Yiddish Summer Weimar 2024

Instrumental Music Advanced
28.07. – 04.08. 2024
with Alan Bern , Marin Bunea , Laurent Clouet , Zev Feldman , Mark Kovnatskiy , Sofia Labropoulou , Danai Loukidi and Adam Stinga.
Instrumental Music Advanced 28.07. – 04.08. 2024 (unstructured “free” day on 01.08.) 10:00 – 13:00 &  15:00 – 18:00 with Alan Bern , Marin Bunea , Laurent Clouet , Zev Feldman , Mark Kovnatskiy , Sofia Labropoulou , Danai Loukidi and Adam Stinga We are sorry, but this workshop is full! If you would like to be put on a waiting list, please send an email with your name and the name of the workshop to registration@othermusicacademy.eu

This year’s advanced instrumental workshop is the culmination of our three-year research into Yiddish music in the Ottoman context, and focuses on two important periods in the history of Moldovan urban music. We will examine a publication by Francois Rouszhitzki (Iaşi, 1834) that fuses Moldovan, Turkish, Greek, Ashkenazi, and Western musical elements, along with related pieces from two Ashkenazi sources – the violin manuscript of cantor Hirsch Weintraub (1811-1881) from Dubno, written at the same time, and the slightly earlier manuscript of cantor Aaron Beer (1739-1821) from Berlin (1791). Then we will jump to the first half of the 20th century and continue the musical journey we started with the project “The Other Europeans” (2008-09), delving into the shared repertoire of Klezmorim and Lăutari, who formed a unique musical community in and around cities like Edineț, where none other than Dave Tarras stopped off during his emigration from Ukraine to New York.

To participate in this workshop, you should have a solid instrumental technique and extensive experience in at least one of the above-mentioned musical cultures. You also need good music reading skills and/or you should be very good at playing by ear. And you should have a passion for musical nuance!

Photos by Shendl Copitman