Album Release for Di rayze aheym / The journey home
Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm
$20 adv / $25 dos
Purchase tickets at https://www.viewcy.com/event/avi_fox_rosen_present
Di rayze aheym / The journey home is a bilingual English / Yiddish poem written by the trailblazing lesbian poet Irena Klepfisz in the early 1980s. Avi Fox-Rosen set the poem to music creating a 9 song cycle. The adaptation bridges traditional Yiddish musical forms with contemporary songwriting, creating a dialogue between past and present to imagine a vibrant future right here.
Join us to celebrate the release of this new album featuring Irena's poetry!
With Ira Temple opening the evening, and the band lead by Avi Fox-Rosen featuring Alicia Svigals on fiddle and Marilyn Lerner on piano.
With:
Irena Klepfisz: reading her words
Avi Fox-Rosen: voice and guitar
Alicia Svigals, Rima Fand: violins
Marilyn Lerner piano
Zoe Guigeno bass
Jason Nazary drums
Precipice at La Mama
I’ll be playing mandolin in Precipice, a opera composed by Rima Fand.
Ana finds freedom in the forest, but as a child of the 1950’s her wild spirit is crushed and her voice is stolen by adults who disregard and punish her. Rather than marry a man who expects only beauty and docility, she finds her way to the precipice of her dream, and leaps. She wakes to find herself in a surreal wilderness in which she must fight to find her voice and power as a woman, and to create a world worth returning to.
Told as an object theatre/chamber opera, Precipice sets an intimate story against epic natural landscapes, created with hand-made paper dioramas and live feed video. This contemporary fairy tale has music by Rima Fand, libretto by Karen Fisher, design by Susan Zeeman Rogers and direction by Mallory Catlett. By drawing parallels between environmental and emotional damage, Precipice looks at how we are silenced and exiled, and at how we find our way back to connection, both with each other and the natural world.
Khumesh Lider @ The Stone
We bring our Itzik Manger project to The Stone during Basya Schechter’s week in residency.
Drop Dead... Gorgeous @ La Mama
Avi is composing and recording the score for choreographer Tamar Rogoff’s dance theater production Drop Dead… Gorgeous. In residence at La Mama Oct 17 - Nov 2.
Information and tickets at https://www.lamama.org/drop-dead-gorgeous/
Dan Blacksberg in Concert at The Rotunda
An all star cast of klezmer and yiddish musicians playing in Philly in honor of Rosh Hashana.
Forshpil at Yiddish Summer Weimar
Featured performances for Yiddish Summer Weimar festival in Germany, with Forshpil !
Rising Song Salon: Khumesh Lider with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
An intimate concert series, the Rising Song Salon welcomes musical artists whose work sits at the intersection of Jewish text and storytelling into Hadar’s beit midrash for an exploration of song, source material, and creative process. In conversation with Hadar’s R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, each artist will share songs from the heart, inviting the audience into their music’s story. Come ready to listen, sing, and ask questions!
Khumesh Lider with Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
Khumesh Lider are tragicomic retellings of Tanakh stories from Eastern European Yiddish poet Itzik Manger’s 20th-century collection of poetry. Characters like Adam and Eve and Abraham and Sarah are plucked out of Canaan and set in interwar Eastern Europe. Hasidim, Turks, Egyptians, and Canaanites collide in the mythical geography that Manger creates. Basya and Avi’s original musical settings of this poetry weave together a singer-songwriter aesthetic with theater, pop, and world music influences, arranged with lush vocal harmonies throughout.
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen are veterans of the Yiddish music scene. Basya is most widely known for composing for the groundbreaking Pharaoh's Daughter, a 7-piece ensemble that travels effortlessly through continents, key signatures, and languages, forming a vibrant collage of East/West, old/new, Ashkenazi and Sephardic enlivened by flutes, electronica, and strings. A singer, songwriter, and producer, Avi has worked with the leading lights in new Yiddish music over the last 20 years, including Adrienne Cooper and Daniel Kahn, members of the Klezmatics, and as a guitarist with Pharaoh’s Daughter. For the past several years, Basya and Avi have been collaborating on this project and are anticipating a recording in the next year.
Tickets available at:
https://www.simpletix.com/e/rising-song-salon-at-yeshivat-hadar-khumes-tickets-211540
Di rayze aheym at Barbes Brooklyn
Performing Di rayze aheym in full at Barbes BK, joined by Alicia Svigals and others.
Advance tickets available here -> https://www.viewcy.com/e/avi_foxrosen_the_jo
Di rayze aheym @ Romemu BK Pride Shabbat
I’m presenting Di rayze aheym within Romemu Brooklyn’s Pride shabbat service, and then giving a short concert of selected pieces from the song cycle starting at around 9pm.
Di rayze aheym with Rabbis for Ceasefire zoom concert and q&a
Rabbis for Ceasefire is hosting a worldwide zoom teach in called Revealing Liberation: The Torah of Solidarity. I’ll be performing Di rayze aheym / The journey home with Alicia Svigals on behalf of JFREJ. Details and specific timing TBD.
https://www.jfrej.org/events/2025/05/global-shavuot-teach-in-with-rabbis-for-ceasefire
Singer / Songwriter night @ Lofty Pigeon
Details coming soon!
Organized by Scott Stein and happening at Lofty Pigeon Books.
The Journey Home
A new song cycle based on the poetry of Irena Klepfisz, at Barbes Brooklyn!
Fowl Play: Conference of the Birds
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT), under the direction of Vit Horejs, performs "Fowl Play" an original puppet rock opera inspired by Farid us-Din Attar’s 12th century Sufipoem “The Conference of the Birds,” as re-told by contemporary illustrator and author, Peter Sis. In the story, a flock of birds seek their leader in vain. Performers will portray the birds on their quest over mountain ranges, through deserts and forests. Puppets, objects, and costumes will be designed in the style of Sis's colorful illustrations; and include feather boas, scarves, flags, flowers, banknotes, traffic tickets, dry leaves, newspapers, political and sales flyers, plastic bags, cans & bottles.
Original music composed by Avi Fox-Rosen, and Avi performs live in the piece music directing the band.
Get your tickets here at https://www.lamama.org/shows/fowl-play-2024
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen’s Khumesh Lider @ CBE
Basya Schecter & Avi Fox-Rosen present Itzik Manger’s Khumesh Lider
Concert length new musical settings of Manger’s Yiddish poetry.
With Yoshie Fruchter, Kaia Berman-Peters, Shai Wetzer, Eleonore Weill
Wednesday April 17th
Doors @ 7pm, Music @ 7:30pm
$18 [link to purchase coming!]
CBE Chapel
274 Garfield Place
Brooklyn NY 11215
Co-produced by:
CBE
NJCF
Basya Schechter and Avi Fox-Rosen
Borscht Beat Records