This document announces a summer camp for adults from June 29th to July 3rd, 2009 at the Stulman Center for Adult Learning of Chizuk Amuno Congregation. The camp will include classes on Jewish music and art from 9:30am to 12:15pm each day. On the first day, Seth Kibel will discuss the influence of Jewish Americans on the development of jazz music in the United States. The second day, Dr. Susan Vick will explore how American art from the Jazz Age revealed aspects of the music and culture through various artistic genres. The program is funded by the Stanley H. and Lillian S. Wilen Endowment Fund and costs $100 to attend. Interested individuals should
1. Summer Camp is not just for kids.
It’s for you!
Music and Art - Jewish Style
A Jewish
Summer Camp
for Adults
June 29 - July 3, 2009
9:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
7 - 11 Tammuz 5769
The Stulman Center
for Adult Learning
of Chizuk Amuno Congregation
2. The Stulman Center for Seth Kibel is the leader, clarinetist,
and composer for the Alexandria
Susan Vick, Ph.D., is the curator
of the Goldsmith Museum and Hendler
Adult Learning Kleztet, a genre-bending klezmer
band he founded in the Baltimore-
Learning Center of Chizuk Amuno
Congregation. She began her study
presents its Second Annual Washington area. His award winning
albums are available nationwide. Seth
of Jewish art in the early 1980’s,
when she was asked by Baltimore
Summer Camp for Adults has taught at numerous institutions, Hebrew University Undergraduate
including the Duke Ellington School of Dean Judy Meltzer to develop a course
the Arts in Washington, D.C., Goucher on the history of Jewish painting
June 29 – July 3, 2009
9:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. College, the Peabody Conservatory’s and sculpture. Since then, Susan has
Elderhostel, and Chizuk Amuno’s taught many classes for CAC, BHU,
Summer Camp for Adults. and other institutions. In addition,
9:30 a.m. Start the day with since 1992 Susan has been teaching
a delectable breakfast, juice, the Introduction to the History of Art
and coffee.
classes for Howard Community College
in Columbia, MD. When not at work,
Susan can often be found working
with the Jewish Theatre Workshop,
the local theatre ensemble of the
Jewish Community Center of Greater
Baltimore.
9:45 a.m. The Jews of 11 a.m. Broadway Boogie This program is funded in part by the
American Jazz Woogie: American Art Stanley H. and Lillian S. Wilen
Seth Kibel in the Jazz Age Endowment Fund for Adult Education.
Dr. Susan Vick
Tuition for this program is $100.
A J
lthough the African American azz, as a quintessential American To register, contact the Stulman
community can rightfully claim musical genre of the 20th century, Center for Adult Learning at
credit for creating and developing evolved from a uniquely American 410/824-2055/8 by Monday,
the uniquely American genre of culture. A look at the painting, prints, June 15, 2009.
jazz, Jewish Americans have been and photography of the Jazz Age Register early.
among some of its most influential reveals a fascinating setting in which Enrollment is limited.
practitioners. The history of jazz American jazz came to represent an
Judy Meltzer, Director
would be vastly different if not for American way of life. Our study will
Doris Tanhoff, Assistant
the pioneering contributions of such be diverse and will include what the
songwriters, composers, and musicians visual arts reveal about such topics
as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, as the dance styles of the period, the
Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and neighborhoods, and of course, the
others. We will examine the music, music of the Jazz Age.
personalities, lives, and careers of these
American musical giants. Video, audio,
and live performances will keep this
course as lively as the music itself.