Announcement of the Tratwa public events David Krakauer leading a session Session lead by Michael Alpert and German Goldenshteyn Paul Brody leads a brass rehearsal Tania Kukel teaching Sasha Danilov, a clarinetist from Kishinev, to play the cymbalom German Goldenshteyn, Michael Alpert and Alesis, the NRM percussionist, playing the threesome music The sky above Sejny
The White synagogue of Sejny, late 1700s, reconstructed by the Borderland Foundn. (1978-87) became a stage for the klezmer concerts of the Tratwa The concert season at the White synagogue of Sejny was opened by the Minsker Kapelye (D.Slepovitch, T.Kukel, V.Korenkova) The next day, Sept.5, the Turn-of-the-Century Mini-Orchestra of Torun performed Sept.6 it was turn for Pete Pawlow''s band "Pete Paff" to perform Kapella klezmerska Teatru Sejnenskiego Wojtek Szroder, soul of the Tratwa, playing the accordion
The masters'' concert, though involving everyone on the workshop, took place next day. German Goldenshteyn plays traditional Jewish repertoire of Ukraine, accompanied by Michael Alpert David Krakauer and Michael Alpert in focus David Krakauer taking solo in a Belarusian song with Pete Pawlow Paul Brody, virtuoso trumpet player, actor, composer, klezmer, jazzman and classical musician Natalya Kasyanchik on the domra and Michal Moniuszko on the bass Michael Alpert singing his ballade "A shpay in yam" together with string instruments players that''s me at the concert....
coming back after the concert: with Dave Krakauer and Paul Brody Coming to the late Czeslaw Milosz''s place taking a rest at one of spectacular lakes in the area this is the place wthere Malgosia will build her house and then we came to Vilna (Vilnius) to play there in a city hall rehearsal before the concert Literary cafe Europa dedicated to Avrom Sutzkever and Lithuanian Yiddish poetry and music
reading A.Sutzkever''s poem "Ver vet blaybn, vos vet blaybn..." Michael Alpert singing "Vilna du shtot mayns" Michael Alpert and Tania Kukel playing a Lubavitcher nign: fidl un tsimbl... playing Belarusian-Lithuanian Jewish music with Michael Alpert at the Literary cafe... aval ze haya b''keyf...:-) at the farewell party, all of a sudden, everyone started playing and dancing

Tratwa Muzykantow - Musicians'' Raft, Sejny, Poland, 2004

First two weeks of September, 2004, the trio of Minsker Kapelye spent in a spectacular landscape of the North-Eastern Polish town of Sejny, neighboring with Lithuania and Belarus. It was a klezmer seminar held by the Borderland Foundation of Sejny. Participating were bands from all over Eastern Europe and masters of contemporary klezmer music, David Krakauer, Michael Alpert, Paul Brody, and a 70-years old Moldovan-born klezmer German Goldenshteyn.
We had our music sessions every day, and nearly every day we had concerts presenting our projects and sharing our experience with each other.
Back to the photo gallery page
Main page
leave your note here

Hosted by uCoz