Special feature workshop with Christina Crowder, accordionist & Executive Director of the Klezmer Institute

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 participants with the work of important klezmer musicians from late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. With the release of the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP) materials we have about five times more easily available eastern European klezmer music in score/manuscript form than previously available. And over the first year volunteers have digitally notated more than 760 melodies! This class will be a chance to jump into this tremendously fun new tune pool and swim around a bit. We’ll learn a few terrific tunes, and compare the charts we’re working from with the manuscript originals.

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