Dear Friends,

The Nu Haven Kapelye is thrilled to invite you to a fascinating online event:

The Secret Musical Treasures of Ukraine: 
From Trampled Manuscripts to Digital Collaboration
With klezmer scholar Christina Crowder

Christina, a former Nu Haven Kapelye member and a renowned klezmer scholar, will describe how a chance encounter in Tokyo led to the unlikely release of thousands of unique musical manuscripts from a Kyiv archive. That resulted in the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project (KMDMP), an international effort connecting participants with the work of important klezmer musicians from late-19th and early-20th centuries.

In this introduction to the KMDMP project, we’ll learn about community resources, including how to find tunes! We’ll also get an exciting introduction to music they have found: everything from lively freylekhs to stately mazurkas and mesmerizing niggunim.

Join us at on Sunday, March 6 at 1:30 pm Eastern. Once you purchase your $10 ticket (click here), you will receive an email within 24 hours with the Zoom link to attend this special event.

We look forward to learning from Christina with all of you!

See you then!
– The Nu Haven Kapelye

Presenter’s Biography:

Christina Crowder has been performing and researching Jewish music for over twenty years, beginning in Budapest, Hungary in 1993, continuing with a Fulbright grant to Romania to document Jewish music in 1999, and since 2002 with an active research, teaching, and performing career in the US. She is Executive Director of the Klezmer Institute, which has been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for 2021-2022. Current projects include compilation of a folio of Jewish-adjacent Moldavian music, and publication of selected field recordings from the Fulbright grant period. Christina lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and performs with her klezmer quartet Bivolița. She also performs regularly with Michael Winograd and the Honorable Mentschen, the Goldenshtayn Kompaniye, and the Dave Levitt Klezmer Trio. She has been a guest instructor in klezmer accordion and ensemble performance in the US, Canada, and Europe, and was both musical director and performer in the 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the 2020 ART Portland productions of the Broadway play “Indecent.” 

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