Concerts
7.21. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Adrienne Cooper (sel. A.) Memorial Concert (Opening concert YSW 2012)
With Alan Bern, Barbara Boock, Itzik Gottesman, Dorothea Greve, Mark Kovnatskiy, Svetlana Kundish, Sasha Lurje, Diana Matut, Andrea Pancur, Ethel Raim, Ilya Shneyveys, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer read more 
7.21. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Adrienne Cooper (sel. A.) Memorial Concert (Opening concert YSW 2012)
With Alan Bern, Barbara Boock, Itzik Gottesman, Dorothea Greve, Mark Kovnatskiy, Svetlana Kundish, Sasha Lurje, Diana Matut, Andrea Pancur, Ethel Raim, Ilya Shneyveys, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer
This year's opening concert is dedicated to the beloved memory of our friend and colleague, Adrienne Cooper, who passed away on December 25, 2011.
Adrienne was one of the greatest Yiddish singers of her generation, and no less influential as a teacher and cultural activist. We were fortunate that she taught several times in Yiddish Summer, and she was greatly respected and loved by her colleagues and students for her artistry and humanity equally. The artists in tonight's concert perform repertoire that represents a personal connection to Adrienne. back 
7.22. Sun 20:00@mon ami
Simkhat haNefesh (Germany)
With Martin Erhardt, Diana Matut, Nora Thiele, Erik Warkenthin, Dietrich Haböck read more
7.22. Sun 20:00@mon ami
Simkhat haNefesh (Germany)
With Martin Erhardt (portativ, flute, vocal), Diana Matut (vocl, flute), Nora Thiele (percussion, tambourine, bells, colascione), Erik Warkenthin (lute, theorbe (chitarrone), Barockgitarre), Dietrich Haböck (lute)
Simkhat haNefesh was founded in 2008, dedicated to Jewish music from the Middle Ages through the Baroque, with a special focus on "Early Yiddish Song." The ensemble members are all specialists in Early Music, proponents of historically informed performance practice bound to active research, requiring expertise in Hebrew as well as Western and Eastern Yiddish. For all them, the project is a "labor of love" which continuously develops. Until now, Simkhat haNefesh has performed primarily by invitation of Jewish organizations and institutions at Jewish-themed conferences, but the ensemble hopes to reach wider audiences in the future. back
7.25. Wed 23:15@Studentenclub Schützengasse
'Round Midnight – Alpenklezmerglühen
With Andrea Pancur, Ilya Shneyveys, Alex Hass
Alpenklezmerglühen: Bavarian * Yiddish * wild & kosher read more
7.25. Wed 23:15@Studentenclub Schützengasse
'Round Midnight – Alpenklezmerglühen
With Andrea Pancur, Ilya Shneyveys, Alex Hass
Alpenklezmerglühen: Bavarian * Yiddish * wild & kosher
It's all happening in Bavarian and in Yiddish, too – wild and raw, but also gently and soulfully.
Andrea Pancur (vocal) München-Ramersdorf, and Ilya Shneyveys (accordion, piano) Riga-Lettland encounter each other and present only the finest Alpine Klezmer. They perform ancient songs, so ancient, in fact, that neither the Bavarian nor the Jew realizes that they each love singing them. The two musicians researched and dusted off old folksong repertoire and, with their motto "long live the kosher mountain yodel!", set off with new repertoire in their backpacks.
The Yiddish Hora takes the Bavarian Ländler warmly by the hand and dance, circle and spin themselves over the peaks of the Alps in the glow sounds of klezmer. back
7.26. Thu 20:00@Musikschule
Double concert: Strauss/Warschauer Duo (USA) & Voices of Ashkenaz (Germany)
With Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer, Thomas Fritze, Svetlana Kundish, Andreas Schmitges read more
7.26. Thu 20:00@Musikschule
Double concert: Strauss/Warschauer Duo (USA) & Voices of Ashkenaz (Germany)
With Deborah Strauss & Jeff Warschauer, Thomas Fritze, Svetlana Kundish, Andreas Schmitges
For more than 25 years, Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer have been among the best-known and best-loved musicians of the American klezmer revival. They regularly teach workshops and perform concerts around the world. Tonight in Weimar, they perform music from their new CD, "Once I Had a Fiddle."
Tonight's audience will also hear be treated to a work-in-progress by the Quartet "Voices of Ashkenaz." Following a rehearsal period in Weimar, the four musicians from the USA, Israel/Ukraine and Germany offer the first fruit of their journey in Yiddish-German song worlds, exploring lyrics and melodies that survived in parallel in both cultures and bringing them back together again here.
afterwards Jam Session back
7.28. Sat 20:00@Musikschule
Final concert of the Advanced Song Workshop
With Participants and Faculty read more
7.28. Sat 20:00@Musikschule
Final concert of the Advanced Song Workshop
With Participants and Faculty
Following a week of intensive study together, including jam sessions, lectures, workshops and rehearsals in small and large ensembles, the participants and faculty of the Advanced Song Workshop present the results of their work. Listen to Yiddish songs of the Early Modern period, parallel Yiddish/German song repertoire and ballades and songs of the Eastern Yiddish tradition in a unique mixture that promises many surprises. back
8.01. Wed 23:15@Musikschule
'Round Midnight – Rumänische Fantasien
With Johannes Paul Gräßer & Szilvia Csaranko read more
8.01. Wed 23:15@Musikschule
'Round Midnight – Rumänische Fantasien
With Johannes Paul Gräßer & Szilvia Csaranko
Johannes Paul Gräßer and Szilvia Csaranko have been investigating the different genres of Klezmer in for years.
Inspired by the sound of traditional Yiddish music, they connect most to the sound of classical music. The two are inspired by the music of Joseph Solinskis, specifically the 1911 recording "Rumeynische Fantasien" which for the first time interpreted traditional melodies with the supposed classical musician. Together, the music of these two musicians retain a high degree of musical intensity through out their chamber music-like performances.
Johannes also plays in the Modern Klezmer Quartet and with Sher on a Shier. Szilvia plays with A Glezele Vayn – the connection between Klezmer, Balkan and Alpine-folk. The two musicians played together for the first time at the Yiddish Summer Weimar 2008. back
8.04. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Double concert: North meets South Folk from north- und south Germany
With Vivien Zeller & Malbrook, Evi & Benno Heigl read more
8.04. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Double concert: North meets South Folk from north- und south Germany
With Vivien Zeller & Malbrook, Evi & Benno Heigl
The two teachers for North- and South German music during last year's Yiddish Summer (2011), violinists Vivien Zeller and Evi Heigl, return to Weimar this year with a double-concert: Vivien Zeller is here with the prize-winning band Malbrook, playing archaic sounds of the North. The brother/sister duo Evi and Benno Heigl offer a taste of the Bavarian folk music repertoire they've played together their whole lives on violin and accordion. back
8.05. Sun 20:00@mon ami
Dance ball
A special highlight of every Yiddish Summer is without question the final dance ball of the dance workshop. read more
8.05. Sun 20:00@mon ami
Dance ball
A special highlight of every Yiddish Summer is without question the final dance ball of the dance workshop.
Join us at the ball, and dive right into a world of participants who have been working and waiting a whole week just for this moment. You can expect great dance music from the dance orchestra of your dreams, led by Alan Bern, James Hewitt and Georg Brinkmann, and a colorful troop of inspired dancers ready to welcome every newcomer. Not only that! The ball is led by some of the world's finest dance masters, ready to turn you into an enthusiastic folkdancer, if you're not already one!
In this year, a very special focus is dances of the Renaissance, especially the Playford Repertoire, and their relationship to Yiddish dances. back
8.8. Wed 23:15@Studentenclub Schützengasse
'Round Midnight – Forshpil Midnight Concert
With Forshpil read more
8.8. Wed 23:15@Studentenclub Schützengasse
'Round Midnight – Forshpil Midnight Concert
With Forshpil
coming soon back
8.11. Sat 11:00@Musikschule
Matinée of Children's Song Workshop Presentation
With Participants and Faculty read more
8.11. Sat 11:00@Musikschule
Matinée of Children's Song Workshop Presentation
With Participants and Faculty
For a whole week, the "big and small children" participating in our first ever Yiddish Children's Song Workshop played music, sang and made handcrafts together. We hope to delight you with this musical treasure during our matinée concert, which presents Yiddish children's songs from Eastern Europen and America, counting rhymes, games and dances. A true premiere. We hope that you don't have any other plans... back
8.11. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Faculty concert of Advanced Insturmental Workshop
With Alan Bern, Zev Feldman, Avery Gosfield, James Hewitt, Joel Rubin, Eliyahu Schleifer, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer read more
8.11. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Faculty concert of Advanced Insturmental Workshop
With Alan Bern, Zev Feldman, Avery Gosfield, James Hewitt, Joel Rubin, Eliyahu Schleifer, Deborah Strauss, Jeff Warschauer
The topic of Yiddish Summer Weimar 2012 "The Bridges of Ashkenaz" is already reflected in the cast of tonight's performers: an encounter of specialists in Early Music and Eastern Yiddish instrumental music (klezmer) as well as two world-famous researchers/scholars of Western and Eastern Yiddish music, together searching for common roots and parallels between their musical worlds. back
8.12. Sun 20:00@Studentenclub Schützengasse
A Glezele Vayn + Jam Session
With A Glezele Vayn
Musical exploratory spirit, twisted humor and irrepressible playfulness unite with Hungarian precision, Yiddish melancholy and Allgauer mountain cheese. Our music comes from the Balkans, from Yiddish shtetls of Eastern European and from the Alps. Chief sound hunter Brezi Moishele casts a spell with a deep bass tone D, a farmhouse gets vocal coaching and the audience cruises by ship via the Danube to the Black Sea, from time to time reveling in song and self-made poems.
A Glezele Vayn charms with a pleasurable mix of tradition and willfulness. Not only notes are captured in spells, but the listeners, too! And spoons are for more than eating…
Followed by a jam session.
>> www.glezele.de back
8.14. Tue 20:00@Musikschule
Final concert of the Advanced Insturmental Workshop
With Participants and Faculty read more
8.14. Tue 20:00@Musikschule
Final concert of the Advanced Insturmental Workshop
With Participants and Faculty
The Advanced Instrumental Workshop faculty are among the international elite of Early Music, Yiddish instrumental music (klezmer), and the cantorial traditions of Eastern and Western Europe. Experience the results of their meeting with students from all over the world and a fascinating musical journey between Western and Eastern European Yiddish musical worlds. back
8.18. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Freylekhs Brider 100 Year Anniversary Belf's Romanian Orchestra
With Amit Weisberger, Jérôme Block, Lauren Clouet, David Brossier read more
8.18. Sat 20:00@mon ami
Freylekhs Brider 100 Year Anniversary Belf's Romanian Orchestra
With Amit Weisberger, Jérôme Block, Lauren Clouet, David Brossier
The Belf Project 1912 – 2012
Ever since the recordings of Belf's Romanian Orchestra re-appeared during the late 20th century "klezmer renaissance," musicians have been fascinated by the ensemble's highly idiosyncratic sound. Is it somehow typical of an earlier Yiddish music aesthetic, or an exotic outlier, or possibly even a parody? How would we know? Who was V. Belf? Where did he come from? One thing is for sure: every major contemporary klezmer musician has had to come to terms with the Belf repertoire and sound in one way or another. As the answers to the historical questions have begun to emerge, performers have tried to unlock the secret of the Belf sound. Four young musicians from France have discovered some of the most important keys - enjoy the surprise! back
8.21. Tue 20:00@Musikschule
Workshop Final Presentation Klezmer & Yiddish Song
With under the direction of Janina Wurbs (both) Beginning: Rosi Dasch, Katharina Müther, Emma Stiman Intermediate: Sasha Lurje, Merlin Shepherd, Ilya Shneveys, Jake Shulman-Ment read more
8.21. Tue 20:00@Musikschule
Workshop Final Presentation Klezmer & Yiddish Song
With under the direction of Janina Wurbs (both) Beginning: Rosi Dasch, Katharina Müther, Emma Stiman Intermediate: Sasha Lurje, Merlin Shepherd, Ilya Shneveys, Jake Shulman-Ment
Klezmer music and Yiddish song are parts of the larger world of "Yidishkayt" and a real understanding of them requires knowledge of their cultural context. The participants of the workshop “Klezmer, Yiddish Song & Yiddish Culture” are in the middle of a journey which includes exploring this year's special topic, “Ashkenaz." In their presentation they'll share the results of a week of intensive work.
Afterwards Jam Session & Party in Studentenclub Schützengasse!! back
