In cooperation between the music faculty and KlezKanada’s new poetry retreat, this class will explore the many ways that words and music intersect. Led by master creative musicians Fox-Rosen & Moguilevsky, and poet Jake Marmer (who has just completed a CD of poetry and improvised music with Frank London and others), participants will discover and practice different strategies and techniques, models and methods of putting words and sounds together. Song, rap, beat poetry, performance art, slam, piyyutim – all manners of setting poetry to music; accompanying poetry in performance either as songs of any genre, or reading with music with composed or improvised music in different rhythms and styles will be addressed. All are welcome: poets, instrumentalists, composers, and singers.
Faculty: Dan Kahn, Marcelo Moguilevsky, and Jake Marmer
