A Klezmer Music Workshop with Christina Crowder! A chance encounter in Tokyo a few years ago led to the unlikely release of thousands of unique musical manuscripts in a Kyiv archive previously unavailable to contemporary klezmer musicians and scholars. The Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project is an international digital humanities project connecting musicians today with the musical life of working klezmer musicians from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This class will introduce some of the most popular tunes to emerge from the corpus and will be a chance to explore klezmer music that has a different vibe from the American klezmer most of us are familiar with. Tunes will be taught primarily by ear, but sheet music will be available for those who would feel more comfortable using it during the session, and for anyone who likes to take home. All ages and instruments welcome. Suggested workshop fee $25, no one turned away for lack of funds. Scholarships available.
