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| Chava Alberstein and David Broza in Concert (December 2007) |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Meryl Wheeler, 212.413.8841, email |
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| ISRAELI SUPERSTARS |
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CHAVA ALBERSTEIN
Saturday, December 1, 8:00 pm, $45 + $30
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DAVID BROZA
ANNUAL "NOT EXACTLY CHRISTMAS EVE" CONCERT
Monday, December 24, 8:00 pm, $65 + $45
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| New York, NY, November, 9, 2007—The 92nd Street Y announces December performances by two of Israel's most popular and enduring performers. |
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♦ CHAVA ALBERSTEIN performs at the 92nd Street Y for the first time in three years on Saturday, December 1 at 8:00 pm, playing a mix of the Hebrew and Yiddish songs that have made her “the most important female musician in Israel's history," according to Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Aharonot.
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Performing with Chava Alberstein are guitarist Oved Efrat and percussionist Avi Agababa.
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♦ DAVID BROZA returns on Monday, December 24 at 8:00 pm for his ever-popular Not Exactly Christmas Eve concert. Critics have called Broza the "Israeli Bruce Springsteen" and "a post-modern Leonard Cohen." His music is multi-cultural, flamenco-tinged folk-rock written and sung in Hebrew, Spanish and English.
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Performing with David Broza are three longtime friends and bandmates who are accomplished musicians in their own right. Brazilian-born Cyro Baptista is one of this country's premier percussionists. He has recorded and performed with a huge range of artists, from Herbie Hancock to Paul Simon to David Byrne, and tours regularly with his own 10-piece ensemble, Beat the Donkey. Also appearing with Broza are veteran Spyro Gyra members Jay Beckenstein on saxophone and Julio Fernandez on guitar.
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A new PBS concert special starring Broza and special guests Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne begins airing on December 8th. The PBS film captures the concert, which was performed atop the ancient fortress of Masada beginning 3:00 am so that it would end at sunrise. The backdrop for the concert — Masada — overlooks the Dead Sea in Israel's Judean desert, and generations of hikers have been climbing its slopes in the middle of the night to glimpse the extraordinary sunrise there. In a moment of unforeseen serendipity Broza describes as "magical," he and Browne found themselves singing the English chorus to "Yihye Tov" ("Things Will be Better"), the first song Broza ever wrote, just as the sun began climbing over the mountains.
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| ABOUT CHAVA ALBERSTEIN |
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Chava Alberstein is widely heralded as Israel's most accomplished singer. Among the many honors she has garnered over her career include a lifetime achievement award from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, six Kinor David prizes, Israel's Grammy award, and an honorary PhD from Tel Aviv University for her 40 year-long contribution to Israeli music and culture. She has also established herself as a world-music performer whose influences range from Pete Seeger and Jacques Brel to the music of Greece, North Africa, the Middle East and South America.
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Alberstein has long been associated with the peace movement in Israel, and her 1989 version of the Passover song "Chad Gadya" (rewritten to represent the circle of violence in Israel) was widely criticized and even engendered death threats. Her 2004 CD End of the Holiday was her first collaboration with husband Nadav Levitan, a poet and filmmaker who wrote all the lyrics.
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She recently returned to the Israeli concert stage after a seven year hiatus; all of her shows sold out in a matter of hours.
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| ABOUT DAVID BROZA |
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An Israeli-born musician and songwriter, David Broza is committed to using the power of music to promote peace and unity wherever he goes, often working to promote cross-cultural understanding and harmony. He grew up in Spain and England, influenced as much by his Israeli family as he was by American pop music and Spanish flamenco. His intense performances and best-selling records (in Hebrew, English and Spanish) have made him a superstar in Israel and a rising star in the U.S. and around the world. Broza now splits his time between homes in Tel Aviv and Madrid when he is not on the road.
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Broza is known for his compelling stage presence and for writing songs that breathe musical life into snippets of poetry. He spent 15 years living in the New York area, and when he first moved to the U.S., he spent hours in bookstores poring over volumes of poetry. He was "looking for poems that told stories that would capture the ear of the listener," he told The New York Times. The result was his American debut CD, Away From Home (RGB Records, 1989), which the Times named one of that year's best pop albums. He has also released The Best of David Broza (NMC, June 2004), a collection of greatest hits on the Israeli label that launched his recording career 26 years ago; Painted Postcard (Rounder Records, June 2002), a collection of English and Hebrew songs; and two versions of the CD All or Nothing, in both Hebrew (Hed Arzi, May 2002) and Spanish (DRO East West, October 2002). He is currently writing new material for his next Hebrew and English CDs.
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 8,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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© 2008 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved. |
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