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The Old Broadway Synagogue, Center for Traditional Music and Dance and the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center present:
THE MAGIC OF KLEZMER FLUTE
Concert featuring Adrianne Greenbaum (flute) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl)
Sunday, March 23, 2025, 7:30pm
at the Old Broadway Synagogue
(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)
Suggested donation: $10
A program of newly-discovered traditional klezmer repertoire alongside stunning original compositions. You'll also hear the stories behind this exciting music in a concert featuring two of the contemporary klezmer scene's leading artists.
Watch a sample here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ZIDLrBCQo
Adrianne Greenbaum (flute) Professor of Flute at Mount Holyoke College, and recognized as the “Queen of Klezmer Flute,” Adrianne Greenbaum is the foremost purveyor of the klezmer flute tradition. Having reached International acclaim as both a klezmer and classical flutist, Adrianne performs on modern, traverso and 19th c. flutes. She has performed in many national and international festivals and conventions: as soloist with orchestra at the National Flute Convention, solo recitals at the British Flute Convention, full concerts in the KlezMore Festival in Vienna, tours in the U.S.A., Scotland and Poland. Having received her upper level degrees from the Oberlin College Conservatory and Yale University School of Music, she has held professorships at several colleges and universities - currently Mount Holyoke, and formerly Smith, Yale and Wesleyan. She began her career as a classical musician, maintaining her presence in the field performing recitals at universities, and conventions and as principal flutist of both the New Haven Symphony (recently retired) and Orchestra New England. Highlights of her presence in the classical arena included many years performing with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, performances with New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, and as principal flutist with Berlin Ballet at the Met. She can be heard in recordings of her own classical solo album, Sounds of America, as well as several klezmer titles - Fleytmuzik, Farewell to the Homeland: Poyln, and Family Portrait, and final to be released summer of 2025 “Klezmer Flute Nisht Fargessen”
Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Pete Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, Ira Temple, Lauren Brody, Avi Fox-Rosen and Michael Winograd. Pete serves as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, one of the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of books and articles on traditional music and culture.
We are grateful for the support of the Atran Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
