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August 1, 2010

Summer Klezmer Workshop, LeMans, France, 31 Jul - 1 Aug 2010

Musique Ensemble 20thSummer Klezmer music workshop from July 25 to August 1, 2010.
250 km around Paris (France) near Le Mans. Open to non-professional musicians with fairly to very good level.

Group rehearsal, improvisation and with sheet music. Concert
in the near village at the end of the week.

Cost 550 € (food, lodging and music courses).
All details on our web site www.musique-ensemble.com

Yiddish Summer Weimar - Yiddish language, 25 Jul - 2 Aug 2010

Yiddish Summer Weimar 2010
Yiddish language (beginning & intermediate) : July 25 - Aug 2

Faculty: Dorothea Greve, Avishai Fisz.
It is very difficult to imagine the Weimar Yiddish program without the great Pesakh Fiszman, who last year passed away. But life goes on, and that attitude is nowhere more at home than in Yiddish culture. more

Yiddish Summer Weimar - Advanced Yiddish song workshop, 25 Jul - 2 Aug 2010

Yiddish Summer Weimar 2010
Advanced Yiddish song workshop (topic: unaccompanied Yiddish folksong) : July 25 - Aug 2

Faculty: Michael Alpert, Ethel Raim, Itzik Gottesman + artists-in-residence.
Unaccompanied Yiddish folksong is one of the deepest, most honest and direct expressions of Yidishkayt. But the last generation for whom this style and repertoire was a natural form of self-expression is almost gone... more