Ilse Weber – The Musical Nurse of Thereisenstadt

with Cantor Deborah Staiman and Brian Katz, guitar

At the Kensington Place Retirement Residence

• 1 - 2 PM:  Solo Guitar Show at the Hotbox Lounge & Shop, 204 Augusta ave, Toronto, Ontario M5T2l6
  (Original compositions and improvs; $12 cash at door)
• 2 - 5 PM:  I'll be hooking up with my old musical friend, legendary saxophonist, Bob Brough, the “Senator," at NU Bügel, 240 Augusta Ave. Please drop by and enjoy our program: “Bossa at the Bagel Shop” (with or without lox and/or cream cheese), PWYC
• 6 - 7 PM: I’ll be strolling outside the historic Kiever Synagogue at 25 Bellevue Ave. with my klezmer colleague in krime, the marvelous Jonno Lightstone on clarinet, also PWYC…and there’s also free “park your body there” parking.

$20 and please RSVP at 416-229-0189/ info@sarv.ca

This workshop aims to give the studio music teacher tools for thinking critically about their practice. I am motivated by numerous accounts heard over the years—and my own experiences—of learners’ extreme disappointments in private music study, as well as teachers’ complaints about the drudgery of their work. I hold that the studio music lesson’s unique potential to create a richly fulfilling experience for learners and teachers unfolds when teachers have carefully thought through why, how, and what we are teaching, as well as how we see ourselves situated in society.

This workshop will take the form of an informal conversation whereby topics relating to private study and pedagogy will be introduced and participants will share with each other, take notes, and look at tools so as to generally engage in becoming a more reflective practitioner.

Since there are so many aspects to potentially cover when speaking to what unfolds in a private music lesson, the emphasis for this evening will be on examining the relationship between engaged teacher-student rapport and certain philosophical/pedagogical approaches to music education that I feel support such an engagement whereby “the work of music” is not at the centre per se, but the making of music and the cultivation of two individuals and a unique human relationship highlighting active participation in music—and beyond—is.

I will draw on my experience as a former music student and holistic music educator/artist, on student and teacher narratives, on music education philosophy, methodologies and research, and on various streams of psychology to encourage broad ranging reflection on the multi-faceted nature of studio music teaching and learning.

Unique to the music relationship is communication via musical sound. In my mind, the resultant web of various communication modalities that occur in the music studio open up the possibility for an extremely rich human relationship that can deeply affect the musical—and overall life— development of both parties.

FRIENDS OF YIDDISH PRESENTS A Gala Concert Featuring
The Lightstone - Katz - Koller Klezmer Ensemble
with Yiddish vocalist Allan Merovitz
In Yiddish and English

A lively evening of heymishe, yiddishe lieder as our three award-winning instrumentalists present their freylekh blend of Klezmer … great friends, refreshments, door prizes, silent auction

Simply pay at the event entry desk.
Welcome Guests $15; Current FOY Members $8
Please RSVP by Thursday, June 14th

Brian Katz (guitar, piano), famed jazz and Jewish music artist, and Jonno Lightstone, acclaimed klezmer clarinettist/flutist combine their talents to explore some rarely performed klezmer repertoire. Bringing together a multitude of musical styles and experiences, they create a variety of diverse moods by weaving the melodies of klezmer and Yiddish song with the sounds and textures of chamber music, jazz, Indian raga, Israeli music, and down-home rock’n blues! The inviting texture of the classical guitar and flute will especially intrigue listeners who have yet to hear the more intimate side of klezmer. And when they play some good old-fashioned,up-tempo Jewish dances with clarinet and piano, don’t just sit there!