RE: Deborah and Jeff workshops

[Jewish Music Institute <jewishmusic...>]

We in the UK are very much looking forward to Deborah and Jeff being here and 
giving
workshops, and joining us as special guests at our first ever Klezmer New 
Year's Even party.
A special day will be when they go down and present their special workshops to 
the senior and
junior orchestras of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Geraldine



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) 
shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Susan
Lerner
Sent: 15 October 2002 01:42
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: Musicians and dancing (Feldman workshop)

At 12:29 PM 10/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
> Zev began teaching some dance steps to musicians so that they would better 
> understand how
the music had to fit together and be played.
Dance for klezmer musicians, most definitely.

I had the privilege and extraordinary joy of watching Deborah Strauss and Jeff 
Warschauer
conduct a workshop with a chamber orchestra at a Jewish high school here in LA 
last week.  The
kids had been provided with Jeff & Deborah's arrangements of 2 songs in advance 
of Deborah and
Jeff's stay in LA, which they had rehearsed with their teacher.  After hearing 
the kids run
through the songs as rehearsed by their teacher (wholly unfamiliar with the 
klezmer genre),
Deborah had the students put down their instruments, stand up, sing the nign 
and dance in a
circle to what they were singing.  When they played the piece again, the 
difference was
immediately apparent.

If list members are affiliated with any schools - Jewish day, high or Sunday 
schools or with
music in public school - immediately start organizing bake sales and raising 
money to bring
Jeff and Deborah out to work with your kids.  It is an amazing, transformative 
experience for
the kids.  We (Yiddishkayt LA) is now working with a large public high school's 
orchestra
director to put together a klezmer concert with the school's mariachi and 
string orchestras
for next school year. (I can't even begin to tell you how much fun it was to 
hear the mariachi
band (some 30 strong) play klezmer!)

I am tremendously envious of those who got to attend Zev's workshop this past 
week-end.  But
for the fact that Food for the Soul: A Celebration of Yiddish concluded this 
past week-end, I
would have been there.  Please, if there are to be future such week-ends, don't 
just build on
the foundation laid, but have a week-end for those who couldn't make it to 
catch up!

Shira Lerner
Yiddishkayt LA





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