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The Arab Cultural & Community Center
2 Plaza St.
San Francisco, Ca. 94116
When & What:
Sunday
October 3, 2010
12:00 PM-3:00 PM
Workshop Details:
This is a Free 3 hour workshop (with one 15 min. break) which will only be offered one day.
This class is open to instrumentalists and singers of ALL levels. Please bring your instruments with you.
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| | Dear Community Member,
The ACCC is proud to announce that we will be offering a Free music workshop with 16th Annual Arab Cultural Festival performer, Sami Abu Shumays, on Sunday, October 3rd from 12pm-3pm.
This free workshop, which is open to instrumentalists and singers of all levels, is only being offered one day at the ACCC. This is a rare opportunity to learn from the multi-talented Arabic violinist, composer, and teacher, Sami Abu Shumays, founder of the New York based- Arabic music and dance ensemble, Zikrayat.
This Free workshop will only be offered on October 3rd, so don't miss your chance to learn maqam from an expert at no cost to you.
Though there is no fee, we ask that people RSVP by Thursday, September 30th to make sure there is space in the class.
For more information or to RSVP
Please call:
(415) 664-2200 or email: events@arabculturalcenter.org
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About Sami Abu Shumays
Sami Abu Shumays: Arabic Violinist, Composer, and Teacher, Sami Abu Shumays was born in the United States of mixed Palestinian and American descent, but returned to the Arab world to develop a richer connection with his cultural heritage. Originally a composer and scholar of Western Classical music, he began studying Arabic violin with renowned Arabic violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen in New York, where he concurrently pursued graduate studies in composition and ethnomusicology at C.U.N.Y. after receiving his B.A. in Music from Harvard. Seeking a deeper immersion in Arab musical culture, Sami studied in Cairo, Egypt on a Fulbright fellowship, with Dr. Alfred Gamil, and continued his studies in Aleppo, Syria, with Mohammed Qasas, Abdel-Basit Bakkar, and Abdel-Minaim Senkary-experiences that led him to devote himself to Arabic music. He founded Zikrayat in late 2005. Through Zikrayat, an ensemble devoted to presenting the classical, dance and folkloric repertories of the Arab world side-by-side, with a particular focus on rare music and dance pieces from classic Egyptian film, Sami seeks to make Arabic music accessible to a wide variety of audiences.
In addition to offering private lessons teaching Arabic violin and Maqam from his studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York, Sami aslo currently teaches an evening class on Maqam in Manhattan.
To learn more about Sami Abu Shumays please visit the following sites:
http://samimusicworld.com
http://zikrayatmusic.com
Course Description
Maqam - This workshop will focus on one particular maqam (Arabic melodic mode, similar to Raga in Indian music), and explore all of its major components. Students will learn a complete song over the course of the workshop, illustrating the melodic motions typical of the maqam. Students will also learn common phrases used in improvisation, as a further illustration of the structure of the maqam.
Students imitate in a call-and -response fashion on their preferred instrument, or by singing, learning the building blocks of Arabic music in a way similar to how people learn language, by repeating common phrases. Sami makes these classess accessible to all by presenting musical phrases that are short and clear enough for beginners to imitate, but which have subtleties and details that only the most advanced students will grasp.
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