemble Singing

 

   

Saturday, June 12, 8:00 PM

Congregation Shir Chadash at Freedom Plains Presbyterian Church

Route 55 and Stringham Road, Lagrangeville, NY.

"And So It Goes..." 40 Years of A Cappella

For info visit: www.shir-chadash.org

   

Saturday June 5, 8:00 PM

THE DIVINE ORLANDO!

Orlando Di Lasso (1532-1594)

²Italian Madrigals ²French Chansons²German Lieder²Latin Motets

Ardent…Ribald…Sublime…Silly!

 

For tickets and more info click here

   

Saturday May 15, Between 3 & 4 PM
Symphony Space, NYC

Wall to Wall Behind the Wall

Music from the Nazi Extermination Camps

For info visit: www.symphonyspace.org

   

Saturday May 8, 7:30 P.M.
Dobbs Ferry New York

A CAPPELLA!

Early & Contemporary American, Renaissance, Judaica, Pop & Jazz

For more info visit: http://commongroundfusw.com/2009/08/25/saturday-may-8th-730-pm/

9/13/09  

Sunday, Sept 13, at 7:00 P.M.
Amsterdam, NY


And So It Goes…40 Years of Making Music

The program celebrates the groups four decades of music-making
and is
highlighted by some of its “greatest-hits” through the years. 
Renaissance, Early American, Judaica, Contemporary, Pop & Jazz arrangements.

United Presbyterian Church
25 Church Street
Amsterdam, NY

Tel. 518-842-2280   
Email:
rswenson@nycap.rr.com

     
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