OBEREKS, MAZURKAS, AND POLKAS, OH MY!
Please join KlezCalifornia for a 3-hour klezmer workshop
in Piedmont
Sunday, June 23, 2019, 3:30-6:30pm
taught by Cookie Segelstein and
special guest co-teacher Stefan Puchalski
1300 Grand Ave. (at Fairway), Piedmont
Klezmer music has elements of many national and regional styles and klezmer musicians have to be able to play in the styles of their customers, both Jewish and non-Jewish. We will examine some Polish folk tunes and compare Jewish and Polish styles of playing them.
The workshop is suitable for instrumentalists intermediate through professional on all acoustic instruments. Registration is $25 (sliding scale - whatever you can pay) in cash or check at the door. Listeners welcome; donation requested. Light snacks provided.
Bring a recording device or a music stand if you want. Brass players should bring a mute.
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After 50 years of obsession with instrumental music and musical instruments,
Stefan Puchalski has developed a wide-ranging, highly idiosyncratic knowledge of theoretical and practical music-making. He dove into the ongoing traditional music revival in the western U.S., exploring dance music of various and randomly-chosen cultures, including the music of his heritage, Polish instrumental folk music. In 1986, he released a limited recording of the Sowa family, a family of musicians from Rzeszow. He also builds the bowed, plucked, struck, and wheel-driven stringed instruments typical of the styles and locales in which he’s worked. Stefan lives in Egg, Switzerland.
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Cookie Segelstein received her Masters degree in Viola from The Yale School of Music in 1984. She is founder and director of Veretski Pass, a founding member of The Youngers of Zion with Henry Sapoznik, and plays in Budowitz. She has also performed with Kapelye, Klezmer Conservatory Band, and The Klezmatics. She presents lecture-demonstrations and workshops on klezmer fiddling all over the world, including Living Traditions’ KlezKamp, KlezCalifornia, KlezKanada, Klezfest London, Yale University, University of Wisconsin, Albuquerque Academy, University of Oregon, Pacific University, Marshall University, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been on many recordings with mostly wonderful musicians, and lives in Berkeley with her husband Josh Horowitz, a dog, and her occasionally visiting adult children.
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Workshops in 2019 are made possible by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Surdna Foundation
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