Israel In New York - Cultural Highlights - January 19 - February 2

Cultural Highlights - January 19 - February 2

In this Issue The Matchmaker Literature - Jerusalem Crossroads Dance - Gallim Dance Music - Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players Music - Mosheh: A VideOpera Music - Orpheus Visit our calendar  www.israelfm.org/culture or Follow us on Twitter -@ArtseeBlog Avi Nesher's "The Matchmaker" all over NYC: The Matchmaker Avi Nesher | Israel | 2010 | 112m In 1968 Haifa, a teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggling goods. Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest underbelly of Haifa. "A memory play gold-dusted with adolescent longing and a strong sense of fable, "The Matchmaker" seems singular among Israeli features in the way it juxtaposes guilt with hope, national birth pains with youthful hubris, and utilizes an underside of Israeli life not usually exposed to public view." --Variety NY Jewish Film Festival Janaury 27 @ Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center CLOSING NIGHT  New York Premiere thu jan 27: 3:15pm thu jan 27: 8:30pm For more films and full schedule - http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/nyjff2011schedule ----------------------------------- Brooklyn Israel Film Festival   Janaury 27-30 @ Kane Street Synagogue The Matchmaker, Saturday, January 29 8:00pm For all films and tickets: http://kanestreet.org/community/iff/ ----------------------------------- The Matchermaker @ The JCC Manhattan Tuesday, February 1, 7:30pm For more information and tickets visit - http://www.jccmanhattan.org/cat-content.aspx?catID=2607&progID=22927 Jerusalem Crossroads: George Prochnik and David Stromberg   Sunday, Jan. 30, 7:00pm @ KGB Bar David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and journalist. His publications include four collections of single-panel cartoons-including his most recent BADDIES (Melville House 2009)-and he has written on arts and culture for The Believer, Nextbook, St. Petersburg Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ha'aretz. His fiction has appeared in the UK's Ambit. Born to ex-Soviet parents in Ashdod, Israel, Stromberg grew up in urban Los Angeles, and currently resides in Jerusalem. He reads from his novel: In Search of Yana - George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam & The Purpose of American Psychology. His most recent essays have been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and Cabinet magazine.  His new book, In Pursuit of Silence - Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, was published by Doubleday on April 6, 2010. It is currently available for purchase on Amazon and other internet book sellers. - Sunday Fiction Director/Suzanne Dottino/Contact:Suzanne@KGBBAR.COM This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers. Gallim Dance - Residency and Performance  Until January 22 @ Dance Theater Workshop  Gallim Dance Residency and Performance at Dance Theater Workshop Gallim Dance will be in residence at Dance Theater Workshop January 9-15 to create a new work commissioned by DTW. Performances will take place January 18-22, at 7:30pm  Coffee and Conversation January 18 at 6:30pm Post-Show Talk January 21 January 9-15, 2010 January 18-23, 2010 Price - $20 Tickets are on sale, now! Click here for more informationhttp://engage.dancetheaterworkshop.org/show_events_list.asp?shcode=661 www.gallimdance.com Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players with Alon Goldstein Monday, Jan. 24, 2:00pm & 7:30pm @ Good Shepherd Church Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein, violinist Misha Keylin and the Jupiter musicians will perform the Dvorak Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor.  Also on the program are Rachmaninoff's String Quartet No. 2 in D, and the Clarinet Quintet in F# Minor by the Romantic composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.  The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players is "One of the City's Cultural Jewels" New York Sun. Price:  $10, $15, $25 For more information call:  212-799-1259  email:  admin@jupitersymphony.com visit website:  www.jupitersymphony.com Yoav Gal - Mosheh: A VideOpera Jan. 26 - Feb. 5 @ HERE All arts converge in this stunning original opera that traces the formation of the legendary figure Moses. Four female figures are brought to the forefront of the Biblical story: the women who nurtured and protected him from birth. Otherworldly costumes and saturated video projection surround the five vocalists, single actor and nine-piece orchestra, who realize the intensity and fervor of Gal's composition. Mosheh is the mythic tale of Moses, reimagined as a contemporary urban hallucination. Price - $20 | Opening night: $50 For more information - http://www.here.org/shows/detail/136/ Orpheus with Vadim Gluzman  Saturday, Jan. 29, 8:00pm @ Carnegie Hall Internationally recognized rising star, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman joins Orpheus for the first time in a performance of Prokofiev's hauntingly beautiful second violin concerto. Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's dark and romantic Serenade, a piece Orpheus is approaching for the first time, brings a distinctive Eastern-European flavor to this program. An overture by Robert Schumann, inspired by an epic poem of Goethe that accounts the tragic fate of two lovers during the French Revolution, opens this concert. Brahms' Serenade No. 2 in A major, his joyful take on the conventional serenade (which leaves out the standard violins) closes the concert. Tickets starting from $29  info@orpheusnyc.org   For tickets contact Carnegie Charge: 212-247-7800 or order online at www.carnegiehall.org, www.orpheusnyc.org For more events visit -   www.israelfm.org/culture  Office of Cultural Affairs   Israeli Consulate, NY