Erik Greenberg Anjou 90 minutes – Friday, PM2 Cantor Jacob Mendelson, a distinguished instructor at KlezKanada this year, is affectionately called by everyone: “Jackie.” In this film, he explores the American roots of “khazzanut” (Jewish liturgical music) while taking us on a musical voyage that spans the Atlantic, originating in his birthplace of Boro Park, [...]
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Ashkenazi Poets Remembering Sepharad to Celebrate and Cry for Argentina
Tuesday, PM2 Ashkenazi poets in Argentina have persistently made use of Ladino and Sephardic motifs to negotiate their new Argentinean identity, notably during the waves of Eastern European immigration at the beginning of the 20th Century and during the military junta at the end of that century. Yael illustrates this kind of sephardism with two [...]
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Di Shereray – ‘Barbershop’ Yiddish Close Harmony
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
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Discovering Yiddish Montreal
Tuesday, PM2 At the beginning of the 20th century Montreal is, with New York, one of the two major Yiddish speaking cities in North America as thousands of Ashkenazi Jews were crossing the Atlantic buoyed by hopes of a better world, bringing with them a very lively Yiddish culture which found a unique locus of [...]
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Drum Circle
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 [...]
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