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Saturday 22nd April at 19.30hrs

Venue: Linlithgow Primary School

Linlithgow Arts Guild’s AGM at 7.30 pm, which is open to members only, will be followed by a concert of Klezmer music at 8.30 at which all are welcome.

Tickets: £15, U26 £6  or included in the Season Ticket 2022-23. Children free.

Programme:

Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah - Saint-Saëns, arr Ruaridh Bakke (classical)

Pasa La Soledad | “Mi Amargura” , processional March from Semana Santa (Spanish holy week)

José Antonio Molero Luque | Víctor Ferrer arr Ruaridh Bakke

Theme from Schindler's List - John Williams arr Thaddeus Chung 

Ot Azoi “That’s the way” (traditional Klezmer)

Samarkand | Roberto es tu tio - Gavin Marwick

“Indifférence” - Tony Murena (French gypsy-jazz waltz)

Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian folk song), arr Michael O’Rourke 

Sheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov, arr Ruaridh Bakke

Tumbalalaika, traditional Russian-Yiddish folk song  

The musicians are a group of 6 students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Their group has been formed very recently and they continue to develop this repertoire and programme. They will talk about the pieces that they play.

Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions. The musical genre incorporated elements of many other musical genres including Ottoman (especially Greek and Romanian) music, Baroque music, German and Slavic folk dances, and religious Jewish music.

While studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, clarinettist Ruaridh Bakke got a few friends together to play some klezmer music. They were invited to play at the Spire concert series on 14 May 2022, and six-piece band Alba Challah was formed.

The performers are: