Each day, a different contemporary master will teach the art of of taking traditional klezmer music and using it as a basis for modern improvisation. Each teacher will share his/her strategies, techniques, practical approaches and aesthetic philosophies of taking the 19th-century into the 21st- century. This class will address issues in how to improvise, compose or arrange material in a modern manner on traditional klezmer or other traditional musics. Learn the method to the madness.
Faculty: Marcelo Moguilevsky, Matt Darriau, Anthony Coleman, and others. Dan Blacksberg (host)
Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
