Date
Location
Event
Description
CONCERTS
Search for any word or combination of words or notations. World Premieres are denoted by (#), Competition
Winners are denoted with (*).
05/13/83
Valley Beth
Shalom
A Celebration of
Jewish Music I#
Songs by Maurice Goldman – Samuel Brown, Perryne
Anker, Rickie Weiner, Joseph Gole, MAURICE GOLDMAN,
PIANO
“MIRRORS” by Aminadav Aloni - Perryne Anker, Aviva
Rosenbloom, Farid Dardashti. AMINADAV ALONI, PIANO
#WORLD PREMIERE “To M. A letter begun in transit
(Poem by Marcia Falk)#
Isaacson – Kedushah, Nishmat Chayim
Aloni – Or Ha-Am
03/25/84
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music II
Psalm 121 – 6 settings (Rossi, Sharlin, Ben-Haim,
Klass, Aloni, Carlebach)
Kol Echad Chorale, Alan Weiner, Director
Yiddish Art Songs (Weiner, Ravel) Bachlund,
Rosenbloom
Aloni – Song of Songs ( 6
poems translated by Marcia Falk)
#WORLD PREMIERE – O for your kiss#; At Night#
Aminadav Aloni, music, Rabbi Harold Schulweis poems
Music of Max Helfman, David Helfman Conductor
3/31/85
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music III
4/28/85
Congregation
Ner Tamid,
Rancho Palos
Verde
Herbert Fromm – Madrigals (80th Birthday)
TOWER OF BABEL, JOSEPH KANTOR # WORLD
PREMIERE
Winner of International Competition*
Hallel – Aloni
“LA-Tel Aviv-LA”
selections by
Shire, Fox, Isaacson, Aloni
Kol Echad Chorale, VBS Choir
Nathan Lam
02/19/86
Gindi
Auditorium,
University of
Judaism
MOED – FESTIVAL AMINADAV ALONI – GILGUL SHEL KADDISH – MEMORY
OF FESTIVALS
OF A PRAYER # WORLD PREMIERE in memory of
Elizabeth Braun
For Piano Quartet, commissioned by Barbara and
Richard Braun
Moed – Festival of Festivals – Text – Rabbi Harold M.
Schulweis; music Aminadav Aloni
Narrator – Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
Soloists Cantors Perryne Anker and Judy Fox
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Aminadav Aloni, Conductor
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Date
Location
Event
03/23/86
Gindi
Auditorium,
University of
Judaism
Celebration of
Music IV
Description
Music of Robert Strassburg (70th Birthday); Timothy
Landauer – cello; Aviva Rosenbloom, Johana HarrisHegge, Richard McComb,
Music by Meir Finkelstein
WORLD PREMIERE# “SOUND THEE TWO TRUMPETS by
JOSEPH WEISS* – winner of International Competition
4/26/86
Valley Beth
Shalom
4/27/86
Bridges Hall,
Pomona
College
PASSOVER – A
Musical
Celebration
Psalm 92 – Rossi
Psalm 93 – Schalit
Halleluyah – Jon Bailey
Folk Songs
Psalms 131 & 133 (Chichester) – Bernstein
King David – Honegger
09/02/86
The Jewish
Quarter
Gallery
Gindi
Auditorium
University of
Judaism
Valley Beth
Shalom
An Afternoon of
Music and Art
5/2/87
Wilshire Blvd
Temple
5/3/87
Bridges Hall,
Claremont
College
01/21/87
03/22/87
Pomona College Choir and Wind Ensemble, Jon Bailey,
conductor
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Aminadav Aloni, conductor
Temple Beth Israel, Lyn Krinsky, conductor
Atid Hebrew Academy, Ralph Goren, conductor
Jewish music and art
Chag HaChagim
See Moed
Narrator – Rabbi Daniel Polish
Celebration of
Jewish Music V
Retrospective of Music of William Sharlin
WORLD PREMIERE “A TEST OF FAITH by LAWRENCE
GOLDBERG# - winner of International Competition*
DANCES OF LOVE (WORLD PREMIERE#) by Aminadav
Aloni
KOHELETH
Pirke Avot – “Hillel Omer” – Feldman
Tova Morcos, Piano, Jonathan Grant, baritone, Charles
Feldman, conductor
Symphony #4 – Mendelssohn
A Jubilant Song – Dello Joio
Koheleth – Aloni
Page 2
Date
Location
Event
Description
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Charles Feldman Singers,
Concert Choir of Claremont Colleges
Claremont Chamber Orchestra
Jane O’Donnell, mezzo; James Schmitt, tenor
Michael Deane Lamkin, Conductor
03/20/88
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music VI
Music of Toch, Bloch, Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Songs of
the Shulamite, Three Sephardic Songs
Aviva Rosenbloom, Mark Saltzman,
Flute, Harp, String quartet
Bloch – Concerto Grosso #1
VBS String Orchestra, Aminadav Aloni, Conductor
Toch – Cantata of the Bitter Herbs
Allen Robert Gross, conductor, VBS Choir and Orchestra
Rickie Weiner Gole, Joseph Gole, Aviva Rosenbloom,
Mark Saltzman, Mervyn Kalman
03/20/88
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music VI
Music of Toch, Bloch, Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Songs of
the Shulamite, Three Sephardic Songs
Aviva Rosenbloom, Mark Saltzman,
Flute, Harp, String quartet
Bloch – Concerto Grosso #1
VBS String Orchestra, Aminadav Aloni, Conductor
Toch – Cantata of the Bitter Herbs
Allen Robert Gross, conductor, VBS Choir and Orchestra
Rickie Weiner Gole, Joseph Gole, Aviva Rosenbloom,
Mark Saltzman, Mervyn Kalman
03/19/89
Valley Beth
Shalom
The Jewish Music
Commission Goes
Yiddish
Stars of Yiddish Theater from New York and Los Angeles
Zalman Mlotek, Joanne Borts, Bruce Adler, Hale Porter,
Perryne Anker, Herschel Fox
09/03/88
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music
(Selichot Service)
TEST OF FAITH by Lawrence Goldberg# World Premiere,
Winner 1986 International Competition*
Abraham -Gerald Stern, tenor;
Narrator/God – David Myrvold, baritone; Isaac –Michael
Rubin, boy alto; Conductor – Michael Isaacson
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Date
Location
Event
04/19/89
Valley Beth
Shalom
A Sabbath of
Psalms
Three Choirs: Sharing Psalms
Valley Beth Shalom Congregational Choir, Aminadav
Aloni, conductor
Pomona College Glee Club, Jon Bailey, conducting
Kirk Choir, Pasadena Presbyterian Church, Steve
Pilkington, conductor
09/23/89
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music
(Selichot Service)
WORLD PREMIERE# “VAYERO”
Winner of Fifth International Competition* by Thomas
Benjamin, composer, and Sarah Schlesinger, lyricist.
Inquisition in Portugal 1497.
Lucas Richman, directing vocal soloists and
instrumentalists
11/13/89
Gindi
Auditorium,
University of
Judaism
Women in Song
Concert devoted to music about women
World Premiere –“My Son, Samuel” for voice, cello and
piano by Sandra Shanin* Winner in Fifth International
Competition#
“Three Songs of Women on Biblical Texts” for soprano,
oboe, Bassoon or Cello, and Piano by Abraham Cohen#
World Premiere#, winner in Fifth International
Competition*;
Songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and English - Perryne
Anker, Nathan Lam, Aviva Rosenbloom, Kol Echad
Chorale, Alan Weiner, conducting,
Valley Beth Shalom Choir
08/12/90
BrandeisBardin
Institute
Concert Under the World Premiere# “Hineini,” by Lionel Semiatin Winner
Stars
Sixth International
Competition* for voice and chamber orchestra; “Out
Came This Calf” by Ari Snyder* winner Sixth
International competition#; “Visions of Jeremiah” by
Page Williams* winner Sixth International competition
12/02/90
Rabbi
Schulweis’s
Home
BrandeisBardin
Institute
*Channukah
Recital
02/09/91
Description
Music of Gershwin and Mendelssohn Brandeis-Bardin
String Quartet
House of the Book Two One-act Musical Dramas
“Vayero” (see 9/23/89)
“Chazak Ve-Ematz” by Thomas Benjamin and Sarah
Schlesinger; Book of Judges V – Auschwitz 1944 #WORLD PREMIERE WINNER SIXTH INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION*
Lucal Richman Conductor, soloists, chamber orchestra
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Date
Location
Event
3/3/91
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
Celebration of
Jewish Music
3/17/91
Milken Jewish
Community
Campus
Salute to Mozart Year and works by Jewish Austrian
Emigrés to California
Toch, Schoenberg, Karl Kohn, Zeisl, Korngold; also,
Mozart, Bernstein, Brahms
Choral Society of Southern California, Nick Strimple,
conductor
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Aminadav Aloni Conductor
04/02/91
Valley Beth
Shalom
A Concert of
Passover and
Freedom
180 Voices of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and
the Valley Beth Shalom Choir, John Bailey Conducting
Estonian/Russian music
Song of Reconciliation – Nelson
Poem by Rabbi Schulweis
Hallel – Aloni
08/30/91
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
Jewish Music
(Selichot Service)
WORLD PREMIERE# “CAIN AND ABEL, by Aharon
Harlap, Winner 7th International Competition*
Choral Society of So. California, soloists,, Nick Strimple,
conducting
12/08/91
Rabbi
Schulweis’s
Home
Valley Beth
Shalom
*Channukah
Recital
Bach, Beethoven and Bossa Nova
With Braun Trio and Rick Stollman, Classical Guitar
Tisha B’Av
Program
“Eicha” by Meira Warshauer, by Brandeis-Bardin
Ensemble
10/25/92
Valley Beth
Shalom
Ami Aloni, the Man Liturgical settings, Arts Songs, Musicals, of Aloni’s
and His Music
music.
Jon Bailey, conductor
Gail Dubinbaum (Falk translation), Meir Finkelstein,
Nathan Lam, Marni Nixon
USY and Kadima Musical Theater ensemble, Winnie
Hiller, Director
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Kol Echad, Choral Society of
Southern California
Including #World Premiere – Adonai S’fatai Tiftach and
Magen Avot, #American Premiere - Havu Laadonai
01/12/93
Home of Alan
Blye
Composers’
Reception
08/08/92
Description
Meet Aharon Harlap, Jerusalem
Lanny Meyers, winners of Jewish Music Commission
Awards#
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Date
Location
Event
3/21/93
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
Combined Choral
Concert
3/23/93
Valley Beth
Shalom
Adat Ariel
Synagogue
Rossi Psalm 146, Brahms Requiem,
Aloni – S’fatai Tiftach,
Valley Shalom Choir, Aminadav Aloni, Conductor
Choral Society of Southern California, Nick Strimple,
Conductor
Tisha B’Av
Program
“Eicha” by Meira Warshauer, with the Brandeis-Bardin
Ensemble
Celebration of
Jewish Music
(Selichot Service)
Modern Musical
Masterworks
World Premiere# “B’reishit” by Lionel Semiatin*, winner
8th International Competition#
07/26/93
Description
09/18/93
Valley Beth
Shalom
03/03/94
Sinai Temple
09/07/96
Valley Beth
Shalom
Celebration of
World Premiere# “Songs of Ascent” for piano quartet
Jewish Music
and voices, by Aminadav Aloni#, commissioned by
((Selichot Service) Barbara and Richard Braun in memory of their parents.
Performed by Jonathan Braun, MD, violin, Richard
Braun, MD, viola, David Braun, MD cello, Aminadav
Aloni, piano and the Valley Beth Shalom Choir
02/02/97
Home of Elli
and Mark
Lainer
Shehecheyanu
07/30/97
Home of
Sylvia
Bernstein
Shirim BaLaila – A “Yiddish” by Lazar Weiner; Rickie Gole;“Tov Lhodot”
Songful
(Psalm 92) by I. Katz, arr. C. Heller; Cantor Joseph D.
Evening*(Recital) Gole, tenor, Cantor Ira Biegelseisen, bass; “Of eternal
Love” by Brahms; Laurie Rubin, soprano
“Liebeslieder Waltzes) by Brahms; Laurie Rubin, Rickie
Weiner Gole, Joseph D. Gole, Ira Biegeleisen; Neal
Brostoff and Wendy Prober, duo pianists
Winners of 8th International Competition and World
Premieres
“Galizianer” Violin & piano by Jakub Ciring#*; “Shadows
of Jerusalem” soprano, cello,clarinet and piano, by
Meyer Kupferman*#; Sealed Room (Cheder Atum) for
percussion and ensemble and tape by Amnon
Wolman*#; Voice from the Annex (Anne Frank) by Jose
Antonio Bowen*#; “The Arc” for voice and piano by
Stephen Weinstock#*
Lucas Richman, conductor
A Recital of music created in the first class of Jewish
Music Composition offered by the Jewish Music
commission at the University of Judaism, Dr. Michael
Isaacson, director., Steve Rothstein, David Kates,
Cantor Ala Weiner, Micha Lieberman, Sandy Shanin
Lazarow, Jonathan Feldman, Chris Hardin,
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Date
Location
Event
Description
04/25/98
Valley Beth
Shalom
Combined Choirs:
Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Jon Bailey Conductor,
William Trusten, accompanist
Valley Beth Shalom Choir, Dr. Noreen Green, conductor
11/17/96
Home of
Sylvia
Bernstein
A Salute to Song
In honor of the
50th Anniversary
of the State of
Israel, cosponsored by
RESPONSE
Sunday Morning
Recital*
08/23/98
Home of
Burton and
Sylvia
Bernstein
Tregub
Sunday Morning
Recital*
Alan Chapman, Professor of Music at Occidental College
and renowned music commentator presents WORLD
PREMIERES# of the four winning compositions # from
the 1998 International competition:
“Hulyet” by Gilbert Trout#* with Karen Benjamin,
soprano and Trudi Behar, piano; “Lullaby for an Ancient
Grandfather” by Martin Kutnowski*#, Trudi Behar,
piano; “As the Leaves Turn to the Sun” by Sandra
Shanin Lazarow*# with Karen Benjamin, soprano and
Trudi Behar, piano, and “David and Batsheva/Fantasia
for Violin and Piano by Yefim Adler*#, David
Shindaryev, violin, Trudi Behar, Piano
03/07/99
Home of
Elaine and
David Gill
An Afternoon
Recital*
Introducing Jennifer Rea, soprano, and Christopher
Hardin, piano, in afternoon of Israeli, Aloni and musical
show selections
112/5/99
Home of Anita A Morning of
Klaz
Sephardic Music*
Guest Artist, Judy Frankel, renowned performer and
creator of Sephardic Music-
04/02/00
Home of
Claudia and
Bill Brown
Breakfast with
Two Cantors*
Cantors Linda Kates and Alisa Pomerantz-Boro,
David Kates, Piano
In an eclectic program of Jewish song.
12/10/00
Home of
Sandra and
Robert Braun
A Morning West
Side Recital
Jennifer Rae, soprano, and Chris Hardin, keyboards, in a
program of show tunes, Israeli songs and music of Ami
Aloni
Cantors Herschel and Judy Fox, Aminadav Aloni, and
Yale Strom, Klezmer violinist extraordinaire, producer
and director of the film“Carpati”.
Yiddish folksongs and art songs, and the Klezmer violin.
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Date
Location
Event
04/25/01
Valley Beth
Shalom
From Darkness to
Light,
co-sponsored by
The Los Angeles
Museum of the
Holocaust
A choral concert featuring la vie, directed by Nick
Strimple
Cain and Abel – Harlap (see 1991)
WORLD PREMIERE# CHESTNUT BRANCHES IN THE
COURT BY DAVID CUTLER; FIRST PRIZE FOR CHORAL
WORK, 2000 AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL*
Two Folksongs – Ullman; Psalm 133 – Strimple; Hallel –
Aloni
05/27/01
Valley Beth
Shalom
Tikkun Layl
Shavuot
A Night of Study to prepare to receive the Torah from
Mount Sinai.
“Ruth” – an Oratorio by Aminadav Aloni
directed by Dr. Noreen Green, the Valley Beth Shalom
Congregational Choir, Guest Artists and members of the
Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
08/27/01
Home of
Burton and
Sylvia
Bernstein
Tregub
Sunday Morning
with Robert
Strassburg
Music of Dr. Robert Strassburg- “Leaves of Grass” –
narrator and piano – Marcie Rainey and Lucas Richman
Voice of the Psalmist – Paul Cohen, cello.Lucas
Richaman piano
Tercentennial Suite – Dr. Richard Braun, viola, Wendy
Prober, piano
02/10/02
Folk Music
Center of the
California
Traditional
Music Society
Folk Music
Center,
California
Traditional
Music Society
Valley Beth
Shalom
Music on a Sunday Cantor Ron Li-Paz, Bronwen Li-Paz and Jack Bielan in a
Morning*
delightful mix of folk, swing, show tunes, Israeli and
Cantorial music
Valley Beth
Shalom
The Capitol
Ensemble
07/09/02
12/22/02
01/15/03
Description
An Evening with
Yale Strom
Filmmaker, musician, writer, photographer and
composer recounts and plays his story in discovering
the music of our people in the lands of Eastern Europe.
The Rothschilds: a Bernie Dean brings the one-man show of this Broadway
Musical Legend
Hit to VBS
Phillip Levy, Julie
Gigante, violins
Simon Oswell,
viola
David Low cello
Joshua Ranz
clarinet
Ianthe Low
Narrator
Strassburg –Walt Whitman’s “Unseen Buds” for String
quartet and Narrator
Richman – Variations for Cello and Clarinet
Schulhoff – String Quartet 1
Robert Elfman Fantasy for String Quartet# World
Premiere
Mozart Clarinet Quartet
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Date
Location
Event
03/30/03
Valley Beth
Shalom
An Interfaith
Concert for Peace
04/30/03
Valley Beth
Shalom
A Jewish Life at
Conceived and written by Moshe Cotel, concert pianist,
the Classical Piano soon to be ordained Conservative Rabbi, he performs a
with Moshe Cotel concert of piano virtuosity woven with teachings of
Jewish thought and philosopy.
09/21/03
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
KOHELETH
An Interfaith
Program of Music
and Dialogue on
the book of
Ecclesiastes
Rev. Dr. Vahe Simonian, BHPC
Rabbi Edward Feinstein, VBS
Kelly O’Connor, soprano
Mallory Walker, Tenor
La Vie, LA Zimriyah Chorale, BHPC Chancel Choir, Young
Musicians Foundation Orchestra
Conducted by Nick Strimple
Works by Dello Joio, Eben and Aloni
03/25/04
Valley Beth
Shalom
Jerusalem Lyric
Trio
Amalia Ishak, soprano; Wendy Eisler-Kashy, flute; Allan
Sternfeld, piano. Internationally acclaimed Israeli
virtuosi. WORLD PREMIERE Acharit HaYamim for
soprano and Piano by Moshe Denburg. Others works by
Warshauer. Ben-Haim, Alexndeer, Smorganski, Harlap,
Alotin, Avni and Weisenberg
04/28/04
Valley Beth
Shalom
The Capitol
Ensemble
Erwin Schulhoff: Quartet No. 1 (1924)
Mozart: String Quintet No. 2 in C Major, K 515 (1787)
05/19/04
Valley Beth
Shalom
Description
Yuval Ron Ensemble, featuring Najwa Gibran - The
Mystical Music of the Middle East, celebrating the
Sacred Music of Judaism, Sufism, and the Armenian
Church, with song, music, and dance
Phillip Levy, Julie
Gigante, violins
Simon Oswell,
viola
Samuel Formicola,
viola
David Low cello
Ron Li-Paz, Bass- Songs by Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Handel,
Baritone in
Schubert, Copland, Aloni, Finkelstein, Shemer, Schorr,
Concert with
Bielan, Weinkranz, and Rapaport
Bronwen Li-Paz,
Alto
Raya Sadigursky
and Jack Bielan,
Piano
Page 9
Date
Location
Event
11/07/04
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
PSALMS –
Interfaith
Symposium and
Concert
02/09/05
Home of
Burton and
Sylvia
Bernstein
Tregub
Valley Beth
Shalom
Nearly Fibonacci
Lev Shurbin, viola, and Jakub J. Omsky, cello
Ensemble and The Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Chopin, Bartok, Mozart
Joint Custody Duo
“Aloni Revealed”
Aleksandr Berkovich, Phyllis Fleschler, Jennifer Rae
Hardin, Chris Hardin: Surprises and Standards from the
Legacy of Aminadav Aloni
11/29/05
Valley Beth
Shalom
“A Little Jewish
Night Music”
Armadillo String Quartet, with Zinovy Goro, clarinet and
Alan Steinberger, piano
LA composers Aloni (Gilgul Shel Kaddish), Isaacson,
Strassburg; Hidden Treasures from Prokofiev, Krejn,
Fitelberg and Ellstein. WORLD PREMIERE_#ISAACSON –
“The Shul in My Right Mind” for Bb Clarinet and String
Quartet
02/12/06
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
IN THE
BEGINNING –
Interfaith
Symposium and
Concert
Music, Theology, Art History & Astrophysics of Creation.
Symposium: Feinstein, Robins, Schulweis, Simonian,
Smith, Glatstein, Hansen, Strimple
Concert conducted by Dr. Nick Strimple; Cantor Joseph
Gole, Stephanie Aston, Josh Honig, Ernest Silva LA
Zimriyah, BHPC Chancel Choir,LAVIE, Choral Society of
So Cal. Student Art contest; Dinner
06/07/06
Valley Beth
Shalom
SHOSTAKOVICH
AT 100
JOSEPH DORFMAN, concert pianist, Shostakovich
scholar Buchman-Mehta School of Music Tel Aviv
University;
Hila Plitman, soprano; Alma Mora, mezzo; Mark
Salatzman, tenor; David Kasap, accordion; Mark
Kashper, violin; Barry Gold, cello; Neal Brostoff,Piano.
A Bouquet of Yiddish Folk Songs; From Yiddish Folk
Poetry, Opus 79 – Shostakovich; Trio, in memoriam
Dimitri Shostakovich – Dorfman
{Professor Dorman died during intermission – the
Shostakovich songs were not performed}
06/05/05
Description
3 PM Symposium – Simonian, Schulweis, Smith,
Crossley, Zuckerman, Gibson, Isaacson, Lefkowitz,
Dubin Aranoff, Geller; Concert – Strimple directing SA
Zimriyah & Choral Society of So. Cal., Soloists: Gole,
Grant, Kaufman, May; Music by Palestrina, Rossi,
Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Sulzer, Novakowsky,
Shenker,Dvorak, Kingsley, Hohvaness, Harlap, Aloni,
Isaacson, Gibson, Lefkowitz, Strimple, Lewandowski;
Dinner – 5:30 PM; Concert 7 PM
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Date
Location
Event
07/05/06
Valley Beth
Shalom
Professor Joseph Memorial Prayer – El Maleh Rachamim – Cantor Hershel
Dorfman Memorial Fox; Two selections from Five Images After Chagall Concert
Dorfman; Heather Millette, clarinet; Tilman Kanitz,
cello; Svetlana Transky, piano; - Ravel – Ayana Haviv,
soprano; Neal Brostoff, piano; Hebrew Melody –
Achron; Mark Kashper, violin; Neal Brostoff, piano;
From Yiddish Folk Poetry, Opus 79 – Shostakovich;
Ayana Haviv, soprano; Alma Mora, mezzo; Mark
Saltzman, tenor’ Neal Brostoff, piano; Daniel Pollack,
piano – Liszt -Consolation Number 3 in D-flat
12/01/06
Valley Beth
Shalom
“Romania,
Romania:
Yesterday and
Today”
04/03/07
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
THE PROPHETS
Interfaith
Symposium and
Concert
04/25/07
Valley Beth
Shalom
08/12/07
Home of
Burton and
Sylvia
Bernstein
Tregub
Valley Beth
Shalom
12/16/07
Description
Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi – Traditional and new
klezmer melodies. Yale Strom, violin, vocals; Elizabeth
Schwartz, vocals, hand percussion; Peter Stan,
accordion
Symposium – Feinstein, Glatstein, Schulweis, Smith,
Strimple, Worth;
Concert – Music by Brahms, Handel, Hilsley,
Lewandowski, Mendelssohn, Pik, Rothblum, Rothschild,
Schubert, Strimple & Vaughan Williams.
Cantors Ira Biegelsen, Herschel Fox and Joseph Gole,
Emily May, soprano; Omar Crook, tenor; Steven Argila,
organ; Michael Morgovsky, piano; LA Zimriyah, BHPC
Chancel Choir, Choral Society of So. Cal.
Dinner; Student Art Contest
VIKLARBO
New American Jewish Music – Maria Newman, violin;
Chamber Ensemble Scott Hosfeld; Wendy Prober, piano; Amanda Walker,
clarinet.
Music by David Lefkowitz, Maria Newman, Beethoven,
Brahms & Bernstein
Eunice Keem in
Eunice Keem, violin; Valeria Morgovsky, piano; – music
Private Recital for by Brahms, Suk, Achron, Kreisler
JMCLA members
Seeds of Sun
Award-winning New York based 5-piece band that
“brings new perspectives on World Jazz through Israeli
and South American influences.
Mattan Klein, Bandleader, Flute
Meytal Muallem, Vocals
Yoav Polachek, Piano
Gustavo Amarante, Bass
Dan Aran, Drums
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Date
Location
Event
01/24/08
Valley Beth
Shalom
Chronicles II
More Teachings from a Jewish Life at the Classical
Piano. Rabbi Moshe Cotel – works by Gershwin,
Rimsky-Korsakoff, Ellstein and Cotel transcriptions.
03/09/08
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
ANGELS
Interfaith
Symposium and
Concert
Symposium – Feinstein, Glatstein, Schulweis, Smith,
Strimple, Worth;
Concert – Music by Sharlin, Rothblum, Williams,
Tchaikovsky, Hassler, Handel, Strimple, Isaacson,
Mendelssohn, Fauré.
Catherine Cooper, soprano; Tara Smith, soprano; Cantor
Judy Dubin Aranoff, alto, Cantor Ira Biegelsen, bass,
Cale Olson, baritone; Michael Isaacson, narrator; francis
Nobert, organ; Mikhail Morgovsky, piano; Gale Levant,
harp; Amy Shulman, harp; LA Zimriyah, BHPC Chancel
Choir, LAVIE, Choral Society of So. Cal. Dinner; Student
Art Contest
04/23/08
Valley Beth
Shalom
VIKLARBO
VIKLARBO Chamber ensemble- Maria Newman, violin;
Chamber Ensemble Scott Hoseld, viola; Paula Hochhalter, cello; Amanda
Walker, clarinet; Wendy Probe, piano. Music by
Milhaud, Martinu, Newman, Brahms and Bennett
08/03/08
Home of Lynn
Gordon and
Jonathan
Braun
Valley Beth
Shalom
Eunice Keem in
Eunice Keem, violin; Valeria Morgovsky, piano
Private Recital for Music by
JMCLA Members
Schubert, Ysaye, Szymanowski and Sarasate
Valley Beth
Shalom
Lindsay Deutsch in Lindsay Deutsch, violin; Tanya Gabrielian, piano.
Concert
Music by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Bloch, GershwinCourage, Beethoven, de Falla, Sarasate, Williams
11/21/08
12/15/08
Test of Faith
Description
Pulpit Drama in one act based on Binding of Isaac
First Prize winner in Jewish Music Commission
competition 1987*
Score – Lawrence Goldberg; libretto – Marcia Hain
Engle.
Abraham – Jonathan Mack, tenor; God, Narrator – Ron
Li-Paz, baritone; Isaac – Jonathan Zur – boy soprano;
Lawrence Goldberg, conductor; Michael Isaacson,
producer,. Instrumental ensemble
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Date
Location
Event
Description
03/15/09
Beverly Hills
Presbyterian
Church
FORGIVENESS &
ATONEMENT
Interfaith
Symposium &
Concert
05/20/09
Valley Beth
Shalom
In the Spirit of the Songs by American and Israeli Composers
Moment
Timur Bekbusonov, Tenor; Steven Vanhauweer, piano;
Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, viola.
Marc Lowenstein, Nick Stimple, Walter Arlen, Maria
Newman, Gil Shohat, Kurt Weill, Friederich Hollander,
Hans Eisler, Aminadav Aloni, Walter Jurmann
11/11/09
Valley Beth
Shalom
Sam Glaser and
Friends
12/18/09
Valley Beth
Shalom
Shabbat Hanukkah “Or Ha’Am” (The Light of the Nation) Oratorio by
Aminadav Aloni
Valley Beth Shalom Congregational Choir
with Soloists: Cantor Phil Baron, Elaine Rosen, Jennifer
Rea Hardin, Ariella Vaccarino
Members of the VBS Symphony,
Mark Kashper, Concertmaster; Dr. Noreen Green,
Director
Symposium – Feinstein, Glatstein, Schulweis, Smith,
Strimple, Worth;
Concert – Music by Bach, Brahms, Geruta, Leonard,
Pepping, Strimple, Vaughan Williams, Zilberts. Cantor
Cory Winter, tenor; Tali Tadmor, piano; Linda Brown,
organ
LA Zimriyah, BHPC Chancel Choir, Choral Society of So.
Cal. USC Thotnton School of Music Brass Ensemble.
Student Art Contest
Sam Glaser and ensemble in original songs of love and
devotion. #World Premiere – A Song for Peace for
Veterans Day 2009
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Date
Location
Event
Description
SONG FESTIVALS
11/17/92
Valley Beth
Shalom
1992 American
Jewish Song
Festival
Produced and directed by Sam Glaser
14 Finalists performed by the leading singers and
instrumentalists in US.
All World Premieres#
Winners:
1st Prize $1500 “Erev Shabbat” by Lanny Meyers and
Jerry Winston#
2nd Prize $1000 “Promised Land” by Alan Chapman#
3rd Prize $500 “V’ahavta” by Hannah Levy#
11/30/93
Valley Beth
Shalom
1993 American
Jewish Song
Festival
Produced and directed by Sam Glaser
15 Finalists performed by the leading singers and
instrumentalists in US.
All World Premieres#
Winners
1st Prize - $1500 “Kates Dream” by Michael Ian Elias#
2nd Prize $1000 “Gut Vokh” by Eve Monzingo#
3rd Prize $500 “The Dreidl Sing Along” by Ruth LopezYanez#
11/15/94
Valley Beth
Shalom
1994 American
Jewish Song
Festival
1995 Cultural Arts
Award form
Jewish Federation
Council of Greater
Los Angeles
Produced and directed by Sam Glaser
12 Finalists performed by the leading singers and
instrumentalists in US.
All World Premieres#
Winners 1st Prize $1500 “Wandering Hearts” by Michael
Ian Elias#
2nd Prize$1000 “Avlame” by Daniel Cabib and Liliana
Alcalay#
3rd Prize $500 “Chanukah History” by Cara Freedman#
03/03/96
Valley Beth
Shalom
1995/6 American
Jewish Song
Festival
Produced and directed by Sam Glaser
12 Finalists performed by the leading singers and
instrumentalists in US.
All World Premieres#
Winners
1st Prize - $1500 “We’re Coming Home” by Aaron
Kaplan & Annette Tucker#
2nd Prize - $1000 “Little Black Ribbons” by Deborah
Levoy and Richard Nevle#
3rd Prize $500 “My Hebrew Name” by Larry Midler#
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Date
Location
Event
Description
5/2/2000
Stephen S.
Wise Temple
The American
Cantor Nathan Lam, Master of Ceremonies
Jewish Music
Sam Glaser, Music Director
Festival 2000
David S. Kates, Producer
Celebrating New
Featuring Nathan Lam, Linda Kates, Julie Silver, Craig
Jewish Music for a Taubman, Patty Linsky, Ariella Vaccarino, Sam Glaser,
New Century
Rick Recht, Neshama Carlebach, Hollywood Klezmer
Ensemble
Winners of 2000 American Jewish Music Festival
Competition
World Premieres#
“Awake, Awake” by Dwight Stone#
“Song of Ruth” by Andrea Clearfield#
“Mi Chamocha” by Rick Recht#
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