Yiddish New York 2024

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9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST

Zoom

One of the deepest ways to learn music is by ear! We will learn a lesser known tune a day and there will be room for questions and to play for the class. We will also go over the chords and practice tune variation and improvisation. We will start each class by singing through the tune - a wonderful way to start your day!

Speakers

Abigale Reisman

With over 15 years of experience playing klezmer music, Abigale Reisman (violin) has established herself as an expressive and thoughtful fidl player with a lot to say. She is particularly interested in mimicking the human voice through the violin and connecting her playing to the... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST

Zoom

A rose is a rose is a rose, but 3 is not 3 is not 3. Yiddish music has a gorgeous variety of triple meter music: waltzes, mazurkas, dobridens, dobranotshes, waltz nigunim, gas nigunim, zhoks, and more. So why play everything like a waltz or a zhok? Join me in this hands-on workshop for a close study of some gorgeous tunes that reveal the secrets of 3! For both newcomers and people who took the online workshop last year.

Speakers

Alan Bern

Recipient of the prestigious Bundesverdienstorden in 2022, the Thuringia Order of Merit in 2017 and the Weimar Prize in 2016, Dr. Alan Bern (accordion/piano) is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar, the OMA Improvisation Project, and the Other Music Academy... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening

Sunday December 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

Zoom

If you think that writing down the music that you hear is only for professionals, this class is for you. Josh makes it easy for everyone by using a step-by-step method that leads the student into each detail of the tune. At the end of the process a completely formed transcription emerges. The “Layered Listening” technique that Josh uses also helps students to learn a way of listening to music that may deepen your awareness of music in general, whereby a song unfolds as a 3-dimensional piece of music. It will speed up the process of learning by ear as well, because once you have transcribed a piece of music, it can be used to play along with the recording more easily and aid in your memory of the tune, and also preserve it. If you think about it, writing down music in our system requires the use of only 12 different notes, whereas writing words requires 26 letters. In other words, it should be easier, not harder than writing an email to a friend!

Course Tools: Syllabus, teaching materials, articles and some recordings will be provided as needed.

Additional Info: For intermediate to advanced students. No previous klezmer experience is required though helpful, but knowledge of instrument and intermediate music reading ability is required for reading simple lead sheets. Basic theory knowledge of scales and intervals is helpful.

Speakers

Josh Horowitz

Joshua Horowitz, Button accordion, tsimbl and Piano is the director of Budowitz and co-founder of Veretski Pass and has performed and recorded with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque and Itzhak Perlman. His books include The Ultimate Klezmer... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST

Zoom

Join duos around the world for a play along session online! Participants will need to be muted, but you'll be able to hear the session leaders and play with them!

Speakers

Adrian Banner

Adrian Banner (piano) was born in Sydney, Australia, where his passion for the piano began in early childhood. He emigrated to the USA where he co-founded The Klez Dispensers, received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University, and published a book on calculus. Adrian is... Read More →

Amy Zakar

Amy Zakar (violin, mandolin) is a second-generation musician and educator of Hungarian/Transylvanian/Jewish descent. Born in NYC (just a few blocks from the 14th St. Y), Amy played her first Catskills-Yiddish revue at age 8. She studied at the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton... Read More →

Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze

Sunday December 22, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST

Zoom

Join Yiddish culture friends from around the world for socializing!

Speakers

Nicole Borger

Nicole and Edy Borger** (vocals, coordinators) – A São Paulo-based chanteuse, Nicole Borger creates fresh interpretations of Yiddish song classics, setting them to a kaleidoscope of Brazilian musical styles. Her most recent album, “Raízes/Roots – A Recording of Jewish Songs... Read More →

Edy Borger

Sunday December 22, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom

Schmooze

Yiddish New York 2024

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