Yiddish New York 2024

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9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!

Wednesday December 25, 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 →

Wednesday December 25, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time

Wednesday December 25, 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 →

Wednesday December 25, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing

Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST

Zoom

In the two sessions, we will look at how to listen to and work with historical recordings, and how to use transcription as a tool to achieve various outcomes, for example to create a lead sheet for your band, a memory and study aid for you as a performer, or as a basis for analysis and comparison with other performances and for teaching others. We will learn ways to translate what we are hearing into music notation, discussing how to make decisions about the pitch of the original recording and about the notation of meter, key signatures and accidentals, ornaments and variations, as well as the various levels of detail a transcription could contain.

Additional Information:
This class is intended for intermediate to advanced students. No previous experience with klezmer (or other traditional musics) is necessary. The ability to read and write music notation (by hand or with software) is a prerequisite. A basic knowledge of scales, intervals and chords is also helpful. Recordings of the tunes we discuss (or links to them) will be provided.

Speakers

Joel Rubin

Clarinetist and ethnomusicologist Joel Rubin has been one of the leading figures in the international klezmer movement as performer, scholar, author, educator, and producer for more than forty years. Rubin studied clarinet with Richard Stoltzman and Kalmen Opperman and learned klezmer... Read More →

Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!

Wednesday December 25, 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

Sruli Dresdner

Sruli Dresdner has been performing and teaching Klezmer and Hasidic music for the past twenty-five years. Sruli grew up in a Hasidic household filled with Nigun. Sruli, together with his wife, Lisa, have appeared on PBS-TV, performed on National Public Radio, and headlined at Jewish... Read More →

Lisa Mayer

Wednesday December 25, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom

Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze

Wednesday December 25, 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

Wednesday December 25, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom

Schmooze

Yiddish New York 2024

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