Thank you for joining us for Field Work In Focus with Christian Dawid and Christina Crowder. This was recorded on November 8th, 2020 and is presented by the Klezmer Institute.

About Christian Dawid
Christian Dawid is an internationally renowned clarinetist in world music and beyond. Drawing from a multitude of influences including classical, jazz and ethnic music, he is known for his work in Yiddish and other East-European styles. Since 2005, Dawid has worked with the Ukrainian brass band Konsonans Retro founded by the Baranovsky brothers of Kodyma, Ukraine. Together with their in-laws and other members, the band plays a unique family repertoire from Podolia. Dawid met the group in Vienna in 2005; he now produces the band and has, through regular research trips to Western Ukraine, become an unofficial family member of the Baranovsky clan. Dawid initiated an international project to document and record the work of Bessarabian-born singer and composer Arkady Gender (*1921). His new arrangements of Arkady’s original songs are featured on an album recorded in Vienna and released in 2012.

About the Series
Much of the European klezmer canon was collected and curated in the early twentieth century by Magid, Kiselgof, Beregovski and other members of the Russian Jewish folklore movement, but important field work continued from the 1980s through to the present. Meet some of the musicologists, musicians, folklorists and archivists who are intimately engaged with the deep work of oral transmission in musical culture. Each thematic series will feature 3-5 individual interview sessions followed by a capstone round table discussion.

This series is sponsored in part by the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund at Congregation Albert.
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About the Klezmer Institute
The Klezmer Institute was founded in the fall of 2018 to advance the study, preservation, and performance of Ashkenazic Jewish expressive culture through research, teaching, publishing and programming. Klezmer Institute projects will build on previous scholarship to define and document the unique musical heritage of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. The Institute will seek to increase communication and collaboration between professional and amateur musicians, dancers, and scholars throughout the world, and will be a champion for Ashkenazic expressive culture as an important means to understand Jewish culture in the past, and as a springboard to inspire new generations to engage with an essential cultural legacy.

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