Dear Students and Parents,

What a terrific performance class today! As promised, here are the links to the historical, tradition-based examples for Bloch’s Nigun, Monti’s Czardas, and Bacewicz’s Oberek.

http://beta.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/323922/jewish/Niggun-Hachono.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBnLH4tnJU&feature=related This is a curious film  of Polish folk dancers on a ship in 1963 dancing the Oberek.

The Original Village Music from the Upper-Mures Region project discs are out of print, and I can’t find examples on Youtube. But there is interesting background in the editorial review at this Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Patria-Series-Vol-Upper-Mures/dp/B00294MYZY

I’d be happy to lend you my copy. I’d also be glad to lend our copies of the following books. It is a list from the Brain-Pickings website of recommended books about music, emotions, and the brain.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/21/must-read-books-music-emotion-brain/

Happy learning!