KlezKamp Plucked String Offerings

[Warschauer <Warschauer...>]

For all those interested in Klezmer music, Yiddish culture and related topics,
be sure to read the following.  Of special interest to mandolinists,
guitarists etc., please note that I will be teaching both an instrumental
class (open to all levels, *any* plucked string instrument), and am probably
also leading a Mandolin Orchestra (intermediate and up, again, *any* plucked
string instrument).  

I have been associated with this program for thirteen years, and can tell you
that it is really great.    

For general info and an application, e-mail livetrads (at) aol(dot)com(dot)  
For specific
info on the plucked string program, please feel free to e-mail me at
warschauer (at) aol(dot)com

It really does fill up fast, so if you are interested, don't delay...
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Living Traditions is proud to announce its 14th annual KlezKamp: The Yiddish
Folk Arts Program, to be held December 23-29, 1998 at the Paramount Hotel in
Parksville, New York.

In honor of Israel's 50th anniversary, we are focusing this year's event on
the history of Yiddish culture in Israel past, present and future. To help us
explore our theme, we have invited several of Israel's finest exponents of
East European Jewish arts to join us: ethnomusicologist GILA FLAM, who will
offer an insight into the rich archival holdings of Yiddish music in Israel,
folklorist DOV NOY,  who will examine the history of pre-Zionist Yiddish
folksongs, and special guest CHAVA ALBERSTEIN, who will screen her award-
winning documentary film on Yiddish poets in Israel, and perform a concert
together with The Klezmatics, featuring music from their recent recording of
new song settings of Yiddish poetry.

In addition, we continue to present a dizzying array of exciting and unique
courses. Instructors in klezmer music include Frank London, Jim Guttmann, Jeff
Warschauer, Deborah Strauss, Alicia Svigals, Lauren Brody, Sy Kushner, Mark
Rubin, David Licht, Ken Maltz, Sherry Mayrent, Sid Beckerman and Merlin
Shepherd. Lectures in Yiddish music will feature a class in musicological
history, "From the Bible to the Revival," with Mark Kligman and talks on the
history of klezmer music in Philadelphia with Klezmer Conservatory Band
director Hankus Netsky, assisted by senior veterans of the Philly klezmer
scene. Returning teachers of Yiddish song are Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen
Mlotek, who will lead a master class, song survey and our KlezKamp Community
Chorus, and, for the first time in many years, Josh Waletzky, who will present
an overview of contemporary Yiddish lider. Our dance staff includes Steve
Weintraub, who will survey both Yiddish dance and Israeli dances inspired by
East European models and Jill Gellerman-Pandey leading Hasidic dance.

Our Yiddish language classes will be taught by Paula Teitelbaum, Sheva Zucker,
Pesakh Fiszman and Miriam Isaacs. And what would KlezKamp be without Michael
Wex and "Wexology?"

Our folklore class will feature Itzek Gottesman speaking on the state of
Yiddish in Israel and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's history of tableaux
vivants and pageants of the Holy Land of the last 100 years, while our
literature course unites returning scholars Anita Norich and Jeffrey Shandler.
An overview of recent Jewish films with Roberta Newman, hand crafts workshops
taught by Peggy Davis and Susan Leviton, our KlezKids program and Jenny
Romaine's innovative Teen Theater Project plus slow jams, evening programs and
nightly dances continue the tradition that makes KlezKamp, the world's
original Yiddish gathering, an experience not to be missed.

As KlezKamp will run an extra day over shabbos this year, expect special
shabesdik events, including group singing of nigunim, special lectures and
panel discussions.

KlezKamp will be held, as always, at the kosher and comfy Paramount Hotel in
scenic Parksville, New York, just a couple of hours or so from midtown
Manhattan. 

For a brochure please send your name and address to:

Living Traditions
430 West 14th Street Suite 409
New York NY 10014
Tel. (212) 691-1272 
Fax (212) 691-1657
email: livetrads (at) aol(dot)com

Information and applications can also be downloaded from the new Living
Traditions heymbletl at www.livingtraditions.org