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Sunday, December 22
 

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
avatar for Abigale Reisman

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
avatar for Alan Bern

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
avatar for Josh Horowitz

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
avatar for Adrian Banner

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 →
avatar for Amy Zakar

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)
 
Monday, December 23
 

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!
Monday December 23, 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
avatar for Abigale Reisman

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 →
Monday December 23, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Monday December 23, 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
avatar for Alan Bern

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 →
Monday December 23, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening
Monday December 23, 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
avatar for Josh Horowitz

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 →
Monday December 23, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Monday December 23, 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
avatar for Amy Zakar

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 →
avatar for Adrian Banner

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 →
Monday December 23, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)
 
Tuesday, December 24
 

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!
Tuesday December 24, 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
avatar for Abigale Reisman

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 →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Tuesday December 24, 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
avatar for Alan Bern

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 →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing
Tuesday December 24, 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
avatar for Joel Rubin

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 →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Tuesday December 24, 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
avatar for Sruli Dresdner

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 →
LM
Tuesday December 24, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)
 
Wednesday, December 25
 

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
avatar for Abigale Reisman

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
avatar for Alan Bern

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
avatar for Joel Rubin

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
avatar for Sruli Dresdner

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 →
LM
Wednesday December 25, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom
  Instrumental Klezmer (Online)
 
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