Experience the spine-tingling thrill of singing Yiddish music in rich, glorious 4-part harmony. Working from Golden-Age American klezmer era arrangements from Oscar Julius, Avraham Saltes and others, this workshop will look at niggunim and Yiddish folk songs arranged for mixed chorus. Faculty: Josh Dolgin
Which means; everybody in a circle, playing body percussion, percussion instruments (student are invited to bring their own), using their voices, words, etc. and then going into playing your own instruments, too. It’s essential, it’s a great way to have fun together, to train in improvising and responding quickly to impulses, everything is possible. In [...]
This ensemble is a celebration of the long history of Latin-Jewish musical fusions. You will learn how to negotiate the rhythms, melodies, style and fire of such soon-to-be-classic mash-ups of rhythms, melodies, tunes and traditions. We will learn to play the cha cha sher, merengue freylekhs, honga-samba, and Skasidic music (Hasidic ska). Freylekhs Descarga is [...]
Welcome to the return of the Giant Ears Band! Here at Giant Ears, we believe in two things, learning and arranging klezmer tunes by ear, and melting face with our awesome klezmer sound. Come prepared to delve deeply into the melodies, harmonies and rhythms of these tunes, which we will stretch, wrestle and warp to [...]
Mogui says: My goal is to conduct an ensemble with every different instrument. My lessons are about improvisation and creativity, using — here at least — a klezmer repertoire as the raw material. I will teach about 60 different signs to improvise with. We work with all instruments and all voices. London says: This [...]
