The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2015 - Page 13
District! Councilman Al Austin, Cemetery Pres
ident Brian Yesowitch, and Marcia Simon.
The Hebrew Cemetery Association and
TreesCharotte Partner for Community-
Wide Tu BiShevat Tree Planting
By Sandra Goldman, Director, Hebrew Cemetery Association
On a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon over 80 volunteers
gathered inside the Mindy Ellen Levine Chapel to eelebrate Tu
BiShevat. After an engaging introduetion by members of the
Temple Israel, Temple Beth El, and Congregation Ohr HaTorah
elergy, the event partieipants, ages five to 93, rolled up their
sleeves, stepped outside, and planted 35 trees around the
grounds of the Hebrew Cemetery.
Dave Cable, Direetor of TreesCharlotte, was more than
pleased with the event. “What a great opportunity to bring an
already wonderful eommunity together and expand Charlotte’s
beautiful tree eanopy,” Cable said. On the grounds were also
former Charlotte Observer Publisher Rolfe Neill and longtime
Hebrew Cemetery Assoeiation member and Create a Jewish
Legaey partieipant, Mareia Simon, both Board Members of
TreesCharlotte. It was through Mareia’s experienees donating
to the Jewish National Fund (JNF) that the program that would
grow to beeome TreesCharlotte was eoneeived. Condueting the
TreesCharlotte event on Tu BiShevat brought the program full
eirele beeause of the JNF’s historieal assoeiation with Israeli
Arbor Day.
Couneilman A1 Austin from Distriet 2 was also found dig
ging in the grounds. “The City of Charlotte has goals to plant
10,000 trees annually,” shared Couneilman Austin. “The He
brew Cemetery Assoeiation is an exeellent example of a private
institution working with TreesCharlotte to support the eity’s
goal. The Hebrew Cemetery and the many volunteers who
planted the trees made a tremendous impaet in beautifying Dis
triet 2 as well as working towards additional environmental
and health benefits in the distriet’s neighborhoods. This is a
very important projeet for the eity and the Hebrew Cemetery.”
The first ever eommunity-wide Tu BiShevat tree planting
event was a huge sueeess and the many enthusiastie partiei
pants hope to add more trees next year.
If you are interested to learn more about TreesCharlotte,
please visit their website at www.treeseharlotte.org. For mem
bership questions, preplanning and legaey giving, please eon-
taet Sandra Goldman at direetor@hebreweemetery.org or
704-576-1859. «
Dave Cable of TreesCharlotte talks about
proper planting of trees.
Shari Sokolowicz, MiaAshar, Tammy Nachshon,
Hayley Nachshon, Daniel Ashar, and Tom
Ashar.
Hebrew Cemetery
of Greater Charlotte
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Inside the Mindy Ellen Levine Chapel.
Klezmer Music at the Charlotte Symphony
(Continued from previous page)
Kogan pieees arranged for elarinet
with orehestra, and perform them
during my 40th season? That
would give me a ehanee to make
a klezmer splash with the orehes
tra and our audienee, as well as
add an exeiting showpieee to the
“klezmer elarinet with orehestra”
genre. I had to eonvinee my eon-
duetor, Christopher Warren Green,
that this projeet was worth pursu
ing.
Fortunately, CWG was on
board with showeasing me during
my 40th season. The klezmer idea
appealed to him as well; espeeially
sinee it was something different,
and it would attraet an audienee
that he wanted to make a eonnee-
tion with - Charlotte’s Jewish
eommunity. The projeet was
green-lighted; I eontaeted Alan
Kaufman, a talented Charlotte mu-
sieian who knows the klezmer
style and eould do a good job with
the orehestration.
I seleeted five of the Kogan
pieees that I felt would work
nieely to form a suite. Kogan had
not named the individual pieees,
so I gave them names based on the
danee style that eaeh represents:
Freylekh, Khosid’l, Nigun,
Kolomeyke, and Bulgar. Addition
ally, I felt it would be niee to begin
the suite with an unaeeompanied
elarinet Doina, a rhapsodie fan
tasy with an improvisational ehar-
aeter - but this Doina would have
thematie hints of the Freylekh to
follow. The first, seeond, and third
movements of the suite would
likewise be eonneeted with a elar
inet Doina, and the eonneetion be
tween the third and fourth
movement would be a double ea-
denza between the elarinet and
solo violin. I wrote the doinas and
double eadenza, but definitely en-
eourage improvisation. We titled
the pieee based on the instrumen
tation: Klezmer Danees for Clar
inet, Strings, Pereussion, and
Tuba.
A sneak preview of the pieee
will be performed at the Provi-
denee United Methodist Chamber
Musie Series on Mareh 8 at 7 PM,
where we will perform a ehamber
musie version of the Klezmer
Danees. Admission is free.
The Klezmer Danees will be
performed on the Charlotte Sym
phony’s “KnightSounds” series at
7:30 PM on April 17 and 18 and I
hope it will beeome a pieee that
other elarinetists will enjoy play
ing with orehestra. It will be part
of a program entitled “A Night in
New York,” whieh will inelude
Rhapsody in Blue. All in all, a
good night for elarinet.
Look for tiekets at
http://www.blumenthalarts.org/ev
ents-performanees/eoming-
performanees/detail/eharlotte-
symphony-knightsounds-a-night-i
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