RE: Update on KlezFest London

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

Dear Rokhl

You might like to stay for Klezmer-on-the-Cam an idyllic two day event at
Peterhouse one of the oldest colleges and hosted by Sir Aaron Klug, Nobel
laureate.  It will be over the long weekend Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August.
It includes Klezmer music, dance and song and instrumental training with
Merlin Shepherd and also Lucie Skeaping and The Burning Bush, also a punt on
the cam before supper.

If any list members would like a detailed programme, please email me and I
will send it. It?s a table so it has to be an attachment.  I append here a
blurb about it and contact details.

I don?t know of any events just at the time you mention.  Sorry ? but we are
doing our best, short of taking over the whole London summer programmes.

?Klezmer on the Cam?,  Peterhouse, Cambridge

On Sunday 25 and Monday 26 August the walls of Cambridge's oldest college,
Peterhouse, will resound with the sounds of music, song and dance of the
Klezmer at the Klezmer on the Cam two-day event. For those whose interests
are more factual, there are concurrent events with instrumental, vocal and
dance workshops. Anna Tzelniker, the doyenne of the Yiddish Theatre, will
give a picture of the Yiddish theatre and its influence even today. In
keeping with the Jewish love of exegesis, there will be a three-way
discussion between renowned writer, Dan Jacobson, Professor of Divinity,
Nicholas de Lange and Nobel Laureate, Aaron Klug, on the topic ?A View from
the Garden of Eden? with audience participation. Ethnomusicologist Ruth
Davis will give us a flavour of the music of Palestine of the early 20th
century compiled from the remarkable Lachmann archive.  With film, writing
workshops and Merlin Shepherd in charge of the instrumental workshops plus a
wonderful concert from Lucie Skeaping and the Burning Bush, participants can
be sure of a stimulating, once in a lifetime experience in a glorious
setting; and weather permitting, a punt on the Cam and a participatory final
party.  The amazingly low cost of £85 includes 3 meals a day and all events.
Join Us!

Contact: P O BOX 206, Cambridge CB1 7WJ
Tel  01223 248 959
e-mail: KlezmerOnCam (at) aol(dot)com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Rachael Kafrissen
Sent: 03 June 2002 02:21
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: Update on KlezFest London

Hi,

I'm hoping fellow listmembers will be able to give me some musical
suggestions for an upcoming trip. I'll be arriving in England after KlezFest
has ended but I'm still hoping that I'll be able to catch some UK klezmer
while I'm there. I'm going to be in Oxford from Aug 4-15 (not for anything
jewish or music, sadly, but a legal conference). I'm willing to travel,
certainly to London, but elsewhere, too, if there's something worth checking
out.

Thanks in advance!

-rokhl kafrissen



----- Original Message -----
From: Jewish Music Institute <mailto:jewishmusic (at) jmi(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <mailto:jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 6:19 AM
Subject: Update on KlezFest London

Update on KlezFest London June 2002

KlezFest (21 ?25 July) is fast approaching and we have ordered the T-shirts
already!  There are some new things this year:

For musicians, apart from the usual instrumental classes and ensembles,
Steve Greenman will be running a Fidl Kapelye ? a traditional Jewish string
band, for advanced string players. Frank London will be taking a brass class
and his band the Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars will teach brass,
baseline and percussion.  Frank will also lead a giant KlezFest jam.

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars with all the KlezFest faculty members
as guest stars will be in concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Monday
night in an event that can only be described as Klezmer Klimax!!  (This
concert is also open to the public 020 7960 4242).

Those students coming to KlezFest as ensembles will also have a chance to
perform for the public. On Wednesday evening there will be a gig at the
venue in Old Spitalfields Market, - The Spitz, called ?Klezmer: The Next
Generation!?  Oi-Va-Voi will be hosting this gig for KlezFest.

As well as Klezmer, and lots of Yiddish song, there will be plenty to do for
those who are not musicians - illustrated talks on Baghdadi Jewish music and
Sephardi music as well as 17th C baroque Italian Jewish music.  There will
be drama workshops all the way through with a chance to perform what you
have studied. Anna Tzelniker will describe her life in the Yiddish Theatre
in London. And the inimitable Michael Wex will delve into Yiddish
Expressions. The daily schedule and registration form are available to be
emailed - ask at klezfest (at) jmi(dot)ork(dot)uk <mailto:klezfest (at) 
jmi(dot)ork(dot)uk> .

If anyone is still considering coming, we will need to know about those who
will need the university accommodation by Tuesday 4 June.

Ot Azoy, the one-week crash course in Yiddish the week before, (14-19 July)
is proving very popular. Many KlezFesters will be attending this course as
well.

Geraldine