A S E F A M U S I C - Workshops and Programming

Workshops and Programming
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Samuel Thomas has been teaching instrumental performance, college-level courses, and K-8 music groups for over 14 years. Whether presenting a workshop on Middle Eastern music or exploring the meaning of music in a plethora of world cultures, Samuel's teaching style is dynamic and interactive.

As a part of Jewish Awareness Through Music, Asefa offers many different workshops and programs on Jewish music, including multimedia presentations, Sephardic music and poetry workshops, musics of the jewish world. Please take a moment to look through the different formats by visiting www.jatm.org.

Workshops and programming are presented solo or by incorporating members of Asefa. Many options are available to bring this incredible element of Asefa's musical offerings to your community. Thus, our workshops and programming are very customizable based upon your community.

Participants in our workshops and programming are always left excited and energized about music!

Performance Workshops
Our Perfomance workshops cover a wide range of different instruments and music styles. Instrumental workshops include Western (sax, clarinet, guitar, bass, drumset) and non-Western instruments (nay, oud, African percussion, Middle Eastern percussion, guimbri) as well as vocals. Style workshops focus on theory and practice of Western (Jazz, Blues, Rock) and non-Western (Middle East, Jewish, Sub-Saharan Africa, Hindustani) musics. Additionally, workshops on composition and improvisation are available.

Music and Culture Programming
Our "music and culture" programming focuses on the meaning of music in different cultural contexts. For instance, a program on Hindustani music would include the aesthetic meaning of different ragas and the spiritual uses for music in Hindu and Muslim culture in India. In an effort to foster dynamicism, these programs often combine performative and academic aspects. For instance, in explorations of different sacred Jewish chanting traditions, we learn to sing Torah tropes as well as examine the uses of chanting as a means for fostering collective memory.

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