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Kitka presents: Yiddish Folk Singing Workshop II with Ethel Raim
JCC East Bay
Berkeley, CA
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Kitka presents: Yiddish Folk Singing Workshop II with Ethel Raim
These workshops will focus on unaccompanied Yiddish folksong with material drawn from the repertoires and style of traditional East European-born singers. Raim will primarily teach lyric love songs, the kind young girls often learned from their mothers, aunts and older sisters in pre-WW II Eastern Europe. She will emphasize vocal style, ornamentation and pronunciation, and will work to assist participants to hone their singing style and authentic expression. This workshop is for participants who are musically and linguistically prepared to really dig into the unaccompanied Yiddish folksong repertoire and style. It is open to all, but familiarity with Yiddish is recommended.

Ethel Raim is a leading performer and teacher of the unaccompanied women's Yiddish folksong tradition and is widely recognized for her expertise in both Yiddish and Balkan vocal traditions. She has had a distinguished career as a performer, workshop leader/singing teacher and recording artist for the Elektra/Nonesuch labels. She has taught unaccompanied Yiddish singing at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Raim is additionally the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of New York's Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD), one of the nation's preeminent traditional arts organizations. Through CTMD, she has worked closely with thousands of master immigrant musicians and dancers to assist them in preserving and presenting the traditions of their communities. In 1962 she co-founded and was musical director of the renowned Pennywhistlers, the all women's vocal ensemble that was among the first to bring traditional women's singing traditions from the Balkans and East Europe to the North American folk music world. Formerly a research assistant to pioneering ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, from 1965 to 1975 Raim served as Music Editor of Sing Out! Magazine and additionally edited a number of important folksong collections. At CTMD, Raim has curated and overseen the production of hundreds of artistic presentations, as well as publications, recordings and film documentaries, and has developed many of the innovative program models for which CTMD is best known, including Community Cultural Initiatives - designed to establish and nurture community-based documentation, presentation, education, and cultural preservation in New York's immigrant communities. Raim received the prestigious American Folklore Society's Benjamin Botkin Award in 2012 in recognition of her career impact on the field of public sector folklore.

This workshop is co-presented by the Jewish Music Festival and JCC East Bay.

Location

JCC East Bay (View)
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
United States
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Categories

Education > Workshops
Music > All Ages
Music > Choral
Music > Folk
Music > Global
Music > World

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: KITKA
On BPT Since: Nov 14, 2006
 
Shira Cion
www.kitka.org


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