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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2012-03-17 02:57
I was just looking at the schedule on Friday Aug. 3 at Clarfest. There will be loads of klezmer being played. Dave Krakauer, is doing a Master class, Kurt Bjorling will be doing a lecture on the "jewish" clarinet.
I will have my have my band " The Atonement" out there doing a short concert and then teaching a klezmer tune to every one who shows up and brings a clarinet. I will promise you this, if you show up, you will learn how to play a klezmer piece , "by ear". It's the way any of us who perform this music have learned it. It's not as hard as you might think.
See you in Lincoln.
Tom Puwalski, former principal clarinetist with the U.S. Army Field Band. Clarinetist with the Atonement. Author of the Clarinetist Guide to Klezmer and owner of Clarinet Gourmet.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2012-03-17 04:22
Which tune? I know a couple...However I'm gonna be in Serbia studying Roma music till August 1 so I'm skipping Fest yet again...
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-03-17 13:55
If you go to a Krakauer concert, bring ear-plugs. When he gets going, there's nobody louder.
Ken Shaw
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2012-03-17 14:23
Looking forward to the tune.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-03-18 00:37
Let me recommend that you elevate Tom's Klezmer lesson several notches on your "to do" priority list (even if it means letting go of that vibrato lesson with ...).
I was one of dozens who took advantage of his teaching at ClarinetFest in Vancouver, BC.
An eye, ear and mind opener.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2012-03-18 12:46
Thanks Bob,
The benefit of learning music by ear has long been overlooked in classical clarinet pedagogy. I remember in certain lessons with Iggy Gennusa , that if I played something in a musically stupid way, he would take my clarinet and start playing it for me. Then I really started to learn. I just played it the way "he" did.
We have to remember that the "ink" is not the music. It's the directions on how and what to play. The only way you can learn to "play" music is to listen very carefully to playing that really captivates you.
Learning to play "klezmer" is only part of what I hope people got out of my workshop, what I'm really hoping one gets out my class is, trust in your ears.
Tom Puwalski, former principal clarinetist with the U.S. Army Field Band. Clarinetist with the Atonement. Author of the Clarinetist Guide to Klezmer and owner of Clarinet Gourmet.
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