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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
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

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Sunday December 22, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening
Sunday December 22, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
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

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Sunday December 22, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
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

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze
Sunday December 22, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Join Yiddish culture friends from around the world for socializing!
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Borger

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 →
avatar for Edy Borger

Edy 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 →
Sunday December 22, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom
 
Monday, December 23
 

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!
Monday December 23, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
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

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Monday December 23, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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

2:30pm EST

Transcription and Layered Listening
Monday December 23, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
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

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Monday December 23, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
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

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze
Monday December 23, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Join Yiddish culture friends from around the world for socializing!
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Borger

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 →
avatar for Edy Borger

Edy 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 →
Monday December 23, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom
 
Tuesday, December 24
 

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!
Tuesday December 24, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
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

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Tuesday December 24, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing
Tuesday December 24, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
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

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Tuesday December 24, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
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 →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze
Tuesday December 24, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Join Yiddish culture friends from around the world for socializing!
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Borger

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 →
avatar for Edy Borger

Edy 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 →
Tuesday December 24, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom
 
Wednesday, December 25
 

9:30am EST

Learn a Tune a Day by Ear!
Wednesday December 25, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
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

11:15am EST

What To Do With Your Three Time
Wednesday December 25, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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

2:30pm EST

Working with Historical Recordings: Listening and Transcribing
Wednesday December 25, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm EST
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

4:15pm EST

Play Along Across the World!
Wednesday December 25, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
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 →
Wednesday December 25, 2024 4:15pm - 5:30pm EST
Zoom

5:30pm EST

YNY Schmooze
Wednesday December 25, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Join Yiddish culture friends from around the world for socializing!
Speakers
avatar for Nicole Borger

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 →
avatar for Edy Borger

Edy 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 →
Wednesday December 25, 2024 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
Zoom
 
Thursday, December 26
 

11:15am EST

Lecture: Memories of the Yiddish Kitchen *ONLINE ONLY*
Thursday December 26, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
"Memories of the Yiddish Kitchen” invites you to join our workshop at YNY and contribute to the 5th edition of our collaborative YNY cookbook. The celebrated folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU, POLIN Museum-Warsaw) will get the conversation going with food memories of her own, among them her grandfather’s favorite dish (beef testicles grilled on a hot shovel), her grandmother’s favorite dish (sautéed lung, spleen, and beef cheeks), her mother’s favorite (ptsha: calf’s foot jelly), a family favorite (pickled tongue), her aunt’s speciality (stuffed spleen), her mother’s beloved blote (sour cream and chopped radish, cucumber, scallions, and dill) and shtshav (cold sour sorrel soup), her maternal grandfather’s Passover raisin wine, and our family’s beloved for soup nuts (mandln), eyerlekh, helzl, and potato-nik. These are among the largely forgotten foods of the Yiddish kitchen, to say nothing of the ganef-kneydl (thief’s dumpling) in tsholnt. Other foods continue to be debated with greater or lesser fervor: gefilte fish, latkes, matzoh balls, kugel, bagels, and more. Still others, beloved and remembered, either still grace the table or we wish they did, but have forgotten how to make them from scratch or at all: farfl, kreplekh, rosl, and flodn.
Bring your memories, bring your recipes, and bring your requests!
Please send whatever you can in advance to ynyncoordinator@gmail.com by December 15.
- Use letter size paper, vertical
- Send scans, saved as jpgs, of photos and drawings, recipes (handwritten or typed, your own and any that were handed down to you)
- Send typed texts in Word, not PDFs
Barbara will share her mother’s (vegan) split pea barley soup, tips for making the best old-school potato latkes, the secret to perfect kasha, and more.
This presentation will originate remotely and individuals at HUC are asked to attend on personal devices.
Speakers
avatar for Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She is currently Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism... Read More →
Thursday December 26, 2024 11:15am - 12:30pm EST
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