RE: Zalmen Workshops in London

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

Zalmen Mlotek in London
to give Workshops in Yiddish Folk and Theatre Song
Sunday 17 March 11 am and 2pm
The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

for Singers, non-singers and choral singers.

Zalmen Mlotek is one of the world's foremost authorities on Yiddish music.
He writes and conducts music for live performance, films and theatre. He
collaborated with his parents, in preparing four seminal volumes of Yiddish
songs which are the standard used worldwide. He is Executive Director of the
Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, the only Yiddish theatre in the United States.
Zalmen will be a teacher at KlezFest London 2002 and will be conducting a
choral week in July. Now he is coming to give 2 workshop on Sunday 17 March
in London for Singers, non-singers and choral singers.

Two two-hour Yiddish Folk and Theatre Song workshops will be given at The
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. They will be
in-depth, hands on, engagements with the music of the Yiddish folk and
Theatre repertory.

Yiddish Folk Song  11am - 1.00pm
Learn about and learn to sing a selection of beautiful and moving Yiddish
folksongs, which offer windows into the once vibrant world of Eastern Europe
before World War II. Songbooks to be used: Pearls of Yiddish Song and Songs
of Generations, two Collections of Yiddish Song, compiled by Eleanor and
Joseph Mlotek, and edited by Zalmen Mlotek, will be offered to participants
at a special workshop price

Yiddish Theatre Song    2pm - 4pm
Exploring the music of the great composers of the Yiddish Theatre, from the
late 1880s to the present, from the operatic works of Abraham Goldfaden to
the musical theatre works of Joseph Rumshinsky, Alexander Olshanetsky,
Sholom Secunda, and Abe Ellstein, as well as more contemporary works such as
Isaac Bashevis Singer/Hankus Netsky/Mlotek Shlemiel The First, 1996
Manger-Hoffman-Gerut: Songs of Paradise, 1986,2001 Rare examples of early
Yiddish operetta music to be distributed for the sessions.

Tickets: £15.50 for each workshop.  £26 for both
(includes tea and coffee. Bring you own lunch).
To register contact the Jewish Music Institute 020 8909 2445
jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk

Presented by JMI SOAS and the Department of Music SOAS.

(Zalmen will be back I London in July for a choral week and for KlezFest.
For details contact JMI


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