[Jewish] Hampshire/Yiddish Book Center Klezmer Concert Monday

[Peter Bonos]

Dear Friends,
You are invited to attend the debut performance of the newest,
hottest, American/Askenazi folk ensemble in the valley:
"Freylekh Valley Orkestr"
The Hampshire College/Yiddish Book Center Klezmer Band

Monday, April 14, 2008
7:00pm - 8:30pm
National Yiddish Book Center
893 West St.
Amherst, MA
 	
Hankus Netsky - Piano, Accordion
Marty Ehrlich - Reeds
Peter Bonos - Trumpet
Steve D'Agostino - Banjo
Emily Horne - Fidl
Andrea Love - Fidl
Quincy Saul - Klarinet
Erin Schneider - Accordion
Sarah Danson - Tuba
Morgan Greenstreet - Drums

The Freylekh (Happy) Valley Orkestr was formed in cooperation with the
Yiddish Book Center and the Hampshire College community.  The
legendary Hankus Netsky recently began work at the Yiddish Book
Museum.  Upon suggestion of Div 3 student Peter Bonos and Professor of
Music Marty Ehrlich (a longtime friend of Hankus) the first ongoing
collaborative effort between the Book Center and Hampshire was formed.
 Taught by Hankus and coached and organized by Peter, this band learns
by means of Yiddish oral tradition rather than sheet music. The
diverse program will include famous hits, riveting bulgars, rare
niguns, surprising fusions, and all-out jams.  This historic event is
not to be missed.

Bring your friends.  Admission is free of charge.

Contact Info Email:	
pdb04 at hampshire.edu

Hankus Netsky
A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Hankus Netsky serves as Vice
President for Education at the National Yiddish Book Center in
Amherst, MA, and teaches jazz and contemporary improvisation at the
New England Conservatory in Boston.  Netsky is founder and director of
the Klezmer Conservatory Band, an internationally renowned Yiddish
music ensemble, and serves as research director of the Klezmer
Conservatory Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the
preservation and perpetuation of Yiddish and klezmer music traditions.
  He has taught Yiddish Music at Hebrew College, New England
Conservatory, and Wesleyan University and has lectured extensively on
the subject in the US., Canada, and Europe.  His essays on klezmer
music have been published by the University of California Press and
the University of Pennsylvania Press.  He has composed music for
several film and theatre projects and collaborated on recording and
touring projects with Joel Grey, Theodore Bikel, Robin Williams, and
Itzhak Perlman.  Hankus holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from New
England Conservatory in composition and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology
from Wesleyan University. He has been the recipient of the New England
Conservatory's outstanding alumni award, and was honored twice by New
England Conservatory for excellence in teaching with the Louis Krasner
and Lawrence Lesser awards.

Marty Ehrlich
Marty Ehrlich is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation,
critically acclaimed  as both composer and player.  Equally fluent on
clarinet, saxophone, and flutes, Ehrlich
has been hailed as "one of the most formidable multi-instrumentalists
since Eric  Dolphy...the jazz dream musician" (The Village Voice).
The New York Times calls him
"one of the premier melodicists of his generation," and The Nation
"one of his time's  most original thinkers (with) a rare and wonderful
talent, a now yearning, now biting
attack and a stunningly voice-like expressiveness."  Jazz Zeitung
states: "If there is a believable poetic sensibility in jazz, you will
find it with Marty Ehrlich."  The Jazz
Journalist Association honored him as Wind Player of the Year in 2001
and as Clarinetist  of the year in 2003.  In 2004, Ehrlich was awarded
a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
in Composition.


Peter Bonos
Creative composer, improviser and Trumpet player Peter Bonos hails
from Santa Rosa, CA. He concentrated in music and German Studies at
Hampshire College (F '04), during which time he studied and performed
in Berlin during the Spring of 2007.  Active in the areas of genre
defying solo performance, group improvisation, classical, klezmer,
rock, electronic, and avant garde music, Bonos is currently a
performing member of Zebu, Freylekh Valley Orkestr, Marty Ehrlich's
Jazz Improvisation Orchestra, and Starpoli, Bonos, and Young.  He has
played a leading role in the Creative Music Collective, a concert
booking and free-form music initiative for four years.  His sound
design will be featured in Division III choreographies by Olive McKeon
and Brianne Milder.  Peter is the 2008 recipient of the Purple House
Music Fellowship and Residency for outstanding work in music
performance.