Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Feb. 25, 2011
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _____________________________________________________________________________ Sunday 14 - Friday 19 August 2011 Tumbala! Yiddish Song Course SOAS University of London, Russell Square Campus, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG A special course for singers with classical and folk backgrounds who wish to engage with Yiddish repertoire. Study Yiddish vocabulary and grammar in the mornings with Ot Azoy! In the afternoons some of the finest exponents of Yiddish song led by Shura Lipovsky (Amsterdam) with theatre star Joanne Borts (New York), Polina Shepherd (Brighton) and Hilda Bronstein (tbc) will guide singers in pronunciation, meaning, style and interpretation of this huge and varied repertoire - this year with an emphasis on Yiddish Theatre song. There will be a concert of Yiddish Song on Sunday 14 August. "I have had one of the best weeks of my life! It was, truly very emotional - full of outstanding people, music, teachers, singers, experiences, and song". Booking: www.jmi.org.uk 020 8909 2445 or [email protected] Geraldine Auerbach MBE Director, Jewish Music Institute SOAS University of London T 020 8909 2445 M 07971 818 262 E [email protected] W www.jmi.org.uk _______________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language,i.e.inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
